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visual art + photography + design

[Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill]

All of these state institutions are driven by carceral logics.

[#RipBandz @LANDoCUH]

Niggas when a video game aint got guns or a ball in it

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Police killed a Black baby and then lied about the circumstances leading up to the shooting

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

On the same day Sony told a billion gamers to embrace digital forever, it quietly showed them the catch.

Two announcements, one blog, an hour apart.

First: from January 2028, no new PlayStation game will ship on a disc, digital only.

Second, buried below: Sony is closing the online stores for the PlayStation 3 and Vita, so you will no longer be able to buy games there at all.

Read together, they are not two stories. They are the whole argument about what you actually own.

A disc is the last thing in your home a Silicon Valley company cannot reach. A PlayStation game from 1994 still works today, and the law lets you resell it, lend it, keep it forever.

That is ownership. It is protected by something called the first-sale doctrine, and it applies to physical objects. It does not apply to digital purchases. That is not Sony being cruel. That is the quiet legal truth underneath the whole shift.

Sony's own spokesperson said it plainly today. With all digital content, you are not buying the game. You are buying a personal license for non-commercial use. Not the thing. Permission to use the thing, which depends on the company's servers and goodwill. They once pulled a game called Concord two weeks after launch. Buyers got refunds, but the game itself simply vanished.

This was never really about discs versus downloads. It is about moving the largest entertainment medium on Earth from a world where you own an object the law protects, to one where you hold access the law treats as rented.

Convenient, cheaper, and easier for almost everyone. Also revocable in a way a disc never was.

The click of a disc into a console was ownership. The download is permission. Sony just showed you, in a single morning, how differently the two age.

Do you agree with what Sony did??

[SB @Rackedupsb]

Y’all think it’s hot rn wait until y’all go to hell

[Victor Oladipo @VicOladipo]

I’m a free agent. I don’t have an agent right now just me and my family.
I know I have a lot left, and I genuinely love this game. I’d rather show you I’m ready than spend my time trying to explain why or flood you with analytics to prove it.
If you’re about winning, value mentorship, and think there could be a fit, you can reach me directly. I’m open to every opportunity right now—I just want to make sure I weigh each one carefully.
I can’t wait to share my story.
-#Invictus #BeAVictor

[vince @vincestaples]

We have returned to the era of The White Laker.

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

Extremely shameful that Kohen Wiley’s murder has not gained more attention. This baby was killed by the police, and nothing has been done, and it’s being swept under the rug.

[Thee ethical evil women of tomorrow coalition @evadotnet]

"white woman" "black bitches" now surely that dont sound right to you.....

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Fox News and Facebook did to our parents exactly what they said video games would do to us.

[ສະຫາຍ ສຸວິ 🇱🇦🇵🇸‧₊˚ ✮⋆˙ @Souvie]

this isn’t ok or normal and you shouldn’t go about your day pretending it is

[Infern0 Thee Ant 🍋 @InFeRn0AnT]

Even if you don’t live in NYC, please retweet this and get the word out so that the ppl in YOUR city also learn that they too can have politicians who get things done if they mobilize and vote socialist in other elections! 🗣️

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In Louisiana, black women were put in cells with male prisoners and some became pregnant

All children born in the penitentiary became property of the state

At 10 years they would be auctioned off. The proceeds were used to fund schools for white kids #BlackHistoryMonth

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[chris chance is an africanamericanartist 🍉 @madeintheurl]

aye bra all i gotta say is thank god

[Things From the Past @pastarchive]

"Guarding the Palace," Oil Painting by Ludwig Deutsch, 1888.

[Soleil @soleiljolina]

I don’t care how bad life gets I’m not watching lοve iѕland

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

@Complex Petit disque orange (rotated), by František Kupka, 1932

[midnight toker ❄ @_Cudder]

I don’t think that girl looked that damn good lol

[久保帯人＆スタッフ @tite_official]

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