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Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks! he/him

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · Jul 29

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!

Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
👉 futurenothanks.com

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 1d

His better known work is less blocky but still, what a geek!

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 1d

Today I learned about Gerhard Munthe, who, in the early 20th century, designed some extremely Atari-looking tapestries with titles like "Blood Tower"

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 2d

All experts agree: the world simply doesn’t have enough homework to cheat on to justify all these AI investments
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 2d

I enjoyed cooking books for my Poket Boss, the new minimalist masterpiece by @mariov.ch / playables.

It's a game in which you stoke flaccid growth charts and sculpt data like clay, and I honestly can't think of a more relevant concept for 2025.

Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 7d

Need a new job? Pocket Boss is OUT NOW!

pocketboss.ch 📊 💬

A delightfully odd fusion of work and play. Now available on iOS, Android, Steam and itch.io.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d

I've been thinking about this flash game I played the other day because it reduces the Congress down entirely to "pro oil" "?" or "pro environment" and as the oil oligarch, you just grease
either party's pockets to get them to pass your bills.

One of the better simulations of US politics honestly.

Oiligarchy

Now you can be the protagonist of the petroleum era: explore and drill around the world, corrupt politicians, stop alternative energies and increase the oil addiction. Be sure to have fun before the r...

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 3d

"It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of media-ready Palestinian or Palestinian-American guests to choose from, chief among them Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who has not appeared on any of the major Sunday news shows since 2019."

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

inthesetimes.com

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 6d

Look, editors at The Atlantic and CNN are literally working for the state of Israel, fundraising for the IDF, ghost-writing ambassadors' speeches, while pretending to do journalism for """"""liberal"""""" media.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/david-frum...

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 6d

I just learned about sports betting farms, where bored, underpaid workers play games day and night for the sole purpose of online betting.

They have to create sports-looking content to trigger the same dopamine hits of "real", culturally embedded competitions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4f5...

Inside Russia's creepy sport farms

YouTube video by Search Party

www.youtube.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6d

One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 10d

Their goal is to make kids indifferent to Gaza and democracy, in a way or another

Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 10d

Honestly, I would trade all the progressive NGOs and media plus all the leftist yappers, scholars, and entertainers in the United States for ONE functioning labor union.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

apnews.com

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 10d

I don't know, I understand that deepseek was trained on chatGPT so once a big model is trained you can make smaller ones by "distillation". I think the fidelity of Sora has more to do with the amateur shaky, blurry material it was trained on, imperfections are harder to spot.

Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 10d

Porn is always at the forefront of technological innovation and I don't think AI-porn is taking over beyond the niche of specific kinks that are not fully served by rule 34. Maybe hybrid deepfakes, beautifying etc.

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 10d

Yes that's exactly where I was going, also considering how many videos generated by Sora are CCTV and bodycam-style.

Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 10d

Even if it fails as a platform, the technology is here to stay, and every amateur video of, say, a police shooting will be doubted until there’s an extensive forensic analysis.

Alas, journalists and amateur sleuths won’t be able to verify whether every girl videoblogging from Gaza is real or not.

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 10d

On the upside, with its blatant copyright infringements and unsustainable costs, it feel like OpenAI’s last ditch attempt to stay alive and keep the bubble bubbling for a few more weeks.

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 10d

It’s the infinite typewriter given to us, infinite monkeys, except instead of recreating Shakespeare, we’re maintaining a big, dumb fidget spinner. One that trashes the planet and drains natural and financial resources in the process.

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 10d

Perfect if you enjoy brain rot and attention hack memes, but for the rest of us it’s just a paranoia machine draining all the residual joy and usefulness out of TikTok and its clones.

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 10d

Some thoughts after looking at Sora 2’s output.

I think it's going to kill short-form video as we know it. Its very existence undermines any expectation of information or authenticity.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11d

This is very good: www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

www.weekendreading.net

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 12d

@davidlublin.bsky.social !

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 16d

EA: Can a computer make you cry?

Saudi rulers, torturing a political dissident: Interesting!

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 18d

NEW: CNN has published a poll showing that socialists, compared with progressives, skew

* Female
* POC
* Young
* Educated, and
* Poor

www.peoplesline.org/p/the-demogr...

The demographics of progressives and socialists

Some rare insights from an unusual CNN poll

www.peoplesline.org

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 18d

Loving Consume Me. Funny, snappy, and original.
It tackles issues of body image, academic expectations, and coming-of-age dramas in a surprisingly compelling way. The metaphorical mini-games are all masterfully interwoven into the overarching life-sim gameplay.
store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

Save 10% on Consume Me on Steam

did you feel stupid, fat, lazy, and ugly in high school? well i did...but at least i made a life-simulation RPG about it!

store.steampowered.com

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