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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

replaying Immortal Defense, and just had this questionnable math encounter.

Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ok, because they inexplicably had the last row in the database: Three games I was a special guest programmer on Three games I was a proper programmer on Three games I made by myself

System Shock, Flight Unlimited, Braid
Terra Nova, Thief: The Dark Project, System Shock 2
Chromatron, Lost in the Static; Promesst 2

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Internet quizzes are weird. How are these the same thing at all?

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026

this kind of outcome was predictable the moment so-called "agents" became productized. the Spam Economy azhdarchid.com/imagining-th...

azhdarchid.com

Imagining the Car but not the Traffic Jam

Your typical example of how AI can make life better is analogous to saying

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"It's *medical* marijuana," I say to the interviewer as I rip a monster hit from my Hello Kitty bong.

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Peter Gordon 🇺🇦 @gordon.plus · 25/09/2026

Nice to know the demoscene is still going in the 23rd century

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The New York Times has now run two prominently placed stories about Zohran Mamdani's comms department coordinating with unpaid influencers as if it is a huge scandal. Will they cover Trump using our tax dollars to buy literal campaign ads as if it is equivalent scandalous? If not why not?

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels. The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans.

It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I also already did "STOP DOING GAME JAMS". Here's some more candidates: STOP HAVING NPCS STOP DOING PLATFORMERS STOP USING TWIN STICKS STOP DOING FLUID SIMS STOP MAKING PUZZLE GAMES STOP DOING JUICE STOP USING SKYBOXES STOP DOING SIMULATION STOP DOING NARRATIVE STOP DOING PUZZLE PLATFORMERS

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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Disable gambling ads:

Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Sponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Manage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 23/09/2026

Writing code that compiles and nominally functions at first glance is the very first hurdle, literally the easiest thing that exists in software development. And we're supposed to take all human intervention out of the equation based on that alone? Are you fucking mad?

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/09/2026

we were once approached by a company that wanted to buy inkle and i couldn't understand *why*: our back catalogue isn't especially valuable and our future projects aren't likely to be either. They explained quite cheerfully the following points:

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

26 years ago

onion headline from 2000: Black Guy Photoshopped In, showing side-by-sides of a cover of a course guide with a Black student added to the second cover

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.

texastribune.org

Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029

High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 19/09/2026

Two months old, but directly relevant

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 19/09/2026

American business is almost completely about extraction now. It’s greed taken to the highest extremes. There’s never enough growth, never enough profit.

dexerto.com

Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan - Dexerto

Disney+ has updated its subscriber agreement to allow advertising before and after movies and shows across every subscription tier.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't visit tvtropes anymore, but some days I have the tvtropes experience on YouTube... click a video, and it's content I want to watch all of (say, an interview) but I get kinda bored with pace and notice some interesting suggestion on the side, so pause and open THAT in a new tab... repeat.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I feel like I look like a crazy paranoid old man, but I swear this make sense. Working from home, I wear closed-ear headphones like 15 hours a day. That means I might miss knocks on my apt. door. I also rearranged my bedroom office recently and happened to end up with my back to the bedroom door.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

After ~3 years of Python as my main secondary programming language, my #1 and #2 syntax errors by frequency are: - forgetting to put a ":" at the end of a line with an indent change - writing 'else if' instead of 'elif'

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How it started: image How it's going: "a:Ab:B:c:C:dD:eE:fFgG:h:H:I:Jj:kKLm:M:n:NoO:QpPr:R:sStT:U:uvV:wWx:XyY:z:Z" So I typed "-retry" instead of "--retry" it did 100% the wrong thing, whoops. Time to rewrite arg parsing so if you get "-wefij" it checks if "--wefij" is a longopt and errors out.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I still think of this sketch 10 years later. The acting and directing and editing and music do such a good of selling it, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG6E...

youtube.com

Key & Peele - Marbles

YouTube video by Comedy Central

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The latest thing in the Windows 7 fight is that Chase dot com dropped support for the last Win7-supporting versions of both Firefox and Chrome, so I can no longer bank on my primary machine. So I guess the full list of stuff I use that doesn't work is: - Steam app - Epic EGS app - Chase website

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/09/2026

AI hallucinated a report that a Chinese ship was transporting nuclear material to Iran and the US military scrambled and nearly boarded it. We were apparently minutes away from a major war because of an AI hallucination. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

cnn.com

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

inverse transpose envy / pack image height

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it's always "fun" to look into the details on these sorts of situations: * This guy cofounded this company out of school and has never had a boss in his entire life. * Notes that he's laid off 20% of the studio every year for the past 6 years * "We want to lean more and more into the gig economy"

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

SONG STRUCTURES www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Qt... Rush - The Spirit of Radio www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0... Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWH... Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

glBegin the day with a glRenderMode GL_COMPRESS_RED unobtrusive GL_DISPLAY_LIST song that's so elusive and GL_MIPMAP GL_MATRIX_MODE your GL_MODELVIEW GL_OFFSET your way, GL_SHADER_IMAGE_LOAD there glGetUniformLocation for GL_INVALID_OPERATION GL_AMBIENT_AND_DIFFUSE in your happy GL_COLOR GL_BLUE

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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Always a typo when something takes off. "GL_COMPRESSED_RED"

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 13/09/2026

Again: it should not be down to a social media campaign for someone at Valve, which takes a 30% cut of every sale, to do their job

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 13/09/2026

I will probably be as repetitive about this like I am with backups, bodies, and batteries. Australians, plan to be where you want on July 22 2028 to see the total solar eclipse, you ferals.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"You are educated stupid" -- Time Cube website in 90s, accurately predicting the impact of AI on education 30 years earlier

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026

Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

email from dumb fucking service i never use: phishing-like request to verify default payment method logging in: hey, multi-factor is now required, plz set up me: i don't want to set up MFA for you. that's as good a reason as any to delete account service: can't delete until you log in! FUCK YOU

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When reactionaries advance some bullshit, the FIRST thing to do is identify the framing and reject it They're selling this as "trans rights vs. women's sports" when they hate both those things and want to ruin them both Accept the frame and you've lost Reject the frame and call bullshit

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/09/2026

Traffic a few kilos of drugs in a boat while being Hispanic? Death by missile, without trial. Set up the world's biggest online drugs marketplace? Guest of honour.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026

The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.

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