Went down the rabbit hole to read the article (it's on the Bulwark) and these people are so evil in the most childish fashion
Ant@agramuglia.bsky.social · 5d ago...this won't go over terribly.
What they’re hoping for and acting for is germinating the seeds of extreme acts of violence against South Asians. That’s why they use the explicitly Nazi framing of the ‘Indian question’. They want the same results. Their followers are pretty open it on social media, too.
Christopher Mathias@letsgomathias.bsky.social · 4d agoNew: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
Gears games had pride flags in 2019, but the people who monetize rage bait don't want their audience to know that -- maybe they don't even know that themselves, because they don't do research; they just react. If more people recognized they're getting played for revenue, we'd be in a better spot.
What's the quality of these jobs? Are they low wage jobs?
Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 4d agoI'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women.
Every person I know that has played Demonschool has loved it. Plus, this quote by its creative director is all you need to know to support it.
Necrosoft Games@necrosoftgames.com · 7mo agoIt's the Spring Sale on Steam! Demonschool is 20% off!!! You should please buy it if you have not. It's no exaggeration to say the more people buy the game, the more we'll be able to do with it in the future. So tell your friends as well! store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
an endangered species: a decent person in a position of power 🤔
I feel like it's so common in the US to see political actors actively cede the power they've acquired to be in thrall to some oligarch or other that it's almost confusing to see someone preserve their political power in their best interest.
Leo seems like a real one, as you describe, but at a fundamental level it is also shocking to me to see a political actor operate in the best interest of their own State. "Oh yeah guys this Clear Rival and False Idol you made is pretty rad" that's what these losers expected him to say?
At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience.
Parkscope Joe@parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is insane.
Fascism's appeal has always been the promise to end social conflict by "returning" (always a lie) to an ethnically/religiously/ ideologically homogeneous "people's community" in which old hierarchies are retained but somehow racial/religious solidarity provides all the equality anyone needs.
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4d agoas ever i'm struck by the doublethink of these people, who feel the need to dress up their mindless longing for heirarchy and exclusion in the language of liberalism--"high trust," material prosperity, blah blah blah it's a form of magical thinking: "if we do enough racism, good things will happen"
Shit like this has fueled my conspiracy theory that mass data theft/harvesting for the purposes of tracking people to create more effective advertising is one of the biggest, longest running grifts in the history of the internet. Where is it? Its been decades since they started doing it!
It is. The data economy of silicon valley went to major corporations and produced a series of reports saying that advertisements have a HARD CAP of how many buyers brought in per dollar spent, and since then its been a game of trying to min max results based on a pivot to video style scam
seriously, the number of publishers who've said "i'm sorry, you want to pay people a living wage? no, that's far too much. we'll take half all profit to post about you" is like, that's not a publisher, that's a parasite. you can hire a PR firm for a fraction of that and they'll do better
Santa Ragione@santaragione.com · 3d agoPublishers: we do not fund games at this time, but in exchange for 50% of revenue we can provide valuable services. The services:
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I think they had a little help from the people who benefit from a rigged economy.
No, but they are responsible for paying literal billions of rubles to fund pretty much every major far-right movement in Europe
Exact same global dynamic as 1910s-30s, refugee crisis and economic hardship. And the USA did a lot more to fuel the rise of fascism 1919-39 than they did to fight it 1942-45. With aid of Westminster they put Mussolini in power to start with. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...
It's not just that the US has elected a Fascist, but that he has been busy busting up the economic, cultural & military alliance system that is known as "The West". And the East? It was broken by US pressure & internal economic failure in the 1980s. 1/2
"The West" has fallen. Trump destroyed it from the inside - not only with his unilateral actions, but his open hostility to Europe. Recognising this doesn't make one a dupe for Putin. It means recognising that the struggle against Russian absolutism will have to be conducted without Washington.
Even as that party wont ever fuck things up for the very important rich people and lords and landed gentry... they will only fuck things even harder for the "plebby cunts" - including the ones that voted for everything to be fucked up. There is no winning, the press see to that.
"For decades, electorates have been mis-sold a fanatical ideology: the prerogatives of the private sector must override the collective interest, and anything less is tantamount to Stalinism"
The Fall of the West by Owen Jones review – a bracing history of the changing world order
A journalist charts a quarter century of geopolitical hubris and economic overreach
theguardian.com
New Spider-Man, Spider-Gwen, and more Marvel manga are coming!
Marvel, Kadokawa Unveil More Art, Story Details for Spider-Man, Spider-Gwen Manga
Manga will launch in Kadocomi before end of year
animenewsnetwork.com
I’d rather no more Doctor Who than some AI slop
Radio Times@radiotimes.bsky.social · 7d agoBBC director-general Matt Brittin reveals that he recently received a 50-minute, AI-generated episode of Doctor Who – but insists AI won't replace human creators. Read more: https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-tender-ai-episode-submission-newsupdate/
One small, but powerful way that LLM's are supercharging scamming is by allowing scammers to write perfect context-appropriate prose - emails, invitations, "hey checking in" - that before AI would have this slightly *off* uncanniness that would alert the victim. No longer!
We need to stop reaffirming that we don't expect Trump administration figures to face legal accountability for their misdeeds. Expectations produce reality. We need to start creating the expectation that they in fact will—indeed, must—face legal accountability.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d agoPretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.