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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Gamer's Voice @gamersvoice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We have updated our briefing on how the EU Kids Act would impact gaming and specifically the Stop Killing Games campaign. You can download the updated version here gamersvoice.org/how-the-eu-k... #EUKidsact #Stopkilkinginternet #SKGaming

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How the EU Kids Act impacts gaming and the Stop Killing Games campaign

The EU has proposed a Kids act. This briefing explains the impact on gaming and the Stop Killing Games campaign.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability

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Pupperpotamus @pupperpotamus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My hot take is that fandoms have always been a majority of nice people with a subset of absolutely rancid, judgemental arseholes that never got bigger, just louder, but because platforms learned that arguments drive engagement and therefore you see more ads, they tailored algorithms towards that

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Jack Farrell @johnofhearts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Aztecs were right?

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

America's rail systems can support 13.5 million more homes near stations in high-demand areas where prices exceed construction costs. Legalizing apartments would ease the housing shortage and fully reverse the post-COVID decline in transit ridership. www.abundanceandgrowth.org/p/transit-or...

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 24/09/2026

Some people get into political activism not because they want to change their material circumstances for the better, but because they enjoy righteously condemning everyone who is not as morally pure and radical as they are. You cannot work with these people because they will never be satisfied.

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Jack Farrell @johnofhearts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So they're just gonna let the clankers harvest us for parts huh?

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It continuously boggles my mind that Brad Bird made Disney billions of dollars, and still, no one would let him make this in 2D.

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Jack Farrell @johnofhearts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am endlessly surprised and emboldened by what I see from the indie scene. Surviving heart surgery and a stroke, Austin McConnell solo-produced an animated feature that I genuinely fell in love with. Atlas: Man of Might spearheads a public domain hero universe gamingtrend.com/movie/atlas-...

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Atlas: Man of Might spearheads a public domain hero universe

Unlocking the potential of a bygone era

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RichaadEB @richaadeb.com · 21/01/2026

it's simple! elementary, even! you see, I simply don't use AI because I'm not an abject fucking loser

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Kerry + Nick @dosgoatsfilms.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s the weekend! Why not indulge in some micro budget sword and sorcery? We are on Tubi! For free!

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nothing respects the history of a neighborhood that was a nationwide haven for queer people like making sure it can never be affordable enough for that to happen again

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Chinese propaganda, tech-haters, and leftists are why there's a PR image problem for an industry that 1) says they might kill us all 2) promises to ruin every job in every industry 3) has, for four years, grossly misrepresented the capabilities and limitations of the actual products on the market.

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ABOOnchio👻 BOOlchetti👻 @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's been such a long and wild journey, and we're finally ready to present you the first chapter of ENTROPY - store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/Entropy/ - our Dying Earth tactical role-playing game, developed by @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social , and published by @dreadxp.bsky.social!

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Jack Farrell @johnofhearts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't want to be too hyperbolic about an unfinished game, but the attention to small tactical decisions doesn't overwhelm you, and it all ties neatly into the lore and exploration. Really looking forward to the final release.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/09/2026

NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-i...

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> Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down

> Facebook is filled with AI-generated videos of children being beaten, burned, and bludgeoned with heavy objects. Meta doesn't seem to care.

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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Modern gamers simply won't play a game without photorealistic graphics" the current most popular genre is called Friendslop, it has seven pixels and costs $4.99

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026

People seem a little bit overly skeptical about the new technology, why might that be (Another former Anthropic engineer posts something floridly insane) Ah

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Festival Reviews .org @festivalreviews.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Watch ALONE, NOT YET, 6min., Uganda, Experimental www.wildsound.ca/videos/watch... “Alone, Yet Not” is a film about family, expectations, and failure. Through the story of a young woman at her breaking point, it explores these pressures and shows that, even in silence, we are never truly alone.

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ALONE, NOT YET, 6min., Uganda, Experimental - EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS - WILDsound Festival TV

“Alone, Yet Not” is a film about family, expectations, and failure. Through the story of a young woman at her breaking point, it explores these pressures and shows that, even in silence, we are never ...

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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

EULAs don't supersede the law! Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair terms in consumer contracts Key Point: "Contract terms deemed unfair are not binding on consumers." eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume... #skg #stopkillinggames Join our discord: discord.gg/TCE6uXwsBe

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NEW: Evidence filed in a Colorado case reveals how ICE officers are arresting people without a warrant, which is illegal unless ICE determines the person is a flight risk. A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID to see his identity.

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Bilal Mahmood @bilalmahmood.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

5 years ago, the SF Board of Supervisors voted to block 495 units of housing on the former Nordstroms Parking Lot. In part, just because it would have cast a shadow. That’s why in partnership with @yimbyaction.bsky.social, I have introduced the SHADE Act, so this will never happen again.

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YIMBY Action @yimbyaction.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Illinois is building fewer new homes than every state except Alaska. 😳 Why? Ben Wolfenstein from our @abundanthousingil.bsky.social chapter explains what's driving the housing shortage, and why it affects everyone. 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MtD... What's holding Illinois back? 👇

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Jack Farrell @johnofhearts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Dhurandhar movies are so long that I basically consider them two seasons of TV but I kind of love them. It's straight up Indian anti-muslim propaganda but despite being a Bollywood action movie it's surprisingly a understated (relatively) spy drama.

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Jack Farrell @johnofhearts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm working on a bill to prevent hosing discrimination against people with disabilities. I'm proud to be doing this work but also why do I have to do this? Why is discrimination so entrenched in society that there are entire branches of the AG's offices totally dedicated to it? 1/

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Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲♿🏳️‍🌈 @drussellmrichie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Dr. Livas will be presenting this paper over zoom, and if you'd like to join other folks watching the talk, join us at Econsult on Friday at noon! RSVP for lunch! buildphillynow.substack.com/p/policy-lun...

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Policy Lunch 6/26 | Local Taxes and Suburbanization: Evidence from Philadelphia's Wage Tax

This Friday at noon at Econsult Solutions

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Non-gaming outlets don't *have* to address the concerns of a gaming audience, but they also don't have to launder PR

Xbox’s aims for its participation in this story are abundantly clear. As I wrote previously, the company and its execs can’t sit around being sad about their own decisions. They need to portray themselves as making tough choices to put the company in a better position, aggressively on the up and with a clear plan for the future. This story does that, with the added bonus of not having to speak to a gaming audience who might be motivated to hold their feet to the fire or who might have the context to poke holes in the story they’re laundering through EW. If you’re Xbox, this is a great story at a great time in a great outlet, talking to the new audiences you hope to attract to your movies and TV shows and to the entertainment industry power players you want to get on board.

But as gaming outlets close or get converted to SEO and AI slop, and as major media companies pull back from gaming coverage, stories like this read as painfully tone-deaf to anyone who understands gaming as something that existed before its early covid boom, or who cares about the industry enough to know why it needs rigorous reporting. It is simply telling the story a company wants to tell, at a time when that story is of particular use to that company. That's a job for PR, not a journalist and their outlet. The real story is messy and complicated, and it also involves people--Booty and Sharma, sure, but also the game creatives it speaks to who surely find themselves in the complicated position of hyping their games while worrying about their fates. By going wide without going deep, and by prioritizing the company above the real people involved, the piece not only doesn't tell the whole story, but lets down both the people the writer spoke to and EW's readers.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 10/06/2026

The games industry cannot say Stop Killing Games makes things unworkable while the games industry keeps making games unplayable. This is literally just Square Enix going "ah, we'll make them buy it again". support.na.square-enix.com/news.php?id=...

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SQUARE ENIX Support Center

The SQUARE ENIX Support Center is a centralized support site that provides product information and solutions to the frequently asked questions and issues with our products and services.

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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We have a coalition of members of @europarl.europa.eu from across 9 parties calling for concrete EU legislation from the @ec.europa.eu From @socialistsanddemocrats.eu, @greens-efa.eu, @volteuropa.org , @eppgroup.bsky.social, @left.eu @reneweurope.bsky.social etc. The people want #StopKillingGames!

Letter from a coalition of Members of European Parliament urging the European Commission to enact legislation that addresses the problem Stop Killing Games wants to address, re-iterating Stop Killing Games' demands and the popular support of nearly 1.3 million EU citizens.

Further in a letter from Members of European Parliament to the European Commission, emphasizing the development of legislation outside the European Union with California's Protect Our Games Act and summarizing the demands of these Members of Parliament:

- Develop a legislative proposal that explicitly prohibits the deliberate disabling of paid-for video games, after the end of support.
- Ensure consumer protection by safeguarding the perpetual right to use purchased video games, without obliging publishers to provide perpetual service.
- Promote technical solutions that allow for the continued functionality of games, such as enabling private servers or peer-to-peer alternatives, where feasible.

Signed by: Tiemo Wölken (S&D)

Sabine Verheyen (EPP)

Brando Benifei (S&D)

Catarina Vieira (Greens)

Anna Stürgkh (Renew)

Delara Burkhardt (S&D)

Leila Chaibi (Left)

Helmut Brandstatter (Renew)

Evin Incir (S&D)

Marion Walsmann (EPP)

René Repasi (S&D)

Lara Wolters (S&D)

Anna Cavazzini (Greens)

Erik Marquardt (Greens)

Mohammed Chahim (S&D)

Marcos Ros Sempere (S&D)

Thomas Pellerin-Carlin (S&D)

Thomas Geisel (NI)

Matthias Ecke (S&D)

Maria Ohisalo (Greens)

Reinier van Lanschot (Greens)

Vytenis Andriukaitis (S&D)

Daniel Freund (Greens)

Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus (S&D)

Damian Boeselager (Greens)

Lukas Sieper (Renew)

Katarina Barley (S&D)

Nikola Minchev (Renew)

Sabrina Repp (S&D)

Sebastian Everding (Left)

Nicolae Stefanuta (Greens)

Tomislav Sokol (EPP)

Bruno Goncalves (S&D)

Martine Kemp (EPP)

Bruno Tobback (S&D)

Tonino Picula (S&D)

Benedetta Scuderi (Greens)

Victor Negrescu (S&D)

Georgia Tramacere (S&D)

Markéta Gregorovà (Greens)

Anna Strolenberg (Greens)

Robert Biedron (S&D)

Cristina Guarda (Greens)

Maria Guzenina (S&D)

Nela Riehl (Greens)

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Jack Farrell @johnofhearts.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This one was an unexpected gem. Weird and broken only in ways that make it feel special.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

There is nothing ontologically good or evil about public homebuilding as opposed to private homebuilding. The state sets the rules of the market, and the market shapes the conditions under which public building takes place. It's all part of the same overarching system.

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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“We are the luckiest bastards alive,” he says of living in Marblehead. “We can’t also be the most self-interested bastards alive. They can’t be the same thing.” www.marbleheadindependent.com/he-asked-if-...

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He asked if Marblehead was 'kind of being pricks.' Then the internet found him.

David Modica did not plan on speaking at Town Meeting, yet his brief remark exposed confusion over housing compliance and local candor.

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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

People are taking unusual measures to the thwart the scourge of AI

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ioxTV @ioxtv.co · 29/04/2026

Indie goes theatrical. @thesoleil.studio writes about the audience move towards independent film and distributors and how media giants like Warner Bros. are failing to take risks, following @glitchprod.com's recent theatrical push. ioxtv.co/blog/2026/04... #indieanimation #ioxTV #TADC

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Keep it Separated | iox Blog

Big box office moments for web animation and indie distributors make the case for why a healthy entertainment industry depends on an open market of separate, independent production and distribution co...

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

In which Justice Alito suggests the parties should have briefed an issue that the Court declined to grant certiorari on. www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

JUSTICE ALITO: Well, we can affirm on any ground that would support the judgment and was raised below, and the good-faith exception qualifies on all those points. So the fact that the Court did not grant certiorari on the good-faith exception does not preclude any of us from relying on that. MR. UNIKOWSKY: I'm not sure I agree. We would --I mean, the Court specifically declined certiorari on that question, so we didn't brief it. And we raised in our cert petition that we'd like the chance to argue that the

questions are intertwined, and in view of the holding on the Fourth Amendment issue, we'd like to, you know, litigate the good-faith issue. The Court didn't grant certiorari. We didn't brief it. The government did have a section of the Respondent's brief addressing the good-faith exception, but adhering to the Court's decision not to grant certiorari, we didn't respond in the reply brief except to ask for a remand. So -- JUSTICE ALITO: Well, that was your choice. MR. UNIKOWSKY: The Court did not grant certiorari. We were reluctant to brief a question on which the Court specifically declined to answer -- JUSTICE ALITO: Well, you're an experienced advocate. You understand that we can affirm on --on an issue that was raised below and would support the judgment.

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Animation Feedback Festival @animationfestival.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Watch the STUDENT #NORDIC SHORTS FESTIVAL (in case you missed it) Watch the festival by signing up for the FREE 3-DAY trial using the link, or go to www.wildsound.ca Watch today’s Festival: www.wildsound.ca/videos/stude... #wildsound #filmfestival #shortfilm

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 26/03/2026

We want to make it easier, faster, and more cost-effective to build homes in Illinois. An ambitious slate of reforms to eliminate barriers, lower costs for construction, produce a wider range of family-friendly housing, and streamline construction processes.

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Pritzker to propose statewide zoning laws to spur homebuilding, limit local control

Article Summary JB Pritzker will propose a plan during his State of the State address to drastically limit local governments’

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