Maide
Maide
@maide.ca
Software Engineer / Game Developer. Prev: Epic Games (Fortnite/Paragon/EOS), S2Games (HoN/Strife/Savage). #Pinball, #Baking, #Programming, #VideoGames, #Hockey, #CardGames and #Motorcycles. 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸
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In 2005, Time Magazine did a cover story on “The Battle Over Gay Teens.” It’s the same handwringing we see now from “concerned” adults on behalf of young people. “Kids are disclosing their homosexuality with unprecedented regularity–and they are doing so much younger.” time.com/archive/6596...
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.
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@metalpirate.bsky.social are you doing any coffee advent calendars or anything this year? 👀
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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
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BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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🚨 Rapid Response: Plex Media Server RCE chain is being actively exploited. Censys ARC sees ~340,000 Internet-exposed; ~30% run vulnerable builds. Fewer than 2% of still-vulnerable hosts patched in 3 days after exploit publication. https://bit.ly/4dMS1SJ
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when I talk about ad-blocking being non-negotiable and ad networks basically running untrusted code in your browser, I have tended to assume I'm being a little bit hyperbolic, but
New this morning: @citizenlab.ca has identified an Israeli ad tech company — one that's placed ads on NBC News — that ran a secret side platform to let spyware companies plant malicious code to hack people browsing those sites. 45 Al Jazeera employees and journalists were infected!
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EL PASO, ELSEWHERE 2 DEMO OUT NOW!!! 🔫 NEW GUNS 🧛 NEW ENEMIES 🦇 NEW ABILITIES store.steampowered.com/app/3642020/...
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with the sunsetting of decomp.dev, people really need to come to terms with just how much damage vibecoders have done to our community and OSS in general. encounter is a fellow dusklight dev and friend, and seeing people treat him as replaceable in the scene is upsetting.
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I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.
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NEW: Epic Games has delayed its upcoming (not yet announced) Star Wars + Marvel shooter as it pivots to complete AI game development. "No more hand-written code," a director told staff. All art "generated with full AI workflows." Full scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Popular Pornographic Games on Steam. Which adult games succeed, and what do players value in them? 🧵 (1/5) doi.org/10.1177/15554120261495169 #GameStudies #PornStudies
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They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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