@adamruch.bsky.social
Lecturer and writer in games and interactive media.
Perth, WA.
Perth, WA.
Pop-pop's new meds kicked in.
Trump has posted to Truth Social at least 75 times and counting in the past hour.
It’s weirdo garbage produced by random people on X and TikTok across a number of topics, like conspiracy theories about Ilhan Omar and influencers who claim “communists” are attempting a color revolution in the U.S.
It’s weirdo garbage produced by random people on X and TikTok across a number of topics, like conspiracy theories about Ilhan Omar and influencers who claim “communists” are attempting a color revolution in the U.S.
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Pop-pop's new meds kicked in.
Some kids are going to see a whole lot of really outlandish shit as they swim deeper and deeper looking for a platform that hasn't been banned.
Yet another obscure app has skyrocketed in popularity as the eSafety Commissioner says her office is being "very proactive" about teens signing up to murky alternatives to dodge the social media ban.
'We'll be watching': Social media companies warned about complying with ban as teens flock to alternative apps
www.crikey.com.au
December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Some kids are going to see a whole lot of really outlandish shit as they swim deeper and deeper looking for a platform that hasn't been banned.
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I've followed @familyjules7x.bsky.social on YouTube for a long time and always loved his video game covers. The 2025 edition of Replay might be his masterpiece. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2u...
REPLAY (2025): A Metal Tribute to the History of Video Games
YouTube video by FamilyJules
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I've followed @familyjules7x.bsky.social on YouTube for a long time and always loved his video game covers. The 2025 edition of Replay might be his masterpiece. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2u...
You are not wrong about this.
Ya know, every single time I have a hankering to play a game where I fly a spaceship, it becomes this elaborate chain of specific cravings that inevitably results in "it's Freelancer, all you're doing is trying to find another Freelancer"
No gamepad support but there are other cravings at play here
No gamepad support but there are other cravings at play here
What is the best space combat game *for a gamepad*?
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
You are not wrong about this.
Reading Adrienne Massanari's "Gaming Democracy" and feeling some kind of way. Very much a book that needed to be written.
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Reading Adrienne Massanari's "Gaming Democracy" and feeling some kind of way. Very much a book that needed to be written.
Although Australia doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving, with the year ending it's still a good time to reflect. I'm almost indescribably thankful that I am here, in Aus, to be saying this. It's still a bit surreal for me to have picked up my family and left the instability of the USA.
November 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Although Australia doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving, with the year ending it's still a good time to reflect. I'm almost indescribably thankful that I am here, in Aus, to be saying this. It's still a bit surreal for me to have picked up my family and left the instability of the USA.
All of this. And more, because I think this was well underway before AI, and that AI is really only a symptom of the greater problem which Jes does touch here: inability to relate to others. Nothing *means* anything in the sense of communication to another person.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 AM
All of this. And more, because I think this was well underway before AI, and that AI is really only a symptom of the greater problem which Jes does touch here: inability to relate to others. Nothing *means* anything in the sense of communication to another person.
Been writing this afternoon and now my fingernails are too long. Oh look a piece of chocolate. Better post about that on Bluesky!
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Been writing this afternoon and now my fingernails are too long. Oh look a piece of chocolate. Better post about that on Bluesky!
Dream Theater
A Perfect Circle
Devin Townsend
Muse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
A Perfect Circle
Devin Townsend
Muse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Dream Theater
A Perfect Circle
Devin Townsend
Muse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
A Perfect Circle
Devin Townsend
Muse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Fireflies.
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Fireflies.
*STRONGLY* Agee. Worked hard not to do this in class this year. "Content" elides the work and focuses on the box that it's filling. It's an unironic "say we make widgets" for corpos.
Inspired by someone elsewhere, I hereby vow to try to avoid the terms "content" and "content creator," unless I *must* talk about work across so many fields that a generic term is the only one that will suffice. Let's not reduce art, criticism, journalism, etc. to an undifferentiated smear of Stuff.
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
*STRONGLY* Agee. Worked hard not to do this in class this year. "Content" elides the work and focuses on the box that it's filling. It's an unironic "say we make widgets" for corpos.
Need to start drafting a chapter. Step 1 is logging on to Bluesky right?
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Need to start drafting a chapter. Step 1 is logging on to Bluesky right?
It's stuff like this that feeds my theory about how much of modern society works via deception. Like, just constant, pervasive lying is the default.
Musk turned on a feature on X that showed country of origin.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It's stuff like this that feeds my theory about how much of modern society works via deception. Like, just constant, pervasive lying is the default.
This is equally hilarious and concerning. If you ask an LLM to do something it would normally refuse (say, give instructions on how to create weapons-grade plutonium) using poetic verse, it is much more likely to bypass safety protocols and give you an answer.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This is equally hilarious and concerning. If you ask an LLM to do something it would normally refuse (say, give instructions on how to create weapons-grade plutonium) using poetic verse, it is much more likely to bypass safety protocols and give you an answer.
Say I'm subscribed to WIRED as an example (I am). Is there really still no way to use RSS to read entire articles, rather than load the whole page complete with deluge of ads? My RSS 'complete content' is still only a fraction of the article.
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Say I'm subscribed to WIRED as an example (I am). Is there really still no way to use RSS to read entire articles, rather than load the whole page complete with deluge of ads? My RSS 'complete content' is still only a fraction of the article.
In light of Congress voting on the Epstein files today, I am looking forward to the new definitions for "classified", "files", and/or "released" in the next couple days.
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
In light of Congress voting on the Epstein files today, I am looking forward to the new definitions for "classified", "files", and/or "released" in the next couple days.
Oh wait, we have a name for programs that install other programs to the detriment of our machines' functionality - especially without permission. Shit what did we call that kind of malignant, malicious software again?
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Oh wait, we have a name for programs that install other programs to the detriment of our machines' functionality - especially without permission. Shit what did we call that kind of malignant, malicious software again?
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It’s the universities encouraging students to use AI that really gets me. All this “we need to accept it’s here and teach them to use it” does not help students learn to think. Writing is for thinking and communicating, not just producing words.
I spent a lot of time this semester explaining why it produces bad work but at the end of the day, they're being asked to do a thing they find difficult, and this makes it easy for them, without any meaningful consequence. And the university encourages them to use it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It’s the universities encouraging students to use AI that really gets me. All this “we need to accept it’s here and teach them to use it” does not help students learn to think. Writing is for thinking and communicating, not just producing words.
Does anyone have a recommended workflow for cleaning up scanned book pages? Delete artefacts like shadows, page edges; deskew, and ideally separate facing pages into one page each?
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Does anyone have a recommended workflow for cleaning up scanned book pages? Delete artefacts like shadows, page edges; deskew, and ideally separate facing pages into one page each?
Offering customers a best in class 2-for-1 opportunity to boycott.
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Offering customers a best in class 2-for-1 opportunity to boycott.
Thought of a snarky aphorism about things and decided to google it before sending it into the world. Found an essay I rather like.
On humanity, writing, and digital dead malls share.google/vmQLzhjUwkUe...
On humanity, writing, and digital dead malls share.google/vmQLzhjUwkUe...
On humanity, writing, and digital dead malls
Are our errors what make us human?
share.google
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Thought of a snarky aphorism about things and decided to google it before sending it into the world. Found an essay I rather like.
On humanity, writing, and digital dead malls share.google/vmQLzhjUwkUe...
On humanity, writing, and digital dead malls share.google/vmQLzhjUwkUe...
I am once again contemplating moving my website to another server and platform rather than finishing a piece of writing. AMA
November 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I am once again contemplating moving my website to another server and platform rather than finishing a piece of writing. AMA
The crew at Aftermath do good work. On this very technical matter, the new site is very clean and crisp. Congrats on anniversary and overhaul!
As you may have seen, we've launched a brand new website today! And while we're excited about some of the big stuff involved--like a sale and new payment methods--here are some other neat features we hope readers and newcomers will appreciate.
aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...
aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The crew at Aftermath do good work. On this very technical matter, the new site is very clean and crisp. Congrats on anniversary and overhaul!
The Democrats are partnering with their friends across the aisle to build bridges to hell! It's Infrastructure Week!
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The Democrats are partnering with their friends across the aisle to build bridges to hell! It's Infrastructure Week!