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[Paradoxxe @VoidParadoxical]

And if we run out of clean water, a lot of hospitals CANNOT run laboratory testing WITHOUT it.

Not being able to save people is not worth people using AI to generate shit they can easily do if they use their own freaking brains.

[KEVIN USA 💯 @kevinUSA100]

This bill is pure treason. Every congressman and senator who votes for it is betraying America and should be held accountable and tried for treason.

[Retro Brandon ➡️ Pax West @NovaBran]

Oh, Sony… what a bunch of jokers 😂

I don’t think this is as brilliant as you think it is.

You trust the brand, and the community is strong enough to weather the storm?

You mean the same community you’re actively pissing off because you’ve shown profits matter more than addressing their concerns? The same community you don’t believe you need to engage with while this backlash keeps growing?

Bruh… community isn’t a guarantee. It’s something you cultivate. Ignore it long enough, and it’ll become your worst nightmare instead of your greatest asset.

And that “1%”? Even if we assume that’s true for the sake of argument, that 1% is wildly overrepresented among your most passionate fans, your online community, your collectors, and many of the people buying the most software. Physical collectors don’t just buy consoles—they tend to buy a lot of games.

Losing your biggest advocates because you think they’re statistically insignificant is a bold strategy.

I’m genuinely fascinated to see how this plays out, because this feels like the kind of corporate hubris that destroys credibility far faster than anyone in the boardroom expects. Pride cometh before the fall and all that.

[SuperSisi @SuperSisi]

Sony struggling immensely:

almost every post PlayStation is making is being community noted due to a massive campaign against their proposed termination of physical games. Some are even titled “Purchase Warning” ‼️

Here are just a few of the notes that have appeared in the last day:

[fishi 🐟 @Wishi_Fishi]

Dino boy🦖

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Sometimes I take a little solace in the knowledge that climate deniers will be remembered as liars, conmen, and fools.

But then I remember that most history is very low-resolution so, actually, they won’t be remembered at all and that’s even better.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

For context on the air conditioning debate between the US and Europe...one must consult the ancient texts:

1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things.

-- Douglas Adams

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

Literally none of these viral posts matter if action isn't taken. If you want digital ID and age verification to not go forward in the US, you have to actually do something other than hit the like button.

202-224-3121 connects you to your lawmakers. Mass pressure works.

[Shane @sbliss89]

New level of Catholic guilt unlocked: the pope wants to know why you haven’t finished that draft yet.

[Running With Scissors @RWSstudios]

Stop Killing Games isn't enough, it's also time to Stop Killing the Internet.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

They’re trying to ram through KOSA in “exchange” for a state AI law preemption and not a single leftist content creator is talking about it (during pride month no less!) 🫩

[f4mi ‼️ @f4micom]

but you can propose legal obligations to spy on our chats and try to constantly apply them despite being told no repeatedly

yeah sure

[OneTopic @OneTopicAtATime]

Trans women are women.
Trans men are men.
Trans kids should be protected.

Trans rights are human rights.🏳️‍⚧️

[Dark Road Games @dark_road_games]

Sometimes I forget how "normies" see the world. There are people out there that believe "consumers just decided to switch to streaming and give up physical media".
Youtube lost money for a decade before it made a profit.
Spotify lost money for 17 years.
None of this is accidental or organic. People didn't "choose" these systems. They outright rejected them for literally decades while these systems operated at a loss that made competition with them impossible, funded by people who wanted to change the world into what we have now. A system where you own nothing, consume whatever is offered on-demand and nothing else, and you have no privacy or anonymity.

Netflix killed Blockbuster with by-mail PHYSICAL MEDIA at a loss. The entire time they were eating Blockbuster's business they were losing money. After Blockbuster died, Netflix phased out physical media and I remember the severe backlash, but the choice was streaming or nothing. Still many (maybe most) people just cobbled together private collections from bargain bins and garage sales. Netflix continued to lose money....10 BILLION dollars of loses in the 2010s even after Blockbuster went out of business.

Understand the truth, that a cabal of global institutional investors funded companies that nobody wanted for literally decades at a cost of untold billions of dollars....until there was NOTHING ELSE LEFT for you to use.

[Kougeru 🐉⛩️ @Kougeru]

I've been informed that the Tomb Raider remake uses AI for "temporary" assets. This your reminder that this is NOT a valid excuse for using AI. There is no excuse. The theft still happened. The damage to the planet still happened. Fuck Crystal Dynamics. Fuck AI.

[💭 vuz ノ lynn @zombshadowlady]

happy pride month,

the US government is trying to identify and injury (supposedly kill) not just transgender people, but their supporters.

please, YOUR voice matters. help us.

[Hanner @GangstHannah]

Bro wants us to co-own a predatory tech that's been losing billions per year lmao

And that the public fucking loathes.

It's also a tech used to spy on us, it's built on slave labor and is destroying the environment.

No public bailouts for AI technofascists

Sink with the ship

[nover @pzunheit]

Happypride i did some pride stuff <3