Justin Smith

You are a 🤖👩‍✈️ from a 🪾🕰️ who ✈️ through a 🪱🕳️ to various ⏰ to fight 🦖🦕, 👽👾, 🔥🐉, and 😈🪞👩‍✈️. It's a 🌠🔫🚀🆙+📓👀

(This is my post-industry indie game solo project)

Happy #Caturday 😸

Concentric Rinds, 1953 #mcescher #opart

The Last Man to Speak Ubykh John Burnside The linguist Ole Stig Andersen was keen to seek out the remaining traces of a West Caucasian language called Ubykh. Having heard that there was one remaining speaker he set out to find the man and arrived in his village on 8 October 1992. The man had died a few hours earlier. At times, in those last few months, he would think of a word and he had to remember the tree, or the species of frog, the sound denoted: the tree itself, or the frog, or the state of mind and not the equivalent word in another language, the speech that had taken his sons and the mountain light; the graves he swept and raked; the wedding songs. While years of silence gathered in the heat, he stood in his yard and whispered the name of a bird in his mother tongue, while memories of snow and market days, his father’s hands, the smell of tamarind, inklings of milk and blood on a sunlit floor receded in the names no longer used: the blue of childhood folded like a sheet and tucked away. Nothing he said was remembered; nothing he did was fact or legend in the village square, yet later they would memorise the word he spoke that morning, just before he died: the word for death, perhaps, or meadow grass, or swimming to the surface of his mind, that other word they used, when he was young, for all they knew that nobody remembered.

At times, in those last few months,
he would think of a word
and he had to remember the tree, or the species of frog,

the sound denoted…

—John Burnside, “The Last Man to Speak Ubykh“
published in the @lrb.co.uk, August 2002
#poem #poetry #MotherLanguageDay
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

A little study for lunch

If you’re worried about the future of games, remember that your $ holds enormous sway. Support companies who actually care about the art and craft of making games, who put people first and value their employees & audiences. Support indies especially. The future doesn’t belong to greedy corporations

Nevada legal battle against prediction markets it calls ‘unlicensed sports gambling’ is moving forward A Nevada appeals court denied Kalshi’s request to block the state from taking civil action against it.

Nevada’s effort to block the prediction market platform Kalshi is moving through multiple courts, and that could have major ramifications for the brewing battle over sports betting.

phil spencer collecting his final xbox paycheck

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

Anyone else watching the Sun Ra doc tonight?

It's at 9pm ET on PBS.

www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Me whenever I learn Jeffrey Combs is in another Star Trek project

YouTube video by Olympics Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

This is a pretty brilliant sci-fi story waiting to happen. 🤣 The Plasticrabs! From the depths of man's toxic oceans they rise! 💳🦀🚮🌊🌊

Colonists crash. Q immediately shows up thanks to RNG and turns you into space salamanders. You now have to play the whole game as space salamanders. GOTY.

Bro in this game Neelix is the Head Chef for all the restaurants he's like the Gordon Fucking Ramsay terror of every kitchen on the station if he shows up to do Quality Control Audits u see Odo standing behind him with a PADD you had better have a spotless operation or you are getting SHUT DOWN

Do these idiots not realize that AI has been out for a while now? We can't perpetually be "a couple months" away from it automating all human labor.

We all saw the same image of how slave ships were laid out in grade school, right?

"This is my work, my team's work and mine and my company's reputation- which I have spent over a decade building."

Sue the pants off them. They are damaging the brand. 🤷‍♂️

Also, he never spoke to a human at any point. 😮‍💨🤖

I'm pretty keen to see what steam/valve says are common low end machines because honestly, the way things are going with ram prices/cost of living etc, it makes more and more sense that people won't be playing on particularly good gear

Terrorized By ICE, Unable to Pay Rent, Minnesotans Are Getting Ready for a Rent Strike A tenant organizing push in the Twin Cities has support from labor unions representing more than 25,000 workers.

Terrorized by ICE, unable to pay rent, Twin Cities tenants are undertaking a serious organizing effort to get ready for a rent strike if Gov. Walz doesn't instate an eviction moratorium. They have support from labor unions representing 25,000 workers. New piece by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social and me.

pook fucking called it

The video game industry decided to discontinue their product, the video game, in exchange for trying to make Fortnites. They have in recent years found out this doesn't work, so they have pivoted from making Fortnites to making ????????????????? nothing I guess

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

i read that stupid blog about the left "missing out" on AI and got big mad aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...

It depends on the studio, and women + lgbtq having good legal representation. I'm sure it takes different forms in different countries. 🤔 Money buys a lot of cover up. 🙃

It's a big trade show summit in the U.S. about networking, ideas, etc. been around a long time, they have awards, lots of people attend. www.dicesummit.org

Olive & Popeye Comic Strip 2026-02-19 | Comics Kingdom Read the Olive & Popeye comic strip from February 19, 2026, and check out other Olive & Popeye comics by Randy Milholland & Emi Burdge.

Today's Olive and Popeye: comicskingdom.com/olive-popeye...

This is why awareness is important, one person speaking out against sexism is easily dismissed, but when many people reinforce each other, it normalizes respectful treatment and makes the creepy weirdos feel bad. As they should.

So these sexist or bad actors are capable of keeping their sick ideology either hidden or contained at work. But an industry event, conference, etc. especially where alcohol is involved, the lid comes off, and their toxicity is exposed. There is no HR at DICE to hold them accountable.