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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 2d

@papapishu.bsky.social probably knows what I'm getting at here

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 2d

you've discovered the academy version of cow clicker, cameron!

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 2d

"How's your, ah, how's your grip strength?"
(doing "turning object in hand" motion)

"Oh, uh... I'm kinda just doing it... just feet. With my feet."

[ ...I think this is out in public now right? ]

Uncharted 2 hanging onto inside of falling train scene

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 2d

Realism was always a crime but sadly it turns out that even semi-abstracted low-poly was an accessory. To actual war crimes

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 3d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 3d

Blessings and wishes for love and rest for Miss Major. She's done so much and made it to 78. We named a lil' building after her here in NYC. A really good run.
www.them.us/story/miss-m...

Stonewall Veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Has Entered Hospice Care

The transgender rights activist had previously been hospitalized for more than 10 days.

www.them.us

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 3d

ooh that's me with wire and bamboo brushes but I haven't recorded anything for many years now

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 3d

gee who knew the torment nexus was going to involve someone having one Bad Idea, then putting them in a funhouse of mirror-neurons so the Bad Idea amplifies and bounces around obsessively until it escapes containment and becomes A Bad Idea For Everyone

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 3d

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 3d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 4d

Star Sword Nemesis is now available! Read about the most fashionable girl in a utopian collective of Trans-Neptunian Objects falling in love with her fencing instructor, the deadliest turncoat milf in all of space, feat. art by @mightyatom.bsky.social! loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 3d

Here you go
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3d

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 3d

Keep an eye out for that new user in your gaming discord, server nickname blahaj-trantifa67, who will soon be asking for access to the private channels "where you dolls are planning real actions"

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 4d

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

"Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people," said Attorney General Paxton. "The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America.
There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."
The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Alvarado, Texas. On September 10, 2025, a leftist assassin connected to the radical transgender movement murdered Charlie Kirk because of Kirk's bold support for truth, love of country, and unshakable faith. Two weeks later, another deranged leftist opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas.
President Donald Trump has officially designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and instructed his administration to "utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa." Building on President Trump's bold actions, Attorney General Paxton has instructed his office to initiate sweeping investigations into radical leftist organizations engaged in or providing support to those performing political violence.

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 4d

Definitely. It's each person's business & intent to gauge; no other can! That simply means we should each take our responsibility to ourselves, and our own moral sense pretty seriously--including questioning how we might be affecting our own states of mind if we, say, anthropomorphize a machine.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 4d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 4d

nice shoutout in this cutscene to the massive "she puts on her jacket" 3d-animation flex from the announcement trailer for Intergalactic: the Heretic Prophet ( psst @clairecarre.bsky.social )

🦇👻 Boo Li Khaw 👻🎃 @juleshortstuff.bsky.social · 5d

Been laughing all morning about this 28 min unskippable cutscene that Baby Steps traps players in after they try to skip 30 cutscenes. The fact the button presses get harder the more you skip and then the banter & how it's done is so funny. Flawless exectution of the bit. youtu.be/mQahQACsvPU?...

Baby steps - Secret cutscene found

YouTube video by Cuttyflame

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

Our statement on the anniversary of October 7 and the ongoing genocide in Gaza: indivisible.org/statements/i...

WE MOURN ALL VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE, AND DEMAND JUSTICE AND PEACE.

Today, on the second anniversary of the horrific attacks of October 7th, we grieve for the victims and for all who lost loved ones. We continue to call for the immediate release of all remaining hostages. Violence against civilians is not and can never be justified.

Two years later, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government has weaponized that tragedy to carry out a campaign of collective punishment -a genocide -against the people of Gaza. The ongoing siege of Gaza City has trapped civilians in rubble and dire hunger. Roads have been blocked, hospitals destroyed, and food and medicine restricted to a trickle. This is not defense. It is annihilation.

The deliberate destruction of Gaza is a moral catastrophe - one happening on our dime. The United States continues to supply weapons and political cover to Netanyahu's government. That complicity must end.

We refuse the false choice between condemning an horrific attack and condemning genocide. We can - and must - do both. True justice means no double standards. It recognizes the equal value of every life. It is a commitment to protecting every civilian, rejecting collective punishment, and demanding accountability for every crime committed.

On this anniversary, we remember every innocent life lost - Israeli and Palestinian alike. We mourn all victims of violence, and demand justice and peace. Real safety will never come from mass killing or collective punishment. It comes from equality, accountability, and humanity.

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 4d

See? Exactly

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 4d

yes thank you, when a game like "Marceline Leiman's High Tide" emerges from your eardrum after many months of hitting the side of your head and hopping and down, it would be unreasonable and divorced from reality to say that you "made it"

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 4d

welllll it depends would you take in a brand new cryptocoin named after this game, which you can use in the game to procure the services a hot sycophantic cyber-wife

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 4d

how it started / how it's going
YO WAY YO / HOME VA-RAY

Kai, last of the Brunnen G, before and after his death in the clutches of His Divine Shadow and his reanimation by that insect-god's bio-scholars, who made him over into an amnesiac, anhedonic Divine Assassin. (LEXX)

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 4d

oh that's a lovely idea! I'm very fond of the old world. I ran my very first campaign as a teenager there, it was this one

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 4d

Thank you for attending my TED Talk "why it is impossible to make games, and releasing a game violates the 8th amendment." I am an author of a book about how to make games (not possible) and in charge of a large well-known academic program focusing on how to make games (not possible)

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 4d

Brian is exactly correct, of course. You cannot train a deep learning model to make a video game, because nobody actually knows how to make video games, much less record data on this subject. It is a mystery; they extrude out of some people after a lot of tears and screaming, mostly.

Tweet from MASTER GAMESMITH AND INCREDIBLE PROCEDURAL NARRATIVE SHAPER Brian Bucklew at 12:10 AM on October 7, 2025 reads "you know xai cant make a good video game because nobody has ever made a good video game"

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 4d

oh c'mon derek you're too good at this, i'm sure you could take the mildly interactive video-flythrough that's generated out of 100,000 hours of cyberpunk 2077 footage and cut it into a WICKED ASS TRAILER (set to evanescence, ofc)

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 4d

this is going to be so incredible you guys, i can't wait a whole year to see this thing. gonna make every other game made in recent decades look like an actual game

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 6d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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