Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
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This is one of the most insufferable pieces Kotaku has written in a while and that is saying something.
Here is apparently how these journalists talk on their own Slacks: about personal moral judgements and shame, which is apparently what games journalism has devolved into- activism (we will use our bully pulpit) toward pressuring people into agreeing with their own political views.
This article is everything that Youtubers had been complaining about games journalism doing for years, distilled into a single piece.
It has choice quotes like about how they believe developers should cater to their whims, beliefs, and be forgiven by them, and those who do not comply should be shamed:
"I don’t think we do that without deploying shame to some degree."
"I don’t think we solve that problem by not talking about it and by not shaming it. I reiterate that I am really upset and betrayed by this"
"Or we could attempt to exert more power over that if developers allow us to make that choice."
"And I’m saying if, because of the structures they’re forced into, devs are required to use AI in the process of their development, I can understand and possibly forgive its use."
"This is why I think that if we don’t set a very clear expectation of no AI use, it will just continue to seep into everything even more and more. So yes, that means putting pressure on Unity to not build it into their tools, and if they continue to do so, it means pressuring devs not to use Unity... We have to tell them that’s not gonna fly."
The reveal that Big Walk used AI for "under 0.1%" of its code has caused a big blowup among fans, developers, and game award judges.
Where do people draw the line on genAI in gaming, and how did a 2026 GOTY indie darling become ground zero for the debate?
We broke down the messy discussion:
kotaku.com/big-walk-ai-discl…
William Huber retweeted
I just took the theory test for my UK driver's license. It seems when they say "theory", they mean something different from a critique of the commodity form in the design of vehicles or a discussion of the semiotics of the sports car. Yeah, that's not what they were looking for.
William Huber retweeted
AI became so Right-coded, especially in Europe, that to not speak suspiciously of it is tantamount to secession.
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"In terms of material wealth, it's possible to grow the pie. Status, however, is actually zero sum."
@Musa_alGharbi on the how the professional managerial class wields "woke" to claim social power in the midst of late-stage capitalist scarcity.
youtube.com/watch?v=4mPRkXbp…
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I'm back with a huge analysis of why the games industry is collapsing, unifying the arguments I have heard over the last few years from devs, pubs, investors, and analysts.
It's time to stop circling the same talking points. Let's chart a course to the future ⛵️
Link below: teapawt.net/estebanthinks/status/2…
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I actually proposed AI sovereign wealth fund to Bernie's old "consultant on Big Tech" a few years ago and he said that it was a gimmick to protect the Bubble from inevitable collapse and called me a "Technocrat."
It is the kind of idea that when @sama proposes it, it is derided as a Capitalist placebo and when @BernieSanders proposes it, it is derided as government takeover.
All of which to say, is that *some version* of the idea is worth serious consideation. Predistribution beats Redistribution.
However....
His stated reasons are obviously bullshit and 50% of stock is crazypants for so many reasons. He will instantly regret giving the Vance/ Carlson adminstration total control over artifical cognition.
nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opini…
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There is a lot being written about the stylistic tells of AI writing (em-dashes, etc.) but this paper looks at AI narrative tells
Fascinating differences between AI & human narrative, and asking AI to write in different styles doesn't do much to change it arxiv.org/abs/2604.03136
William Huber retweeted
My key takeaway from Moltbook Day is that the AI social intelligence hypothesis is a lot easier to explain than it was last week.
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the superintelligence ban has interesting politics in the ai safety world. a great many ai safety advocates reached out to me privately (never publicly) to tell me how they agree with me that the statement is unserious and dangerous.
for others it is clearly a matter of quasi-religious import, and they have gone all out to attack me for my views (in public and in private).
I wonder the extent to which this mirrors their internal divisions over preemption, where some folks in that world believe federal preemption would be good (they understand its utility in ensuring economically beneficial outcomes from AI), while others believe preemption must never happen (they want to preserve the optionality for california to "ban ai" down the road).
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Just a friendly reminder that it's time to normalize the fact that as simulations become more computationally intensive their capacity for instrumental recursion accelerates, which makes the assignment of agency more difficult and more diffuse. Experienced reality feels more artificial because the capacity of simulations of reality to artificialize reality is expanded. This ultimately leads to generalized apophenic misattributions of causality, which leads to generalized simulation anxiety which is turn represented within the simulation’s ontological scope.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but technology is the process by which autopoietic life fights entropy by using allopoietic means to construct systems that allow that life to capture more energy, matter and information that it could otherwise. Evolution selects for species that are good at allopoiesis and niche construction because they can scale and stabilize populations. This in turn selects for capacity for future-oriented conceptual abstraction to plan and coordinate allopoiesis, including the technological complexification of abstraction itself. Those that do are most successful at this are also those most transformed by the selection pressures of the artificial environments they have created for/as themselves.
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Europe has learned nothing. The end result of DMA will not be "Europe as regulatory superpower, raising the standard for the world" but Europe as an increasingly isolated island of nerfed tech.
This applies not just to iPhones but more importantly to AI.
An incumbent governing layer of society recognizes the threat that planetary technologies poses to their institutional power. They have convinced themselves that protecting that power is actually protecting citizens. It's not.
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Wow, this is huge. I just tried it myself with a foreign phone number (you can apparently choose any country, see screenshot) and it's true: you can now join Douyin - the Chinese version of TikTok - as an international user.
Which means the Great Firewall is coming down in the most unexpected way: with the world joining the China side of the wall.
Really feels like a Berlin wall moment, except in the opposite direction.
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“The global left has moved away from social class as an organizing identity, allowing the Right to peddle a working-class identity politics untethered from the socialist vision.” jacobin.com/2024/10/identity…
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Israel has damaged or destroyed nearly a quarter of buildings in Lebanon’s south, impacting more than 5k structures, including at least nine religious sites demolished in controlled explosions, a WaPo analysis has found
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Lots and lots and lots of jobs here! We're hiring for 20+ roles. romerogames.com/careers
