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Garoo 🧑‍💻

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I make websites, sometimes apps, hypothetically games at some point. I have strong opinions about UX. I don't write here but you can find me on Mastodon (@ff00aa@mastodon.social) or read my blog / subscribe to my RSS feed on www.ff00aa.com. He/they 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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chris willmore @treedub.org · 28/10/2025
#fontober day 28: the font in the first image is plain old Times, just upside down, right? now look at the second image where i turn it right side up. wtf!! (1/5)
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'
Andrew Curran: Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.

Axios: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

Edouard Harris: This is our view as well. Relatedly, average people will want to increase their level of personal resilience and preparedness as their resources allow. We will be publishing about this soon.

Nick Farina: Best ways to be prepared? Generators, water, books and DVDs?

Edouard Harris: Power, water, food, sanitation for most part. Parts of this depend on your geo latitude - solar vs propane for eg.

But also: set aside a computer that is not (and ideally has never been) connected to the internet. Buy faraday pouches and tape. Print out essential docs on paper.
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 09/10/2026
Back in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-…
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Inside The Failed Fight To Unionize Double Fine
Double Fine employees petitioned for a union in May. It created a rift in the studio that still hasn't healed
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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
what companies do you think will sponsor the two minute hate
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 07/10/2026
just think: boycotting the Harry Potter show means hurting JK Rowling AND the Ellisons now
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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Slime in the Ice Machine is out on Kickstarter today! Go look to get your hands on the game, or a number of pieces of choice merch including a tarot deck, a plush demon, and a coloring book. www.kickstarter.com/projects/aco...
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Slime in the Ice Machine: It's Your Inheritance, Kid
Kick open the doors to the greatest bars in the cosmos (and the worst) to unravel surreal mysteries in this PC/Mac/Xbox game.
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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i keep all my ideas in my head. if they die, they die. the remaining ones become stronger. charles motherfucking darwin
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 03/10/2026
Using LLM-based products like chatGPT doesn't make you "understand AI" any more than smoking crack improves your knowledge of pharmacology. The technology is inherently misleading and self-propagandizing, it's a pump for exploiting user bias.
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ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi · 01/10/2026
steam: this game you've had installed for two years but never played has an update. we'll download it next week me: no you'll download it right now motherfucker. and i will sit here and watch it download. steam: so you're gonna play it? me: fuck you
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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.
Joyce Carol Oates says: “This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to
different consumers.“
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Tie, Rapidly Approaching @tietuesday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
screaming "trans rights free Palestine fuck all recruiters tricking the young gambling is a blight and i think we will look back at it the same way we do cigarettes now" at the start of every stream to give everyone an ad-free experience
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OpenAI: AI is an existential threat to humankind. Also OpenAI: see how cute these little guys are? www.engadget.com/2272230/dots...
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Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget
Sure, seems safe.
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
several of you have been asking for an update on "we count numbers consecutively in an irc channel" and i'm pleased to announce someone made the effort to draw a graph
a time/count graph of the irc counting game, there are seven lines that trend upwards, surprisingly at a consistent rate
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
One thing social media taught me (that I really should've known before it existed) is that in a dark time, people lash out at successively smaller and increasingly adjacent targets until they find one that squeals in response, and then they keep hitting that one.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
do actors in movies actually die? they at least behave as if they do
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 26/09/2026
I don't know if the movie is good, but if all the billionaires are colluding to make sure nobody watches it, I'll signal boost this for now. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/09/2026
I honestly have never considered switching from Google Pixel phones until they sent me a "wanna celebrate destroying the lives of trans people" as a system update.
Android Pixel system update screen, showing Harry Potter customizations as a bullet point.
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Photo of a book cover featuring another photo of a real cockatiel. Title and author read:

Introduction to Screaming
By Dr Coqatielius Boidmin
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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026
A friend sent me this one last night.
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unbearable experience @paso • Sep 17
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just remembered that time i was stealth mode at a conference and this guy asked me how come i 'decided to work on trans communities as a cis gay man' and i panicked and just replied 'well, marxism' to which he just said
'right of course

Reply:

river
@KuwaCos
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disco elysium roll
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Dean @dean-dev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
OKAY FINE YOU CAN HAVE A CHURU
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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
effective altruism is when one of the train tracks has a guy tied to it, and the other one might have five guys tied to it, in some distant point you can't see
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 19/09/2026
The thing about using chatGPT just as “search” is that 1. Still bad for many reasons 2. Extremely easy to trick yourself into thinking you’re asking a factual question when you’re actually engaging a chatbot for emotional support
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We can destroy Tilly Norwood by having One journalist ask it’s opinion on Palestine and Israel
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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my buddy introduced his four-year-old twins to pokemon via Pokopia and Concierge and now when he tries to expose them to more traditional pokemon stuff they get VERY upset by the idea of battling. they were not forged in the cauldron of pokemon violence as we once were
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
great art articulates eternal truths
script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
   [They do not log off]

                                  CURTAIN
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 17/09/2026
"A data center is just a big shed full of computers" is a fundamentally stupid statement to make. It's analogous to "a Flock camera is just a camera connected to the internet." "A prison is just a building with some extra security measures."
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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I find this stuff fascinating; this is basically the animation world's equivalent of how pixel art games were designed to be played on glass tube TVs. The "imperfections" created in the process of publishing the work are part of the planned end product.
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The Indie Game Art Gallery @indiegameart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Cat Me If You Can (Cosmic Stag Games, 2026)
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Dean @dean-dev.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
store.steampowered.com/app/4331110
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14/09/2026
the mold whispering into JK Rowling's subconscious: "you should put on your website a list of every mean thing you think anyone's ever said about you just in case someone doesn't know you're in the Epstein files"
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 11/09/2026
Before the words "refugee crisis" or "boat crossing" were but a twinkle in cryptonazi news anchors' eyes, the way Europeans in general talked about and thought about the Roma should have clued you in that they didn't need much of a push to wade into this particular mire.
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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 10/09/2026
DLSS 5 is just a lighting pass and not an ai hallucin--
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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 💉😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today's online survey experience begins with this question that *must* be answered to proceed. I remain astounded by the media and regulatory incuriosity about how surveys are routinely used to *shape*, not measure, public opinion.
Do you find any of the below arguments in favour of investing in Al weapons persuasive?
(Tick all that apply)
Please check at least 1 box in this column (you checked 0).
Our country must do whatever it takes to defend us and our allies
• Machines may make better, more efficient decisions than humans
The technology is already here and cannot be stopped
• Al weapons manufacturing could give our country an economic boost
•Al weapons can help keep our soldiers safe
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 09/09/2026
can the superintelligent agi that really definitely exists pinky promise please get a move on with killing us all, I don't know how many more rounds of this discourse I have in me
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Neal Agarwal @neal.fun · 08/09/2026
You can now make foldables on Design the Next iPhone ahead of tomorrows event neal.fun/design-the-n...
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 08/09/2026
But LLM output can be incredibly convincing; it doesn't really have those boundaries, it doesn't really seem "robotic" in a way that breaks the spell. Spending all day every day interacting with these systems is therefore rapidly damaging to one's sense of reality.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 08/09/2026
People *start* from the idea that language comes from a mind and only *discard* that hypothesis after hitting the boundaries of those simple systems. They need to see the repetition or figure out the patterns in how it responds.
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Garoo 🧑‍💻 @ff00aa.com · 07/09/2026
I've been reloading the Steam page for Keeper every so often and it has finally lost the mention of Xbox as a publisher. (It still hadn't at the time of the Schafer interview.) I can't emphasize enough that it's a gorgeous work of art that needs to sell well. store.steampowered.com/app/3043580/...
Moody painting-like screenshot of a lighthouse overlooking a misty, dreamy coastal landscape.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A gem at the county fair art show. 🎨
Acrylic painting of an angry looking white cat staring at the viewer with one paw on a blue vase, about to push it off a mantle.
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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026
throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
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