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Ah yes, corporate data breach and compromise of user information settlement. You too could receive ... checks notes ... $5. Which will certainly cover any inconvenience that might result from the data breach, right?

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 23h

So fucking sick of political text messages. Every time you stop one, two more pop up like a fucking hydra. The 30-a-day rate makes me want to throw my phone into the garbage disposal. Democrats can you please STFU about "My Decision" or "Tough Decision" or the fucking FEC deadline?

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 30/09/2026

Periodic reminder that if you still use 1Password or Digital Ocean, you are supporting DHH and ethnic cleansing and may as well also be out buying Potter merch. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omarchy...

en.wikipedia.org

Omarchy - Wikipedia

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

This part of the muse privacy and security debacle manages to be worse than it agreeing to lowball offers in your name on marketplace, giving the buyer your address, and then telling them you're home when you're not; because this part? The "it reading messages you explicitly told it not to" part?…

appleinsider.com

Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 25/09/2026

If you haven't already, today is a really good day to go delete all your content from over there.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please celebrate my birthday with me by reading my article and sharing it! I'm trying to pay down medical debt and the tips really help, so the more people who see it, the better!!

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 22/09/2026

I can think of many options. Among them: repurpose RCS thrusters to replace gravitational force.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

It was obviously the new stealth orcas, designed to target smaller vessels than yachts.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

Not sure there's just *one*, but some foundational PC games for me. Arcade games would be a different story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfli... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardr... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork

en.wikipedia.org

Starflight - Wikipedia

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

"a U.S. citizen" "was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after [federal] agents drove off" If there is no due process for others, you do not have due process. This is not law. This is lawlessness.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

More Sunday-night-spent-the-day-debugging-live-service-issues-instead-of-relaxing-so-now-drinking-wine game dev lore:a whole generation of game devs was trained to never even *hint* at a system that them might be *considering* because that turns into promising delivery of a system.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

Some game dev secrets from experience: * some of the devs secretly play your MMO with you * most of the devs don't really play their own game

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

Important lyrics for game devs to remember when working on their game design. This is basically everyone who will play your game: I want action tonight Satisfaction all night

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 15/09/2026

Proposal for game devs: Users starting up "is this game dead" discourse should be cause for an immediate ban from discord servers, forums, etc. It provides no value and just alienates players. It's just pure toxicity.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 14/09/2026

I always wonder what kind of complete loser one has to be to spend time that could be use playing games going into game developer Discord servers and game forums just to post concurrent user numbers, which seems to be the new form of "is this game dead?"

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/09/2026

Global data centre investment has already surpassed solar PV, and will soon surpass all renewable investment combined sf-asset-manager.s3.amazonaws.com/97637/1139/8...

Data center investment rises sharply from near zero in 2015 to about $800B in 2025; chart also shows renewables and solar climbing steadily while oil and gas investments fluctuate at higher levels (2015–2025, USD billions).

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 04/09/2026

The Democratic Party really need to figure out how to make its fundraising less terrible. I shouldn't be getting 4 texts in 3 days about 3 different candidates that are all "My Decision" or "A Tough Decision". You really need more fucking variety in your playbook.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 03/09/2026

New typo/terminology for when someone tries to use genAI on production code: "maintainted"

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 30/08/2026

Mostly that really big word is "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck".

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 29/08/2026

I didn't really need to get up to the front bumper of my car laying on the ground in front of it. No idea what happened overnight, but I assume it was the fucking raccoons around here pissed off that the compost bin is empty so they can't keep dumping it on the ground.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 20/08/2026

I wrote a quick alien name generator for a project. My description for the named it creates is "vaguely pronounceable words". Yesterday while naming something, it came up with "toganomicon"

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 18/08/2026

My description for today's experience with other programmers' use of genAI: high-velocity-low-directional-control.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 17/08/2026

Google: even though you have automatic AI note taking in meetings turned off, we're adding a new "feature" and turning that on by default.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 17/08/2026

TFW a client's Slack has descended into half "here's what <AI> said" instead of actual discussion.

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 15/08/2026

In yet another instance of AI being ABSOLUTE FUCKING GARBAGE YOU SHOULD NEVER USE, I wrote up nice instructions in a ticket with code blocks for instructions, and someone else had AI reformat it, which deleted some instructions entirely and removed all the formatting changing code blocks to bullets.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 14/08/2026

Today's game dev tips: localization. 1. Build your localization support early. It's MUCH more difficult to wedge it in later. Even if you aren't having your game translated yet, make a fake language you can use to test. 2. Don't build text through concatenation. Use substitution instead.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 14/08/2026

In the time of people claiming "I made" after using genAI, I'm reminded of this Indira Gandhi quote: “My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 13/08/2026

Consistently with this team that is using AI for everything: there's a typo in a filename, so AI updates the documentation that had the correct spelling to refer to the incorrectly-spelled file instead of, you know, renaming the file like a sane person would do.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 13/08/2026

Ethical software design/development principle: nobody should ever have to opt out.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 13/08/2026

Now having other programmers just use fucking AI to reply to my comments on their pull requests and not actually fix the problems. I hate this fucking timeline so fucking much.

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Brian F'n Patterson @d20monkey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Reminder: Fuck AI.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

twitch announcing this with a guide on how to opt out suggests that it recognizes just how unpopular this decision is, but still wants to have its cake and eat it too

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 12/08/2026

Really have to love the days when using GitHub involves repeatedly poking it with a stick and hoping it works this time. Those days seem to be getting more and more frequent.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 12/08/2026

If you tool for entering text starts popping up AI "suggestions" every other word, I will absolutely stop fucking using it. JIRA and Confluence are such fucking trainwrecks of enshittification now, and are anti-productivity tools.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 11/08/2026

I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam

youtu.be

Rideshare "Stimulator" - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games

YouTube video by PlayStation

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 11/08/2026

In tonight's chapter of stop fucking using AI coding tools: a pull request that only changed the case of a folder name.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 11/08/2026

The fucking audacity of people who use AI tools to do all their work for them claiming "I made", "I did", "I found", "I wrote" etc.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 10/08/2026

What the fuck is this new JIRA ticket creation interface? Now you just enter a fucking prompt for their shitty AI so it does the wrong thing and you have to drill through a bunch of extra UI to make a *useful* ticket?

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 10/08/2026

I'm sure it's fine for someone to open a giant AI-generated PR that changes code in a bunch of low-level systems less than a week from release, to solve a "problem" that doesn't really exist. They tested that extensively before opening the PR, right?

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 09/08/2026

Sometimes in game development, your work involves making the tools needed to create entire galaxies.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 09/08/2026

As someone with misophonia, if I take off my headphones I may have an overwhelming urge to strangle this idiot for whatever weird noise he might be making.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 08/08/2026

nearly every games media layoff these days isnt someone losing their job, its someone losing their career.

aftermath.site

What If There Are No Opportunities - Aftermath

It's bad out there

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 07/08/2026

Not the tools dev response you want: "Your latest update causes every version of my other tools to break." "Have you tried talking to the people who make your other tools?"

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 06/08/2026

Cat 2 was jealous of all the attention Cat 1 was receiving due to having to have four pills a day forced into her. Cat 2 now needs daily subcutaneous fluid injections. I don't think he's going to like *that* additional attention much.

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