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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · Aug 27

my latest "cutscenes" column is a conversation with @mrsambarlow.bsky.social and @nataliewatson.bsky.social that we recorded back in january, about FMV games, and about full-motion video as moment and medium, from DRAGON'S LAIR to PHANTASMAGORIA to IMMORTALITY mubi.com/en/notebook/...

Cutscenes | A Hit of Pure Videodrome: Sam Barlow and Natalie Watson on Full-Motion Video Games

With “Immortality,” “Telling Lies,” and “Her Story,” Barlow may have finally cracked the code of the interactive film.

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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · 23h

games gone

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undead girlfriend @hausofholes.bsky.social · 2d

words are interesting

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 7d

What does it sound like to slide down a breast milk river? Ask Baby Steps sound designer Maxi Boch: aftermath.site/baby-steps-sou...

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Sunshine Jarboly @sunshinejarboly.bsky.social · 4d

at today’s softball game, my wife slowly & silently turned her head to stare at me as we heard the revolution will not be televised by gil scott-heron as our daughter’s walk-up song.

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andrew webster @andrewrweb.bsky.social · 9d

at the beginning of the year we launched a new column where (at least) once a week we recommend a different indie game, and now it's just packed with cool stuff www.theverge.com/24339574/ind...

The best indie games we’re playing right now

We want to help you find your next favorite indie.

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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · 9d

worldrecordsjournal.org/screening/ma...

Man number 4 - World Records

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Tristan Johnson @stepback.nebula.tv · 11d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11d

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%.

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · 21d

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House Arab

I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

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Lon the Fox @lonthefox.bsky.social · 22d

Image of the Metal Gear Solid transceiver screen show Otacon and Snake, with the text "Technology used to be cool, but now it's owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. But there are transsexual furry hackers out there still fighting the good fight." as written by the OP

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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · 22d

ust sent my eighth "lend me ur eyes" newsletter of 2025.

subscribe: buttondown.com/lendmeureyes

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 22d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · 25d

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drizle.FM w/ PLO MAN & Kudzu Audio 210825

forwards and backwards through bits of a [mostly] electronic music timeline. reverence for BCR. records i’ve played forever and new records i’ve just found. boil it down. one z in drizle. Find the fu

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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · 25d

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⋆˚࿔ untitled 909 podcast 233: notte infinita ⋆˚࿔

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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · 28d

jimorourke.bandcamp.com/album/pareid...

Pareidolia, by Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke

5 track album

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · Aug 20

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature headline "I invented a life-saving frog sauna." Photo of said frogs in said sauna

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · Aug 31

So hyped to be part of @peow.bsky.social’s ExMag volume 6!

I had the pleasure of working on an original sci-fi short with one of my all time favourite artists, @decassette.bsky.social, telling a story of deep time and alien ecologies 🌱

Back the anthology here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/peo...

A preview page of my story, with art by Linnea Sterte

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · Sep 3

Anthology Film Archives is screening the works of Tomonari Nishikawa 9/13 and 9/14 - this is essential cinema: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · Apr 25

Spent all week gathering remembrances of filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa from artists, teachers, programmers, and critics - it has helped me grieve, and I hope it gives you a glimmer of the man he was: open.substack.com/pub/oldnew/p...

In Memoriam: Tomonari Nishikawa (1969-2025)

Glimpses of a filmmaking life

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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · Sep 6

notagspodcast.substack.com/p/52-will-th...

52: Will the AI slopwave ruin music for good?

Blobby.

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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · Sep 4

A Life Well Wasted episode 9: Game Over is up now. Grab a timed-edition poster by Olly Moss anytime in the next 7 days to support the show. Thanks for sticking with me! alifewellwasted.com

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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · Aug 28

soundcloud.com/swufm/sophia...

Sophia Loizou with Yamaneko - 24 August 2025

Live from Bristol 103.7FM + Rinse.fm https://rinse.fm/channels/swu/

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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · Aug 27

Cutscenes | A Hit of Pure Videodrome: Sam Barlow and Natalie Watson on Full-Motion Video Games

With “Immortality,” “Telling Lies,” and “Her Story,” Barlow may have finally cracked the code of the interactive film.

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