Sean Barrett
🏳️🌈 ally, BLM, gamedev (Thief, Promesst), Indie Game Jam cofounder, popularized C header-file-only libs w/stb, @ Epic Games. I do not speak for Epic. he/him
Larry, I'm on DuckTales.
https://nothings.org
- Reposted by Sean BarrettFuck off Notion - ‘this shitty feature you didn’t want was $8 per month but is ‘free’ now! Btw also we’re increasing your monthly rate by $6’
- shittiest timeline
- Reposted by Sean BarrettAmerica is now a tinpot kleptocracy run by a fascist imbecile. The nonpartisan stewards of our norms and institutions are in denial. None would hesitate to call a leader from the Global South illegally taking a plane from the Qataris a corrupt exchange. But here? We need different language.
- Reposted by Sean BarrettIf you're a small indie team without much money on Unreal, you really have to look out for guys who want to call themselves Technical Director and "trust me bro" their way through it. Consistently and by far the most destructive force in the non-business side of game dev. You don't need these guys
- Reposted by Sean Barrett“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”
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- Reposted by Sean BarrettIt’s really hard to take seriously any effort to normalize the parts of AI that might be useful when it’s being used as a cudgel by corrupt fascists to destroy art, science, healthcare, the indigent, and the macroeconomy. How can we accept the “good” parts of a system when we see what it’s used for?
- Reposted by Sean Barrettas @beyerstein.bsky.social’s quote here notes, “be nice to antivaxxers” has not worked.
- Reposted by Sean BarrettFor everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.
- Somebody mentioned "Raised by Wolves" which I'd never even heard of, much less seen, so I thought I'd watch some of it and see if I'd be interested. Despite the seasons coming out in 2020 and 2022, HBO Max has already cut it loose from streaming on Max, licensing it to Tubi and others.
- Reposted by Sean BarrettThe utter rot of the GOP is the only meaningful political story of the last 30 years and it doesn’t even get EMAILS level attention
- Reposted by Sean BarrettThe corruption here isn’t even my biggest concern. The security risk!?! The security risk is astronomical and totally unfixable. Listening devices? Tracking devices!? Software backdoors!? Intentional AND unintentional!? Unmeasurable risk.
- Reposted by Sean BarrettIt’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...
- Reposted by Sean BarrettTrue story: When I was a contractor at a NASA facility I kept M&Ms on my desk. A civil servant I worked with ate a few one day. The next day I came in to find a pound bag on my desk. He wanted to "reimburse" me because he didn't want the few he ate to be seen as a gift. Anyway
- Reposted by Sean BarrettAlmost like there is an inherent level of dishonesty and criminality encouraged by the SV model.
- And how many of them have been done for fraud at this point? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- I think the last meaningful go-around on this was the Meese Commission under Reagan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meese_R... Having lived through it, I really don't remember anything resulting from the Meese Commision other than 7-Eleven moving Playboy from the main magazine racks to behind the counter.
- Well, here we go. The GOP has just introduced a bill to effectively outlaw all pornography. The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards. dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...
- Never forget. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk15...
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- Searle's "Chinese Room" argument against AI is fundamentally flawed and effectively nonsensical, it's just well-constructed to fool people. Explaining why ChatGPT can't think with a variation of Chinese Room is subject to the exact same flaw and, in the end, amounts to begging the question.
- Jesus Christ, these generative AI motherfuckers. Estimates for USA: - professional musicians: 100,000 - amateur musicians: 60,000,000 even if EVERY professional musician was a wage slave who hated work AND the stats were off by a factor of 100, you'd need a LOT of hobbyists who dislike their hobby
- Reposted by Sean Barrett“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
- Reposted by Sean BarrettSadly, this is not new! CBP for many decades routinely confiscated any medication migrants had on them and toss it in the trash. It was a part of our lawsuit against the Tucson Sector BP in 2015.
- More details are emerging as Rep. Joaquin Castro meets with the deported family of the 11yo U.S. citizen girl in Mexico. CBP agents *confiscated her seizure meds.* That’s not law enforcement—it’s abuse. Keep reposting. Keep raising hell. Be a voice for the voiceless. #OnYourSide
- Reposted by Sean BarrettI want a law passed in Congress that FORBIDS ANY law enforcement, ICE, DHS, or CBP from hiding their faces.
- Abolish ICE
- A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
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- Reposted by Sean BarrettVery disappointed to see that Finland's largest game event Assembly has chosen to use AI for this year's design. For an event that celebrates creativity in digital mediums through video games and a vibrant demoscene, this just feels like a middle finger at creatives.
- We need to stop with consumer-facing legalese. The first part allows training AI on SoundCloud content, the second half forbids it. Each has restrictions, but those restrictions are opaque, so I have no idea what distinction is being drawn. I doubt most non-lawyers understand either.
- This is unexpectedly apropos.
- Reposted by Sean BarrettThe US federal government was actually less wasteful than most big companies and other large organizations, not least because government had an amazing asset: highly experienced, educated, knowledgeable, talented people choosing public service when they could make a lot more in the private sector.
- Reposted by Sean Barretti will never get past this. the collapse of the global trade system because one guy does not understand what a trade deficit is.
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- Reposted by Sean BarrettAs of yesterday, Polymarket was basking in the press coverage from nearly every major news outlet on Earth as the leading indicator of who would be the next pope. Then the guy tracking at 0% won. Maybe we should stop using degenerate crypto gamblers as a source.
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- My "first, do no harm" science communication checklist: 1. label false color images as false color 2. label non-real-time video with time scale 3. label reconstructions as such 4. label artists' conceptions as such 5. label CGI as such 6. label AI reconstructions as such 7. no generative AI
- Reposted by Sean Barrettwe lost two Super Hornets to the waves and I haven’t seen any discussion of the race or gender of anyone who might be at fault, which means I have a pretty good guess as to the race and gender of everyone who might be at fault
- Reposted by Sean BarrettViable Post-LLM Pedagogical Strategy: – In-person, active learning only – One-on-one instruction – Examination via practical tasks – No lectures, just enigmatic remarks – Classes offered only in Swamp – Breaks for intensive physical exercise – Hit obstreperous droids with walking stick
- I'm begging science communicators to stop labeling image reconstructions created by motion interpolation or AI as "real images". The 10 images that were used to create this were "real images". (Though at what wavelength of light?) Animation isn't. Please hype great stuff! Just without falsity.
