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Artist: Jeff Stahler HOW AMERICA WORKS NOW 1 - trump saying the world is flat 2 - gop congress saying 'agreed!' 3 - national science foundation saying 'false' 4 - trump saying - cut the national science foundation

Artist: Jeff Stahler

Here's the truth.

You can't stand with trans people and take a gig with Rowling. It is impossible. You can make donations, you can issue statements of support, but at the end of the day you are choosing to work with the single most prominent transphobe who uses her money and platform to harm us.

This article is just completely charming.

BrO enjoying his peaceful day #bluesky

Just a reminder that if you're working on the HBO Harry Potter show, or the audiobook, or making/buying licensed Harry Potter products, or covering *any* of the previously noted without mentioning JK Rowling's virulent and non-stop transphobia, this is what you're supporting:

One way to reduce stress is to meditate. Another way is to not live under a fascist government. This has been wellness tips!

My point is that if Visa says "Okay, well you can't sell games with rape in them because rape is illegal" but they are happy to take money for GTA...

Like, I know capitalism is full of hypocrisy, but c'mon!

"This looks like shit, AI sucks"

"Actually, it turns out that AI can't even make something that looks like shit, so..."

I've been wondering about this... if the argument from payment processors is that games are depicting "illegal acts", then how is anything rated T or above excluded? And why aren't movies undergoing the same scrutiny?

It's staggering how comfortable Trump is being this racist on national TV. Because he knows at this point there's just no cost for doing so. His supporters knew who he was and this is what they voted for.

It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....

Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI

threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

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Yikes.

FCI Dublin, a CA federal prison, closed in 2024 amid allegations of rampant sexual abuse. 10 prison guards, including warden & chaplain, are charged w sexually abusing inmates; many weaponized immigration status to abuse inmates.

Now, Trump is reportedly looking to reopen Dublin as an ICE facility.

I miss WWE and WWE Champions, but not as much as my minority friends miss Basic Human Rights. So I will continue to forgo anything with a WWE Logo. Its not much to fight with, but it's all I have to fight with.

It just seems like one of those things were you could just... not? Like, he didn't *have* to do this. He chose to. Which means he really, really believes in it.

Fucking gross.

Triple H does his water spit at the White House

Stop watching WWE

WWE wasn’t my brand, but I’m done even passively checking.

I don’t need to consume media created by someone who is friends with and works for a fascist pedophile rapist.

Workers are getting paid for their labor instead of 100% of profits going to the ownership class... So Trump has to put a stop to it.

Princess Bubblegum “People get built different. We don't need to figure it out. We just need to respect it.”

Don't have a clue, and don't really care. When you allow yourself to stand behind Trump at a press conference, you have shown your true colors.

Incredibly pathetic for Paul to be standing behind him in this clip. What a disappointment.

I wonder if every truck with MAGA and Punisher stickers know that every time they drive by I just think "If The Punisher were real we wouldn't be in this situation right now..."

"Imputed" means "estimated", for the rest of the dummies out there.

So these are inverted versions of the same information: How much of the "data" was actually data, vs how much was estimated information.

I hadn't realized that it was here now!

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