Tag: Tech
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Square Enix Is Using Stolen Fan Art for the Steam Port of Final Fantasy VIII
> Read More: Square Enix Is Using Stolen Fan Art for the Steam Port of Final Fantasy VIIIThe 2013 Steam port for Final Fantasy VIII uses the work of French artist Antoine Retaureau as its library cover image without attribution. The artist’s signature has been cropped out and the image mirrored, inhibiting reverse image searches. This has gone largely unnoticed for almost five years.
📁 Category: Journalism
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Reddit Offers Moderators Stock Ahead of IPO
> Read More: Reddit Offers Moderators Stock Ahead of IPOReddit plans to offer stock to a select group of users and moderators ahead of its upcoming IPO, according to an email obtained from a moderator of multiple subreddits. At approximately 12:43PM today, a subset of Reddit users and moderators were contacted simultaneously via DM and email with an invite to pre-register for a Directed…
📁 Category: Journalism
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Cancelled Project Revita Refocused Gets Second Chance
> Read More: Cancelled Project Revita Refocused Gets Second ChanceTragically cancelled earlier this month, publisher Dear Villagers is reportedly revisiting the decision to cancel Revita Refocused, after an outpouring of community support.
📁 Category: Journalism
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Deplatforming Myself: A Tech Manifesto
> Read More: Deplatforming Myself: A Tech ManifestoThe internet has become one big roach motel. I lay the blame for this development solely at the feet of The Platform; the proliferation of venture-capitalist backed walled gardens, which are incentivized to trap users inside and milk them like cattle. This has me re-evaluating my relationship with The Platform, what I want out of…
📁 Category: Essays🔍 File Under: Antifascism, Enshittification, LGBTQ+, Manifesto, Tech, Why Did You Build the Torment Nexus?
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Read the Room, Apple 🎉💀
> Read More: Read the Room, Apple 🎉💀Gestures are frequently triggering at inappropriate times, in the best case simply ruining a solemn moment with tasteless commentary. In others, it’s creating legitimate panic and discomfort for patients in mental health care settings.
📁 Category: Essays
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I Will Be Free
> Read More: I Will Be FreeI’ve wanted to take a risk like this for a long time. I put it off because I was scared. I was told my whole life, by deeply uncurious people with small imaginations, that I’d never make it. And I believed them. That became my story. Let’s write a better one.
📁 Category: Essays
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I Was Laid Off In Retaliation for Anti-Discrimination Whistleblowing
> Read More: I Was Laid Off In Retaliation for Anti-Discrimination WhistleblowingIn order to protect women, gender nonconforming folks, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ community from suffering as my peers and I have, I feel ethically obligated to go public with my experience. In this article, I will outline why I have sufficient reason to believe that my former employer Rune Labs has…
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Dystopia 3066
> Read More: Dystopia 3066As Twitter began its death spiral, I challenged myself – I would write a series of satirical, post-capitalist dystopian flash fiction, with each individual post fitting within 500 characters. It had to have some form of continuity, but each post also had to individually qualify as a story, delivering a conflict, resolution, and primary character…
📁 Category: Fiction🔍 File Under: Antifascism, Capitalism, Enshittification, Flash Fiction, Tech, Why Did You Build the Torment Nexus?
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Precisely How Not to Conduct a Job Interview
> Read More: Precisely How Not to Conduct a Job InterviewHave you ever wondered how to most efficiently scare away potential talent? Our top scientists have been hard at work on this very question, and created the most dreadful job interview imaginable. While this knowledge is incredibly cursed, we here at JobCo believe that the study will accelerate future breakthroughs in the field of human…
📁 Category: Essays
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Green Waves Over Mt. Rainier
> Read More: Green Waves Over Mt. RainierSince I last checked in, I have: moved 2,900 miles, survived Covid, organized a series of mass protests, rioted in the streets, single handedly restructured my companys SDLC, and made a pilgrimage to one of the last lesbian bars in the country. All of this has reaffirmed my belief that, yes, I am in fact…
📁 Category: Uncategorized