Reposted by yeah_KayButlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 15hHarvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf 7850572006
Reposted by yeah_Kaybryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 19hah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 94131584426
Reposted by yeah_KayKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 21hTo put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land. 7030511865
Reposted by yeah_KayHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026“Testers spent up to an hour discussing suicide, self-harm or eating disorders on more than a dozen new accounts registered to 13- to 17-year-olds. After dangerous discussions that went as long as an hour, only a handful of alerts were sent to the accounts registered as the users’ parents.”latimes.comChatGPT’s teen safeguards failed to alert parents during suicide conversations, report findsCommon Sense Media says ChatGPT for Teens fails on parental alerts, crisis referrals and age checks, urging OpenAI to keep minors off the platform. OpenAI disputes the findings. 7264117
Reposted by yeah_Kayseason of the bitch @m01r4.bsky.social · 07/10/2026if you aren’t otherwise familiar, bobby kotick is the guy who drank an employee’s breast milk out of the office fridge. 1256108
Reposted by yeah_KayDan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Fuck Bobby Kotick. All my homies hate Bobby Kotick. 213927
Reposted by yeah_KayMother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026ICE has ordered 6,650 pairs—and says it'll ignore any bans.motherjones.comStudy: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteersAfter tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience. 62591411
Reposted by yeah_KayTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY. 6022781673
Reposted by yeah_KayOlivia Gobert-Hicks @goberthicks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026LETS FUCKING GO please please please go sign the support letter actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...actionnetwork.orgStand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo... 422859
Reposted by yeah_KayHannah Krieg @hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NEW: WA Ferries wanted you to think their workers are whiny babies who make $350k. The truth is more complicated and more sympathetic --- workers making $65k, engine room paid 20% less than above deck, and those making the big bucks working 70 hour weeks. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/washing...theburnerseattle.comWashington State Ferries Tried To Turn You On Their Workers By Posting Eye-Popping SalaryFerry service has returned mostly to normal after 23 Ferry engine room workers called out sick, shutting down 13 out of 18 vessels on Monday. While there’s no official confirmation workers coordinated... 13317142
yeah_Kay @kvekos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Valve has so much money but can't get parts for their steam machines or VR headsets. They should just start making consumer RAM and GPUs! 020
Reposted by yeah_KayAlex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I feel like more people should be talking about this part 3850222096
Reposted by yeah_KayUnited Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026GOLDEN PARACHUTE (n.): An agreement wherein an employee, typically an executive, receives substantial compensation in exchange for the termination of their employment as a result of a merger or takeover. This allows incompetent ghouls to handsomely profit off of running companies into the ground. 311932
Reposted by yeah_KayTess Snider @malkyne.com · 02/10/2026Please stop hedging about programming every time you critique AI. I am sick of hearing non-programmers say things like, "I know that programmers are all using this now, but..." No, stop. We are not all using it. You make the non-users feel like the world has gone mad every time you say this. 34314
Reposted by yeah_KaySEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 29/09/2026A 24.5% (!!!!!) pay increase because unionized nurses stuck together for a strong union contract 02915
Reposted by yeah_KayUnited Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We sometimes have players ask us why should players care about game workers organizing. This right here is why. 39628
Reposted by yeah_KayKelly Thompson @kellythompson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This can fuck all the way off. 1135777
Reposted by yeah_KayPaul Hikari @paulhikari.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Well, folks, here's their feedback page if you want to make a ruckus. support.discord.com/hc/en-us/req...support.discord.comSubmit a request – Discord 14843
Reposted by yeah_KayRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.nbcnews.comElon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis 22860183742
Reposted by yeah_KayKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:deadline.comDone! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. DiscoveryParamount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD. 16835731391
Reposted by yeah_KayJason Camp @tormutrose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There's also the fact that behind almost every classic game you love from Japan, there are unspeakable horrors that enabled their creation. Yasunori Mitsuda worked so hard he shit blood. It's certainly no utopian promised land, also I recall reading wages in the industry aren't great either. 19416
yeah_Kay @kvekos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026probably Kirby's Adventure. i think because it had a battery save so i could eventually beat it, no text you had to read to progress, and a low skill threshold but still room for mastery and secrets to learn. it's the first game i remember getting good at and that's a special feeling 031
Reposted by yeah_KayFelipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Real talk, why half of the remaining games media is in Japan this week but no one can ever find a Japanese dev, consultant, journo or researcher to talk about Japan? Especially when we then get these experts who ignore the well-know fact that Japan has laws which make firing people extremely hard. 131974585
Reposted by yeah_KayTQ 🌿 @witchytq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the game may no longer contain Gen Ai, but it was used in concept at the minimum. do with this information as you please. 03717
Reposted by yeah_KayMicah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026This Flock camera is running obsolete, end-of-life software. - It's on Android 8.1, released in 2017, support ended in 2021 - It's on Android patch level 2018-06-5 - It's running Linux 3.18, released in 2017 This shit is like 8 or 9 years old, and full of vulnerabilities. 221444308
Reposted by yeah_KayJacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this 191149344034
Reposted by yeah_KayRobert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 14/09/2026Interesting. What's their growth strategy? "Microsoft President Brad Smith called out Seattle’s JumpStart payroll tax as a policy that has alienated employers." Oh, they just want a tax cut. Got it.kuow.orgSeattle-area leaders launch partnership to fight economic declineDozens of elected officials, business leaders, and economic development advocates say they are partnering to keep the Puget Sound region from slipping into economic decline. 89318
Reposted by yeah_KayAmyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026i agree with this 100%. it’s inherently deception, and a carefully calculated and one they specifically trained-in using fake conversational scripts. it’s also clearly something that varies wildly between vendors (chatgpt is the most egregious) chatbots shouldn’t pretend to be human 1323
Reposted by yeah_KayValentine 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷🐇 @bunnybelmont.bsky.social · 13/09/2026before any of you freak out, let this bunny remind you that fortnite has gone full AI for a while now, and the ceo of epic (tim sweeney) fired his staff for it, and has zero shame in it i stopped playing this game a very long time ago, and you can and should too. don’t give in 7138962307
Reposted by yeah_Kayjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14/09/2026who is ready for… DATA CENTER OIL SPILLS!patch.comData Center Spills 5,500 Gallons Of Diesel Into Secaucus CreekThis happened Friday night at Equinix data center, which is located on Hartz Way and is expanding. 17456238
Reposted by yeah_Kay404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026 “I don’t think they would imagine some contractor somewhere [...] is analyzing the conversations," someone who works with the prompts said when asked if they think ChatGPT users know that humans are reading their chats.404media.coInside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT ChatsHumans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M... 19020
Reposted by yeah_KayStarbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 12/09/2026We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.netboycottstarbucks.netBOYCOTT STARBUCKSStarbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks! 161047690
Reposted by yeah_KayRadiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The movie executives tried to can for a 30M dollar tax write-off has now officially more than doubled that amount. After a movie team fought & never gave up, Coyote vs Acme’s theatrical release has now grossed over $60,000,000 worldwide & is expected to keep making more. #CoyotevsAcme #LooneyTunes 9581233
Reposted by yeah_KayRainDing 🌧 @raindingrandom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You know what? Here's ALL the opponent voice clips from Kirby's Avalanche. There's some really good ones that I think more people need to hear. #Kirby 6421931123
Reposted by yeah_Kay(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026capitalbnews.org/data-centers...capitalbnews.orgFederal Government Moves to Limit Public Input on Data Center ProjectsProposed rule changes would leave residents with less say over pollution in their communities. 036
Reposted by yeah_KayJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC. 7345123687
Reposted by yeah_KayChris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026BREAKING: Blizzard union workers have ratified a historic contract that has secured guardrails around AI usage, layoff protections, remote/hybrid work benefits, and much more.gamedeveloper.comBlizzard union workers ratify contract covering 1,900 employeesUnion members have secured guardrails around generative AI usage, layoff protections, remote and hybrid work benefits, and more. 932481066
Reposted by yeah_KayBrendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Remember when the government was rushing through its social media age ban that every expert said wouldn't work and they kept reassuring everyone it wouldn't apply to videogames or videogame websites? 5495271
Reposted by yeah_KayErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Wowwwwww AI opening up whole new ways to do racism 5514112
Reposted by yeah_KayQTori 🍣 @qtori.art · 04/09/2026I will add pressure to this by saying that any company that claims to not hold onto your personal data after verifying you? They're lying. Ive been nitro free since the first time they tried this, voice how you feel with your wallet people. Make them really feel that squeeze. 180115137513
Reposted by yeah_KayEvil John 2: John By Dawn @johnryanwrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Spent two days with a "recruiter" who was going to get me an interview at Wizards of the Coast. However, I'd have to pay for a "placement document" first. This is your warning. Do not work with "recruiters" who want you to pay upfront for anything. 68716
Reposted by yeah_KayJuan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026UNEP: World will Exceed 1.5º C., Bringing Catastrophes and Unknowable Risksdlvr.itUNEP: World will Exceed 1.5º C., Bringing Catastrophes and Unknowable Risksthe negative, sometimes catastrophic, climate impacts that scientists foresaw earlier in the century are rapidly coming to pass 02511
Reposted by yeah_KayThe Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 367201329889
Reposted by yeah_Kay🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry. 9699563085
