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I just concluded a very good phone call with President Xi, of China, discussing some of the intricacies of our recently made, and agreed to, Trade Deal. The call lasted approximately one and a half hours, and resulted in a very positive conclusion for both Countries. There should no longer be any questions respecting the complexity of Rare Earth products. Our respective teams will be meeting shortly at a location to be determined. We will be represented by Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and United States Trade Representative, Ambassador Jamieson Greer. During the conversation, President Xi graciously invited the First Lady and me to visit China, and I reciprocated. As Presidents of two Great Nations, this is something that we both look forward to doing. The conversation was focused almost entirely on TRADE. Nothing was discussed concerning Russia/Ukraine, or Iran. We will inform the Media as to scheduling and location of the soon to be meeting. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
In case there was any question that Meghan McCain is complete and utter trash, she is pushing anti-vax nonsense and selling snake oil pills around it. She could have nepo- babied here way to do good but instead she chose this #uspoli #rant
"Concerning data continues to emerge regarding mRNA vaccines and their unforeseen health impacts. They did not deliver what was promised by government + health officials. I have friends who suffered -
1/2 A brain implant just let a paralyzed man walk again β with no body movement required. At Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland, a man who had been paralyzed from the waist down for over a decade just took steps again β not with exoskeletons or braces, but by using a digital bridge between his brain and spinal cord. Neurosurgeons implanted two wireless devices: one on his motor cortex (inside his skull) and one on his spinal cord.
2/3 These implants decode the manβs intention to walk and send signals directly to the lower spine, bypassing the damaged area completely. No cables. No external assistance. With a few weeks of training, the man could walk across a room, climb stairs, and even navigate uneven ground. His movements were not robotic or jerky β they were fluid, responsive, and conscious. This is the first time a full digital bypass of a spinal injury has resulted in real-world, self-initiated walking.
3/3 The system uses machine learning to decode brain signals in real-time and adapts over time to match the patient's movement goals. It's not just a tool β it's an extension of the nervous system. And as incredible as it sounds, the manβs original spinal cord function began showing signs of natural reconnection after several weeks, suggesting that stimulation may promote healing too. Neurotechnology has reached a point where thought alone can resurrect motion β even after years of silence.
Global economic growth is slowing more than expected only a few months ago as the fallout from the Trump administrationβs trade war takes a bigger toll on the U.S. economy, the OECD said on Tuesday, revising down its outlook.
"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.
βOnce 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...'β
~ 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 ceasβ¦
βNational 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.' β
~ 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.
Gaza food hub stops operations for second day as access routes remain βcombat zonesβ | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2025/junβ¦
As long as you believe that βauthorityβ 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 "authorityβ.
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.
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.
"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=PoxKD82IJmβ¦
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βIhr Plan, den sie den βGreat Resetβ nennen, wird alles, was noch auf Ihrem Bankkonto ist, leeren und die geplagte Mittelschicht ihres verbleibenden Kapitals berauben.
WΓ€hrend Covid diktierte das WEF die Lockdowns, die 4 Billionen Dollar nach oben an diese neue #Oligarchie von #MilliardΓ€ren verlagerten. Die #Banker und #InvestmenthΓ€user schnappten sich unsere HΓ€user und warben damit, dass Ihr nichts besitzen und glΓΌcklich damit sein werdet.
βSie haben einen Plan, aber mein Plan ist, sie zu stoppen.β
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 π
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 berryβs work.
thereβve 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
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/intervieβ¦
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 π³οΈβπ C=64 breadbins) and π―on π³οΈββ§οΈ 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 π₯³πΉοΈ.
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.. π
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.
The βLife Month Resolutionβ was introduced to celebrate the third anniversary of the Supreme Courtβs overturning of Roe v Wade, Cruzβs office says
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 βimmediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefireβ.
βThe 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)
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
[ 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
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-β¦ 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?"
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