Madeline Stephanie Thorson

lifelong maker of games // Celeste, TowerFall, Jumper, Untitled Story, Give Up Robot, etc

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2023-10-21
The interesting thing about capitalism is that it's entirely incompatible with the future. So we've just decided to get rid of the future and keep capitalism for a short while
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alexandra catalinacatalina@selfy.army
2023-10-18
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nina splendorr ✨🏳️‍⚧️splendorr
2023-10-18

Renewing my effort to find a new job! If you know of any place that needs:

- a top-tier CSS and Javascript dev
- mid-tier Lua dev and Game Designer who shipped a game on Playdate
- extremely thoughtful UX researcher / Developer Relations person
- mentor for junior devs in any of these spaces

Please let me know! 😄

Portfolio at splendorr.com

mastodon.social/@splendorr/110

Screenshot of my portfolio site. Shows screenshots of work for various companies, including Playdate, Insert Credit, and Polytron
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mccmcc
2023-10-17

Fuck you

A Bing search for Chrome in Microsoft Edge. A huge pop-up says "there's no need to download a new web browser"
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Ars Technicaarstechnica
2023-10-16

Canada’s 84-year radio time check has stopped because of accuracy concerns

A sound so iconic, it was embedded into The Empire Strikes Back .

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/1

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Colin Cornabycolincornaby
2023-10-10

Sim City 2000 has a "Portland" scenario in which Portland is destroyed by a volcano

A Sim City map showing Portland with a scenario descriptionA Sim City 2000 version of Portland getting consumed by a volcano
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Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️e_urq@journa.host
2023-10-08

We knew this was coming. Conservative media is beginning the push to restrict transition for adults.

In the Washington Free Beacon, a story about an adult who sought cross-sex hormones against her parents wishes is being presented as a scandal of some kind.

The goal is to sell an unprecedented assault on adult freedoms to their base, and the public at large. #trans #journalism #news #medicine

If you appreciate my journalism, please support my work!

assignedmedia.org/breaking-new

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2023-10-07

Theme gives meaning to mechanics; mechanics give weight to theme

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2023-10-06

“Companies have been trying to hide the full footprint of their data centers because they know the public could turn against them if they knew the reality. In The Dalles, Oregon, Google was found to be using a quarter of the city’s water supply to cool its facilities. Tech companies have been facing pushback elsewhere in the United States, but also across the world in places like Uruguay, Chile, the Netherlands, Ireland, and New Zealand. Now opposition is growing in Spain too, where droughts are wiping out crops and people are wondering why they’d give their limited water resources to Meta for a data center. But adopting generative AI will require a lot more of those data centers to be built around the world.

The tech industry is constantly incentivized to increase the computing power we use as a society, because that works for their business models — especially when Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have massive cloud computing divisions. But we never seem to stop and ask whether that additional computing power is necessary to improve our lives. As Hugging Face climate lead Sasha Luccioni told The Guardian, “we’re seeing this shift of people using generative AI models just because they feel like they should, without sustainability being taken into account.” Everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon, but it’s not clear that’s actually in anyone’s interests but those of founders and investors who are hoping to cash in on the latest AI bubble.”

Paris Marx reminds us that the chat behind the bot is not free.

#environment #tech

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2023-10-05

Preliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year, using the first 6 months of data:

• NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside
• Full-time employment increased
• Fewer visits to the ER
• Fewer nights spent in jail
• Reduced use of social and public services

Read the full report: drive.google.com/file/d/1gqtOf

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it's witch season

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Roxanne Shiraziroxanneshirazi
2023-10-04

I’m increasingly convinced that all services and most jobs would be improved with more staff. Literally, just more people.

More people sitting around getting paid with nothing to do, until there is in fact something to do.

Pay people to staff all those windows at the post office and bank and then celebrate no lines. Pay people to bus the tables, and other people to seat the guests, and still more people to take the orders and run the food.

I’m so tired of seeing one person doing it all

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Noel Berrynoelfb
2023-10-03

porting my C++ platformer to my small C# framework (github.com/NoelFB/Foster)

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Radical GraffitiRadicalGraffiti@todon.eu
2023-10-02

"We have always been here, always will be"
Seen in Bushwick, Brooklyn

"We have always been here, always will be" Written on a wall with a trans symbol
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Patrick Klepekpatrickklepek
2023-09-29

At Crossplay, I finally wrote about Paw Patrol, and how it intersects with the everyday copaganda kids are exposed to at school and elsewhere patrickklepek.substack.com/p/t

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Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)alienmelon
2023-09-28

gotta bump this back up on my timeline because amazing things are happening for it store.steampowered.com/app/243
and i can’t wait to share more 🥳🎉🙏💕
persistence pays off omg.
i’m touched by all the feedback about it too.
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Radical GraffitiRadicalGraffiti@todon.eu
2023-09-27

"The rich won't save us, no matter how much we cut their taxes"
Sticker seen in Chicago

Danger sticker on a pole that says "The rich won't save us, no matter how much we cut their taxes"
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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans:LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com
2023-09-27

Dinosaurs didn't "rule the Earth". They were just alive, doing dinosaur stuff. Stop giving them credit for administrative skills they almost certainly didn't have.

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Jasmine runningjasmine@chaosfem.tw
2023-09-24

My wish is for every single future trans person to be able to accept themselves without ever having to first reach that sorry state of “fuck it, it's either this or death, so just fuck everything”.

The passage through that point of pain is so pointless. We deserve to start out from a place of joy.

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Noel Berrynoelfb
2023-09-24

Ported this old jam Platformer I made to my small C# Framework, and added a little level editor for fun. Source code for all of it is here under Samples: github.com/NoelFB/Foster

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