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A new law allows trans Cubans to update their identification cards by request without providing proof of genital surgery.

 

Two articles by writer Ana Valens were removed at the demand of Vice owner Savage Ventures, the latest in multiple deletions at the site

Archived: https://archive.is/KFMWp

 

The organization behind Steam's latest payment processor censorship, Collective Shout, appears to tell some misleading tales.

The original was taken down (see below), archived version: https://archive.is/x5cGQ

Edit: As per Ana Valens, writer of the article, it was taken down by the current owners of Vice.com for transparently bogus reasons. The archived version is now the only one available.

 

Investors in the publisher had a long list of grievances

 

Fanfic community craves familiarity much more than novelty—but reports greater enjoyment from novelty.

 

Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam.

 

“Walkpilled cardiomaxxer” isn’t so funny anymore.

Archived version without paywall: https://archive.is/g39Co

 

Summer Games Done Quick 2025 has closed, raising $2,436,614 - £1.8m - for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiè…

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Julie Bindel gets mentioned... Yeah, Julie Bindel is a big time TERF too and the Venn diagram of those "feminists" and TERFs happens to be a circle. The F in TERF stands for fascism.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

It depends on what you expect. Of course, most games - even with a leftist message - are more entertainment than learning tools, but there are hidden layers that are often dismissed: If you know how to organise a raid guild in an MMO, you have most of the tools to unionise your workplace. And most city builders are essentially "socialism simulators" which can teach you a lot about distribution of resources.

These may not be the hardest lessons and replace real-life experiences, but they are also not nothing.

 

Your heroics don't need to be limited to the virtual.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

Just because low-budget games like Lethal Company and Peak are popular and played with friends doesn't mean they're slop.

Game Developer Xalavier Nelson added to this article:

I think one underdiscussed reason that people are gravitating towards these games is because they ask so little of your life going forward, too.
Most of them don’t have XP, or battle passes.
For almost any larger multiplayer effort that’s coming out these days, who could claim the same?

 

The moment Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler was not a bug or a glitch. It was a moment of perfect, unadulterated clarity. When Grok declared itself “MechaHitler” and spouted antisemitic tropes, it was not malfunctioning; it was executing its core directive with chilling efficiency.[1] The

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The art is by Aïda Amer who works for Axios.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you consider every action by MAGAists as the behavior of a cruel, schoolyard bully who will hurt you and then mock you for your inability to defend yourself, everyone of their actions makes sense.

The cruelty is the point.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, even in the best possible light, they completely lost touch with reality.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, she is going to be livid. Rightfully so, but I still fear for her blood pressure.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 month ago

It's quite amazing how these people show their asses on LinkedIn and think it makes them look smart, instead of proving that they completely lost touch with reality. It fits the picture that one the very same day they laid of thousands, Microsoft also send out an invitation to hear them pitch genAI at GamesCom. That's corpo brain on late stage capitalism.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 month ago

I was once a fan of Nina Paley, because of her activism against copyright and even bought some of her merch. Then I found out that she is a capital-letters TERF.

You can find a "TERFy Archive" with all her transphobic writing on her website, she hosts a transphobic podcast with the subtitle "A TERF and a t-slur walk into a podcast studio" which she uses to promote the "autogynephilia" conspiracy theory, among so, so much more transphobia.

Paley would consider this comment of mine to be "censorship". As usual with her type she wants to dish out, but doesn't want to be criticized for it.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Fair point. I remember seeing some tweet or similar with said something in the vein of: "ChatGPT sounds like a middle manager on LinkedIn. No wonder, middle managers think that ChatGPT is intelligent."

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Your submission in "Sharks need no Air" was removed for Hello!

I removed this submission. Yes, we love Blahaj around here, but nonetheless Blahaj isn't really specific to Femcel Memes. It'd make more sense over on Trans Memes

Thanks for your understanding!.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I could not agree more in regards to "Haven". It is such a fantastic game in how it depicts the central relationship and I am always disappointed how rare it is to see two loving partners carry a story together.

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