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[TheUniqueImage (OP 309/1112) @TheUniqueImage]

Freestyle clip from the class

[Lou Facts @LoufactsIGB]

He’s goes against all of the left and right wing stereotypes of black American men from the south. He is smart, culturally and politically aware of what’s going on, and he calls out racism while also understand the purpose of ownership. that’s why the main stream media doesn’t like him

[. @carterdalast]

For those asking for context here it is

Note : these Black baby toys are being used as socks, shower etc and are also abused
Do yall even understand how insane this is??????

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This has a clinical name. Revenge bedtime procrastination. And the ADHD version runs on a completely different mechanism than the neurotypical one.

A neurotypical person stays up late because they want more leisure time. The ADHD brain stays up because it spent every drop of dopamine it had on executive function during the day. Sitting in meetings, managing transitions, filtering impulses, remembering the thing you were supposed to remember. That burns through dopamine the way sprinting burns through glycogen. By 10pm the tank is empty.

But here's where it gets counterintuitive. The exhaustion is physical. The dopamine deficit is neurological. Those are two separate systems. Your muscles want sleep. Your prefrontal cortex is starving for the stimulation it was denied all day because it spent 14 hours on task-switching and impulse control instead of anything that actually felt rewarding.

The phone at midnight is the brain trying to collect what it's owed. Low-effort, high-stimulation content. Scrolling, short videos, rabbit holes. The exact profile of activity that delivers dopamine without requiring the executive function you already depleted.

The sleep researchers call this a "self-regulation failure." It's closer to a debt collection. You borrowed against your own reward system to function all day. The bill comes due at midnight. And the brain will not let you sleep until it gets paid.

[modyfikatorcasper @Modyfikator89]

HISTORIC BREAKTHROUGH: UNPATCHABLE CALIBRATION
We cracked it! Massive thanks to Lewy20041 & @driftguardapp for this historic hardware discovery. We have unlocked ultimate manual & automatic joystick Calibration for any Xbox Contoller 🎮
It is UNPATCHABLE and PERMANENT written directly into the controller's memory forever. It cannot block this.

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

Do you recognize this painting? Blue Monday is one of the most iconic works in Black American art, portraying a Black woman who is exhausted yet rises each Monday to return to work. Painted by Annie Lee, an artist who didn't start to pursue art until her 40s, the piece was inspired by her own all too familiar morning struggle.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

The video game industry is lobbying against Stop Killing Games

California is considering a new law called AB 1921, also known as the Protect Our Games Act.
If passed, the bill would apply to paid digital games sold after January 1, 2027.

It requires that if a company shuts down the online services needed to play the game normally, it must give players 60 days' notice and either release a patch so the game can still be played or offer buyers a full refund.

The bill does not require companies to keep servers running forever. It simply prevents them from making a game unplayable without warning or a solution for those who already paid for it.

The Entertainment Software Association, the main group representing video game companies in the United States, is lobbying against the bill.

Their arguments are basically the usual ones:
>games are licensed, not owned
>online services are complicated
>third-party licenses expire
>security risks exist
>this could be hard or expensive to enforce

Supporters of the bill, including the Stop Killing Games campaign, say this is basic customer protection because when you buy a game, it should not suddenly stop working with no remedy.

The bill gives companies clear options and applies only to future games. A hearing is scheduled for this Thursday in the California Assembly Appropriations Committee.

If you are part of an organization in the United States, especially in California, you can submit a letter of support to the committee. This is an important step for better rights for players who buy digital games.

[TheUniqueImage (OP 309/1112) @TheUniqueImage]

RT @KDotDaGawd: Nothing changed until you make a decision to change 🙇🏾

[𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 @beyoncegarden]

YOU HAVE TO PAY TO GET INTO YOUR OWN HOUSE NOW😭???

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Derek Mobley applied to over 100 jobs. He was rejected from every single one. Several rejections came at 1am, within minutes of submitting.

He just became the lead plaintiff in the largest AI lawsuit ever certified.

May 2025, Judge Rita Lin granted preliminary certification of a nationwide ADEA collective in Mobley v. Workday. Workday's own court filings represent that 1.1 billion job applications were rejected through its software in the relevant period. The court discussed potential class size in the hundreds of millions.

If you're over 40 and you applied to a Fortune 500 in the last 7 years, your application was probably processed by Workday. You may be in the class.

The legal precedent matters more than the headline number. For decades, the vendor screening applicants for an employer was not directly liable under Title VII. The employer was the only defendant. In July 2024, Judge Lin ruled the AI vendor itself qualifies as an "agent" of the employer and can be sued directly. First time. The "we're just the tools" defense evaporated in a single ruling.

Same precedent now extends to every HR tech AI vendor in the pipeline. Greenhouse. Eightfold. HireVue. Paradox. None of it is priced into any of their valuations.

Combine that with the rest of 2024. Air Canada lost in February for $812 because its chatbot hallucinated a refund policy, killing the chatbot-as-separate-entity defense. iTutorGroup paid $365K to the EEOC, confirming the algorithm doing the discriminating moves liability nowhere. Gemini cost Alphabet roughly $90B in market cap in days for one weekend of bad image generation.

Every legal shield around AI in production got tested in court and lost. The AI PMs interviewing for foundation model roles can recite all four by month. Most engineers shipping AI at work cannot.

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Tatyana Ali (Ashley from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) spoke about the difficult pregnancy she had with her first child and the discrimination that Black women face during pregnancy

“I had a really healthy pregnancy… and all of that changed once we got into the hospital. Our birth plan wasn't followed... I was also held down, my arms and legs," she continued, using the term “obstetric violence” to describe the experience she went through

“I mean, I'll be real with you, they pushed him back inside me… that's what happened, my baby was all the way crowned, that’s not a real procedure.”

“In my records, it shows that he goes from the lowest station, I saw his hair, I touched his hair, to the highest station and it doesn't say how that happened. It's an incredibly dangerous thing that they did; they could have snapped his neck, but this is after hours of them holding me down.”

She added that her baby "couldn't pee on his own for a long time, about five or six days."

“Actually, it was a pediatric urologist who was the only one who came to my side and said, ‘I saw what happened during your birth, the things that resulted in this emergency C-section.’ She said, ‘I think the traumatic nature of his birth is what is causing this,’ ” Ali recalled, revealing, “We [then] left [the hospital] in the middle of the night … we ran away."

Black women suffer discrimination during pregnancy, and Ali made a point of emphasizing that

“It's been happening for a very long time … black women are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth, and I think a lot of times people go, ‘Oh well, those are other health risks.’ Yes, that's in the mix of things, but there are incredible traumas that are also being experienced in the hospital when you're a black woman, an indigenous person, giving birth. The treatment is just totally different…”

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[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Youth sports is now costing parents as much as $25,000 a year.

Private equity and corporations are turning a childhood pastime into something only the wealthy can afford.

Youth sports has become a $40 billion industry, and the steep costs are crushing American families.

[zay dante @zaydante]

HOW IS THIS DIFFICULT BRUH😭😭

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sony spent up to $400 million making a single video game. It sold 25,000 copies in 14 days before Sony pulled it from sale. Cost per copy sold: about $16,000. The studio shut down two months later. The executive who warned them had already been fired for saying no.

The game was Concord. The executive was Shuhei Yoshida, who ran Sony's in-house game studios for 11 years and helped ship some of the biggest PlayStation hits ever: God of War, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Ghost of Tsushima. These are games you buy once and finish. Sony made billions on that model. Spider-Man alone generated $315 million in digital sales. The Last of Us 2 pulled nearly $250 million. God of War Ragnarok sold 15 million copies, with $279 million from digital downloads alone.

Then in 2019, a new CEO took over PlayStation. Jim Ryan wanted Sony's studios to stop making those kinds of games and chase a different model: live service. Live service is Fortnite's model: games designed to keep you playing and paying forever, earning money through endless small purchases instead of one-time sales. Ryan told his team to ship 12 of these by 2025.

Yoshida refused. Ryan removed him from running the studios and gave him a choice: take a smaller role working with indie developers or leave the company. Yoshida took the role and stayed at Sony for another six years. At an industry event in Australia last weekend, he finally said plainly that Ryan fired him from running the studios for refusing to do the 'ridiculous things' Ryan had demanded.

Of those 12 live service games, 8 were cancelled before they ever came out. Naughty Dog killed a Last of Us multiplayer game in late 2023. Bend Studio's sci-fi game died in January 2025. Twisted Metal and a London fantasy game were both scrapped in early 2024, and the London studio was closed. Insomniac's Spider-Man multiplayer was abandoned. A God of War live service game was cancelled, then the studio making it (Bluepoint) was shut down this past February. A Destiny spin-off was scrapped. Deviation Games, a studio Sony had partnered with, was shut down before shipping anything.

Only one of the 12 actually worked. Helldivers 2 was a big hit. But the studio that made it, Arrowhead, isn't owned by Sony, and they've already said they won't partner with Sony on their next game.

The total damage under Ryan: $3.7 billion spent buying Bungie (the studio behind Destiny), up to $400 million written off on Concord, and roughly 1,500 jobs lost across studios that got shut down. The PS5 generation is now short on the kind of games that built PlayStation in the first place.

Yoshida was pushed out in 2019 for saying no to one strategy. Five years and a few billion dollars later, Sony's current CEO says the new plan is to 'fail early and fail cheaply.'

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

The Stop Killing Games movement has officially backed the proposed California bill focused on protecting players when online games are shut down.

> Publishers must provide an offline mode or a way to keep the game playable after server shutdown.

> If this is not possible, players should receive a full refund.

> The goal is to protect digital ownership and game preservation.

This proposal follows growing concerns over games becoming completely inaccessible once support ends, especially after shutdowns like The Crew.

Most gamers think that if players pay for a game, it should remain playable or be fairly compensated.

[Wisdom Kaye @modsiwW]

What the solar system would look like in high fashion

[àdúrà @AduratheArtist]

Because nobody wants to pay for it anymore.

Michelangelo was paid today's equivalent of roughly $650,000 – $750,000 USD for the Sistine Chapel ceiling, which took over 4 years to complete.

Leonardo da Vinci was paid today's equivalent of $110,000–$120,000 USD per year and given housing and full funding by the Duke to paint The Last Supper.

To bring back the beauty and intricacies of art, our society needs to see the value in it and be ready to pay for it. Art is not dead.

[Technical Ben @TechnicalBben]

This is a lesson for people who want to grow but are very shy. I used to be scared of putting myself out there publicly. Not because I didn’t believe in what I was doing, but because I kept thinking about what my classmates and friends would say.

I was trying to sell myself online, talk about my work, build something real, and it felt uncomfortable knowing people who knew the old version of me were watching.

So I did something simple but necessary.
First, I went on LinkedIn and unfollowed most of my friends and classmates I wasn’t building for. I reset my LinkedIn to what it was supposed to be.

A place where I show my work, my thinking, and my direction. Not a place where I perform for people who don’t matter to my future.Then on X, I realized my old account wasn’t aligned with what I wanted to do in tech.

So I opened a new one. Fresh space. New comfort zone. This time, I stopped caring about who might be watching with a weird face. And here’s the funny part. The same people I was shy and scared of are now the ones reaching out saying, “I’m so proud of you”

So if you’re holding back because you’re afraid of how people you know might look at you, don’t. Build your space. Find your comfort zone. Put yourself in front of the right audience.

[FREYA AMARI | M.RAGE ‼️ @FreyaAmari]

After I stopped streaming bc my mental health dropped and a lot of irl life issues were happening, a LOT of people I called friends stopped talking to me because I had nothing left to bring to the table.

Until they heard I worked as a designer for mrage and then all of a sudden they wanted to be buddies again. Not everyone was like this, ofc. But it was more than a handful.

Many content creator friendships are superficial, and it's all about what people can get from you. I mistook many of these "friendships" for real connections and lifelong friends because I was very naive. You CAN find real friends in that niche, but don't be as naive as me and mistake business connections with other streamers as friendships. I wanted to believe that everyone wanted to be my friend then and believed in the good in everyone.

I still do, but I am much more cautious about making deep friendships with people now. It's really why I took such a long hiatus from streaming to pursue other opportunities. I hated being treated like a gateway to other people or "connections" I had.

[🎧Ɲ3кυ🎧 @N3kuTheProd]

🎵🔥Sand Road ft. Luda🔥🎵

Might drop the full version soon..