SpacePrez
@spaceprez.bsky.social
Senior Engineer at Maxis
Previously Blizzard
He/Him/They 🏳️🌈
All views are my own and do not reflect my employer
Previously Blizzard
He/Him/They 🏳️🌈
All views are my own and do not reflect my employer
Other than Three Body Problem, anybody know of some scifi about distant civilizations that can communicate but can never directly interact due to not having FTL travel?
I need more sci-fi that's between The Expanse and Star Wars
(Contact is the goat)
I need more sci-fi that's between The Expanse and Star Wars
(Contact is the goat)
February 19, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Other than Three Body Problem, anybody know of some scifi about distant civilizations that can communicate but can never directly interact due to not having FTL travel?
I need more sci-fi that's between The Expanse and Star Wars
(Contact is the goat)
I need more sci-fi that's between The Expanse and Star Wars
(Contact is the goat)
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Trump: "I flew to Iraq. I was extremely brave. So brave I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor ... someday I'm gonna try. I'll test the law."
February 19, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Trump: "I flew to Iraq. I was extremely brave. So brave I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor ... someday I'm gonna try. I'll test the law."
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windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal
February 19, 2026 at 9:25 PM
windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal
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How do you organize safely and effectively in the golden age of surveillance? I have some thoughts and Wired does too: www.wired.com/story/how-to...
How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance
From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.
www.wired.com
February 19, 2026 at 9:49 PM
How do you organize safely and effectively in the golden age of surveillance? I have some thoughts and Wired does too: www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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“Because they are fundamentally utopians, right-wing extremists tend not to worry about shredding institutions and political arrangements.”
You know, it really hadn’t occurred to me to frame Musk, Thiel and company this way, but yeah, our dystopia is their utopia.
You know, it really hadn’t occurred to me to frame Musk, Thiel and company this way, but yeah, our dystopia is their utopia.
February 19, 2026 at 9:33 PM
“Because they are fundamentally utopians, right-wing extremists tend not to worry about shredding institutions and political arrangements.”
You know, it really hadn’t occurred to me to frame Musk, Thiel and company this way, but yeah, our dystopia is their utopia.
You know, it really hadn’t occurred to me to frame Musk, Thiel and company this way, but yeah, our dystopia is their utopia.
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“U.S. foreign policy is now largely subordinate to the private interests of the president and his retainers,” write @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social and @dhnexon.bsky.social.
The Age of Kleptocracy
Geopolitical power, private gain.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 19, 2026 at 8:59 PM
“U.S. foreign policy is now largely subordinate to the private interests of the president and his retainers,” write @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social and @dhnexon.bsky.social.
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wrt bluepoint, just given the state of AAA development today, whenever a studio closure like this happens i always think about the people who put 3 or 4 years of their lives into a project that never even got announced. what do you even put on your resume?
February 19, 2026 at 7:19 PM
wrt bluepoint, just given the state of AAA development today, whenever a studio closure like this happens i always think about the people who put 3 or 4 years of their lives into a project that never even got announced. what do you even put on your resume?
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I truly don't think this (or any) industry can survive without a mechanism to fire people up the chain
so long as executives can fire thousands of workers, but workers can never fire executives, there will never be an incentive for management to not fuck up as quickly and destructively as possible
so long as executives can fire thousands of workers, but workers can never fire executives, there will never be an incentive for management to not fuck up as quickly and destructively as possible
Recent Sony game studio acquisitions
- 2021: Nixxes
- 2021: Firesprite (layoffs in 2024)
- 2021: Bluepoint (closed in 2026)
- 2022: Valkyrie Entertainment
- 2022: Haven Studios
- 2022: Bungie (layoffs in 2024; new game soon)
- 2022: Neon Koi (closed in 2024)
- 2023: Firewalk (closed in 2024)
- 2021: Nixxes
- 2021: Firesprite (layoffs in 2024)
- 2021: Bluepoint (closed in 2026)
- 2022: Valkyrie Entertainment
- 2022: Haven Studios
- 2022: Bungie (layoffs in 2024; new game soon)
- 2022: Neon Koi (closed in 2024)
- 2023: Firewalk (closed in 2024)
Roughly 70 employees will be impacted by the Bluepoint closure. Bluepoint was working on a God of War live-service game until it was canceled early last year. The studio then spent the last year pitching and trying to determine what it would do next. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
February 19, 2026 at 8:55 PM
I truly don't think this (or any) industry can survive without a mechanism to fire people up the chain
so long as executives can fire thousands of workers, but workers can never fire executives, there will never be an incentive for management to not fuck up as quickly and destructively as possible
so long as executives can fire thousands of workers, but workers can never fire executives, there will never be an incentive for management to not fuck up as quickly and destructively as possible
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In the midst of the most aggressive and alarming federal assault on the First Amendment since the Palmer raids, the Biden-era free speech warriors have focused their outrage on . . . the injustice of releasing the Epstein files.
What Are Heterodox Free Speech Warriors Doing About Trump's Censorship-Industrial Complex? Nada
Trump is issuing subpoenas demanding social media platforms hand over data about ICE protesters but the 'Twitter Files' agitators couldn't care less
www.theunpopulist.net
February 19, 2026 at 8:49 PM
In the midst of the most aggressive and alarming federal assault on the First Amendment since the Palmer raids, the Biden-era free speech warriors have focused their outrage on . . . the injustice of releasing the Epstein files.
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Trump may well be careening into a major war and the American corporate media coverage is credulous and feeble when it should be vigorously alerting the public to the dangers, the lack of any reasoned argument, and the imperative for Congressional authorization.
presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...
presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...
The US news media is failing the public in its coverage of a possible war against Iran | Press Watch
Reporters should be asking Trump officials some essential questions, and calling attention to the lack of answers.
presswatchers.org
February 19, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Trump may well be careening into a major war and the American corporate media coverage is credulous and feeble when it should be vigorously alerting the public to the dangers, the lack of any reasoned argument, and the imperative for Congressional authorization.
presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...
presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...
Its weird we got like 12 games based on DOTA but not a single AAA version of Enfo's
February 19, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Its weird we got like 12 games based on DOTA but not a single AAA version of Enfo's
He should be in jail.
Bill Gates on Thursday canceled a high-profile speech at an A.I. summit in India amid fresh scrutiny of his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein.
Bill Gates Cancels Speech in India Amid Epstein Controversy
The philanthropist made the announcement on Thursday, after having earlier confirmed his participation in a prominent artificial intelligence summit in India.
nyti.ms
February 19, 2026 at 8:42 PM
He should be in jail.
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NEW: “Top-down mandates to use large language models are crazy,” says one current Block employee. “If the tool were good, we’d all just use it.”
My latest for @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/inside...
My latest for @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/inside...
Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block
Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily.
www.wired.com
February 19, 2026 at 8:20 PM
NEW: “Top-down mandates to use large language models are crazy,” says one current Block employee. “If the tool were good, we’d all just use it.”
My latest for @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/inside...
My latest for @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/inside...
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I fear that we're heading towards all cultural products being the fashion industry: bifurcated between cheap things meant to be used once and thrown away and exorbitantly expensive hand crafted work that is great but widely inaccessible
February 19, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I fear that we're heading towards all cultural products being the fashion industry: bifurcated between cheap things meant to be used once and thrown away and exorbitantly expensive hand crafted work that is great but widely inaccessible
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I wrote about OuR hErItAgE. www.ms.now/opinion/elon...
Opinion | The right’s obsession with American "heritage" is all about who get to be seen as "white"
Philip Bump: What Elon Musk was really getting at when he incorrectly claimed “American culture” is of “English-Scotts-Irish origin.”
www.ms.now
February 18, 2026 at 12:49 PM
I wrote about OuR hErItAgE. www.ms.now/opinion/elon...
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Terrific piece by @rexhuppke.bsky.social on Elon Musk, White Nationalist
Wow, Elon Musk sure does like White people | Opinion
Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a guy whose social media platform most companies still use, is a BIG fan of White people. Problematically so.
www.usatoday.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Terrific piece by @rexhuppke.bsky.social on Elon Musk, White Nationalist
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AOC on Elon Musk:
February 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM
AOC on Elon Musk:
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Elon: “Race is a social construct.”
Also Elon: *Posts about race every day*
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Also Elon: *Posts about race every day*
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
February 19, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Elon: “Race is a social construct.”
Also Elon: *Posts about race every day*
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Also Elon: *Posts about race every day*
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Just so we’re clear on this: Maxwell recruited Virginia Giuffre at Mar-a-Lago.
DOOCY: On Prince Andrew, do you think American associates of Jeffrey Epstein will wind up in handcuffs too?
TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.
TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.
February 19, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Just so we’re clear on this: Maxwell recruited Virginia Giuffre at Mar-a-Lago.
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Prince Andrew would never have had the chance to rape her were it not for Trump.
February 19, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Prince Andrew would never have had the chance to rape her were it not for Trump.
Its an anti-meritocracy
I wish that once, one time, the people responsible for miscalculating business so badly were held accountable for their failures. It's always the laborers who suffer while the most highly paid mistake-makers maintain positions of power. And they're likely to just continue that kind of destruction
February 19, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Its an anti-meritocracy
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I received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office.
ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for.
We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.
ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for.
We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.
February 19, 2026 at 5:07 PM
I received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office.
ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for.
We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.
ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for.
We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.
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DOOCY: On Prince Andrew, do you think American associates of Jeffrey Epstein will wind up in handcuffs too?
TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.
TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.
February 19, 2026 at 8:05 PM
DOOCY: On Prince Andrew, do you think American associates of Jeffrey Epstein will wind up in handcuffs too?
TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.
TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.
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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
February 19, 2026 at 7:40 PM
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...