David G.

How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…

How to help Minnesota (and yourself): a clear, straightforward guide of steps you can take

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Hello my friends. I have been more absent on social media lately, and I'd like to take a moment to explain why. The TLDR: the United States is being stolen from us.

Let me walk you through the various possible explanations for Trump's invasion of Venezuela and see which ones hold water.

(spoiler: the good faith explanations don't, the corrupt ones do)

My father used to tell me stories about how in the USSR the history books were edited and altered every year and everyone was supposed to nod and smile and pretend that nothing had happened and the "new history" had been there all along.

Just sayin'.

YouTube video by Pete Buttigieg We cannot let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back

Counting down the days until he announces his run for the Presidency #Buttigieg2028

Trump calls for Democratic lawmakers to face trial for ‘seditious behavior’ “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” he wrote on Truth Social.

Anyone still want to deny he's a fascist?

I agree with everything being said here. Focus on quality, not size. Don't be obsessed with realism. Make games and dev cycles tighter, and more creative. This is the way forward.

YouTube video by Katie Couric The AI Bubble Will Pop - Here's Why

The vendor financing the customer: the surest sign of a healthy economy.

United Videogame Workers-CWA Statement on Proposed Electronic Arts Buyout October 15, 2025 NATIONWIDE — The following statement is from United Videogame Workers-CWA Local 9433. The recently proposed acquisition of Electronic Arts (EA) by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and private equity firms, including Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, will further concentrate power and wealth into the hands of a few gatekeepers while doing nothing to address the concerns of players and workers. EA is not a struggling company. With annual revenues reaching $7.5 billion and $1 billion in profit each year, EA is one of the largest video game developers and publishers in the world. EA’s success has been entirely driven by tens of thousands of EA workers whose creativity, skill, and innovation made EA worth buying in the first place. Yet we, the very people who will be jeopardized as a result of this deal, were not represented at all when this buyout was negotiated or discussed. We are particularly worried about the future of our studios that are arbitrarily deemed ‘less profitable’ but whose contributions to the video game industry define EA’s reputation. Since 2022, an estimated 40,000 video game workers have already lost their jobs due to mass layoffs at AAA and indie studios alike. As reported in Game Developer, this deal will result in EA having to finance nearly $20 billion in debt—who will be spared, which corners will executives cut, and what studios will be sacrificed in order for that to happen? If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors’ pockets—not to strengthen the company. Every time private equity or billionaire investors take a studio private, workers lose visibility, transparency, and power. Decisions that shape our jobs, our art, and our futures are made behind closed doors by executives who have never written a line of code, built worlds, or supported live services. We are…

Please read our statement regarding the proposed Electronic Arts buyout. We refuse to let corporate greed decide the future of our industry.

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Comedy is a mirror held up to reality.

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

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Naked authoritarian fascism. Love and support to the entire team at @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, who *will* come out the other side of this horrendous abuse of power. Disgusted to see ABC caving to this glaringly illegal and unconstitutional threat from Brendan Carr.

But Wes Streeting has decided that it isn’t, actually, so that’s ok

YouTube video by Writers' Guild of Great Britain Navigating a career in videogames writing

For anyone looking to get into games writing as a career, @writersguildgb.bsky.social has uploaded a panel session I did with @coreybrotherson.bsky.social, @marygoodden.bsky.social and James Chew of @failbettergames.com, talking about that very subject: youtu.be/fcOXhmTk1tM?...

Trade union veteran becomes new Lithuanian PM Inga Ruginienė now has to submit a governing program and build her Cabinet.

This absolute queen got officially voted in today. I'm overjoyed. Lithuania gets the most left-wing PM of any post-Soviet country. A new generation of rad, new left trade unionists.
International support and coverage is a must, she's such a beacon of hope. 💞
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As the Chinese game industry flocks from mobile to AAA blockbusters, Phantom Blade Zero's director says the quiet part out loud: 'Good games are good. It's not 'big games are good.'' "Good creators can make smaller games or big games."

"Good creators can make smaller
games or big games, any type of game, but I don't think that necessarily influences the quality."

This guy just might be on to something 🤔...

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation. After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Great news: A guy saved an image file onto a live bird A better form of cloud storage.

BREAKING: The European starling is capable of 2 MB/s data transfer speeds.

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You need to know what's going on at "Alligator Alcatraz."

It's grossly immoral - no human being should be treated like that.

It's political theater - many of the detainees have no criminal record.

It's a taxpayer funded boondoggle - enriching DeSantis's political cronies.

FEMA has the capacity to do top notch rescue and response. But not under Secretary Noem. She shut down the emergency phone system days after the floods. She sent only a few dozen rescue workers when the state had nearly 2000 of it's own people doing that work. A woeful response.

I'm not sure why this was flagged as adult content, but I'm finding it very funny nonetheless.

A light amongst the darkness of social media.

The secret is revealed!

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌

DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

All hail King Frankie!

We can learn a lot by studying ancient myths.

For example: Achilles was pro-union, and Prometheus was anti-AI.

I told you that the SCOTUS's ban on national injunctions would supersize Trump's lawlessness.

Well, it's starting.

1/ Let me break some news for you: Trump is stealing money to build facilities like Alligator Alcatraz - from an account earmarked for the OPPOSITE of detention.