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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 24/04/2026

Saros Review: Housemarque comes back stronger with a bold Returnal follow-up ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.videogameschronicle.com/review/saros...

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Nik is an utterly fearless writer, in the running for one of the funniest people I’ve ever known, and without a doubt the greatest boss I’ve ever had. Fortnite would not be Fortnite without him. It is beyond stupid that he was laid off today. If you’re smart you’ll snatch him up for your team now.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Why agentic AI creeps out women: because it's written by bros for bros who want Stepford Wives, and conveys that vibe: commercial AIs are fine-tuned to perform as cheerfully submissive handmaids, not working partners: abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-buil…

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Guillaume D. @gdeleur.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Plutôt que relayer l'encyclopédie en ligne du milliardaire nazi, faisons un don à l'organisation qui gère Wikipedia. ♡

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Faire un don – Fondation Wikimedia

Votre don contribue à préserver le droit humain à la connaissance libre et ouverte pour tous.

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Johannes Herrmann (Phylloscopus) @taigasangare.eurosky.social · 20/10/2025

Les Français : veulent des services publics, des écoles, des hôpitaux, de la justice fiscale Le RN : vote contre tout ça à chaque occasion Les Français : sont près de 50 % à juger le RN proche de leurs préoccupations.

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Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 03/09/2025

Le Conseil d’analyse économique et l’Insee viennent de publier des études qui montrent une réalité bien différente de celle émanant du récit idyllique de l’Élysée et du gouvernement quant au succès de la politique fiscale menée depuis 2017. Par @mathiasthepot.bsky.social‬

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Fiscalité : deux rapports accablent la politique pro-riches de l’exécutif

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 15/08/2025

Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy... ...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 26/06/2025

This is it. This is why the alarm about AI mostly ought to be a much much deeper and more urgent alarm about the completely broken social and cultural environment many of us live in now.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

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Simon Wasselin @simonwasselin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Je serais à Paris et Lyon début Avril pour une formation sur mon travail et l'aboutissement de mes années à travailler sur des jeux narratifs !

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 10/03/2025

An interesting French study shows that more women are finding it harder and harder to pair up with the growing number of men who don't see them as human beings with rights and aspirations to equality. A major surprise. 😁

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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Libération @liberation.fr · 12/02/2025

Plus un parti est à droite, plus il diffuse des fake news Conclusion d'une étude néerlandaise qui a analysé 32 millions de messages postés sur Twitter par des parlementaires de 26 pays, dont la France ➡️ bit.ly/40MucD2

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beyondthosehills | Cat Detective Albert Wilde is OUT NOW @beyondthosehills.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

😺 OUR GAME IS OUT TODAY ON PC! 😺 🐈‍⬛ 🕵️ Cat Detective Albert Wilde, a noir puppet sci-fi mystery adventure about a feline PI who discovers a wormhole in spacetime. It’s a comedy! Launch Trailer: youtu.be/qNeUxX_IOnU Check now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1810670/

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Cat Detective Albert Wilde- Official Launch Trailer

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Mikko Rautalahti @mikkihel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This Neil Gaiman thing really just reinforces my stance that if you put someone on a pedestal, you're not only making a mistake, you're doing damage. Do not idolize people. Sure, like the work, respect them as people, like you would anyone. But don't think of them as special. That way lies trouble.

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François Malaussena (@malopedia) @malauss.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

J'en ai plein le cul d'entendre ce mensonge. Le déficit public de la France, le solde quoi, est d'environ 180 milliards. Le montant des aides publiques aux entreprises est de 223 milliards. Si c'est pas finançable, c'est juste parce qu'on a fait le choix de financer autre chose.

Capture d'écran du tweet cité, à savoir : https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/1878863773689094626

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I will never forget my old lead designer at Turbine, Chris Clay, who had a rule: Never spend more time talking about a design in a meeting than it would take to prototype it and see. I was in plenty of meetings where he suddenly slapped the table and invoked Clay's Law

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Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com · 19/11/2024

News from our Capital Markets day: 🔦 Alan Wake 2 has sold over 1.8M units 🔻 Control Ultimate Edition will release on Mac February 12th 2025 💥 Control 2 will be an action RPG 🎁 Control will receive a free update in early 2025, unlocking some previously released content 🔎 buff.ly/4eCBQEU

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Simon Wasselin @simonwasselin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Since "echo chambers" is again used over and over.

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Simon Wasselin @simonwasselin.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

If you are interested into the behind the scenes on Alan Wake 2, the team GDC talks presentation are available there, including the one I did with @llyann.bsky.social - It's only the slides but it gives a good idea of what we talked about !

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Explore Remedy’s Game Developer Conference 2024 Talks on Creating Alan Wake 2

Dive into the knowledge behind our most ambitious game and explore our technical innovations in Northlight.

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Malindy @yourkyotowife.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

I was sp charmed by @simonwasselin.bsky.social and @llyann.bsky.social 's GDC talk that...I wrote it down! Thanks to James for letzibg me do this, and thanks to the two of you for a great talk😊 www.gamesindustry.biz/fulfilling-f...

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Fulfilling fantasies and building investment: The narrative design of Alan Wake 2

Last year's Alan Wake 2 released to critical acclaim, winning awards such as the game Award for best narrative at the 2…

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

I made a collage of all the Sisters of Battle and Space Marine pride couple I've taken a picture of. Still a WIP. #warhammer40k #WarhammerCommunity #warhammerisforeveryone

Collage of 6 pictures of space marine and sister of battle, each painted using matching pride color. From top to bottom, left to right : gay men, non binary, asexual, bisexual, trans and lesbian pride.

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