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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 46m

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 1h

I mean okay but you're also a billionaire hotel empire heir from Palo Alto so let's not get too full of ourselves, big boy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1h

Fascist tech made by fascists to discipline mankind, a dream of a bourgeoisie without a proletariat, and the only individual use cases for people is inducing psychosis

David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 1h

In July 2024, five months before he allegedly set the fire, Mr Rinderknecht asked ChatGPT to create an image of a "dystopian painting" that included a burning forest and a crowd of people running away from a fire. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pacific Palisades fire suspect snared by ChatGPT image, say investigators

Investigators say evidence collected from the 29-year-old's devices showed an AI image of a burning city.

www.bbc.com

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 2h

"Internal emails show tech giant (Apple) used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement"

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 3h

Almost exactly what happened in the Fourth Crusade, to the point that they probably built that event around the historical record. Suffice it to say that even as crusades go (generally poorly) the fourth is not considered among the hits.

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 6h

Need a new job? Pocket Boss is OUT NOW!

pocketboss.ch 📊 💬

A delightfully odd fusion of work and play. Now available on iOS, Android, Steam and itch.io.

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 3h

oh yes i forgot about this. genghis khan is arriving and she's a norwegian lady

Kel @asteroidera.bsky.social · 3h

personally I'm excited for the invasion of the, uh, Norse?

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 4h

this is... not good news, given that they're our southern neighbour

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 4h

in our last episode, something extraordinary happened—following a disagreement about boat prices, one arm of the crusades split off and decided to invade the byzantine empire. then they succeeded.

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 4h

i also can't imagine how truly broken this expansion is going to be at launch

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 4h

"all under heaven", CK3's monstrous expansion adding asia, is coming out at the end of this month. keith and i have no plans to play the new content on stream, given that it's essentially a new crusader kings game, but we're going to be returning to CK3 and Alsace soon!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5h

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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World Champ 🔜 Gamehole @worldchamp.bsky.social · 5h

SPIN THE BOTTLE
The pdf version is part of my Halloween sale it’s only $2 itch.io/s/161155/hal...
Eu/uk can get print zines from peregrine coast press in the quoted post, US and elsewhere grab it from worldchamp.io/store. For fans of Talk To Me, Channel Zero, I Know What You Did Last Summer

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Alan Hazelden / Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 8h

The (un)dead are growing restless. Spooky Express is almost here... 👀

Wishlist or pre-order now on the platform of your choice to be the first to play on October 21st
spooky.express

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 9h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 19h

i'm monstrously very very clever and i think it's both

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 22h

If you hire me AND bruno, you could get two long-time collaborators who will make your material, whatever it is, *alarmingly* unhinged

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 22h

yes. put us together in a box so we can make each other increasingly deranged

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 23h

As someone who worked there, the reason CAP isn't trying is because they're not a liberal Heritage Foundation devoted to generational furtherment of liberal ideals. They were a 501c3 dedicated to making Hillary Clinton and possibly her daughter president and they catastrophically failed at it

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23h

The very well funded Center for American Progress has been in operation since 2004. The Democrats do not have “nothing” they’re just not trying.

LouFromBoston @loufromboston.bsky.social · 23h

The Republicans have a very well organized think-tank (Heritage Foundation) for strategizing and coordination of messaging. They control what we are seeing day to day.

The Democrats have nothing. No sense of leadership, no direction, no messaging. We need a think-tank asap!!

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Kas @thestaticman.bsky.social · 1d

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3192840/...
Itch: thestaticman.itch.io/onto-maizili...
For more info, go to the website: omui.me

Onto Maizilind Unto Infinity on Steam

OMUI is a first-person narrative horror game set in an alternate reality 1970s Iran. A playful childhood afternoon in Tehran descends into the trauma of the Iranian Revolution, transforms into a nucle...

store.steampowered.com

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Kas @thestaticman.bsky.social · 1d

~GAME RELEASE~

Onto Maizilind Unto Infinity (OMUI) is OUT NOW!!! on Steam and Itch for F R E E!

It is a first-person narrative horror game about the Iranian revolution, nuclear war, and my Uncle Ramin's suicide.

Please share and leave a review on Steam if you are able to!!!

Onto Maizilind Unto Infinity Release Trailer

YouTube video by Kasrah Ghobadi

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Max Read @maxread.info · 5d

today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

'One Battle After Another' as a car movie

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michael @modality.bsky.social · Jul 29

AI is two projects. The first is willfully degrading definitions to create a void of meaning (any algorithm is AI). The second is projecting propaganda into that void (AI can replace labor, is sentient).

This creates a space where you can claim "the Pac-Man ghosts are sentient" to sell products.

Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · Jul 29

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation.
After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

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Freya JN @goblinstunts.bsky.social · 1d

robot driver

1st image - Human mech pilot standing in a hangar. 2nd image - mecha in an industrial area shooting a robot gun

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

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