Steven Dengler

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Send us your zines! - #ZINEPAVILION Your zines will be seen & enjoyed by thousands of library workers at American Library Association’s 150th Annual Conference and will become an important part of the Zine Pavilion. Zines will be raffled off to help build new zine collections &

How to lobby Trump: Matthew Moroun, a Detroit billionaire, opposes a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada that would compete with one that he owns. On Monday, Moroun met with @HowardLutnick, who then called Trump. Trump then threatened to stop the opening of the new bridge.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

ethics professor here, can confirm

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Watch the video as a recklessly driven cheap car careens around and a gang of armed thugs spring out to menace an innocent civilian, like a kidnapping or robbery or murder-for-hire. It looks like organized crime taking place in a third-world country, because it is.

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street. If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

Short of getting caught orchestrating a coup or assassination, this is absolutely the core case of what you expel an ambassador for.

Trump demanding control of Greenland—which the US already has access to—is based on multi-layered lies. Threatening NATO allies to get it undermines the Western alliance. I did a point-by-point breakdown of Trump's aggressive letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Støre about the Nobel and Greenland.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is. Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

There is no AI used in Blue Prince. The game was built and crafted with full human instinct by Tonda Ros and his team at @dogubomb.bsky.social. It is the result of eight years of development, fuelled by imagination and creativity, and we are extremely proud of what Tonda has achieved.

NO WAR WITH VENEZUELA

Reminder to add TOKYO GODFATHERS to your Christmas movie watchlist this season! Grateful to have given (English, dubbed) voice to the trans anime icon, our beloved Hana, in this Satoshi Kon holiday classic from @gkids.com! Watch it for free on Tubi or rent it on AppleTV!

this is not haiku even if you say it is i wrote it. it's not

Thank you again to everyone out there! Another year down, another million raised, and so many people who will be helped because of what you've done with us this year and every other! We couldn't do this without you, and through all the laughs and the tears, we wouldn't want it any other way...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Found genuine joy in my writing today. It's been a long while and I don't know why today of all days, with all the incredibly depressing stuff going on. But I'll take it.

this may be a cold take btw but i dont think we paid ENOUGH attention to the Pivot To Video, the point of which i think is clear in retrospect WAS to utterly annihilate an extant and flourishing media ecosystem and replace it with something much easier to push low-trust audience fractionation with

well all right, I have been looking for one of these for a while now

Time for Chillpoint! Hang out with Graham and Paul and chat about the week's gaming news. twitch.tv/loadingready...

In my upcoming horror game you examine a family's photo album for signs of the paranormal 📸 Official announcement in 10 days! #screenshotsaturday

A potentially significant report by the European Parliament concludes that #AI training on copyrighted work does not count as fair use. filmstories.co.uk/news/no-gene...

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

Game Marketing Tip Use user quotes in dev diaries. Quotes highlight real experiences for new watchers. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

Congrats everyone, we now have 35% tariffs on Canada for no apparent reason

44. Adios Short narrative focused game where you play a pig farmer who disposes of bodies for the mob, who decides he doesn't wanna do that any more. I compared this to a Coen Brothers film at the time I played it, and I stand that, it's very well written. store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/...

We, @limitbreak.co.uk won tonight. This was my acceptance speech. This is my message to the games industry. Thank you all 💖

I really hope Bluesky, both for what it is and isn't, has shown that there will always be a market for services that are just a throwback version of something that already exists, but in a state before it was irrevocably enshittified. Enshittification won't stop. So that market will continue to grow

People are NOT understanding the gravity of what's going down right now. Normalcy bias is a hell of a drug.