Paolo Chikiamco
@anitero.bsky.social
He/him. Filipino writer; prose / comics/ interactive fiction / narrative design. Geek Dad; Wrestling Fan; Gacha Afficionado. Slammed!; Mythspace; A Sparrow's Roar; Muros
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This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.
The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality
June 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.
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for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle
June 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle
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I think the interesting thing - and the point which can't be made enough, alas - is that it's a tool designed to confuse people who don't understand how the tool works (the opposite of classic UI design, right?) That is not something that can be shrugged off for a mass market tool.
I beg for a day when people stop asking chatbots questions about their own reasoning or actions amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I think the interesting thing - and the point which can't be made enough, alas - is that it's a tool designed to confuse people who don't understand how the tool works (the opposite of classic UI design, right?) That is not something that can be shrugged off for a mass market tool.
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"What first began as a minor nuisance crescendos into an eardrum-shattering screech unlike anything found in nature."
Is Your Child Practicing the Recorder, or Are Winged Harpies from the Seventh Circle of Hell Tormenting You from Within Your Own Home?
1. What was once a beautiful creature has suddenly transformed into a vicious, cruel monster with lovely hair. 2. Its presence makes all living cre...
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April 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"What first began as a minor nuisance crescendos into an eardrum-shattering screech unlike anything found in nature."
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Episode 2 of @calumstuart.bsky.social’s conversation with Cathy and Karen is out and it’s a really powerful one: currentsnewsletter.com/p/the-kind-o...
April 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Episode 2 of @calumstuart.bsky.social’s conversation with Cathy and Karen is out and it’s a really powerful one: currentsnewsletter.com/p/the-kind-o...
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Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮
We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.
We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.
March 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮
We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.
We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.
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"The High Court said it found that Duterte and petitioner Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa 'failed to establish a clear and unmistakable right for the immediate issuance of a TRO'."
Duterte fails to get immediate Supreme Court reprieve after arrest
Duterte fails to get immediate Supreme Court reprieve after arrest
President Rodrigo Duterte failed to secure from the Supreme Court a temporary restraining order against his arrest on a warrant from the International Criminal Court.
abs-cbn.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"The High Court said it found that Duterte and petitioner Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa 'failed to establish a clear and unmistakable right for the immediate issuance of a TRO'."
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Ang laban ng Nexperia Workers ay laban nating lahat! Tumindig para sa nakabubuhay na sahod at karapatang mag-unyon! Sumama sa pakikibaka ng uring manggagawa! ✊🏼
#ReinstateNexperia4
#NexperiaWorkersOnStrike
#StandWithNexperiaWorkers
#ReinstateNexperia4
#NexperiaWorkersOnStrike
#StandWithNexperiaWorkers
March 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Ang laban ng Nexperia Workers ay laban nating lahat! Tumindig para sa nakabubuhay na sahod at karapatang mag-unyon! Sumama sa pakikibaka ng uring manggagawa! ✊🏼
#ReinstateNexperia4
#NexperiaWorkersOnStrike
#StandWithNexperiaWorkers
#ReinstateNexperia4
#NexperiaWorkersOnStrike
#StandWithNexperiaWorkers
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It’s up and holy fucking shit.
🤼▶️ youtu.be/X-xYplgSBzo?...
🤼▶️ youtu.be/X-xYplgSBzo?...
March 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It’s up and holy fucking shit.
🤼▶️ youtu.be/X-xYplgSBzo?...
🤼▶️ youtu.be/X-xYplgSBzo?...
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Apex Legend's French VAs all refused to come back and provide their voices for A.I. training to replace them.
www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/1F...
I cannot begin to express how truly and deeply I want these anti-human, scum fuck, corporate ghouls to lose their jobs. *Minimum.*
www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/1F...
I cannot begin to express how truly and deeply I want these anti-human, scum fuck, corporate ghouls to lose their jobs. *Minimum.*
February 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Apex Legend's French VAs all refused to come back and provide their voices for A.I. training to replace them.
www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/1F...
I cannot begin to express how truly and deeply I want these anti-human, scum fuck, corporate ghouls to lose their jobs. *Minimum.*
www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/1F...
I cannot begin to express how truly and deeply I want these anti-human, scum fuck, corporate ghouls to lose their jobs. *Minimum.*
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I've been screaming this for years.
February 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I've been screaming this for years.
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It's been an incredible launch and people are *loving* Gun-Dog, but don't take our word for it, we have:
🚀 220 reviews on Steam - 'Very Positive'
🚀MetaCritic score of 79
🚀Open Critic score of 78
This weekend's a great time to board the Gun-Dog with 10% off!
store.steampowered.com/app/2118420/...
🚀 220 reviews on Steam - 'Very Positive'
🚀MetaCritic score of 79
🚀Open Critic score of 78
This weekend's a great time to board the Gun-Dog with 10% off!
store.steampowered.com/app/2118420/...
Save 10% on Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog on Steam
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
store.steampowered.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's been an incredible launch and people are *loving* Gun-Dog, but don't take our word for it, we have:
🚀 220 reviews on Steam - 'Very Positive'
🚀MetaCritic score of 79
🚀Open Critic score of 78
This weekend's a great time to board the Gun-Dog with 10% off!
store.steampowered.com/app/2118420/...
🚀 220 reviews on Steam - 'Very Positive'
🚀MetaCritic score of 79
🚀Open Critic score of 78
This weekend's a great time to board the Gun-Dog with 10% off!
store.steampowered.com/app/2118420/...
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Honestly, this kind of survey was doomed from the start because romance and sexy plots are still seen as inherently bad so a lot of people do NOT share in public that they like them, even for anonymous surveys.
I once worked on a visual novel game where all the surveys and focus groups said that nobody wanted romance, they only wanted mystery and sci-fi.
Then 75+% of clicks in-game went to stories with explicit romantic or sexy themes.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Then 75+% of clicks in-game went to stories with explicit romantic or sexy themes.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
'These kids do not care about romance': Game devs want to know what today's teens want, and surveys say sex and romance isn't it
Young people want stories about friendship more than romance, say researchers and industry execs.
www.pcgamer.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Honestly, this kind of survey was doomed from the start because romance and sexy plots are still seen as inherently bad so a lot of people do NOT share in public that they like them, even for anonymous surveys.
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"UX storytelling should be persuasive, empathetic, and spark imagination. Future child iterations should focus more on context and narrative structure and less on cheese snacks and Band-aids."
The UX on this Small Child Is Terrible
Not only am I VP of Reproduction for this household, but I’ve also been the end-user of this Small Child for over three years now. I’m going to giv...
buff.ly
February 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"UX storytelling should be persuasive, empathetic, and spark imagination. Future child iterations should focus more on context and narrative structure and less on cheese snacks and Band-aids."
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"The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday accused a fellow government agency of 'red tagging' the poll body, as it even as it issued a new policy prohibiting discriminatory and harassment acts during the campaign period for the May elections."
malaya.com.ph/news/nationa...
malaya.com.ph/news/nationa...
‘Comelec being red-tagged by fellow govt agency’ - Malaya Business Insight
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday accused a fellow government agency of “red tagging” the poll body, as it even as it issued a new policy prohibiting discriminatory and harassment acts d...
malaya.com.ph
February 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
"The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday accused a fellow government agency of 'red tagging' the poll body, as it even as it issued a new policy prohibiting discriminatory and harassment acts during the campaign period for the May elections."
malaya.com.ph/news/nationa...
malaya.com.ph/news/nationa...
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Nightdive uses real people to help remaster and preserve classic games with its KEX engine, often collaborating with the original game creators to ensure the final product remains faithful to the original. An AI upscale/port with 0 thought put into it is not "preservation".
Phil Spencer that's not how games preservation works, that's not how any of this works:
aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...
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February 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Nightdive uses real people to help remaster and preserve classic games with its KEX engine, often collaborating with the original game creators to ensure the final product remains faithful to the original. An AI upscale/port with 0 thought put into it is not "preservation".
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Another reminder for those who still seem to have not understood:
Chat programs do not “look up” information and then repeat it. They write plausible language in answer to a prompt based on their data set. References will use real people, journals & words from titles, but will not truly exist.
Chat programs do not “look up” information and then repeat it. They write plausible language in answer to a prompt based on their data set. References will use real people, journals & words from titles, but will not truly exist.
I just called out a student for using AI to write an extended abstract for my class. 3 of the 4 articles she cited are fake. They are by real people, in real journals, and the titles are similar to topics the authors study. But the papers do not exist! It is wild that ChatGPT invents articles.
If you leverage AI in literature review, CHECK THOSE REFERENCES. I just finished reading through a proposal on a topic that I knew well, and thus was surprised to see several papers referenced that I hadn't known of. Then when I looked them up online, I found they didn't exist. 7 fake references.
February 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Another reminder for those who still seem to have not understood:
Chat programs do not “look up” information and then repeat it. They write plausible language in answer to a prompt based on their data set. References will use real people, journals & words from titles, but will not truly exist.
Chat programs do not “look up” information and then repeat it. They write plausible language in answer to a prompt based on their data set. References will use real people, journals & words from titles, but will not truly exist.
February 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Witch Hat Atelier has good politics.
February 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Witch Hat Atelier has good politics.
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2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila. The Memorare-Manila 1945 monument, located at the Plazuela de Santa Isabela in Intramuros, Manila commemorates the hundreds of thousands of known and unknown Manileños killed by Imperial Japanese forces as they defended the city.
February 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila. The Memorare-Manila 1945 monument, located at the Plazuela de Santa Isabela in Intramuros, Manila commemorates the hundreds of thousands of known and unknown Manileños killed by Imperial Japanese forces as they defended the city.
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Discworld QOTD, from Mort
February 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Mort
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Alternative Alamat edited by @anitero.bsky.social 5/5. It took me more than a year to finish this book, not because it was a hard read, but because I never wanted it to end. The Alipin’s Tale by Raymond Falgui is my favorite but there isn’t a lackluster story in this collection #books #philippinelit
February 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Alternative Alamat edited by @anitero.bsky.social 5/5. It took me more than a year to finish this book, not because it was a hard read, but because I never wanted it to end. The Alipin’s Tale by Raymond Falgui is my favorite but there isn’t a lackluster story in this collection #books #philippinelit
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Court orders Quiboloy’s return to Pasig jail
Court orders Quiboloy’s return to Pasig jail
A court has ordered Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) leader Pastor Apollo Quiboloy’s transfer back to Pasig City Jail by February 12, his lawyer said Thursday.
abs-cbn.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Court orders Quiboloy’s return to Pasig jail
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So. There are a number of issues with this list of words that can now get a scientific grant application spiked at the National Science Foundation. And one is because the word “bias”, in all of its forms, is often used in the text of work that employs statistical methodology, especially Epi.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
So. There are a number of issues with this list of words that can now get a scientific grant application spiked at the National Science Foundation. And one is because the word “bias”, in all of its forms, is often used in the text of work that employs statistical methodology, especially Epi.