Ven "Ven" Jacobs
@venbright.bsky.social
Game developer currently transitioning to a different career. Angry, but still hopeful.
Drown me in cute dogs and earnest storytelling
(He/they)
Drown me in cute dogs and earnest storytelling
(He/they)
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Apart from the fact that they are taking his name out of documents after already releasing the documents, and how absolutely crazy that is, they had so many months to redact this stuff! There were stories about hundreds of FBI agents being put to work redacting. How are they still redacting???
🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
December 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Apart from the fact that they are taking his name out of documents after already releasing the documents, and how absolutely crazy that is, they had so many months to redact this stuff! There were stories about hundreds of FBI agents being put to work redacting. How are they still redacting???
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
for all people make fun of falun gong, it's wild how much this is basically the same thing as shen yun
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
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The women in this 1964 photo of Beatles fans (yes, that's what they used) could not get a credit card at Bank of America without their husband or father cosigning. So, no. The answer, CBS and Bank of America, is no.
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The women in this 1964 photo of Beatles fans (yes, that's what they used) could not get a credit card at Bank of America without their husband or father cosigning. So, no. The answer, CBS and Bank of America, is no.
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I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.
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our lesboge for less than cost of sandwich
You should pay $3 just to admire the UI, but the Steam Winter Sale is on and you can play the whole game too, bonus!!
It has a 50-60% chance of making you gay, and that's a lot of value for $3
store.steampowered.com/app/836450/H...
It has a 50-60% chance of making you gay, and that's a lot of value for $3
store.steampowered.com/app/836450/H...
Save 80% on Heaven Will Be Mine on Steam
HEAVEN WILL BE MINE is a visual novel about making terrible life decisions in the midst of a hot-blooded battle between giant robots. Select one of three terribly behaved girls to fight and/or make ou...
store.steampowered.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
our lesboge for less than cost of sandwich
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"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
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Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)
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this is irritatingly correct for how apocalyptically mad i am.
given the fuckton of newsprint & cash spent to make it fine to say “fuck trans people,” it’s a miracle shit isn’t *farther* gone.
i do not, however, think the line gets held by trans people alone.
cis folks need to get very damn loud.
given the fuckton of newsprint & cash spent to make it fine to say “fuck trans people,” it’s a miracle shit isn’t *farther* gone.
i do not, however, think the line gets held by trans people alone.
cis folks need to get very damn loud.
Not being contrarian for contrarianism's sake, but the fact that only three conservative Democrats from districts that voted for Trump voted for a trans care ban for minors should encourage trans people that they can make Democrats hold the line.
clerk.house.gov/Votes/202535...
clerk.house.gov/Votes/202535...
Roll Call 351 Roll Call 351, Bill Number: H. R. 3492, 119th Congress, 1st Session
VOTE QUESTION: On Passage, DESCRIPTION: Protect Children’s Innocence Act, VOTE TYPE: Yea-And-Nay, STATUS: Passed
clerk.house.gov
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
this is irritatingly correct for how apocalyptically mad i am.
given the fuckton of newsprint & cash spent to make it fine to say “fuck trans people,” it’s a miracle shit isn’t *farther* gone.
i do not, however, think the line gets held by trans people alone.
cis folks need to get very damn loud.
given the fuckton of newsprint & cash spent to make it fine to say “fuck trans people,” it’s a miracle shit isn’t *farther* gone.
i do not, however, think the line gets held by trans people alone.
cis folks need to get very damn loud.
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cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”
I when this game came out I probably spent 2-3 hours exploring this massive level, and it really was chock full of so many unique assets. There's joy in the creation and consumption of things like this.
It always make me so sad when people say stuff like this doesn't matter and can be half-assed.
It always make me so sad when people say stuff like this doesn't matter and can be half-assed.
One reason video games need to reject AI is the risk of losing the joy of human touch in small art details. My favorite example is the fake video games from the Toy Story level in Kingdom Hearts 3, designed by real video game artists. You can tell they had fun making these.
December 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I when this game came out I probably spent 2-3 hours exploring this massive level, and it really was chock full of so many unique assets. There's joy in the creation and consumption of things like this.
It always make me so sad when people say stuff like this doesn't matter and can be half-assed.
It always make me so sad when people say stuff like this doesn't matter and can be half-assed.
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Love reading this and seeing:
- Minimal efficiency gains
- Devs are generally against it
- Seems like the practical application is nothing that the staff care about, they're just being told to use it
- And most importantly, it's just offloading brainstorming which is a juvenile application at best
- Minimal efficiency gains
- Devs are generally against it
- Seems like the practical application is nothing that the staff care about, they're just being told to use it
- And most importantly, it's just offloading brainstorming which is a juvenile application at best
NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’
‘I think this one is going to be way better’ than ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ Larian CEO Vincke says
www.bloomberg.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Love reading this and seeing:
- Minimal efficiency gains
- Devs are generally against it
- Seems like the practical application is nothing that the staff care about, they're just being told to use it
- And most importantly, it's just offloading brainstorming which is a juvenile application at best
- Minimal efficiency gains
- Devs are generally against it
- Seems like the practical application is nothing that the staff care about, they're just being told to use it
- And most importantly, it's just offloading brainstorming which is a juvenile application at best
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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Tukwila, Renton, Kent, likely Auburn folks: the GO NOW evacuation order has been issued.
Green River levee fails, 'life-threatening' flash flooding possible
The National Weather Service says over 46,000 people could be impacted.
www.king5.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Tukwila, Renton, Kent, likely Auburn folks: the GO NOW evacuation order has been issued.
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What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
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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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I hate how much I enjoyed this
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I hate how much I enjoyed this
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
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He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
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You know I did
December 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
You know I did
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Announcing The Darkside Detective: 🌔Backside of the Moon!
🕵️ @darksidedetective.bsky.social RETURNS for a 3rd installment!
Werewolves, cursed items, and the most terrifying monsters of all - 🤑rich people💸 - will put you to the test in 6⃣ (six) new cases!
Wishlist now 🥳 @spookydoorway.bsky.social
🕵️ @darksidedetective.bsky.social RETURNS for a 3rd installment!
Werewolves, cursed items, and the most terrifying monsters of all - 🤑rich people💸 - will put you to the test in 6⃣ (six) new cases!
Wishlist now 🥳 @spookydoorway.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Announcing The Darkside Detective: 🌔Backside of the Moon!
🕵️ @darksidedetective.bsky.social RETURNS for a 3rd installment!
Werewolves, cursed items, and the most terrifying monsters of all - 🤑rich people💸 - will put you to the test in 6⃣ (six) new cases!
Wishlist now 🥳 @spookydoorway.bsky.social
🕵️ @darksidedetective.bsky.social RETURNS for a 3rd installment!
Werewolves, cursed items, and the most terrifying monsters of all - 🤑rich people💸 - will put you to the test in 6⃣ (six) new cases!
Wishlist now 🥳 @spookydoorway.bsky.social
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential