Sam Seltzer-Johnston

ai bubble popping in china www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

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proud to present the new key art for SUPER LONE SURVIVOR <3 (portrait by bime) have updated the steam store for the relaunch tomorrow! tell your friends😷

. Moderna & Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42% Moderna & Merck's personalized mRNA vaccines against melanoma demonstrate how mRNA technology has the potential to fundamentally challenge how cancer is treated. #CancerCureResearch arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Found a tree frog while harvesting pears 🐸

Starting a new project? Turn on and enforce the following right now: -sRGB for all rendertargets and source textures. -premultiplied alpha in both textures and blending. -fixed-point world time and world position. Retrofitting these after the fact is a giant pain. Learn from my (repeated) fail!

Hello! I'm looking to speak to: 1. Devs involved in the decompilation scene who can speak to how the community has been affected by AI. 2. Devs who have or suspect they have had their game copied by AI vibe coders. If either of those is you, contact me at rick@ricklane.co.uk. Shares appreciated!

3am mental connection: - fast travel in video games - creating things with AI - exclusively going outside for errands or to get somewhere else all of these reduce opportunities for serendipity, they prevent you from enjoying the now by recontextualizing your surroundings as a means to an end

Some of my thoughts about the surge in AI-generated papers, why this feels like a completely new kind of problem, and what this means for how we evaluate science in biology. Out now in PLOS Biology: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

To get personal for a moment: Losing my house set Deductopia back a full year. But settlements won't compensate me because I can't prove that Deductopia would have made money. Buying Deductopia when it comes out will help prove my job is real work. store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/...

California’s billionaires have a combined net worth of $2.4 trillion. Under Prop 40, their net worth would fall to…just under $2.3 trillion. What amounts to a rounding error for them would allow millions of their fellow Californians to afford healthcare. Vote yes on Prop 40.

🧪🧬🔬 Personalized mRNA cancer vaccines can train the immune system to target mutations unique to one patient’s tumor. www.nexthorizon.space/2026/09/can-... #Science #Biology #Health #Healthcare #Research #Cancer #Vaccines #mRNA #Biotech #Oncology

Same vibes...

Amateur radio history survives because people saved it. Much more was lost in attics and basements. 📻 Kay Savetz on recovering magazines, recordings, and manuals. 📚 "Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications" is in VANISHING CULTURE. 📖 Download & read, FREE: archive.org/details/vani...

Penguin Colony is now available store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/...

i think about this comic by junkworldusa a lot

Much of the advocacy around age verification discusses the privacy harms of age verification. Yet these measures also threaten something more fundamental: equal access to information and the ability to exercise free expression. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The treasure Kelly Clarkson couldn't walk away with.

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

Found a tree frog while harvesting pears 🐸

The most fun thing ever to randomly see

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

Equally thrilled and humbled to announce that our studio has secured $35M+ in our Series B to develop our upcoming "strandbox" game Gardens. Some new hints to what the Gardens grow, new key art, and a sign up for our Closed Pre-Alpha Playtests, in our new blog post! gardens.dev/blog/gardens...

Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...

This has been a gross side-effect of LLM code - people get a thing "running" but since they're not the ones who have to maintain the code, they kick it over the fence and expect others to deal with it Just a slurry of code that isn't thoughtful and maintainable for the future

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

An unbelievably cute crab I found on the rocks 🦀 It has such beautiful polka dots. Its eyes look sparkly at first, but when you zoom in they look totally wild because of the false pupils✨️ 【YouTube】https://youtube.com/shorts/QHS7NXundI4?si=ZaPQ345j2lR2nLiE

Coral hermit crabs are exceptionally tiny. They make their homes in reef cavities, about the diameter of a pencil. Taken on Green Island in Taiwan. #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #macrophotography #macro #eastcoastkin #scuba #photography

Oh, sweet jeebuz, CLEAN THE AIR already. 🤬 It's not rocket science. Ventilation (even open windows). Air filtration at building scale (e.g., higher MERV in HVAC), room scale (portable air cleaners), and even personal scale (masks). Maybe also stop withholding pediatric virus testing 🤬

At this "A.i." hearing at the NYC City Hall and so far it's all goofy talk about Skynet/Terminator "A.i." superintelligence scenarios and nothing about actual massive current harms of regular schmegular trash "A.i."

Hey everyone! I wanted to update my pinned post. ✨I have 5 years experience as an animator in the games industry. 🎨Looking for Animation, Concept Art, QA, Administrative, and other similar roles. 💼 Open to Remote or anywhere on the West Coast of the US. Thank you! #animator #animation

Still tiny, but already a pro at burrowing into the sand 🦀,, It looks like it’s winking and saying, “Watch me! Watch me!” So cute🫶 【YouTube】 youtube.com/shorts/ZCq0i...

Imperial tortoise beetle (Stolas imperialis) By far one of my favorite bugs to spot here Mairiporã, SP, Brasil #photography #fotografia #beetles #bugs #insects #blue #wildlife #nature #brazil #PhotographersOfBluesky

Part two of the version with ALT text. Apologies of missing it in the original!

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. - Version with ALT text! Thank you @virginiaopossum.bsky.social for the help!

Every month Failbetter invites a guest writer from the wider world of games and fiction to contribute a subscriber story. They’re brave and weird and funny and choice-driven and perhaps they could become a welcome part of your routine too. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/fa...

The 12yo has declared it Peniagone Sp. Sea Cucumber nicknamed “Loki” awareness day! This little weirdo recently discovered in 2,577 metres depth in the Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon off Argentina has horn-like appendages which reminded researchers of the Norse god.

life. oof. imitates. ugh. art. gah. or. ough. is. ugh. it. gah. the. oof. other. ugh. way. #indiegame #gaming #gamedev #fyp #cat

Friends who live in Japan: my family and I are going for a week in mid-February during my daughter’s school break. What should we DEFINITELY check out? Thinking Tokyo and Kyoto so far. We only have around 7 days, BTW.

I talked to the librarian at a tiny upstate NY library where the flyer for drop-in event where she'll help you remove the AI features of your phone has gone viral www.businessinsider.com/library-bye-...

A global pandemic killed an estimated 20 million people and still countries cannot agree to come together for the collective good. The US and EU objected en bloc to the UN declaration on future pandemics. www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

"Play with Friends with No Restrictions" - Seamless Co-Op Comes to Dark Souls II Thanks to This Mod