This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

I think the interesting thing - and the point which can't be made enough, alas - is that it's a tool designed to confuse people who don't understand how the tool works (the opposite of classic UI design, right?) That is not something that can be shrugged off for a mass market tool.

"What first began as a minor nuisance crescendos into an eardrum-shattering screech unlike anything found in nature."

Episode 2 of @calumstuart.bsky.social’s conversation with Cathy and Karen is out and it’s a really powerful one: currentsnewsletter.com/p/the-kind-o...

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

"The High Court said it found that Duterte and petitioner Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa 'failed to establish a clear and unmistakable right for the immediate issuance of a TRO'."

Ang laban ng Nexperia Workers ay laban nating lahat! Tumindig para sa nakabubuhay na sahod at karapatang mag-unyon! Sumama sa pakikibaka ng uring manggagawa! ✊🏼 #ReinstateNexperia4 #NexperiaWorkersOnStrike #StandWithNexperiaWorkers

It’s up and holy fucking shit. 🤼▶️ youtu.be/X-xYplgSBzo?...

Apex Legend's French VAs all refused to come back and provide their voices for A.I. training to replace them. www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/1F... I cannot begin to express how truly and deeply I want these anti-human, scum fuck, corporate ghouls to lose their jobs. *Minimum.*

I've been screaming this for years.

It's been an incredible launch and people are *loving* Gun-Dog, but don't take our word for it, we have: 🚀 220 reviews on Steam - 'Very Positive' 🚀MetaCritic score of 79 🚀Open Critic score of 78 This weekend's a great time to board the Gun-Dog with 10% off! store.steampowered.com/app/2118420/...

Honestly, this kind of survey was doomed from the start because romance and sexy plots are still seen as inherently bad so a lot of people do NOT share in public that they like them, even for anonymous surveys.

"UX storytelling should be persuasive, empathetic, and spark imagination. Future child iterations should focus more on context and narrative structure and less on cheese snacks and Band-aids."

"The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday accused a fellow government agency of 'red tagging' the poll body, as it even as it issued a new policy prohibiting discriminatory and harassment acts during the campaign period for the May elections." malaya.com.ph/news/nationa...

Nightdive uses real people to help remaster and preserve classic games with its KEX engine, often collaborating with the original game creators to ensure the final product remains faithful to the original. An AI upscale/port with 0 thought put into it is not "preservation".

Another reminder for those who still seem to have not understood: Chat programs do not “look up” information and then repeat it. They write plausible language in answer to a prompt based on their data set. References will use real people, journals & words from titles, but will not truly exist.

#njpw #njnbg After all this time. Finally. The "G" in IWGP stands for:

Witch Hat Atelier has good politics.

2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila. The Memorare-Manila 1945 monument, located at the Plazuela de Santa Isabela in Intramuros, Manila commemorates the hundreds of thousands of known and unknown Manileños killed by Imperial Japanese forces as they defended the city.

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

Alternative Alamat edited by @anitero.bsky.social 5/5. It took me more than a year to finish this book, not because it was a hard read, but because I never wanted it to end. The Alipin’s Tale by Raymond Falgui is my favorite but there isn’t a lackluster story in this collection #books #philippinelit

Court orders Quiboloy’s return to Pasig jail

So. There are a number of issues with this list of words that can now get a scientific grant application spiked at the National Science Foundation. And one is because the word “bias”, in all of its forms, is often used in the text of work that employs statistical methodology, especially Epi.

The resistance bundle at the Bundle of Holding site features a pile of brilliant anti-fascist games that you deserve to have in your collection. Go punch some Nazis.

Just saw this in a chat. And I think I'm gonna wear way more 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ items again. Don't let them make you afraid. Show them we still stand together. Against them.

"This isolated incident does not reflect who we are as a modern society and does not need to be taught to our youth."

Another filthy morning here, so it's certainly a day for The Best Cartoon:

Fact www.wired.com/story/video-...

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When I watched Crazy Rich Asians, I wasn’t as enamored as other Asian American folks. “The only Filipinos in Crazy Rich Asians are the invisible domestic workers cleaning their Crazy Rich bathrooms.” Pan-Asian identity has us sharing a common cause in the diaspora, but that’s not the case in Asia.

*raises hand Because we've let the press consolidate in the hands of right wing billionaires with a vested interest in the hollowing out of informed consensus and real journalism, replaced by shallow ad-based controversy infotainment designed largely to disorient, distract, and coddle power?

It’s up and it hurts. 🤼▶️ youtu.be/pT0_7DQV_YY?...

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"Customers only care about one thing: barely functioning AI crammed into every facet of their lives. We all know this. That’s why anybody who’s anybody has slapped AI onto their product. AI phone, AI refrigerator—if it doesn’t have AI, what the fuck are we even doing?"

Okay I'll admit I burst out loud laughing at this one

The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop. I want our World Wide Web back.

Cord Jefferson, quitting Instagram, sums many things up: “I don’t need Instagram to be a haven for free speech for the same reason I don’t need a Jamba Juice or a Hooters to be a haven for free speech.”

"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."

Notch is a racist. Notch is a misogynist. Notch is a homophobe and transphobe. Do not give Notch your support. Do not give Notch your money.

Same goes for every story about "it planned and schemed to override its own programming!" or whatever. Just because words come out does not mean they correspond to anything or accurately describe anything under the hood at all.

Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist | Gareth Rubin

“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”

Deeply creepy move on the part of Meta. The vibes are horrible. Like something out of a horror movie, and especially with a side of actual POC, or queer folks, or queer POC getting replaced by bots that are presumably supposed to puppet identities in stereotyped/stereotyping or superficial way.

“Do not make the Torment Nexus,” say the authors. “What a great idea, a Torment Nexus!” say the VCs.

The ouroboros chokes on its own tail.

Something about this has really got to me. It is just such a slap in the face - this is what we're worth, is it? Arguably the largest connector of human beings in the world, flooded with literal friction between each and every one by a billionaire addicted to growth. Death cult shit. Disgraceful.