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Nick Murray

@cassettewitch.bsky.social

Hello friends! Game-maker, writer, composer. Waterworld enthusiast. (they/them)

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Games Garden@gamesgardenparty.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Games Garden Party is under two weeks away and we've got a handful of wonderful games to play. Poetic digital toys about rejection letters, card game chatrooms, digital words scanned from real clay! Also, here's a picture of Daniel talking about Yelling Games from the last time we did one of these.

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Nick Murray@cassettewitch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I got to do the soundtrack for Abi Palmer's Slime Mother, a truly transcendent short film. @abipalmer.bsky.social is a long time collaborator and excellent friend, and it was so heartwarming to return to this and remember what a delight it was to put together. motherivy.bandcamp.com/album/slime-...

a landscape image of a slug sliding across glass from below. Over the image in a handwritten text are the words Slime Mother. The letters are quite wiggly, sort of like slime themselves.
Nick Murray@cassettewitch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am chronically bad at updating my website, and so I'm going to start slowly chipping away at about two years of stuff I never got online. Here goes...

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

The_Lady_Red@theladyred.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Floyd's Warped Mind A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used Al models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations. The first thing they measured was how often Al agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the Al simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.
Marijam Didžgalvytė@marijamdid.com · 3mo ago

Wow. So let me get this straight - they steal the data, they steal the jobs, and we also have to pay hundreds more in household bills. So we just have this mass-thieves leaching on the economy, with essentially no actual use. And it's chill? It's normal? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Irish datacentres have increased household bills by hundreds of euros, report finds

Growing fleet of datacentres last year used 22% of the country’s electricity

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Daniel Green@iamdanielgreen.itch.io · 3mo ago

Come and hang out, and have A Nice Time. It'll be great! luma.com/ojjo1frd

Games Garden Party · Luma

Welcome to the Games Garden Party! You are cordially invited to join a branching conversation, a chance to test some demos and a moment to plan for the next…

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Games Garden@gamesgardenparty.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We want to build an event informed by and responsive to the needs of the community. We want to see if such a thing can be sustainable without relying on precarious funding rounds. And we want you to tell us how you want to be part of the process. We're excited, and we hope you will join us. 🌱

BOM@bomlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bootcamp is back! 💚 Immersive Arts Bootcamp: Real-time technologies has a focus on performance. Ideal for individuals or organisations with funding in place to develop a prototype, the course covers Unreal Engine & TouchDesigner. Applications open for Sept and Jan start dates 👉🏼 bit.ly/4wf30Mg

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Nick Murray@cassettewitch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How would you want a games event to look if you could put one on tomorrow? Feels like there's a lot of stuff currently that misses the mark (and a handful of things that absolutely nail it). What do you think is missing? What needs changing?