Jared Gillis
@setec.bsky.social
Personal account of an all-around nerd and Technical Designer on WoW. Opinions are mine and do not reflect my employer's. He/him. Polyam. @SeTec9 on the old place.
🚨 KOSA UPDATE The added "duty of care" standard would force websites to identify minors to avoid legal risk, pushing the internet toward ID checks, facial scans, mass age-gating, excessive data collection and censorship FOR EVERYONE. Next comes a full Senate vote. Contact your senators NOW. (1/2)
Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 11h agoThe Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...
THIS IS WHY!!!! WE CALL!!! GREAT JOB EVERYONE 🩷 KOSA did pass the house but remember the senate has a conflicting version. Keep calling, it matters!
Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 13h agoSCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!
An exceptional exploration of genAI in game development from a producer who absolutely Gets It: www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...
I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow
AI is optimising the cheapest part of production
productionalchemist.com
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 agoEnjoy 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.
Staff does a job well to make a company worth 55b but then post sale is too much so they need to make cutbacks so the staff are let go. I will never understand the economics at play when you’re super important to wealth making till you’re not.
Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 17h agoThe months-long process of Electronic Art's acquisition finally came to a close late last night. https://bit.ly/4fE0ucf
I did that “what words became official in your birth year” thing via @merriam-webster.com and friends, have I got news for the folks who think gender identity is a recent fad #LGBTQIA 🏳️🌈⚧️🏳️⚧️ ~1973~
Authenticity Problem Bonus timelapse: www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFanta... #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
Developers like Atran Raikany from ZOS are responsible for making the game worlds we love feel alive. Microsoft's lay-offs aren't just short sighted business decisions - they're threats to the future of these worlds. #SaveGameWorkers and tell Microsoft to end these layoffs: shorturl.at/5ruBE
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...
thenerve.news
much like his children, just because he abandoned them doesn't mean they are not his responsibility
Sky News@news.sky.com · 24h agoSpaceX latest: Abandoned rocket about to slam into moon at high speed
🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project
The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
goodlaw.social
Corporate PACs are a disease. 60/ 70 million could have been better spent funding schools, helping small businesses, feeding the homeless. Like, it's insane. 70 MILLION dollars to keep establishment Dems in power.
Forbes@forbes.com · 14h agoAbdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, was backed by prominent progressives, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
Medicine. Medicine has grown by leaps and bounds. You cannot introduce vaccines that crater cancer rates, cure AIDS, and cure sickle cell, and then tell me things have only gotten worse. Also: Food. To a HUGE degree. I eat what I once considered rare treats every day, now.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterdayFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Our artform should not be a speculative asset.
This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.
Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 5d agoMassive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...
it's crazy to me people still insist ai for research is reliable when we now have an Hbomberguy video's worth of evidence that its unreliability is tanking Hank Green's career
If you’re at an EA studio and want to anonymously talk about what’s going on and how the company is communicating with workers about this, I can be reached by dm here, email at kshepard@kotaku.com, or I can send you my Signal.
Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterdayWell, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666
So interesting 💭 "Relighting 'Nighthawks' - bit.studio reimagines Edward Hopper's classic artwork, turning the most crucial element, the 'light,' into something you can actually control!" The exhibit is held at the bit.studio gallery on the 3rd floor, Slowcombo building in Samyan, Bangkok. #art
If you're part of the BioWare or Sims community and want to talk about how those studios' queer characters and themes have impacted you and your fears for those series moving forward after this sale, I'd love to chat with you for a Kotaku story. Can be reached here or email kshepard@kotaku.com
Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterdayWell, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666
Devs raise $130,000 in just five days to support laid-off peers
Devs raise $130,000 in just five days to support laid-off peers
The game industry hardship fund bundle, meant to support game workers during ongoing mass layoffs, is over halfway through its goal of 200,000 USD.
gamedeveloper.com
hey boss. yeah i'm gonna be late again for my job in Myst world, where we live. i forgot which combination of the sixteen valve handwheels in my apartment opens the front door again
Enjoy 127 items by 109 creators and support game devs effected by recent layoffs: itch.io/b/3802/game-...
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
