(Bloomberg) - A top South Korean policymaker said the nation should pay citizens a “dividend” using taxes on AI profits, underscoring growing pressure to redistribute gains .. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

UAE has been secretly carrying out attacks on Iran, WSJ reports reut.rs/3PADVuL

It’s not just lazy, it’s uncreative.

It sucks ass that across much of the U.S. trains travel is just as costly as air travel and slower than taking a car, because actually taking a train somewhere is a goddamn delight

7 months to go

yeah like how is ro khanna posting literally any different from a republican here

I do think it’s funny that the Democratic Party and leading Liberal voices are starting to attack Trump from the right on China. They’ve become the new conservative China hawks, to the point they think Trump isn’t going hard enough on China despite the past 10 years of trade war shenanigans.

This is why I use a VPN to play on the China server and get the extra benefits.

A tale of how moderation works around here, in two parts

'Nintendo says Switch 2 price increase doesn’t cover all costs, hopes its upcoming games will help to ‘overcome this barrier’ www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintend...

Discord is adding a free Xbox Game Pass "starter edition" for Nitro subscribers today. It's part of a new Discord Rewards program, that includes discounts on Logitech and SteelSeries gear. Full details here 👇 www.theverge.com/news/927722/...

Aaron Paul has been cast in ‘FALLOUT’ Season 3. (Source: Deadline)

Are they wrong?

Every city should have a weekly car-free day (and go beyond that eventually). Here's a video from the car-free day in Jakarta, Indonesia. People can walk on the streets, cycle, take part in races / exercise classes, buy from street vendors etc. Public transport still runs.

Media bias is often less about outright falsehoods and more about framing. Calling Cuba a “regime” instead of a government subtly delegitimizes it, while saying Cuba “rejected humanitarian aid” erases the possibility that the dispute was over the political conditions attached to the aid itself.

"Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death." Is there something horrific that the British weren't involved in?

Two U.S. officials say Trump is now leaning toward taking some form of military action against Iran to increase pressure on the regime & force concessions on its nuclear program.

Investors saw the Star Fox character designs

Netanyahu hints at upcoming war on social media. "I think there's been a concerted effort by several states to basically vilify Israel in the social, primarily in the social media ... We've not fought back yet; so we'll have to do that."

Epic Games says it is exploring different AI tools, including within its art department. The company says its goal is not to replace jobs, but to help employees work more efficiently.

I don't think it's really registered for some people on here that Biden was significantly more pro Israel than Obama, Obama was remarkably pro Israel himself, and these two things were true despite both the Democratic base souring on Israel and Israel souring on Democrats

"Similar patterns occurred in the lead-up to US military operations in both Venezuela and Iran."

I like how the Americans voted for themselves www.niradata.com/global-pulse...

One of the lessons from the post Warren court era is that without continuous organized pressure and sustained mass movements to further solidify progressive reforms, American political outcomes will succumb to the ratchet effect as a result of entrenched economic and political power.

'Killer Bean' launches on Steam Early Access on June 8th. store.steampowered.com/app/1597080/...

Exclusive: Israel built a secret military post in Iraq to support its campaign against Iran and launched strikes on Iraqi troops who almost found it early in the war.

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

US mainstream media now catching up to what is happening in Asia (and will happen in the US). Prices of fuel and fertilizer are pushing farmers to make irreversible cuts as they enter key planting seasons, and everyone knows who is to blame. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

A nasal spray with nanotech that crosses the blood-brain barrier after stroke that can be used at home or on the way to the ER to minimize damage. Wow. China seems to have a lot of nice things. You'd think we could, too.

Look at my opposition leader dawg

Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Yuji Horii: Dragon Quest live stream planned for May 27 to announce next game A Dragon Quest live stream is planned for the series' 40th anniversary on May 27, series creator Yuji Horii said on the latest episode of the KosoKoso broadcast.

Hoyoverse is expanding their AI usage in game development. Honkai Nexus Anima, Nodusfall, Petit Planet, Varsapura are all using AI in some way, primarily art. Hoyo also states that using it on VAs must be with explicit consent #Hoyoverse www.gamingonphonebiz.com/hoyoverse-ou...

The humiliation for Trump is playing out on the world stage. Iran’s foreign minister is now holding public talks with country after country—Japan, Saudi Arabia, India, Brazil, the UK, Italy, South Korea, and more. Allies are adjusting to a world in which America appears weakened and isolated.

Guangzhou South Railway Station is the GOAT.

More than 20,000 workers, mostly from the Global South, have been stranded on commercial ships since the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Homesick, unpaid, and running out of food and water, they lack the visas to disembark in any of the Gulf countries near the ships.

Guerilla Games’ co-founder and the former technical director of Epic Games says he’s building a new game engine that will offer a ‘European alternative’ to American tech like Unreal and Unity. vgc.news/news/guerill...

The bible… which I’m sure all American religious leaders have read

Never realized MGS3 marketing was just Bush era leftism. From EGM, December 2004.

Double Fine is unionizing aftermath.site/double-fine-un...

Gerrymandering has been a fatal flaw in our democracy for a long, long time but to see it being perused to nakedly and cynically in the last year has been really jarring. Other countries have non-partisan bureaucrats draw maps, but for some dumb reason the US gives that power to elected officials.

"It's too early for the PS6" Uh, you better buy that PS6 on day 1 so you're not paying $500 extra 1 year later.

Excellent. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"We’re going to have to be smarter about how we do things or certain titles can’t get made.” I spoke to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick about the video-game industry crisis and how for most games, production costs can't keep growing into the hundreds of millions: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Happy Victory in Europe Day to all! A reminder that fascism can and will be defeated 💪💪

"A whole civilization will die tonight" "You'll see one big glow" US foreign policy in a nutshell.

So, the Democrats’ failure to ban gerrymandering in 2021 may cost us democracy after all.

“.. If you need a 'stock market is not the economy' visual, this is a good candidate: Tech stocks relative to the market: all-time high. “.. Tech jobs relative to all jobs: all-time low.” - Schwab

Consumer PC motherboard sales have sharply dropped as CPU/GPU/RAM/SSD prices increase, volumes lower than the 2008-2009 'Great Recession' and 2020 (COVID) ➡️ www.digitimes.com.tw/tech/dt/n/sh...