Kevin Hovdestad

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game dev • political • millennial • canadian • he/him

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My favourite genre of comics is “made by someone with no fear of being cancelled by a 15 year old on social media”

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Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog! Did you know you don't have to write every thought you have on the computer? That's right - believe it or not there are many cases where the thrill of likes and reposts do not outweigh the potential real world consequences, regardless of how unlikely they are!

Think I’ve finally come to the conclusion I need to get a coverup for my one sad, ancient tattoo. If anybody has done this and can talk process or recommend artists, my DMs are open.

"Tell them they are playing an empty arena on X when they could be playing Bluesky’s packed ballroom." 100%, yes, this. I'm having this conversation everywhere right now.

The follower count on X is an accumulated number, not a current one. It’s like the ticker on a turnstile in an abandoned railway station, showing everyone who passed through over 18 years. That number doesn’t mean the station is packed. boringstorybook.com/break-up-wit...

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It is a startling fucking failure as a person to look at the French election and think the lesson is to just go out and vote. Or else. Give people something to vote for, for fuck's sake.

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i will never stop being furious at large language models being successfully branded as "artificial intelligence" they're not conscious & functionally can't be; they don't "hallucinate," they fail to generate appropriate outputs

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sometimes i think about how sick it would be if i was one of those guys who believed ai really was super smart and worked right. it would be awesome. Peek a boo would go so hard

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We spent $365 to build an AI news site that publishes 50 times a day, plagiarizes directly from our original reporting, uses services like Fiverr and popular WordPress plugins, is SEO optimized for Google and Adsense & breaks the rules of none of them www.404media.co/i-paid-365-6...

I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AIwww.404media.co Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.

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hi, i wrote a post - "destroy AI". ali-alkhatib.com/blog/fuck-up...

Destroy AIali-alkhatib.com I’ve been struggling to articulate this idea, and maybe the problem is that it’s actually kind of simple once you put it out there, and there’s really no good reason to unpack a whole case for it once...

Today was a good day, because today was my first day on the job in my new role as the Director, Brand Development at CATAN Studio! As penance for jobposting, here’s me sitting on one of their sheep.

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super excited for the day AI will be able to take over the most tedious tasks of daily life such as making art, engaging with art, maintaining human relationships, etc., so that I can focus on my true passion: creating value for shareholders

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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it

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When it works it's AI, when it fails it's just an algorithm.

The Twitter acquisition was completed in October 2022, and that’s around the time that website started to become unusable, so this tracks.

The Sesame Street twitter's #pridemonth tweets provide a clear timeline of the current moral panic being generated out of nothing. I've taken the biggest comment count each year as an indicator: 2019: 200 2020: 400 2021: 500 2022: 600 2023: 6,700 2024: 8,100

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A thing I enjoy is discovering after I’ve left a job that the stuff I used to just handle on my own is now done by entire teams, or not done at all and chaos reigns. For a very specific definition of “enjoy”.

my cemetery has tons of historical correspondence by employees going back almost 200 years and i like to read it and make myself insane thinking about how much more shit i am expected to do in a day than these people and how i am not even actually making that much more money than them

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Journalism job alert: The new, Spanfeller-free @gizmodo.com is hiring a senior tech reporter. Union gig, pay is $80k-90k. And you get to work for my friend Rose who is cool as hell. Details here: gizmodo.com/gizmodo-is-h...

Gizmodo Is Hiring a Senior Tech Reportergizmodo.com Gizmodo has a new owner, the firm Keleops, and we are looking to grow our team.

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There's an interesting problem in digital preservation, which is that preservation only exists actively. Only the things you actively move to new formats, survives. Community is probably the same way: it has to be actively maintained in order to outlive whatever spot it's currently in.

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Late to the party but -- Yeah it was intentional. We all had enough experience with Twitter to know that blocking turns into discourse about the blocking. The goal is to put an end to a fight, and the best way to do that is to just clobber the whole exchange.

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“I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity” ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-... > This isn't a recipe for disaster, it's a cookbook for someone looking to prepare a twelve course fucking catastrophe. Today’s must-read

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicityludic.mataroa.blog

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Hey folks - This week I'm hitting month 3 unemployed - if you or someone you know is looking for a Producer or Project Manager in the games or adjacent space, please let me know! Particularly if you are able or willing to refer <3

(The nuclear take: You don’t have to enjoy a game to work on it! It’s a job! In fact, if everyone who works on the game is too invested in it, you all but guarantee you lose objectivity and lack sufficient perspectives.)

You don’t have to like the game to be its lawyer. I hated Destiny and was so terrible at Pokémon battles that I was considered a bye in the office tournament. The last game I worked on that I liked was Mass Effect.

🌲 sharing the bad take to dunk on it is still sharing the bad take and giving it additional reach 🌲

One of the things I constantly reiterate is use of language matters. There are limitless examples of ways in which real issues or stereotypes are intentionally weaponized by people who have realized that deploying the right words the wrong way gets them what they want

Countless little incurious dullards learning the time-honored tactic of concern-trolling over an issue they don't actually give a fuck about to provide cover for the thing they actually want to do, which is be extremely racist

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Brew tea. Keep shop. Stop running. Wanderstop, a cozy, narrative-centric game about tea and change, will open up shop in 2024. Wishlist now on Steam 🍵 store.steampowered.com/app/1299460/...

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Tech billionaire who hasn't talked to a normal person in 25 years: Here's what today's consumers want

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the best thing about getting older is not having to worry about cringe anymore I am thirty-nine years old, what are you going to do, tell me I’m not cool? I already knew that, thank you

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me looking at bluesky not having posted much today: fuck, dude. where are you. you're out of it. are you even a poster any more. me five minutes later, posting Ws with my right hand while scarfing dumplings with my left: fuck yes. fear my posts. I will post until you drop. repent

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all the culture you liked from decades past was made possible by cheap rent and artists' pay keeping up with what things cost

It's because we all have day jobs, advances are pennies, publishers don't market, one underperforming book tanks your career, and we're expected to be well-tuned brand machines on social media websites designed to suck our souls dry.