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Ewan Aiton

@ewanaiton52.bsky.social
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Retired chef, game dev, amateur Robert Plant impersonator, progressive, AI sceptic. Scottish. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know there's no legally mandated vacation time in the US but rebranding taking a vacation is something else. We really are living in the dumbest timeline.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
These frat boys need to go to jail for this. Anything less than that is a tacit endorsement of the gross violation that this poor woman experienced at their hands.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You may be cool but you'll never be Terry-Pratchett-chilling-in-a-field-stroking-a-pig-and-swigging-champagne-from-the-bottle cool.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One step closer to launching Elon into space and forgetting he ever existed.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 22/09/2026
Nothing will ever be enough for these people.
Microsoft gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 was $60.482B, a 15.36% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase from 2025.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2025 was $193.893B, a 13.38% increase from 2024.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B, a 17.09% increase from 2023.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Microsoft's games division is just a dumpster fire now.
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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I will think you’re so cool if you leave us a positive steam review
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wes Streeting is a truly, truly awful person. The damage he's done to trans people, to neurodivergent people, to people with mental health issues... all because of his "reckons".
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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT RTs HUGELY APPRECIATED 🏌🏌🏼‍♂️🏌🏌️‍♀️⛳🛺 This is *Really Illegal Golf* It's essentially Metal Gear Golf with Friends. Really. - Multiplayer stealth golf - Dodge security, stay alive, and sink that putt - Free multiplayer demo available right now store.steampowered.com/app/4115520/...
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Nora | CEO of Mega Evolution 👾 @norainthefuture.tv · 19/09/2026
please share this & make sure it’s the only attention logan paul & modretro get tomorrow.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Some of the architects of the LLM AI "boom" explaining the damage these things are doing to society in a far better way than a lot of their critics have been articulating.
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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Stop calling bigots closeted, they're just bigots, and when you claim otherwise, you shift the blame of homophobia and transphobia to queer people and equate being closeted with cruelty.
Bluesky post: They really calling themselves out like bros just get out of the closet.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm absolutely not a fan of Eurovision but there is a simple explanation for this. Thanks to Brexit and years of Tory and Farage bullshit when we were still in the EU, Europe hates the UK and takes much joy in awarding the UK's entry "nil point" year after year.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/09/2026
Futurism does not get anywhere near as much credit as it deserves for its reporting/coverage in general!
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Social media, promoting harmful attitudes? I am shocked. Shocked I tell you.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Changing the way we mourn" is a bit of a gentle understatement. It is entirely likely that this will cause a bunch of mental health crises because making a "late-mom-bot" seems entirely about avoiding dealing with loss altogether rather than learning a healthy way to grieve.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have never liked Ed Sheeran. He always struck me as a smug wee ginger prick (as a ginger myself I can judge 😂) who makes music that I find intensely bland. His cowardice in dropping Macklemore from his tour for calling out the genocide in Gaza is beyond abhorrent.
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Female asylum seekers are reporting rapes and sexual assaults by British men but many say they are too fearful to pursue criminal prosecutions. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
theguardian.com
Female asylum seekers report being sexually assaulted by British men
Women say they are too fearful to pursue criminal prosecution of rapes, for fear of having their claims refused
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Futurism @futurism.com · 12/09/2026
America's approval of organized labor is higher than it's been since 1965.
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Support for Unions Is Spiking as AI Threatens Jobs
As AI automation and rampant inflation threaten the American way of life, workers are throwing support behind unions in record numbers.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 12/09/2026
"It's mimicry of something that has happened before."
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Werner Herzog Demolishes Talentless Hacks Who Use AI to Imitate Other Filmmakers
Legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog tore apart a film that used AI to imitate his distinct style and narration.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/09/2026
Holy shit. Bloomberg just verified one of my biggest scoops - that Microsoft only has 2gw of operational capacity. I had it at 1.993GW in prep for the story that @aishadown.bsky.social and I did for the guardian. Vindication! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Brody Ford @BrodyFord
Lot of speculation out there about how many GPUs are actually deployed.
Today, Microsoft has about 2GW of Al-specific capacity live. around 17% of the total fleet.
Only about 2 gigawatts of the company's current 12-gigawatt capacity is centered on Al-specific chips, the people said. This is expected to grow to about a third of the 38 gigawatts Microsoft plans to have online in 2032, they said.
Brody Ford @BrodyFord_ • 23h
scoop: Microsoft is planning a massive expansion of its data center fleet to 38 gigawatts. $msft w/ @mattmday bloomberg.com/news/features/...
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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's all very simple, actually. A diaspora Jewish person's Jewishness is held in anticipatory suspension until they give a fraction of a hint as to their political sympathies, at which point the superposition collapses.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This could honestly just be a list of folks that have no intention of visiting Israel. I bet they're all *really* broken up about the ban. Also, notice there's not a single person on that list who could have influence over whether or not the UK sells weapons to Israel.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/06/2026
A three panel meme of Fred Armisen in Parks & Rec as Raul.

Showing support for Palestine? Straight to jail.

Protesting about climate change? Jail.

Inciting racist riots? Believe it or not, straight to Radio 4 Today programme.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This reminds me of that scene in The Expanse where, with a few words in Belter Creole, Detective Miller gets a bunch of mercenaries to start shooting at each other while he and Holden escape Eros. Who says art doesn't imitate life, eh?
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What you need to understand is when workers want financial security, that’s entitlement. When bosses want financial security, that’s a god given right. If you think there’s hypocrisy there, then buddy, you just don’t get business, and its inevitable natural laws.
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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026
i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
if you’re thinking, at any point, but *this* woman *deserved* my unleashing of sexist forces upon her to punish her, delete me from your contacts. this includes women who do this
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Good on them. I love this idea.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Good. They should be. It's becoming increasingly clear that AI as it is being developed and sold will have a devastating effect on humanity and only benefit a handful of men who are already so obscenely rich they have become detached from society and its needs.
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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you didn’t read this article the first time round, please do read it now. If you did read it, why not read it again to refresh your memory? 😉 There’s a reason that online reactionaries tried so hard to make it an untouchable piece of reporting. kotaku.com/sweet-baby-i...
An extract from the linked article that reads:

“The assumption that team members at Sweet Baby Inc. (or any marginalized person, for that matter) can only offer up content that is based on their identity is incredibly frustrating for the team-and for marginalized industry members at large. " People can't imagine that we might do anything else but DEI," Belair says. "They can't imagine that we're just talented writers, that we're talented narrative designers and that people are hiring us because we tell good stories, because we collaborate well, and because we write video games. They have to diminish our accomplishments to our identities. They can't imagine that the work I did on Spider-Man was story work versus adding pride flags, you know?"”
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🫀nenetto [🌳 Deku edition ▿] @nenetto.com · 17/08/2026
By www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08...
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Dave Cook @davecook.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Everything on my comic store is discounted right now. I realise that global shipping prices are wild right now, so wanted to make it easier to dive into my comics. All digital and print prices slashed for a limited time. Check it out: davecookcomics.bigcartel.com
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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 17/08/2026
Please share: I'm writing an article and I want to talk to developers who have successfully transitioned out of the games industry to jobs elsewhere. What do you do now? How did you sell yourself? What skills were transferable? All disciplines welcome, my DMs are open.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
JK Rowling's quest to make life unliveable for trans people seems like it has very few red lines. What an awful human being.
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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1 What they did to him, they might do to any of us
goodlawproject.org
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Today Clacton could do something very funny that could also be an emphatic rejection of the populist right in the UK. 'Mon the Binface.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Also, this is the largest leveraged buyout in history saddling EA with an additional $55 billion in debt. Which is just insane and definitely not a positive for those who work there. Expect to hear lots of talk of "efficiencies" and "becoming leaner" in the coming weeks and months.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I can't help but fear that this is a very bad thing for the games industry and may do almost as much damage as when the very same Saudi PIF pulled out of a $2 billion deal with Embracer. We are still feeling consequences of that failed deal today.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/08/2026
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I'd say that DuckDuckGo has played a blinder with this one. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever
Google alternative DuckDuckGo has come up with a pair of plastic, non-pervert glasses in response to Meta's controversial smart glasses.
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If tech giant Google has its way, residents of Fort Wayne, Indiana, may have to say goodbye to over 4 acres of federally protected wetland as part of the third phase of “Project Zodiac,” a $2 billion hyperscale data center project. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Google Data Center Announces Plans to Pave Over Protected Wetlands
Google is requesting authorization to fill in a chunk of precious wetlands to build three data center buildings in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I think the problem here is that AI is changing the world but not in the way the AI bros claim it is. Instead of a grand improvement claimed by AI schills, AI is insidiously enshittifying the world rapidly in ways that are immeasurable and potentially irreversible. www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Ewan Aiton @ewanaiton52.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is why I recently binned off Spotify for Tidal for my music needs.
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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
After receiving some excellent feedback on a couple of recent consulting/mock review projects, I should probably say - I am available for consulting and mock review projects! If you've got a game in the works and you're looking for some detailed analysis of it, drop me a line at rick@ricklane.co.uk
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Futurism @futurism.com · 01/08/2026
"I hear people champion AI and I'm like, 'sure, why don't we all participate in our collective downfall?'"
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The More People Learn About AI, the More They Want It Out of Their Lives
America's familiarity with AI is growing, coinciding with a rise in negative sentiment around the technology and the data centers fueling it.
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404 Media @404media.co · 31/07/2026
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
404media.co
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
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🍉 Vancouverismism 🍉 @vancouverismism.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Predatory capitalism just *loves* A.I. 🧵
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