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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 4h

Looking forward to reading this soon!

Great job to René and the team!!

René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 18h

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...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 8h

I have Opinions

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 10h

Every time I see a conservative complain about Bad Bunny they just show why they'll lose the culture war.

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly all government initiatives that put money right in the hands of the individual is profitable to the country.

But right wing governments are pound-foolish and mostly remove these programs because they ideologically refuse to believe supporting the individual is a net benefit.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 2d

Writing this game was its own lovecraftian nightmare and I'm pretty sure it caused me to develop non-euclidean synapse connections in my brain.

plz buy so I can go and untangle it

At Eve's Wake @ateveswake.bsky.social · 7d

Enjoy #Autumn with this #Lovecraftian #Horror story! Watch the madness and see your family fall like the leaves.

Twist time and decide to save or bring damnation.

⭐️50% off store.steampowered.com/app/1395120/...

#indiedev #IndieGameDev #indiegame #indiegames #indiehorror #Steam #SteamAutumnSale

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 3d

If you make a puzzle game and after finishing a level you tell me how well I did and show other players did better, I will simply stop playing your game

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 5d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 5d

Because I had other things to do, I also only just learned about Paul.

Paul.

Really.

Paul.

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 5d

trying to keep up with marvel comics has always been hard because I'm pretty sure they really don't understand why and when their characters work and they absolutely refuse to learn

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 5d

There are a lot of reasons to feel old, but I was just reminded One More Day was released in 2007 and I will never let go you hear that MJ&Pete foreverrrr

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Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 5d

yknow early bsky was funny in the way that you occasionally would see an early adopter with a sudden big following crash and burn in public in a most spectacular way and for a while I thought it would never happen, but lo and behold the CEO answered my prayers

got some real early internet vibes

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 5d

I can't remember who said it, but basically if a movement gets just as rage hyped over a company logo as over the assassination of an actual person, it's prone to burn out and not build actual lasting staying power.
And I think that's what we're seeing here.

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 5d

You can't technical design your way out of a human interaction design problem.

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 5d

Not quoting this to dunk, but to highlight that this sentiment is why bsky's overall UX is so poor

If a team does not include soft skills like UX design as a core skill for system architecture, they'll keep on making these mistakes

If the moderation policy feels 'thoughtless', yeah, because it is

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

We’re system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 5d

Like, again, is Bluesky a minimally-moderated space where you're supposed to use the provided tools to build your own moderation out of legos, or is it a platform that'll ban people for saying lol the wrong way? You can't have it both ways!

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so sorry bud!

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Every Unity Dev Panic Day!

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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 5d

what the actual fuck

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5d

Two victims in Manchester attack were shot by police on.ft.com/42KdNBd

Two victims in Manchester attack were shot by police

Greater Manchester police say one of those shot by officers has died

on.ft.com

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 5d

A company founded by a no-name actress who is even a no-name actress in her own country? Who is being rather incendiary in her interviews in local media? Yeah it's a grift

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 5d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 6d

Then I won't curse you with the context because it truly is fucking stupid

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 6d

also that waffle looks kinda shit.

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