DH ten Cate
@dhtencate.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at DMRC - Queensland University of Technology
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seeing people hit by the layoffs today who have worked in the industry for DECADES. one guy had worked on fucking STAR WARS GAMES FOR THE SNES, another had been at blizzard since starcraft.
that kind of continual experience in the industry is like gold dust, and MS are just throwing it in the bin
that kind of continual experience in the industry is like gold dust, and MS are just throwing it in the bin
July 3, 2025 at 4:57 AM
seeing people hit by the layoffs today who have worked in the industry for DECADES. one guy had worked on fucking STAR WARS GAMES FOR THE SNES, another had been at blizzard since starcraft.
that kind of continual experience in the industry is like gold dust, and MS are just throwing it in the bin
that kind of continual experience in the industry is like gold dust, and MS are just throwing it in the bin
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OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.
OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself
Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is "disgusted" by AI.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.
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Hi, are you working in the video game industry in a chiefly creative capacity (artist, writer, designer, etc)? Is your boss/company trying to foist AI on you against you or your team's wishes? If so I'd love to chat. lukeATaftermathDOTsite, or a DM here if you prefer, thanks!
March 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Hi, are you working in the video game industry in a chiefly creative capacity (artist, writer, designer, etc)? Is your boss/company trying to foist AI on you against you or your team's wishes? If so I'd love to chat. lukeATaftermathDOTsite, or a DM here if you prefer, thanks!
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I am in Adelaide for DiGRA Australia’s national conference the next three days! There probably won’t be any liveposting because no one really does that any more but here is the great program: digraa.org/post/digraa-...
DiGRAA 2025 Conference Programme – DiGRA Australia
digraa.org
February 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I am in Adelaide for DiGRA Australia’s national conference the next three days! There probably won’t be any liveposting because no one really does that any more but here is the great program: digraa.org/post/digraa-...
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Sad to see that the GDC State of the Games Industry '25 confirm what I have suspected for a while: narrative roles particularly hard-hit by layoffs in the industry. Narrative is sometimes seen as expendable on a project: when the reviews of our story come out, are we still on the team?
January 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sad to see that the GDC State of the Games Industry '25 confirm what I have suspected for a while: narrative roles particularly hard-hit by layoffs in the industry. Narrative is sometimes seen as expendable on a project: when the reviews of our story come out, are we still on the team?
Writing a paper using ChatGPT is therefore a crime against (the author’s own) humanity
"The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up THE VERY MENTAL TASKS THAT MAKE THEM HUMAN." This is the key issue at stake in this debate: when we let students hand over their writing assignments to ChatGPT, we are allowing them to give up on their humanity.
“But I am wholly convinced that if a technology undermines my students’ humanity, that technology isn’t ethical to use, for any reason. And I believe generative AI undermines my students’ humanity.“
#EduSky
#EduSky
January 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Writing a paper using ChatGPT is therefore a crime against (the author’s own) humanity
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as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
January 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Academic Work Tracker Template v2.2 (2025)
docs.google.com
December 31, 2024 at 2:51 AM
I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Know there’s been discourse about this article but it’s great to see this very real problem facing the game industry in a mainstream outlet: the industry’s silver bullet for always creating more consumer demand and higher profits simply doesn’t work anymore.
web.archive.org/web/20241228...
web.archive.org/web/20241228...
Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good
The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?
web.archive.org
December 30, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Know there’s been discourse about this article but it’s great to see this very real problem facing the game industry in a mainstream outlet: the industry’s silver bullet for always creating more consumer demand and higher profits simply doesn’t work anymore.
web.archive.org/web/20241228...
web.archive.org/web/20241228...
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Super important experimental study by @lcjacobs89.bsky.social and @jbpilet.bsky.social showing that mainstream parties signaling willingness to govern with radical right legitimize these parties with higher propensity to vote for radical right as a result
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
To rule or not to rule? An experimental study of the electoral ramifications of claims to (not) rule with radical right populist parties - Laura Jacobs, Jean-Benoit Pilet, 2024
In a between-subjects experiment (n = 3270) conducted in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), we examine the electoral ramifications of claims by a ri...
journals.sagepub.com
December 29, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Super important experimental study by @lcjacobs89.bsky.social and @jbpilet.bsky.social showing that mainstream parties signaling willingness to govern with radical right legitimize these parties with higher propensity to vote for radical right as a result
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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“ChatGPT is a woefully bad way to explore the historical record.”
www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...
And much else.
www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...
And much else.
Stop using generative AI as a search engine
Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.
www.theverge.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:08 AM
“ChatGPT is a woefully bad way to explore the historical record.”
www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...
And much else.
www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...
And much else.
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I know we all realize this, but to underline the point: AI is predicated on exploitation, environmental degradation, and financial speculation. It should be the antithesis of everything we stand for as professors.
Also, how the fuck are you going to ask your students to do their work if you won't?
Also, how the fuck are you going to ask your students to do their work if you won't?
December 9, 2024 at 12:47 PM
I know we all realize this, but to underline the point: AI is predicated on exploitation, environmental degradation, and financial speculation. It should be the antithesis of everything we stand for as professors.
Also, how the fuck are you going to ask your students to do their work if you won't?
Also, how the fuck are you going to ask your students to do their work if you won't?
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Universities in Australia have undergone a seismic shift, moving from public institutions dedicated to knowledge and community to entities run increasingly as private businesses. Central to this change is the rise of the vice chancellor as a highly paid executive figure.
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
ANU deans hauled in for ‘change management’ meetings
Three of the Australian National University’s seven college leaders were summoned to meetings this week where they were told the governing council had lost confidence in them.
www.afr.com
December 5, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Universities in Australia have undergone a seismic shift, moving from public institutions dedicated to knowledge and community to entities run increasingly as private businesses. Central to this change is the rise of the vice chancellor as a highly paid executive figure.
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
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Every dollar spent on exec salaries is a dollar drained from the labour of university workers and the quality of teaching and researching. Corporate parasites, the business world’s anti-intellectual proxy agents, that contribute nothing of value to the academy.
December 6, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Every dollar spent on exec salaries is a dollar drained from the labour of university workers and the quality of teaching and researching. Corporate parasites, the business world’s anti-intellectual proxy agents, that contribute nothing of value to the academy.
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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is the best novel I have ever read.
November 26, 2024 at 2:13 PM
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is the best novel I have ever read.
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I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong
November 22, 2024 at 4:59 AM
I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong
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It's really hard to overstate how many world-leading experts on digital media and social media are at Australian universities (I work with many of them!), and the overwhelming majority of them will tell you the social media ban is a bad and counterproductive idea.
November 20, 2024 at 4:21 AM
It's really hard to overstate how many world-leading experts on digital media and social media are at Australian universities (I work with many of them!), and the overwhelming majority of them will tell you the social media ban is a bad and counterproductive idea.
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We made a starter pack of researchers affiliated with the QUT Digital Media Research Centre
November 15, 2024 at 4:20 AM
We made a starter pack of researchers affiliated with the QUT Digital Media Research Centre