Dan Nicotera

Everybody runs before or after work here

Every word of this sentence gets worse

I'm not sure what I expected

Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda Preservationists at the Video Game History Foundation purchased the rights to Computer Entertainer, the first video game magazine ever written and uploaded it for free.

thanks to the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social you can now read through the entire run of one of the first video game magazines ever made

Oh no

Clearly they don't do a fandom check first

This is hilarious

There's going to be a really heated substantial similarity argument if this ever gets to trial

Nothing shady about this business at all

I'm glad that they're already blocked on my end

One of the dumbest times I went viral on Twitter was for a thread about this and there were creepy people in my mentions for days. So: fun fact, the average age of a bride on her first marriage in 18th-century England was 26.

Martin Scorsese drew these storyboards when he was 11 years old. They are for a Roman epic entitled THE ETERNAL CITY.

How dupes turned online shopping upside down When everything is the same, who gets to claim ownership over ideas?

come and read this perfect romp about TikTokified online shopping that suddenly becomes an extremely readable primer on Harvard Law Review level cutting-edge intellectual property law issues www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

DSW Faces Tough Odds in Suit Testing Social Media Music Rules Footwear retailer DSW has a difficult task in its battle with record label behemoths seeking to reset copyright rules for businesses using music on social media.

Here's a fun one. Do businesses get to use the music in Instagram and TikTok's licensed music library for their social media posts without a separate license?

I can count on my fingers the number of times I've seen copyright actually protect small artists, as opposed to serving as a cudgel for large companies

I'm hoping we at least get some of that Report era bite back

Missed this hearing to go visit the dentist, but reading this thread is more painful.

People aren’t talking enough about how Baltimore and Mayor Brandon Scott have drastically lowered homicides/shootings with the “woke” policies Republicans love to disparage.

As a public health issue, not as a way to enrich private prison friends.

More: popular.info/p/the-secret...

Congrats Doug!

This article does a great job capturing the scope and breadth of the advances in solar and wind power

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

How Amazon is Changing the US Trademark System There’s a reason you see all those nearly identical listings with weird titles—and it’s swamping federal offices with trademark applications

In honor of Prime Day, I discuss with NYU News my forthcoming article with @markpmckenna.bsky.social on Amazon's quiet overhaul of the trademark system (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

it gets better, they were going to split the bonus across the entire team

now the remaining staff know

a) they won't get the bonus

b) they will be immediately fired once the game ships

why would you do anything BUT creatively sabotage this on the way out the door

Hell, I don't have any public profile and don't really want to talk about work. It's just not worth the hassle.

I do enjoy nerding out with other people though, which is the main reason I still do social media.

That's such a fun, underrated museum

If you ever think English isn’t a needlessly complicated language just remember that read and lead rhyme and read and lead rhyme but read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead.

congratulations to the internet’s biggest perverts for being so horny they caused an integer overflow

deeply proud of all of you

This may be the best explanation of Kojima I've heard

I'm getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn't have AI crap in it:

aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...