We tend to think of wealth transfer as zero sum, but it's worse than that - they're restructuring society to produce less real human value in order to capture a larger fraction of it. Of course, that also means we can regain more than the captured value by tearing out those extractive structures.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

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a generation peaked on a rising tide; now they all drive lifted boats

Imagine working in a kitchen, then when you cook at home you have to give the restaurant access to anything you make. Sounds absurd but that’s what happens in games. One of the grossest forms of normalized greed. Companies owning your creativity outside the boundaries of work should be criminal.

Played a bit of this and it's already very interesting - thoughtful system design paired with great narrative / aesthetic flavor

Are you a game dev in or around PDX (or want to visit??) Get in on PIGCon at the end of May! They've put together a really impressive lineup and it'll be a great opportunity to build local industry and community connections.

videogame I suppose

There's 2 days left to back Realis. If you haven't, please check it out. It's one of the coolest things I've ever gotten to work on. (www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...) Here is a thread of all my art posts for the game. bsky.app/profile/sifs...

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I have nothing to say that matches the gravity of the situation. I just want peace and safety for everyone targeted by the insane whims of a madman.

This is so, so well-articulated.

thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win

this is a really interesting thread! i especially appreciate the interrogation of "common sense" ideas about drawing. i thought i'd compile some suggestions of my own, for people interested in drawing more or getting more comfortable with drawing.

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Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

Notes towards a "Woke 2" aftermath.site/woke-2-wokenes...

The wise among us now understand that the video game industry is a machine designed to create layoffs. Games are a vestigial, incidental byproduct that is unfortunately required to gather the raw material for the layoffs. Scientists are working hard to find a way to remove this necessity

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

the mild manners are job security, baby www.noncanon.com/comics/2026-...

She’s a serious candidate; at this point I think most people dismissing her seriousness are at least partially motivated by misogyny; and this is a clearer articulation of a progressive foreign policy than I’ve seen anyone else running for office make

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Hey, so we got a trojan horse ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

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They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question: "why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]" It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good. loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...

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Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go. Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go. Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go. As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

abolish ice but also the entirety of DHS. They were founded in the xenophobia/kleptocracy patriot act spree of 2002 and never should have existed to begin with.

"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!

caves of qud

'A NSFW ban won't negatively affect me, I don't draw or post porn!' You sure? Here's how it went down when tumblr did it:

Someone should invent an Actual Future for us to all live in. Everybody who wants to be dead instead can go be in the cemetery and stop performing tantrums at the rest of us. We'll forgive you, but you have to go lie down now.

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we just posted a role for a Sr. AI Engineer- come work with me, and check out our other jobs too!! I have to specify this is like "make horses play with beach balls"* AI, not like chatGPT AI. *there are no horses playing with beach balls in this game. yet job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonyinteract...

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I think a lot of people have forgotten or were never taught in the first place that these kinds of actions need to be an endurance strategy. If they know you'll give up in 2 days they'll just try to wait you out. You have to make them understand that this is their life now if they don't fix things

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Hey, it would mean so much to me if y'all kept up the pressure with phone calls to payment processors to show to them how much people care and that they can't just ignore it—my livelihood depends on adult games not being censored! You can find info and phone scripts here: stop-paypros.neocities.org

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

In summary: - This call campaign needs to last at least a month - As many calls as possible, so bring your friends - Make sure each call lasts as long as possible - Each time you make a call, mention it's not the first time you've called about this

treehopper morphology may be driven in part by directly sensing electrostatic fields.

i find myself regularly reminding people that not one single German was severely punished for simply refusing to contribute to the Holocaust

sometimes the best shitposts can be found outside

Pretty interesting study! This result is going to get misinterpreted in a bunch of different ways over the next few days, so I thought I'd share a few thoughts with you now to contextualise some of the stuff in the paper.

During the 2019 Hong Kong protests, various factions that ranged from clergy to suburban moms, lawyers to anarchists, coalesced on the four-part slogan: 不篤灰 (no snitching) 不割席 (no severing ties) 不分化 (no forming of cliques) 不指責 (no scolding) Seems like new American anti-fascists are (re)learning!