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Michael T.J. Redmond

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Composer, gamer, and avid fantasy enjoyer 🎲 - michaeltjredmond.weebly.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So... "cable"... we're just doing cable again.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
hell yes
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I always think of William Goldman’s great dialogue from CHINATOWN: “Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What could you buy that you can't already afford?”
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These people should be in charge of nothing, maybe a hot dog stand; but certainly not the futures of children and young people. How many times must they say and do things like this because we stop allowing them to infect education with their technology?
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
💰🎁🙏📥
a fake screenshot of the game final fantasy 8 with the character Irvine saying "the wealthy are always the biggest welfare recipients"
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: 5 million years ago - a bunch of bedbugs lounge around in a living room, looking totally bored. Panel 2: another bedbug excitedly bursts through the front door and exclaims, “someone invented beds!” Panel 3: one of the bedbugs looks over their shoulder at the other and says, “you’re joking”
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jfc
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Austin Lee Matthews 🐭 @amtrax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
if I can live under the poverty line and still quit a voice over job mid-session because I found out the "writer" used GenAI, you can afford to not buy/play a game that uses GenAI.
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about ICE is that eventually it WILL be abolished. I don't know if it will be in 5 years or 50 years but it will happen. With certainty. And when it does, it will be remembered along the securitate, Stasi, etc, and so will the people who served there.
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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 23/09/2026
Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams says he has no need for GenAI, because his artists are bursting with cool, weird ideas like meat biomes and sphincter doors. "[Tolkien] didn’t have a sphincter door. I mean, I don’t think he did… Who knows what’s going on in, like, Minas Morgul though."
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27 Chaotic Minutes with Dwarf Fortress Creator Tarn Adams
Tarn Adams talks about Dwarf Fortress, his favourite bugs of the last 20 years, and why it's incredibly important to have a "meat biome"
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 23/09/2026
Did you know that average net profits for independent bookshops in the US were just 1.3% in 2025? Every dollar we spend at our indie makes a difference.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: an exhausted detective leans over his desk with a spread of paperwork and folders. He says, “I’m in too deep. Where is the Spaghetti Man?” Panel 2: on a photograph littered among the evidence, a single small drop of marinara sauce drops with a “plip!” Panel 3: viewed from below, the detective examines the drop of sauce with his finger. Behind him, in a ceiling corner, a rotund chef with a mustache - presumably the Spaghetti Man - holds himself like a spider against the walls.
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Zito (Commissions Open) @zitoisneato.com · 21/09/2026
I don't care if it was just in the concept phase, promotional pieces or translation. I'm not supporting your product if you used AI in any aspect of it.
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Sprite_Star0 aka Spar @spritestar0.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You'd never believe that when I said I told y'all so i actually told y'all so. You don't hate AI enough if you still play this game
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Studio Flimpo @flimpo.co · 16/09/2026
MANDELBROT HALL releases in ONE MONTH! Our final trailer drops on Oct 1st🌻 Hope you're as excited as we are :-)
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Pax 🌙 [they/them] @parallaxabn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
im so in love with the way you two direct and animate. you make such amazing use of the camera and staggering/overshoot movements. they feel so real and inspired. getting this series is such a spoil!! right after my birfday no less 😖 [yelling from outside] I LOVE U WITCH UPSTAIRS!!
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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 06/09/2026
anyways back to making art and programming stuff using my own god damn human brain
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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 04/09/2026
Man says "say 'i am alive'" to a computer which responds "I am alive". The man says "oh my god"
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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm sure Bluesky hacked off most of that headline on mobile, so:
PC Gamer headline: "Dwarf Fortress creator says we can learn something from simply walling up dwarf nobles to maintain an equal society—but notes you have to abolish the dwarf cops, too: 'Another lesson to be had there'"
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🎃 The AbominaSean 🧟‍♂️ @sean8urson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
crime is down cuz you've been giving people resources and taking care of their needs these fuckers didn't do shit
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 16/08/2026
isn't it interesting how the people who are forcing AI onto all of us struggle with the concept of consent
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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Your food processor has a chute that fits your dick. Should you?
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Legends of Avantris @avantris.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
TECHNICALLY! 🤣 #dnd #ttrpg #dnd5e
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Aaron Alexovich @aaronalexovich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My favorite online store, @bookshop.org, is doing an "Anti-Prime Day!" Free shipping June 23-26 and, as usual, 80% of their profits go to indie bookstores. All the good guys win! bookshop.org/p/books/shoc...
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Shock City Punks: A Graphic Novel
Check out Shock City Punks: A Graphic Novel - <b>The follow-up to the Tim-Burton-esque middle grade graphic novel that Max Brallier calls &ldquo;Equal parts nightmarish and outrageously funny!"</b><br...
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 25/06/2026
if your article is headed with an AI image then i'm not reading your article
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Luna Leo 🏳️‍⚧️ @vampsonic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Disappointed, but not surprised, Sega is requiring consent to AI model training in the terms of services to join on the hunt. Always read the terms you agree to friends.
Screenshot of Community terms of services consent for the chaos hunt. Reads "Consent to Data Use and AI Integration

By using our services, you acknowledge and consent to our collection, use, and processing of your information, content, and communications (“User Data”) for the improvement, development, and training of our artificial intelligence (AI) models and tools, and for providing our services to you.

This may include, without limitation:

1. AI Model Training

Your User Data may be used to train and enhance our proprietary AI models to improve the functionality, accuracy, and security of our services.

2. Third-Party AI Vendors

We may engage third-party AI providers to support the functionality of our services. We use reasonable efforts to prohibit such providers from using any of your personal information for the purposes of developing and improving their AI models. In addition, these third parties are required to implement privacy and security measures consistent with our obligations under applicable data protection laws. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that once integrated with these third-party AI models, your User Data (including any data derived therefrom) may continue to be used, analyzed, and enhanced by both us and our third party providers for ongoing model improvement, product innovation, and other business purposes.

3. Data Retention

Data used for AI training purposes may be retained as part of our AI model’s knowledge base. We will ensure that retention of any such data complies with applicable lawsScreenshot of Community terms of services consent for the chaos hunt. Reads "Consent to Data Use and AI Integration

By using our services, you acknowledge and consent to our collection, use, and processing of your information, content, and communications (“User Data”) for the improvement, development, and training of our artificial intelligence (AI) models and tools, and for providing our services to you.

This may include, without limitation:

1. AI Model Training

Your User Data may be used to train and enhance our proprietary AI models to improve the functionality, accuracy, and security of our services.

2. Third-Party AI Vendor

We may engage third-party AI providers to support the functionality of our services. We use reasonable efforts to prohibit such providers from using any of your personal information for the purposes of developing and improving their AI models. In addition, these third parties are required to implement privacy and security measures consistent with our obligations under applicable data protection laws. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that once integrated with these third-party AI models, your User Data (including any data derived therefrom) may continue to be used, analyzed, and enhanced by both us and our third party providers for ongoing model improvement, product innovation, and other business purposes.

3. Data Retention

Data used for AI training purposes may be retained as part of our AI model’s knowledge base. We will ensure that retention of any such data complies with applicable laws
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 22/06/2026
Wrote this (simple, non-exhaustive) list of things wrong with AI for you to share with your normie friends. Written honestly because I'm a bit frustrated at the number of even environmentally and socially conscious people I meet who don't realise how bad AI is chequered.ink/10-things-wr...
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10 things wrong with AI
10 things wrong with AI for people who don't know already.
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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 22/06/2026
With ALT text. It also should be noted that all of those things are still available. Stop using genAI & search on your own. The reality is that living under capitalism means they will monetize anything they can get their hands on & convince you that you need to buy it from them. You don't.
:Screenshot of a Twitter/X post from Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14.

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.

The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts, & answers for free.

AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions.

And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.

We built the library.

Someone else started charging admission.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
There is going to be new movement on KOSA next week Contact your representatives and demand that they oppose KOSA and the KIDS Act www.congress.gov/members/find...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Gas station companies are illegally conspiring to raise prices, and they're using AI to do it, according to a new lawsuit. The class action lawsuit claims that the corporate owners of over 1,700 California gas stations are using Kalibrate, an AI platform, to share data and keep prices high.
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Gas stations are using AI to inflate prices, new lawsuit alleges
A new federal lawsuit alleges that gas station companies across California are engaged in an illegal conspiracy, powered by AI software, to raise prices.
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Álvaro López @bakadori.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a man is hunched over at his desk inputting spreadsheet information on his computer. From the doorway behind him, his colleague asks, “are you free to help me train the new hire?” Panel 2: looking a bit worn out, the man at the computer turns around halfway and replies, “look man— I’m kinda in a rush to finish these…” Panel 3: he interrupts himself, mildly shocked. He exclaims, “Red Bionicle??” This supposed new hire is indeed the original red bionicle, clad in office attire and holding a brown messenger bag, is standing with his colleague in the doorway.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
this is a catastrophe and he will do harm, and only harm, to those living with disabilities
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Jonathan Ho @jbho34.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Interesting that this article makes absolutely no mention of the @nogamesforgenocide.com boycott of @xbox.com due to @microsoft.com’s complicity in the genocide of Palestine. Would love to hear from @kyleor.land / @arstechnica.com about the reasoning behind this (rather glaring) exclusion.
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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The No Games For Genocide talk was one of the highlights of the conference for me. Check it out if you haven't had a chance!
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SUDO @sudo.pink · 17/06/2026
To combat the slurry of AI, here are my personal top 4 games from Steam Next Fest: 1. Meaningless Random Numbers 2. Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart 3. Casualties Unknown 4. Wizards 95
Meaningless Random Numbers Steam Caspule - Pointing a gun at a fishRizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart Steam CapsuleCasualties: Unknown Steam CapsuleWizards 95 Steam Capsule
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
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Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A German court has ruled that Google is liable for the false statements generated by its AI Overviews feature. The ruling could have massive impacts on the world's biggest search engine, which recently doubled down on giving users AI-generated results. www.wired.com/story/a-cour...
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A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.
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xervidae 🔞 @xervidae.com · 15/06/2026
This is fucking HUGE 🙌
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BatsCaulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 15/06/2026
A reminder with #SteamNextFest starting: You SHOULD install the extensions that pop up the AI Disclosure in Steam and ignore any game with it.
A screenshot of the AI Disclosures extension in effect: A pop-up with the AI Generated Content Disclosure from "The Unclosed Case"
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Elon Musk’s Grok AI violated Canada’s privacy laws and, at one point, was generating more than 6,000 sexual deepfake images every hour, according to Canada’s privacy commissioner. www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Grok's AI image generation tool violated Canadian privacy law, watchdog says
xAI's Grok chatbot violated Canadian privacy laws ​by launching an image-generation tool that allowed users ‌to create and share non-consensual, sexualized deep fakes, an official watchdog said in a r...
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Bug Hunter @bughunterbug.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
www.makeship.com/petitions/bu... if we get 200 pre-orders, this little guy comes to life
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〽️ax krieger wants to port YOUR indie game to switch! @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
i'm not gonna sugarcoat it. fill up your car
an anime character with a legendary chin looks you in the eye and puts his enormous hand on your shoulder. he's not gonna sugar coat it
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Landlord targeted by Mamdani agrees to forgive back rent in 5,100 apartments
The company Summit says it will waive unpaid rent in its new building portfolio as long as tenants resume making payments.
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