Your safety comes before the law. Break it in case of emergency. Stay safe, wherever you are

Listen, they are building concentration camps and threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people. There is not a single remotely legal tactic that is impermissible when it comes to stopping them.

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waaa hang in there

The Strategy to Stop Killing Games in the EU - Ross Scott | grokludo 25 Ross Scott is the face of the Stop Killing Games movement, which seeks to ensure games don't completely die when a developer or publisher ends support, but rather, enters an end-of-life plan that makes it reasonably playable – after which, a compliant gamemaker has no more liability. Following a massive petition campaign in the EU, Ross recently spoke at an EU Parliament hearing, in which many in the room were positive about the movement. It's possible that policy around not killing games will be included in the EU's upcoming Digital Fairness Act, expected to be formally proposed later this year. After that point, the EU Parliament and Council can make amendments, and there's sure to be some industry lobbying. Ross Scott joins us this week to talk about the strategies of navigating EU politics, the discourse around the movement, and some of the more technical concerns, such as games that rely on middleware and third-party services, each with their own distribution licences. Our last episode discussing Stop Killing Games featured Paul Kilduff-Taylor, who voiced concerns about large-scale regulation that might inadvertently, and disproportionately, hurt indies. He was also skeptical of anyone's ability to craft a legalese that could encompass the myriad architectures of modern games without ultimately harming good-faith developers who just want their games to be played. Such legislative language must be both broad and precise – at once a sledgehammer and a scalpel that targets negligent or bad-faith gamemakers that promise the world in the marketing phase, and hit the escape button once it's clear they won't be the next big hero shooter. There are more and more of these games. The Concords, the Anthems, the Highguards. The Lawbreakers, The Crews, the Supervives, and the Skull and Bones'. Some of them offer refunds to early buyers, some don't. I put these concerns to Ross, and he was kind enough to stay for a while so we could go quite in-depth. Many existing games are already compliant, and others will take some figuring out – but crucially, the movement isn't hoping to apply the legislation retroactively. In terms of a cutoff date, we're potentially looking at 2030 or beyond, which gives us plenty of time to implement new best practices. Ross also outlined the multiple paths to victory that the Stop Killing Games movement currently has, and the picture he paints is positive. Perhaps one day I'll fulfill my dream of hosting a local Battlerite server. A guy can dream. I hope you all enjoy this episode, and thank you for subscribing to grokludo!

Ross Scott is the face of the Stop Killing Games movement, which seeks to ensure games don't completely die when a developer or publisher ends support, but rather, enters an end-of-life plan that makes it reasonably playable – after which, a compliant gamemaker has no more liability.

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The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.

Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of.

Call your reps NOW.

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US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

I dunno about y'all but I'm fairly sure we were sold out. Everybody involved needs to be held accountable for this, and the data centers need to be held not just to the same, but to higher environmental standards.

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mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally

It’s a brilliant tax because when they say “but the billionaires will leave” you get to say “they already don’t live there”

The Illinois State House just passed HB 5511, a bill that will require EVERY WEBSITE and EVERY APP to implement an age verification check.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov has pushed this hard and it’s Meta’s preferred solution to avoid liability.

Votes here. CALL YOUR REPS!
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Waa I played a lot of Kirby Air Ride as a kid too 😍 mostly City Trial though haha

hmm

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

couldn't think of a favourite antagonist so I slapped BT in there because I found it so fucking funny that gruntilda just stopped talking in rhymes immediately when her sisters said it was annoying

rushed this a tiny bit cuz I have to go to sleep
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Earlier this month in Georgia two pieces of transphobic legislation — HB54, a bill completing a ban in trans youth care and SB74, a draconian book ban — both went down in defeat.

This is a real victory, so a 🧵 from @transnews.network, with some more on how it happened, and some lessons...

Idk if this will change later, and also idk if this makes much sense since the first case tales place not long after the end of the first investigations game, but I'll gladly take what I can get

I just started playing Ace Attorney Investigations 2 for the first time, and I gotta say, I really like how (at least so far) Gumshoe is portrayed as a competent detective for once. Still goofy and full of character like usual, but also know how to do his job this time around

[slamming mug on bar, yelling] estonia's right

Don’t Let Congress Give Another Industry a Free Pass ​Giving fossil fuel companies immunity is a dangerous move that should be strongly rejected.

If ExxonMobil believes it never misled the public, let it prove that in court.

it's never inevitable. keep fighting it

lol c'mon man, the protestors sure weren't shooting *each other*

Where else could a high-velocity projectile be coming from? The only people holding weapons of that type were the feds. I should know. I was there, standing across the street, watching the feds shoot indiscriminately into the crowd

Using your debt, your search history, and your private data to decide how much you’re worth? Hell no.
This is what happens when technology is built to serve profit instead of people.
This is why every worker needs a union.

Call your reps tomorrow and tell them to impeach. reps.fyi

morningg

…then by definition it’s not a ceasefire?

The reporting on this is so gutless.

governor abbott took away our rainbow crosswalks but we replaced them with much more visible rainbow sidewalks, and some businesses have followed suit (one added rainbow exterior stairs)