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Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 18h ago

increasingly common tactic from studios. halo studies laid off a ton of developers right around Halo: Campaign Evolved's launch. I was thinking of buying this but will not unless and until they take care of their people

Stephen Totilo@stephentotilo.bsky.social · 19h ago

SCOOP: A few weeks before the launch of Star Wars Zero Company, most of the developers at its studio were furloughed The studio says they hope to secure funds to restore their pay. Some are skeptical it'll happen I learned about this via a bitter lawsuit: www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...

Ianus J. Wolf@ianusjwolf.bsky.social · 21h ago

Also remember this is IN ADDITION TO all these billionaire companies being given endless tax breaks as "job creators" while they refuse to pay out living wages for those jobs and always look for the next layoff. We are being forced to subsidize the lives of the rich 2-3 times over, and it's insane.

silverwuffamute@wuffaf.at · yesterday

Anytime this is the case, where employees are compensated so poorly that they must rely on SNAP or other benefits, that means that you are subsidizing THE COMPANY. Amazon is making YOU pay for their employees because they refuse to pay them a living wage. finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...

☁️☕🍂jess m. ☁️🍂☔@jametc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

Josh Dunlo 🌹☘️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦@sloeginpudding.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ohhhhhh, this one time I spoke in Mandarin in Binondo (Manila Chinatown) and almost got mugged at gunpoint. Cousin was like, “Are you fucking insane, Josh? You should’ve spoken in Hokkien! They thought you were a rich person from the PRC!”

Josh Dunlo 🌹☘️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦@sloeginpudding.bsky.social · 3d ago

Remembering that I was in the island of Cebú in the Philippines, and a street vendor tried to sell me bracelets. I spoke in Tagalog and wasn’t shabbily dressed. She gave me a price of P30. I said no. Cousin said, “If it had been me speaking Cebuano, she would’ve charged me P7. You look foreign.”

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 3d ago

I actually do not understand the pull Loomer apparently has? Like she is no one, she has no groyper army, no Qanon brigade behind her. She doesn’t strike me as particularly charismatic. Yet she remains apparently on top of the grift heap?

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 4d ago

Now Loomer wants the FBI to investigate MTG for allegedly “harboring” an illegal alien and MTG’s daughter is tweeting at Todd Blanche to say that Milo never lived at her mom’s house.

[Christopher M. Federico]@chrispps.bsky.social · 3d ago

a general fact people need to reconcile themselves to is that it is impossible to realize the universal destination of goods to satisfy human needs at scale using exclusively voluntary means, whether that be charity, 'the church,' mutual aid, etc (1/3)

John Crowley@jcrowley.bsky.social · 3d ago

As a humanitarian who works in collective intelligence, I empathize with the concept of mutual aid, but I have to speak a difficult truth: it's not possible to replace USAID's $35 billion w/ mutual aid. Let's say that mutual aid is 50% more efficient. It still can't replace $17.5B with mutual aid.

[Christopher M. Federico]@chrispps.bsky.social · 3d ago

all of the latter things are good in and of themselves, but institutionalized, compulsory redistribution via state action -- at both the national and international level -- cannot be replaced as a tool for meeting human needs, however aesthetically unappealing & impersonal it might seem. (2/3)

Technology Connections@techconnectify.bsky.social · last wk.

Our political system has been allergic to consequences... basically my entire life. And our population has largely stopped thinking more than one step ahead. Our only understanding of what's good for us is now, maybe your boss will think to next quarter. Turn that stove on so we can touch it.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.

An employe at McMahon's company, WWE was accused of systematically sexually assaulting vulnerable boys who worked at the company. McMahon persuaded them not to sue, and told one she would support his education. When his grades dropped, she stopped paying tuition support. He later killed himself.

In 1992, Cole, then twenty-one years old, and another ring boy told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Phillips had molested them. They said that he groped their feet for hours at a time. (Phillips would lock the kids into wrestling holds.) Sometimes he rubbed their feet on his penis. (Later, other ring boys alleged that Phillips had forced them into oral sex, ejaculated on them, and attempted to have penetrative sex with them; the McMahons have denied knowledge of the actions.) Cole later accused a W.W.E. executive named Pat Patterson of groping his butt, and an executive named Terry Garvin of turning on pornography and asking to perform oral sex on Cole during a work conversation. When the story broke, the three men left the company. According to one account, the McMahons let Patterson go personally, at the mansion, and both Vince and Linda cried. (Patterson was reinstated soon afterward.) Vince held a series of damage-control phone calls with Phil Mushnick, a sports writer with the New York Post. Mushnick later testified in a deposition that Vince told him, “We had known for some time that Mel had a peculiar and unnatural interest and attachment to children.” Vince said that they’d fired Phillips before, years earlier, but had subsequently rehired him “out of the goodness of our hearts.” He framed this as a joint decision: “We brought him back with the caveat that he steer clear of children.”Cole threatened to sue the company. At a meeting with the McMahons in New York to discuss a settlement, Cole’s attorney left the room several times, leaving him alone with the McMahons. Cole recollected that Linda seemed compassionate. “I thought having her present and a mother’s instincts were invaluable,” the company’s longtime lawyer, Jerry McDevitt, later said. Cole said she told him that she believed him, and that she wanted to help. He remembered her saying, “I consider you in a sense like a son. I want to look at it that way. I want you to come to me with your problems.” Cole opened up. At a later meeting at W.W.E. headquarters, according to Cole, the McMahons sought the names of other potential accusers with whom he, along with his brother Lee, was communicating. At the McMahons’ coaxing, he gave them access to his brother’s answering machine. (Vince denies this.) His lawyer had sought a monetary settlement, but Cole, who’d left the company, said that he just wanted his job back. The McMahons agreed, and also gave him fifty thousand dollars in back pay. Linda McMahon and Cole also made a separate agreement: he’d be paid as an employee but would return to school, as McMahon wanted. “I talked to this young man as I would my son, and told him how supportive of him we would be,” she later recounted. He signed a document that she’d prepared, agreeing that his employment was contingent on his academics.As the journalist David Bixenspan, who has reported on the ring-boy allegations, has detailed, Cole enrolled at a community college. McMahon corresponded with his professors. Cole found that he was still traumatized by the abuse and had a hard time concentrating. He asked McMahon if he could drop out and resume working for the company. She told him to stick with it. Cole stopped attending class. He failed. His transcript was sent to McMahon. “I was very disappointed in your performance,” she wrote to him. “At this point we believe that we have done everything we can. Therefore, this letter is to advise you of your termination with Titan Sports, effective immediately.” She concluded, “The opportunity of a lifetime is a terrible thing to waste.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

BASH: One of the things that's happening is there's a push to start students down a trade school track as early as elementary school. Is that too early? LINDA McMAHON: I don't think so BASH: But elementary school? McMAHON: I think you can have some introduction of skilled trades in elementary

Dawn Summers real or fake@dawnsummers.bsky.social · last wk.

If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last wk.

“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.