The capital class hated the COVID response because it was a mass labor action they couldn't control, a wildcat strike for safer working conditions while the owners demanded they return to work. Public policy consistently lagged behind people's own efforts to not get sick.
The fact that the owners eventually won is not unusual but it does represent the failure and complicity of the government, including "the most pro labor president ever."
Excellent piece in the Hollywood Reporter about a scheme -- funded by the 0.01% -- to discredit journalism they don't like: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/peter-thiel-tribunal-journalists-trial-1236617579/
The HR often does noteworthy reporting about our increasingly bizarre media culture, and this is an example.
I note that Elon Musk's wealth now exceeds the annual GDP of Switzerland.
I think this makes him a state-level actor, and a *hostile* one.
I submit that we have tools for dealing with rogue states, and they should be applied to him until/unless he starts to behave. NB: said tools vary from polite talkings-to by diplomats all the way up to cruise missile strikes and invasions.
"'Working class' in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go."
https://bsky.app/profile/jmritchey.bsky.social/post/3mnl5xpn3pk2g
"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.
The whole internet loves GOG, a lovely game store that doesn't DRM your games! (5 seconds later) We regret to inform you that GOG is posting straight up Nazi shit in their official newsletter
I heard it from a newsletter recipient, Reddit shows multiple people confirming it
https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txlz7z/hey_gog_wtaf/
EDIT: the GOG rep's response left all dogs for a one mile radius trying to cover their ears https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txlz7z/hey_gog_wtaf/opxsir6/
Thinking about how Outer Wilds didn't get the attention it deserved from the public because it came out the same year as the much more well-known The Outer Worlds, which confused a lot of people (myself included). And that's really a shame because the two don't have anything in common besides being space games with similar titles. The Outer Worlds is a disappointingly-average Western RPG from the folks that made Fallout: New Vegas. Outer Wilds is an exploration-based puzzle adventure, and a once-in-a-generation classic of the medium that artists, writers, game designers, and composers will still be citing as an influence 50 years from now.
So yeah if you skipped Outer Wilds because you confused it with The Outer Worlds and thought you'd already heard of it and evaluated it or even played it, consider this your official push to go play it immediately.
Just your monthly reminder that White Americans (and the oligarchs that own them) destabilized the entire planet, sent us into endless wars, destroyed entire economies, sped up the heat death of the earth, and put billions of lives at risk…. all because you hate Black women and couldn’t bring yourself to vote for one.
That’s it. Thats the entire reason why we’re here. Because most of you hate Black people.
No more excuses.
Nowhere Girl
Dan Gillmor
Charlie Stross
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Chris Trottier
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