Reminder that nothing will change without public pressure.
If you’re in the US, you can easily find and write your elected reps here: https://www.270towin.com/elected-officials/
You can also find local groups like the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (in the UK) https://palestinecampaign.org/get-involved/ or the DSA (US) https://www.dsausa.org/chapters/ organizing protests you can participate in as our voices are louder in numbers.
Simon Caine makes the best videos revealing the crazy shit big tech does. I’m looking forward to the companion videos on Zuckbook and Twitter
Microsoft is like a super clingy ex.
“We’re sorry…” /South Park
Before we just dig in and point fingers, maybe we can get on the same page? Nobody is saying murdering babies is ok, as others pointed out, that has not been substantiated. Assuming we’re all against murdering innocent people, the point of the chart/linked article, is to understand the circumstances that make a powder keg for violence.
Think of it this way: pointing out that having a table full of wood shavings and gasoline out in the sun is likely to cause a fire is NOT pro-fire or justifying fire; it’s pointing out the conditions that foster the growth of fire because you want less fire to exist in the world.
Seriously, if you see war break out in a different country, and your immediate reaction is to blame a guy who works at your local Jewish restaurant – or even worse, his kids – there’s something wrong with your brain.
It was only ever able to provide ≤17% of the needed power, without this and with Israel shutting off power, the humanitarian crisis there is going to skyrocket.
As The Intercept pointed out this week, this is Israel’s 9/11 in that it is a horrific event they didn’t see coming, but when you stop to look at the powder keg they created, they absolutely should have.
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I’m a year into developing my first game though and this means I don’t have to abandon all the progress I’ve made. After I publish this game, all bets are off as to where I go…or should I say where I godot.
Seriously, tech enshittiffication is feeling all too familiar.
I really don’t want you to be right, but I’m super convinced that you are.
I’m really hoping some of the bigger Unity devs, like the people that made Rust or Among Us sue, as most of us don’t have enough money to even stand a chance in court against Unity’s lawyers…especially once they have all that nice runtime money to spend. 😒
Good point, they can’t both be true…but they CAN both be false. I’m hiring you as my lawyer.
This is the perfect answer.
Unity: Everyone really seems to hate EA
Also Unity: Let’s hire the CEO of EA
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You’re right, they’re absolutely collecting data, but saying they can’t differentiate between activations and then saying “oh yeah, actually, we can when it comes to (piracy/bundles/charity/etc.)” less than 24 hours later tells me that not only do they not care about game devs, but they think we’re stupid too.
To anyone not interested in bending over backward for Chat GPT, https://www.futuretools.io keeps a pretty comprehensive, categorized list of AI tools, many of which use OpenAI’s API, and many of them are customized to be be better tools for your specific use-case.
Next we’ll be shocked to hear Temu uses Uyghur slave labor 😐