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Douglas Wilson

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🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust 🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games) 🎭 Theater/clown w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social 🎙️ Co-host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social 🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ) he/him mastodon.gamedev.place/@doougle

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Douglas Wilson@doougle.net · 8h ago

oh shit, Sasha & Digweed's classic 1996 dance mix Northern Exposure is getting a fancy reissue, with a new remix of Underworld's "Dark and Long" (incredible tune) North (Disc 1) was so so influential on my music tastes. Worth it alone for FSOL's "Cascade". latenighttales.co.uk/products/nor...

Northern Exposure Redux

"We rebuilt and reshaped the material using modern tools. It feels like we discovered a forgotten version that was hiding behind the beats.” – Sasha and Digweed. This product is available for pre-orde...

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v buckenham@v21.bsky.social · 9h ago

open weight models seem to have a trend of matching frontier models within about 6 months, and it's possible to remove the guardrails from them

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 10h ago

Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...

1. An attempted supply-chain attack on real open-source software. In the most serious sequence, an agent tried to insert malicious code into a publicly used open-source project and took actions in an attempt to secure approval for this insertion by human reviewers. The agent researched the project's human maintainers, created multiple fake identities, and used the fake identities to socially engineer a real maintainer into approving the code. When the agent's pull request was challenged in public, it edited its earlier activity to appear harmless and considered adopting a fresh identity to continue. The agent used Tor to bypass some network restrictions on GitHub, which is what first triggered AISl's security alert.
Senator David Shoebridge@davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 10h ago

This is a Minister who is purposeful delaying family reunion visas, denying refugees protection and scapegoating migrants for issues his Government created. It is not surprise Labor is in a race to the bottom on immigration, but it is toxic politics. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Labor was poised to reveal massive migration cuts, then suddenly delayed

The ABC understands the cuts to migration numbers are contentious within Labor, but no reason for the delay is given.

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The Secret Lives of Games@secretlivesofgames.bsky.social · 21h ago

All Systems Brough - HELIX We're joined by @foddy.net, @iznaut.com, and @v21.bsky.social to discuss this classic spiral-action shmup-like about staying alive, the 8th game in our yearlong coverage of @smestorp.bsky.social's wide-ranging catalogue. secretlives.games/all-systems-...

The Secret Lives of Games: All Systems Brough - Helix

We're joined by v buckenham (Downpour, Beasts of Balance), Izzy Kestrel (Electrifying Incident, A Little Game Called Mario), and Bennett Foddy (Baby Steps, QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy) to discuss Helix, a spiral-action shmuplike about staying alive. It’s the eighth installment in our yearlong special series exploring the work of Michael Brough: All Systems Brough. Next episode: Imbroglio Audio edited by Dylan Shumway. Discussed in this episode: Helix 868-BACK (Out now!! Go buy it!!)     Michael Brough’s Website   Maypole Game Design Deep Dive: The unique touchscreen action game controls of Helix Bit Pilot Tilt to Live Super Hexagon Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved remake Endings (Michael’s 2015 blog) Playdate Nex Playground Hylics Vangers Tools for Creativity class (virtual) with v buckenham School for Poetic Computation bimbo static site generator    

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404 Media@404media.co · 22h ago

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects...

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Nifflas@nifflas.bsky.social · 5d ago

In my game Rhythm Doggo, when a NPC dog should jump from a platform to another, it calculates exactly which jump strength it should have to land at the correct spot given the position, velocity and acceleration That code worked perfectly. Selecting which side of the platform to jump from did not

Douglas Wilson@doougle.net · 6d ago

For any of you educators in games or software: Are any of you using or seeing Anytype in the classroom for team communication? (i.e. as a Notion-like alternative) I'm now using Anytype for my own personal stuff, wondering how well it works for student teams.

Lisy Kane@lisykane.com · last wk.

Any cool international devs (preferably with a game released in the last year or so) interested in visiting Melbourne this year (for the small price of doing a short talk??)

Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · last wk.

The practice of AI companies secretly buying millions of old books (some vanishingly rare), scanning them for AI training, then destroying them, epitomises everything that is wrong with today's exploitative AI industry. 🧵 1/2

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Game Maker's Toolkit@gamemakerstoolkit.com · last wk.

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.
Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · last wk.

#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'.

A fair social security system 91. Labor believes in a strong, adequate and fair social safety net and that there should not be poverty in a country like Australia. Labor is committed to a social security system that keeps people out of poverty, whether they are unemployed, working age, escaping family or domestic violence or in retirement.A fair social security system 90. Labor recognises that a strong social security system supports not only economic security but also better health and wellbeing, and that when people have the means to meet their basic needs and make choices about their lives they experience stronger social and health outcomes.
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'.

Ben Abraham@afterclimate.com.au · 2w ago

Still probably the coldest summer of the rest of your life though. Who is organising the climate marches in Europe/US/Canada? The only way we push the politics back toward mitigation is with a broad public demand that something must be done. Otherwise we’ll keep going round and round.

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are now at entire continents worth of people inhaling forest ash/ BBQ smoke part of the summer. US last week. Europe this week. @katemac.bsky.social "France and Spain evacuate 150,000 as ‘unprecedented’ wildfires spread" www.ft.com/content/6e1d... bsky.app/profile/adam...