Draknek & Friends is delighted to announce we're publishing a new game: LOK Digital

In this charming puzzle game from Blaž Urban Gracar and @raindrinker, you'll learn world-changing words, master their mind-bending effects & help the LOK creatures thrive.

Here's a first look at the game's trailer.

Wishlist https://store.steampowered.com/app/2207440/LOK_Digital/

The CEO of Barnes and Noble personally came in to try and convince workers not to unionize at the nation’s largest store in New York.

Instead, they voted 76-2 in favor of forming a union.

Workers know they’re worth more, and that unionizing can close the gap between what they’re really worth and what they’re getting — whether the CEO likes it or not

I have a lot more to say, but I'll hold it for now and simply wonder aloud...

Which BigTech clouds are the "Lavender" & "Where's Daddy?" AI systems running on? What APIs are they using? Which libraries are they calling?

What work did my former colleagues, did I, did *you* contribute to that may now be enabling this automated slaughter?

(Also, content warning. This is some of the sickest shit I've ever read.)

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

Jesus Christ, this is utterly horrific:

During the early weeks of the war they were permitted to kill 15 or 20 civilians during airstrikes on low-ranking militants. Attacks on such targets were typically carried out using unguided munitions known as “dumb bombs”, the sources said, destroying entire homes and killing all their occupants.

“You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people" said one intelligence officer.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

#gaza #palestine #israel #genocide

It was just an accident that they bombed every single hospital.

It was just an accident that they bombed universities, libraries and museums.

It was just an accident that they completely desecrated multiple cemeteries.

It was just an accident that they bombed starving people queueing for flour.

It was just an accident that they left Palestinian preemies in incubators to die.

It was just an accident that they killed 77 journalists.

It was just an accident that they killed Shireen Abu Akleh.

World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza.
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Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit
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This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable
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The seven killed are from Australia, Poland, UK, US, Canada, and Palestine.

https://wck.org/news/gaza-team-update

#wck #israel

Two weeks ago, a build of Mastodon's Web interface removed two features which impacted me, other power users and some folks with accessibility issues.

And many of us complained 'cause, well, it kinda sucked.

But @renchap and the developers listened to us! And they didn't just back out those changes. No, they restored the functionality integrated with other new features.

So, I wanted to publicly thank them for all that hard work and landing it last week. Y'all rock! 💖

/cc @Gargron