(they/them) Writer, organizer, gamedev. I say good words sometimes too! Currently steering @cartoonist.coop, working on @dateknight.bsky.social, formerly @bluestockings 📧: mxjoandark@gmail.com 🕸️: linktr.ee/whoaitsjoan
Getting reaaaaal fed up of that phrase being used as a get out of jail free card.
Darren HupkeThe attitude of so many in the comments section of the internet* is “it’s all bad, who cares, move on” You don’t look enlightened or elite because of your “knowledge,” you look lazy and sad for not trying. Be a good human. Make good decisions. Learn. Try again tomorrow. *I know
This was, is, and always will be a brilliantly shit illustration of how stupidly self defeating business people can be. Forgoing the universal positive of a staff self-training on their own time, because of the vague fear that one in a hundred might make some money.
Chris KerrNEW: I spoke with multiple video game developers and a U.S. employment lawyer to learn more about restrictive side clauses that often prevent employees at major companies from pursuing hobbyist work or personal projects. In an industry renowned for creativity, why are we stifling it?
absolutely a tactic. theorist media is doing the same thing to its workers, who also have a supermajority. from a piece I published last week: aftermath.site/game-theoris...
Jason Koeblerbreaking: Wikimedia Foundation says it will not voluntarily recognize its workers union, instead insisting on an election held under Trump's NLRB. Wiki Foundation execs dodged this question at its massive conference last week. www.404media.co/wikimedia-wa...
The anti-data center movement is like "I don't want to pay more money for a thing that will not benefit me at all and will actively make my life measurably worse in a bunch of ways" and the pro-data center movement is like "We want it to be illegal for you to not like us."
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I come back to this tumblr post again and again
Hillary MonahanNobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.
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I went to the Museum of Chinese in America town hall mentioned in the Hyperallergic article below and boycotted by protestors from Youth Against Displacement. Saw a tremendous amount of pain and distress from community members on both sides of this conflict. A thread of photos.
HyperallergicNew York Chinatown residents and activists protested outside a town hall event at the Museum of Chinese in America, condemning the leadership's acceptance of a $35 million grant from the city that they believe is tied to the construction of a borough jail.
Media outlets already helping this generational asshole whitewash his crimes. Democrats are likely about to be in power in the next few years and he wants to give them any flimsy reason to pretend he's not that bad
The Guardian‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit