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Simon Wasselin @simonwasselin.bsky.social · 19d

Who cares about the Citizen Kane of videogame. The real question is who is the James Dean of videogame !

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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · Sep 16

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Mediapart @mediapart.fr · Sep 3

Le Conseil d’analyse économique et l’Insee viennent de publier des études qui montrent une réalité bien différente de celle émanant du récit idyllique de l’Élysée et du gouvernement quant au succès de la politique fiscale menée depuis 2017.

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Fiscalité : deux rapports accablent la politique pro-riches de l’exécutif

Le Conseil d’analyse économique et l’Insee viennent de publier des études qui montrent une réalité bien différente de celle émanant du récit idyllique de l’Élysée et du gouvernement quant au succès de la politique fiscale menée depuis 2017.

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · Aug 15

Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy...

...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Aug 15

Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · Jun 26

This is it. This is why the alarm about AI mostly ought to be a much much deeper and more urgent alarm about the completely broken social and cultural environment many of us live in now.

John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · Jun 26

The real AI arms race is between one another 🥰 nymag.com/intelligence...

Stories about Al deployment tend to fall into a few categories. You've got productivity stories, where workers — most visibly at tech companies — talk about how Al tools are making parts of their jobs easier or harder, increasing their workload or simply making them redundant and taking their jobs. You've got top-down management stories, where Al use is suggested or mandated by leaders demanding more efficiency, who are either betting that a great deal of automation is possible within their firms, or who are just worried about getting left behind.
Then you've got the stories in which people are more clearly using new Al tools against one another in an escalatory way.
Job hunters, now able to generate custom applications instantly, flood employers, so employers turn to Al to manage the glut. Spammers and other bad-faith actors flood social media with near-infinite material, pushing the platforms to double down on automated moderation.
Rapidly generated presentations lead to rapidly scheduled meetings recorded and automatically transcribed by AI assistants for machine summarization and analysis. Dating-app users generate chats with Al only to be filtered and then responded to by someone else using AI. The starkest and most consequential such story is what's happening in education: Teachers dealing with students who generate entire essays and assignments are turning to Al-powered plagiarism detectors, or getting pitched on ed-tech software that solves cheating with surveillance - with, of course, the help of AI.

These are stories about AI, but they're also stories about broken systems. Students flocking to ChatGPT in the classroom suggests that they see school in terms of arbitrary tasks and attainment rather than education. The widespread use of Al in job hunting drives home the extent to which platforms like LinkedIn, which promises to connect job seekers with employers, have instead installed themselves between them, pushing both sides to either pay up or dishonestly game their systems. A dating app where users see opportunity in automated flirting must already be a pretty grim space. If Facebook can be so quickly and thoroughly overwhelmed by Al-generated imagery and bots, it probably wasn't much of a social network anymore — a low-trust platform better at monetizing users than connecting them. Smaller-scale AI arms races like these don't take hold unless users (or workers, or students) have already been pitted against one another by systems they don't respect. In an uncomfortably large portion of modern life - especially online - that's exactly what's happened.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Apr 1

The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

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Polygon @polygon.com · Mar 20

The first extended look at Remedy’s co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak is completely bonkers

Quite the sticky situation we got ourselves here

www.polygon.com

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Simon Wasselin @simonwasselin.bsky.social · Mar 11

Je serais à Paris et Lyon début Avril pour une formation sur mon travail et l'aboutissement de mes années à travailler sur des jeux narratifs !

Game Master Classes by Gamaste @gamemasterclasses.bsky.social · Mar 10

📢Focus sur vos #formations avril-mai-juin ! Avec : @simonwasselin.bsky.social, @Ben Cloward, @celiahodent.com, @Pierre Chouzy, @clintonkeith.bsky.social @lightbombmike.bsky.social, @tonyalbrecht.bsky.social
Infos & inscriptions : tinyurl.com/y6em625s

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · Mar 10

An interesting French study shows that more women are finding it harder and harder to pair up with the growing number of men who don't see them as human beings with rights and aspirations to equality.

A major surprise. 😁

François Arias @paco15.bsky.social · Mar 10

Intéressant papier sur un phénomène très présent aux US, mais plus discret en France : le fait que les femmes refusent de plus en plus de sortir avec des mecs de droite et d'extrême droite.

"Elle m’a dit que j’étais un facho" : quand la politique brise les couples de la génération Z

Selon l’Ifop, pas moins de 30 % des 25-34 ans ont déjà quitté leur partenaire à cause d’opinions politiques divergentes.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · Feb 23

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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Libération @liberation.fr · Feb 12

Plus un parti est à droite, plus il diffuse des fake news

Conclusion d'une étude néerlandaise qui a analysé 32 millions de messages postés sur Twitter par des parlementaires de 26 pays, dont la France

➡️ bit.ly/40MucD2

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beyondthosehills | Cat Detective Albert Wilde is OUT NOW @beyondthosehills.bsky.social · Jan 24

😺 OUR GAME IS OUT TODAY ON PC! 😺

🐈‍⬛ 🕵️ Cat Detective Albert Wilde, a noir puppet sci-fi mystery adventure about a feline PI who discovers a wormhole in spacetime. It’s a comedy!

Launch Trailer:
youtu.be/qNeUxX_IOnU

Check now on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/1810670/

Cat Detective Albert Wilde- Official Launch Trailer

YouTube video by beyondthosehills

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Mikko Rautalahti @mikkihel.bsky.social · Jan 14

This Neil Gaiman thing really just reinforces my stance that if you put someone on a pedestal, you're not only making a mistake, you're doing damage. Do not idolize people. Sure, like the work, respect them as people, like you would anyone. But don't think of them as special. That way lies trouble.

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François Malaussena (@malopedia) @malauss.bsky.social · Jan 13

J'en ai plein le cul d'entendre ce mensonge. Le déficit public de la France, le solde quoi, est d'environ 180 milliards. Le montant des aides publiques aux entreprises est de 223 milliards. Si c'est pas finançable, c'est juste parce qu'on a fait le choix de financer autre chose.

Capture d'écran du tweet cité, à savoir : https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/1878863773689094626

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · Dec 10

I will never forget my old lead designer at Turbine, Chris Clay, who had a rule:

Never spend more time talking about a design in a meeting than it would take to prototype it and see.

I was in plenty of meetings where he suddenly slapped the table and invoked Clay's Law

Andrew G Davis @agdtinman.bsky.social · Dec 10

I had an hour long meeting today about doing a thing, a thing I would have been doing if I didn’t have an hour long meeting.

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Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com · Nov 19

News from our Capital Markets day:
🔦 Alan Wake 2 has sold over 1.8M units
🔻 Control Ultimate Edition will release on Mac February 12th 2025
💥 Control 2 will be an action RPG
🎁 Control will receive a free update in early 2025, unlocking some previously released content

🔎 https://buff.ly/4eCBQEU

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Simon Wasselin @simonwasselin.bsky.social · Nov 19

Since "echo chambers" is again used over and over.

nicolasnova @nicolasnova.bsky.social · Nov 19

"this chapter argues that echo chambers and flter bubbles principally constitute an unfounded moral panic that presents a convenient technological scapegoat for a much more critical problem: growing social and political polarization" Axel Bruns library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

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Simon Wasselin @simonwasselin.bsky.social · Nov 7

If you are interested into the behind the scenes on Alan Wake 2, the team GDC talks presentation are available there, including the one I did with @llyann.bsky.social - It's only the slides but it gives a good idea of what we talked about !

Explore Remedy’s Game Developer Conference 2024 Talks on Creating Alan Wake 2

Dive into the knowledge behind our most ambitious game and explore our technical innovations in Northlight.

www.remedygames.com

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · Nov 7

Hi to all the new folks following me. I’m Eric; I’ve been a game writer for 12 years, starting with a five year stint at Telltale, then a few working on games like Fortnite and MultiVersus, and now for the last three I’ve been at Remedy where I’m currently Sr. Writer on the Max Payne remakes.

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Malindy(looking for work) @yourkyotowife.bsky.social · Apr 29

I was sp charmed by @simonwasselin.bsky.social and @llyann.bsky.social 's GDC talk that...I wrote it down! Thanks to James for letzibg me do this, and thanks to the two of you for a great talk😊
www.gamesindustry.biz/fulfilling-f...

Fulfilling fantasies and building investment: The narrative design of Alan Wake 2

Last year's Alan Wake 2 released to critical acclaim, winning awards such as the game Award for best narrative at the 2…

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · Aug 18

I made a collage of all the Sisters of Battle and Space Marine pride couple I've taken a picture of. Still a WIP.

#warhammer40k #WarhammerCommunity #warhammerisforeveryone

Collage of 6 pictures of space marine and sister of battle, each painted using matching pride color. From top to bottom, left to right : gay men, non binary, asexual, bisexual, trans and lesbian pride.

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