hannan a.
@hannanazmir.bsky.social
recovering writer (they/she/dia)
bylines in unwinnable, macaranga and more.
www.hannanazmir.com
bylines in unwinnable, macaranga and more.
www.hannanazmir.com
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hannan a.
@hannanazmir.bsky.social
· Jul 1
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anyway since i'm here, i'm looking for work as a freelance writer and journalist covering science and video games! you can find my portfolio here: muckrack.com/hannan-azmir-1
and my medium page for more personal writing stuff here: medium.com/@hannan-azmir
and my medium page for more personal writing stuff here: medium.com/@hannan-azmir
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"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
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The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
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Perversely, I'm seeing a lot of postings for copywriter positions via Linkedin, Indeed, etc. -- but they're almost all part-time and/or contract jobs writing copy for AI training purposes. They want people to sign up to train their own shitty replacements.
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Perversely, I'm seeing a lot of postings for copywriter positions via Linkedin, Indeed, etc. -- but they're almost all part-time and/or contract jobs writing copy for AI training purposes. They want people to sign up to train their own shitty replacements.
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Nosferatu is a movie about the universal fear that your wife wants to be jacked off by a Central European dude.
December 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Nosferatu is a movie about the universal fear that your wife wants to be jacked off by a Central European dude.
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No Players Online - the full version of the viral abandoned online FPS horror game - is back on Steam. 🎉
The game was falsely removed weeks ago, just after launching, which has severely impacted the studio's survivability.
Please spread the word, and support it! ❤️
(No Players Online Steam page)
The game was falsely removed weeks ago, just after launching, which has severely impacted the studio's survivability.
Please spread the word, and support it! ❤️
(No Players Online Steam page)
December 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
No Players Online - the full version of the viral abandoned online FPS horror game - is back on Steam. 🎉
The game was falsely removed weeks ago, just after launching, which has severely impacted the studio's survivability.
Please spread the word, and support it! ❤️
(No Players Online Steam page)
The game was falsely removed weeks ago, just after launching, which has severely impacted the studio's survivability.
Please spread the word, and support it! ❤️
(No Players Online Steam page)
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When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
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What really disgusts me is that The New York Times and many legacy outlets have a practice of assigning interns to do heds, which allows management to maximize coercion and minimize responsibility
“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
What really disgusts me is that The New York Times and many legacy outlets have a practice of assigning interns to do heds, which allows management to maximize coercion and minimize responsibility
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went for a fun run event organised by Pos Malaysia and was disappointed i couldn't buy stamps from their own merch stall
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
went for a fun run event organised by Pos Malaysia and was disappointed i couldn't buy stamps from their own merch stall
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Hamazaki Has To Goh - where does Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio draw the line on casting, and why is it not at sexual assault? by @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social
"it’s particularly insulting and disgusting for him to be cast in a series that has historically featured sex pests being (rightly) beat up"
Read on:
"it’s particularly insulting and disgusting for him to be cast in a series that has historically featured sex pests being (rightly) beat up"
Read on:
Hamazaki Has To Goh - where does Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio draw the line on casting, and why is it not at sexual assault?
A look at the bizarre decision to cast Teruyuki Kagawa's in Yakuza Kiwami 3, through a lens of previous re-casting decisions from RGG Studio.
skyboxcritics.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Hamazaki Has To Goh - where does Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio draw the line on casting, and why is it not at sexual assault? by @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social
"it’s particularly insulting and disgusting for him to be cast in a series that has historically featured sex pests being (rightly) beat up"
Read on:
"it’s particularly insulting and disgusting for him to be cast in a series that has historically featured sex pests being (rightly) beat up"
Read on:
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Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
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...
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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Those that back the fuck away from Omelas.
October 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Those that back the fuck away from Omelas.
for many years i've been extremely belligerent about getting my own milk frother because i don't usually take my coffee with milk
i've now seen the light
i've now seen the light
October 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
for many years i've been extremely belligerent about getting my own milk frother because i don't usually take my coffee with milk
i've now seen the light
i've now seen the light
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I think you should force yourself to interact with art that's "bad" every so often. read a cringy fanfic. play a tiny game. watch a subpar movie. see an amateur play. experience art that's not "masterpieces" because "bad" art deserves to exist and can sometimes give you more emotion than "good" art
September 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I think you should force yourself to interact with art that's "bad" every so often. read a cringy fanfic. play a tiny game. watch a subpar movie. see an amateur play. experience art that's not "masterpieces" because "bad" art deserves to exist and can sometimes give you more emotion than "good" art
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The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified
September 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified
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I experienced a minor malfunction. I'm okay now.
September 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I experienced a minor malfunction. I'm okay now.
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No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.
September 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.
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Very nice explainer from twitter user normelpeople on what's happening in Indonesia this week and how people are feeling
August 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Very nice explainer from twitter user normelpeople on what's happening in Indonesia this week and how people are feeling
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Ghoul and goblin awareness: There are ghouls and goblins
August 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Ghoul and goblin awareness: There are ghouls and goblins
at least someone in this house can sleep
August 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
at least someone in this house can sleep
me: why tf have i been so tired ive been sleeping at 10pm every day i should not be this tired
also me: *constantly forgets to refill their lexapro prescription*
also me: *constantly forgets to refill their lexapro prescription*
August 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
me: why tf have i been so tired ive been sleeping at 10pm every day i should not be this tired
also me: *constantly forgets to refill their lexapro prescription*
also me: *constantly forgets to refill their lexapro prescription*
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I actually want more of this. I want ai companies to land all sorts of highly visible contracts with low stakes that they publicly flub. I want everyone to understand this shit doesn't work before it's integrated into something life threatening, like, say, hospital scheduling.
Gamescom's app added an AI feature this year and it did not go well. Folks were overwhelmed with automatically generated meeting requests that they did not want. It generated a lot of stuff, but not value.
They just sent everyone an apology email and disabled the AI.
They just sent everyone an apology email and disabled the AI.
August 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I actually want more of this. I want ai companies to land all sorts of highly visible contracts with low stakes that they publicly flub. I want everyone to understand this shit doesn't work before it's integrated into something life threatening, like, say, hospital scheduling.
anyway i should probably get back to structuring my deck for an upcoming lecture(!) i'm giving next month
August 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
anyway i should probably get back to structuring my deck for an upcoming lecture(!) i'm giving next month