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🌵Disobey @disobey.gg · Sep 15

Are you a #ContentCreator who loves classic shoot-'em-up arcade action & couch co-op chaos? 👀🚀

Platypus Reclayed launches September 18th & we've got Steam keys thanks to @claymatic.games 😍🔑

Fill out the form if you're interested & tag a creator who'd LOVE to play! 👇

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John O’Shea @johnoshea.bsky.social · Sep 15

Interesting article in @nowthenmag.bsky.social highlighting independent game makers in Sheffield and asking why videogames are not more widely celebrated as culture -

sean morley @seanmorl.com · Sep 15

My latest for @nowthenmag.bsky.social.

Does Sheffield have an indie games scene?
With indie games on the rise, I'm interested in how and why games are rarely claimed as part of local arts and culture by the cities they were created in.
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/doe...

Does Sheffield have an indie games scene?

Video games are mega – both very good and economically gigantic – but we have very little awareness of where they come from. Sean Morley speaks with local indie developers and asks why games aren’t co...

nowthenmagazine.com

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The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social · Aug 11

One ticket. All summer. Unlimited play.

For the first time ever, we’ve introduced a new summer ticket – your key to unlimited visits to the National Videogame Museum until the 1st September.

✅ One ticket
✅ Unlimited visits
✅ All summer long!

Book your ticket - thenvm.org

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John O’Shea @johnoshea.bsky.social · Aug 8

One for Friday post-work chatter / Man says HR are getting involved after he called the company AI Chatbot a “clanker” www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...

From the LegalAdviceUK community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the LegalAdviceUK community

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John O’Shea @johnoshea.bsky.social · Aug 6

…And then a flying visit to see the @gameslondon.bsky.social team and collect a mysterious & beautiful object they were looking after, for a future display @nvmuk.bsky.social. (thanks @ustwogames.co.uk - more soon!)

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John O’Shea @johnoshea.bsky.social · Aug 6

On the road today for a change - returning some loan items to Lumino City makers State of Play (models that starred in @nvmuk.bsky.social’s Art of Play exhibition.)

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Jul 14

UK's oldest Flymo inducted into the British Lawnmower Museum in Southport. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK's oldest Flymo inducted into British Lawnmower Museum

The 53-year-old blue Flymo has been passed through three generations of the same family.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Jul 11

🎙️ If you missed the most recent episode of FUTURE KNOWLEDGE, now’s a great time to listen. Cory Doctorow talks about THE INTERNET CON: his guide to loosening Big Tech’s grip & reclaiming a more open web.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

Illustration for the "Future Knowledge" podcast, Episode #4, The Internet Con with Cory Doctorow. Features a photo of Doctorow in his office set against a surreal, retro-futuristic background that blends past and future elements, including a bust of a Roman figure, an old Macintosh-type computer, etc. At the bottom, bold text reads: “FUTURE KNOWLEDGE.”

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John O’Shea @johnoshea.bsky.social · Jul 11

Will see you at BitSummit! Make sure to get across to Expo in Osaka too!

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · Jul 7

"We can have clean water or privatised water but we can’t have both"

"The British public is right, the evidence supports them"

The new people's commission report is crystal clear that PUBLIC OWNERSHIP is the answer after 35 years of failed privatisation

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

www.theguardian.com

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John O’Shea @johnoshea.bsky.social · Jul 7

Great post by @zoyander.cc reflecting the uncanny loneliness of the internet and sharing some strategies for escaping the algorithmic void:

Zoyander Street @zoyander.cc · Jul 7

the lonely internet (reading a blog post): https://peertube.intrapology.com/w/5MrADbk3EznZwZfnehybB4

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John O’Shea @johnoshea.bsky.social · Jun 29

In other news, the train I’ve boarded this afternoon has had to be turned around due to a sinkhole developing in Mirfield. 🕳️ #uktrains #Mirfield #sinkhole

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jun 24

The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate.

A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jun 23

Similar to asbestos or unexploded munitions, the fallout of the LLM era will persist long after the apps are abandoned, because their outputs have been snuck into the corpus by copy-pasting fools.

The longer chatbots force themselves into every workflow, the longer it will take to decontaminate.

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · Apr 13

3. "Informational Microplastics" - the artefacts invariably produced as a function of how these models work will be present undetected in Scientific journals and web pages. "ScamTech" will doubtless have web pages generated to "answer" searches with pages of bland, subtly incorrect, blather.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jun 20

This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.

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Luke Hebblethwaite @lukethehebble.bsky.social · Jun 17

Am about to walk through these sacred doors for the first time 🤩🎮✨

@nvmuk.bsky.social

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John O’Shea @johnoshea.bsky.social · Jun 17

Welcome Luke!

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · Jun 7

One last post before I rest for the weekend. Truly a bit overwhelmed to receive this review from a writer who I respect so much. Thanks @lucywebster.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Design and Disability review – ‘A world-shaping, boundary-breaking joy of a show’

From self-tightening shoes to an all-purpose hands-free vibrator, this superb exhibition demonstrates that disability-led culture and design is about so much more than ramps

www.theguardian.com

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