But the most effective technique they had was going after targets that could be run out of the industry without any consequence. So many women, especially Black women, were squarely in the aim of Yarvin and his cronies, and now nearly all of them are gone, their careers (or lives) destroyed.

fwiw everything Miller says here was said by Karl Rove in 2002 www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/m...

I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks! www.reddit.com/r/confession...

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

ICYMI over the holiday break

Reposting this today for obvious reasons

Yeah basically impossible to have a functioning democracy when half of the legislature doesn't believe in democracy

it is a bit bewildering to see all the grok bullshit happening on what used to be Twitter, which was pretty mainstream and normal levels of corporate evil until the ownership change. it’s like if Whole Foods started selling children

Wrote this before yesterday but it gets at what undergirds that (and lots of other things in politics). "The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."

Trump is the first US president to bomb 7 countries in one year. Based on verified reports from Al Jazeera, Fox News, Washington Examiner, and CBC, the seven countries targeted by US strikes under Trump in 2025 are: Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Nigeria, and Venezuela.

Character matters, and this is why you should not elect rapists to public office.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

Wait! Does this mean that people are streetpassing again??? www.tomshardware.com/video-games/...

Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor. Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️ The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly. It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.

I had a coworker who had previously been an editor of Motor Trend magazine and he used to call car manuals the least read books in America.

Last week, we had to get a car from SFO to Millbrae. A Lyft that could take 5 passengers + luggage was going to cost $32+tip. We went to the taxi line. They got a van for us. It was $25 including tip. The cab driver's face matched the one on his displayed permit. And no dystopian tech garbage.

“I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it.” www.reddit.com/r/confession...

After much thought, here's my top 10 of 2025: 10. Skate Story 9. Dispatch 8. The Alters 7. Elden Ring Nightreign 6. Hollow Knight Silksong 5. Ghost of Yotei 4. The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 3. Trails in the Sky First Chapter 2. Hades II 1. Expedition 33 www.georgeyyang.com/articles/geo...

Imagine a better world where the free diffusion of chip technologies across borders leads to new and marvelous wonders that benefit all humans.

propaganda works

All this stuff just happening totally in the open.

Now for something completely different and magnificent! 😍

My personal hate issues with Outer Worlds 2 notwithstanding, seeing the Kotaku folks getting to write personal Top 10s again (and correcting the bullshit from last year in the process) warms the heart. Shouts to @shepardcdr.bsky.social and @ethangach.bsky.social 's lists as well.

We're two weeks from the Anthem shutdown. If you're a fan playing until the end, one who dropped off, or a developer who worked on the game and want to talk (anonymously) about these final days, the shutdown, or the game broadly for a Kotaku story, hit me up here or at [email protected]! RTs plz.

Service took @stationcdrkelly.bsky.social and me to the Navy and into space. It was the honor of a lifetime to do it for our country.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

What a quote.

I'm looking for an artist (or artists) to commission to help revamp parts of my YouTube channel. Specifically for a new endscreen, as well as helping design a new background for narration segments. Knowledge of video effects/editing is a plus, or I could just work with 2 artists if necessary!

Mods are asleep, post blobby Qing dynasty cats

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol

PC End of Year Odds and Ends sale on Woot buff.ly/UtCLK22 #ad

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

huuuuge thread of Japanese video game developers picking their favorites of 2025. Not necessarily new games either: Hideki Kamiya nominated Super Mario Bros!

Best Of 2025: "They Were Pretty Sure It Was Not Going To Do Well" - How Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Was Brought To The West.

We were delighted to be able to contribute high quality real hardware NES game capture from @jusdberube.bsky.social and video editing from @jtsknight92.bsky.social. An incredible story, told as it has never been told before. If you don't already support @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social you should!

For all the new artists joining Bluesky: 🎨 You don't have to censor words such as commission, Patreon or Ko-Fi. 🎨 You can share links and your post will not be de-boosted. 🎨 You can take time away from Bluesky and come back whenever you feel like, there's no algorithm to punish you!

For all of you Kīlauea watchers, the USGS v3 camera is back and now is a good time to check it out www.youtube.com/live/gXKuUyK...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

We are still recruiting game makers who had games posted to Steam or itch.io in July 2025 for a survey on the impacts of NSFW policy changes. More info on the project website. You can also always email me (via the website or through the email on the USask website) for info or with questions.

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

Some day, there will be a discussion about how the explosion in popularity of video games ultimately led to the demise of the medium. It got too big, attracted techbros, empowered CEOS, & smothered creativity. The only way to save the industry seems to be letting it burn to the ground & rebuild.

this is the ball game (John Roberts has been playing all along) ↘️

The first 4 minutes or so is still one of the best bits of all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn7f... "jeff epstein? with the island?"

The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

blatantly a violation of both the rules on Congress solely having the power to collect taxes, duties, excises, and so forth and also that such a new collection of federal revenue must originate as a bill in the House of Representatives, Madison wrote a bunch about it, the Constitution still matters?