The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

I think the reason I dislike the term “enshittification” so much is that it lets off the hook the reality that tech is by volume a social community of workers, not capital. If you don’t stand up and say something or do something, that culture of tech workers is on that Eichmann in Jerusalem trip.

Very mixed feelings tonight. This industry is in massive need of reform, because it’s hard enough shipping something creative as it is. Working to do so surrounded by even more layoffs at multiple companies is an odd time. Shipping used to mean celebration, before greed took over the industry.

The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

A backstage sneak peak moments before Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show.

All kidding aside on the sports part, that half time performance was incredible. The stagecraft alone to have so many unique sets all just there in one field, the camerawork and coordination of all those performers, damn impressive. Add in the musical performance and it became spectacular.

Saw the scores, is this going to be the first Super Bowl of a thing called football where using one’s foot on the ball is the only way to score? Still odd a goal is 3 points instead of just counting the total number of goals between those yellow forks.

Deployment pipelines really speedy now, 1 minute to send two 20GB builds to the sandbox. Helpful as we march towards release.

I just got this notification from this trial Meta is conducting. For art to be seen, fees are required. No more likes because your work is interesting to ppl, it is all just paid access to huge audiences. And these are just starting fees, they go up after a month. 👎😬😭

Keeping busy in the personal life the past two months has been good for avoiding the doom loop scrolling. Still angry at what’s going on, while remembering the oxygen mask metaphor. Glad I detangled from Meta networks long ago, still eager for a 3rd party client here for better feed controls.

6 years Wonder if I’ll break that record again, the stability during these past many years was appreciated.

Remember to reward that tiny speaker inside every Mac Mini with a good MP3 from time to time. It’s trying its best to be better than a PC beeper while trapped inside a metal box.

We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

Ah yes, 60 second long video’s based off successful games that have tens of thousands of hours of video to train off is clearly the path to making games from now on. Investors are not real people and I’m impressed they function at all in normal society.

This is grim. Please Gamedevs, take more breaks. Set boundaries. You're no good to anybody when you're crunching.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

I love great spin because I do believe this statement is true: very few people bought GDC tickets and then backed out, because for the people most at risk in the US right now a GDC trip is years of non-refundable salary. A lot of companies and people never bought tickets, though.

I remember being asked if I wanted some party drug in school. Said no, guy was cool with it and moved on AI people are being far more pushy and saying they need to force people to use AI now? Sam and other AI pushers, maybe try being at the consent level of a school drug dealer instead of deranged

It’s been a great day. Glad to work with the folks I do, and living where I do. Today was validation of the changes being made some of the tail end months last year are worth it. That one shock that forced change turned into taking control of what I could vs spinning in uncertainty.

lots of important perspective in this piece. for obvious reasons this response particularly resonated with me:

Tim Cook has blood on his hands now at this point. He steered a multi trillion dollar company to bow to this administration openly murdering people in the streets. And he seems to still be fine with promoting CSAM via the App Store still boosting X. All to keep iPhones from having higher tariffs.

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

the congressional labor caucus has called for the FTC to review the saudi-led $55 billion purchase of EA, saying it stands to harm workers while discouraging competition by putting EA under the same umbrella as major sports leagues. the letter has been signed by 46 members of congress

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

Since his socialist ideology was written out of the history books.. In his own words: "If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell." Happy MLK Day.

“The problem of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power” Martin Luther King Jr.

@atg.wa.gov Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown announced this week that he is suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for forcing states to comply with transgender discrimination to receive federal funding.

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

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I often think about Jonathan Cooper's posts about TLOU2, that the studio ran out of seasoned game animators because its reputation was so bad and thus had to hire film folks who had to be taught how to put games together.

ENOUGH www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Avowed, Grounded 2 and Towerborne are being shown in the New Game+ Showcase 2026 Trailer (airs January 8). All three games will receive significant updates this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUKr...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Probably off this platform for the next day or so, the buggy video player in iOS is going to lead to some accidental trauma and not worth the mental health risk. Stay safe, and properly angry at ICE for murdering a citizen today.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

Don’t think anything sums up today’s Democratic Party better than posting this garbage consultant slop at the same time that one of your constituents just got murdered by an ICE agent

So Ubisoft's Halifax studio JUST unionized, the first in North America to successfully do so, and then Ubisoft just happens to decide days later that they need to shut down the Halifax studio. Ghoulish behaviour.

To this day, I vividly hear the pounding on the doors of the House Chamber, the screaming of the insurrectionists threatening to kill us. Don’t let Trump and Republicans lie to you — January 6th was a violent attack on our Capitol and our democracy.

Huh, interesting to see this capitalistic system yet again needs to go imperial to sustain itself. The rich need more money, AI’s clearly not it, so let’s go capture some oil again while covering up the crimes of the administration via press censorship. Tell me again why capitalism is the best?

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

A reminder: any member of Congress not impeaching is violating their own oath of office. It's not optional. www.techdirt.com/2025/11/26/o...

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Aw man 😞 Rest in peace Mr Cheifet, host of Computer Chronicles: obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei... What a legend. His work in both presenting and preserving the early days of computer history has been (and will continue to be) deeply appreciated! My condolences to his family and friends.

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Holiday break this year has been good so far. Minds going down some odd tech nostalgia trips. Played some Sim Tower in a Win 3.1 setup, and Dungeon Keeper in another. Also playing around with NT 5.0 betas in 86Box, with the rough bolting of Win9x features evident before later betas smoothed it out.