Jay Turner
@silopolis.bsky.social
Writer, Narrative Designer, gamer, crazy cat dude, cancer survivor, and giant nerd.
(Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2, Army of Two: Devil's Cartel, Dead Space 3, Avowed)
All opinions are my own and of dubious value at best.
(Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2, Army of Two: Devil's Cartel, Dead Space 3, Avowed)
All opinions are my own and of dubious value at best.
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Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Pete Hegseth's latest roleplaying game is "War on Boats"
The Pedo-Protector Prez ordered a brand new distraction & the Dept. of War (actually the Dept. of Defense: a mini-distraction within a distraction, no extra charge!) is delivering by expanding our ongoing unlawful policy of randomly bombing the tiny boats of fishermen with no due process whatsoever.
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Pete Hegseth's latest roleplaying game is "War on Boats"
"The average salary for games industry professionals" who had time and energy to answer a GDC Festival of Gaming survey sounds more correct to me.
The average salary for games industry professionals based in the United States was $142,000 in 2025, according to a new report from GDC Festival of Gaming.
www.gamesindustry.biz/gdc-survey-a...
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GDC Survey: Average salary for US games professionals was $142,000 in 2025
Findings reveal 33% of workers feel employers are "working to close existing pay gaps," while one-tenth report no efforts are being made
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"The average salary for games industry professionals" who had time and energy to answer a GDC Festival of Gaming survey sounds more correct to me.
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Dubbed the "Red Cup Rebellion," about 1% of the company's workforce took the the picket lines Thursday in over 40 cities, calling for higher pay and better staffing. (via @kuow.org)
Unionized Starbucks' workers strike in Seattle, across the country
Dubbed the "Red Cup Rebellion," workers at Starbucks cafes in over 40 cities took to the picket lines Thursday, calling for higher pay and better staffing. The nationwide strike coincides with the company’s popular holiday Red Cup Day, one of the coffee giant’s busiest days of the year.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Dubbed the "Red Cup Rebellion," about 1% of the company's workforce took the the picket lines Thursday in over 40 cities, calling for higher pay and better staffing. (via @kuow.org)
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"Player who does not pay attention may be confused," has been a problem forever, but our modern age makes distraction easier and high-level folks especially scared of any friction. I believe in getting information flow right, but the "please handhold more" directions I got were rough sometimes.
You wanna know why we're having nag line discourse in 2025? Because developers know we're fighting an attention economy war we'll lose no matter what. Players don't read, have TikTok open next to them, god forbid we are scared you miss something and then blame us for not giving you all the info.
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"Player who does not pay attention may be confused," has been a problem forever, but our modern age makes distraction easier and high-level folks especially scared of any friction. I believe in getting information flow right, but the "please handhold more" directions I got were rough sometimes.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Last I checked, there was no citizenship requirement on owning property in the US. If there was, the real estate markets in NYC, SF and Seattle would look very different.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Last I checked, there was no citizenship requirement on owning property in the US. If there was, the real estate markets in NYC, SF and Seattle would look very different.
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Oooh! I know who did it!
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Oooh! I know who did it!
Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles’ — theonion.com/trump-denies...
Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles’
WASHINGTON—Dismissing the swashbuckling sci-fi romp as “a total hoax” amid growing scrutiny over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump made remarks Tuesday denying that he had ...
theonion.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles’ — theonion.com/trump-denies...
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The Chattanooga News
November 12,1917
November 12,1917
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The Chattanooga News
November 12,1917
November 12,1917
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i think peter thiel should have his fortune stripped on the way to prison and everyone who worked at gawker in 2014-16 should get $100 million
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
i think peter thiel should have his fortune stripped on the way to prison and everyone who worked at gawker in 2014-16 should get $100 million
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A good day to let everyone know we have submitted Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile for Best Live Action Short at the Oscars.
If you know anybody in the Academy who is part of the process, it's in the portal. Get us shortlisted and nominated.
An easy way to prove you, too, are not an elite pedophile!
If you know anybody in the Academy who is part of the process, it's in the portal. Get us shortlisted and nominated.
An easy way to prove you, too, are not an elite pedophile!
The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein
YouTube video by The Onion
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A good day to let everyone know we have submitted Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile for Best Live Action Short at the Oscars.
If you know anybody in the Academy who is part of the process, it's in the portal. Get us shortlisted and nominated.
An easy way to prove you, too, are not an elite pedophile!
If you know anybody in the Academy who is part of the process, it's in the portal. Get us shortlisted and nominated.
An easy way to prove you, too, are not an elite pedophile!
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When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
if you cant go in to the office 3 days a week then you really can't complain when cities are hollowed out. cities are places where ppl work and network. getting rid of that makes cities useless
And it's usually something like "but that's not what the literal DNC does!" as if I don't know, as someone who has worked on Dem campaigns, sometimes in conjunction with the DNC what they do. So I'm going to be very specific here: this is the DNC being shitty: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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I need folks to stop using terms like "revolutionize" and "transform" to compliment emerging technologies. Neither word actually implies an improvement. Microplastics revolutionized how we consume and transformed human bodies. We're only now beginning to grasp how bad this was for us and the Earth.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has defended AI following Eurogamer's 2/5 Arc Raiders review, which criticised the game's use use of AI voice generation. "AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming," Sweeney said.
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
Epic's Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI row
"This technology increases human productivity in some areas by integer multiples"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I need folks to stop using terms like "revolutionize" and "transform" to compliment emerging technologies. Neither word actually implies an improvement. Microplastics revolutionized how we consume and transformed human bodies. We're only now beginning to grasp how bad this was for us and the Earth.
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it is almost as if someone was promoted beyond their ability
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
it is almost as if someone was promoted beyond their ability
Today was the first time ever I thought, "This year sucked, but I'm not looking forward to next year because I assume it'll be worse."
November 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Today was the first time ever I thought, "This year sucked, but I'm not looking forward to next year because I assume it'll be worse."
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
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Ah, sure, I'll bite. Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Opening of my WIP.
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ah, sure, I'll bite. Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Opening of my WIP.
Can confirm, 15/10
if you don’t hire VO actors you don’t get to make them laugh, which is one of the great joys in life
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Can confirm, 15/10
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Dude has his own personal fucken Romper Room.
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Dude has his own personal fucken Romper Room.