Westin 🔜 GDC

it’s genuinely bonkers how every billboard in San Francisco is like:

“Zirping your Pingos got you buggin? Yeah, Fnarf’s on that 🤖🦾”

ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time.

But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned.

But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives.

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It’s a shame because if you just ignore all the garbage writing suggestions, data mining, and this idiotic (and liability-dense) product offering, Grammarly is a decent grammar checking tool

AI cameras are everywhere — and people are paying the price for their mistakes Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”

Informa is really not messaging very well

(There was some guessing on my part that they were taking a 4-week period and multiplying by 13 to get to 52 weeks)

To say nothing of multiplying by 13…

The Outersloth Contract | Innersloth - Creators of Among Us and The Henry Stickmin Collection! Hello!

💰THE OUTERSLOTH CONTRACT 💰

We just released the FULL contract and terms that all our games sign!

We hope this challenges the status quo of what you see out there.

In a nutshell:
💸 Pre-recoup 50/50
💸 Post-recoup 15/85
💸 Terms after 7 years

www.innersloth.com/the-outerslo...

In real life if my neighbor had that huge a text box pop up I would feign a family emergency

I’m gonna go ask them in a bit

lol

It’s been YEARS since this concept entered the chat and it hasn’t evolved at all. I can’t believe it’s exactly as bad as it was in 2023. www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...

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A photo of the Yerba Buena Gardens. Food stands are set up with picnic tables

FYI for folks at home—the gardens aren’t blocked off. Now that setup’s complete, the barriers are behind the food stands for health/safety reasons.

The area will stay open the rest of the day after lunch wraps up.

Apparently the gates were just for setup but you get live band no matter what

Dog with papers looking nervous

TODAY AT GDC NARRATIVE PORTFOLIO REIVEW

Bring your non-AI materials to 215 in Moscone South from 1:50-4:50! First come first serve, sessions with our incredible reviewers are 20 minutes each.

Talk from outersloth on being an indie fund has me weirdly hopeful

This show is just about the only thing that approaches Star Trek’s rich blend of thinky and shooty (complimentary)

Seeing the Adobe buildings and booing out the window of my Lyft

Sitting here fretting about readers only wanting first person novels when the four short stories I’m about to send out to market are all first person…

Alright GDC, here I come.

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

Let he who is without podcast meat etc etc

This lingering post nasal drip cough: arguably worse than the cold/flu.

This AI consciousness discourse is drawing a pretty stark line in the sand when it comes to cognition and it’s not the one the AI bros think it is

Oh I think he knows what he's doing. bsky.app/profile/west...

Which is worse: the hollow man who believes nothing or the man who believes they must act hollow to win

It feels in hindsight like a hand-wavey thing that could only authentically exist in that era.