The Twitter debacle is at least partly explained by Karl Popper's 'Clouds and Clocks' theory. I wish it was more widely understood, so here's more.

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As an Engineer, I know that every time you look at an unfamiliar but sophisticated system, your first reaction is 'this is 10x more complex than it needs to be, we could get rid of half of it', and I can tell you that this reaction is always wrong.

Oh my! What a Friday treat from Petaverse Network Tiny Rebel Susan Cummings Lee Cummings 🍻 cheers you lovely lot ♥️

So I wrote a thing about the thing we built, and now that thing is on the #unity3d website 😆 ALSO!! if you go to the bottom you'll see my face 😜
Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up Fictioneers #casestudy #AugmentedReality #WallaceandGromit #gamedev

Qld XR Festival Awards - Best in the World (Across All Categories) goes to Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up produced by the @fictioneersltd (@TinyRebelGames Sugar Creative Potato) #ar #wallacegromit #augmentedreality #qldxrfestival

What people don't understand is that Big Bird is a represenation of Veðrfaðir, who sits atop Yggdrasil, the World Tree of Norse Myth, and quarrels endlessly with Níðhǫggr, the dragon who gnaws at Yggdrasil's roots. In this essay I will describe the allegorical meaning of

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🚨Twitter Passports are dangerous and impractical 🚨
Banning anonymity online will not solve the issue of abuse and will actually make people
less safe. THREAD (1/9)🧵

If you live in Bristol, Cardiff, or San Francisco, check out #FixUpTheCity starting today! #madewithunity

A few people have asked if I have a list of my history threads. I don't keep one as they're a spontaneous thing mostly. But here's a few I remember.

Let's start with how the Knights Hospitaller had one of the largest airforces in Europe after WW2. Really. x.com/garius/status/…

Proud to launch Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up in 2021: the first real-time #AR Wallace & Gromit story told via an app, which we're working to continually iterate and improve. Find it on the App Store and Google Play via the links pinned. Thanks to AKQA for this video. Fictioneers Aardman

Here are our Tech Trailblazers this year in the #BIMA100 .

They're the ones helping to bring the crazy ideas of the industry to life!

Keep building the future!

bima.co.uk/bima-programme…

Honoured and humbled to be chosen as a 2021 #BIMA100 finalist!

Had a great time meeting my fellow trailblazers after the inspiring BIMA (British Interactive Media Association) Springboard event and ever thankful to Fictioneers for the opportunities that led here.

Lacking direction? I've created a set of simple questions and a Miro canvas for you to use to help shape your product / service strategy (RT's much appreciated!) cxpartners.co.uk/our-thinking/u…

The Big Fix Up is LIVE! Join Wallace and Gromit in a first-of-its-kind AR adventure, featuring a new story that YOU can take part in. Download the app now to experience a real-time storytelling adventure like no other 🚀 #wallaceandgromit #app #augmentedreality #mixedreality

This is a picture of a research session by the Children's Television Workshop in 1969, as they worked on an episode of Sesame Street. They used to show every episode to kids before broadcast, to make sure they were doing it right. That screen in the corner? That's The Distractor.

We're hiring!

Senior & Junior Creative Coders
Character & Game Environment Artists

All roles come with a positive, creative, autonomous working environment with ongoing flexible, remote, semi-remote, and onsite working offered.

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Our October event is this Wednesday!
We have @Lalalax speaking about delivering feedback in a remote world. Her talk will uncover the house of horrors in delivering feedback and introduce some strategies to help support the feedback giver.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/october-tria…

Some long-overdue fame for North St.

We've been working with Fictioneers on #TheBigFixUp , Wallace & Gromit's first augmented reality adventure, coming December.

Find out more: aard.mn/TBFU

We are hiring! We're looking for a Technical Director for Games. Find out more about the role and apply here: aard.mn/3jjVda1