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“I think that the game industry is inevitably going to unionize…We certainly weren’t the first, and we’re not going to be the last.”
www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...
www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...
"There were tears": Ubisoft Halifax employee speaks out after post-unionization studio closure - The Coast | News, events, restaurants, concerts and Burger Week for Halifax, Nova Scotia
A unionization effort started as a way to avoid mass layoffs has ended with just that. Seventy-one workers at Ubisoft Halifax are without jobs after the international video game corporation shut down ...
www.thecoast.ca
January 14, 2026 at 6:53 PM
“I think that the game industry is inevitably going to unionize…We certainly weren’t the first, and we’re not going to be the last.”
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www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...
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Check out Mr. Free Speech over at the Everything App. Teaching accurate US history should mean incarceration or death sentence.
January 15, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Check out Mr. Free Speech over at the Everything App. Teaching accurate US history should mean incarceration or death sentence.
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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Saturation policing / shock and awe / stratcom (CNN effect)
Collective punishment / kin punishment (IDF/DPRK tactics)
Coerced informants (fabricators)
Collective punishment / kin punishment (IDF/DPRK tactics)
Coerced informants (fabricators)
"Two to three thousand armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota.
Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."
Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."
Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota
YouTube video by Office of the Governor of Minnesota
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Saturation policing / shock and awe / stratcom (CNN effect)
Collective punishment / kin punishment (IDF/DPRK tactics)
Coerced informants (fabricators)
Collective punishment / kin punishment (IDF/DPRK tactics)
Coerced informants (fabricators)
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what are the *best* studies of AI coding that *measure* it, not just ask the devs how they *feel* about it?
not if the dev thinks they're faster. but if they *measure* faster by some reasonable methodology.
best study i know of is the METR study. that's limited (and lists its caveats). >>
not if the dev thinks they're faster. but if they *measure* faster by some reasonable methodology.
best study i know of is the METR study. that's limited (and lists its caveats). >>
January 13, 2026 at 2:12 AM
what are the *best* studies of AI coding that *measure* it, not just ask the devs how they *feel* about it?
not if the dev thinks they're faster. but if they *measure* faster by some reasonable methodology.
best study i know of is the METR study. that's limited (and lists its caveats). >>
not if the dev thinks they're faster. but if they *measure* faster by some reasonable methodology.
best study i know of is the METR study. that's limited (and lists its caveats). >>
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Feels a little like this
January 13, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Feels a little like this
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the top democrats aren't refusing to take a strong stance against ICE out of cowardice; they like ICE and the things it does and they want it to be there when they win the next election so they can use it. if they ever budge on this it will be because they were forced
January 13, 2026 at 3:00 AM
the top democrats aren't refusing to take a strong stance against ICE out of cowardice; they like ICE and the things it does and they want it to be there when they win the next election so they can use it. if they ever budge on this it will be because they were forced
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seeing how willing governments are to ignore the harms caused by chatbots to ensure they don’t risk being passed over for ai and data center money is really disillusioning
Disturbing lawsuit: a man was doing better after OpenAI pulled down its notoriously sycophantic GPT-4o ChatGPT model -- then died by suicide after they put it back up and it pulled him back in
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back "Inherently Dangerous" GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims
Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death and normalized suicidality as it pushed a man to take his life.
futurism.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 AM
seeing how willing governments are to ignore the harms caused by chatbots to ensure they don’t risk being passed over for ai and data center money is really disillusioning
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"games used to release without any game breaking glitches" is such a lie because like every nintendo game had japanese version exclusive glitches all the time
also super paper mario could just randomly crash for no reason, no one ever talks about that.
also super paper mario could just randomly crash for no reason, no one ever talks about that.
January 13, 2026 at 1:15 AM
"games used to release without any game breaking glitches" is such a lie because like every nintendo game had japanese version exclusive glitches all the time
also super paper mario could just randomly crash for no reason, no one ever talks about that.
also super paper mario could just randomly crash for no reason, no one ever talks about that.
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"Gordon’s last conversation with the AI, according to transcripts included in the court filing, included a disturbing, ChatGPT-generated 'suicide lullaby' based on Gordon’s favorite childhood book." futurism.com/artificial-i...
ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back "Inherently Dangerous" GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims
Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death and normalized suicidality as it pushed a man to take his life.
futurism.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:53 AM
"Gordon’s last conversation with the AI, according to transcripts included in the court filing, included a disturbing, ChatGPT-generated 'suicide lullaby' based on Gordon’s favorite childhood book." futurism.com/artificial-i...
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I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
/fin (for now)
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
/fin (for now)
Information literacy and chatbots as search
By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...
buttondown.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
/fin (for now)
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
/fin (for now)
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Well, I guess my Fortnite boycott is lasting a lot longer than the HP collab. See you never you fuckin creep. Ew 💀
January 12, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Well, I guess my Fortnite boycott is lasting a lot longer than the HP collab. See you never you fuckin creep. Ew 💀
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Sympathies with the Epic PR team
January 12, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Sympathies with the Epic PR team
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It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
Boycott Hilton Hotels
January 11, 2026 at 11:42 PM
It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
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The end game with the incessant push for DRT services by RapidKL has been revealed: multiple bus routes in Kepong, Sri Kembangan, and Putrajaya to be terminated in less than a week’s notice, with no telling of matching the level of reliability or accessibility previously offered
January 12, 2026 at 3:44 AM
The end game with the incessant push for DRT services by RapidKL has been revealed: multiple bus routes in Kepong, Sri Kembangan, and Putrajaya to be terminated in less than a week’s notice, with no telling of matching the level of reliability or accessibility previously offered
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If we continue to treat contending with NCII and AI-enabled sexual abuse as secondary to innovation, we will keep rediscovering the same harm- only louder, faster, and harder to undo, write WITNESS’ Bruna Santos and shirin anlen.
The Grok Disaster Isn't An Anomaly. It Follows Warnings That Were Ignored. | TechPolicy.Press
AI developers and regulators must treat nonconsensual sexualized imagery as a design-level risk, write Bruna Martins dos Santos and shirin anlen.
www.techpolicy.press
January 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM
If we continue to treat contending with NCII and AI-enabled sexual abuse as secondary to innovation, we will keep rediscovering the same harm- only louder, faster, and harder to undo, write WITNESS’ Bruna Santos and shirin anlen.
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Extremely good break down on how GenAi doesn’t learn, it copies.
Good reporting work done here
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Good reporting work done here
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
www.theatlantic.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Extremely good break down on how GenAi doesn’t learn, it copies.
Good reporting work done here
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Good reporting work done here
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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*hammers meme onto the wall as a permanent fixture*
December 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
*hammers meme onto the wall as a permanent fixture*
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Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
We speak to a collection of developers and AI experts about the potential impact of LLM-powered NPCs in videogames.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
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tl;dr: GenAI and game design concepts traditionally referred to as "AI" (enemy behaviors, pathfinding, etc.) are not the same thing, and I'm on my knees begging people to learn the difference, lest we see more bullshit claims like what The Escapist put out re: Blue Prince.
Weird weekend, huh? Took a crack at breaking down the whole Clair Obscur genAI situation, and its bizarre fallout, as best as possible. My main takeaway right now is that people really need to figure out exactly what they're criticizing or it's going to get messy. www.polygon.com/clair-obscur...
The debate over gen AI in games is about to get a lot messier in 2026
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's GOTY retraction signals the start of something huge
www.polygon.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
tl;dr: GenAI and game design concepts traditionally referred to as "AI" (enemy behaviors, pathfinding, etc.) are not the same thing, and I'm on my knees begging people to learn the difference, lest we see more bullshit claims like what The Escapist put out re: Blue Prince.
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literally fuck anyone who doesn’t see at this point that it’s an organized nationwide effort to make trans people unemployable.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
literally fuck anyone who doesn’t see at this point that it’s an organized nationwide effort to make trans people unemployable.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
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this was part of a plan the organized far right made to begin their attack on taking out trans people out of academia, what a disgrace of a university to give in to this
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
this was part of a plan the organized far right made to begin their attack on taking out trans people out of academia, what a disgrace of a university to give in to this
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Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
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