Nintendo's legal department going after the US government like it's a 19 year old making an unauthorized Metroid fangame aftermath.site/nintendo-tar...
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Writes about consumer tech at Ars Technica, formerly Wirecutter. Podcasts about books at Overdue and sometimes about TV at Appointment Television. Dad, D&D, organized labor. He/him. @arstechnica.bsky.social @overduepod.bsky.social
Nintendo's legal department going after the US government like it's a 19 year old making an unauthorized Metroid fangame aftermath.site/nintendo-tar...
Obamaβs change in policy towards Cuba and the JCPOA happened, the world didnβt end, everything was fine. Part of manufacturing consent for more war is purposefully forgetting the very recent memory when it was proven to be wholly unnecessary.
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very oftenβand her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
βIf [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the futureβs already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.β β @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard
canβt wait for people who decided in 2018 that Star Trek was βtoo politicalβ to be given the reins of the franchise
If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.
So anyway I guess this is what it feels like to be one of the tiny humans running through the streets while the giant supervillain monsters are fighting by throwing passengers trains and apartment buildings at each other
People are always like whatβs something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws
Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you canβt do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut
sure we COULD plant and grow a supply of the miraculous healing herb athelas, also known as Kingsfoil, but HOW are we going to PAY for it
The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs
Why are people always yelling at The Left, a group almost entirely shut out of public life, including mainstream news outlets. You are mad at people on social media. Get a life
As a media person, I am probably paying a real cost by refusing to engage with Threads. I just can't do it.
Firstly, Facebook is an evil company and I want less of them in my life.
Secondly, every time I opened Threads it served me an awful stream
of garbage that made me upset and angry.
I would take the popularists more seriously if they in any way engaged with the absolute collapse of Labour, which - contrary to their protestations - has in fact followed their suggestions in many ways
Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson β’22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
This is so spot on
I'm not believing this until I hear from people in the streets of MN and neither should you
Really powerful, really illuminating thread. Clear, precise, devastating.
sigh
I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
I think collectively, we at least partially wanted the child at the Super Bowl to be Liam because the little boy on stage looked happy and healthy and our hearts want so badly to think these children can somehow magically recover from the evils our government is doing.
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
"Itβs hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity β in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want." β @lopatto.bsky.social
these are the same geniuses who spend all their time wondering when star trek got so political
I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. Thatβs why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. Itβs also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesnβt want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
NYT news headline announcing trump will pull 700 immigration agents out of Minnesota
to put this headline up without mentioning how many will be *left* does not seem particularly helpful (itβs *2,000*, according to the admin, to the extent we can trust that figure, which we canβt)