The OTHER project at CDPR's Boston studio is hiring a Lead Writer. (FT, onsite preferred) Come work with a very chill and creative team on Project Sirius ✨️

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We're hiring!! WPI IMGD seeks a new Assistant Teaching Professor to support and grow our multidisciplinary, project-based curriculum in technical and design areas of our undergrad (BS, BA) and graduate (MS, MFA, PhD) degrees.

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Friendly Reminder: If you're planning to apply to the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant, you have until 23:59 PST TODAY to get your application in ⏰‼️

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The "using AI to generate concept art early in the process to quickly iterate ideas" thing is so absurd to me because like. You don't know what concept art is. You don't know what concept art *does*.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Reminder that the best conference for understanding generative systems, and how people play them, is full of kind people, online and you can go to it.

ya a lot of normies think any time they take time to "correct" it they taught it, it'll never make that mistake again, as if it's a Wikipedia edit, and not just handholding it past the mistake in their own short term interaction with it until the next massive retraining on info scooped up off reddit

Check out this game I worked on!

Breath Checkers is designed to provoke both playfulness and relaxation. Developed at Dagstuhl Seminar 25292 with @curseofremy.bsky.social.

Meeting and working with Rémy was such a wonderful experience. I learned a whole lot more about design in that short time.

you're asking chatGPT, im conducting a seance with inky, blinky, pinky and clyde. we are not the same

people love to say "platforms are not your friends", and someone on cohost got especially real big mad at me for "going to bat" for itch before

but you bet your ass i have sympathy for an indie project. that's the whole fucking thing we're doing here

This itch.io NSFW policy change is unfortunately nothing new, the problem isn't the platforms themselves but rather Visa/MC strong-arming these services into revising their NSFW policies.
So if you're eligible I invite you to sign this ACLU petition: action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

Really disheartening to see people going after Itch when they clearly didn't have a better choice, and are taking steps to restore as much of the content as possible.

The whole situation sucks, obviously, but how could you think Itch doesn't care after all it did for creators in the last 12 years?

I know I’m preaching to the choir here but building a world in which sex and sexuality is seen as inherently harmful but violence is normal and often good actually seems… bad. It seems like we could do better.

If because of itch.io, you're looking to understand how obscenity law in the US came to be functionally obsolete in favor of payment card standards, may I recommend the piece I wrote about this a couple of years ago?

yjolt.org/imagine-comm...

The postcard I made for @emilyhalina.bsky.social as part of @annetropy.bsky.social 's postcard keepsake game.
The elden ring pope turtle visits Dagstuhl seminar 25292

The Bird Oracle is up for an Best Writing Ennie, and you can vote for us now! Yazeba's is in our category and a truly magnificent book, and you can vote for it too! Like the NYC mayoral primary, the Ennies also have ranked choice voting.

vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/in...

hey who wants to see the worlds most sinister hotel sink

Trump funding cuts 'devastate' video game research and development

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."

organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...

good comedy here is the MS engineer saying "not a .net issue, please contact our more annoying issue tracker" versus OP having "if you need to reach me, I'll be on the osu! Discord server" in their report hahaha

there is a fundamental incuriosity about and even disdain for what liberal arts fields can offer a life, both for the people who study them and the people who later interact with their work. it’s such an infuriating loss.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

We are in Western Colorado at a museum that (weirdly!) has an 1809 copy of the Boston Chronicle. It details how the town next to where we live in MA celebrated Independence Day.

“Massachusetts — First to assert her rights, may she be the last to forget them.”

Feels appropriate to see in 2025.

Two of three generations of WPI alumni. So proud of my family and grateful to @wpiedu.bsky.social.