if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 1h ago

It keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.

Surely that should say “I’d rather be playing Spacewar!!”

videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social · last wk.

t-shirt, advertised in creative computing magazine (1979) archive.org/details/crea...

Ah yes, the well known method of terrorism of striking ”fear and anguish” in a community: sabotaging a weapons factory taking part in a genocide while no one is there.

Vandalism of Melbourne defence manufacturer being investigated as terrorist act by ‘far-left extremists’

Federal police say those who vandalised a defence manufacturer and torched nearby cars could face life imprisonment

theguardian.com

I don't actually hate 'friendslop' as a term and think it is quite endearing, but I wish we got 'friendjank' instead

We're reaching the stage where the sci-fi author doesn't even need to write the book about the Torment Nexus before someone decides to go and create a Torment Nexus.

404 Media@404media.co · 5d ago

UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...

84% of NTEU members at QUT have voted in a Protected Action Ballot, with the vast majority authorising all possible industrial actions, and 96% voting in favour of work stoppages up to 24 hours. A huge testament to the power of our union & the need for uni management to actually consider our claims.

A reminder that the absolute best thing you can do if you want to see more projects like this is to get involved and JOIN UVW. Money is great but volunteer time is infinitely more valuable and in short supply, plus you’ll meet amazing people and learn new things!

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 6d ago

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Every Aftermath author this week posting their Hater Week blog and then going on social media

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

I dunno. I feel like we should wait for literally any evidence from anyone except stakeholders with a commercial stake in all of us thinking genAI is capable of doing this before we get too excited about genAI supposedly doing this.

CAMERON WILSON@cameronwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

AI has just had its Sarah Connor moment. Last week's rogue AI story has been dismissed by some as marketing. But even a cynical read of the news & other evidence suggests it should be a "warning shot" for the serious disruptive threat of AI that will soon be widely available www.abc.net.au/news/...

Literally why I cancelled GamePass

Mitch Dyer@mitchyd.bsky.social · last wk.

Interesting that almost all analysis of Xbox in freefall completely ignores an organized boycott intended to harm the company financially. Meanwhile, multiple news stories on the home page all month about PlayStation boycotts that haven't even happened yet.

Best thing about the AusAlert test is all the absolute nerds ABC journalists found to interview about it. Like the guy who went to the state library at 1.55pm just to see what would happen. A special type of Australian ABC nerd you don’t often see as much these says.

Protestors in Queensland are challenging the law that bans "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA" because at the moment we are not allowed to say "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA" and it would be good if we were allowed to say "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA". www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Protesters mount High Court challenge over Queensland hate speech laws

The phrases "from the river to the sea" and "globalise the intifada" were deemed antisemitic by the government and outlawed when used to menace or offend someone.

abc.net.au

#BREAKING 🚨 Labor in their draft 2026 platform have replaced their previous statement of belief 'that there should not be poverty in a country like Australia' with a 'recognition' the social security system should support 'better health and wellbeing'.

Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2w ago

ALP conference somehow even more sauceless than everyone thought it would be this year. Not you, internet smart guy. You already knew it would be bad. I mean even among attendees who had properly calibrated their expectations to 'zero'.

I have published five books, and I still consider it a victory if I get close enough to the correct spelling of 'restaurant' on my first attempt that spellcheck can get me the rest of the way

RIP to everyone else in the country who also had their hearing aids bluetoothed to their phone when that alarm went off.

Never minding that the original Halo still has a haunting, eerie quality that stands it apart from the rest of the series - the assumption that Photoreal Unreal 5 Nanite Raytracing is what Halo would look like if it were made today is completely ignorant of where Bungie has gone visually *since*.

Jacob Geller@jacobgeller.com · 2w ago

"the graphics have caught up with our imagination" is intended as a compliment but is inadvertently damning of the whole project. Yeah, the imagination of Halo no longer exceeds a high-resolution tree. Cool.

lol. lmao

The Kayo app on my tv forced me to log in on my phone and turn on location services to prove I am not using a VPN before it would let me play anything. Absolutely outrageous.

Some sad news regarding today’s release:

Sorry but I will give up em-dashes before I ally with someone who puts spaces around their em-dashes.

Poinpy is one of my favourite mobile games and it is very exciting to see it freed from the shackles of Netflix

Ojiro Fumoto@moppin.bsky.social · 2w ago

POINPY IS BACK! 🎉 And now it's FREE! No ads, no paid unlocks, just the full game. There's a tip option if you feel like it 😉 Available NOW on iOS and Android!

POINPY IS BACK! 🎉 And now it's FREE! No ads, no paid unlocks, just the full game. There's a tip option if you feel like it 😉 Available NOW on iOS and Android!

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

The actual funny and ironic thing here is the idea of the assessor being so incompetent (and hypocritical!!) that they need to use an AI system themself to check if there is an em-dash in a piece of writing they should actually be reading.

Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · 2w ago

oh come on

Congratulations to PhD Candidate @dannno0o.bsky.social for receiving zero revisions, and two nominations for an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award! Dan's thesis on the cultural, social, and political impacts of Large Language Models can be read here: eprints.qut.edu.au/266867/.

Dan@dannno0o.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hello, if anyone is interested, my PhD thesis "Envisaging Simulation and its Limits: Large Language Models from Architecture to Interface to Ideology" is available to read here: eprints.qut.edu.au/266867/ Thanks to everyone who has supported my candidature @qutdmrc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au !

"Sure, but did Marx consider that the games industry would be controlled by people who have no idea how it actually works, huh?" (Capital Vol 3, 428)

One hell of a chart... Via @superjoost.bsky.social superjoost.substack.com/p/ubisoft-an...