NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
It's not just Iran whose surrender is being demanded. It's yours. Your hope. Your belief in yourself and our collective potential. Your empathy. They want to crush those things. They want you to believe their will is inevitable.
They want you to surrender.
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
This is driven by a huge drop in 13-17 year olds getting knocked up with no recourse so just take that into consideration
New game:
Play It By Trust (Sky Blue Super Mario Bros.)
pippinbarr.com/play-it-by-t...
Field Study (The Sheep's Meow, @brianschung.bsky.social, @leegj.bsky.social)
"a non-narrative documentary game about parallel consciousness"
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/04/08/f...
In @crapstacular.bsky.social's first byline on the site, environmentalist dev Kara Stone talks about creating games outside of the confines of profit, virality, and the guise of universal availability. www.mothership.blog/kara-stone-i...
hey jamie! my roommate and i are getting back into jeopardy thanks to you and your incredible run. we're big fans over here- i'm excited to check out your twitch channel, too!!! 😄
We didn't deserve this day.
Game Workers Conference May 22 - May 23, 2026 Building Intentional Communities, Taking Intentional Actions Josh Boykin | Intelligame gameworkersconference.org
SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT📢
Josh Boykin - Intelligame
Josh is the founder of Intelligame, a livestream and community that makes thoughtful, accessible discussion about games and the world we live in. In this talk, Josh explores how we can build intentional communities both online and offline.
Game Workers Conference May 22 - May 23, 2026 From Brasil, With Love: Class Struggle in the Crunch Age Flávia Gasi & Fernando Henrique | Game Devs Unidos gameworkersconference.org
SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 📢
Flávia Gasi & Fernando Henrique - Game Devs Unidos
This talk from Game Devs Unidos (GDU), a collective of independent game devs in Brazil, provides an overview of their local video game sector, how its workers are faring, and the challenges of Brazilian class organization.
really excited to be part of this event that @videogameworkers.bsky.social is putting on
Game Workers Conference May 22 - May 23, 2026 KEYNOTE - The Era of the Game Worker Aurelia Augusta | President, UVW-CWA Local 9433 gameworkersconference.org
SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT📢
Aurelia Augusta - President, UVW-CWA Local 9433
GWC 2026 starts with a keynote from United Videogame Workers-CWA Local 9433 President Aurelia Augusta on why we need to move into a new era for game workers and how we can all work together to get there faster.
This Chet Faliszek guy who keeps concern trolling about the union's "messaging" is a CEO and an employer btw.
He's doing the thing where he pretends to speak for "game developers" as a whole as if the difference between bosses and workers doesn't matter, but it's 2026 nobody buys this shit anymore
No one can stop the United States government from continually wreaking havoc on the globe except for us. We need to urgently organize against this criminal imperialism. We can’t keep letting this continue.
I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.
thank you so much! that means a lot!
Rough TDOV, y'all
Between SCOTUS legalizing conversion therapy (an internationally recognized form of torture), Idaho's felony bathroom ban, & Trump's pedophilic ass trying to do away with mail-in voting, I'm beat.
I hope one day these fascists all rot in the Hague and/or Hell.
The fight goes on
im going to be honest kitten the fascist administrative state is kind of hyperfocused on mommy right now and it's stressing her out a little bit
When you run a business cooperatively you understand exactly where the money goes, and realize how much money is wasted on unproductive bullshit from rich idiots. No market force is going to solve that. This system was not working before and it was always destined to break.
❤️🙏 another game poem ! this time for @playpraxis.bsky.social
Note that the workers who made Beast Breaker ARE getting rev-share on sales of the game on Steam, even though the studio shut down. Why? Because we had a union, and we negotiated for it.
At the No Kings demonstration I went to today, an immigration org was trying to get donations for local families affected by ICE. (Mainly legal fees!)
This is the first family on the list. Please consider sending some money their way!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-reuni...
United Flight Attendants have reached a Tentative Agreement!
Yesterday, we were recognized in Fast Company's annual "Most Innovative Companies of 2026" gaming list.
This recognition comes as a surprise to us, as we're not a company.
We are game workers demanding dignity in an industry that treats us as disposable, even from the companies represented here.
“I’ve been writing about games for 30 years and it has always struck me that the wrong people are running the industry. But now, the stakes are so much higher on each shoddy, short-term bet.” @keefstuart.bsky.social
just this week:
-- OpenAI killed Sora
-- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI
-- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content
...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?
A love letter to 'girl games' aftermath.site/a-love-letter-...
The Epic layoffs remind me of my speech last year:
"They're not going to stop. They'll never be happy with any amount of profit and will always look to extract more from us. I don’t say this to scare you, but so that we're on the same page."
All we have is us. www.austinkelmore.com/blog/all-we-...
Multiple game studios have recently closed because their titles couldn't compete with established live-service games like Fortnite. Meanwhile, you can also literally work on Fortnite and get laid off and Tim Sweeney remains a billionaire.
Something has to change. The time is now.
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