jadedcynic

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Game Publishers keep dropping support for games they have sold to consumers, leaving the games unplayable.

The "Stop Killing Games" European Citizens Initiative demands the EU propose a law to force developers to leave games in a playable state!

It has reached 500k of the 1m needed signatures (deadline July 31). We need your support!

EU Citizens Sign here: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

#EUpol #StopKillingGames #VideoGames #ConsumerProtection

The nicer definition of "no news is good news".

Another bookstore pulls JK Rowling's books and returns them, after Rowling promised to.use the profits from .sales of Harry Potter books to harass and attack trans people.

Throw them out, build the boycott of Rowling products, books movies.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/san-francisco-bookstore-removes-harry-potter-20392417.php

Okay so people who are she/her use "Ms." as a title like "Ms. Pac Man", and people who are they/them use "Mx.", and so it has just occurred to me that people who are she/they could use "Msx." which rules
I want this button E V E R Y W H E R E.

Somewhere Barbara Streisand can heave a huge sigh of relief. It will henceforth be known as "the Vance effect."

#JDVance #fascism #couchfucker

Please stop sharing this picture of JD Vance. The Vice President is not happy that it's going viral. JD's wife told reporters he is so upset that he hasn't left the couch all day. He's so distraught that he won't even let her go in the room.
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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JK Rowling: i was jusst thinking, maybe we should ssecretly photograph women in public bathroomss
Rowling: you know, in casse they're transss
Stephen Fry: so um
Fry: i don't think we should be friends anymore
Rowling: omg that came out of nowhere
Look, I know AI is controversial, but just for a moment, let's set aside our preconceived notions, our biases, the environmental impact, the massive cost to train and run models, the labor exploitation, the intellectual property theft, the inaccuracies, the mania it causes in users, the destruction of search, the deskilling of professionals, the devaluation of creative work, job losses, and lack of economic value from enterprise implementations.

Wait, what were we talking about?