Andrew Cooper

Pinning this for video game makers, media, players, scholars, etc who I’m following on Bluesky — I’m launching a new course called *Psychology and Videogames* in 2026 & watching all the awesome stuff you folks are working on for inspiration! (On top of what I follow/watch/listen to for fun :)

It’s as if I’d somehow summoned an ideal example (concise AND horrifying)

I need "Reclaim your cognitive agency" on a t-shirt. I would 100% wear it to tutorials and staff meetings.

Another reason to not use AI is of course that it's a vector for not only corporate censorship but outright manipulation. You are prompting a system built by and designed to serve corporations' version of reality. And open models won't save you; they're distilled from the corporate models.

There was a brand new allegation that the president raped a woman in the 1990s yesterday and it appears to not be on the NYT homepage at all right now

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

these pointless chatbots are what journals are literally spending our tax money on because these publishers are leeches off the public purse and then fence off academic outputs into weird systems also Maxwell / Epstein money

In my opinion, it’s completely beside the point because people who need this warning will use all sorts of models, free and paid—but because the LLM apologists are screaming, this is OpenAI’s latest subscription model, Astra 6, prompted to fetch and plot the original data.

This was always a painfully accurate (and hilarious) sketch skewering the industrial education complex, but now it *also* feels eerily prescient when it comes to bots-as-students youtu.be/XQLdhVpLBVE?...

This looks like a really cool service for people who want to hire artists who don't use AI. Check it out! hirehumanartists.com

I really hope some intrepid videogame scholars out there are investigating the dynamics of player behaviours and engagement during/after this Arc Raiders PvE toggle event…

the video game industry is a machine that turns video games into no more video games

I’m in this and I don’t like it 🤣

If you gave a nickel to a crow that crow would have made more, by billions, than Anthropic

again, it's telling how much the desperation for AI to have legitimacy mirrors crypto/NFTs/the "metaverse" before it there is something tangibly valuable that these projects desperately seek to capture, but they can't crack it. only shoddily copy it

This is *so* good — future C02ers, please read the whole thing.

The new Dutch Code of Conduct for Research Integrity has launched and it includes new sections about AI in research. These could have big consequences for how Dutch universities adopt GenAI in research and education. www.knaw.nl/en/publicati... ⬇️

This shit is so cool. They took away being able to afford computers for this shit.

I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Most stuff is weak to lightning if we are being honest with ourselves

Bleak AND plausible!

once again reminded how the designer of the furby sincerely believes they are alive radiolab.org/podcast/more...

The AI curriculum that New Brunswick rolled out from Kindergarten to Grade 12? They used AI to make it, hallucinations and all. Source: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In Chrysta Freeland's new book she states that Howard Lutnick threatened to invade Canada "by sundown" over Doug Ford's electricity surcharge. The fact that US trade negotiators put military threat on the table must be taken with the upmost seriousness. charlieangus.substack.com/p/they-threa...

Today I replied to an e-mail from a friend I really like, who is awesome and cool and whose e-mails I love to receive. I had been wanting to respond for a while but somehow just… did not. The e-mail I replied to was sent in January, 2024. Why am I like this.

A great description 💯— “asbestos for the mind”

we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course

Why would we let Anthropic decide this for us? If you ascribe to a moral philosophy or religion that disavows being mean to a toaster, that is fine. It is not however fine for a tech company to make, functionally, a moral law for a talking word toaster that is promised to rule us one day.

oh baby we are having a good day today "Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has issued an ultimatum, saying he will not return to the national team while Jorge Jesus is the coach, sources have told ESPN." www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Playing Titanfall 2 again and it just fills you with sadness, that specific strain of narrative first person shooter that Half-life wrought basically does not exist any more in that same way. We barely get a confusing single player campaign stapled to a multiplayer game any more.

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

If you have a little tamagotchi thing that is allowed to use your credit card, you are an insane person