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@gatorpearl.bsky.social

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trans rights are human rights. people can't be illegal. there is no planet B. generative AI must disappear. it's about time we're upfront with what we stand for. gatorpearl.tumblr.com battleofthebits.com/barracks/Profile/gatorpearl gatorpearl on discord

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Robin Brooks @assumptionprime.bsky.social · 15h

Seems like Hard Times/Hard Drive is 404ing. Dunno if it will be back, but I’ll take the excuse to post some of my favorite stories I wrote for them a few years back:

Blast From the Past: Remember PUBG? (September 2018)

IGN Writer Goes Postal, Leaving 13 Great, 6 Amazing

Glowing Anime Recommendation Only 70% Caveats

Here’s All The Newest Workplace Abuses Coming to Game Pass This Month

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 19h

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)

The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story

Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.

crpgbook.wordpress.com

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gatorpearl @gatorpearl.bsky.social · 21h

considering how fast this one's going, we might have to beg for a 2027 Glass House too

(you might say "why not 2026" and hear me out: 2026 Shotgun Shack)

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beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 2d

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

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gatorpearl @gatorpearl.bsky.social · 1d

The Ones Who Walk Away From The Gundam

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE.

A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force.

But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 3d

It's so fucking funny that this guy dressed like an off-duty clown and pretended to use a paper map for two days to prove a point, but there's a difference between "Waze uses machine learning to predict routes and traffic patterns" and "we fed every book in the library into an event horizon"

doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 3d

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 3d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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HVB☆damifortune @samplemance.rs · 3d

can businesses doing promotional partnerships stop calling them "collabs". you can't have that word

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DonutShoes🍩👟 @donutshoes.bsky.social · 5d

If an artist puts out a release any other time of the month, they want you to buy it THEN, right away. If it's up for preorder, they want you to PREORDER it.

TV-MA is not sharing drugs w/ trick or treaters @tv-ma.bsky.social · 5d

My hot take is that aside from venture capital, Bandcamp Fridays ruined Bandcamp.

I believe they should've ended after quarantine ended because now people save their coins and their attention for only Bandcamp Fridays.

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gatorpearl @gatorpearl.bsky.social · 6d

Isabel are you trying to kill this girl or something

gatorpearl @gatorpearl.bsky.social · 6d

Already secured 3 Glass House minis, which will at least allow me to finally try it before it vanishes faster than Peak Vulture

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

www.npr.org

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Chris “Chance!” Brown @chancesecond.bsky.social · 7d

“AAA games should cost 100 dollars!” And what portion of that would go to the workers.

If we’re gonna price people out of gaming, are we gonna do it so that the workers have a support system instead of most of that money going to the company

Or are you just saying things

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The Masque of the Red Deathist @jrbolt.bsky.social · 8d

I've invented a wondrous new de-aging technology for Hollywood to use. It's called "hiring a second actor"

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Cagle Cats @caglecats.bsky.social · 9d

That's a lil man right there

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Dana Terrace @danaterrace.bsky.social · 9d

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 11d

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 18d

OpenAI is fucking disgusting and so are the people who use it

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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gatorpearl @gatorpearl.bsky.social · 19d

I wrote that not mentioning anyone besides the aforementioned Erika Ishii by name or pseudonym because who knows if there are namesearchers here too.

gatorpearl @gatorpearl.bsky.social · 19d

Oh, a bunch of them know, and have specific gripes about her. Before the (sadly, stupidly) successful firing they achieved because of that one guy who got shot, the exact same guy who caused it had tried to get Erika fired for being an activist.

This image is TARGETED against Erika.

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🦇AtreyuGilbert🎃 @atreyugilbert.bsky.social · 20d

99% of Players Quit before they Hit it Dig!
#digdug #pixelart #namco

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gatorpearl @gatorpearl.bsky.social · 21d

makes me feel like I have to come up with something stupid to say to people in less private venues if I'm asked why I'm not hyped, something like "eh, I tuned them out the moment they got featured in Fortnite" or whatever, just to move the conversation elsewhere

gatorpearl @gatorpearl.bsky.social · 21d

tbh I do find it annoying because, like, I love November Has Come, I love Désolé, I really do like a lot of Gorillaz's output, but knowing that the discourse is polluted with assholes definitely makes me decide to just shut up about Cracker Island and The Mountain because it's not worth the trouble

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gatorpearl @gatorpearl.bsky.social · 21d

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