I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

"Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and AI officer, wrote in a sworn statement to a federal court in Mississippi that the US military “relies on derivatives of [Musk-run xAI’s] commercial offerings known as the Grok Gov Model.” 1/2

A democratic socialist is leading in vote count and on track to be Washington DC’s next mayor. It’s the latest sign of the DSA expanding its reach in the wake of Mamdani’s rise. By January, it’s possible DSA members will be running the two largest U.S. cities and the nation's capitol

I'm hoping to get to DC pride this weekend but I will need $$$ to do so, Anything helps <3

The Council's Budget Negotiating Team (BNT) and the Mayor are currently finalizing the city's FY27 budget. Now is the time to be heard and to push for actual adequate funding of our libraries.

I said this before, and I'll say it again. Esther Ghey's panic over "screen time" is a code phrase for "the internet transed my kid." On top of that, this is just another media moral panic about parents who feel anxiety that their kids are autonomous humans and not empty dolls to shape.

The mock curiosity about a trans girl's gender combined with the morbid and sadistic idea that stabbing her would reveal some truth of the matter in the noise she makes crying out in pain is a scaled up version of the titillating speculation you get in the pages of the guardian and the daily mail.

Between this and the unabashed attempts to re-open "the institutions" (ie. concentration camps for disabled folks), it's hard to argue that politically motivated violence against politicians isn't warranted as a form of self-defense.

I spoke with @amylittlefield.bsky.social about her new book KILLERS OF ROE, an indispensable account of how we got to Dobbs—a story of incremental cuts, compromises, and co-conspirators who’ve managed to avoid the limelight

the scale of Trump’s crimes against American liberties rival those of king and Parliament in the 1770s,” Johann Neem, editor of the Journal of the Early Republic, wrote last year."

"The situation is so bleak that professional historians of the early United States, generally as wary of partisanship as of presentism, are drawing the grimmest of comparisons. We are in “a much more serious situation than many politicians or journalists will admit: 1/2 www.bostonreview.net

Zoe makes a great point

Never seen "the Republican Party will get worse before it gets even worse" expressed so sublimely. The things that make it more loathsome also make it more unstable & incapable

Defying a court order, Children's Hospital Colorado insists they will not provide equal treatment to transgender children. More on the shocking insistence that trans people remain second class citizens in healthcare settings from @alyssaur.bsky.social here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Morale at Meta is reportedly at the lowest level in two decades. As part of the effort to improve the mood in the office, Meta has increased spending on travel, events, and perks like snacks, per Wired. Meta laid off about 8,000 employees, around 10% of its global workforce, in May.

The media loves the tale of Brianna Ghey who tragically killed herself due to the pernicious influence of social media and transgender, except for the fact she was murdered by transphobes in a park, but she was out and about as a trans girl, so basically She got herself killed whats the diff

Almost every sex worker I’ve ever met has been marginalized in some way or another (disabled, queer, black, etc)

Yes and cars are such a devastating technology we should never have allowed them to proliferate as they have, we should never have reorganised cities around them, we should never have entrenched car dependence as an aspiration and then an inevitability

I’ve been worried about her campaign since it started & I’ve not said much because her trauma must be truly horrific. But at this point she is basically lying about Brianna’s death. Matthew Shepard’s mother fought homophobia & pushed to create hate crime legislation. Esther is doing the opposite.

Brianna Ghey was killed by a pair of teenagers who did it because they had observed that if you murder a trans girl, 9 out of 10 people will blame the trans girl, and so figured they could get away with it. Do you know who Esther Ghey blames for Brianna's murder? Because it's not the killers.

THE COURTROOM SKETCH ARTIST DREW THE MOMENT THEY REALIZED THEY FORGOT LUIGI

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cant wait for the day doctors who think its dangerous for trans women to have estrogen levels above 200 ng/mL learn about cis women

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Sex workers aren't therapists, but their impact is similar to theirs. If you open up & trauma dump to a sex worker, tip them extra. Pay them for their time.

Sex. 👏 Work. 👏 Is. 👏 Work. 👏

Hey Diana you’re a huge loser, hope this helps you frame your feelings in the proper context love

The moment I heard the phrase "ANTIFA members" I died a little inside, since as pretty much everyone here knows ANTIFA is not an organization. Solidarity MN, we'll get through this together, and we WILL win.

Minneapolis: stay dangerous, keep each other safe.

Their Pizza was...itself, but for many our age this chain and TMNT was how they got introduced to the iconic food. No love for the company, but this is still the beginning of the end of an era.

5 things you will probably find in most of my book. -Plurality -A refutation against "sanity" as the world defines it. -Trans themes -Happy lesibans -Stark critiques of capitalism

5 things you will probably find in most of my books - sadistic lesbians - butch warlords - long interiority paragraphs - nature metaphors - fun descriptions of gore

I can't help but to think this "real name" push is also meant to indirectly out trans people. If trans people are forced to go by their dead name but insist on their true gender/pronouns/etc, online surveillance can put 2 and 2 together to find out the trans folks who are only out on the net.

It's true. Why? I think it's because we are "born" with our "real names" and choose our pseuds. Names have power. Our "true names" are how we see ourselves. If my given name is trashed... so what? Most people have a lot of people who share their names. But my pseud? That matters. It's *me*.

Long story short, solidarity with Minnesota, always.

As a queer person, i eventually deleted Facebook cuz ppl could find me quite easily and working mainly with intolerant people put me at risk.

I haven't used my real 1st name on SM for over 5 years and yet ppl were still able to find me on X (formerly Twitter). An anti-LGBTQIA cabal was waged against me; ppl from my neighborhood called for me to be lynched or even raped cuz, and i quote "among black ppl there are neither fags nor TS ppl"

Microsoft, Tencent, and their contemporaries cannot be forgiven for the way they vandalized and ransacked the game industry. Too many good studios have been stolen from the world by the companies that consumed them. Hell, *one* was too many. They burgled the house and then set fire to it.

One thing about specifically reactionary parents (rather than ones who are actually normal about their kid) is they under-estimate and disregard their child's autonomy. They see their kids as solely a product of themselves until there is something to scapegoat (i.e. "screen time").

Every other thing on that list has serious problems too, but the inclusion of a "real names" mandate in any list like this proves the speaker a) knows nothing about the actual science of online behavior b) is more motivated by punishing Bad People than stopping online abuse

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

There's very little in gaming that's been as exhausting as the amount of AI generated slopware that's sent to me daily, I have to spend a not insignificant amount of time filtering out the real games from the slop, especially as many don't disclose. However bad you think things might be, it's worse.

Happy five years to the GOAT trans meme, decided it was time to update it properly

I didn't know this was made by the folks who made UMDC. Fascinating.

"Urban Myth Dissolution Center" developer MOCHIKIN created a website that lets you share 9 Steam games that you would like to see more widely known. The website will also provide recommendations to similar games based on your picks. 9games.pages.dev

We and everywhere need to build a clean grid that is probably doubled in size, and also smarter and more resilient and more efficient, so that vulnerable folks don’t die in heat waves and that we can electrify our cars, (more efficient) buildings, and factories. Not doing that increases suffering.

Banning teenagers from using social media is going to absolutely work.

Really great how every single media company is going to be owned by 3 white guys all loyal to MAGA. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...