if you want to see if a company has any solidarity with workers, start talking to your coworkers about their salaries at the office and see how it goes.

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 5h ago

If you work for any studio of any size, your loyalty should never lie with a company. Instead, your loyalty and solidarity should always be with your fellow worker! We deserve better than this! YOU deserve better than this! PLAYERS deserve better than this!

This needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.

Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced!@bogiperson.bsky.social · 3h ago

Google Docs leaks private information - www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/c...

Over 150k and still 8 days to go. 🙏 Thank you everyone who has purchased the bundle. Your generosity helps us support laid off game workers who are facing eviction, have put off important medical care/treatment due to losing insurance, and the like. Your solidarity means the world.

itch.io@itch.io · 2d ago

Enjoy 127 items by 109 creators and support game devs effected by recent layoffs: itch.io/b/3802/game-...

As it currently stands the incredible, young artform of the video game is being held hostage by a handful of people who make more money than the rest of us will ever see and don't care one bit about the quality of what gets made. It's not right. We're here to change that.

Special shoutout to the players who have been supporting and spreading the word about the itch bundle to support the Game Workers Hardship Fund! Your solidarity means the world to us, and player-dev solidarity is a critical component for driving positive change in the artform we love. We love you! 💪

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

The Hank Green Situation is Weird and Sad

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Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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"As society becomes more addicted to AI, our interior space will be increasingly hollowed out...resist both internally & externally. Sing. Write poems. Paint. Cook. Carve wood. Learn an instrument. Whatever you do is better than anything AI will create b/c you are awakening your own authenticity."

Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social · 13h ago

Here are my four steps you can take to push back the darkness. charlieangus.substack.com/p/push-back-...

"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · yesterday

EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...

🙃 www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d ago

The ghouls who run EA deserve to burn aftermath.site/ea-saudi-arabi...

"If a colleague or manager suggests that something can be easily achieved by using GenAI, a simple "why do you think that?" can really derail the conversation. More often than not, they have a flimsy response and realize it's not more efficient or producing a better outcome."

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d ago

Welcome to the resistance: meet the workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer's AI mandates: aftermath.site/ai-resistance-...

A reminder that this User Voice is up asking Twitch to make all AI features opt-out by default, and give us the chance to say no. VOTE and leave a comment. twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338...

STOP CLICKING ON THINGS ON DISCORD UNLESS YOU LIKE LOSING YOUR ACCOUNTS TO EXPLOITS EVEN FROM PEOPLE YOU KNOW! WHY ARE THEY ASKING TO PLAY MINECRAFT, WATCH ANIME, OR TO PLAY THEIR NEW GAME THE MADE IF YOU KNOW THEY DON'T DO ANY OF THOSE THINGS

A recent situation that triggered my medical leave was the abundance of AI being forced upon me at work. So it has me questioning... Is there a Legal route to push back due to health reasons on using AI in the workplace...

Prototyping and playtesting: building a quick, testable version of your game, gathering feedback that matters, and iterating without losing momentum

Board Game Design 101 Ep. 3: Prototyping and Playtesting Your Game

YouTube video by HERO TIME

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One of the things I don't see discussed all that often is how having generations that aren't able to buy homes is going to have one hell of a knock on effect into retirement. The boomer generation was able to buy a house young and have it fully paid off by the time they hit retirement.

I love Vancouver convention weekends - I get to play "figure out the cosplay" as I get around :D

Interesting take about uses for data centers. Not benign.

Well. This sucks.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green

Your not-so-regular reminder that just because someone can say the right words some of the time, doesn't mean they are on your side all of the time. Lots of marginalized people have been speaking up against Newsom for ages, trying to be heard over how loud Newsom is against Drumpf.

God@thegodshow.com · 5d ago

Looks like big money is big mad. Read the room, moron. Maybe if someone has the American psycho haircut, they’re not to be trusted.

We brought the ✨️SPORKLE✨️. We're at #AniRevo in Vancouver this weekend! Find us at booth 320 at the Vancouver Convention Centre for your pretty math rock needs.

In light of Hank Green disappointing us all, a thread of science communicators that do not brainlessly parrot LLMs as reference. Miniminuteman. A Tiktok import who now posts long form archeological/pseudoarcheology-debunking vids to YouTube. They're fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFA4...

The Giant Skeletons of Lovelock Cave - DEBUNKED

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Love seeing a CEO gloat about record profits immediately after absolutely wrecking the lives of 1500 people. Totally not exactly what's wrong with where we're at as an industry and larger society

I'm going to just put together a thread of cool little indie word games I like real quick. Feel free to add your own, because I am a sicko who deeply enjoys word and other puzzle games, particularly anagrams (it's literally in my name, so).

Let’s be clear: what these bastards are doing to these books isn’t digitizing. Digitizing is about preservation and access to the original material. They’re gutting and destroying to make Soylent Green. Don’t let them get away with pretending to do this for humanitarian reasons.

The Daily Double clue is: This person made a complete ass of themselves on the morning of July 30th, trying to be cheeky about human rights to people who are systemically oppressed.

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 6d ago

This may be true of others but I actually got express permission from the trans community to keep NYT games and recipes. I also have a news subscription, which is arguably worse, so I had to specifically send in a written request. Took 30 days but I got approved.

This is on tomorrow!

Daniel Wynter@boardgamefeast.bsky.social · last mo.

I wasn't a big fan of this one but VPL is hosting a screening of board game documentary The Hobby.

Last call to get some amazing games AND support the work we do over here at @takethis.org ! www.humblebundle.com/games/narrat...

Narrative 12 for $10 Bundle

Get a collection of our favorite narrative games in this 12 for $10 bundle and support Take This charity with your purchase!

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I'll be taking a month of leave, Aug 3rd to Sept 3rd, not sure yet if it'll go for longer. Idk that I can afford it either way. I'm going to stay a bit busy to keep my sleep cycle, but I don't want to fall into the trap of useful/useless.

Curios about what kind of games you’ll see at ProtoCON? Take a look at Deli Dash by Good Cluck Games. Deli Dash is a card game where rival sandwich makers hustle to earn the most money by the end of the lunch rush!