Dystopian realisation: When you search something and land on a generated website, at least it's already been generated. When you ask an LLM something, it's going to waste resources to make up an answer, and it does that for every single person who asks the same question, even if they ask it many […]

Workers at Rowan, Rook and Decard have secured the first union recognition agreement in the UK table top games industry! 🙌 iwgb.org.uk/en/post/tabl... Work in the UK games industry? Join our union today!

🐛 Hawaii's 'bone collector' caterpillar wears the body parts of dead insects as camouflage The caterpillar, a newly described species of Hyposmocoma found only on a single mountainside on Oahu, builds a silk case and decorates it with beetle wings, ant heads, and spider legs scavenged from […]

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It's silly but I'm so tired of the loop of needing to buy something, going to the shop, they don't have it, look online, there's a million products and reviews, going back to the shop, realizing it's all the same shit quality, going back online, realizing I need to increase the budget, but do I […]

Crunch and overtime in the games industry is pervasive because executives and upper team leadership will ALWAYS want more work in the same amount of time. I believe there's only one way to push back against that and it's to stop all overtime. www.austinkelmore.com/blog/how-to-...

How to Eliminate Crunch in the Games Industry

Crunch has existed in the games industry for decades, I'd like to lay out my idea for a plan to eliminate it entirely.

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"We want to sit down with management and build a future where both the games and the conditions of the people who make them are as strong as possible." Today we applied for union recognition at Rockstar! Work in the UK games industry? Join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Grand Theft Auto developers seek union recognition at Rockstar

"Rockstar thought they could control the narrative. They're wrong, and we look forward to proving it. Our case will now be heard in full and put to the test as it should be. The world will get to see for itself the evidence as to what happened last October."

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Rockstar thought they could control the narrative. They're wrong" - tribunal rules against GTA 6 developer's request to remove union's blacklisting claims from ongoing legal dispute www.eurogamer.net/gta-6-rockst...

Internet search is dead. Can we do directories again?

The Fraksl app got an update since I last used and it's got "modulators" to for example drive the scale with a sine or microphone input. I was thinking I could use it for live coding and then I realized I could recreate Fraksl on Hydra! […]

I'm so proud that three organizations I've co-founded are giving talks at @gameworkerscon.bsky.social. Get ready for talks from @gameworkers.co.uk, @gameworkersolidarity.com, and @nogamesforgenocide.com! gameworkersconference.org

Game Workers Conference

The Game Workers Conference is an entirely new game industry event made by and for the countless workers who make this massively influential industry and artistic medium succeed. The first iteratio...

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@jonkelliher.bsky.social Hola ❤️

@creagame.bsky.social Salut!

@Vladonian hello!

I'm off to Berlin! Looking forward to seeing my friends at A Maze, getting mind-blown by art house games and letting it all out at Panke Club. I did not take my laptop, will I regre yes probably

This is fantastic news for Double Fine workers. The documentary which came out after Psychonauts 2 clearly showed how much they needed to unionize. aftermath.site/double-fine-...

Double Fine Is Unionizing

The Psychonauts developer is the latest Microsoft studio to unionize

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AI can be fun and it can be useful somewhat. But for all that it does, is it really worth it? Is it worth the human cost? The exploitation and traumatization of workers in Kenya, India, Philippines? Is it worth the energy use? Is it worth giving up on environmental goals to power massive data […]

Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

Working on Terminal setup :) 🛖🖥️ #godotengine #godot #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Good to know https://artemis.cdnspace.ca/

A poem: Go Artemis go go go (fuck Trump) go Artemis go go go (fuck fascism) go Artemis go go go (fuck capitalism) go Artemis go go go

Let's go Artemis! I hope the mission brings a bit of hope and perspective in these awful times. ... I'm really struggling to not be cynical here. ... Space brought us closer once. An international Moon mission and even a Moon base could do this again. ... Anyhow space is cool. Let's fucking go!

🏞️ #godotengine #godot #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Pretty huge they won a required notice for layoffs and minimum severance pay considering how the games industry has been the past couple of years.

Game Worker Solidarity@gameworkersolidarity.com · 5mo ago

#OtD 27 Mar 2024 150 workers at Sega of America win union contract https://www.gameworkersolidarity.com/action/2024-03-150-workers-sega-america-win-union-contract

Does anyone know a good instance for hosting a little bot? I moved my text adventure bot from Twitter to botsin.space, which no longer exists, and I want to dust it off and have it mix silly adventure prompts again.

My favorite union organizing podcasts include Kickstarter Union's Oral History and Starbucks Workers' Heat the Ground Up. So I'm very excited that Clarissa is crowdfunding for one about the Mapbox Workers, which I've just backed. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla... Maybe you'd like to as well?

The Mapbox Workers Union Oral History

A podcast about worker organizing, at a venture capital darling, in the world's most powerful industry.

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Starbucks workers unionizing is one of the most inspirational campaigns I've seen recently, and I'm in awe of the Heat the Ground Up podcast which details their experiences. It's made by the same person who did the Kickstarter Union podcast, which is also a favorite. Check it out! strike.kitchen

🔪 Let's Make a Strike Kitchen 🍿

The Mapbox Workers Union Oral History

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Hadn't seen this one before: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-autocomplete-doesnt-just-change-how-you-write-it-changes-how-you-think/ > Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI. > Interestingly, the people […]

This is the terrible, hidden human cost of AI. I wonder if even the so called "ethical" AI is free from this human harm, and if it's even possible for an LLM to be built without this kind of data labeling. https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

I don't know if I'll perform tomorrow because I'm very low on energy. But I know that just by going to algorhythms I'm going to charge my battery and get some good feels. It's such a sweet community and I'm thankful for it! https://luma.com/1db23uki #algorave #algorhythms #pastagang oh also […]