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Marie Jasmin

@mariejasmin.bsky.social

Lead UI-UX Designer at Bethesda in Montréal. Gamedev since Assassin's Creed 2, the one with the fun UI. Bisexual with ADHD and a love of ceramics and bird photography. Thoughts my own. 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🌱

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Marie Jasmin@mariejasmin.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is how it became illegal to repair your own John Deere tractor and why a Canadian musician selling a song to a Canadian must hand over 30% to Apple. But now that Trump has just thrown this trade agreement in the dumpster, poured bourbon all over and set fire to it..... ....we could be free.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

For more than a quarter of a century, the US Trade Representative has demanded that all of America's trading partners - including Canada - enact "anti-circumvention" laws that make it a crime to alter how a digital device works unless the original (usually American) manufacturer consents. 44/

Marie Jasmin@mariejasmin.bsky.social · last wk.

A good neologism is one that can be beautifully translated into other languages to gain more collective power each time it is. 🇨🇦 Enshittification 🇫🇷 Emmerdification 🇪🇸 Mierdificación

Bardo@lordelago.bsky.social · last wk.

Me estoy acabando Mierdificación (lo compré en papel gracias a este tipo de hilos) y este es un tema de los que aborda el libro. Leer esta movidas de Doctorow me ha radicalizado hasta un punto que me asusta. Qué necesario es darle voz a gente como él, y que cada vez más gente abrace su discurso.

Marie Jasmin@mariejasmin.bsky.social · last wk.

Every single one of us protesters in these pictures would rather be at our desks making excellent games. The tragedy is that our owners are making that impossible: stabbing the goose repeatedly won't make the golden eggs come out faster. These photos are what's left of our passion for our craft.

Chris Kerr@kerrblimey.bsky.social · last wk.

Here are some photos (provided by the CWA) from the 'Save Our Devs' rallies that took place yesterday at Microsoft studios across the United States and Canada in protest of the mass layoffs at Xbox. I'm sure you'll notice some very choice words on the placards carried by those in attendance.

Marie Jasmin@mariejasmin.bsky.social · 2w ago

No, there isn't any extra space in the UI, I'm telling you. It won't fit. No, this is where the buffs go. That would overlap with level up. Yes but in German it's panzerhandschuhe. On a button press? They're all used! Yes, even stick press. It's photo mode. No we can't just add a button.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2w ago

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

Marie Jasmin@mariejasmin.bsky.social · 2w ago

A good read about Snowden and Thomas Piketty both describing facets of the same ending world. The fall of the current aristocracy is inevitable. I'm curious what comes after. A world in which every single interaction and all meaning isn't reduced to money will be... a welcome kind of different.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/

"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La Liberté guidant le peuple' ('Liberty Leading the People'), depicting the French revolution as a ragtag group of peasants led by a flag-waving, bare-breasted incarnation of 'Liberty.' The painting has been altered: the scene is now being observed with a giant, smoke-shrouded CCTV dome, and the distant building have been replaced with a mainframe computer.
Marie Jasmin@mariejasmin.bsky.social · 3w ago

“The greatest lie of this era is that the tech industry is building the next industrial revolution, when what they’re actually building is a monument to everything that’s wrong with modern capitalism” — Ed Zitron

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 3w ago

Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic can actually afford their compute spend, and the only way they'll have the demand for said compute is if they grow at the fastest pace in tech history, all while raising $500bn+ in venture capital in the next four years. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-demand-bubble/

Let me spell it out for you: if Anthropic and OpenAI each had a run rate of $100 billion, they would still not have the scale to generate the compute demand to cover what their commitments are to Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and, of course, Oracle. And CoreWeave. And Cerebras. And Cipher Mining and TeraWulf. And IREN. And Nebius. And Broadcom. And AMD. And SpaceX. And maybe Meta, SB Energy, and whoever might build a $30 billion data center in Georgia. While some of these — like Cipher, IREN, Nebius and TeraWulf — will flow revenue directly to Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure, there’s still tens of billions of dollars’ worth of compute revenue that needs to get paid somehow above and beyond OpenAI and Anthropic’s spend on the major platforms. This is not sustainable. In fact, it’s pretty fucking awful.
The Onion@theonion.com · 4w ago

“Generations of us have enjoyed driving out to this secluded little perch for sucking face, and now this giant corporation wants to make it some sort of growth investment,” said longtime Fredericktown resident Diane Moseley

Small Town’s Make-Out Point Purchased By Multinational Make-Out Conglomerate

FREDERICKTOWN, MO—In a move many residents of this tight-knit community say jeopardizes the beloved scenic hideaway, a multinational make-out conglomerate announced Tuesday that it had purchased the s...

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Shayna Moon (she/they)@themoonis.gay · 4w ago

Devs, pay attention to who is actually, practically offering support to our laid off colleagues. It’s not the companies, it’s not the ESA, it’s the union, it’s us.

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 4w 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-...

Marie Jasmin@mariejasmin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Elizabeth's team won awards for making our games more broadly accessible. Their reward: the entire team was laid off. This isn't saving anyone any money: narrowing the appeal of our games is a costly choice in the long term. And yet it is the choice being made.

OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union@bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 4w ago

User researchers like Elisabeth Whyte made sure players' voices were heard in your favorite Xbox games. On July 6th, Elisabeth and her entire team at Zenimax were laid off. Now, make your voice heard and #SaveGameWorkers by telling Microsoft to end their cycles of layoffs: shorturl.at/5ruBE

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our criteria for success are disastrously skewed. In my view, a successful person is one who does more good than harm, on any scale. On this measure, most billionaires are massive failures, while humble folk in my neighbourhood who look after other people are highly successful.

Mr Hounsell@hounsell.bsky.social · last mo.

POLITICIANS: We can no longer ignore the harm from addictively-designed outrage-promoting social-media controlled by psychopathic billionaires. We have decided to attack the social part. We will not be addressing the addictive design, outrage promotion, or the psychopathic billionaires.

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · last mo.

France just became the first nation in Europe to ban teens from social media and, you guessed it, they’re forcing everyone to upload their ID’s for social media access in order to enforce it. www.bbc.com/news/article...