Vested
@vestedgames.com
Wool, 3 button, and custom tailored. I have all the hobbies. (he/him)
Anti-fascist.
Anti-fascist.
This is my new response to anything someone does.
I'm pretty sure this is how dialectical materialism works
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 AM
This is my new response to anything someone does.
The programmatic solution to revenge porn is to *checks notes* register the photos with a centralized database?
We're announcing a new partnership with StopNCII.org to prevent non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) from spreading on Bluesky. While NCII hasn't been frequent on our platform, these incidents are devastating for victims and preventing them is a top safety priority. 1/4
Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse | StopNCII.org
StopNCII.org is operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline which is part of SWGfL, a charity that believes that all should benefit from technology, free from harm.
StopNCII.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The programmatic solution to revenge porn is to *checks notes* register the photos with a centralized database?
Satisfactory reduced the Tier 4 by so much. Holy cow.
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Satisfactory reduced the Tier 4 by so much. Holy cow.
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Neofeud 2 is a #cyberpunk game where a social worker for homeless robots, an ex-con & a socialist princess fight a cabal of post-human CEO / Kings Get Neofeud 1 & help me finish #2 (pictured)! https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/ #gamedev […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Neofeud 2 is a #cyberpunk game where a social worker for homeless robots, an ex-con & a socialist princess fight a cabal of post-human CEO / Kings Get Neofeud 1 & help me finish #2 (pictured)! https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/ #gamedev […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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Apple and Google have immense power to shape what content is available on our smartphones. When they cave to government pressure to remove certain apps, politicians get to shape how we communicate.
We should be in control of what happens on our own phones — not the government or corporations.
We should be in control of what happens on our own phones — not the government or corporations.
Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
www.aclu.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Apple and Google have immense power to shape what content is available on our smartphones. When they cave to government pressure to remove certain apps, politicians get to shape how we communicate.
We should be in control of what happens on our own phones — not the government or corporations.
We should be in control of what happens on our own phones — not the government or corporations.
"Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in the background with access to personal folders - Microsoft quietly added a system-level AI agent with broad file access." Linux never sounded so good.
November 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in the background with access to personal folders - Microsoft quietly added a system-level AI agent with broad file access." Linux never sounded so good.
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Snake Eyes.
Digital color over ink and marker.
Digital color over ink and marker.
November 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Snake Eyes.
Digital color over ink and marker.
Digital color over ink and marker.
I am so glad "Socialrizzism" is not in our lexicon.
Mamdani really walked in and brought in that Socialrizzism.
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I am so glad "Socialrizzism" is not in our lexicon.
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First off, my suspension has ended. Got a little harsh with a post a few days ago but I didn’t have my feet on the ground and I’m sorry if I offended anyone. Will try to be more chipper. Knock on wood!
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
First off, my suspension has ended. Got a little harsh with a post a few days ago but I didn’t have my feet on the ground and I’m sorry if I offended anyone. Will try to be more chipper. Knock on wood!
"It’s challenging to unpack the DOJ Letter because it contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors"
This is how you know that you have made a Judge upset.
This is how you know that you have made a Judge upset.
"But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board."
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"It’s challenging to unpack the DOJ Letter because it contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors"
This is how you know that you have made a Judge upset.
This is how you know that you have made a Judge upset.
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"But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board."
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board."
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Don't be evil?
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Don't be evil?
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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You touch Linux for 5 seconds and everyone has an opinion
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
You touch Linux for 5 seconds and everyone has an opinion
I'm appreciating the "it didn't happen" shift to "what happened wasn't that bad". Next is the "it was bad, but we can overlook it."
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I'm appreciating the "it didn't happen" shift to "what happened wasn't that bad". Next is the "it was bad, but we can overlook it."
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Sorry, been busy fixing bugs... Is it too late for a release trailer? 😬
Get it on steam here; s.team/a/2980260, I've heard people say it's good!
#gamedev #indiedev
Get it on steam here; s.team/a/2980260, I've heard people say it's good!
#gamedev #indiedev
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Sorry, been busy fixing bugs... Is it too late for a release trailer? 😬
Get it on steam here; s.team/a/2980260, I've heard people say it's good!
#gamedev #indiedev
Get it on steam here; s.team/a/2980260, I've heard people say it's good!
#gamedev #indiedev
Patton Oswalt got banned from Bluesky for expressing how he feels about rich people who rape children and the apologists who try to defend them.
Me trying to decide if this was ethical censorship that is being uniformly applied to the site:
Me trying to decide if this was ethical censorship that is being uniformly applied to the site:
a man wearing a hat with a star on it
ALT: a man wearing a hat with a star on it
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Patton Oswalt got banned from Bluesky for expressing how he feels about rich people who rape children and the apologists who try to defend them.
Me trying to decide if this was ethical censorship that is being uniformly applied to the site:
Me trying to decide if this was ethical censorship that is being uniformly applied to the site:
Just played SplitFiction for the first time. Not quite all the way through, but a great game.
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Just played SplitFiction for the first time. Not quite all the way through, but a great game.
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Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
Looks like Patreon and Ko-Fi are next for companies closing payment accounts over NSFW content. Not *all* nsfw content, mind you. Imagine a credit card company dictating morality.
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Looks like Patreon and Ko-Fi are next for companies closing payment accounts over NSFW content. Not *all* nsfw content, mind you. Imagine a credit card company dictating morality.
"Fuck hash tables" is the hot take that I needed this morning.
You know what, fuck hash tables, I'll throw a flat array and I'll store per-voxel probe indices into that array. That's a ton of extra memory but at least it's collision-free by design. Still far from trivial with all the atomics and probe allocation/recycling, but manageable.
Ok I slept over this and decided that I'll just use hash as key and ignore key collisions and hope for the best.
Also realized my pet engine's CPU hash table implementation has a bug :/
Also realized my pet engine's CPU hash table implementation has a bug :/
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Fuck hash tables" is the hot take that I needed this morning.
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Keys to the office? Check! ✅
Sworn in as Congresswoman? Not quite 🙅🏻♂️
Sworn in as Congresswoman? Not quite 🙅🏻♂️
October 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Keys to the office? Check! ✅
Sworn in as Congresswoman? Not quite 🙅🏻♂️
Sworn in as Congresswoman? Not quite 🙅🏻♂️
Just finished my first playthrough of Hypogea. Definitely check this game out.
Save 25% on Hypogea on Steam
Escape from a mysterious underground megastructure in this short atmospheric 3d-platformer.
store.steampowered.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Just finished my first playthrough of Hypogea. Definitely check this game out.
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So many Indie bangers this year and not enough time but Hypogea will be played immediately~
THE GAME IS OUT, I REPEAT, THE GAME IS OUT
Hopefully I squashed all the bugs, hope everyone enjoys it!
store.steampowered.com/app/2980260/...
Hopefully I squashed all the bugs, hope everyone enjoys it!
store.steampowered.com/app/2980260/...
Save 25% on Hypogea on Steam
Escape from a mysterious underground megastructure in this short atmospheric 3d-platformer.
store.steampowered.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
So many Indie bangers this year and not enough time but Hypogea will be played immediately~