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Candy Crush studio hit by layoffs as AI takes over design and writing work Sources familiar with the situation, speaking on condition of anonymity due to fear of reprisal, told Mobile Gamer Biz that employees in departments such as level design...

The company behind Candy Crush is preparing to lay off around 200 employees amid a push to replace designers, researchers, and creative staff with AI.

www.techspot.com/news/108684-...

Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale Backs Bedrock Robotics To Automate Construction — Union Leader Calls It 'Misguided' - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Palantir Technologies Inc. co-founder Joe Lonsdale is backing Bedrock Robotics, a construction automation startup.

The co-founder of Palantir is backing a construction automation startup seeking to build AI powered heavy machinery that doesn't require workers.

The company, Bedrock Robotics, was founded by three people who used to work at Waymo.

www.benzinga.com/markets/tech...

CEO compensation graphed next to employee compensation. 🙃

We only rate dogs. This is Chewbacca having a spa day. He's trying to relax. Please give him some privacy. 13/10

We at United Videogame Workers-CWA condemn the studio closure of Cliffhanger Games by Electronic Arts. In an industry that generated over $450 billion and padded EA CEO Andrew Wilson's pockets to the tune of $25.6 million in total compensation in the year 2024, workers should not have to be subjected to this dehumanizing treatment. These hardworking families and industry veterans must now scramble to find new work during a time of increasing economic volatility, while the game that they worked hard on will never see the light of day. And for what purpose? For EA to be able to write off the cost of the studio and game production as a "business loss" on their taxes and make their stock prices go up. Making this disastrous decision following EA's previously announced RTO policies and commitment to DEI is an insult to injury to those already trying to stay afloat in the industry, particularly to the disabled, those with families, and Black and brown game workers. We as workers and the players who stand with us in solidarity deserve better and demand better.

"these decisions are hard" EA boss Laura Miele

maybe make the hard decision to take a cut to your fucking paycheck instead of canceling games and putting people out of a job by closing studios, you fucking sow.

Hi! Are you on Medicaid and were you essentially turned away from the ER by being told that it isn't clear that you care would be covered due to Medicaid portal issues? Email me at jmetraux@motherjones.com

Time to get a job in the UK! Any companies there looking for project managers or producers? 👀

26 January 2025 Wealth inequality risks triggering 'societal collapse' within next decade, report finds The warning comes from an expert roundtable led by researchers from King's and the Fairness Foundation

Billionaires will cause a planetary crisis if they aren’t checked.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/wealth-...

Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans The Trump administration's federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB Pritzker's office. The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people in ...

BREAKING: Illinois is currently shut out of Medicaid.

Gov. JB Pritzker’s office reports that the Trump funding freeze has shut the state out of the federal health care program.

Medicaid covers nearly 4 million people in Illinois.

chicago.suntimes.com/politics/don...

a black and white pit mix with large brown eyes and a graying snoot stands in the back seat of a car. there's an American Red Cross blanket behind him, which looks like he had previously been wrapped in. he looks at the camera with a humble expression. an inset photo of an apartment building consumed by fire, smoke billowing from the roof.

This is Rocco. He's being praised a hero by his neighbors after his barking alerted them to an apartment fire that damaged 24 apartments last week. “They said they never hear him bark but he was barking out of control that something was wrong.” 14/10 good boy Rocco

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44 states and the federal government are now suing property management companies over their use of an AI pricing tool to raise rents.

Utah is the latest state to join the lawsuit accusing over 600 corporate landlords of using RealPage software to form an illegal rent cartel.

Although support for DOGE is mixed, a majority believe corruption, inefficiency, and red tape are major problems - AP-NORC Twenty-nine percent approve of Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and 39% disapprove.

New polling shows that 60% of Americans think billionaires advising the President is bad.

Just 12% say it’s good.

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My kids 💖

The bottom 50% of households hold just 2.4% of U.S. wealth.

The top 1% control 42% of the wealth.

She's cute 🥰