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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · Oct 23

- lead designer+developer @ darkwebSTREAMER
- definitely not a witch
- probably about to get in a fight
- class voted "most likely to dig out of jail with a spoon"
- runs the women leaders in games network
- degrees in anthropology+english
- probably talked you into doing something naughty

#GameDev

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she wears a black and white swimsuit featuring the sesame street characters Bert and Ernie overlaid on a gunfight scene in the movie Pulp Fiction. they wear suits and ties, have gangster hairstyles and both have guns raised.

she has a black ink rose and moth tattoo on one arm.

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 10h

We’re not doing this again the video van man was REAL

.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 15h

i know perhaps the scariest creepiest real life supernatural story ever told + documented in court by police officials, doctors & witnesses

i started working on a podcast about it many years ago but it became hard to rationalise putting a public spotlight on someone's trauma

it's tricky stuff

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 4h

AND HE'S COMING FOR *YOU* NEXT

.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 13h

i'm so sorry george <3 i DM'd you on discord, k <3

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Billy @billyidles.bsky.social · 13h

This is a powerful image

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 14h

anyway. just a thing i was thinking about today. a story and a period in my life i forgot existed, left to dust. in pursuit of ethics, but whose?

i think it's an important story. one of the most important stories i've ever heard in my life. but it wasn't my story to share. i thought.

hm

.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 14h

we all have different conceptions of where to draw that line

we own our stories. but a community owns its stories. and a people owns its stories. a matroshka doll of stories, of ownership.

what do we do when those rights to ownership conflict?

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 14h

it's difficult to navigate when public interest "outweighs" a person's desire for privacy

even just asking consent has the possibility of setting off panic attacks or flashbacks for weeks. there's rarely a "pure" ethical engagement

just liberties we take in the name of what we hold important

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 14h

UMMM YES

thank you for the link :D

.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 15h

ethics and morals are messy, messy business at the best of times

context dependent

but who gets to decide appropriate contexts?

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 15h

i don't really have an answer. i remember arguing about ethics in an anthropology classroom... anthropologists are governed by the "ethics of the board", never misrepresenting themselves or their intentions

but that can destroy the ability to get at critical truths, esp involving institutions

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 15h

journalism is important & often notable events involve victims

how do you navigate deciding what's public interest enough at the expense of undue attention? even asking permission to do the story ran the risk of triggering PTSD. who was i to do that to someone because of my own interest?

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 22h

i don’t touch that foul stuff 😭

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 1d

when I was finishing my anthro degree and eyeing a PhD focused on fieldwork in the Peruvian jungle, i came across an ethnography talking about how the researcher had to drink the popular “chicha” with others to be trusted in the local community

chicha is fermented spit

i suddenly had… doubts

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The Allie B. You Were Afraid Of @madpierrot.design · 1d

...I need this. And also the Us ones. And also The Lost Boys one. And also--

Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 1d

Mattel meets H.R. Giger with a stunning new Monster High doll that reimagines the Xenomorph from ALIEN as a terrifyingly chic fashion icon:

Mattel Meets H.R. Giger With Stunning New ‘Alien’ Doll from the Monster High Collection!

Mattel’s “Skullector” wave of their Monster High line has proven to be a treasure trove of incredible dolls based on horror properties, with movies including The Lost Boys, Bride of Chucky, Jordan Pee...

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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · 1d

Man I just love noodling on this cute little joy machine 💖✨

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 3d

will be interesting to see how the first waves of films that lean on genAI do & what “lessons” financiers learn

the critical mass of people aren’t engaged with the ethics around AI so it’ll be interesting to see boycotts vs “idk that film was weird and off somehow” chatter that brings ratings down

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 3d

he certainly could have phrased it differently, but i remember feeling very much this way after coming away from some conversations and being given requests for film pitch decks with AI generated stills

pitch a film with a fake AI trailer and your funding chance goes way up. it’s just true :/

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 3d

I think, if this context is correct, and it’s something I’ve gathered myself in my convos with “Hollywood”, this doesn’t make him so much an idiot as stating an observation based on the movements of the systems around him

I haven’t “given up yet” but I see how Hollywood feels “lost” already

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 3d

So there’s informational context in the line “AI is here to stay” and that “consumers don’t care” - while the latter statement feels too broad, I think the subtext is “I see that money people want cheaper solutions and not enough people care about a genAI explosion vs real one to sway them”

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 3d

“The money people” want AI, and they will fund projects that use AI. And those that refuse will struggle to get funding and are likely to sink. People having back room conversations are aware of this.

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 3d

I speak to people who work pretty high up in the Hollywood production+investment side and I’m familiar with the context Jason is speaking within/referring to. People have different information sets.

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 4d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 4d

you’d be my favourite airhead