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- Comment on Public restrooms in Osaka to get in-stall video screens with ads 2 weeks ago:
is there TP in Japan?
- Comment on Video Game Developer Heart Machine Voluntarily Recognizes Staff Union 2 weeks ago:
Works for me with uBlock origin, but maybe pihole blocked it first
www.hollywoodreporter.com Video Game Developer Heart Machine Voluntarily Recognizes Staff Union Katie Kilkenny 2 - 3 minutes
The indie video game studio Heart Machine has voluntarily recognized a union formed by staff members.
The developer behind 2021’s Solar Ash and 2016’s Hyper Light Drifter agreed to recognize a wall-to-wall union representing all non-managerial employees, the Communications Workers of America announced on Monday. Previously, the union states, a majority of the workers at the studio signaled their interest in joining CWA.
Thirteen employees are included in the bargaining unit, including animators, designers, gameplay engineers, environmental artists and a gameplay tools engineer. Heart Machine is based in L.A. and the union will be under the umbrella of Burbank-based CWA Local 9003.
“I decided to get involved in organizing my studio because I’ve seen so many peers in the industry stand up to protect the craft we all care so deeply about. Watching that momentum grow made me realize that if we love this work, we have to protect it, especially now,” said gameplay tools engineer Steph Aligbe in a statement. Related Video
“Our union is proud that our studio chose to voluntarily recognize our union and live up to its high-road labor values, and we look forward to working on a first contract that safeguards our workplace.”
The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Heart Machine for comment.
The unionization follows a round of layoffs that Heart Machine reportedly conducted in 2025 at the same time as the company ended development on an early-access game, Hyper Light Breaker. In 2025 The Verge reported that the studio was experimenting with Patreon as a revenue source amid funding struggles in the gaming industry.
It’s the latest organizing victory for the CWA, which has previously organized unions at Blizzard Entertainment and Doom developers id Software, as well as workers behind the popular franchise Diablo.
- Comment on Video Game Developer Heart Machine Voluntarily Recognizes Staff Union 2 weeks ago:
It’s nice but still weird to think that an employee can do otherwise, from a french point of view
- Comment on Iran considers 10% toll on ships passing through Strait of Hormuz 2 weeks ago:
aren’t they already stealing Venezuelan’s tankers?
- Comment on Google told staff worried about Pentagon AI deals that the company is 'leaning more' into national security contracts 2 weeks ago:
Who told who? Saying “Google told” make it looks like it’s his own entity and can say things on his own.
That’s how humans never face any consequences on their bullshits when they can hide behind a corporate name
- Comment on In theory vs. in practice 3 weeks ago:
Neat result in practice!
weird javelins collection though
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 3 weeks ago:
It’s the age check thing that make things weird in foss
- Comment on Finally a good self-hosted calendar frontend 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on vivipary in tomatoes 3 weeks ago:
Something tells me I shouldn’t look this up
- Comment on They making fun of you yankee 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 4 weeks ago:
What could have go wrong by connecting a screen to internet!?
- Comment on France calls Algeria colonisation law 'hostile' and blow to dialogue 4 weeks ago:
wouah, soo hostile, si méchant, almost as much hostile as what we did there!
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 4 weeks ago:
Just tell them that with a telescope they can see the US flag on the moon.
It’s not like they would try or something
- Comment on Pissing in the shower is better in every way than pissing in the toilet. 5 weeks ago:
you can shit in your hand and throw it in the toilet from the shower 👍
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 5 weeks ago:
servarr* and jellyfin are managing my movies and tv-shows
- Comment on User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller 1 month ago:
connected to a server outside of your house
- Comment on YSK where you come from 1 month ago:
I still don’t really know
- Comment on Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. 1 month ago:
What is closed source ? Aren’t those up to date?
github.com/joinloops/loops-server#license
Loops Server is open-sourced software licensed under the AGPL license.
- Comment on Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. 1 month ago:
Pixelfed ≠ Piefed
but it is open source
Pixelfed is open-sourced software licensed under the AGPL license. github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed?tab=readme-ov-file#l…
- Comment on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago 1 month ago:
They’re claiming they could have stopped it if not for those pesky privacy laws, as an excuse to get rid of them.
oh, that would explain why they gave this information. Why would someone think it’s a good idea to tell that “I could have stopped a mass killing but I didn’t want to”
- Comment on beyond science 1 month ago:
should have put a date on it, in case things get better for you in the USA, maybe, one day, who knows?
- Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how?? 1 month ago:
is it pointing to the good folder? I’m never sure if quotes are enough to escape “space” characters (I avoid those to limit troubles actually)
- Comment on A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
Here’s the context if anyone didn’t make the link, like me
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 2 months ago:
yeah, that’ll make him show up to the office!
- Comment on Surgeons have to have *really* strong stomachs 2 months ago:
“where’s the video” - r/popping
- Comment on World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider 2 months ago:
I guess someone has to finance the infrastructure to connect towns, might be some new ecological regulations that pushed this
- Comment on Kernel Community Drafts a Plan For Replacing Linus Torvalds 2 months ago:
got a prompt asking if DRM content was okay, I guess that was it?
- Comment on This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry 2 months ago:
We need two phones now?!
- Comment on Selfhosted Jira alternative 2 months ago:
TIL Jira isn’t selfhosted anymore?
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 2 months ago:
Wow, I got scared, I thought that was the one I’m using but I switched to Niagara Launcher long ago
