that's right, Bruce Campbell www.mensjournal.com/entertainmen...

This is an absolutely psychotic statement.

This is the realest shit I've seen written about the games industry, especially for AAA-level productions, in a long time. I feel all of this so much. www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...

I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow

AI is optimising the cheapest part of production

productionalchemist.com

Nithya & Kenneth brought the people out Monday evening! It felt good to be surrounded by folks who want to build a more equitable city for all Angelenos.

NEW: A series of issues in Apple’s web browser engine — the tech underlying all browsers on iOS — means that Apple’s iCloud Private Relay tool, which is supposed to hide a user’s IP address, in many cases doesn’t actually work. In fact, its exposing users' real IP addresses.

Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses

Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.

404media.co

🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)

The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.

nytimes.com

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read stories was about Google burning through cash for the first time since going public decades ago as it raised its spending forecast for AI infrastructure. ft.trib.al/9z6a5Ym

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last mo.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

You don't have to post the rw freakout about The Odyssey. Those people don't have taste or sense

I feel like people have this idea in their heads that "shareholders" are this monolithic group of evil rich people, and certainly evil rich people own a lot of stock, but big publicly-traded companies often have a lot of their shares held by pension funds and the like.

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Paramount shareholders has filed a lawsuit against David and Larry Ellison seeking to block the proposed $111B Warner Bros. merger, alleging they struck an illegal side deal with President Trump to secure regulatory approval. This marks the FOURTH lawsuit challenging the merger. (via @thr.com)

The US AI industry is now crippled by a federal "oversight" that is three bribe-seeking fascists in a trenchcoat. The Chinese AI industry shipped GLM 5.2 last week. Open source, cheaper, and equal in benchmarks to the best of the Western models. 欢迎来到美国的“百年国耻”时代。

Axios@axios.com · 2mo ago

The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to initially limit GPT-5.6 to a small group of government-approved partners before any broader release, citing security concerns, according to a source familiar with the matter.

RIP to the legend who saved and/or improved on a heap of classics - Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Godfather, and more

Marcia Lucas, Oscar-Winning Editor Behind ‘Star Wars’, Dies at 80

Lucas also worked with her then-husband, George Lucas, on ‘Return of the Jedi’ and ‘American Graffiti’.

hollywoodreporter.com

More than a bit worrying that reality seems not to matter anymore. Like, whole political movements rise up out of disinformation campaigns pushed by algorithms and media narratives. www.latimes.com/california/s...

L.A. is safer than it’s been in decades, but crime is an issue dominating the mayor’s race

Although homicides and other violent crimes are down to near-historic lows, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass' challengers have zeroed in on homelessness and public drug use.

latimes.com

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The DOJ announced a $1.7 billion fund to pay Trump allies prosecuted by the government as part of the president's settlement with the IRS. The new fund could pay claims to the likes of Jan. 6 rioters

The best time to leave Substack is when the Nazis showed up, which was years ago. Every day after is a bit worse, so the best time still available to Substack publishers is right now. There's countless not-openly-welcoming-to-Nazis options, including Ghost, beehiiv, Kit, Keila, and many more.

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Scoop: Several of Substack's top publishers have privately weighed whether it makes sense to be on the platform longterm, raising questions about the company's ability to retain its most prominent creators. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/substack-r...

when @masnick.com is on, he's on: "The skulls were always on that hat." www.techdirt.com/2026/04/30/p...

Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps

There’s a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. “Hans,” one ask…

techdirt.com

Paste ends the games coverage that gave so many writers their start aftermath.site/paste-games-en...

I'm a conspiracist now, and there's no way you can convince me this isn't the dumbest false flag of all time

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo ago

After an incident involving an armed man at the White House correspondents’ dinner, President Trump and his allies argued for the need for a new White House ballroom. The coordinated effort to link security at the dinner to the project largely ignored the realities of the circumstances on Saturday.

Here's the initial block list of those who attended the WHCD tonight. Adding names as it becomes clear they were there.

incredible day for stories about cheating tbh

Normal Margaret 🌱@margaretz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wait what

There is currently no information about the shooter, much less their motive.

okay now figure in how many weren't thinking of leaving the industry but having that decision imposed upon them. Lets also be clear this isn't just a shame for those people, but it will manifest as worse games being more expensive to make, and making less money overall. This is a problem.

Not The A.V. Club Games@nottheavclubgames.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A recent survey of game developers found almost half were thinking of leaving the industry. Brain drain is a real threat to games today. www.avclub.com/video-games-...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shooter opened fire inside the hotel where Trump was attending dinner, a law enforcement official says.

zaslav tried to take this from us but he COULDNT it is too powerful

Coyote vs. ACME | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme

youtube.com

End of an era www.theverge.com/tech/915213/...

Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down

Cook will move into the role of executive chairman of the board.

theverge.com

A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted. Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more. /1

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."