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WIRED @wired.com · 12/09/2026
And if your tap water is undrinkable, you have no “constitutional right to truthful information” about it. www.wired.com/story/you-do...
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You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, Trump-Appointed Judge Rules
And if your tap water is undrinkable, you have no “constitutional right to truthful information” about it.
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#LaborDay
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Remember This On Labor Day
YouTube video by Dimension 20
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The idea that capitalism and democracy go hand-in-hand is a lie. Unfettered capitalism is the opposite of democracy.
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Socialism vs. capitalism
YouTube video by Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
ATTN: if you want to commission someone, but not entirely confident in your ability to avoid paying a slopper for genAI trash? There's a site or that. 👇
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Actors' Equity Association @actorsequity.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We all love the magic of Disneyland, but that magic is created by real people, workers who bring beloved characters and unforgettable moments to life every single day. Show your solidarity with us, the Entertainment Cast Members of Disneyland! actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
A petition graphic titled "STAND WITH US!" calling for solidarity with Disneyland Entertainment Cast Members. The graphic features cartoon-style gloves—one raised in a white fist inside a red circle, and another holding a blue pen to sign a name inside a yellow circle. The text states that Disneyland wants to eliminate paid parental leave, reduce retirement and PTO benefits, and keep wages low, urging supporters to sign their names in support.
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
At this point, Person of Interest can barely be called science fiction anymore.
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Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Polygon @polygon.com · 05/08/2026
Here's what a cool $55 billion will get you
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Every Studio Owned by EA, Now That the $55B Saudi Deal Has Cleared
Here's what a cool $55 billion will get you
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
AI can be used for good things, but not in the hands of the executive class.
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AI vs. Labor | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/07/2026
All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...
someone holding up a sign that AI crossed out
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Apparently not content with destroying the spirit of art, AI is now destroying the body of art as well.
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
One of the most immediate ways fans can help game workers affected by layoffs is to upvote and comment on this XBOX Player Voice thread. High-performing posts actually appear on executive desks, so let your voice be heard! feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Opinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will end
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Opinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will end
As mass layoffs continue in the game industry, developers must reckon with how to handle the uncertainty and pain of the moment.
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Ford rehires "greybeard" engineers after its push for AI automation backfires. "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product." www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...
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Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Introducing the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Graham Platner content only started showing up in my feed a week ago, but he's already giving me hope for the future.
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Graham Platner On Service, Messaging & the Future for Democrats | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
okay now figure in how many weren't thinking of leaving the industry but having that decision imposed upon them. Lets also be clear this isn't just a shame for those people, but it will manifest as worse games being more expensive to make, and making less money overall. This is a problem.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border
We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting mate...
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Polygon @polygon.com · 05/03/2026
Trump administration conflates deadly real-world strikes conflated with a Modern Warfare killstreaks
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White House frames Iran war as a game of Call of Duty in social video
Trump administration conflates deadly real-world strikes conflated with a Modern Warfare killstreaks
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Yes, let's keep adding AI to everything. I can see no downsides. Certainly none that were predicted in 1983.
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AI willing to 'go nuclear' in wargames, study finds - amid 'stand-off' between Pentagon and leading AI lab
Researchers pitted three leading AI models against each other in a series of wargames where they assumed the roles of fictional nuclear-armed superpowers.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
How to help Minnesota (and yourself): a clear, straightforward guide of steps you can take naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…
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Willem Delventhal @ifyouwillem.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Hello my friends. I have been more absent on social media lately, and I'd like to take a moment to explain why. The TLDR: the United States is being stolen from us.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Let me walk you through the various possible explanations for Trump's invasion of Venezuela and see which ones hold water. (spoiler: the good faith explanations don't, the corrupt ones do)
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
My father used to tell me stories about how in the USSR the history books were edited and altered every year and everyone was supposed to nod and smile and pretend that nothing had happened and the "new history" had been there all along. Just sayin'.
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Counting down the days until he announces his run for the Presidency #Buttigieg2028
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We cannot let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back
YouTube video by Pete Buttigieg
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Anyone still want to deny he's a fascist?
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Trump calls for Democratic lawmakers to face trial for ‘seditious behavior’
“SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” he wrote on Truth Social.
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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How to Tell Who’s Patrolling Your City
YouTube video by The New York Times
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I agree with everything being said here. Focus on quality, not size. Don't be obsessed with realism. Make games and dev cycles tighter, and more creative. This is the way forward.
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The vendor financing the customer: the surest sign of a healthy economy.
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The AI Bubble Will Pop - Here's Why
YouTube video by Katie Couric
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Please read our statement regarding the proposed Electronic Arts buyout. We refuse to let corporate greed decide the future of our industry. cwa-union.org/news/release...
United Videogame Workers-CWA Statement on Proposed Electronic Arts Buyout
October 15, 2025
NATIONWIDE — The following statement is from United Videogame Workers-CWA Local 9433. 

The recently proposed acquisition of Electronic Arts (EA) by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and private equity firms, including Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, will further concentrate power and wealth into the hands of a few gatekeepers while doing nothing to address the concerns of players and workers.

EA is not a struggling company. With annual revenues reaching $7.5 billion and $1 billion in profit each year, EA is one of the largest video game developers and publishers in the world. EA’s success has been entirely driven by tens of thousands of EA workers whose creativity, skill, and innovation made EA worth buying in the first place. Yet we, the very people who will be jeopardized as a result of this deal, were not represented at all when this buyout was negotiated or discussed. 

We are particularly worried about the future of our studios that are arbitrarily deemed ‘less profitable’ but whose contributions to the video game industry define EA’s reputation. Since 2022, an estimated 40,000 video game workers have already lost their jobs due to mass layoffs at AAA and indie studios alike. As reported in Game Developer, this deal will result in EA having to finance nearly $20 billion in debt—who will be spared, which corners will executives cut, and what studios will be sacrificed in order for that to happen?

If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors’ pockets—not to strengthen the company.

Every time private equity or billionaire investors take a studio private, workers lose visibility, transparency, and power. Decisions that shape our jobs, our art, and our futures are made behind closed doors by executives who have never written a line of code, built worlds, or supported live services. We are…
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Comedy is a mirror held up to reality.
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GoFundMe CEO: We Could Use A Few Fun Ones
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/10/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
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Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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The sleeping giant is awakening
After a week of authoritarian excess, the nation is turning on Trump
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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Naked authoritarian fascism. Love and support to the entire team at @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, who *will* come out the other side of this horrendous abuse of power. Disgusted to see ABC caving to this glaringly illegal and unconstitutional threat from Brendan Carr.
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Alex Kanefsky (he/him) @alexkanefsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
But Wes Streeting has decided that it isn’t, actually, so that’s ok
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David Varela @writingstudio.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
For anyone looking to get into games writing as a career, @writersguildgb.bsky.social has uploaded a panel session I did with @coreybrotherson.bsky.social, @marygoodden.bsky.social and James Chew of @failbettergames.com, talking about that very subject: youtu.be/fcOXhmTk1tM?...
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Navigating a career in videogames writing
YouTube video by Writers' Guild of Great Britain
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Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · 26/08/2025
This absolute queen got officially voted in today. I'm overjoyed. Lithuania gets the most left-wing PM of any post-Soviet country. A new generation of rad, new left trade unionists. International support and coverage is a must, she's such a beacon of hope. 💞 www.politico.eu/article/poli...
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Trade union veteran becomes new Lithuanian PM
Inga Ruginienė now has to submit a governing program and build her Cabinet.
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"Good creators can make smaller games or big games, any type of game, but I don't think that necessarily influences the quality." This guy just might be on to something 🤔...
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As the Chinese game industry flocks from mobile to AAA blockbusters, Phantom Blade Zero's director says the quiet part out loud: 'Good games are good. It's not 'big games are good.''
"Good creators can make smaller games or big games."
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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 29/07/2025
This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation.
After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.
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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
BREAKING: The European starling is capable of 2 MB/s data transfer speeds. www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gre...
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Great news: A guy saved an image file onto a live bird
A better form of cloud storage.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
You need to know what's going on at "Alligator Alcatraz." It's grossly immoral - no human being should be treated like that. It's political theater - many of the detainees have no criminal record. It's a taxpayer funded boondoggle - enriching DeSantis's political cronies.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
FEMA has the capacity to do top notch rescue and response. But not under Secretary Noem. She shut down the emergency phone system days after the floods. She sent only a few dozen rescue workers when the state had nearly 2000 of it's own people doing that work. A woeful response.
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The secret is revealed!
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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025
Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌 DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
All hail King Frankie!
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David G. @indydude7.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
We can learn a lot by studying ancient myths. For example: Achilles was pro-union, and Prometheus was anti-AI.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I told you that the SCOTUS's ban on national injunctions would supersize Trump's lawlessness. Well, it's starting. 1/ Let me break some news for you: Trump is stealing money to build facilities like Alligator Alcatraz - from an account earmarked for the OPPOSITE of detention.
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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
OKAY HERE IT IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF LABOR IN THE USA AND WHAT IT HAS TO DO WITH THE MODERN GAMES INDUSTRY youtu.be/OmV1QTzfyRo?...
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A Brief History of Labor in the USA and What It Has to Do With The Modern Games Industry
YouTube video by Anna C. Webster
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