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Brendan Keogh

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Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/ Brisbane, Australia | he/him

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 49m

Does it still take ages to actually update when you do it that way? Back in the day it wasn’t instant

Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 7h

I imagine you’d be using LLMs in pretty specific and technically ways and not generalist genAI in the general slop ways of most sectors that I‘m broadly alluding to

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 7h

Also you’re not disagreeing with me?? Yeah, I do use a pc because i think handwriting isn’t worth the effort! Just like slopjockeyd use genai because they think actual art isn’t worth the effort.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 7h

Let me tap my phone and pay 50c like a civilised city

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 7h

Topping up a myki card at a 7-11 and then realising the amount I paid is less than the amount the card is in the negative because I got one train today.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 7h

Whoa what a novel rebuttal that definitely understands why genai sucks

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry but Melbourne’s public transport infrastructure is now just really sad and embarrassing

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah for me if someone chooses to use genai for a task that already tells me that it is a task they don’t consider worthy of actual effort or care. We all just have different opinions on which tasks those are.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 8h

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 8h

every time i walk past that place on the bike path i think I should actually go get a drink there

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 16h

Parallels was great last night. Absolutely wild that Freeplay has been both the anchor and the beacon for experimental and independent game development in this country for 21 years now.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 1d

A bunch of people also think they are truly being critical and complex by embracing it when actually they've just been suckered.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

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 now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 1d

lazy devs

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 1d

I got radicalised but in a good way

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 1d

Okay but like again you’re completely missing what people are actually mad at