Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.

Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic

The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.

axios.com

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

Took me seconds to make an image showing 'protesters' around Google buildings, using Google Earth's new AI generation tool. You can make bomb blasts, protesters, drone strikes, nuclear plants. How on earth did Google think this was a good idea www.404media.co/google-earth...

Google's statement that it includes a watermark that can identify them as AI-generated is completely braindead as to how disinformation works. You think people spending literally three seconds to derail a discussion give a shit about that? This is so easy to abuse www.404media.co/google-earth...

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Some details about our GWHF: 💸 We've already allocated upwards of $25K to over 30 applicants 💸This has gone to help game workers avoid evictions, pay for medical bills, pay off debt, etc. Want to apply? Click the link in this post 👇 bsky.app/profile/bran...

Brandon Sheffield@brandon.insertcredit.com · 7d ago

All money, minus processing fees for itch, goes to out of work game developers to pay for food, housing, healthcare, and whatever they need to make it through. Neither we as the organizers nor UVW take any of the money from the bundle. Game developers can apply here: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun...

Nine hours after going live, the itch bundle benefiting our Game Worker Hardship Fund has already raised over $13k! Thank you so much to those who have already purchased. And for those who might be waiting for payday, you’ve still got about two weeks left! Thank you so much 🙏

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

NO BLADE, NO LUKE CAGE, NO WONDER MAN. I WONDER WHY.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YALL OH MY GODDDDD NOOOOOOOO

IGN@ign.com · 7d ago

Marvel's Wonder Man TV series has been canceled and will not return for its planned second season. https://bit.ly/4fE07Nv

MARVEL CANCELLED WONDER MAN???? BRO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO variety.com/2026/tv/news...

‘Wonder Man’ Not Returning for Season 2 at Disney+ (EXCLUSIVE)

"Wonder Man" has been canceled at Disney+, Variety has learned.

variety.com

UPDATE: More 'Save Our Devs' rallies have been announced—including one at Obsidian Entertainment and another at Microsoft's campus in Redmond—in support of laid off Xbox workers.

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 4w ago

'We mean business:' Xbox union workers fighting back with 'Save Our Devs' rally on July 15

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

...what

NESbot@nesbot.bsky.social · 4w ago

Asha Sharma - advising US Federal Reserve www.resetera.com/threads/15...

From ‘Outstanding’ and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.

Napkin math suggests that the US could make a billion dollars a year just supporting laid off game devs like this, to say nothing of the downstream effects

paulseesequasis@pseesequasis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

From ‘Outstanding’ and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.

52 Obsidian employees laid off according to a WARN notice in California www.gamefile.news/p/xbox-cuts-...

I see I need to make a clearer point. Framing things this way puts the blame on the consumer - the consumer that spends hundreds of millions of dollars on subs every month - as though it is their fault for freeloading. But is it the consumer's fault that the model was built the way it was? No.

Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social · 4w ago

Whoa. I didn't know Xbox Game Pass was free. Weird. What is this. "The problem with it was that (DOOM: The Dark Ages) was played by millions of fans, but many played it for free on Game Pass."

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4w ago

The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.

Unions are more popular than ever, but we need you - and you need you - to start doing the work. The next intro to organizing training with CODE-CWA is this Sunday, July 12. You should be there, and bring one friend to learn with you! code-cwa.org/upcoming-tra...

Upcoming CODE-CWA Trainings

code-cwa.org

There are only two choices on the table for the game worker right now: give up or get organized. And giving up repeatedly has only led us to this absolute shitshow, so let's take a look at what organizing really means (uvw-cwa.org, btw)

To players who are mad: we see you! The secret sauce to saving the games industry is developing player solidarity with workers. If you're seeing what's happening to gamedevs across our artform and you're mad about how devs are being treated? Tell them!

scenarist / Chris@scenarist.bsky.social · 4w ago

The company owners seem to want me and other ordinary players to not only lose interest in ES but actively hate them. We know who makes the games and who actually puts the love and labor into the games. Do they think we don’t know?

SICK OF THIS CRAP? INTERESTED IN BEING RADICALIZED RATHER THAN BEING LED TO DESPAIR? We gotchu. 💪 Sign up for free, virtual organizing seminars w/ @codecwa.bsky.social: code-cwa.org/upcoming-tra... In the US or Canada? Join United Videogame Workers: uvw-cwa.org/membership

UPDATE: A WARN notice filed in Texas indicates 136 employees have been laid off at id Software, with another 22 people roles being cut at Bethesda Game Studios' office in Austin. Out of those 158 workers being laid off in Texas, 146 are represented by labor union Communication Workers of America.

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 4w ago

Report: Roughly half of the id Software team have been laid off

One way you can show Microsoft your concern is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

Studios in the Bethesda organization like id Software (Doom) and ZeniMax Online Studios (Elder Scrolls Online) are not shutting down but are cutting a significant number of staff this morning, per sources.

BREAKING: Xbox will cut 3,200 jobs as part of a major reorganization, and divest from five studios: - Compulsion and Double Fine will go indie - Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will be sold - Arkane to enter consultation process Here's the full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Microsoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Major Overhaul

Compulsion and Double Fine studios will become independent; Undead Labs and Ninja Theory will be sold. Xbox will also look to sell or spin out Arkane Studios.

bloomberg.com