@benwu

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This a great writeup by @patrickklepek on a legal aspects of game dev that isn't talked about often on the consumer side: bullshit non-competes.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5va43/noncompete-contracts-video-game-industry

How Restrictive Contracts Stifle and Control Creativity in the Video Game Industry

Noncompete contracts that restrict where people can work are only the start. Companies also own everything you make, and developers are tiring of it.

The Twitter of Theseus. Piece by piece the essential elements whose interplay defined Twitter are disappearing. Like I said here, it’s becoming a new platform with the same name https://socialmediacollective.org/2022/11/18/riptwitter/
#RIPTwitter

Social Media Collective

I’m extremely excited to be digging into a story that I believe could prove that RealClearPolitics is profit-sharing with a rings of conspiracy forums, including QAnon and Gamergate.

Here’s what I got so far.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nandinijammi_brandsafety-advertising-marketing-activity-7026966338539548672-M7e0

Nandini Jammi on LinkedIn: Is Publir Doing Ad Fraud? Let's see.

Never a dull day over here! This week, I learned that TheDonald —  an online forum tied to the J6 insurrection — has starting running ads! How did that happen?…

Heartbreaking to see how people's lives have been shaped by rapacious pharmaceutical patent abuse
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/business/humira-abbvie-monopoly.html
How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System

AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The monopoly is about to end.

Sean Morrow on Twitter

“wow this m&ms statement is crazy”

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Honoring Tyre Nichols as he lived, enjoying the things he loved, before the world watches a video of his murder. 💔❤️🛹 #TyreNichols #skate #BadBrains

Some people believe there's no purpose to "liking" something on Mastodon since it doesn't affect any algorithm.

Not the case.

It does something incredibly valuable: it acknowledges people.

Which is incredibly powerful, and is all the more important *because* it's not connected to gaming any algorithm.

By liking something on Mastodon, you are doing it honestly -- without any agenda at play other than that you like it.

So go ahead. Click that like button for its own sake.

RT @[email protected]

UPDATE: Union Pacific, one of the railroads that successfully fought off workers' demands for paid sick days, announced a record $7 billion profit. The company said it spent $1.7 billion more on stock buybacks in 2022 than on pay and benefits for all of its employees.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1618704382236962819

More Perfect Union on Twitter

“UPDATE: Union Pacific, one of the railroads that successfully fought off workers' demands for paid sick days, announced a record $7 billion profit. The company said it spent $1.7 billion more on stock buybacks in 2022 than on pay and benefits for all of its employees.”

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Today, Israel attacked a refugee camp, the local hospital, and murdered at least 9 Palestinians in the process of doing so. All this to attack a people already oppressed under Apartheid conditions in illegally occupied land.
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RT @ajplus
Israeli forces killed at least 9 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including an elderly woman. The raid at the Jenin refugee camp is one of Israel's deadliest in years.

At least 29 Palestinians hav…
https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1618596997891751938

AJ+ on Twitter

“Israeli forces killed at least 9 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including an elderly woman. The raid at the Jenin refugee camp is one of Israel's deadliest in years. At least 29 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces this month, including at least 5 children.”

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Major social media platforms owned by conservatives, reinstating Trump, riddled w/ nazis & vax deniers. Top cable news channel hyper-conservative. Most local news stations owned by conservatives. Talk radio dominated by conservatives. Mainstream media shedding thousands of jobs.