Perhaps my biggest critique of GDPR is that it got lots of companies to change how they operate with regards to the EU only, instead of demanding a company provide a product solution to a privacy and transparency. Good policy should change products for the benefit of the user/citizen

These kinds of laws have an invisible ripple effect across the country. A good number of corporations will just change their policies instead of making a NYC-specific protocol. A lot of the consumer protections we have started in one state or big city.

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

My least favorite genre of video in the big 2026 is screenshots of a website set to music. I think it shows how strange we are about where consumption happens but it also has this strange subway surfer effect

Trying to remember if Eric Adams ever warned people about anything

"what will set you apart a year from now? If you don’t have a deep understanding of your output, the best result you can hope for is “average” — the best you can hope to be, as a developer, is “average.” If you’re not honing your craft, you stagnate." @wil.to beautiful read: wil.to/js4e/newslet...

I truly don’t see how this country can go on if we don’t ban online sports betting. This story is stomach-turning.

I'm still marveling at my dentist appointment this morning, felt like the F1 pitstop of dentist appointments (it was a cavity filling)

idk who the scumbag is using the Zohran for NYC mailing list to start sending out blasts now (for a re-election campaign in 2029), but stop it. I hate you. I will do everything in my power to have you rooted out of politics, let the popular movement happen because of the admin being effective

Does anyone else keep a note of quotes that hit you?

Y'know we really don't hate Apple enough for what they did to wired headphones.

I think I told my friend a couple years back that mashups are both the shitposter's music genre and the nerdiest music genre at the same time, I stand by that www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gS...

It's interesting that @discord.com's ATO problem has gotten so bad that individual Discords I'm in have started setting up these honeypot channels

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

Management not only laying people off but then trying to stamp out any memory of those people or their (in some cases decades-long!) contribution to the company is so fucked up, it makes my skin crawl.

YO THEY FIXED THE POTHOLE I REPORTED UNDER THE BQE????

ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

Oh man, the new Ghost in the Shell nails the aesthetic so far

Knowing a language is poison to learning a language

THERE WAS A LIMA DIALECT OF QUECHUA AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT IT BOTH MAKES SENSE BUT IT'S ALSO SO TRAGIC IS WASN'T PRESERVED ON PURPOSE

In trying to learn Kichwa, I'm realizing the unique tragedy of someone centuries ago who tried to arrive at arithmetic operations if they had been given probably 100 more years

Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.

You can feel a lot of ways about government and even the meaning of justice, but if you don't put your best foot forward to make an impact where you can, then you're not allowed to complain.

IF YOU ARE UNAWARE: THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS STRIVE TO GET ON A JURY BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT CASE YOU WILL DECIDE.

um, so everyone cheering on egypt in the world cup realizes how the pyramids were built right? but i guess that's a conversation you're not ready to have

OMG 2 Mello in MY neighborhood???

HELLO BROOKLYN! My next show is July 22 at Mood Ring in Brooklyn, NY. I am so excited to be playing with many of my favorite musicians, @tv-ma.bsky.social @dvi-socialmode.bsky.social and @dazegxd.bsky.social! Attendance is FREE, show is 21+, starts at 10PM! Flyer design by DV-i!

I wrote about Partiful, the event invites app, and the cloud over it that the company can’t seem to shake: Its founders background working for Palantir. Gift link: www.theverge.com/report/96063...

You're laughing... I can't withdraw my Bonk from Kraken and you're laughing?

“1 billion players” as a goal, okay cool, how are people supposed to frag out in Call of Duty 7 Modern Warfare 2: Collector’s Edition: The Squeaquel if they can’t afford your console because of your AI-brained shit? Because of a war that drives prices up even further?

We want to entertain a billion people a day. There should be an Xbox in every house. We want to replace schools with Minecraft. Master Chief should visit my house and give me a little kiss on the nose.

No union employees at Blizzard were impacted by today’s bloodbath—and I sincerely doubt that was because the powers that be think that we’re all vital. Odds are, they wanted easy cuts. Status Quo makes you not easy. The best time to unionize was a year ago. The second best time to unionize is now.

This was the best part about the last year of Bungie, through multiple layoff cycles it was a daily battle between survivor’s guilt and waiting for the other shoe to drop I would reiterate people will not make a good video game under these conditions but that assumes any of these ghouls care

Several weeks into the MoT @destinythegame.bungie.net update and I'm still loving farming up a set to try out, I think there's so many interesting choices in the sandbox that I continue to have only felt like I scratched the surface. Shout out to all the Bungie folks who loved the game so much 💔😔

“1 billion players” as a goal, okay cool, how are people supposed to frag out in Call of Duty 7 Modern Warfare 2: Collector’s Edition: The Squeaquel if they can’t afford your console because of your AI-brained shit? Because of a war that drives prices up even further?

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

GG to GDQ

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

I’m dead lmao, the clip of Hasan dancing without rhythm to the We are Charlie Kirk remix has comments like: “well he’s hot and smart, anything else would have been unfair”

Finished the most recent Saga of Recluce book, while I kind of knew where it was going (if you pay close attention in other books there are hints), the timing was unexpected enough and the fantasy/political drama of it all is still so fun. I do wonder if Modesitt will ever write a post-Balance book

I’M DOING MY PART

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Just backed this super cool maths comic book on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/sof...

“ProPublica is … a shining light in a very troubled journalism industry,” says reporter Anna Barry-Jester, but “management is refusing to agree to basic layoff protections.” Help us win a fair contract with strong layoff protections: propublicaguild.org

It’s such a strange time in games where it feels like the only sustainable game shifted from being an online one to a not online one somehow

Does anyone know any contractors who know the CrowdIn API, localization, and rails really well? I want to make the case for modernizing our translation setup

Bluesky assuming that the Empire State Building thing was a "protest" when it was actually just hot Russian influencers (sorry, *neo-artists*) is pretty funny

MEANWHILE BARRY STONKS ARE UP LETS GOOOO