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uchikoshi pretty literally said this too in that inteview recently and idk yall. if you view your coworkers as obstacles instead of collaborators maybe you're just a bad leader
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social
I appreciate the bar is quite low but this excerpt from an interview with Molyneux about AI is almost too on the nose. Nice anecdote about a colleague he used to respect and enjoy working with, followed by an explanation of how him and everyone like him is now expendable.
!["I'll talk in general terms. I won't talk about ourselves. Let's say you and I thought about a game, you know, let's set it in an old Carpathian mountain village. And it starts in a graveyard, and there's this young girl wandering around the graveyard looking lost. Now, traditionally, what you would do is you'd have someone… like there was a genius concept artist at Lionhead called Mike McArthur, and I'd sit down with Mike McArthur [and] I'd say, yeah, there's this girl, and she's wandering. How old is the girl? Mike might say. I don't know, maybe she's about 12. Okay, and is it an old church, a new church? You know, we'd have this conversation.
"[So] he would go away. Two weeks later, he would come back. Then, do you mean this girl? This child? Oh no, I don't really like the girl. She looks too pretty. She should be, you know, starving, and he goes away for another week, comes back. Yeah. [Now] you can do all that concepting work in five minutes [with AI].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h5kgtr755iczaqxomeh2pmh7/bafkreigpqzam54j5kesjejjouvsfg275z5lcs4q5wol45rrsqw7ch545oa)
hello uchikoshi fans. a fellow fan/friend of mine has created an open letter to uchikoshi for other fans to sign in hopes of holding a concentrated space for us to voice our opposition to the prospect of gen AI being used by author we had held much respect for. openletter.earth/uchikoshi-fa...
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very excited to announce that i will be battling in MANHATTAN MAYHEM, the biggest Deadlock creator tournament event!
this is my first one of these big streamer collabs and i'm pumped. please come support me and my teammates!
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very excited to announce that i will be battling in MANHATTAN MAYHEM, the biggest Deadlock creator tournament event!
this is my first one of these big streamer collabs and i'm pumped. please come support me and my teammates!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVpg...
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Again, it’s important to understand that the transgender terror did not arise organically from the public. It was imposed from above, by the world’s most hateful and poisonous media class.
Leicester Gazette @leicestergazette.leicester.news
Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge
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Astrophysics student Samuel Carlier and History student Emmeline Hague-Wright were shocked to find that their LGBTQ+ pride pins had been edited out of their University Challenge appearance earlier this year. The episode, initially scheduled for BBC Two on 24 August, was delayed twice before airing on 7 September 2026. The pins showed the progressive LGBTQ+ pride flag, the bisexual pride flag and a rainbow feather.
Speaking to the Leicester Gazette, Sam said: “Living in a liberal democracy and having the state broadcaster tell you ‘we’re editing how you look’, seems very Orwellian.”
Sam described the choice to remove the pins before broadcast as “weird” and “absurd”. He said: “[Censoring] that seemed weird. If I had worn a rainbow shirt, would they have censored that? If the idea is to keep things impartial, where is that line in the sand?”
A side by-side image of Sam wearing the pin and with it having been digitally removed. Photograph: supplied
Sam contacted the BBC to try to understand why his pins had been edited out. He told the Gazette: “The BBC people said they’d ring me, and I chased them, they just said go to the complaints website and file a complaint there, that’s what I did.” Since then, Sam hasn’t had a response from the BBC as to why his pins were removed.
After the episode had aired, Sam noted that his shirt ‘melted’ into itself occasionally, as a result of the editing. Photograph: supplied
## Students believe the decision was made following online transphobia
Emmeline was also shocked when she found out that the feather pin she wore was due to be removed from the episode she was in.
It was understood by Emmeline that there was online transphobia in response to previous episode of University Challenge, and she had been contacted by the BBC, anticipating support from the broadcaster.
When the BBC contacted her, instead of an offer of support, she was told her pin was going to be removed. “At first it was mostly confusion,” she said. “I heard that they had received a lot of nastiness online from people and I thought they were going to call me to say ‘we have support services if needed,’ and that wasn't what I got at all.”
Instead, Emmeline was notified that the episodes were going to be delayed. “It was out of left field, I was confused for a while,” she said. “This entire delay has been because of a feather and two badges on a teammate that were basically impossible [for viewers] to see.”
Emmeline had expressed her frustrations with the repeated delays from the BBC, spanning from mid-July to early-September. She said: “We were announced on the website and then delayed again, and then announced on the website a second time, and delayed even further.
Speaking about the removal, she said: “It takes a lot of time” she said. “Making it [the edit] look good would be even more expensive and time-consuming. It seems like drastically a lot of effort.”
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## Wider criticism on LGBTQ+ support
The pins Sam wore during the episode. Photograph: supplied
According to leading LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall UK, two in five LGBTQ+ students will hide their identities at university for fear of discrimination. Stonewall has reported that more than 36 per cent of trans students have received hostile conduct from university staff due to their gender identity.
Reflecting on the digital removal of the pins, Sam spoke about how disheartening the choice was. He said: “There was maybe like a span of eight years where someone could be uncontroversially out in the open queer – now that’s gone again.” he said.
The BBC has also been widely criticised for ‘an attack on the LGBTQ+ community’ by pulling its involvement with the popular show, RuPaul's Drag Race. The broadcaster pulled its involvement in September following “significant financial pressures” as the reason for axing their involvement.
The criticism follows another recent controversial edit by the BBC. On its hit show, Strictly Come Dancing, a decision was made to edit out ‘Protect the Dolls’ from contestant Bethany Antonia’s T-shirt. It’s a slogan which has become widely used to support the rights of trans women. The BBC defended their decision, saying the changes were made to meet editorial guidelines.
It comes as the LGBTQ+ community has faced challenges amid an increasingly less tolerant political climate.
## What the BBC had to say
When we asked them about editing out the pins worn by Leicester’s University Challenge team, a BBC spokesperson said: “In line with our editorial guidelines, we advise that no badges, flags, and emblems or symbols are worn or visible during filming, along with clothing with obvious branding or slogans. If such items are not removed for any reason then a decision is made between the programme makers and the BBC regarding any edits to the programme.”
The BBC said the delays to the episode were unrelated to the decision to edit out the pins.
A spokesperson for ITV Studios said: “University Challenge is an entertainment quiz show and is made in accordance with the BBC Editorial Guidelines requirements for impartiality.”
The University of Leicester refused to comment on the matter.
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with sloppy (but convincing enough) AI vibeclones on the rise, developers now face a future in which a steady stream of pre-release videos, demos, and playtests—the only reliable way to promote and build community—could be their game’s undoing
![“For new devs there [used to be] two ways of making games and getting some attention,” games industry veteran Rami Ismail—whose game, Ridiculous Fishing, was infamously cloned way back in 2013—told Aftermath. “You either make a big game that takes years, build a community around it by painstakingly and consistently building community around it, and then hope that by the time you launch your Next Fest demo you have the wishlists and momentum to not just disappear into the quicksand; or you build something ‘hook-y’ fast, post [quickly], and have it ready to launch if it goes viral. If it doesn't, you just move on.”
“Both of those models are now incredibly risky,” he explained. “The slow one because sloppers can literally see what is gaining momentum and copy the aesthetic and gameplay, launch fast and simply dupe a lot of players with an inferior and cynical game. The original will remain a superior game, but the winds will be out of [its] sails, and countless people will believe they're playing the original that they've seen a few times on the internet. The faster one is risky because ultimately, the development speed and hook-y nature of the game makes the idea and basic implementation the ‘golden’ part, but they're also very fast to clone. So as soon as something [gains] momentum, anyone with resources can burn a few grand stealing it, launching it, and making sure the actual creator never sees any opportunity.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreidje6aksv7wdvpwl2cbih54mekmezjbfeh53aszqgfy5pxb2d646u)
Aftermath @aftermath.site
Game developers fear that thieving AI vibecoders will make free game demos a thing of the past
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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot
A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead:
www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead:
www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
This kind of thinking and explicit advertising makes me even more nervous about how AI tools will be weaponized against smart, ambitious, non-white women in many different workplaces.
KetAnthropic JoshAI @ketanjoshi.co
The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot
A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead:
www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead:
www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
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longpost sorta stuff.
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