#yarnspinner — Public Fediverse posts

Quoting Yarn Spinner: “AI companies make tools for hurting people and we don’t want to support that.”

The team behind Yarn Spinner (also known for authoring books on machine learning) have stopped using #AI entirely. Not because they don’t understand it, but because they do. They watched the industry pivot from interesting technical problems to one clear goal: firing people or extracting more work without hiring anyone to help.

Every time you adopt these tools, you financially support companies whose business model is workforce reduction during a time when unemployment can be life-threatening.

The question isn’t whether AI is technically impressive. It’s whether the companies making it deserve our money and support while they’re actively working to eliminate jobs. Yarn Spinner decided they don’t.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/

#YarnSpinner #WorkersRights #EthicalTech

😆 Apparently, the Yarn Spinner team wants us to know they're such #nonconformists that they reject AI like it's last season's fashion. 🤖👜 They're so forward-thinking, they've scheduled their innovation for... 2026. Because nothing says cutting-edge like proudly sticking to manual labor in the age of AI. 🤦‍♂️
https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/ #YarnSpinner #AIRejects #Innovation2026 #ManualLabor #HackerNews #ngated

😆 Apparently, the Yarn Spinner team wants us to know they're such #nonconformists that they reject AI like it's last season's fashion. 🤖👜 They're so forward-thinking, they've scheduled their innovation for... 2026. Because nothing says cutting-edge like proudly sticking to manual labor in the age of AI. 🤦‍♂️
https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/ #YarnSpinner #AIRejects #Innovation2026 #ManualLabor #HackerNews #ngated

😆 Apparently, the Yarn Spinner team wants us to know they're such #nonconformists that they reject AI like it's last season's fashion. 🤖👜 They're so forward-thinking, they've scheduled their innovation for... 2026. Because nothing says cutting-edge like proudly sticking to manual labor in the age of AI. 🤦‍♂️
https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/ #YarnSpinner #AIRejects #Innovation2026 #ManualLabor #HackerNews #ngated

😆 Apparently, the Yarn Spinner team wants us to know they're such #nonconformists that they reject AI like it's last season's fashion. 🤖👜 They're so forward-thinking, they've scheduled their innovation for... 2026. Because nothing says cutting-edge like proudly sticking to manual labor in the age of AI. 🤦‍♂️
https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/ #YarnSpinner #AIRejects #Innovation2026 #ManualLabor #HackerNews #ngated

We Don't Use AI

https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/

#HackerNews #AI #Ethics #Technology #Development #YarnSpinner #Blog #Post

Trying out yarnspinner for a project atm and i have to say i really like it #yarnspinner #narrativedesign #games

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All a-bird! I have some development updates to share and a new, exciting project! 🐦

This week, I joined the team at VGDev (https://www.gtvgdev.com/) as a programmer for Murder Most Fowl–an upcoming avian murder mystery puzzler set on a train! 🚂

I’m having egret time diving deeper into #unity, learning #CSharp, #yarnspinner for branching dialogue, and #FMODStudio for dynamic audio. 𓅥

Please stay tuned for updates as the project develops!

@yarnspinner #gamedev

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All a-bird! I have some development updates to share and a new, exciting project! 🐦

This week, I joined the team at VGDev (https://www.gtvgdev.com/) as a programmer for Murder Most Fowl–an upcoming avian murder mystery puzzler set on a train! 🚂

I’m having egret time diving deeper into #unity, learning #CSharp, #yarnspinner for branching dialogue, and #FMODStudio for dynamic audio. 𓅥

Please stay tuned for updates as the project develops!

@yarnspinner #gamedev

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All a-bird! I have some development updates to share and a new, exciting project! 🐦

This week, I joined the team at VGDev (https://www.gtvgdev.com/) as a programmer for Murder Most Fowl–an upcoming avian murder mystery puzzler set on a train! 🚂

I’m having egret time diving deeper into #unity, learning #CSharp, #yarnspinner for branching dialogue, and #FMODStudio for dynamic audio. 𓅥

Please stay tuned for updates as the project develops!

@yarnspinner #gamedev

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All a-bird! I have some development updates to share and a new, exciting project! 🐦

This week, I joined the team at VGDev (https://www.gtvgdev.com/) as a programmer for Murder Most Fowl–an upcoming avian murder mystery puzzler set on a train! 🚂

I’m having egret time diving deeper into #unity, learning #CSharp, #yarnspinner for branching dialogue, and #FMODStudio for dynamic audio. 𓅥

Please stay tuned for updates as the project develops!

@yarnspinner #gamedev

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All a-bird! I have some development updates to share and a new, exciting project! 🐦

This week, I joined the team at VGDev (https://www.gtvgdev.com/) as a programmer for Murder Most Fowl–an upcoming avian murder mystery puzzler set on a train! 🚂

I’m having egret time diving deeper into #unity, learning #CSharp, #yarnspinner for branching dialogue, and #FMODStudio for dynamic audio. 𓅥

Please stay tuned for updates as the project develops!

@yarnspinner #gamedev

Something new in the shop! Dyed up some Rambouillet in these lovely gray-blue and pale yellow colors. Decided to name the colorway Petrichor, the smell of rain because the colors remind me of sun rays peeking thru storm clouds. #handspinning #YarnSpinner #fiberarts #handmade https://artisans.coop/products/petrichor-hand-dyed-rambouillet-wool

we're on sale in the @itch.io "winter" sale itch.io/s/142176/win... and on the #unity #assetstore assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... #gamedev #indiedev #yarnspinner

"Winter" Sale 2024 by Yarn Spi...

just a reminder that we have a great community discord for #yarnspinner and associated stuff

join us? https://discord.com/invite/yarnspinner

#gamedev #indiedev #narrativegames

🤯 Oh, hey, come see us talking about #YarnSpinner and #Dredge at #GDC2025!

https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/dredge-and-yarn-spinner-building-narrative-with-open-source/907181

#GDC #GDC25 #DREDGE

although for that you'd want to use something like #yarnspinner (thanks @TheMartianLife and @parisba plus any other people that are part of that :blobcatheart: )

We’re very excited to be showing off what we’re working on at GCAP this year! Join us in #Melbourne! #gamedev #yarnspinner https://app.meettomatch.com/gcap2024/widget/details/10/

'nyways, my current spin is giving me Netflix. 😂

#YarnSpinner #SpinningYarn #spindle #handmade

#YarnSpinner is a free, Open Source tool that makes game dialogue simple 🧶 To support its development, we also offer paid Add-Ons which implement common patterns and fancy views on top of YS 💬

✨ The Itch Summer Sale is on now, so you can get the complete bundle of @yarnspinner + all Add-Ons for just $99.99 USD! 👇
https://itch.io/s/126068/summer-sale-2024

I’m heading into #sanfrancisco for some #YarnSpinner meetings today. If you’re in The City and would like to say hello, shout out 👋

#YarnSpinner just announced Yarn Spinner for Books! If you need a print copy (choose your own adventure book) of a work of #InteractiveFiction this looks very cool!
http://books.yarnspinner.dev/

#GameDev

Have a good feeling that this may turn out to be a decent cable yarn.

#YarnSpinning #YarnSpinner #Spinning #Knitting #Crochet

I know... I have a colour preference...

#stationery #YarnSpinner #yarnSpinning #SpindleSpinning #textileArts #knitting #crochet

The problem is even worse for niche or domain-specific tools, because Copilot acts like it knows what they are - even when it has little to no examples to draw from.

The amount of people showing up in the #YarnSpinner Discord and similar spaces, trying to get other people to spend their free time debugging code the "author" themselves don't understand and couldn't be bothered writing has already exceeded my quota for giving a f*ck about this whole debacle.

Test-spinning a cable yarn (which is plying two or more plied yarns together), a 2x2 formation for this one. Might go back to the drawing board for the colour distribution of a couple of the singles. Taking a progress photo and realizing belatedly... Having strong colour/aesthetic opinions really mean you keep accidentally matching. The bottom pattern is from my night caftan ie my lap. Yeesh, lol. #handspinner #handspinning #handspun #YarnSpinner #YarnSpinning #handmade #knitting #spindles

Test-spinning a cable yarn (which is plying two or more plied yarns together), a 2x2 formation for this one. Might go back to the drawing board for the colour distribution of a couple of the singles. Taking a progress photo and realizing belatedly... Having strong colour/aesthetic opinions really mean you keep accidentally matching. The bottom pattern is from my night caftan ie my lap. Yeesh, lol. #handspinner #handspinning #handspun #YarnSpinner #YarnSpinning #handmade #knitting #spindles

Test-spinning a cable yarn (which is plying two or more plied yarns together), a 2x2 formation for this one. Might go back to the drawing board for the colour distribution of a couple of the singles. Taking a progress photo and realizing belatedly... Having strong colour/aesthetic opinions really mean you keep accidentally matching. The bottom pattern is from my night caftan ie my lap. Yeesh, lol. #handspinner #handspinning #handspun #YarnSpinner #YarnSpinning #handmade #knitting #spindles

Test-spinning a cable yarn (which is plying two or more plied yarns together), a 2x2 formation for this one. Might go back to the drawing board for the colour distribution of a couple of the singles. Taking a progress photo and realizing belatedly... Having strong colour/aesthetic opinions really mean you keep accidentally matching. The bottom pattern is from my night caftan ie my lap. Yeesh, lol. #handspinner #handspinning #handspun #YarnSpinner #YarnSpinning #handmade #knitting #spindles

Test-spinning a cable yarn (which is plying two or more plied yarns together), a 2x2 formation for this one. Might go back to the drawing board for the colour distribution of a couple of the singles. Taking a progress photo and realizing belatedly... Having strong colour/aesthetic opinions really mean you keep accidentally matching. The bottom pattern is from my night caftan ie my lap. Yeesh, lol. #handspinner #handspinning #handspun #YarnSpinner #YarnSpinning #handmade #knitting #spindles

@yarnspinner gonna need to get the #YarnSpinner hashtag going on Masto 🧶

The Yarn Spinner team is holding an office hours session in the official Discord server at 10:30 AM AET / 3:30PM Pacific / 11:30PM UTC! Need help with using Yarn Spinner? Come chat to the devs! https://discord.gg/nE7KcCQ6?event=1072674644303298560 #gamedev #indiegames #narrativedev #yarnspinner #indiedev

The Yarn Spinner team is holding an office hours session in the official Discord server at 10:30 AM AET / 3:30PM Pacific / 11:30PM UTC! Need help with using Yarn Spinner? Come chat to the devs! https://discord.gg/nE7KcCQ6?event=1072674644303298560 #gamedev #indiegames #narrativedev #yarnspinner #indiedev

The Yarn Spinner team is holding an office hours session in the official Discord server at 10:30 AM AET / 3:30PM Pacific / 11:30PM UTC! Need help with using Yarn Spinner? Come chat to the devs! https://discord.gg/nE7KcCQ6?event=1072674644303298560 #gamedev #indiegames #narrativedev #yarnspinner #indiedev

The Yarn Spinner team is holding an office hours session in the official Discord server at 10:30 AM AET / 3:30PM Pacific / 11:30PM UTC! Need help with using Yarn Spinner? Come chat to the devs! https://discord.gg/nE7KcCQ6?event=1072674644303298560 #gamedev #indiegames #narrativedev #yarnspinner #indiedev

The Yarn Spinner team is holding an office hours session in the official Discord server at 10:30 AM AET / 3:30PM Pacific / 11:30PM UTC! Need help with using Yarn Spinner? Come chat to the devs! https://discord.gg/nE7KcCQ6?event=1072674644303298560 #gamedev #indiegames #narrativedev #yarnspinner #indiedev

The Yarn Spinner team is holding an office hours session in the official Discord server at 10:30 AM AET / 3:30PM Pacific / 11:30PM UTC! Need help with using Yarn Spinner? Come chat to the devs! https://discord.gg/nE7KcCQ6?event=1072674644303298560 #gamedev #indiegames #narrativedev #yarnspinner #indiedev

The Yarn Spinner team is holding an office hours session in the official Discord server at 10:30 AM AET / 3:30PM Pacific / 11:30PM UTC! Need help with using Yarn Spinner? Come chat to the devs! https://discord.gg/nE7KcCQ6?event=1072674644303298560 #gamedev #indiegames #narrativedev #yarnspinner #indiedev

The Yarn Spinner team is holding an office hours session in the official Discord server at 10:30 AM AET / 3:30PM Pacific / 11:30PM UTC! Need help with using Yarn Spinner? Come chat to the devs! https://discord.gg/nE7KcCQ6?event=1072674644303298560 #gamedev #indiegames #narrativedev #yarnspinner #indiedev

The Yarn Spinner team is holding an office hours session in the official Discord server at 10:30 AM AET / 3:30PM Pacific / 11:30PM UTC! Need help with using Yarn Spinner? Come chat to the devs! https://discord.gg/nE7KcCQ6?event=1072674644303298560 #gamedev #indiegames #narrativedev #yarnspinner #indiedev

The Yarn Spinner team is holding an office hours session in the official Discord server at 10:30 AM AET / 3:30PM Pacific / 11:30PM UTC! Need help with using Yarn Spinner? Come chat to the devs! https://discord.gg/nE7KcCQ6?event=1072674644303298560 #gamedev #indiegames #narrativedev #yarnspinner #indiedev

This attack was really fun to make. Using #yarnspinner for combat animations has made building stuff like this pretty easy.

In a turn-based #RPG, all attacks can basically be tiny little cutscenes.

It’s an exciting week this week! I got to….


📖 …release a book with O’Reilly Media about #MachineLearning
📈 …speak to SuperDataScience host Jon Krohn about the book + #DataScience

🚀 …speak to CNET journalist Jackson Ryan about #SpaceJunk

🧶 …work on curriculum materials for the upcoming #YarnSpinner Tasmanian Narrative #GameDev Incubator

🤫 …hear great news about maybe the most exciting project [as yet unannounced]

📖🔗 https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/practical-simulations-for/9781492089919/


📈🔗 https://superdatascience.com/591

🚀🔗 https://www.cnet.com/science/space/could-an-uncontrolled-rocket-re-entry-kill-a-human-scientists-just-did-the-math/

🧶🔗 https://secretlab.games/incubator