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The No ICE in Minnesota bundle has launched, raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Over 1400 items for $10.00!

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Hah! That’s so funny 😄

We're Hiring! Join the NYU Game Center Faculty as an Associate Professor! - NYU | Game Center Description Associate or Full tenure professor position for the NYU Game Center New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Position Overview The NYU Game Center is seeking applicants to join its fa...

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential!
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I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

It's an honour to have been part of @indiecade.bsky.social both as attendees as well as award recipients -- it's an event that has contributed enormously to indie games as an industry, and even moreso as a community. Happy Anniversary, Indiecade!

One of Metanet Software’s corporate fat cats, Parsley

One of Metanet Software’s corporate fat cats, Parsley

Omg! @raiganburns.bsky.social and I have that cat too! 😅

writing poetry has given me so much experience making stuff no one is going to look at and no one thinks is really worth thinking about. I encourage everyone to work in discarded, "abdandoned", neglected, "low", "unimportant", "irrational" forms, media, etc.; it is liberating, educational, useful

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

raigan said he's nearly out of copies, so let me pick up the banner: i've got 5 copies of Cinco Paus if you want to play one of @smestorp.bsky.social 's best games.

Cinco Paus by Michael Brough Available for Windows, macOS

ATTENTION BSKY: in celebration of Cinco Paus Day's Eve, please message me if you'd like a free copy of the best game ever made. :)

smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus

Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show

PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)

Thank you Anna! 😊

Who am I missing?
Chris Bell, are you on here? Brandon Hicks?
@xmunkki.bsky.social, is that you?

Happy Birthday to all my birthday twins! @doubleanna.bsky.social @ryanodonnell.bsky.social @droqen.bsky.social @petripurho.bsky.social I hope you are all having a wonderful day 🎉

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone

- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware

but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

exp. magazine | Patreon Established 2009, an independent video game magazine.

It's my birthday! The ONLY thing I want is more subscribers to the exp. Patreon! It's just $1/month for consistent, quality video game criticism, but my gift to you TODAY ONLY (til 11:59pm EST) is 90% off the first month with the code 09BAA.

That's like 10¢! But if you can't sub, please share!

Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken | Microsoft Community Hub A major new Windows 11 update has introduced widespread stability issues affecting core system functionality. Many users, including myself, are now...

Microsoft: 30% of our code is now written by AI

Also Microsoft:

I was one of the other authors whose free games were used as a basis for this (by permission, under contract).

Read the thread for details; I agree with every word Alan has written (both the positives about the game, and the negatives about Jonathan Blow).

The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.

My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me

YouTube video by Finji How to make a game using PICO-8 | CorgiJam

HEY if you have ever wanted to make a whole working #PICO8 ROM from absolute scratch, but weren't sure where to start...

just head over to www.pico-8-edu.com and i'll take you on a lil 15 minute tour that will have you up and running in no time! well, in 15 minutes 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWsj...

Just stop and read this John Paul Brammer piece on Substack. You’re welcome!

Here’s a nibble:
“The color of ChatGPT’s blood if ChatGPT could bleed, if ChatGPT could be slashed with a sashimi knife and if milky fluid could come gushing out of its jugular.”

I feel like I *just* posted about it but every time someone says people should promote their book I'm gonna promote my book.

Just imagine adding this wonderful book of essays to your cart of Black Friday whatever. Think how you will cherish the experience of buying and then reading it

HORSES cover with a banned from Steam logo

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

I am glad to hear HORSES—the most incredible demo I played all year—is coming out soon, but hearing about yet another indie game getting axed by Steam really frustrates me.

Such a great discussion! It’s going to be a good year 😊

One more week to submit games to the Pico-8 arcade residency! Application deadline is 11/23 at midnight

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.