The Shinkansen allows for video game directors to get around the country.

Not to go all 2012 era r/atheism, but I do think this pew research poll explains about half of why the modern US is the way it is.

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

I'm old enough to remember when the narrative was that the US was solving the climate crisis and China is the problem because it uses coal. Now the narrative is that China is solving the climate crisis, but this is bad, while the US is currently denying that climate change is even a thing.

President Trump says tech and media giants Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, and Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch will be a part of the group to take over TikTok’s algorithm in the acquisition of the social media platform’s US operations: https://cnn.it/46KUeuG

While this is true, I think the broader conversation to have is about how these groups are also, and have been, making their way back to mainstream social and media platforms with little pushback (or even with open arms).

NEWS: Australia, Canada & the UK formally recognize a Palestinian state—France set to follow at next week’s UN General Assembly.

The reason why Democrat strategists / leadership always take positions like this, aiming to go after the mythical voter that will suddenly vote Democrat if they adopt Republican policies, is because when ideology and donor influence prevents you from a progressive approach, this is the only option.

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIAN DOCS IN GAZA: “70-80% of our patients are kids and pregnant women… It’s a nightmare… bombing after bombing… We’re making this video because we could die at any moment… Can someone please stop this terror and horror?” Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRReCVY/

Lenovo has cancelled some pre-orders of its upcoming $1,100+ Legion Go Gen 2 handheld, saying orders have "substantially exceeded expectations". www.videogameschronicle.com/news/lenovo-...

The United States will have control over TikTok’s algorithm in the acquisition of the social media platform’s US operations, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

The US has been at war for over 90% of its existence since 1776, has over 700 military bases across its client states and overseas territories, and now it wants to send troops back to Afghanistan.

Trump posts a deranged message to Pam Bondi pressuring her to prosecute his political enemies after a U.S. attorney quit because he refused to fabricate charges: “We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility.”

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

My Bluesky and Twitter feed for the past week has included a lot of this

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

China cracks down on use of live-streaming and AI to sell religion on.ft.com/48o9aA6

Glazing the new Chengdu Metro extensions that opened this week.

A Green party staffer tells me 1,376 people joined the Greens on Thursday (Your Party chaos definitely helped) Total membership was about 63,000 before the leadership election. It's now over 75,000

NEW: Reporters at the Pentagon have been told they can no longer report information which has not been approved. Those who refuse will lose their press credentials - WaPo

Will the PS5 / Switch 2 price increase? Depends on: 1) Full assessment of tariff impact now that the current rates are stable (for now lol). 2) Impact of rising component prices such as memory costs. 3) Whether they'll absorb 1 & 2 for strategic reasons or pass on the costs to maintain margins.

Why are iPhone prices the same, but game consoles going up in price? Trump exempted certain smartphone / computer parts from reciprocal tariffs However, the US govt DOES NOT consider a video game console to be a computer Game consoles are considered a separate category and subject to full tariffs

Hmmmm wonder why it's only the US. (I'm not wondering why, to be clear).

Trump’s tariffs are negatively impacting gamers like you and me.

"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale." It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability. Coincidence? I think not.

Even voters who once backed his policies are now realizing these policies are actually unjustifiable and do not benefit them materially. It's a positive sign that, despite liberal institutions caving or refusing to push back, that the American public are capable of uniting and pushing back.

I hate it here

Yet for a country so insistent on not being an empire, Washington has followed a trajectory nearly indistinguishable from its imperial predecessors: www.commondreams.org/opinion/depa...

Three major white collar criminals were convicted in fraud schemes and ordered to pay back over $800 million. Then, Trump pardoned their criminal offenses. Now the SEC is dropping enforcement and they won't have to pay the money back. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

seeing another rash of voter blaming and i wonder how people reconcile this with all the times dem senators - in deep blue states, even - that people voted for and put into office decided to give unanimous consent to GOP shit so they could go on vacation. they voted 'correctly', and yet, get nothing

Trump claims he and Xi Jinping approved a deal for TikTok's US operations; Chinese media's readout only says that China respects the wishes of businesses (Ben Berkowitz/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

McDonalds China and Black Myth Wukong are collaborating for the Mid-Autumn Festival. The special meal comes with a Black Myth x McDonalds loungewear robe. Certain stores will be Wukong themed. In addition, pop-up stores with merchandise will be set up across several cities.

China’s UN Envoy Accuses US of ‘Abusing’ Veto Power Over Gaza https://www.newsbeep.com/132674/ China slammed the US for blocking a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in…

This entire week has just been an unironic Tony Zaret video tbh

this is real, and yes that reply that is the head of the FCC

BREAKING: Trump just suggested the federal government might revoke the licenses of broadcast TV networks that are "against me." "The networks were 97% against me again … 97% against, they give me only bad press. They're getting a license." "I would think maybe their license should be taken away."

Nintendo Switch 2 reach 2m units sold in just 15 weeks (Japan). Now the 3rd fastest selling system in Japan, behind GBA (2.28m) and PS2 (2.03m). Additionally, the original Switch took about 35 weeks to reach the same milestones.

One mistake a lot of Democratic voters make is thinking that liberalism is a left wing or progressive ideology, when it was always right wing in nature. Its role has always been to contain the left, rather than the right. Liberalism is only progressive when the alternative is fascism.

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

Yesterday 2 metro lines just opened Chengdu Metro Line 17 Phase 2 and Line 10 Phase 3 South. Line 17 Phase 2 is a 28km fully underground crosstown city center express line. Line 10 phase 3 South extends a suburban metro line entering the city center. A small (not my) picture🧵...

Right wing all week: How dare anybody call us fascist?! Trump today: Designates anti-fascist groups as terrorists, uses FCC to consolidate control of the media and hands TikTok to allies

TikTok crackdown underway. The consolidation of social media and traditional media is happening rapidly.

The US banned the sale of certain GPUs and chips to China because of a "national security threat". Now the US wants to sell those GPUs and chips to China, but China is refusing to buy them. This means "China is straining relations and is an adversary" ??????

Nvidia is investing $5 billion into Intel to jointly develop PC and data center chips. The investment will see Intel help Nvidia build x86 chips that integrate RTX GPU chiplets. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/780792/...

Like cute, wiggling caterpillars, these driverless SkyShuttle trains weave their way through the city of Chongqing in southwest China.

In 2022, the US banned high-end NVIDIA GPU exports to China, wanting to slow down AI development in China. So China invested in homegrown AI chip production, and caught up in 3 years. Now they are banning buying NVIDIA AI chips. The kind of secondary effect a ban can have:

Shrinkflation comes to the console market.