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Game Designer and Creator from Zürich, Switzerland. Building and directing stuff @lauflauf He/Him

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This is equally impressive seen from afar, where you can gauge the scale of the ridge and the impressive peak it leads to. Worth visiting if you are in Switzerland

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Bluesky keeps being a bit of a mystery to me, but I like the vibe. So anyways, we just announced our game Castle Come. Its about mechas fighting each other to find some kind of salvation. #gamedev #indiegames #gaming

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Eponymous for now's avatar Eponymous for now @polyeclectic.bsky.social
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“The variety of habitats in the deep ocean is extraordinary. These habitats are radically different from those anywhere else on 🌍, & they’re host to organisms that have adapted to survive harsh conditions that are unimaginable to those of us on land.”
🦑 🌊
oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/explora...

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doc's avatar doc @docseuss.bsky.social
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Games are a medium. You can make art with the medium. Some drawings are illustrative, others are art. Some books are art, others are instructional. Some games are art, some games are for, say, medical neurofeedback exercises. Etc.

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Basil's avatar Basil @basilthecreator.bsky.social
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Gonna exclusively start calling them hyper evil spam engines

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Trevor Owens's avatar Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social
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New report from Pew finds 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later. This research underscores how critical web archiving efforts are. www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

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Rachel Hale's avatar Rachel Hale @seafloorscience.bsky.social
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Finally, not long & not limbless.
Starting with the suggested Elvis worm, Peinaleopolynoe elvisi.
How freaking gorgeous is this worm?

How are these guys allowed to roam around in the dark, deep sea where noone sees them?! Life is wild.
#InsertAnInvert2024
📸doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.932.48532

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Marsh Davies's avatar Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social
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I love this: there is an innate value to making choices. Obviously, it helps if you make really good choices, but just making any choices at all is useful in a creative endeavour: it maintains momentum and defines the constraints of the work remaining ahead.

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ChrisⓋ WhyGameDev.com's avatar ChrisⓋ WhyGameDev.com @chrisdeleon.bsky.social
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Nightshade is out! Free, easy nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu

Good for artists, ya, but everyone: poison random web images, memes, social uploads

A small % makes the web less safe to scrape. My 2022 mac laptop did the attachment in 3 min. Noticeable on a solid color image like this--learn to like it ;)

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Technology Connections's avatar Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social
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Remember, if you are having a problem and need to speak to a human, it is 100% ethical to lie to an automated customer service system to that end.

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Insipid Twaddle's avatar Insipid Twaddle @insipidtwaddle.bsky.social
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People get into arguments about the stats of pieces of military hardware on the forums of the game War Thunder. They then back up their argument by leaking classified documents to which they have access as members of their nation's military. This has happened, no joke, at least a dozen times.

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✪ Shin Megami Jonathan H. Gray: VENGEANCE! ✪'s avatar ✪ Shin Megami Jonathan H. Gray: VENGEANCE! ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social
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How to filter out AI Images in Google Image Search. Sharing this with my students so I figured I'd also share it with everyone here. Hopefully this image is still relevant given Google's changes. Save this on your computer or phone and refer to it as needed.

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Basil's avatar Basil @basilthecreator.bsky.social
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If I may ask, does this democratic structure also expand to the company shares and/ or what is done with company profits?

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Chloé Stawski 's avatar Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social
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"how to react to genAI" starter pack

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Nick Brumfield's avatar Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
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We really need to make a law against companies using vast troves of data they acquired by providing an unrelated service then selling that data to models that have few or no safeguards to protect the often sensitive information contained within

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geoffrey's avatar geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social
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one thing that really sucks is that conceptually, as a sff exploration, the idea of a robot asking if it could ever be human and thereby proving its humanity for even wondering at the question is something that's always tugged at my heartstrings. and now that impulsive pathos is a tool for theft

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nixCraft's avatar nixCraft @cyberciti.biz
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Heads up: If you have an Adobe account, for Acrobat or Photoshop or whatever: they've turned on the "we will pillage your work for AI" setting. Go to Adobe account website on desktop -> Account and Security -> Data and Privacy Settings -> Content Analysis. Turn it off.

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Kevin Hearne's avatar Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social
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If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know. *old guy takes long hit on the bong* “Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”

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jam's avatar jam @socialistboat.dad
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the collapse of google search as a useful source of accurate information is a boon to screenwriters everywhere. "why didn't they just google the house to see if it was haunted" they did and the top ten entries were identical automatically generated real estate ads on different seo-scumming websites

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Jim Unwin's avatar Jim Unwin @jimunwin.bsky.social
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Anyone you hire will change the team, and that change will be reflected in the game. You should expect to accommodate their identities, not suppress or reshape them.

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Neven Mrgan's avatar Neven Mrgan @mrgan.com
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If you want a vision of the future,

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Sam Logan's avatar Sam Logan @samandfuzzy.bsky.social
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The year is 2050. Your car is a subscription. Your house has an EULA. The only "owning" you do is posting sick burns about the billionaire you rent your dog from

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Gregory Possum-Finder's avatar Gregory Possum-Finder @gregerskine.bsky.social
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I saw a take that was like "bluesky needs an algorithm, I don't want to see 100 posts like 'i made coconut curry today'" and I cannot disagree more. I log on to humanity's World Wide Web to see human thoughts. I do not need a god damned robot to tell me which thoughts it thinks are the most human

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cait 's avatar cait @cait.bsky.social
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guess what's happening again

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Ben Werdmuller's avatar Ben Werdmuller @werd.io
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There are some jaw-dropping infringements here, including an image where DALL-E apparently copies the entire Pixar universe from the single two-word prompt, "animated toys".

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joni ⚾️ 🍉's avatar joni ⚾️ 🍉 @dschthan.bsky.social
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niemand: franzosen ca. 1789:

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Google Spinoza's avatar Google Spinoza @yeti-detective.bsky.social
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i predict there will be a generative AI browser where you're not even online anymore, you're just typing in URLs and the thing shows you what it thinks that website should look like. you keep arguing with fake people it is making up. this is the end humanity deserves.

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Daniel Pinal Arts (commissions closed)'s avatar Daniel Pinal Arts (commissions closed) @danielpinalarts.bsky.social
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Imma keep it short this time: Companies are using our work without compensation. That's the point of AI The endless debates over whether this is "true art" or not, or whether it's gonna take over the world some day, are a distraction from the indisputable fact that this is pure exploitation

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Mags Colvett's avatar Mags Colvett @magscolv.bsky.social
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How AI is going: I googled “they pay me in woims” looking for this Nancy panel and the third result was a straightfaced SEO article called “They Pay Me In Woims: The Truth About This Bizarre Form Of Payment”

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tyler walk with me 's avatar tyler walk with me @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
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wikipedia shows what's possible when accessibility is prioritized over profit and the principles of free speech are buttressed by strict moderation. its very existence proves that the techbrocracy is both wrong and entirely unnecessary, so color me shocked that they're circling it like sharks.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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I wrote 2500 words about the New Right and silicon valley techno accelerationists, and their shared goals, dreams, and hate. It's one of the few times my editor has muttered curse words and threats while editing a piece so...

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Jaime Crespo's avatar Jaime Crespo @jynus.bsky.social
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Hi, I'm Jaime and I've been working for 8 years for the Wikimedia Foundation. The following are personal views and do not represent in any way the position of the Foundation (I don't and cannot speak on behalf of it). However, you may have seen this question by Mr. Musk and I wanted to respond A 🧵:

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