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He/Him - Associate Commerce Editor @ Esquire Video games. Labor.

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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

05.03.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 17051 πŸ” 5644 πŸ’¬ 128 πŸ“Œ 101

'Resistance is futile' is what I always say when I have a very good idea that will improve things and people love

05.03.2026 00:28 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think the big dump I more annoying

05.03.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learnedβ€”and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

More info:

03.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 6250 πŸ” 3152 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 307

β€œBluesky has awful pathologies” and the pathologies the people in question are always talking about is literally just that they find certain groups of people annoying. Which is a thing on EVERY WEBSITE. You are on the internet

03.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 1080 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 2

A functional country would yeet polymarket and kalshi into the sun

01.03.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 279 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
28.02.2026 09:44 πŸ‘ 968 πŸ” 224 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

Point being yeah, it’s absurdly restrictive but that’s what happens when you put This much fan service in a thing

25.02.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mine said 11 and a half but I swear it took more real life hours than that

25.02.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*throws Xbox in toilet*

24.02.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s great (derogatory) that you can work very hard to find out something incredibly important, and the main response you will get is a derisive β€œGee, I’m shocked.”

Somebody has to ACTUALLY DO THIS WORK! You can’t pursue justice by going β€œYour honor: I mean, duh.”

24.02.2026 11:45 πŸ‘ 1023 πŸ” 179 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 7

I miss Europe

24.02.2026 12:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

he's stealing billions of dollars of taxpayer money for his personal slush fund

the most corrupt, criminal administration in history and despite how high a bar that is it isn't particularly close

19.02.2026 18:49 πŸ‘ 3233 πŸ” 779 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 13

imo this isn't the biggest problem w/ the story. yeah there will be some people who do this, but they were already doing that stuff. the bigger issue is the fact that Wildlight presented as a fully solvent studio, had Tencent backing and still folded like a card table after launch, likely on purpose

18.02.2026 10:22 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

kotaku is a good website staffed by good people and it is really maddening and perplexing to me the way right wingers think a perpetually understaffed video game blog is responsible for everything they hate

17.02.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 522 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 9

'the company that maintains my boyfriend's AI persona has jacked up the price ten-fold' is pretty classic cyberpunk; that the persona or the relationship never meaningfully existed in the first place is a level of bitter irony that might be too much even for an often ironic genre.

17.02.2026 08:18 πŸ‘ 710 πŸ” 164 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 7

You know things are bad when the WSJ puts it this plainly:

"The rewards are going toward capital instead of labor. Profits have soared since the pandemic, and the market value attached to those profits even more. The result: Capital is triumphant, while the average worker ekes out marginal gains."

10.02.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 284 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

CONFIRMED BY SCIENCE: anyone more online than me is a loser phone addict and everyone less online than me are basic underdeveloped normies

10.02.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 2429 πŸ” 354 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 4

Consider, they would want to time it for the show, but strix is coming out in a month, and no one has been working on potter shit at wizards in the last few production cycles. More relevant, you haven't seen a mass exodus of all the Trans folks working on magic, of which there are a lot.

10.02.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 228 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

It could be really bad for Discord if Californians contact the office of the Attorney General to report the potential violations of CCPA and CALOPPA citing the recent breach from a few months back where 1.5tb of user data and millions of IDs were leaked, but who can say for sure?

09.02.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 9036 πŸ” 5837 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 53

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

03.02.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 21096 πŸ” 4928 πŸ’¬ 159 πŸ“Œ 34

Lots of regular degular, never-done-an-activism folks have been activated in recent months and are working alongside a bunch of seasoned, die-hard, been-tired-for-ten-years-or-more organizers, and you don't know all of those stories bc most people are moving with a bit of discretion in these times.

03.02.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 2907 πŸ” 482 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 16
Mayor Mamdani surrounded by worker justice organizers

Mayor Mamdani surrounded by worker justice organizers

Worker justice organizers

Worker justice organizers

Los deliveristas unidos sign

Los deliveristas unidos sign

Corporations will not exploit working people in NYC.

Uber Eats, Fantuan & HungryPanda broke the law β€” shortchanging workers while raking in profits.

Today, we secured $5M+ in restitution for 49,000 delivery workers.

Let this be a warning: steal wages, face the consequences.

30.01.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 5300 πŸ” 1189 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 76

Some things to understand about people from Minnesota on here right now, a short thread:

29.01.2026 14:34 πŸ‘ 594 πŸ” 233 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 22

We are going to fucking build an America that’s better than this.

29.01.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I want to live in an America that is better than this because I know America is better than this. We are going to build an America that’s better than this.

29.01.2026 02:43 πŸ‘ 262 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

I mean I think people are but I don’t trust them

28.01.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

When people complain about combat they often mean encounter design. Feel this one is a good example. Long forced encounters when the narrative momentum is peaking.

28.01.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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George Saunders Wants a Good Death The celebrated author's new novel β€˜Vigil’ was inspired by his own hopes and fears for the end of his lifeβ€”and the end of civilization.

β€œI think it’s kind of beautiful that there’s a finite nature to all of this.”

For Esquire, I spoke with George Saunders about dying, living, and VIGIL, which hits shelves today.
www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

27.01.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE murdered RenΓ©e Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

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