Mike St. Clair
@mikestclair.bsky.social
Games. Synths. Food. Politics.
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
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1. So I have a few thoughts on "heritage Americans," Nathanial Hawthorne, witch-hunting, Thomas Pynchon, Calvinism, strange feuds, the Daughters of the American Revolution, FDR, the moral responsibilities of nationalism & (I guess) Jack Kirby.
December 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
1. So I have a few thoughts on "heritage Americans," Nathanial Hawthorne, witch-hunting, Thomas Pynchon, Calvinism, strange feuds, the Daughters of the American Revolution, FDR, the moral responsibilities of nationalism & (I guess) Jack Kirby.
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Site News: Why We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward.
Site News: Why We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward
The 'Anduril Chromatic' is the final straw
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December 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Site News: Why We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward.
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"It's just concept art, who cares if they use genAI and not actual artists?"
Look at this concept art for C-3P0 by Ralph McQuarrie.
It's the very thing that inspired Anthony Daniels to go for the role of Threepio and perform him as such.
It is the first heartbeat of the art that now exists.
Look at this concept art for C-3P0 by Ralph McQuarrie.
It's the very thing that inspired Anthony Daniels to go for the role of Threepio and perform him as such.
It is the first heartbeat of the art that now exists.
December 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"It's just concept art, who cares if they use genAI and not actual artists?"
Look at this concept art for C-3P0 by Ralph McQuarrie.
It's the very thing that inspired Anthony Daniels to go for the role of Threepio and perform him as such.
It is the first heartbeat of the art that now exists.
Look at this concept art for C-3P0 by Ralph McQuarrie.
It's the very thing that inspired Anthony Daniels to go for the role of Threepio and perform him as such.
It is the first heartbeat of the art that now exists.
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“The UK will always treasure the special relationship we have with the United Sta-“
“Give me money.”
“For decades our Special Relation-“
“Give me money?”
“Through thick and thin, in good times and bad, these two nations have always known that when one of us asks-“
“GIVE ME MONEY!”
“Give me money.”
“For decades our Special Relation-“
“Give me money?”
“Through thick and thin, in good times and bad, these two nations have always known that when one of us asks-“
“GIVE ME MONEY!”
December 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
“The UK will always treasure the special relationship we have with the United Sta-“
“Give me money.”
“For decades our Special Relation-“
“Give me money?”
“Through thick and thin, in good times and bad, these two nations have always known that when one of us asks-“
“GIVE ME MONEY!”
“Give me money.”
“For decades our Special Relation-“
“Give me money?”
“Through thick and thin, in good times and bad, these two nations have always known that when one of us asks-“
“GIVE ME MONEY!”
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A massive overnight repo injection usually means stress in the financial system, banks needed emergency cash because normal funding markets were tight. When the Fed steps in at this scale, it’s a warning sign, not economic strength.
December 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
A massive overnight repo injection usually means stress in the financial system, banks needed emergency cash because normal funding markets were tight. When the Fed steps in at this scale, it’s a warning sign, not economic strength.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
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"83% of heavy AI users couldn’t recall key points from what they’d “written,” compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided." This is my argument to my students: my class will be excruciating if they don't write their own stories & critiques, bc in class they have to explain*why*.
An excellent and brutal article. I don't think the situation is quite as hopeless as some of this suggests, but the challenges are enormous. Our only chance, as ever, is to hold together: bring faculty, well-meaning administrators, and especially students together: human learning for human beings.
If ChatGPT can generate student essays, complete assignments, and even provide feedback, what remains of the educational transaction?
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"83% of heavy AI users couldn’t recall key points from what they’d “written,” compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided." This is my argument to my students: my class will be excruciating if they don't write their own stories & critiques, bc in class they have to explain*why*.
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To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
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Working on getting Dolphin and Steam Deck properly driving 4:3 480p CRT #ScanlineSunday #LegendOfZelda
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Working on getting Dolphin and Steam Deck properly driving 4:3 480p CRT #ScanlineSunday #LegendOfZelda
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November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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“Our talented team with its own human hands and brains and souls decided that all this shitty art made by a computer was good enough to go in our game” is not a good defense of using AI tools to generate assets.
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“Our talented team with its own human hands and brains and souls decided that all this shitty art made by a computer was good enough to go in our game” is not a good defense of using AI tools to generate assets.
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This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
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What’s the cost of last year’s basket today, and the % change? #applestoapples
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What’s the cost of last year’s basket today, and the % change? #applestoapples
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“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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The games business is about games. If you’re in the games business, and somehow (as often happens) your company somehow is now focused on something else (AI, XR, “IP,” acquisitions, etc.) you’re in for a period of struggle. Everyone will wonder what’s wrong. But you know. It’s about games. Gameplay.
June 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The games business is about games. If you’re in the games business, and somehow (as often happens) your company somehow is now focused on something else (AI, XR, “IP,” acquisitions, etc.) you’re in for a period of struggle. Everyone will wonder what’s wrong. But you know. It’s about games. Gameplay.
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There are two futures:
1) global genocide, food production crash, climate disasters push majority to poverty, billionaires & merc armies thrive
2) confiscate wealth of broligarchs voluntarily or jail them, redistributing to build green power/transpo/etc., everyone has min & max living standard
1) global genocide, food production crash, climate disasters push majority to poverty, billionaires & merc armies thrive
2) confiscate wealth of broligarchs voluntarily or jail them, redistributing to build green power/transpo/etc., everyone has min & max living standard
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
October 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
There are two futures:
1) global genocide, food production crash, climate disasters push majority to poverty, billionaires & merc armies thrive
2) confiscate wealth of broligarchs voluntarily or jail them, redistributing to build green power/transpo/etc., everyone has min & max living standard
1) global genocide, food production crash, climate disasters push majority to poverty, billionaires & merc armies thrive
2) confiscate wealth of broligarchs voluntarily or jail them, redistributing to build green power/transpo/etc., everyone has min & max living standard
A local Cubs fan made a bar bet this week and has to eat a whole ass onion like it’s an apple after this Reds sweep.
What a time to be alive.
What a time to be alive.
September 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A local Cubs fan made a bar bet this week and has to eat a whole ass onion like it’s an apple after this Reds sweep.
What a time to be alive.
What a time to be alive.
Donkey Kong #MisterFPGA #ScanlineSunday Panasonic BT-H1700
September 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Donkey Kong #MisterFPGA #ScanlineSunday Panasonic BT-H1700
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senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
September 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽