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- The non-profit helping people from all over the world to become successful game developerswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 18 hours ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08] 1 day ago:
His recent monologues are decent too, like the ones on why AI is bullshit and why there are no ethical billionaires
- Comment on The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08] 1 day ago:
The last 100+ pages of his book are about solutions
- Comment on The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08] 1 day ago:
He just published a major new book entitled Enshittification
- Comment on NCTC Discovers That Online Gaming Platforms Have Chats, Image Sharing 1 day ago:
TIL the feds think Fortnite doesn’t have text chat
- Submitted 3 days ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 week ago:
Well he cheated on his wife with something
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 3 weeks ago:
That’s not what being a Luddite means
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 5 weeks ago:
Matt Stoller had a nice writeup recently in his monopoly newsletter BIG about how we got into the current mess. TL;DR: basically financialization (prioritizing stock price over innovation, like at Boeing) and a lack of antitrust enforcement as a previously competitive market got monopolized (see chart below)
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 5 weeks ago:
Never root for a monopoly over at least some semblance of competition
- Comment on Wealth inequality seems like the only outcome in a system where capital gains are taxed less than labor 1 month ago:
r > g
- Comment on Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results 1 month ago:
- Comment on Death Stranding 2's stunning new statue somehow makes Sam look even more realisitic than he does in the game 2 months ago:
Now the real question is: Will it also let me bypass UK age-gating on the web?
- Comment on Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma' 2 months ago:
This is literally the one site whose journalism every Lemming should support
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia 2 months ago:
The schismogenesis in the comments and downvotes here is wild: “dystopia is good when it hurts scumbags”—um, no, both can be bad??
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia 2 months ago:
That’s literally the point of the article?
- Comment on Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors 2 months ago:
It’s the Hertz AI scam in a different sector. I suspect every major rental company will have a version of this soon, and that none of them will be auditable or appealable.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 months ago:
2 truths and a lie…the deep ecology movement and the Unabomber would seem to undermine your third claim
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 3 months ago:
First, they make the proceedings private: there’s no public record of the proceedings or verdict, and even if you win there’s no precedent that others can use.
Second, they isolate the plaintiff: because you can’t sue as part of a class action, so no lawyer can represent a group of similarly wronged people in exchange for a percentage of any verdict. This means you have to pay for your own lawyer, which many people can’t afford to do and even if you can it may not be worth it if the damage is small enough.
Together, these issues massively favor business and employers that include these clauses in contracts, as reflected in both win rates for corporations as well the number of cases brought against them versus in open court.
- Comment on If you can afford it, PeerTube is having a fundraiser for its mobile app 3 months ago:
- Comment on UK police roll out armoured cars 'tried and tested on Palestinians' 3 months ago:
Great example of what Cory Doctorow calls the Shitty Tech Adoption Curve:
If you want to do something terrible with technology, you can’t just roll it out on people with money and social capital. They’ll complain and your idea will tank. Successful shitty tech rollouts start with people you can abuse with impunity (prisoners, kids, migrants, etc) and then work their way up the privilege gradient.
- Comment on Business Insider will lay off 21% of staff amid AI disruption and “extreme traffic drops” 4 months ago:
Maybe the paywall had something to do with it?
- Comment on King Charles III arrives in Canada to underscore its sovereignty after Trump annexation threats 4 months ago:
Kind underscores the lack of it, no?
- Comment on Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years 4 months ago:
Can we please not help launder his reputation by proactively giving him credit for something he hasn’t done yet?
- Comment on OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company 5 months ago:
Wasn’t a major tranche of Softbank’s funding contingent on their being able to do this? They might be broke a lot sooner than people thought without it…
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 5 months ago:
This sounds like the company from Cory Doctorow’s most recent novel, Picks & Shovels
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 5 months ago:
Let’s delve into the issue
- Comment on U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist 5 months ago:
👊🇺🇸🔥
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 5 months ago:
This is the premise of Tom Maughan’s short story “Flyover Country”
