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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Has anyone seen discussion of how AI tokens being taxed as VAT (one of the most regressive tax schemes) compared to Income Tax (which is in some sense means-tested)? I think there's some juice there in terms of showing the kind of economic fairness/mobility damage swapping to "agents" rather […]

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Rust was designed so that humans could write memory safe code, and yet it seems the language of choice for GenAI re-writes. Why can't GenAI write memory safe code in other languages? Think about that for a second.

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@squid been on mine for a long while now. It's so special.

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Also for god's sake stop clicking random Google drive links ya absolute numpties

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Some serious spam coming out of a few major mastodon servers right now. We're handling the reports as quickly as we can, thanks folks!

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

In a world seemingly nose-diving into inauthentic oblivion, this is a beautiful piece of art about people just trying to get someone closure, and their stories of community and loss. Did not expect that from a Geoguessr channel, but I guess humanity is found wherever it wants to be found […]

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

If the developers of Big Walk can resist the income from releasing their game-of-the-year quality masterpiece on a whole ass platform, you can absolutely do it just for yourself too. nogamesforgenocide.com

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No Games For Genocide

The games industry is complicit in genocide. It’s time to divest.

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Nah, the AI someone at Epic asked to make their announcement made this claim. I see no reason to trust anything coming out of Epic these days.

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@squid I wish I could fix the world for all of us, but maybe this will help a small amount www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGOQfLFzJj8

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Some simple ones so far: * Don't ask for information you can't fully verify yourself * Don't allow it to "understand" for you, only accept it's output once you fully understand the information within * Only accept output you feel confident modifying yourself Those are a start, especially when […]

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I've been building up a set of "vital tools for staying sane while everything around you turns to AI". I want to contribute something to actually help folks survive the future - not the skills to use LLMs "effectively" as those will quickly be redundant, but mental tools to prevent it damaging […]

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@Andre_LA agreed, it's a huge pet peeve of mine when guides/documentation just list what to do, never explaining why you'd want to do it and what it actually does

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

"Programming isn’t special. It’s just Art, and Art is the most human — and thus, the most universal — thing that there is." (Article title: Programming Isn’t Special) blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-i…

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Deciphering Glyph :: Programming Isn’t Special

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@maybeanerd my god how I crave a good merge queue again

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I'll stop before my doctor tells me this isn't therapy anymore. I am kidding btw I love rebase nerds all the same, cause they're nerds just like the rest of us

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Rebase-enjoyer telling me how their pet Zebra has a checkerboard pattern

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Factual representation of the true history

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Average rebase-enjoyer telling me their history looks like B so is cleaner when it actually looks like C

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

love that this meme toot has generated a really interesting conversation in the replies, thanks @ignaloidas 😆

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@austinkelmore.com ah nah, rebase naturally exists in the DAG, the mistake was exposing it on the UX side as if it was just an alternative to merge, not a deeper tool to fix up local mistakes.

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Jokes aside I have a real solution for this that I'm sad was never implemented - a rebase should just delete the user

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@austinkelmore.com yeah it should have been given a much scarier name, "rewrite-history" would have been done wonders

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Convinced rebase-enjoying is just cope for being bad at guitar hero as a teenager

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Oh nooo the commit graph might be complicated oh noooo my small brain can't comprehend reality oh nooo

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@b0rk what I do get confused by more often than anything else is other people's *rebases* onto main tricking me into inspecting "fake" commit states in their history that never really existed for them, especially during a bisect

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@b0rk I always merge, it preserves true history of the code state while I worked on it, and I find the fact the branch looks "messy" to have never in reality caused a single problem

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

That last series of toots is all to speak to something complicated. I grieve for the end of something amazing, and am tired of those who seem happy driving the bulldozers. I'm torn between trying to savour authentic creation while it's still possible, or giving up quickly and finding something […]

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Consider this - what if the work was assisted not by an LLM but by another person who is unable to verify what work is theirs. It would be impossible to discern that from plagiarism. But think for a second - it's this new "author" who has plagiarized the LLM. This holds for practically any […]

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The second problem from this is wider, how can you judge the skill level of the developer at all? When you see someone share their AI assisted project, how do you gauge anything about the author? How do I know what to be impressed about? What do you even *say*? Nothing. There's nothing to say […]

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The mantra of projects accepting vibe code is "you own the code and are responsible for it" but that's a deeply incoherent statement. You cannot and will not be able to know whether the human presenting the vibes understands them. How could you possibly check without talking to them face to […]

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our Jerry's Map documentary was screened at an art museum in Michigan over the weekend, followed by a Q&A with the man himself. Love love love this. Photo credit: Nik Burkhart

The opening shot of PMG's Jerry's Map documentary, with a small audience in the foreground.

Jerry Gretzinger being interviewed on stage as part of a Q&A following the screening.

A close-up of Jerry Gretzinger and the interviewer from the Grand Rapids Art Museum.

Another shot of Jerry being interviewed on stage as part of the Q&A.

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[incredibly depressing, satellites] @sundogplanets yeah so they're not gonna be shining that brightness at you... I'm sure they'll still be shit for terrestrial telescopy but your post implies you'll have 4x the moon flying overhead

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[incredibly depressing, satellites] @sundogplanets citation needed? I'm also against astronomical light pollution but isn't this "are capable of" not "will be"?

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I'm convinced the only solution to this is centralised public control of compute in general as a utility, just like the internet and electricity before that. Doing A Socialism on this is unlikely to happen but what else could solve it?

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

They want you to think their "product" will destroy us all because that does two key things: * It ensures their ponzi scheme stays afloat by propagating the notion it's infinitely valuable, ensuring power is consolidated and preserved * It all but guarantees that free open development and […]

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Was just reminded the Linux kernel measures time in jiffies

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Still no Steam Frame email at all, kind of odd...

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Catching up but I see a bunch of insane twats who's insane mission was already slowing down (after ruining everything good) are now asking to be told to slow down so they can pretend the things weren't slowing down already and keep the big money pile they invented by forming the financial […]

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Y'all ever waste an hour of your life to find out something snuck a ‑ rather than a - into your file path?

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

The watch should be forced to have a light on when recording, just like the facebook pervert glasses

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Look, I know all phones are basically listening all the time anyway, or they have the capacity to and someone may have turned it on or off, but something about this Apple watch thing feels different? I think it's because the invasion of privacy feels personal? Like the betrayal of trust if a […]

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Never been much of a salad spinner person, but I am starting to see the appeal of sticking aphids in a centrifuge

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 10/09/2026

Closing out the rally, @nershly.bsky.social beautifully speaks about her experience being fired by Rockstar and how they try to use fear.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This might be a good moment to also announce that PMG has been following the Blizzard unions through this process for nearly two years now and in early 2027 you’ll be able to watch our documentary on the fight that took place to get this historic contract over the line.

Chris standing outside the front gates of the Blizzard campus in Irvine, California.

Union members demonstrating in Irvine as part of a mass walkout last month.

The giant inflatable rat known as 'Scabby', standing outside the front gates to the Blizzard campus.

An aerial drone shot of the Blizzard campus.

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