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@johnothetree.bsky.social
34. He/they. Software Consultant. BLM. Trans Rights. Dusa best girl. Memento Mori. Rock and Stone.
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(finally) finished reading Play Nice, the @jasonschreier.bsky.social book on the rise and fall of Blizzard as a game company. Great deep dive into how everything with the company has played out and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
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please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
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In the iPhone mobile app, this is settings>data privacy
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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39 hours later, and that's credits on Hades 2. Genuinely astounded by how consistently incredible every @supergiantgames.bsky.social release is. Now to get these 27 achievements I don't have yet :)
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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.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
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Finally started Hades II and man @supergiantgames.bsky.social truly is one of the best teams at it today
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Guillermo del Toro says “I’d rather die” than use generative AI “My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features” (Source: www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...)
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THEY DIDN'T SEE HOW BEN SOLO WAS ALIVE???? THAT WAS A BRIDGE TOO FAR????? AFTER THEY "SOMEHOW, PALAPATINE RETURNED" A GUY WHO FELL 6000 FEET INTO A POWER CORE????? HELLO?????
Adam Driver reveals he was developing a new Star Wars movie ‘THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO’ with Steven Soderbergh • Was set after ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ • Lucasfilm loved the idea but Disney said no — “They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive” (Source: apnews.com/article/adam...)
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