Massive Corporation
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Education + Game Development
We make videos, books, video, board and card games to educate and inspire.
We're here to support educators & indie creators!
Authors of The Teacher's Guide To Scratch book series (Routledge, 2024)
https://www.massivecorp.ca
We make videos, books, video, board and card games to educate and inspire.
We're here to support educators & indie creators!
Authors of The Teacher's Guide To Scratch book series (Routledge, 2024)
https://www.massivecorp.ca
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Couldn't personally verify this, but TTRPG devs check your stuff. It wouldn't be the first time the boulder of society-scale problems has rolled downhill into where we build our houses.
so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with 'nsfw', 'adult', or 'erotic' so they don't show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning
July 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Couldn't personally verify this, but TTRPG devs check your stuff. It wouldn't be the first time the boulder of society-scale problems has rolled downhill into where we build our houses.
Itch, if you have to relocate to Canada, there are people here that will help you.
July 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Itch, if you have to relocate to Canada, there are people here that will help you.
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Prediction by me: after lighting a trillion dollars on fire for so-called ‘AI’ with negative ROI, our stock market and economy will collapse. It’s only a question of when, not if.
www.youtube.com/live/9ELXACQ...
CMU paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161
www.youtube.com/live/9ELXACQ...
CMU paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161
July 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Prediction by me: after lighting a trillion dollars on fire for so-called ‘AI’ with negative ROI, our stock market and economy will collapse. It’s only a question of when, not if.
www.youtube.com/live/9ELXACQ...
CMU paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161
www.youtube.com/live/9ELXACQ...
CMU paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161
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One year ago today 🌿
Hay bales starting their migration south in North Park. Once huge herds of these covered the plains, today their numbers are greatly reduced. These are done fattening up before their long journey rolling south.
Hay bales starting their migration south in North Park. Once huge herds of these covered the plains, today their numbers are greatly reduced. These are done fattening up before their long journey rolling south.
July 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
One year ago today 🌿
Hay bales starting their migration south in North Park. Once huge herds of these covered the plains, today their numbers are greatly reduced. These are done fattening up before their long journey rolling south.
Hay bales starting their migration south in North Park. Once huge herds of these covered the plains, today their numbers are greatly reduced. These are done fattening up before their long journey rolling south.
You may not like it, but it's cold hard logic.
#spiderman
#spiderman
July 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
You may not like it, but it's cold hard logic.
#spiderman
#spiderman
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If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you.
They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.
They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.
July 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you.
They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.
They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.
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If you want to get involved in fighting these here, check out @fightforthefuture.org's "Bad Internet Bills" campaign as a starting point.
www.badinternetbills.com
www.badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
www.badinternetbills.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you want to get involved in fighting these here, check out @fightforthefuture.org's "Bad Internet Bills" campaign as a starting point.
www.badinternetbills.com
www.badinternetbills.com
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Promote your friends' bands/books as much as you would your own it is so good for your soul.
July 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Promote your friends' bands/books as much as you would your own it is so good for your soul.
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Educators, you have to resist AI. That includes LLMs for "research" as well as AI classroom assistants. Advocate for admin to spend that money on your classrooms, not by handing it over to some weird tech bro who wants to buy another yacht.
June 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Educators, you have to resist AI. That includes LLMs for "research" as well as AI classroom assistants. Advocate for admin to spend that money on your classrooms, not by handing it over to some weird tech bro who wants to buy another yacht.
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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Thinking about this scene from Patlabor 2 for reasons
Patlabor 2: Unnatural city
YouTube video by blueskdragonFX
www.youtube.com
June 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Thinking about this scene from Patlabor 2 for reasons
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There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.
June 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.
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and yes, this is a bunnyhug
June 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
and yes, this is a bunnyhug
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Episodes
1959 • Martha Graham and George Balanchine
1959 • Martha Graham and George Balanchine
June 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Episodes
1959 • Martha Graham and George Balanchine
1959 • Martha Graham and George Balanchine
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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
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Finally submitted a piece today for a book on AI.
Feels great to get that done, but it's also kinda awkward wanting to use what I just wrote about 4000 times a day to put a cold dose of reality on AI hype conmen posts.
I hope it gets read, the world needs a lot more AI criticism.
Feels great to get that done, but it's also kinda awkward wanting to use what I just wrote about 4000 times a day to put a cold dose of reality on AI hype conmen posts.
I hope it gets read, the world needs a lot more AI criticism.
May 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Finally submitted a piece today for a book on AI.
Feels great to get that done, but it's also kinda awkward wanting to use what I just wrote about 4000 times a day to put a cold dose of reality on AI hype conmen posts.
I hope it gets read, the world needs a lot more AI criticism.
Feels great to get that done, but it's also kinda awkward wanting to use what I just wrote about 4000 times a day to put a cold dose of reality on AI hype conmen posts.
I hope it gets read, the world needs a lot more AI criticism.
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A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
May 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
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artists support each other when systems will not. there's little safety net. it is resilience. artists are not your competitors. artists are your peers, mentors, and the ones who will defend the ability to create sustainably.
to those who struggle to continue drawing,
you are an artist.
to those who struggle to continue drawing,
you are an artist.
May 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
artists support each other when systems will not. there's little safety net. it is resilience. artists are not your competitors. artists are your peers, mentors, and the ones who will defend the ability to create sustainably.
to those who struggle to continue drawing,
you are an artist.
to those who struggle to continue drawing,
you are an artist.
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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
May 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
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Basically every study that claims to find benefits for "AI" in anything ... doesn't. At least WSJ bothered to report the retraction. Usually it's breathless slop all day.
Oh my word! This working paper was presented at an NBER conf and up at arxiv. MIT has asked for it to be pulled from arxiv and asked that it be withdrawn from consideration at QJE. Gift link.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-...
MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper
The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.
www.wsj.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Basically every study that claims to find benefits for "AI" in anything ... doesn't. At least WSJ bothered to report the retraction. Usually it's breathless slop all day.
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dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves
dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy
dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy
May 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves
dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy
dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy