Matt Wieteska
@gamecat.bsky.social
Freelance Writer, Game Designer, Director.
BAFTA Member.
Previously: Writer @ Techland; Head of Production @ Six to Start; Creative Lead on Marvel Move; Voice Director & Radio Abel creator on Zombies, Run!
BAFTA Member.
Previously: Writer @ Techland; Head of Production @ Six to Start; Creative Lead on Marvel Move; Voice Director & Radio Abel creator on Zombies, Run!
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This is as good as this stuff will ever be, this is the phase where we're all supposed to be getting hooked in to this disruptive new thing. Once the free money dries up and they have to turn a profit, it will inevitably get worse and worse
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is as good as this stuff will ever be, this is the phase where we're all supposed to be getting hooked in to this disruptive new thing. Once the free money dries up and they have to turn a profit, it will inevitably get worse and worse
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Elections are 3+ years away, Greens are surging in the polls, and there are already elements of UK academia pre-emptively bending the knee to Reform, which is not even in power.
US unis that submitted still got screwed over. UK academia can choose to learn from that or get destroyed by fascism.
US unis that submitted still got screwed over. UK academia can choose to learn from that or get destroyed by fascism.
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Elections are 3+ years away, Greens are surging in the polls, and there are already elements of UK academia pre-emptively bending the knee to Reform, which is not even in power.
US unis that submitted still got screwed over. UK academia can choose to learn from that or get destroyed by fascism.
US unis that submitted still got screwed over. UK academia can choose to learn from that or get destroyed by fascism.
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You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.
We are just the bodies that can be imprisoned when we cease to be effective methods of moving capital through the system.
University system is collapsing because Ai is demotivating an entire generation on education
Students are right. Why should they bother to learn? Ai will take all jobs
What carrot have you placed on their stick? Home ownership is impossible
What do we ask of them other than debt 🔁 consume?
Students are right. Why should they bother to learn? Ai will take all jobs
What carrot have you placed on their stick? Home ownership is impossible
What do we ask of them other than debt 🔁 consume?
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
We are just the bodies that can be imprisoned when we cease to be effective methods of moving capital through the system.
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For the love of everything, please don’t buy your kids shit that lets them talk to LLM or generative AI in general.
The child advocacy nonprofit Fairplay issued an advisory warning people against buying AI toys this holiday season. It's not the only group.
Ahead of the holidays, consumer and child advocacy groups warn against AI toys
The child advocacy nonprofit Fairplay issued an advisory on Thursday warning people against buying AI toys this holiday season. It's not the only group.
n.pr
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
For the love of everything, please don’t buy your kids shit that lets them talk to LLM or generative AI in general.
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What if we threw every person involved in private equity into the ocean:
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aftermath.site/splash-damage-...
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
What if we threw every person involved in private equity into the ocean:
aftermath.site/splash-damage-...
aftermath.site/splash-damage-...
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It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
Great news everyone, I've invented a new kind of foolproof therapy, it's called "lying in a play tent, looking through the window at your kids watching sesame street together with your phone on silent"
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Great news everyone, I've invented a new kind of foolproof therapy, it's called "lying in a play tent, looking through the window at your kids watching sesame street together with your phone on silent"
No-one likes to talk about it, but these two feelings are the same feeling:
Admiring your fully stocked paper goods shelf after a trip to Costco
Cracking the foil on a new pack of Camels
Admiring your fully stocked paper goods shelf after a trip to Costco
Cracking the foil on a new pack of Camels
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
No-one likes to talk about it, but these two feelings are the same feeling:
Admiring your fully stocked paper goods shelf after a trip to Costco
Cracking the foil on a new pack of Camels
Admiring your fully stocked paper goods shelf after a trip to Costco
Cracking the foil on a new pack of Camels
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
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This really feels like we are at the Bored Ape stage
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This really feels like we are at the Bored Ape stage
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I’m sorry but any Labour MP not publicly denouncing Shabana Mahmood‘s disgusting proposal to turn asylum seekers’ lives into a living hell is complicit.
Fascists claim that the overtone window is destroyed, that they won.
Labour MPs now get to decide whether that’s true or not.
This is on you.
Fascists claim that the overtone window is destroyed, that they won.
Labour MPs now get to decide whether that’s true or not.
This is on you.
November 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I’m sorry but any Labour MP not publicly denouncing Shabana Mahmood‘s disgusting proposal to turn asylum seekers’ lives into a living hell is complicit.
Fascists claim that the overtone window is destroyed, that they won.
Labour MPs now get to decide whether that’s true or not.
This is on you.
Fascists claim that the overtone window is destroyed, that they won.
Labour MPs now get to decide whether that’s true or not.
This is on you.
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We really do deserve more than all this.
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We really do deserve more than all this.
"Dad can we watch more movies by the Totoro and Kiki people?"
- a sentence I have been waiting to hear for approximately 22 years
- a sentence I have been waiting to hear for approximately 22 years
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"Dad can we watch more movies by the Totoro and Kiki people?"
- a sentence I have been waiting to hear for approximately 22 years
- a sentence I have been waiting to hear for approximately 22 years
Banger week for those of us who love to be reminded that our modes of desire are (IN SOME CONTEXTS, they caveat, AND ONLY FOR SOME PEOPLE, they promise) more reputationally harmful than preying on minors.
November 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Banger week for those of us who love to be reminded that our modes of desire are (IN SOME CONTEXTS, they caveat, AND ONLY FOR SOME PEOPLE, they promise) more reputationally harmful than preying on minors.
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Again: there is no spinning, re-framing or masking the fact that data centre growth is now a major a factor among all the major factors driving demand growth.
The fact that data centres are going to spur more new demand than the entire heating needs of the human species is NOT GREAT
The fact that data centres are going to spur more new demand than the entire heating needs of the human species is NOT GREAT
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Again: there is no spinning, re-framing or masking the fact that data centre growth is now a major a factor among all the major factors driving demand growth.
The fact that data centres are going to spur more new demand than the entire heating needs of the human species is NOT GREAT
The fact that data centres are going to spur more new demand than the entire heating needs of the human species is NOT GREAT
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
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Just fucking insane to see the absolute (intentional) collapse of full remote jobs available for AAA studios in so short a time. Why would I EVER move for a job again when I could be laid off weeks after moving my entire life across the globe??
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Just fucking insane to see the absolute (intentional) collapse of full remote jobs available for AAA studios in so short a time. Why would I EVER move for a job again when I could be laid off weeks after moving my entire life across the globe??
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
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“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm - AUTOMATON WEST
In an interview following the launch of ARC Raiders, the CEO of Embark Studios' parent company Nexon shares his views on AI.
automaton-media.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery