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Happy Independence Day

What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will.

kinda funny how much papal work is just subtweeting

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

shrimp eyes look like peppercorns

We have a lot of cool stuff in the works at VGHF that doesn't involve having to get mad whenever the industry blows something up so please stay tuned. There's plenty to be optimistic about in game history!

As a reminder, if you have good AC and you also have friends or know people who do not, maybe invite some folks over and let them take shelter for a bit during the peak heat hours. We gotta be a community in these times yall

I wrote about the Supreme Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I wrote about it because I refuse to act like taking away constitutional rights and allowing legal discrimination is okay just because it's happening to people who don't poll well in a diner in Ohio. In @thenation.com

it is hot out, people aren't sleeping well, brains are not functioning like normal due to the high humidity, and it feels good to just acknowledge those sub-optimal conditions with another person before doing the necessary work

xbox hiring asha sharma as CEO:

Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to reign in AI use as costs spiral out of control.

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

In light of The News, consider following and supporting the people in this starter pack (which contains a mix of film and games preservation folks) aftermath.site/sony-discs-2...

With the discussion of physical media it is also important to remember that you don't have to assume you need to save everything yourself. Support your local libraries! Donate to memory workers! There are so many ways to support the work of preservation and access

If you're curious what a non-preservationist gaming ecosystem looks like, you can look at the mobile stores, where most of the shit you remember does not exist in any form anymore.

will be very interested to hear how this affects the conversation at the Save the Games Symposium this month 👀

From: Hen Hop (1942), dir. Norman McLaren, National Film Board of Canada

speaking generally, I think the no. 1 thing you can do as a cis ally is help a trans woman get a job

New from 404 Media: Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it. www.404media.co/henrico-virg...

technically alexander hamilton survived 9/11

Brutalist 7-eleven r/brutalism

searching the same things on duckduckgo and google to compare quality of results has been.... revealing

This is how easy it is to poison Google's AI search with Reddit comments Watch here and subscribe for more of this every single week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uG8...

Every day it's like "Republican-Appointed Supreme Court to Decide Whether the FDA Can Stop People From Selling Ground Glass as Flour"

"Big Three" chip makers set up "coordinated scheme" to fix memory pricing, according to new lawsuit: aftermath.site/samsung-micron...

not directly rewarding slop on your platform seems like it would result in less slop, and a healthier ecosystem generally (and more users jumping from your competitors). will be interesting to see if it plays out that way for tidal www.404media.co/tidal-says-i...

I just cancelled a free trial before the automatic payments kicked in and the adrenaline flowing through me right now feels like I narrowly escaped a shark attack.

cliff house ruins, lake minnewaska, new york, 1978

computer art (1989) archive.org/details/ST_L...

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

We've got a big weekend coming up! Come on out 📼

what the hell would a zohran mamdani ziwe interview look like

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

are they making modern PCs and laptops with DVD drives given the physical media wave happening rn. if not they should do that

young organizers, some of you have to be able to celebrate actual wins or you will not be organizing for long.

no one who tells you something is "the new punk rock" ever has anything new or punk to sell you

i do think it's important to make a distinction between older and younger gen z because one group were adults at the start of COVID and one group was not and it resulted in very different formative experiences for both groups

From Josie Stratman (NY Daily News): “Mayor Mamdani on his "Talk with the Mayor" twitch stream reveals an old username: airnova2112 (after Mars 2112) Apparently a 15-year-old Mamdani used the username to come to the defense of his director mom, Mira Nair, from haters on online film chat boards”

false beast...

there's a guy on this train that looks like mr beast (he is not mr beast)

Congratulations to the graduates of East River Academy, who earned their diplomas while incarcerated on Rikers Island. No matter where your journey began, this milestone belongs to you. You earned it, and I'm cheering you on.

Miga might be a prophet

THIS MONDAY! XFR Collective x Iréne Hultman Monti @ BrickFlix Doors at 7pm Show at 7:30pm Tickets here: ci.ovationtix.com/122/producti...

if we had audio only posts on this app I'd love to post random audio clips of the city. just passed a jazz group in the park