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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Sep 10

I see this coming in Ed and in the arts, and why I wanted to make this statement for my students in the face of the university investing millions in ai that in my experience neither students nor professors want… bsky.app/profile/nsou...

Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 24

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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Walaber @walaber.com · 9h

Replicube is on sale for $7 USD to celebrate Ada Lovelace day (along with many other programming-related games). Check out the sale here: store.steampowered.com/curator/4258...

Ada Lovelace Day 2025

Every second Tuesday of October Ada Lovelace Day is celebrated - to commemorate the famous English mathematician of the XIX century, and the first programmer in history.<br /> <br /> To mark this occa...

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Erin Catto @erincatto.bsky.social · 1d

When your graphics programmer tells you to stop simulating off-screen cloth, show them this video.

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DevteamLife @devteamlife.com · 8h

Me right now
I'll post a google form soon so you can help me with this glossary

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Protopop @protopop.bsky.social · 24d

Procedurally generated rivers in Wilderless: #DuneBarrens. Here I've spawned a few along a ridge. Rivers combine naturally creating a massive cliffside waterfall. You can see how UNDO works too - erasing individual rivers leaving the original landscape😀
NimianLegends.com

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An Alex @salusasuckondeez.bsky.social · 4d

Just rolled credits on Venba, I think it might be the best game I've played this year 😍

My highest compliments to everyone who collaborated to bring it to life 😊

@visaigames.bsky.social👏 @brownmoney.bsky.social👏
@kgooble.bsky.social 👏
Sam Elkana👏
@nehapolitan.bsky.social👏 @alphasomething.com👏

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 11h

that face when other countries have laws apply even for super rich people

sad openai sam altman guy zoomed in on image of quoted post.

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Raigan Burns @raiganburns.bsky.social · 11h

If we had a proper *group* response (much better air quality indoors), masking wouldn't be as necessary.

Try to apply this to water: "if I don't filter my water, sometimes I'll get cholera" -- in the short-term, personal filtering makes sense; the real long-term solution is water treatment plants.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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_nadine @nadinel.bsky.social · 11h

I never got into using protien powder. But if you do use them, just a general heads up.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Emilia (halloween name) @lazerwalker.com · 10h

I love this because it does absolutely nothing to explain to newcomers what GDC (or the "festival of gaming") is or why they should attend, while also deeply alienating anyone who has gone in the past who just wants a professional conference for networking.

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 13h

🎮 PIXELS → POWER-UPS → PURE MAGIC ✨
Next week changes everything.
GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 registration launches!

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 10h

With #IGF judging starting again, here are a couple of reminders to devs for things to look out for:

1) Include at least one screenshot with your IGF game entry. If you don't include a screenshot, your game shows up with a broken image icon next to the title in all judges discussions.

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That Guy Mike @thatguymike.bsky.social · 9h

Home appliances.

I have smart lighting but strictly on local networks only, I refuse to get any smart fridge/washer/toaster etc

If it can function without being online, it’s not going online. If it needs to be online I’m not buying it.

It’s all so invasive and unnecessary.

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 16h

i have never, not once, listened to a song on spotify unless it was playing at somebody else's place

what are you a luddite about

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Tom Marks @tomrmarks.bsky.social · 14h

My policy has always been that I would rather take the time to make a better review that doesn't burn out my writers than rush to hit an arbitrary marketing beat a publisher didn't actually give us enough time to meet.

In that context, it's not a hard decision.

Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 17h

i remember crunching to review BotW and the Switch 1 in a week and a half and I was so miserable coming out of that period. Never again. Grateful to @tomrmarks.bsky.social and IGN for being supportive of this, and to @ignunion.bsky.social for the backup in taking back the overtime I did work.

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Douglas @dmgregory.ca · 14h

There's an old programmer koan:

The novice is training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe

Why random? "So that it will have no preconceptions of how to play"

The master closes his eyes

Why close your eyes? "So that the room will be empty"

Invisibility is not the same as absence!

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 1d

The fundamental divide is between…

Those who live off wages

And those who live of wealth

But those who live of wealth will do everything in their power to convince you the divide is between immigrants and non-immigrants, black and white, trans and non-trans…

… ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE REALITY.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 17h

Our economy is running on the spending of the top 10%. It does not care about the bottom 60%. I think this is also why they aren't pushing for universal basic income right when you'd think they would to maintain consumer buying power. Our consumer economy has become reoriented around elite spending.

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Douglas @dmgregory.ca · 14h

"No brand is pushing a product to you"

No, we're just training an AI on the *output* of brands pushing products to you, and then using algorithms to link it to ads/shop pages of brands pushing products to you, and pretending that wedging in code as a middle man makes it "neutral" or "unbiased"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration. www.theverge.com/news/798174/...

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Devon W. @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 1d

make a cave level

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Nick Fox-Gieg @n1ckfg.bsky.social · 1d

I'd been seeing occasional posts claiming that no new protected bike lanes were going up in TO this year--very glad to hear that's not the case

kanchan m @kayehm.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all knew about most of these last week, but here are some more recent photos from the Chief Planner.

Add'l info:
Harbord is done from Queens Park to Grace. To Ossington should be done by early November with bike 🚦
Queens Quay - new bike🚦is also imminent
Esplanade - so much much more coming

Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 1d

Toronto’s Cycling and Pedestrian Projects Team continues to hit it out of the park. Out for a ride today and here’s just some of the new cycling facilities that I came across. New concrete planters and permanent curbs on Harbord Street. /1

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 21h

As Josh Sawyer points out, keeping things like Fallout and D&D grounded in history is very wise indeed.

▶️ www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/rp...

RPG vet Josh Sawyer keeps things like Fallout and D&D grounded in history because 'Once things get too magical… it's impossible to bring it back down to Earth'

Which is also why Deadfire is the best CRPG of at least the last decade, just saying.

www.pcgamer.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 1d

this is such a small thing

but I really adore how my interface is beginning to coalesce into a visually-consistent style

a screenshot of video game, featuring lush poppy colours against a paper-coloured grid

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

Columbian Exchange Day is a great idea because it proves how much and how recently most national-cultural identities were constructed out of diverse global components.

If you can't imagine Italian, German, Korean, Indian, or any other national food without new world plants, what are they, really?

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sympathetic to business owners who aren’t at fault for sure — but the “Canadians are nice” thing doesn’t extend to invasion threats and economic warfare, and US media blaming foreign nations for their fuck-ups is the state media machine hard at work

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 1d

America’s christofascist technofeudalist movement is hurting innocent bystanders

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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