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Checking in on a gender tf twine game called You Throw Like A Girl. It was originally conceived as a story about a casually sexist jock learning humility after being cursed by a vengeful witch, but 6 years of continuous development has broadened the scope of the story and its roleplaying options a lot.
Now, you can play as a fundamentally decent guy who unwisely goads a witch into demonstrating her magic, which is less psychosexually charged but way funnier
In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.
That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.
Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista
Update with more info:
https://post.lurk.org/@rra/113873611500414068
«Un libro necesario en tiempos de tecnofobia moralista e interesada. El espacio común de Internet, que nació generosamente libre, ha sido ocupado por unicornios monstruosos bajo la mirada cómplice del statu quo. Ha llegado el momento de recuperar lo que es de todxs. Alguien tenía que decirlo». —Simona Levi
Pleasure Island was said to be in the Mediterranean, but you could get there from any dock by sailing away from land for a few hours "with intent," according to the brochure I read on the way over. Before now, I never really thought much or knew much about the place. It was just another one of the dozen or so well-known anomalies of our world.
It turns out that even the experts don't know much about it. About half the brochure was just guessing why there might be a place that hosts human visitors in luxury for a week as it remakes them into pack animals. As far as anyone knows, the donkeys just roam freely through the wild parts of the island. What the fuck was the point?
"Some speculate that Pleasure Island is a kind of self-sustaining magical reaction. Supporters of this theory claim that completing the change extinguishes the soul, releasing enough occult energy to keep the arcane wheels turning, so to speak!" The brochure was full of shit like this, presented as though they were fun little facts and not fucking terrifying.
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