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One of the few tiny upsides of the LLM craze is that we get to see corporations embarrass themselves in ways that would have been genuinely, truly impossible before

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Jesus, fuck I’ve literally been waiting for an elected official to fearlessly say this shit my entire goddamn life

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Mahmood Mamdani, father of Zohran Mamdani, on "beneficiaries" of violence and their omission from discussions of human rights and crises like South Africa, Sudan, Palestine, etc.

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I genuinely want a law that caps the highest total comp at a company to a (double digit, max) multiplier of the lowest total comp at that company.

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NEW: EA CEO Andrew Wilson was paid $30.5 million in cash and stock this past year, up about $5m from a year ago Since the U.S. requires companies to compare CEO pay to employee pay, I made an EA pay chart To make it work, I had to make it VERY TALL Take a look: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...

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When we tell our international friends "Do not come to the United States, it is not safe here and I cannot protect you" this is the kind of shit we're worried about.

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The United Videogame Workers union is part of the greater Communications Workers of America union. 30-odd years ago, they put forth their Worker Bill of Rights: cwa-union.org/news/entry/c... Now, we want #Gamedevs to come together for our Game Worker Bill of Rights. Please COMMENT on their post!

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New piece by me! I wrote about how freaky measles is, which many people don't know about. It depletes immune cells, and makes people vulnerable to many other infectious diseases. This raises the risk of complications for years after an infection.

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Good thread about which ideas the legacy media treats as radical.

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Important op-ed from @ryanenos.bsky.social and @stevelevitsky.bsky.social "Allowing the government to use extortionary threats to shape the teaching, research, and admissions policies of institutions of higher education is the stuff of autocracies." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Unity AI showcase on the official unity's channel "It shouldn't give you copyrighted materials" "There are some guardrails" "hey look I made mickey mouse" "i tried to generate pokemons lol" "but you should not put this in your game haha"

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i realized a good warm-up into coding this project is to just add minor details to the procedural generators. i just set it up so theres a % chance that the stepping stone paths will include a lily pad, and also sprinkled some rocks and stuff in the water. #gamedev #pixelart

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Can we just tax these people more? Not in order to pay for things we like, but somebody that has 250k of fuck you money to throw at someone he potentially may want to buy access to has too much power.

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the first tech reporter to learn how to ask "and have you built any of that yet?" will change journalism forever

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I had a REALLY lovely time talking to @milesklee.bsky.social at Rolling Stone about why The Onion is thriving. It's because we're one of the only legacy outlets unafraid to accurately reflect the mood of this country. That mood? Everyone fucking hates this. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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The trucks Israel is letting into Gaza had already been sitting in the sun for months when they finally reluctantly rolled some of them in. (Why was Israel allowed to dictate whether or not Palestinians get food is not a mystery: it's still racism)

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if you're a user of the Unreal Engine, you may benefit from my collection of Scoops unrealscoops.com - bits of valuable info that are hard to obtain

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just learned about biplanar UV projection!! the tyranny of triplanar shaders is finally over! can't wait to go bi iquilezles.org/articles/bip...

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If you choose to get this bundle in the waning moments (which you should), make sure your donation makes the total end in .69. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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idk i'm not a poet #art

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“companies find ways to push workers to the maximum limit they can get away with. If your employer isn't giving you an easier time now, with all the benefits of email, word processors, spreadsheets and spellcheckers, why would they change their mind tomorrow?”

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I think AI is going to eventually tank in the longterm, but... the only real way to combat this is single-interest communities. Forums, user comms, etc, with a barrier to entry. They become trustable knowledgebases. It's really the only way forward is to return to what worked best the first time

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As we celebrate the NYC mayoral result, remember the system that got us here. Ranked choice voting works: it creates coalition building/collaboration across parties and limits super far right shit because they don’t get enough support from the other parties. Implement this in other cities already.

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The best thing about being a solo #gamedev is that when you are fed up with one kind of task, there are plenty of others that help you relax and still make progress. I got frustrated with codeing so I listened to podcasts and painted icons for a puzzle. ☺️✨️💪

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Oh my god, is this an article about adventure games that acknowledges they're alive and well and have been this whole time?! Also great, great, great, great bundle. Like one of the best ever.

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Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

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Fyi I switched over to Deezer a few months back and it's: 🇫🇷 French owned 🎵 has a tool that imports all your Spotify liked songs and playlists (and does it in approx five mins) 💵 pays artists 2-3x better Would recommend! Haven't had an issue with much music being missing at all.

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I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.

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Cyber flail. Fight turn based battles using real accelerometer motion. Coming in 1999. #indiedev

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“[Use of LLMs] perpetuates inaccuracies not only about communities but also about what ‘correct’ English is. So the stakes aren’t just about preserving linguistic diversity — they’re about protecting the imperfections that actually build trust.” www.theverge.com/openai/68674...

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In a few days, it will have been twenty-five years since Deus Ex was first released.

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We need to celebrate the Canadian gamedev scene more. Lets list out all the games we can, built at least in part by Canadian gamedevs. I'll get us started with Balatro. Now you go. #CanadianGamedev

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Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

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Rolling Stone has excerpted an essay from my forthcoming book. It's about what happens when you get all of your info about the world from the TV (cops are heroes!), and then go out into the world and see for yourself. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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Added springboard mechanic and new pool to #PunkDuckJumps ♥️ You can help: kadagaden.github.io/donate #indiedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #devlog #solodev #gamedev #developers #madewithunity #unity #blender #gamedevelopment #gamedesign #ゲーム制作 #プラットフォームゲーム #3DPlatformer #videogames #3Dアクションゲーム

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gamedev is easier and more rewarding when you make games that you really want to see in the world… when you don’t at all care about what people will say about it, or if they’ll even play it… but you just make something you’ll be genuinely proud of.

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The pinkwashing "look at how Iran treats women and gays" rings so hollow when our partner in this crime is in its 20th month of doing this

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100% agree

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One of my ice breakers for tech conferences is "what's the part of your job you wish you could stop doing"? 60% say meetings, and the remaining 40% will reliably say "maintaining someone else's code". And baby, it's going to get a lot worse! 👇🧵

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ZeniMax union workers ratify historic contract with Microsoft

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The narrative around service games is insane. Every one is alternatingly and exclusively described as a "disaster" or in the midst of its "redemption". Outrage addicted gamers somehow control the entire way we talk about games which is both stupid and exhausting

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Yoko Taro, creator of Nier and Drakengard, laments the decline of 'weird' game developers in AAA gaming. He argues that while indie games thrive on oddity, major studios shy away from risk, stifling creativity. #GameDevelopment #YokoTaro

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