Jared Off The Clock

Nothing telegraphs that you aren't worth my time quite like going WAY out of your way to find a t-shirt with the old Washington Commanders' name and mascot on it, and then wearing it during your YouTube videos.

real lesson in bag fumbling! bluesky only hit any kind of mainstream success because they happened to benefit from musk's shitty behavior and there was already an early adopter base of ex-twitter people on here encouraging their friends to come over. most startups never get that lucky!

Something something meant to convince us machines have souls, something something convinced us middle managers don't

you can criticize AI without play-acting bigotry in the process. if you do play-act bigotry, no matter how not-bigoted you think you are now, well, think about how many people you thought were not bigoted who turned out to be, and think about how much play-bigotry they did about what didn't matter.

"I'm smart enough not to end up that way"

i guarantee you are not, because i have watched smarter people than you end up that way.

it's a well known and observable phenomenon that if you play act or ironically perform bigotry, eventually you just start doing the bigoted shit

so it's generally not good to do that, even if it's parody

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

It's wild how much silicon valley worships all the shitty parts about Steve Jobs and zero of what actually made him successful: the ability to identify a product people actually want and selling that to them.

You draw the line between "fictional supergenius" and "look! i bought my way into a company making electric cars" enough and people will believe it, even though it's not true.

he has convinced people he's an engineer and not just a guy with money paying other people to make vague goals a reality

ipod, itunes, iphone, ipad. those all changed how society functioned and disrupted actual industries

these fuckers are just trying to find out what the next disruptive tech is and so they're throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks, to make a kind of world-changing device that makes them apple

tech billionaires literally just copy basic sci-fi ideas and try to pay people to make them work. sometimes they do because they're relatively easy. every single billionaire project is to make sci-fi stories a reality (guarantee you bezos loves the expanse for its plausibility) and we know why!

someone brilliant once made a tiktok that was of United Federation of Planets interviewing Earth & a bit stuck with me.

Interviewer: so it shows you have enough food for everyone
Earth: yea
I: and yet some people are starving and why? oh? you're gonna go with.. "logistics"? (side-eye at clipboard)

one of the best ways to get riled up about environmentalism is to read about terraforming. the logistics, the challenges, the constraints. shit is HARD. nope me outta that. and here we already got a humdinger of a starting situation and we're just... giving up??? for billionaires?? the f...?

What do we want?

A producer!

When do we want them?

Did we ever write that down? Where would we even write that down?

I don't know I just memorize them

That makes sense

What were we talking about?

I dunno

Probably not that important then

If only we had someone who knew

guy who thinks a de-feathered chicken IS a man actually

it's so fucking funny that pro-AI guys insist AI is alive because they don't understand what humans are

i'm trying to give your brain the kong toy with peanut butter inside

One thing that's happening in Portland that Fox News won't tell you is that aggressive, drunk, right wingers have shown up at the ICE facility trying to start fights and the protesters there have not taken the bait. Therefore the story has become "look how Antifa-friendly the Portland police are!"

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

So! you made a warhammer game, and you didn't make it about necrons.

you should regret your decisions

this is one of the reasons I write the game essays I do! I was dissatisfied with a lot of game design writing I was reading, and I was like "lol, I've been called in to give advice on this kind of shit before and I'm seeing things I've literally advised people not to do in your courses here"

Alright, we got the NDA, which means if you want to work with @pabastien.bsky.social and me on a first person halo-style game demo, and you've got game design skills and want to help on the demo in the hopes we can get funding and pay you to come work on it full time, my DMs are open

wouldn't communication of how to navigate areas also fall under level design? or would you consider that to fall under environmental design or some other field?

Or Bill "All billionaires should be put down" Burr, now comfortably snuggled up cozy with his Saudi paycheck and the last, final, threadbare shreds of his credibility

Gotta love the ones like Jefferies and Dillon who fucked themselves out of the bag as well as their reputation because they said "So what if they kill journalists/own slaves?" before the check cleared...

I say this a lot, cuz it's true: We all have a price under capitalism. All of us. & frankly, I'd respect these completely-laughable-but-not-in-the-way-they-intended people more if they just said "Look, they paid me SO MUCH. SO. FUCKING. MUCH. Of course I said yes. I was bought. The price was right."

"You can't even TELL JOKES in America anymore!!1!"

"So true, SO true, thank you for your stunning and brave observation Mr. Chapelle, please sign here to accept your autocrat blood money, and remember, if you make fun of him, there will be nothing we can do to save you :)"

Wow, so shocked that so many "comedians" who made their name shitting on vulnerable people and populations and giggling out slurs on podcasts would take House of Saud money that forbids them from joking about the House of Saud all while braying about the sacredness of Free Speech

shocked

shocked

"is digimon any good?"

consider this:

1) there's a demo, so you can figure it out yourself

2) it has 81k concurrents right now, which makes it one of the most-played JRPGs of all time. ever. like "beats Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth and Persona 3 Reload"

metaphor peaked at 85k

this is a state sponsored terrorist operation being laid out on an american and every one in ICE needs to be treated as if they are terrorists after trumps regime is over