Stefanie
@steffi.bsky.social
User Experience Designer from Germany. Enterprise tech by day, games by night. Sometimes a writer. Very average guitarist.
Will die on the "good UX equals accessibility" hill.
Will die on the "good UX equals accessibility" hill.
Runner up for another Saudi, another right wing billionaire or another Tencent acquisition. This, or getting busted by tax authorities for Tencent's bailout money glitch.
Ubisoft news are many things, but never boring.
Ubisoft news are many things, but never boring.
Ubisoft just postponed its earnings report and halted the trading of its shares. Unclear why at this point but could indicate a major announcement related to the company.
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Runner up for another Saudi, another right wing billionaire or another Tencent acquisition. This, or getting busted by tax authorities for Tencent's bailout money glitch.
Ubisoft news are many things, but never boring.
Ubisoft news are many things, but never boring.
they should have named it Gabe Cube, Steam Machine is boring
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
they should have named it Gabe Cube, Steam Machine is boring
Pest winning against cholera. Don't celebrate them for anything but this.
First and probably only time in history that I'll agree with GMRS/GEMA.
They are also an exploitative corpo that willfully ruins small indie artists and are the #1 reason why small music venues in Germany have to close down.
First and probably only time in history that I'll agree with GMRS/GEMA.
They are also an exploitative corpo that willfully ruins small indie artists and are the #1 reason why small music venues in Germany have to close down.
German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵
• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses
• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal
"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"
— German Music Rights Society
• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses
• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal
"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"
— German Music Rights Society
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Pest winning against cholera. Don't celebrate them for anything but this.
First and probably only time in history that I'll agree with GMRS/GEMA.
They are also an exploitative corpo that willfully ruins small indie artists and are the #1 reason why small music venues in Germany have to close down.
First and probably only time in history that I'll agree with GMRS/GEMA.
They are also an exploitative corpo that willfully ruins small indie artists and are the #1 reason why small music venues in Germany have to close down.
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"When you get writing help, the page's URL content, and your text are sent to Google. Don't enter personal info (like medical or financial details)"
My brother in Christ, you fuckers are adding this shit to the most used browser in the world, TAKE A GUESS ON WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN
My brother in Christ, you fuckers are adding this shit to the most used browser in the world, TAKE A GUESS ON WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"When you get writing help, the page's URL content, and your text are sent to Google. Don't enter personal info (like medical or financial details)"
My brother in Christ, you fuckers are adding this shit to the most used browser in the world, TAKE A GUESS ON WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN
My brother in Christ, you fuckers are adding this shit to the most used browser in the world, TAKE A GUESS ON WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN
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I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
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She's absolutely right. As a producer with several films in development with female directors, I can say it is an absolute uphill battle to get execs to fund their projects. Great scripts are sitting on shelves while a generation of our most talented women sit idle.
www.avclub.com/kristen-stew...
www.avclub.com/kristen-stew...
Kristen Stewart declares "state of emergency" over gender inequality in film
Kristen Stewart declares "state of emergency" over gender inequality in film
www.avclub.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
She's absolutely right. As a producer with several films in development with female directors, I can say it is an absolute uphill battle to get execs to fund their projects. Great scripts are sitting on shelves while a generation of our most talented women sit idle.
www.avclub.com/kristen-stew...
www.avclub.com/kristen-stew...
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They’ll insist this is a
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.
They’re wrong.
New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.
If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.
They’re wrong.
New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.
If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
They’ll insist this is a
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.
They’re wrong.
New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.
If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.
They’re wrong.
New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.
If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
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Diversity remains a critical part of any healthy and thriving organisation - even if an extremist supremacist dictatorship tries to taboo the phrase.
Good on Python for standing by what makes it so powerful - not money, but people.
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/pyt...
Good on Python for standing by what makes it so powerful - not money, but people.
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/pyt...
The Python Software Foundation has turned down a $1.5 million US government grant amid ethical concerns
Principled Python.
www.pcgamer.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Diversity remains a critical part of any healthy and thriving organisation - even if an extremist supremacist dictatorship tries to taboo the phrase.
Good on Python for standing by what makes it so powerful - not money, but people.
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/pyt...
Good on Python for standing by what makes it so powerful - not money, but people.
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/pyt...
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They Avocado Toast-ed us Millennials for years, but Gen Z is getting accused of indulgent overspending for having a pastry ONCE A WEEK???
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
archive.ph/2TI8J
archive.ph/2TI8J
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
They Avocado Toast-ed us Millennials for years, but Gen Z is getting accused of indulgent overspending for having a pastry ONCE A WEEK???
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I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
How are web devs not constantly screaming and throwing things against a wall? I have to deal with portfolio maintenance and the UX of everything is crap.
Just lost an hour of my life to updating SSL certificates. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN EASY. One click. But there are zero UX considerations in anything.
Just lost an hour of my life to updating SSL certificates. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN EASY. One click. But there are zero UX considerations in anything.
October 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
How are web devs not constantly screaming and throwing things against a wall? I have to deal with portfolio maintenance and the UX of everything is crap.
Just lost an hour of my life to updating SSL certificates. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN EASY. One click. But there are zero UX considerations in anything.
Just lost an hour of my life to updating SSL certificates. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN EASY. One click. But there are zero UX considerations in anything.
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Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
October 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
Please enjoy each seat as office battery hen equally.
"The good news is hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination. The bad news is whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create.”
Harmony Cobel, #Severance Season 1, EP 1
"The good news is hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination. The bad news is whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create.”
Harmony Cobel, #Severance Season 1, EP 1
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Please enjoy each seat as office battery hen equally.
"The good news is hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination. The bad news is whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create.”
Harmony Cobel, #Severance Season 1, EP 1
"The good news is hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination. The bad news is whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create.”
Harmony Cobel, #Severance Season 1, EP 1
Michael Reeves gaslighting ChatGPT into having the equivalent of a stroke is my new favorite video
chatgpt has E-stroke
YouTube video by Michael Reeves
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Michael Reeves gaslighting ChatGPT into having the equivalent of a stroke is my new favorite video
1. "Stil" ist eine merkwürdige Art, "Faschismus" zu buchstabieren.
2. Stilkritik setzt voraus, dass die betroffene Person jemals sowas wie "Stil" besessen hat.
2. Stilkritik setzt voraus, dass die betroffene Person jemals sowas wie "Stil" besessen hat.
October 21, 2025 at 7:05 AM
1. "Stil" ist eine merkwürdige Art, "Faschismus" zu buchstabieren.
2. Stilkritik setzt voraus, dass die betroffene Person jemals sowas wie "Stil" besessen hat.
2. Stilkritik setzt voraus, dass die betroffene Person jemals sowas wie "Stil" besessen hat.
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"a bunch of sleeper accounts woke up and started a coordinated campaign against bluesky, but this is something I am particularly knowledgable on and therefore prepared for this sort of moment; here's tools I've developed as a countermeasure"
is a -nuts- thing to read after hours of Nier automata
is a -nuts- thing to read after hours of Nier automata
I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
"a bunch of sleeper accounts woke up and started a coordinated campaign against bluesky, but this is something I am particularly knowledgable on and therefore prepared for this sort of moment; here's tools I've developed as a countermeasure"
is a -nuts- thing to read after hours of Nier automata
is a -nuts- thing to read after hours of Nier automata
Reposted by Stefanie
Reposted by Stefanie
"kill them with kindness" wrong. bat attack
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October 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"kill them with kindness" wrong. bat attack
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Someone who works in a creative industry asked for my opinion about a logo for his new project.
He used GPT to AI slop it.
The irony and insensitivity of a full-time creative approaching me, a designer, with AI slop and then dismissing glaring issues as "people won't notice" is twisting my brain.
He used GPT to AI slop it.
The irony and insensitivity of a full-time creative approaching me, a designer, with AI slop and then dismissing glaring issues as "people won't notice" is twisting my brain.
October 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Someone who works in a creative industry asked for my opinion about a logo for his new project.
He used GPT to AI slop it.
The irony and insensitivity of a full-time creative approaching me, a designer, with AI slop and then dismissing glaring issues as "people won't notice" is twisting my brain.
He used GPT to AI slop it.
The irony and insensitivity of a full-time creative approaching me, a designer, with AI slop and then dismissing glaring issues as "people won't notice" is twisting my brain.
Cowards. A French company bowing to fascists is more than just shameful, but I guess that's what you do when you get high on Saudi money-juice.
Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era
• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave
• Players would fight the emerging KKK
• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash
(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)
• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave
• Players would fight the emerging KKK
• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash
(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Cowards. A French company bowing to fascists is more than just shameful, but I guess that's what you do when you get high on Saudi money-juice.
Reposted by Stefanie
WCAG-EM 2.0, a process to evaluate accessibility, is coming! We (me, @stevefaulkner.bsky.social and Jeroen) are updating it to:
- make the scope broader (from “websites” to any digital product)
- make it more readable
- bring it up to date (mentions design systems now)
w3c.github.io/wai-wcag-em/
- make the scope broader (from “websites” to any digital product)
- make it more readable
- bring it up to date (mentions design systems now)
w3c.github.io/wai-wcag-em/
W3C Accessibility Guidelines Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0
This document describes a procedure to evaluate how well digital products conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.
w3c.github.io
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
WCAG-EM 2.0, a process to evaluate accessibility, is coming! We (me, @stevefaulkner.bsky.social and Jeroen) are updating it to:
- make the scope broader (from “websites” to any digital product)
- make it more readable
- bring it up to date (mentions design systems now)
w3c.github.io/wai-wcag-em/
- make the scope broader (from “websites” to any digital product)
- make it more readable
- bring it up to date (mentions design systems now)
w3c.github.io/wai-wcag-em/
The Irish are kicking ass again! A gov investing in human made art in current times AND proving that it's profitable is the kind of news we need more of.
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The Irish are kicking ass again! A gov investing in human made art in current times AND proving that it's profitable is the kind of news we need more of.
Catching up on the whole Jay vs. waffles thing and... yeah, can't wait until Eurosky takes off.
"Bsky is decentralized" is still kind of useless if there are no other publicly available apps.
"Bsky is decentralized" is still kind of useless if there are no other publicly available apps.
October 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Catching up on the whole Jay vs. waffles thing and... yeah, can't wait until Eurosky takes off.
"Bsky is decentralized" is still kind of useless if there are no other publicly available apps.
"Bsky is decentralized" is still kind of useless if there are no other publicly available apps.
Reposted by Stefanie
Listen, @burgerbecky.bsky.social is one of the greats. If you can spare anything at all, and you have love for this medium, I can guarantee she's in some way part of the games you love. Please help our industry help her out.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
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October 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Listen, @burgerbecky.bsky.social is one of the greats. If you can spare anything at all, and you have love for this medium, I can guarantee she's in some way part of the games you love. Please help our industry help her out.
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