Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom

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Bad year for the far right 👀👀👀

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Some Millennials in my timeline are insecure because Gen Zs are telling them their ankle socks age them. I can't stress enough that you don't need to care about what a bunch of 20-somethings think about your clothes, mainly bc you don't have to care about what ANYONE thinks about your clothes.

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Ayn Rand: oh my god... I see now how wrong I was.. Me with a time traveling xbox: they also made a second one where you can duel wield plasmids and guns but I gotta switch discs

Wherever we land on the Biden business “Biden, Harris to have lunch” being breaking news is very funny.

I think Leslye Headland gets it. The complaint "Star Wars directors have been too big fans of Star Wars" is valid but The Acolyte's creative team seems to be striking a solid balance. Still a flawed show but I'm leaning towards it being "good, with great moments" if it makes even a modest landing.

Elden Ring Community Heroes Like Let Me Solo Her Helped Inspire The Acolyte's Hit Villain - IGNwww.ign.com The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland recently revealed that The Master's flowy armor (and exposed muscles) were inspired by scantily clad Elden Ring badasses like Let Me Solo Her.

I wrote this just last week and I glanced at Twitter to see a well-backed creator posting race-baiting thumbnails. Not great!

Dr Disrespect sent explicit messages to a minor and deserves 100% accountability for his actions. But he only got to that point because sponsors and business rewarded him for toxic behavior. He's not the only one. Devs and sponsors need to step up and not rewarding professional assholes.

Opinion: Dr Disrespect's ousting should be a wake-up call for devswww.gamedeveloper.com Dr Disrespect's sponsors should have seen his behavior coming from a mile away.

Not often I say "stab me please" but hey "stab me please."

GIMME THE JAB www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Combined COVID-flu vaccines are coming: Moderna jab clears major testwww.nature.com First large trial suggests mRNA drug gives better protection from SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses than single-target shots. First large trial suggests mRNA drug gives better protection from SARS-CoV-...

This dog wants the cheerio

Looking at this dog like "you want a tweat? Want a tweat for fweedom?"

@jbouie.bsky.social a lot going on right now but I tuned into Unclear and Present Danger for the first time and the First Contact episode was so good. Helped me grok “Hegelian dialectical” a little more than I did before.

Good news—the Redwall fans are revolting against AI.

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Disney you gotta let your streaming shows be 10-12 episodes and at least 40 minutes, we can’t keep doing this. Let television *be* television

Wherever the Biden campaign goes after this week I hope it gets a splash of cold water that some kind of drastic change is needed to meet this moment.

JUST IN: Donald Trump's sentencing in the hush money case is postponed until September following the Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, a New York judge has ruled.

Trump sentencing in hush money case is postponed until September after Supreme Court immunity ruling | CNN Politicscnn.it Donald Trump will not be sentenced on his business fraud conviction until September, a New York judge ruled Tuesday in the wake of Monday’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity.

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I think people seriously underestimate how most people don't really care about the news and just vote based on something like "yeah he seems cool" or "people aren't going to vote for Bernie he's a socialist"

I don't actually think the DNC is all that responsible for Clinton or Biden being the nominee. Primary voters genuinely thought they were the strongest candidate to beat Trump!

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I don't actually think the DNC is all that responsible for Clinton or Biden being the nominee. Primary voters genuinely thought they were the strongest candidate to beat Trump!

I don’t know if we should be looking at this from a “luck” standpoint. There were, and are, plenty of candidates that would crush Trump. These are DNC decisions that are…questionable at best being generous to them.

Trump’s spent his entire life chasing total immunity—sometimes out of fear but mostly entitlement. Yesterday’s ruling validates his most basic instinct: he is entitled to whatever he wants.

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Americans across the political spectrum are all deeply mired in “apocalypse realism”, in which it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the world not ending. This widespread imaginary just happens to motivate the people who want the world to end while depressing everyone else.

Honestly, I don't know how doomerism has survived the long arc of history. We used to grovel under kings. Slavery was the law of the land. Fascist authoritarians conquered a democracy and declared war on a continent and a people. And, all of that was overcome. It ceased. History didn't end.

“Our expectations for you were low but holy fuck.”

“A former president is entitled to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his ‘conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority,’ ” the 6-3 ruling says. “There is no immunity for unofficial acts.” Read the full decision here:

Read the full text of Supreme Court’s decision on Trump’s immunitywww.washingtonpost.com Former presidents are immune from prosecution for their official actions taken while in the White House, but don’t have immunity for unofficial acts, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.

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NEW: A UK employment tribunal has found that Star Citizen dev Cloud Imperium Games discriminated against a disabled employee with its return-to-office policy. The studio refused to accommodate a senior programmer who sought to continue working from home following the pandemic. Full story below:

Tribunal finds Cloud Imperium Games discriminated against disabled employee with return-to-office policy

Tribunal finds Cloud Imperium Games discriminated against disabled employee with return-to-office policywww.gamedeveloper.com The Star Citizen developer dismissed a disabled worker who sought to continue working remotely following the pandemic.

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Normal people: enjoying their Sunday The WSJ: we gotta send out the push alert that says fuck the minorities.

So who’s “us”?

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When you've lost Goldman Sachs...

Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?www.goldmansachs.com

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I keep on thinking about how John Roberts messed up nitrogen oxide with nitrous oxide in a ruling on how the courts were better suited to provide expertise than experts.

Found the guy making droids. “These look like shopping carts. It’s got a handlebar, so if there’s a problem with the robot, a person can grab the handlebar and do what they wish with it.”

MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are overestimating generative AI's capabilities and it's time to put the brakes on the hype.

Hey how come you didn’t say that this after Trump after he got convicted of a felony?

In Opinion The greatest public service President Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not run for re-election, the editorial board writes after Thursday's presidential debate.

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Racewww.nytimes.com The president’s inadequate performance in the debate made it clear he is not the man he was four years ago.

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It’s nice when somebody actually does the assigned reading

i never read comments but these ones really are a glimpse into the median NYT reader www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/o...

Opinion | ‘Is It Too Late?’ Four Writers on What Democrats Should Do About Biden.www.nytimes.com None of the options ensure victory against Trump — and some of them could badly split the party.

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95% of the “Biden must step aside” argument rests on wishcasting a perfect storm: Biden steps down gracefully, there’s minimal fallout for Dems, Kamala steps aside, a talented young gun steps in and performs well. It’s not impossible but to act like it’s a layup is nuts.

Dealing with election panic by working on my Darth Vader mini. Theming here is “Vader The Atoner.” Practically have a whole artist’s statement on the color and modeling choices here.

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the other reason why i'm skeptical that a convention would pick a better nominee is that the nomination would almost certainly be considered, privately at least, damaged goods. your most likely choices will be candidates who otherwise would have no chance of winning in a regular contest.

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Credit due, being the first CEO in games to really say this behavior ain't welcome is Something

Yves Guillemot denounces Assassin's Creed Shadows' racist, 'malicious' backlash

Yves Guillemot denounces Assassin's Creed Shadows' racist, 'malicious' backlashwww.gamedeveloper.com Weeks of racist backlash over Assassin's Creed Shadows prompted Guillemot to speak out and encourage the larger industry to not let this behavior stand.

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Unless you're writing something very formal, try to write how you talk. Don't try to sound smart by using unnatural vocabulary or elaborate phrasing - you're more likely to trip yourself up. Also, don't try to copy other writers' style; you want to stand out, not be indistinguishable from the crowd.

if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)

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Best part about The Boys The Show is that Eric Kripke will respond to questions about how he wanted to do things in the comics with, "it just wasn't interesting to me"

Four seasons and two spinoffs on, I'm still so mad that The Boys is as good as it is considering the comic is... the worst?