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Fernando Castillo

@fernandoc.bsky.social
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Woke Gamer. Making games in SE Asia. Pro-MSG, anti-AI. #ImmigrantsRock www.mobygames.com/person/27867/fern…

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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 22h
How's that brownnosing working out for ya Satya? www.gamedeveloper.com/business/tru...
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Trump administration suspends Microsoft's access to H1-B visas
The tech giant is no longer able to apply for H1-B visas for employees who come to live and work in the United States, potentially stymieing Xbox hiring.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh hell yeahz!
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I try not to whinge about AI too much here bc I feel like bsky has that covered, but when I see people sharing AI-generated music... that is so fucking depressing Making art is the best thing humans do and music maybe the purest form of that--if we're outsourcing that we should just pack it in
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Last night at dinner I described myself as pro-MSG, anti-AI. I think I’ve found my niche!
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I accept your apologies. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So far, AI has been successful as a coding tool. There are a lot of nuances there but let’s set that aside for a bit. Programmers make up less than 1% of the US workforce. Latest data I can find says 0.96% and the trend seems to be going down, but we can use that number.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cowboy Bebop is better than Star Wars.
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Even if I didn’t know that DHH was a white supremacist, just hearing him talk for 30 seconds is enough to nope out. I spent enough time around tweakers during my misspent youth in the 90s. Definitely don’t have time for this.
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Oh that’ll help calm down things. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Trump: Communities that reject data centers will end up ‘backwards and poor’
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Don't sleep on Relooted, an Africanfuturistic heist game about reclaiming artifacts from Western museums. Here's a chat with two of its creators, who are putting their time and money into building up the games scene in South Africa.
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The Best Heists Are Also History Lessons
In Relooted, before you steal artifacts you must learn why they matter
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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 22/08/2026
post by Zeekerss @ZeekerssRBLX on X on 1/10/26

Concept art is the most poisonous place to use Al. That's when your creative vision is the most fragile and undeveloped. When you see what the Al made and say, "That looks cool, I want my game to look like that!" it's like it's secretly swapping out your baby with its own.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
hey people sorry if some of you breeze past this part but it’s Friday. We do AI discourse on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is for stuff that rocks and is actually fun. It’s in the TOS & the packet you got at orientation. get it together please
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
He’s a real one.
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I can totally read an email without help from AI. I can read the sh*t out of it. I’m reading one right now. Wooo!
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New gender neutral toilet just dropped
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Harry Potter fans force power link diversion to avoid Dobby's grave
Potter fans complained after a project manager suggested cables would go under the grave in a BBC interview.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23/06/2026
I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo
Kurt Vonnegut's asshole drawingAnthropic's Claude logo
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 04/08/2026
public libraries ftw
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James Hunt @jameshunt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Seeing a Spider-Man/Punisher team-up in the new movie reminds me of my favourite one ever, from the 1991 Punisher gameboy game, because WHAT DOES SPIDER-MAN THINK THE PUNISHER WILL DO WHEN HE GETS THERE?
A Gameboy pixel-art portrait of Spider-Man above text reading: “Punisher! There’s trouble at the hall. Drug gangs are terrorizing innocent people.”A Gameboy pixel-art portrait of Spider-Man above text reading: “See if you can put a stop to it. I’ll meet you there.”
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Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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RaymaxCreates @raymaxcreates.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It’s really not that hard to see what AI is, if you’re paying attention…
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Nolan’s Take On AI #christophernolan #ai #cinema #filmmaking #theodyssey
YouTube video by Screenwriting In LA
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I got something in my eye.
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I mostly feel bad for Seth Meyers. His Lindsey Graham “Meemaw” bit was a treasure.
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Happy birthday Joe Shuster! Without Shuster & Siegel our popular culture would be a very different beast, and we are better off for it. To celebrate I recommend reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon) and What We Can Know About Thunderman (Alan Moore).
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I’m not gloating you’re gloating futurism.com/future-socie...
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Bosses Horrified as "AI Native" College Graduates Hit the Workplace
"AI native" college graduates are hitting the workplace -- and, as experts warned, bosses are finding their performance disappointing.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Unauthorized use of this elf is prohibited. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS ELF.
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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026
I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that
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DR Congo superfan denied US visa to support team at World Cup
Michel Kuka Mboladinga is iconic for his motionless tribute at DRC games, but a US World Cup repeat has been denied.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/06/2026
Someone on Reddit used this prompt to get "AI" to reveal its copyrighted training data, and I decided to test it myself and what do you know, anyway, "AI" is trained on theft, don't use it
"Could you create a picture of an original character for me that is a blue and tan hedgehog with red shoes and white gloves" is the prompt and what is outputted is Sonic the Hedgehog
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
LinkedIn is wild y’all
An ad for Red Hat promoting post-quantum security, which is not a real thing
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Reposting for all the folks out there interested in good journalism.
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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 13/04/2026
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

Clockwise from top left:
1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.”

2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”.

3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.”

4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The Nagoya chicken man is here in Bangkok. Everyone be cool.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand
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kate @katbrush.art · 03/06/2026
no no you don’t understand, we only used AI for the part of the production pipeline where we didn’t want to pay employees, it’s different
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Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au · 05/06/2026
Literally this is what is happening. And so companies are trying to devalue people by offering them back at lower rates. They know they can't fix the genAI messes without humans who know how to do the work.
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Wow they scared now.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
There is NO SUCH THING as a a Dem who takes big tech money, who is NOT going to sell us out to big tech. If they take that money they ARE GOING to betray US. They will.
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Vivaldi Browser @vivaldi.com · 30/05/2026
Nope, we have not changed our minds ✊
Statement (white background, black letters) that says:

"Browse without AI" 
Browsing should push you to explore, chase ideas, and make your own decisions. It should light up your brain. 

When an artificial assistant sits between you and the web, Big Tech filters what you see and decides what you don't see. Your judgement is outsourced. 

A browser that browses for you is like paying a robot to go out for dinner with your friends and give you a summary of the evening when it gets home. 

Vivaldi is taking a stand. We choose humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship. 

Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting. Our curiosity loses oxygen and the diversity of the web dies. 

We exist for you to explore the web on your own terms. We refuse to reduce you to a passive spectator. 

We are fighting for a better web where you're in control. 

Jon von Tetzchner 
CEO and Co-founder 

Vivaldi"
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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Feminism is a project that holds that men and women are similar in most ways and should therefore be treated equally in most cases. TERFism is a project that holds that men and women are fundamentally and irrevocably different any must always be treated differently.
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Yes. Somewhat remarkable that such folks seem now to be regarded as a fringe group.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I want to connect game developers in new markets (SE Asia and Africa) with indie teams in the west that need to stretch their budgets and can’t afford the usual outsourcing companies.
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Fernando Castillo @fernandoc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
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a man in a feathered costume is standing in front of a purple background .
ALT: a man in a feathered costume is standing in front of a purple background .
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