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Senior Reporter at @Kotaku. Author of Dead Game on Substack Email: [email protected] / Signal:+12673263042
Video game website company reveals galaxy brained new plan to play writers nothing if their posts don't get enough clicks kotaku.com/one-of-the-wor…
Hi. I wasn’t going to reply to this because I was happy to move on, but in the replies @SmashJT repeatedly asked me to respond point by point. (I even triple-checked that he wanted that!) and he doubled and tripled down. So let’s start here 🧵 1. Defamation & Reputation (paired together because they’re legally connected) Jeff claims Alyssa “doxed” him, which is untrue and potentially defamatory in itself. What actually happened is that Jeff publicly challenged her multiple times to sue him. By my count, he referenced or invited legal action at least eight separate times. Then, when a lawsuit was filed, he claimed she “doxed” him because his address appeared on the filing. The problem with that claim is that legal filings generally require the names and addresses of the parties involved. That is standard procedure, not doxing. More importantly, at the time the filing went public, nobody would have known the address unless they specifically accessed the court documents themselves, and Jeff also had the option to request redaction afterward. Instead, he immediately went to Twitter and framed it as malicious conduct.
In which I make the case that Miller Lite is the anecdote to the decadence of a professional class that constantly chases novel gustatory experiences and has come to confuse this empty, hedonistic quest with being cultured. theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…
BREAKING: Microsoft agrees to pay $250 million to settle 2022 lawsuit bought by Swedish pension fund over Microsoft purchase of Activision Blizzard I wrote about this suit in January (see link), as it got increasingly bizarre and ugly More to come... gamefile.news/p/bobby-kotick…
god damn, when Roger was right he was right
AI remixes creativity just hit a new level. DBZ characters set as 90's VHS home recordings. Credit: saiyansnaps
.@SmashJT choked back tears last night. A week after not buying his wife a Mother's Day gift he tells her they cannot proceed w/ improvements on their kids' bathroom thats in "shitty condition" due to his escalating legal costs. Failure as a husband & father reaches new depths.
Xbox snagging @ballmatthew is honestly a huge win for the brand. Especially as Chief Strategy Officer.
Can AI write literature and get away with it? On May 16, the Commonwealth Foundation announced the regional winners of its Short Story Prize. A few days later, the winning entry from the Caribbean, “The Serpent in the Grove,” by Jamir Nazir of Trinidad, was drawing attention online because some people thought it, and other prize-winning stories, reads uncomfortably like AI-generated text. The story, which was published on the literary magazine ‘Granta’’s site after being selected, is crammed with metaphor and simile. Some descriptions are even bizarre: “The girl smiled like sunrise over a sink”; “She had the kind of walking that made benches become men.” There are other hallmarks of AI writing, like negative parallelisms and anaphora, or the repetition of words at the beginning of successive sentences or clauses. Razmi Farook, director general of the Commonwealth Foundation, said that the prize committee does not use AI checkers in the judging process, calling those programs “not unfailing or infallible.” (Several people online said that AI-checking tools deemed “The Serpent in the Grove” to be 100 percent AI generated. ) “All shortlisted writers have personally stated that no AI was used and, upon further consultation, the Foundation has confirmed this,” her statement reads. A concurrent statement sent by ‘Granta’ publisher Sigrid Rausing was less sure, writing that she and her colleagues ran the story through Claude, which concluded that it was “almost certainly” written with the help of an AI tool, though it might have a “human core.” A representative from ‘Granta’ confirmed that its editors did not participate in the selection. Sign up for our Book Gossip newsletter to read more about the controversy and why this is the type of news story we’re regrettably about to see more of: nymag.visitlink.me/02GTsY
