Game dev learning about Marxism and getting her hands dirty with SFF. Game producer/designer, begrudging artist. Friend to all birds. 🦜 DC 🌸 Making an activity zine for nerds: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chloegamedev/nerdtivities
When people die and the media says they had “pre-existing conditions”… they’re pacifying the public. Anyone could die from Cyclosporiasis, but they want you to believe it can’t happen to you. It can only happen to the weak, the disabled, the elderly. The expendable people. Eugenics.
Two Deaths Linked to Cyclospora Outbreak in MichiganThe patients had “significant underlying health conditions” that may have contributed to their deaths, health officials said.www.nytimes.com
Workers are culturally oppressed by commercial/capitalist slop in both its human-created & AI-generated forms. It's right and good to hate it and to develop and share criticisms of it to help others to articulate their feelings & observations about it as it suppresses & corrupts better options. 1/
Slop NuggetsAlt: Slop Nuggets food in a pan in saucestatic.klipy.com
If you're looking for a direct way to help laid-off devs, check this out https://kotaku.com/itchio-game-developer-hardship-bundle-necrosoft-games-layoffs-unionization-2000720782
Game Devs Put Together An Itch.io Bundle Of Over 100 Games With Proceeds Going To Help Laid-Off Colleagues - KotakuThe Game Industry Hardship Fund bundle contains over 100 games and will be on sale for the next two weekskotaku.com
btw if the ESA or any of these studios wanted to put together an initiative to provide financial relief to laid off game workers, they have ~$60M in total assets that they could allocate towards one. They're welcome to reach out to me if they need info on how to set one up.
Shayna Moon (she/they)Devs, pay attention to who is actually, practically offering support to our laid off colleagues. It’s not the companies, it’s not the ESA, it’s the union, it’s us.
What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
Fuck AI and every anti-human dipshit who celebrates it
The Irish TimesAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
guys we are lost in the blair witch woods im gonna need you to stop arguing and lock the fuck in
'but AI is the only way i can afford to make an event flyer' notebook paper. sharpie. here is my event. photograph with phone. post. be less stupid in the future
We will be ready to have a real discussion about Covid when we accept the fact that “the vulnerable will fall by the wayside,” said by Fauci, under Biden, was eugenicist policy.
🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 othersGame industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00itch.io
This shit is not inevitable, it could be made illegal tomorrow if our governments weren't in the pocket of Big Pervert.
Unofficial CTV News MirrorAI devices that see, listen and record: Are we ready for the post-smartphone world?
there’s a study from Australia going around framed as “cats aren’t actually that bad for wildlife” because only a tiny percentage of animals admitted for wildlife rehabilitation were injured by cats similarly, skydiving accidents aren’t dangerous because few people are hospitalized as a result
