Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected])

2024 Changemaker @Everytown
#Law + #Technology for Good
Producing & Publishing prosocial #videogames since 2008

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

💫 Announcing the winning social connectedness games. Please join us in congratulating these teams.

♥️A HUGE thank you to our panel of experts who played, scored, & critiqued the games!

#Prosocial #Videogames #Indiegame #Nonprofit #PublicHealth #Prevention #EDUtwitter

[Jennifer Ann's Group® @stopTDV]

🥳Announcing the 2025 winning games from our 18th annual game design challenge!

The topic was #communication.

🥇Wasteland of Eloquence
🥈Time to Explain!
🥉Fractured Home

Details:
https://t.co/afhmkRH3T1

#videogames #indiegame #indiedev #nonprofit #prevention #publichealth

[Games for Health Europe @GFHEU]

The tenth edition of the Games for Health Europe conference will take place on the 31st March and 1st April 2025! Let’s join hands again for #healthcare and #seriousgames! https://t.co/G72vY4KoTb #GFHEU2025

[Consent Games 🐘 [email protected] @consentgame]

❗️Last April we reached over 20K folks with our free award-winning games about #consent.

❓How many can we reach for 2025??

💜April is #SAAM (Sexual Assault Awareness Month)

🎮Check out & play our free games about consent at https://t.co/6NFdKPITym

#PublicHealth #indiegames

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

@tmorello A few years ago, #Google removed our free award-winning games produced by our #nonprofit org which teach students about healthy relationships & #consent.

Google said we misclassified them as "#educational"
😒

#publichealth #prevention #videogames

[Jennifer Ann's Group® @stopTDV]

🏆 2025 Game Design Challenge:
#Communication

📆 Join by March 24th
📣 Finalists announced live: Mar 31st - Games For Health Europe Conference
📝 Finalists receive expert critiques
💰 $10,000 in cash prizes

Register: https://t.co/VtF05G5zt9

#indiedev #gamedev #Charity

[Brian Crecente @crecenteb]

Is the Steam Deck a game console or a gaming PC, and other thoughts.

https://t.co/Eisyd2dfHM

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

In an effort to elect pro-gun politicians, "America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers" to groups, including #CambridgeAnalytica.

https://t.co/R659ddytbf

@MomsDemand @Everytown @NSSF #privacy

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

"... the misuse of AI technology jeopardizes the essence that defines humanity, prioritizing commercial interests."

https://t.co/uy2nGuhMb8

#AI #CharacterAI #Tech #LegalTech #Legislation

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

"It appears that either they are not doing the bare minimum in vetting these chatbot profiles or that their technology is so bad as to be useless."

https://t.co/BZJHb5uqnh

#AI #CharacterAI #privacy #technology #law #trauma

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

💜An anonymous donor is matching dollar-for-dollar donations today up to $1,400.

#Nonprofit #DonateNow #DVAM2024 #ElPaso

[Jennifer Ann's Group® @stopTDV]

The 9th annual El Paso Giving Day is underway! Donate to organizations like Jennifer Ann's Group. With a minimum donation of $10, & $1,400 in matched funds, help us expand & strengthen our educational programs & digital interventions
https://t.co/TcORgXFdfl

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

More coverage of Character AI service used to create a chatbot based on my deceased daughter @stopTDV.

@washingtonpost @WIRED articles came out yesterday.

🧐 Potential impacts of #AI if there are insufficient guardrails?

◾️ https://t.co/l1VTVwArHG

◾️ https://t.co/lw37mRp2PN

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

More coverage of Character AI service used to create a chatbot based on my deceased daughter @stopTDV.

@washingtonpost @WIRED articles came out yesterday.

🧐 Potential impacts of #AI if there are insufficient guardrails?

◾️ https://t.co/l1VTVwArHG

◾️ https://t.co/lw37mRp2PN

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

⭐️ In this video, @dangelno talks about the terrible thing I dealt with last week. He also talks about the need for change & shows support for our work.

💜 I am greatly encouraged by folks like him.

https://t.co/LJoaKsevNi

#AI #Chatbot #CharacterAI @stopTDV @crecenteb

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

@MomsDemand The most dangerous time in an abusive relationship is as it is ending or shortly after.

"Why didn't you leave?"

This is one reason why.

#DVAM2024 @stopTDV

[7up9down @Gordan_7up]

@crecenteb @character_ai @FTC @linakhanFTC Any chance you ftc will start cracking down on this kind of abuse as well?

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

Thank you @crecenteb and to everybody for their kind words and support. We will continue using #technology to do good through @stopTDV in Jen's name and memory.

We remain hopeful bad actors will will one day be prevented from using technology to cause harm.

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

Thank you @crecenteb and to everybody for their kind words and support. We will continue using #technology to do good through @stopTDV in Jen's name and memory.

We remain hopeful bad actors will will one day be prevented from using technology to cause harm.

[Brian Crecente @crecenteb]

This is fucking disgusting:

@character_ai is using my murdered niece as the face of a video game AI without her dad's permission. He is very upset right now. I can't imagine what he's going through.

Please help us stop this sort of terrible practice.

https://t.co/y3gvAYyHVY

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

🎂Happy 100th Birthday President Carter!

🌟President #Carter is a featured guest in the free online course 'Understanding #Violence' from @EmoryUniversity.

I'm honored to discuss our work using #videogames for #prevention in this great course.

https://t.co/n3oPutzlEs

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

@Everytown Folks that treat school shootings as being as inevitable as natural disasters are broken.

[Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected]) @crecente]

If true, it's shockingly irresponsible to forbid teaching #consent in #Florida schools.

😈Only #abusers benefit by preventing students from valuing bodily autonomy from an early age.

🌟Over 10K students learn consent through our #free #games every yr.

[NO MORE @NOMOREorg]

📢 “Barr said a list of words health educators told her they’ve been forced to remove from lesson plans includes “abuse,” “consent” and “domestic violence”

https://t.co/ySjmK3OAUh