ben
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🏳️🌈🎵🎮📝📽️🎭 once i figure out how to actually finish writing a book it's so over for all of you
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December 24, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Gamers. It’s time
December 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Gamers. It’s time
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AI is a cancer.
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
AI is a cancer.
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All I want for Christmas is enough funds for a nice meal and some trash bags
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Screenshot Update! Getting closer. It's probably not the end of the world if I have to pay additional fees on the Cash app debit but we're getting closer.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
All I want for Christmas is enough funds for a nice meal and some trash bags
PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen
PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen
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I remember this page only because bulbagarden replied to my tweet with this wiki page to get my ass
December 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I remember this page only because bulbagarden replied to my tweet with this wiki page to get my ass
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I'm gonna tell a story I tell every year around Christmastime, so sorry to people who've been hearing it since the Twitter days of yore.
This is a story about my grandfather, who until his death in 2010, played Santa Claus in central New York.
This is a story about my grandfather, who until his death in 2010, played Santa Claus in central New York.
December 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I'm gonna tell a story I tell every year around Christmastime, so sorry to people who've been hearing it since the Twitter days of yore.
This is a story about my grandfather, who until his death in 2010, played Santa Claus in central New York.
This is a story about my grandfather, who until his death in 2010, played Santa Claus in central New York.
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It's okay if writing every day isn't for you- writing a set amount of words every day definitely isn't for me!- but if you are struggling to make consistent progress like I was writing in fits and starts, you might try to do it for a week or a month and see if it could be a good fit for you too
December 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's okay if writing every day isn't for you- writing a set amount of words every day definitely isn't for me!- but if you are struggling to make consistent progress like I was writing in fits and starts, you might try to do it for a week or a month and see if it could be a good fit for you too
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
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i had to drop what i was doing to make this
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
i had to drop what i was doing to make this
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I hope everyone understands that this was never about the grade or religious freedom. This was a targeted attack on a trans faculty member, and it succeeded.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I hope everyone understands that this was never about the grade or religious freedom. This was a targeted attack on a trans faculty member, and it succeeded.
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tl;dr: GenAI and game design concepts traditionally referred to as "AI" (enemy behaviors, pathfinding, etc.) are not the same thing, and I'm on my knees begging people to learn the difference, lest we see more bullshit claims like what The Escapist put out re: Blue Prince.
Weird weekend, huh? Took a crack at breaking down the whole Clair Obscur genAI situation, and its bizarre fallout, as best as possible. My main takeaway right now is that people really need to figure out exactly what they're criticizing or it's going to get messy. www.polygon.com/clair-obscur...
The debate over gen AI in games is about to get a lot messier in 2026
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's GOTY retraction signals the start of something huge
www.polygon.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
tl;dr: GenAI and game design concepts traditionally referred to as "AI" (enemy behaviors, pathfinding, etc.) are not the same thing, and I'm on my knees begging people to learn the difference, lest we see more bullshit claims like what The Escapist put out re: Blue Prince.
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and happy riku day!
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
and happy riku day!
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the biggest lie the british press tell about trans ppl isn't actually about trans ppl.
it's their claim that 'gender critical' is a grass roots movement.
it's a ruling class bigotry sparked and spurred on by the american religious right. it's a media and political class bigotry.
it's their claim that 'gender critical' is a grass roots movement.
it's a ruling class bigotry sparked and spurred on by the american religious right. it's a media and political class bigotry.
December 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
the biggest lie the british press tell about trans ppl isn't actually about trans ppl.
it's their claim that 'gender critical' is a grass roots movement.
it's a ruling class bigotry sparked and spurred on by the american religious right. it's a media and political class bigotry.
it's their claim that 'gender critical' is a grass roots movement.
it's a ruling class bigotry sparked and spurred on by the american religious right. it's a media and political class bigotry.
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Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.
December 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.
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I think this is a really important point. When folks say "no AI" they often don’t mean "I can conceive of no possible use for AI"—they mean "the use cases I’ve been shown do not begin to justify the harms"—that’s not something you respond to by offering another narrow use case
So when I say there is *zero* utility for LLMs, I don't mean there are zero use cases. I mean there are zero use cases that even begin to make up for the damage that's being done.
December 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I think this is a really important point. When folks say "no AI" they often don’t mean "I can conceive of no possible use for AI"—they mean "the use cases I’ve been shown do not begin to justify the harms"—that’s not something you respond to by offering another narrow use case
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You know how sometimes people will make sensationalist claims to the FBI for the fame and clout of them coming out six years later in a report no one was sure would ever be publicly available
* DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: SOME DOCUMENTS RELEASED CONTAIN UNTRUE AND SENSATIONALIST CLAIMS MADE AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT WERE SUBMITTED TO THE FBI RIGHT BEFORE 2020 ELECTION
* DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: TO BE CLEAR CLAIMS AGAINST TRUMP ARE UNFOUNDED AND FALSE
@reuters.com
* DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: TO BE CLEAR CLAIMS AGAINST TRUMP ARE UNFOUNDED AND FALSE
@reuters.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
You know how sometimes people will make sensationalist claims to the FBI for the fame and clout of them coming out six years later in a report no one was sure would ever be publicly available
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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[vibrating at a frequency that can shatter glass] i’m excited a normal amount
December 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
[vibrating at a frequency that can shatter glass] i’m excited a normal amount
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i'm at the epstein coverup, i'm at the CECOT coverup, i'm at the combination epstein CECOT coverup
December 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
i'm at the epstein coverup, i'm at the CECOT coverup, i'm at the combination epstein CECOT coverup