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Indeed, there was a massive presentation focused on platforms' enshittification, basing on your articles on that matter, very interesting and - I believe - eye-opening for the listeners (digital marketing people), at least for some of them. 😀
"The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders."
-- Ludwig Von Mises (1881-1973) Economist and social philosopher
Finding computer equipment that respects user freedom and owner control can feel a lot like squeezing water out from stone. You may be one of a few of us who have tepidly followed the developments surrounding RISC-V since its inception last decade. And it looks like the fruits of those efforts are finally coming to bear.
“Once a matter has become, in one way or another, the subject of regulation by the United Nations, be it by resolution or the General Assembly or by convention between member States [Nations] at the insistence of the United Nations, that subject ceases to be a matter being 'essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the member States...'”
~ Moses Moskowitz UN Staff Member "American Bar Association Journal", April, 1949
"Once a matter has become, in one way or another, the subject of regulation by the United Nations, be it by resolution or the General Assembly or by convention between member States [Nations] at the insistence of the United Nations, that subject ceas…
“National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.' ”
~ Michael Moriarty (1941) American-Canadian stage and screen actor, jazz musician
"National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.
This is deliberate and open starvation as a weapon of war. Israel has made these food hubs the only method of obtaining food aid, refusing to let aid agencies in. And the world stands by. I am deeply ashamed of my own government for supporting these genocidaires.
As long as you believe that “authority” is legitimate you'll always be the loser because in your own head you believe that you are a slave to anyone who claims to be an "authority”.
The truth is that you are an autonomous, inherently free individual. You ARE your only authority.
Neo-Nazis are joining SimpleX Chat, a relatively unknown app that received funding from Jack Dorsey and promises users there is no way for it or law enforcement to track their identity.
Motaz Azaiza, one of the most well-known journalists from Gaza, is sharing this fundraiser to help several medical students from Gaza, now studying in South Africa, to pay their tuition bills.
The Parliament of the Xinka People in May said no to the reopening of a Canadian-owned silver mine in their territory in Guatemala.
As the Xinka wait to hear whether Guatemala’s Ministry of Energy and Mines will respect the decision, two representatives visited B.C. last week to deliver a message.
Warming climate may flip the script on the amount of CO₂ released by trees, study finds…
New research reveals the amount of #carbondioxide released by #trees into the atmosphere under a warming climate could be considerably less than currently predicted... #globalwarming #climatechange
New research reveals the amount of #carbondioxide released by #trees into the atmosphere under a warming climate could be considerably less than currently predicted… #globalwarming #climatech…
NASA was forced to vacate a building at Columbia University where it has operated since 1966. The result?
Textbooks, journals, and other materials being thrown into a dumpster. Not donated - literally thrown away. Some materials were later recovered from the dumpster and made available for passersby.
this tradition of males shaving their faces is weird when you think about it. most men shave their faces in the west but the natural state is having a bunch of hair growing out of it. we may have taken a wrong turn somewhere
... not entirely true i actually i do usually clean up a bit when i see my family. i could probably try harder when going out generally in public like going to the store and so forth.
If Starmer was serious in condemning atrocities committed in Gaza, he could stop sending weapons and intelligence to Israel, stop trading with them, kick out the ambassador, recognise Palestine and more. None of that, quite the opposite in fact. The article goes on to expose our current Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely for the far right extremist she is. She is a war criminal and should not be given sanctuary in UK or anywhere.
It is long past time Tzipi Hotovely was expelled from London. Starmer’s inaction proves he has no intention of stopping his support for Israel’s crimes in Gaza
"Let us stand fast in what is right, and prepare our souls for trial. Let us wait upon God's strengthening aid and say to him: 'O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations.'"
CRUNCHY==MAGA The "Crunchy Mama" has always been Populist Left. The only welcome space for Crunchy Moms is with the Populist Right. Spiritual, natural, raw, organic, curative, holistic, folksy , remedy-based, naturopathic, etc. youtube.com/watch?v=PoxKD82IJm…
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Nothing makes me laugh harder than to see Columbia University, who has done literally everything possible to lick Trump's feet, still continues to be treated like garbage. Columbia administration, you already debased yourself, sold your own students out, and sacrificed every shred of dignity, and you have absolutely nothing to show for it besides this schoolyard bully continuing to kick you for the fun of it.
„Ihr Plan, den sie den ‚Great Reset‘ nennen, wird alles, was noch auf Ihrem Bankkonto ist, leeren und die geplagte Mittelschicht ihres verbleibenden Kapitals berauben.
Während Covid diktierte das WEF die Lockdowns, die 4 Billionen Dollar nach oben an diese neue #Oligarchie von #Milliardären verlagerten. Die #Banker und #Investmenthäuser schnappten sich unsere Häuser und warben damit, dass Ihr nichts besitzen und glücklich damit sein werdet.
„Sie haben einen Plan, aber mein Plan ist, sie zu stoppen.“
So this is a thing that is VERY VERY much nowhere near done yet, but I want to share what I've got so far. It's a list of as many retro games as I can find which had a trans person on the dev team or otherwise involved in some way, along with a quick summary of who and what they did. It's partially an attempt to counter the narrative that trans people are some New Thing that's only just showed up on the gameing scene and also society in general, which sometimes these kinds of lists can accidentally imply, and also it's just kind of a fun bit of HEY LOOK AT ALL THIS COOL SHIT TRANS PEOPLE DID. I've found over 170 games so far, with quite a lot I'm still to properly go off on.
(Edit: That's over 300 (!) games now. Thank you SO much people who've pointed me at stuff I've missed. I'll be working on trying to play all of these and write up stuff about the ones I haven't really said anything about yet.)
Thank you so much everyone sharing and providing feedback on this. I'm aiming to flesh out a bunch of the games I've not said much about yet over the coming days. I've got some really fun ones to add as well from stuff people have shown me since last night and all.
I'm hoping this'll be a good resource for people when it's done 💜
I've added a few more games based on stuff peeps have mentioned to me. There's some Guitar Hero on there now, and Club Penguin, and another Sonic, and some more Pokemon games.
It's a good idea but maybe ask them If they want to be on the list, idk. The list will eventually end up in the hands of these "anti woke" assholes and they tend to doxx and harass devs for being trans. So being on the list might not be something everyone wants.
dang you really gotta play m.u.l.e.! way ahead of its time like much of berry’s work.
there’ve been a couple of attempts at remaking it over the years, i feel like it could actually work if it was a team of trans folks giving it the love it deserves lol
I see Maddie Blaustein is on The List for Pokémon Channel's Meowth. Awesome. Can I also add;
Pokémon Snap, where she voiced Meowth again. (Albeit a wild one this time)
Pokémon Puzzle League (Panel De Pon dressed up as the Pokémon anime) where she reprised several roles from the cartoon including Team Rocket's Meowth once again, Sabrina's Alakazam, and Lieutenant Surge.
And perhaps her greatest role on the N64, Pokémon Stadium - in which she specifically voices Magikarp yelling "KAAAARRP!" in the Magikarp's Splash minigame.
sorry if this has been shared with you before, but you can add all the games mentioned in this interview (virtual lab, lady sword, quiz toukou shashin, chiki chiki tengoku, armored metal police jack) badgamehalloffame.com/intervie…
An interview with the elusive Megu-tan -- the developer of Virtual Lab! We discuss their brief time in the games industry, the circumstances of their game's troubled development, and the endless wonders of virtual reality.
Just based on statistics, and the amount of Trans people working in tech in general, I'm willing to bet every single game made by any team counting more than ten people had at least one Trans person working on it at some point...
Fond player of M.U.L.E. here (on 🏳️🌈 C=64 breadbins) and 💯on 🏳️⚧️ appreciation! There's c64-wiki.com/wiki/M.U.L.E. for an infodump. Loadsa screenshots exist out there, too.
Fun fact: Native 4player support on Atari x00 series, modded versions for C=64 (Userport adapter provided) exist, too. A superb & entertaining group gameplay 🥳🕹️.
holy SHIT, how did i not know that Jumper was made by Maddy Thorson???? I played Jumper ENDLESSLY as a kid. It was a source of major inspiration for me when I was a 12 year old making games on Game Maker
Oh wow, this reminds me that I actually knew one of the people on this list when I was a kid. We both frequented the same online forum. I suspected she was trans because I ran across her deadname, but she made it clear she did not want to talk about that, so I dropped the subject. People didn't talk about such things back then. She had no way to know I'd be accepting about that (and I had no way to know part of that was because I'm nb.)
Heya! I have another one you might want to include on that! I worked on Champions Online, which launched in 2009.
The only wrinkle there is that I wasn't out of the closet back when we first shipped the game, but I did end up working on it more years after starting transition, and my name's even been updated in the credits!
Thanks for making the list!!! This is awesome!
Also, if it were inclusive to games in 2010, I'd have to mention Star Trek Online, too (same deal).
Depends on how vague you want "involved in some way" to get, but given Sophie Wilson was basically responsible for the original ARM chips, I could argue nearly every mobile game, at least, wouldn't exist but for her.. 😁
it's highly ironic that the "AI" evangelists constantly repeat that people who hate it are out of touch. they're implying that people don't like it because they don't understand it, when my experience has been people who hate "AI" seem to have a far firmer grasp on how it actually works than the evangelists
edit: reclaiming my notifications by muting this ✌
Twitter's new encrypted DM system stores your private key material on Twitter-owned services, protected with nothing more than a 4-digit PIN. If hostile, or if legally compelled to, Twitter could easily decrypt all your messages. It's also MITMable and doesn't secure metadata. Use Signal.
🔥BREAKING: The #SBU has released unique footage from the special operation "#Spiderweb"
The video captures #FPV drone strikes by the SBU on four enemy airfields: Olenya, Ivanovo, Dyagilevo, and Belaya. Among the aircraft hit are the A-50, Tu-95, Tu-22 as well as the An-12.
Oh, would you look at that? It almost lifts the spirit, but not quite.
You know, looking at fresh water like this reminds me that AI will use over 6 billion cubic meters of water between now and 2027 just to cool down the data centers.
While the average human being only drinks 60 cubic meters of water in his life.
Yes, it's a scarce resource, but a small price to pay for a technology that would show us what Ratatouille would look like if it was directed by Stanley Kubrick.
China's foreign trade increased by 5.6% year-on-year to 3.84 trillion yuan in April 2025, with exports growing 9.3% and imports edging up 0.8%. Despite US tariffs, China's total goods imports and exports reached 14.14 trillion yuan in the first four months, with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations remaining China's biggest trading partner.
Despite the hefty tariffs that Washington slapped against Beijing, China's total goods imports and exports climbed 2.4 percent year-on-year to 14.14 trillion yuan ($1.95 trillion) in the first four months of the year, customs data showed on Friday.
An accidental discovery: astronomers find a spiral structure in the Oort cloud by chance after data from a simulation were visualized in preparation of a new space show at the Hayden Planetarium
#US vetoes resolution for unconditional #Gaza ceasefire at #UN security council.
Russia, China, France and the UK all voted in favour of ‘immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’.
“The world is watching, day after day, horrifying scenes of Palestinians being shot, wounded or killed in Gaza while simply trying to eat" (Tom Fletchet, UN relief chief)
Wrack is on one of three substantial but corroded concrete jetties that form the core of Almerimar's marina. It's the least populated, and a final berth for some of the marina's most neglected, unseaworthy boats.
As the jetty's least salubrious crew, we've nicknamed it 'the waifs and strays wharf'.
This paid opportunity for new/emerging First Nations writers & critics in South Australia closes tomorrow. Still time to apply! indailysa.com.au/inreview/ment…
For the third year InReview is partnering with CreateSA to offer a rare mentorship opportunity for an emerging First Nations writer based in South Australia.
on twitter if you don't give your government ID to "au10tx" the israeli ID verification service, your replies are going to be buried under all the verified accounts and you will be de-boosted in every way possible.
especially insidious in light of all the recent swatting victims in the right wing influencer sphere. every one of them was verified on twitter, to my knowledge.
this is a trap for social media to keep people on a pro-israel plantation
Is the Hebrew Wikipedia edited according to the project's stated ethos? My experience contributing suggests it is not. It has been dominated for over a decade by right-wing and far-right activists, including Kohelet operatives, who have transformed it into a cesspool of propaganda that denies Palestinian existence, ostracizes liberal voices and the LGBTQ+ community, and injects poisonous #Islamophobic content into every article touching on these topics. This is an introductory post. I will provide additional information in this thread.
Background information
This is a link to a 2010 initiative to train #Wikipedia editors from the Israeli "settler movement." This post of Fandom includes both the original course announcement and subsequent discussion about a workshop, which organized by the Yesha Council (an umbrella organization of municipal councils of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank) and "My Israel" organization.
The workshop was designed to train "Zionist Wikipedia editors" with the stated goals of:
- Influencing public opinion in Israel and globally
- Adding content on topics important to participants
- Countering terms like "occupation" and "settlements"
The 3-hour training session was held on August 17, 2010 in Jerusalem.
Two experienced Wikipedia editors (Amikhai and Zohar) decided to conduct the training themselves, emphasizing Wikipedia's neutrality policies rather than "Zionist editing." They created materials specifically highlighting:
The workshop generated significant media attention, with participants interviewed on radio and TV.
According to reports, some attendees stated intentions to edit articles about political figures and controversial topics, despite organizers' advice to start with less contentious subjects.
How did the community respond to this initiative?
Just based on this discussion on Fandom alone (so before these right wing operative started their "work",) the reactions were mixed - some welcomed new contributors who understood the rules, while others expressed concern about editors arriving with predetermined agendas. The organizers emphasized they successfully conveyed Wikipedia's neutrality requirements to most participants.
אתר הבית רוצים להשפיע על הציבור בישראל ובעולם? להוסיף ערכים בנושאים שקרובים לליבכם נמאס לקרוא על "כיבוש", "התנחלויות"? תכשירו את עצמכם להיות עורכי וויקפדיה בקורס של שלוש שעות! עריכה בויקיפדיה תורמת להשפעה על הלכי הרוח בישראל ובעולם וקובעת את הידע אות…
[ futurism.com: Anthropic Researchers Warn That Humans Could End Up Being "Meat Robots" Controlled by AI ] futurism.com/anthropic-meat-ro… Has the author never heard of Amazon?
India News: India reports 4,866 active Covid-19 cases as of June 5, 2025, with Kerala, Delhi, and West Bengal leading the count. Fatalities highlight vulnerabilit
Sadly I won't be able to see them - I have no childcare today and no family around to help... but I can probably join in for the last hour of the conference (when my little one is asleep).
Wishing everyone - and @j12t + @anca a fabulous day 1
This was an interview earlier this week between Channel 4 and Israeli government spokesman. The Spokesman is a former heald of the UK Labour Friends of Israel.
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thing is, I'm not even opposed to dismantling IP as a concept, and I'm not wild about wielding it to oppose AI, because the same argument is used to shut down the internet archive
*however* what we are currently seeing is IP being dismantled asymmetrically in favour of the wealthy. we cannot have a situation where big tech is allowed to ignore IP while people are serving prison sentences at nintendo's behest
if you take a job at a tech company they will want ownership of everything you make. if you "steal" from a big company or institution they will crush you, they have literally pushed people to their deaths over this
people spent years unsuccessfully lobbying to make it legal to rip a CD and put it on an iPod, and pushing back against the effect of ebook DRM on accessibility… but suddenly the government wants to change copyright to benefit Google et al. Very rational to find the difference sus.
The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza because it was not linked to ...
[ The Daily Beast: DHS Appoints 22-Year-Old to Lead Terrorism Prevention ] thedailybeast.com/22-year-old-… This moron's fucking portrait is a hoot. I wonder if the photographer told him, "you know you don't get immunity for anything you do here, right?"
ils voudraient faire haïr l'écologie qu'ils ne feraient pas autrement. Attends une minute...
La cour des comptes confirme tout ce que nous avions écrit. Dans un rapport publié ce 3 juin, les magistrats étrillent le dispositif qui – cela devient une constante au niveau national comme européen – n’a fait l’objet d’aucune étude d’impact. «D’un simple objet réglementaire technique à vocation informative, le DPE s’est dès lors, dans les faits, transformé en outil stratégique et politique aux conséquences majeures pour les particuliers et pour le régime de la propriété sans que les conséquences de cette transformation et de son calendrier de réalisation n’aient été clairement mesurées, notamment en termes de risque d’éviction, même temporaire, de logements du parc locatif», souligne le rapport, à lire ici.
Regardez maintenant | Le champion du diagnostic de performance énergétique, c'est le gaz. Pourquoi alors qu'est érigée la lutte pour le climat, ce gros émetteur de CO2 est-il avantagé ?
We really need a way to communicate to the wider public that Zionism and Israel are *not the same thing as Judaism.*
That being against these is not anti-Semitic (or in fact even based on the fact that they are connected with Judaism!) and not wanting thousands of people to be murdered is not the same as supporting terrorism.
The media and politicians need to challenge the propaganda and tear down the automatic lies that keep coming out. The fallacious argument that if you are against murdering women and children that you are therefore pro-terrorist?!
The basic logic of this just needs a second to think about - is there no-one left in the media or politics with a voice powerful enough and articulate enough to defend reality?
Zionism and the state of Israel are commercial, colonialist, genocidal operations. They represent money and power and the quest for more of both of those.
Most of the backing and support comes from outside Israel - the UK and USA mainly. Two colonialist powers scrabbling to continue their proxy wars and power struggles in a part of the world that they have destroyed and ravaged and have no right to be involved in.
That is it. They do not give a shit about Jewish people beyond using them for their ends to justify violence and oppression. This is based on the terrible fact that Jewish people suffered the same things as Israel (and their supporters) are committing on other groups now. The uniforms are different - the hatred and lies are just the same.
Ich hatte ja hier: norden.social/@stephie_hamburg… bereits über den Artikel der WaPo über die GHF verlinkt aus dem klar hervorging: Es gibt niemand dem Beweise vorliegen, dass die Hamas im relevanter Menge Hilfsgüter stiehlt. Der israelische Staat und seine Verbündeten haben nie Belege für ihre Behauptung vorgelegt.
Bereits im November letzten Jahres gab es einige Berichte darüber, dass es diverse Gangs gibt, die Hilfsgüter plündern.
Es kam immer wieder zu Auseinandersetzungen die, zum Teil blutig endeten, wenn etwa Sicherheitsleute aus der Regierung in Gaza gegen diese Gangs vorgingen.
Auch damals gab es schon einige die Beobachtung, dass diese Gangs in Gegenden operieren, die von der israelischen Armee kontrolliert werden, und nicht von dieser angegriffen werden.
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