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videogameschronicle.com
Sony says "reasonable consumers" know they don’t own the digital PlayStation games they buy.

It argues that it's "not plausible" to suggest that when they buy a digital game they actually believe they're "obtaining ownership" of it.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-sa...
Sony says ‘reasonable consumers’ know they don’t own the digital games they buy | VGC
It’s “not plausible” to suggest people believe they’re “obtaining ownership”…
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September 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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doublefine.com
To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes:

itch.io/s/199277/the...
August 26, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott.

Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out. We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting. What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it. Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. No Contract? No Coffee.
August 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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ianfay.bsky.social
This shit is why you can't separate continuing to financially support the Harry Potter IP (whether by buying the games, merch, watching the new TV show when its out) from the consequences of what JK Rowling does with that money

She's become so stiflingly powerful that even private docs arent safe
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Aug 20
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling.

They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine." A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
August 20, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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snepshark.bsky.social
It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit.

Call in, and kill it.
eromancer.bsky.social Eromancer @eromancer.bsky.social · Aug 2
This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act.

Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.
August 2, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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janus.bsky.social
everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you
janus.bsky.social The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · Jul 15
Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers
A yellow Backmarket poster in the subway showing a pink Game Boy with the caption “AB > AI”
July 15, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
No rare minerals for the US. France & the EU need to step up and protect Ukraine and its resources. The Kremlin is planning to loot those minerals alongside Trump & Musk, which they need so they can invade Poland and the Baltics next. That's the bottom line. Trump, Musk and Putin are the enemy.
opcanary.bsky.social Anonymous @opcanary.bsky.social · Feb 12
The Kremlin-linked Donald Trump blackmailed Ukraine (again), threatening to withhold aid unless it provides him and his corporate oligarchs with $500B in rare earth material or equivalent contracts. Hours later he praised Russia. 90% of US Ukraine aid is already reimbursed before delivery. #OpCanary
February 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM