Earlier this week, Sony announced plans to discontinue production of physical discs for new PlayStation games To understand the impact, we collected responses from game companies about the implications for creators, collectors, and game preservation www.gamesindustry.biz/we-are-profo...

prepare to have your daughter accused of being a boy and face demands that her gentials be inspected if the dad on the other team thinks that she fouled his special snowflake too hard

NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social

Name one 'leftist: who gave Hamas $1.5 billion dollars, as did Netanyahu and the Likud Israeli government. I will wait. www.ynetnews.com/article/bk8m... Come on, @dgoldman.bsky.social

Some MPs claim it's anti-semitic to investigate Britain's Israel lobby.... ... as a quarter of them have been funded by it. www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby...

For @aftermath.site, the Steam Machine costs too much money because of greedy freaks. But a community has formed around optimizing a low budget alternative made from failed PlayStation 5's that got turned into crypto mining cards and then resold as garbage. aftermath.site/bc250-steam-...

⚠️ Extractive industries like illegal gold and nickel mining are tearing down forests while world leaders stall. We need formal territorial rights NOW to stop the plunder. Stand with the guardians of the planet. ✊ act.gp/4nKuQvZ #ProtectForestsNow @greenpeace.org

*Has to* stick to this rattle, because he knows better than anyone that the Dems chose voluntarily to gamble on the genocide not costing them the election, knowing it might; that they fucked it and lost *and* that most of the key people don’t regret it, and would do it again.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is backing progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, breaking with party leadership and intensifying a battle over the party’s direction.

Bizarre CNN clip here. Dana Bash asks Mamdani strategist Morris Katz about whether all pro-Israel Democrats should be primaried. Katz says no, but mentions AIPAC. Bash asks why he brought up AIPAC instead of other dark money groups. He had to remind her that she is the one who brought up Israel.

The two groups that are VERY invested in conflating the Israeli government with Jews everywhere are: 1) Extremely pro-Netanyahu or 2) Very pro-Nazi Think about why that suits their agendas.

WSJ What Ellisons gave: -$45M to a Trump-aligned '24 campaign group -Millions to pro-Trump groups after elex -Bought the Free Press and installed Bari Weiss -$ to be corporate sponsor of Freedom 250 What Ellisons got: -$500B Stargate Project -TikTok -Paramount merger www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

so weird how a hub of antisemitism elected a jewish man who is supported by the mayor

Boom. Mamdani goes 3 for 3 in New York City congressional primaries.

Neocon and shiatlib tears are coming... Cry more.

Anyway it's weird how New York City, the city with the most Jews in the world, voted in Zohran Mamdani, and one of its most Jewish districts overwhelmingly voted for Brad Lander, but the Very Serious Pundits still are trying to convince everyone that Jews are all Netanyahu-loving AIPAC cheerleaders.

"Muralidhar said that by targeting children, Israel was undermining the capacity of the Palestinian people to exist and to determine their future."

ta nehisi coates tearing the fucking roof off okce again www.vanityfair.com/story/the-ne...

Low-key liberal accomplishments coupled with high-profile policy concessions to the right and aggressive conservative virtue signalling — this is exactly the strategy moderates have recommended for Democrats here, of course. Didn't work too well. Maybe some lessons there.

this is so insane

Bills up. Wages too low. Record profits for Oil & Gas. 50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population. Shit in our rivers. Pensioners jailed for protesting. Migrants thrown under the bus. Supporting a Genocide. That's Starmer's legacy.

Britain’s legal architecture of repression — squirreled away in recent counter-terrorism laws – has now created a dragnet that can ensnare as a terrorist anyone who challenges the legitimacy or legality of the government’s foreign policy. My latest: www.972mag.com/palestine-ac...

This is a useful summary of when/why Starmer became unpopular, and its all the lurches to the right - 'things will get worse', benefit cuts, free glasses, anti migrant "island of strangers". Only thing missing (as ever) from this list is Gaza, a key cause of fragmenting Labour coalition

A French disinformation detection service said that BlackCore, an Israeli tech company, targeted candidates in several countries’ elections — including in New York City’s 2025 mayoral election won by Zohran Mamdani.

Palantir founder Peter Thiel will host a gathering this August at the Powerscourt Hotel in Wicklow – with 87 of the 222 guests listed as first-time attendees. Leaked records for the meeting name Alexus Grynkewich, Scott Bessent and Ted Cruz as attendees. www.ontheditch.com/hacked-peter...

Random activists say critical things about Israel and Democrats are accused in the media of having an anti-semitism problem. Delegates to the largest state where Republicans control government make clear, anti-muslim hate speech - and it will barely make a ripple through the media.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Ruwa Romman, who in 2024 was denied a speaking slot at the DNC on behalf of the Uncommitted movement, has won her Democratic primary runoff in Georgia tonight to join the state Senate. (Romman was in the state House.)

Here's the Iran-US MoU, and it's pretty much a severe strategic defeat and capitulation for the US and a massive strategic and economic victory for Iran. Really an utter humiliation for the US thanks to Trump's naked incompetence. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/17/m...

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

As I understand it, when they proscribed Palestine Action it was on the back of evidence of coordinated attempts to organise trespass and cause damage. Everyone who supported them by so much as holding a paper became arrestable for terrorism. Are they going to do the same for "Patriot Platform"?

The age of impunity is a proper description for Musk being able to incite pogroms the same week he becomes a trillionaire. Musk is an existential threat to democracy worldwide and countries need to act like the threat that it is. www.axios.com/2026/06/11/e...

Ahh I see the source of “is it wrong to call Belfast a pogrom because that’s offensive to Jews” is a guy that’s literally not Jewish. Cool. Great. (FYI it’s a pogrom)

IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.

I've just signed my name calling for the government to investigate Brits who have returned from serving in the IDF - you should too! @DeclassifiedUK.org secure.declassifieduk.org/page/189081/...

Peaking my head out of hiatus for a quick moment to note that Dems in the House voted unanimously to enforce congressional war powers in regards to Iran, but 117 voted against doing the same for Lebanon.

The GOP operative that the NYT used as a source despite admitting her allegations were uncorroborated. Also, she worked with right-wing groups to advance Kavanaugh. You can dislike and not vote Platner; that's fine, but why are you falling for an obvious right-wing hit job by the worst people?

Papua New Guinea has detailed its plans to protect approximately 200,000 km² of Pacific Ocean waters from fishing and all other destructive human activity. Papua New Guinea sits within the Coral Triangle, the global epicentre of marine biodiversity. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...

Psychotic way to characterize taxing rich people to help the disadvantaged.

EU’s statement on lebanon is truly disgraceful, contributing to the foment of civil war, and ignoring the wanton belligerence of israel. really really gross.

'Better things are not possible' Dems want your vote and support

Canada's richest 1% already has as much wealth as the poorest 80% of us. In just one year, our 40 richest billionaires increased their wealth by another $95 billion. We're a wealthy country. It's just increasingly concentrated in ever fewer hands. GDP "success." 17/ www.oxfam.ca/publication/...

sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)

One of my favorite think tank genres is “my plan will work if actors do a whole bunch of things they are 100% not going to do”

Lmao the collapse hasn't even started yet. The best prepping is community resilience. We are everything to each other. futurism.com/future-socie...

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.

Eid Mubarak!

The teenagers behind a shooting at a San Diego mosque last week wore patches associated with Atomwaffen Division, a defunct neo-Nazi group, and drew clear inspiration from "Terrorgram," a loose network of neo-Nazis that supports the use of terrorism. Latest: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...