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“I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran. In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them." - Hillary Clinton on ABC's Good Morning America, April 2008

If you ever wondered why the first Dragon Age took over 6 years to develop (and almost got canceled), this article goes into partly why: the team couldn't agree on what *kind* of fantasy our new fantasy game was going to be. Yes, there's an alternate universe out there where it was more Conan. 😉

The Houthis will avenge Bioware

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Say what you will about BioWare but, at its height, it was the best at what it did and I'm very honoured to have trained and worked with some of the finest folks in the industry. I've been away 10 years now, but I'll always be glad for my time there. *Salute*

A great piece by Alberto C. Medina www.thenation.com/article/worl...

How To Play Golf Against The Man Whose Wife You're Banging On The Side

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has revealed the iconic box art for Grand Theft Auto 3 happened because of a last-minute change. "The old cover art was probably being too offensive to release after 9/11 because they were burning buildings in it." https://bit.ly/4s5motA #IGN30

And now, Richard Garriott, AKA "Lord British," has claimed back the rights to the groundbreaking Ultima series of computer role-playing games, which he sold to Electronic Arts in 1992: www.videogameschronicle.com/news/richard...

"I'm still an activist and a warrior for the people, and I'll continue till I die."

Doom 2016's composer Mick Gordon: "F**k AI" https://bit.ly/4jdmSve

Apparently William Shatner went on Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes' podcast and talked about the 2025 gay romantic film PILLION. @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social @brendelbored.bsky.social

Advanced Technology Will Not Save Us "The plot hole in techno-utopianism is that technologies don’t emerge in a vacuum: they are always controlled by somebody, and those somebodies always wind up being the people who control everything else." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/advanced-t...

Americans, who started this war bombing a girlschool, and who have been funding an infanticide for three years, thinks its scandalous Iran has Russian weapons. Are you people fucking stupid? You are finding out now Iran and Russia are allies? WHAT DO YOU THINK ALL THIS BULLSHIT COLD WAR IS FOR?!

This is one of my go-to feel good stories. theonion.com/corporation-...

Gamer: Get this political propaganda off my video games! (the propaganda is the main character is female) Also Gamer: *plays Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4*

Literally all these dudes

wrote about this stuff last year, think it stands up

Btw this is infinitely worse than saying “America deserved 9/11”

Former Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios CEO Shawn Layden has said Sony can't get away with launching the PlayStation 6 console as an all digital, disc-less console. https://bit.ly/4ATLbEM

How Israel annexes Palestinian land - via IG: leila.shw

the tech industry is about to invent books

Having an AI agent take my mindfulness & meditation class for me.

The NYT is ok with extremist ideology as an anecdote in a profile—but highly allergic to any deeper examination of the ideology itself. No one gets to write an op-ed explaining any of this. That’s not allowed. But a billionaire can drop it in a quote as a passing comment.

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

Carl Sagan A brilliant human who lived during our lifetimes "This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so... brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power."

“You could see the murals on the wall. You could see the soccer field. Some of the satellite photos show shadows of tiny people playing outside.”

This is everything that David and Larry Ellison now own

Jared Kushner is key to understanding the Trump regime’s global scale of corruption. No talent, no morals—just bottomless greed, access to power. @cjcmichel.bsky.social exposes him in a new book, “United States of Oligarchy.” Here’s our talk (get him on your show!) youtu.be/8LDhLXOwjcI?...

another day at the machine learning factory. everyone keeps asking me if the machine is intelligent. buddy, they won’t even let me fuck it

For context youtu.be/W5zpd-n-GFc?...

"The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity."

Saying You Listen To AI Music Is Like Saying You Have An AI Girlfriend "When you’re talking about human interaction, which is what art is at its very nature, it absolutely does matter if there’s someone on the other end of it." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/saying-you...

Your son's playdates are LOST CAPITAL. Listen to Jay Weingarten, a man very comfortable around information.

A professional Pokémon player is going viral after begging his fellow competitors to keep up with their personal hygiene, claiming he literally threw up at an event due to someone’s stench. https://bit.ly/4hSEc7w

Has the Gaza ceasefire "ended up just buying more time for the genocide"?

Night Flower: Inside AIPAC’s Fight for Influence Coming soon from Zeteo.

. . . #StarWars #McDonalds #Fries #RogueOne #SawGerrera

Jensen Huang is such an idiot

“It’s continuing now. There is no ceasefire. People are getting killed every day.” Doctor @hamawyfornj.bsky.social protests Israeli PM Netanyahu and Israel’s genocide in Gaza in New York City.

Cory Doctorow reckons the AI Bubble is about to burst. Is he right? @doctorow.pluralistic.net