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Unele Marzane
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nathangrayson.bsky.social
this week indie studio santa ragione announced that it's on the verge of closure after steam blocked the release of its upcoming provocative art game, horses. valve, despite all of its algorithms and purposefully vague policyspeak, is once again telling us exactly where it stands
Steam is a relentlessly well-oiled machine optimized for the purpose of pushing products – games that adhere to well-worn themes, structures, and strictures. It recommends games along genre lines; it tries to algorithmically match you with games similar to what you last played at every turn. It is deeply traditional – conservative, even – in its construction. Sometimes art that seeks to provoke or unsettle gets through, but this is closer to a happy accident than the purpose of Steam’s design. Valve has built a machine that cannot challenge the status quo, where rare human decisions must reinforce that ethos to avoid upsetting the immensely profitable apple cart. This should no longer surprise us; Valve drew its line in the sand years ago. But it’s important to remember where the company and the people running it stand – and to recognize that their decisions reverberate through the industry, deciding what does and does not constitute commercially viable art. Such a lofty position necessarily confers responsibility, but Valve refuses to accept it, and I do not imagine it will change its mind anytime soon. This is not to say the larger game development community should take pressure off Valve, but it’s also time to consider alternatives, to build spaces for and unabashedly by human beings. I know it’s far easier said than done, especially when you’ve still got to put food on the table, but what other choice is there?
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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radiodeadair.com
Brother I have fucked with all manner of compter shite for decades and never once did misusing the software make me kill myself and I installed Windows 3.1 on a 286.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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hagenblix.bsky.social
"Actually, you harmed us by using our chatbot in a way that made us look bad" is straight out of the abuser's handbook
ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology
OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himself
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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saschaben.bsky.social
“you're just using it wrong” is 1st tier help desk fail mode for every single poorly designed system.
ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology
OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himself
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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giuliab.bsky.social
C'è una petizione per chiedere le dimissioni di Vincenzo D'Anna per la battuta ributtante su Valentina Pitzalis (che è solo la spia di una mentalità altrettanto ributtante). c.org/v9Ss985cNb
Firma la petizione
“C'è a chi piace cotta la moglie”. Presidente fnob D'Anna su Valentina Pitzalis DIMISSIONI
c.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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cripdyke.bsky.social
This anti-trans frathouse fuckmelon is on HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY?

Our motherfucking media is useless. How do you NOT mention this when he's arguing against trans health care?

And how do you print this fact here without immediately calling attention to his opposition to hormones for trans ppl?
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
AI … is a crisis… History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans, ranging from ostracism to death. Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation.“
earlymodjustice.bsky.social Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 7d
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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keniyoshi.bsky.social
From sovereignista.com

A sham ceasefire from the beginning where both the US and zionist state, two of the most deceptive regimes, are central pieces.

#GazaGenocide
#NeverForgetGaza
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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heatherpaterson.co.uk
Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance

#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames

*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE THIS IS WHY WE'RE SO FUCKING ANGRY
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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hagenblix.bsky.social
Us: AI is a wage depression technology, and the industrialization of language

Them: The median fine-tuning and inference cost of $81 per author represents a dramatic 99.7% reduction compared to typical professional writer compensation
brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8d
Put writing high quality literary text on the list of things that AIs used to not be able to do but now can do

With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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nerdjpg.com
Frustrated? Intro to communism reading list with pdfs, online text, and audio books for each

aliciastuff.notion.site/Communist-Be...
July 1, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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hmcd.bsky.social
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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hagenblix.bsky.social
I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
An LLM is an abstraction over the status quo (or rather, the text of the status quo) that has, at its core, no other aim than producing more text that is just like the text already in existence. One result is that the dominant ideas, the dominant textual patterns of our time, are recast as “intelligence” per se. We might call the complex mass of concepts and ideas, the channels into which ideas flow often and easily, or the boundaries of what is reasonable to debate in so-called “polite society”—the dominant ideology of an age. An age’s dominant ideology tends to presuppose that the power of that age is natural; the hallmark of ideology, in this sense, is that it is easy to recognize only when it’s past its time. We may no longer think that an almighty god appointed a king to rule us, that women are naturally unfit to vote, or that sex outside of a heterosexual marriage is immoral. But at various times, to think otherwise (to think of replacing the monarchy with a republic, to affirm that women are people, or being in favor of sexual or gay liberation) was the far more difficult, even dangerous thought—if not to have, then at the very least to put in writing. Ideology, of course, is never complete, other thoughts are always possible. But ideology is easy to think, it’s what our thoughts are already marinated in. And hence, ideology will be dominant in the textual patterns of an age. Seen in this light, what is called “intelligence” in a language model, is really that—ideology as a thing that can pretend to be a person.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Softbank sold all it's Nvidia stock (www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/s...)

Michael Burry of The Big Short fame's stock portfolio is now ONLY short positions in Nvidia & Palantir (www.ft.com/content/7fe1...)

Peter Thiel sold all his Nvidia stock (& 76% of his Tesla, but that's just deliciously petty) (👇🏾)
Peter Thiel dumps top AI stock, stirring bubble fears
A quiet selloff raises fresh questions about AI’s surge.
www.thestreet.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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olivia.science
Dehumanising asylum seekers is normalised to the point where this isn't a fringe opinion apparently 🤬
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11d
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs

This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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olivia.science
cool pincer movement if you truly grasp:

AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out

🧵

1/n
charleswlogan.bsky.social Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 11d
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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cordeliaappleby.bsky.social
substack.com/@carolecadwa...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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porcupunk.bsky.social
Evergreen.
Tweet from Jack: What trillion dollar problem is AI trying to solve? Wages. They are trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
August 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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mileswgriffis.bsky.social
Rest in peace, Alice Wong 🕊️

thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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iskandrah.bsky.social
How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire?
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
skill issue
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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hagenblix.bsky.social
Of course, Eric Schmidt would think that the only two possible futures are rule by AI or rule through AI.

Trying to incorporate the critiques of the former to push for the latter, as if "deliberation with AI" wasn't precisely the "reproducing the ideology of the status quo"
Opinion | This Is No Way to Rule a Country
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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aetherclaw.bsky.social
well paid and exclusively human workers who made them, and ideally with every one of them getting both credit for their work and royalties from sales.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM