In San Francisco I commented to friends that the contrast between the amount of money spent on AI and the homelessness we were seeing made me sick. But even excluding AI, the amount Meta wasted on this trash could have accommodated every unhoused person we saw for life, with money to spare.

the rush post here is good because i'm pretty sure they only actually have one song in their entire career about a wizard, and yet it still rings true.

No oil means no electricity. No electricity means no water pumps. No running water means no sanitation. No power for hospitals. No fuel for ambulances. No refrigeration for drugs. Mass death soon follows. This is a crime against humanity.

billionaire being interviewed: i havent listened to a single note of music in 27 years. think about it, music was basically invented, what, maybe 50 years ago? interviewer: this is really interesting

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Something I have noticed while talking with people at GDC: A lot of people are worried about the state of the industry and its conditions, but a lot of them will not move. We are running out of time. We ARE out of time. Is this what scares you?

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

Every day there are new reports of ICE detaining and targeting our communities. Video game devs and the workers who keep our workplaces running are not safe from this. That’s why we’ve launched WE DON'T PLAY WITH ICE, a campaign demanding companies commit to becoming 4th Amendment Workplaces.

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I cannot emphasize enough that these people are being laid off for failing to do things that are literally impossible

'If we love this work, we have to protect it:' Heart Machine workers secure voluntary union recognition

The US & Israel, supported by most EU nations & Gulf states, just poisoned a city of 9 million people... It also rained black after Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

Reading "Confessions of a Union Buster"

They are at $480,000/500,000 goal Just donated $25 can anyone match me

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World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

Sending love to my Iranian and Persian friends today. May we live to see the end of US imperialism.

absolute coward. bootlicking garbage. our country is run by an absolute choad.

The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.

nah try again get this bullshit chatgpt shit out of my face, I don't care how many human editors you had

“I wish the game industry would leave behind its obsession with tech that sees it keep making more bloated and less original games. But I also wish they would completely remake my favourite 11-year-old game that still works on current devices.”

all these major musicians and bands being like "please fascists don't use my music in your video" but none of them threatening to sue. what are we doing guys.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast. They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

anyway labour exploitation is labour exploitation. acting like thats gonna go away when AAA companies collapse is wilfully naive at best. only actual organzation can change things. if you're the owner of a studio of any size who wants real change put your money where your mouth is, make it a co-op

you dont have to be annoying about it but you really gotta hammer in your basic messaging how class struggle works and make educating your supporters a priority because if you don't your base is gonna see the epstein files and run off a fucking cliff into conspiracy theory nonsense

epstein files are an extreme case but they do demonstrate why any viable left wing opposition to the status quo must be open about its support of marxism, and make communicating basic marxist theory a core part of its messaging. you cant just skip to the end unfortunately

yes, the wheels of justice are slow. agonizingly, excruciatingly slow. and oftentimes they miss or go off the tracks entirely. in fact most of the time. but occasionally, very infrequently, that big wheel of justice delivers theoretical remuneration for a handful of vested business interests

I don't normally comment on stuff like this because I've given up on understanding this business, but I'd have to think the remasters Bluepoint was known for are maybe the closest thing we had left to a predictable business model?? I get that everything is volatile but that part feels pretty safe???

bought the first two for my 7 year old niece. kid approved!

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems! Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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It’s not about whether you personally like or dislike remote work - it’s about executives trying to strip options, jobs & rights away from *everybody*. Working remotely is not just a better setup for many disciplines: it allows teams to include different people w/ different strengths & experiences.

The US campaign to starve Cuba of fuel should be understood as genocidal. They are targeting a whole nation, deliberately destroying conditions necessary for life, in flagrant violation of international law. Pure barbarism, there is no other way to describe it.

this is willful, blatant bigotry. you can't even claim this is in the interest of countering scams, because they're equating being in Gaza with being a spam bot

it is apparently the 25th anniversary of the greatest piece of art Denton, Texas, has ever produced

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

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spending a decade - that’s ten years, or 12.5% of an average human lifetime - making a fighting game only to immediately go ohhhhh wait a minute fighting games don’t make as much money as league of legends and we already own that let’s fire everyone

it's genuinely stunning to me you'd keep a game in the hopper for a decade and then do huge layoffs after a single month. a month is nothing in live service terms. less than nothing.

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

The government is giving a loan to a Crown corporation that should just be a public service that we pay for because it provides an essential task that Canadians depend on. We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.

Epic made provably incorrect statements about the game’s content, refused to provide details supporting their claims, and has not shared their claimed AO IARC certificate, which normally includes a link for the developer to appeal. They do not ‘love that studio’, they have effectively ghosted us

Just launched a redesign of my website. Updated portfolio section coming soon! As a reminder: I'm urgently looking for work in the Narrative Design, Writing, and Game Design fields, though I have plenty of other talents as well. ryanmcdiarmid.com

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead