So uh What the fuck

the fuck

In less than 12 hours, the European Parliament holds the final vote on reinstating Chat Control 1.0. A simple majority is no longer enough to reject it. Contact your MEPs NOW and demand they protect your right to privacy via fightchatcontrol.eu

Tech layoffs are a failure of leadership. There, I said it openly.

Here’s the part we all want to know which is behind the paywall. You’re welcome.

The internet is the greatest resource we've ever created, so it makes sense the capitalists want to pillage and gate it off now that there's no other land or people to colonize. It's all connected in a goddamn clusterfuck.

I honestly think that the ID "age verification" shit really just kinda is transparently going to lead to segregated internet instances. Every country gated off like North Korea. It's not just surveillance, which it very much is, make no mistake, but it's also about absolute digital control.

My mother would punish me for "bad grades" without a second thought. Performance over understanding. A critical flaw in how we, as a society, treat education. Students cheat because we don't address the process of learning as anything other that a useless metric to achieve. It's systemic.

We live in an era where testing, grades, writing, teaching conditions, and reading are all simultaneously in forms of crisis, and, to my mind, the common denominator is a complete lack of focus and intention on learning as the desired outcome of education.

Germany's Largest Video Game Preservation Effort To Close, Leaving Its Digital Archive In Peril.

YouTube is actively hurting creators and doesn't give a shit, I swear Insane behavior

Mischief Magus

We should all yell at The Cloud (The Cloud is a metaphor for runaway capitalism btw)

every fucking name generator is AI now. I don't need to create chemical runoff for a name generator. I want a little form put together by a random guy fifteen years ago that puts together vaguely themed words. I know I sound like "guy yells at cloud" but I'm going to yell at this fucking cloud

Sony is desperately trying to sweep things under the rug. Make sure they run out of brooms. Keep the pressure up! FIGHT FOR PHYSICAL GAMES AND OWNERSHIP!

Another Exciting Adventure in American Fascism

Private DIY Servers Are "Illegal Black Markets of Piracy" | The ESA's Shady Ties www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmgj...

I don't know who needs to hear this, it is entirely possible to build a whole game without generative AI. All our art, VO, worldbuilding, lore etc. is done by humans because we think our team is awesome and we value their expertise and labor. 🧡

We don't enforce any DRM for games and stuff on @itch.io. Buy, download, and never connect to the internet again for all we care ✌️

This shit doesn't work, nor is it working actually the point. Humanity is being sold out by capitalist politicians who care about money more than people.

Read more on what this means for #StopKillingGames and #StopKillingInternet www.reddit.com/r/StopKillin... www.stopkillingtheinternet.com

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

ESA updated their statement to games media, a third time after saying community servers are "the black market of video games", "illegal", and "piracy" to the California State Senate. They tripled down, updated their statement, and caused a bill to fail We wonder: What will be the consequences?

So, we’re quadrupling down on these statements now? Telling California Senate lawmakers that community servers are illegal and "the black market of video games" is certainly a choice. But sure, as we all know, it was likely just a misunderstanding. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

The ESA called private servers for Minecraft and Call of Duty "illegal" in a California hearing on a bill related to the "stop killing games" mo... https://kotaku.com/gaming-industry-lobbyist-claims-minecraft-and-call-of-duty-community-servers-are-illegal-during-stop-killing-games-hearing-2000711650

The ESA has made the head-scratching claim that private Minecraft servers are "illegal" and considered a form of "piracy" in a recent hearing. https://bit.ly/4gfkh2l #IGNSummerOfGaming

Terrible. The worst idiot and grifter in games made a valid point. You should still scrutinize everything Sweeny says, even if he was right on this one. He's a documented liar, folks. One right doesn't excuse a thousand wrongs.

Congratulations ESA, you’ve won this round and handed us the legitimacy boost of the century by doubling down. Let's not forget that Minecraft's EULA explicitly allows for private servers, and that there is a popup warning when you try to play multiplayer saying Mojang/Microsoft is not liable

🇪🇺 Chat Control Update 🇪🇺 Yesterday the EU institutions met & were in discussion, but as of now no final agreement has been met regarding the scanning on content. Say NO TO CHAT CONTROL & NO TO SURVEILLANCE. 😡 Make your voices heard & contact your MEPs now objecting to this 👉 fightchatcontrol.eu

A literal intended feature of Minecraft is apparently illegal according to the parasites at the ESA. They should all resign and the association should shut down forever. Absurdity.

Insanity. Actual fucking Insanity. Fuck the ESA.

This is your reminder that Zen browser is a privacy focused Firefox fork and better than Opera GX and Brave.

Some browsers have a "copy clean link" feature that removes it for you, but it's always good to double check and delete unnecessary aspects of any link. Fuck the tech empires and their invasive habits.

this is actually a good reminder that you should delete the tracking nonsense off of any url that you share online. just delete everything after the ? (including the question mark) and share like you usually would

Big Tech is organized crime. Most people won’t engage with that statement. They don’t want to confront what it means — how huge the problem is and how hard it will be to fix. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s true. Big Tech is organized crime.

Californians: The Protect Our Games Act advances to the business committee on June 29: sbp.senate.ca.gov/agenda We need your help to push AB1921 through! Instructions to contact your state senator: docs.google.com/document/d/e... The ESA showed up to the last hearing, so make your voices heard!

Yes, but like, an ogre cult. It has layers.

Again? How many times are they trying to bring back Chat Control? It's been voted down *TWICE* in European Parliament and they're still trying to bring ChatControl back instead of looking for other ways of protecting kids online. But then, I don't believe it was about protecting the children at all

It was never the point, and being poorly thought out and implemented doesn't change that it's surveillance and control they want, not protection.

Europeans can leave feedback for the @ec.europa.eu about reforming the Copyright Directive similar to the feedback campaign we had with the Digital Fairness Act until June 25: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... This is to increase political pressure, and map out a pattern of behavior on their end

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

We sure do live in quite the time ...I genuinely lack the words

While you're cooking in the heat this week, do bear this in mind.

I'm sorry what the fuck

I just want to live to see a better world.

When I say that "AI is just the worst of colonialism applied to the brain" this is what I kinda mean. They ransack and profit off of everything that isn't theirs. I think we have a much, much bigger problem to deal with if we can actually tackle the AI catastrophe. It's systemic.

So the Steam Machine (the new one, the Official one) has a base price of over $1k (nearly $1.5k for the 2TB storage with a controller) and like...that fucking sucks but also feels reasonable looking at the specs and the financial hell world dipshits in the "Artificial Intelligence" sector created.