This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work.
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The US wants to blackmail the EU into releasing European strategic diesel reserves.
It's like dealing with the Mob. It's bully-boy tactics.
Germany must not give in to Trump’s attempt at blackmail.
(Aber bei #Reiche@bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de … 😬)
Zach Cregger accomplished the impressive task of making a movie that feels almost exactly like watching my friend play a pretty good video game. I wouldn't quite call it a good movie, but it did enjoy most of it.
From F-Droid to independent devs, the entire Android ecosystem is under threat from Google's new mandatory registration decree. See why 67+ orgs are saying no: keepandroidopen.org
This is a great example of one of the ways AI is actually going to endanger / kill huge numbers of people.
Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there.
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Sommer 2026: 16.000 Hitzetote 🥵 alleine in 🇩🇪. Dürre. Brände.
🤯 Die Bundesregierung subventioniert jetzt mit 2.500.000.000 € von unseren Steuergeldern die Ursache der Hitze: fossile Brennstoffe. Unfassbar. 🤯🤯🤯
Das meiste Geld landet dann wieder bei den Ölkonzernen, der Lobby gegen Klimaschutz.
It has three sections or ‘actions’ that he wishes his allies to take:
Action 1: Promote Knowledge of the Cause of Race Differences
Action 2: Change the Population of Decision Makers on Campus
Action 3: Leverage Political Power
If you don’t think this is political, you’re not paying attention
The terminally agora- brained who imagine that in defending Cofnas they’re defending an abstract space of disinterested academic inquiry may wish to look at his 2023 essay ‘How to Take Back Academia’, which makes it clear that he is engaged in a political project …
A key element in the mainstreaming of reactionary politics was to get mainstream actors to engage with reactionary ideas as if they were legitimate debates
Mainstream actors fell for it as they generally "won" the argument but by engaging at all they legitimised the reactionary position
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2 Wochen noch, dann wird in Sachsen-Anhalt gewählt. Und es droht weiter die erste rechtsextreme Landesregierung seit 1945. Was tun? Darüber diskutieren wir nun am Dienstag, 25. Aug, in Magdeburg, ab 18 Uhr. Mit allen demokratischen Spitzenkandidaten - und der Zivilgesellschaft taz.de/taz-Forum-in...
Julian Schmidgall benötigt einen Wohnplatz mit durchgehender Betreuung. Trotz Rechtsanspruch ist die Suche nach einer passenden Einrichtung vergeblich.
The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
12 August 1909 | Czech Jew, Jiří Back, was born in Košátky.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 28 September 1944.
He perished in Kaufering (sub-camp of Dachau) on 21 January 1945.
similarly 100% of the complaints about "dei" that were remotely valid are actually problems of coporate hr and administrative flak-handling generally
one thing the culture war does is mystify banal social problems like this, conditioning an outsized reactionary grievance response to inconvenience
Today from me: After a summer of eye-popping heat, vicious wildfires and relentless storms, businesses are finally facing up to climate change. (Or at least protecting themselves from its effects.) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/b...
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS US Postal Service from implementing Section 3 of Trump’s anti voting EO. Has nationwide impact. A huge victory for voters and defeat for Trump and DOJ. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday.
Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
PKI Norway's current strategy for fighting bad trans research coming out of the nordic gender clinics is something to pay attention to, as it's slowly getting results. Wins here matter globally because the nordics are a major exporter of anti-trans pseudoscience.
Our second letter to the editor about the Finnish study on trans people and the effect of gender affirming treatment on mental health (Ruuska, Kaltiala et al.) is out now.
This time, we request that the authors disclose their data.
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Never thought I’d have to say this, but if you wear #SmartGlasses you’re a creepy weirdo and I don’t want you anywhere near me. Or my family. Or my community, actually.
a) the NDAA is not the defense budget, CRS has a good rundown on the difference between authorization and appropriations
b) the noteworthy bit is the manner in which it failed
Authorizations and the Appropriations Process | Congress.gov | Library of Congress share.google/IlFaCtG1dYVb...
Holy fucking shit, CNN has revoked ICE's exonerative mood privileges in headlines AND used a photo of the victim provided by his son that has him happy, smiling, and celebrating a birthday. Fucking *CNN*.
www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/u...
Someone needs to keep an archive of every time someone has made this meme starting from the same event and compile an expanded version with every domino along the way
Kippt KI in der Suche das #Haftungsprivileg? Und wollen Medienwächter Podcasts auch noch nachträglich durchforsten? Die Landesmedienanstalten machen gerade viel Wirbel ... www.mdr.de/altpapier/da...
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Der Tankrabatt soll Autofahrer*innen mit Verbrenner vor hohen Spritpreisen schützen. Teilweise haben davon auch die Ölkonzerne profitiert. Den ganzen Text findet ihr auf taz.de/Greenpeace-A...
The comparison I heard was data centers using the same amount of water as golf courses, and for that I was all, my brother in Christ, let me tell you what I think we should do with golf courses
from the moment it was founded activists and human rights watchdogs have warned that DHS was constructed to be an almost unaccountable private paramilitary force at the president's sole disposal.
DHS was originally conceived in the interest of unity and harmony — and the phrase "homeland security" was originally meant to be reassuring. n.pr/4nOx8KP