Matt Villers
@mattvillers.bsky.social
Principal Encounter Designer on World of Warcraft.
EN/JP. Comments are my own. || WoWエンカウントのシニアデザイナー。呟きは個人的なものでご了承ください。||
Past/元: Heroes of the Storm, StarCraft 2, Diablo 3
EN/JP. Comments are my own. || WoWエンカウントのシニアデザイナー。呟きは個人的なものでご了承ください。||
Past/元: Heroes of the Storm, StarCraft 2, Diablo 3
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Matt Villers
@mattvillers.bsky.social
· Jan 20
The most important advice I can give anyone right now is "get to know your neighbors". There will be someone within arms' reach who needs help as things get ugly. Being there to offer that help is an infinitely more impactful form of resistance than posting spicy hot takes on the internet.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Flock exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using overseas workers. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Story by @josephcox.bsky.social:
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
Story by @josephcox.bsky.social:
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Flock exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using overseas workers. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Story by @josephcox.bsky.social:
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
Story by @josephcox.bsky.social:
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
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It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
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AI is NOT inevitable. Keep not using it. Uninstall Copilot from your computer. Refuse to use programs bogged down with it. Complain loudly about it when they shove it into the programs you use. We can starve the slop machines.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
AI is NOT inevitable. Keep not using it. Uninstall Copilot from your computer. Refuse to use programs bogged down with it. Complain loudly about it when they shove it into the programs you use. We can starve the slop machines.
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The reason why this hurts so much is because every dubbing studio in the Los Angeles area has been hit with at least one wave of layoffs or a significant reduction in the amount of contractors that have been hired.
All that devastation to our economy, for this?
All that devastation to our economy, for this?
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The reason why this hurts so much is because every dubbing studio in the Los Angeles area has been hit with at least one wave of layoffs or a significant reduction in the amount of contractors that have been hired.
All that devastation to our economy, for this?
All that devastation to our economy, for this?
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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The new game "Where the Winds Meet" uses AI chat bots for NPCs. It's really uncomfortable.
www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/wu...
www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/wu...
Wuxia MMO Where Winds Meet is full of AI chatbot NPCs, and people are doing all the standard obscene stuff to them: 'I made him think that my character was pregnant with his child'
Can't we just go back to the Zork school of NPC dialog?
www.pcgamer.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The new game "Where the Winds Meet" uses AI chat bots for NPCs. It's really uncomfortable.
www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/wu...
www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/wu...
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Shareholders.
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Shareholders.
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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Here's the video from yesterday! 36 mile round-trip from Tigard, restocking free food pantries in SE Portland. #FoodByBike #GivingThanks #NeighborsHelpingNeighbors
youtu.be/6j-zd2-HDJw?...
youtu.be/6j-zd2-HDJw?...
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Here's the video from yesterday! 36 mile round-trip from Tigard, restocking free food pantries in SE Portland. #FoodByBike #GivingThanks #NeighborsHelpingNeighbors
youtu.be/6j-zd2-HDJw?...
youtu.be/6j-zd2-HDJw?...
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This feels like if the Sacklers said that getting addicted to Oxycontin was against the Terms of Use.
are they going to make it illegal in the TOU to receive hallucinations too.
OpenAI says teen's 'misuse' of ChatGPT is to blame for his suicide, because he broke the TOU: 'Users must comply with OpenAI's Usage Policies, which prohibit the use of ChatGPT for suicide or self-har...
The lawyer presenting Adam Raine's family calls the response "disturbing" and I have to agree.
www.pcgamer.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 AM
This feels like if the Sacklers said that getting addicted to Oxycontin was against the Terms of Use.
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The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
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Every single person involved in creating this should be blacklisted from anything even tangentially related to art.
This is *awful.* AI is awful. PAY VOICE ACTORS.
This is *awful.* AI is awful. PAY VOICE ACTORS.
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Every single person involved in creating this should be blacklisted from anything even tangentially related to art.
This is *awful.* AI is awful. PAY VOICE ACTORS.
This is *awful.* AI is awful. PAY VOICE ACTORS.
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companies rushing to replace artists with AI is imo the ultimate smoking gun evidence that corporate executives and tech bros are deeply bitter that other people can create inspiring works of art while they never have and never will create anything of meaning
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
companies rushing to replace artists with AI is imo the ultimate smoking gun evidence that corporate executives and tech bros are deeply bitter that other people can create inspiring works of art while they never have and never will create anything of meaning
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
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We're (still!) having a sale: Get your first month of our Reader tier for just $1! Support worker-owned media and get access to all our blogs!
aftermath.site/aftermath-vide...
aftermath.site/aftermath-vide...
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We're (still!) having a sale: Get your first month of our Reader tier for just $1! Support worker-owned media and get access to all our blogs!
aftermath.site/aftermath-vide...
aftermath.site/aftermath-vide...
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You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
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today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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Calling all bikes! Restock neighborhood food pantries!
"looking for something to do on thanksgiving day before dinner? let's take some food to the free fridges and pantries around southeast! cargo bikes especially welcome!! this ride will happen RAIN OR SHINE!"
www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/eve...
"looking for something to do on thanksgiving day before dinner? let's take some food to the free fridges and pantries around southeast! cargo bikes especially welcome!! this ride will happen RAIN OR SHINE!"
www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/eve...
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Calling all bikes! Restock neighborhood food pantries!
"looking for something to do on thanksgiving day before dinner? let's take some food to the free fridges and pantries around southeast! cargo bikes especially welcome!! this ride will happen RAIN OR SHINE!"
www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/eve...
"looking for something to do on thanksgiving day before dinner? let's take some food to the free fridges and pantries around southeast! cargo bikes especially welcome!! this ride will happen RAIN OR SHINE!"
www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/eve...
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npc dialogue is like literally why i play videogames the idea of devs being forced to sneak in generative text makes me so depressed i want to implode
"i hate writing NPC dialogue i don't wanna do it i need bobot to do it for me buhhhhh" you are like a little baby
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
npc dialogue is like literally why i play videogames the idea of devs being forced to sneak in generative text makes me so depressed i want to implode