Electronic Arts is dead. That sentence alone carries weight, forget the business stuff.
"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo
![The firm is fully owned by Jared Kushner and has a staff of approximately 20 people.[2][5] By 2024, the firm had returned no profits to its investors.[6] The firm has been controversial due to conflicts of interests arising from Kushner soliciting funds from Middle Eastern governments while also working as an envoy having direct and indirect dealings with those governments in his role in the second Trump administration.[7] According to reporting by Bloomberg News, investors in the firm do so with the expectation of influencing the Trump administration.[8]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2jjromh55tf7pp7s4hsvurf4/bafkreihebdzjog2hp37o2q3enjyrsi46btqktev76ogpneczsrrzl55fo4)
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · yesterdayEA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...
"It wasn't us, it was the AI agent(s). We are not responsible" We're going to hear this kind of bullshit a lot in the near future
Listening to @bandcamp.com this morning… miss the Slakadeliqs but a perfect album never gets old 🎶🎵🎶 also a little light reading, please enjoy
The great Tech Walkback is real. Ai was a bad bet in the short term and adoption through forms of fear was the wrong move. It will come about, but how is changing quickly. The Midjourney MRI tells you this alone.
But… California whistleblower laws ? @legaleagle.tv any insight? I don’t feel like using the Claude Tokens
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d agoProsecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job
Day by day by day, we fall further and further from the light of God
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · last mo.Police allege the 75-year-old tried to meet someone he believed was a 15-year-old boy after explicit online chats
The new leaders give me faith. Corruption is rampant but it can last, let’s line up the replacements yall, #theBernTake2
Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · last mo.And that it’s finally time for a politics of solidarity that doesn’t compromise on anyone’s humanity or dignity. Message heard loud and clear. Tremendously grateful for the honor of representing you. I'll fight ceaselessly to be the congressmember you deserve. (3/3)
Yeah, I don’t think you could pay me to get into a helicopter outside of an emergency. Rest in power Oliver Tree, I’ll spin you up this week 🫶🏿
Vera Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter telescope and 3.2 gigapixel camera, which is exactly what’s coming online in 2026 specifically to find or rule out Planet #9. Hardest.dick.ever.🪐
Retwit this when ICE lets a terrorist thru TSA. And they still won’t learn
Oh my God… I’m re-watching Arrested Development and I forgot all about the wall! Did What’s his name built that thing yet?
when companies come crawling back from the ai bubble burst and need Premium Grade Artist Labor again
they literally renamed the entire company after this
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5mo agoMeta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.
If I said that some of your favorite VCs lacked the ability to introspect, and that they spent close to zero time thinking about how their actions had negative impacts on the world? You'd probably say that I was being unfair, by practically calling them psychopaths. They say this about themselves!
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5mo agoBillionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
Facts do not shape, public opinion… Framing does - @legaleagle.tv
Trump is to John Roberts like Sukana is to Kenjaku. You can’t convince me of anything different.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6mo agoYoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.
More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.
Keep pushing. The hate means you are on the right path.
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂@rude1.blacksky.team · 6mo agoYou don’t have to tell me about the negative things people say about me online.