Jessica

every single reporting of this new feature is extremely obnoxious because its fearmongering about a highly requested feature that stems from discussions surrounding troubleshooting and whatnot becoming relegated to closed off discord servers instead of public forums and discussion boards.

Yes, but you know, how dare I, as a trans woman, question the Democrats? open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

on this point in particular: egs sales are so bad it's common for devs to share and compare out of disbelief, and often what you find is quite popular games are selling only in the double or triple digits of copies last i checked, my game had sold (drum roll please) five

they aint gonna post it here so: jun maeda (kanon, clannad, angel beats, heaven burns red) has throat cancer. he is not pursing active medical treatment. please, please send him an email if you can.

Didn't take long for the NHS transphobic guidance to claim a life

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Bolsonaro got 47% to Lula's 45% & now face a runoff in 3 weeks. What went wrong? - Concerns about Lula's age (80) & incumbency - Corporate media manufacturing scandals against him - Trump helping Bolsonaro. My look at how Lula could still win the runoff paydayreport.com/what-caused-...

Thank you Lucas County Stonewall Democrats.

As Alex notes in this thread, AI doesn't "democratize" science. Rather, it compels scientists to rely on anti-egalitarian means of directing their attention.

...Assumption #4 has been driving me batshit, yet no one seems to realize it: if you're worried trans ppl might potentially harm your Dem candidate's chances, then YOUR CANDIDATE MADE A BAD DECISION! so why not join us in trying to get them to reverse position? juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...

i would love it if any politician or pundit could be talking about the sweeping changes to medicaid set to kick many many many people off the only insurance available to them in the coming months, instead of litigating whether or not trans people are too mean for the millionth goddamned time

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

"Right now, Republicans are ruining lives, and they promise to ruin more… The moral and the smart thing to do would be to provide as much resistance to the GOP’s agenda as possible… Time is short and coalitions are critical." (November 18, 2024) www.liberalcurrents.com/abandoning-t...

can only speak for animation but if work for a new season starts up within a 12-month period, they are required to offer the previous crew their old positions. after that period they can hire whoever they want my last studio waited 12 months and 1 week to start hiring for their BG Paint department

btw they do this so they don’t have to hire back the same crew on a raise 🤙 (speaking from experience)

I hate that I have to re-up this today. as I detail in this piece, abandoning trans rights is not only immoral, but it's also BAD POLITICS for Dems, as it will turn away their own pro-LGBTQ base without winning over a single new voter: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

ah yes once again the racists are the real victims

This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

Back in 2021, the German senate decreed in their infinite wisdom that 18+ games must verify the player's age every time the game launches Instead of implementing that insanity, Valve decided to stop selling adult games in Germany entirely 👋

It keeps happening. Again, this game - even with the sex stuff still in - would probably pass muster as a 15+ rated title. From what I've seen, it is SUPER tame. Valve are absolutely insistent that it is porn.

it sucks that steam has just gotten away with not giving a fuck for so long and continue to just have an entirely opaque system for what they allow on their storefront with basically no real path to dispute it, and devs/pubs always just have to find this shit out last minute

meanwhile, hakeem jeffries has appointed the furthest right, pro israel, self declared “ron desantis democrat” to one of the most influential positions for foreign policy. hakeem jefferies cannot be house leader come 2027

"AI" as we use the term today is a construct built on fascist ideas and reasoning. In order to fight fascism we need to get rid of those patterns, not normalize them. AI as a Fascist Artifact

Ugh: A new Massachusetts poll has a 51-32 lead for a ballot initiative to adopt the top-two “primary” system. This system has been a wreck in California. The majority party frequently risks getting shut out of general elections, so party organizations often pick favorites in primaries to avoid that

LLMs cease to be useful when they can't be used to scam people into unknowingly reading slop anymore. When the typewriter was invented, no one had to pretend its output was handwritten to get people to accept it. Typing had its own utility. LLMs are scamtech that have no utility outside the scam.

Most of the supposed AI "tells" are rhetorical flourishes that a lot of people (myself included!) were actively taught to use in formal writing. A good essay on that subject: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

I hate this timeline & that I had to write this essay. I hate AI companies & LLMs & the randos who are now using "AI detectors" (also AI!) to smear authors they dislike: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-em-dashes... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-em-dash...

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

the irony, lost on your average bigot, is that it IS due to indoctrination! specifically how we have indoctrinated societies around the world to value straight relationships more than any other kind artificially decreasing the rate at which people identify as queer. break that? rate rises. easy.

“making your own” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this article about how SaaS sucks so you should use a SaaS platform to GenAI a replacement you take credit for

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.

And no, I don’t mean “reverse racism” or “hating abled people” or “heterophobia”. I mean accepting the belittling of fat people. Secretly suspecting every disabled person of being workshy. Deciding you know better than an elderly person. I mean policing bathrooms and feeling entitled to bodies.

You cannot discriminate against one group of people without it infesting the entirety of your soul. It is as true on the “left” as it is the right. Once you decide it’s cool to throw vulnerable people under the bus, you’re cooked completely.

Reskeeting this thread to remind y'all not to attend this guy's Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Sonic, & Persona cosplay meet-ups at Anime Expo this weekend. Has yelled about women who've spoken up about their assaults before, defends the guy that did the assaulting (which included young cosplayers), etc

this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit

ICYMI: Japan is in the middle of an ADHD medication shortage that's hitting patients outside major cities hardest. Strattera was pulled in 2024, Concerta is rationed, and where you live shapes whether you can fill your prescription.

To @bsky.app & @support.bsky.team, we already have tools available that help users filter out adult content if they don't want to see them. Plus, there's user-made blocklists on here people can use if they don't want to see accounts with adult content in them Maybe inform users about these tools?