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White House Website Briefly Hosted Racist Tetris Clone Game Until The Tetris People Complained
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (313+ words) Pick your favorite zombie movie or television show and you’ll eventually be confronted with dialogue justifying the killing of the zombies with the idea that they are no longer human. “They aren’t people, Rick. They’re just bodies. We have to…...
Jimmy Kimmel Won’t Air James Talarico Interview On ABC For Fear Of FCC Reprisal
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (291+ words) Comedian Jimmy Kimmel‘s planned Thursday interview with Texas Senatorial hopeful James Talarico didn’t air on ABC broadcast TV because network lawyers were worried about Trump FCC censorship and reprisal. Instead, the interview will air on the late-night show’s YouTube…...
The DOJ’s AI Fair Use Brief Is Correct, But From A DOJ That Has No Credibility
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (1729+ words) I am never asking the monkey’s paw for a federal government that defends fair use again. So, look, you’re right to be skeptical about the DOJ weighing in regarding the big OpenAI copyright case filed by the NY Times. You’re…...
Paramount Caught Using ‘Astroturf’ Group To Drum Up Fake Support For Merger
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (563+ words) We’ve well established how the $111 billion Paramount and Warner Brothers merger is terrible for labor, creatives, consumers, and markets. But the kind of behaviors Paramount leadership have been engaged in to sell the deal also give a pretty clear indication…...
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (481+ words) This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a comment about calls for RFK Jr.’s resignation coming entirely from Democrats: And that’s why trying to distill partisan politics down to just “team blue” vs....
Tom Cruise Parrots Paramount’s Empty Merger Promises Because He Loves His ‘Hollywood Family’
1+ week, 2+ day ago (578+ words) Too Much Free Time Just so we’re clear: pre-merger promises (especially in the media and telecom sectors) are absolutely worthless. There’s fifty years of indisputable evidence that all of the “synergies” and innovative improvements promised on the front end of…...
Sony Tells Courts Any ‘Reasonable Customer’ Knows Digital Purchases Are Actually Licenses | Techdirt
1+ week, 3+ day ago (623+ words) Sony is bad enough at this that they can manage to piss me off even when I probably agree with them when it comes to a particular lawsuit. Let’s get through the part where I’m on their side first. Unfortunately…...
Daily Deal: The Adobe Graphic Design Bundle
1+ week, 3+ day ago (150+ words) The Adobe Graphic Design Bundle has 3 courses designed to help you learn the essentials of graphic design and how to apply those skills to your projects. Courses cover Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. You’ll learn all aspects of the design process....
Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Forced To Rehire Columnist Fired For Quoting Deceased Bigot Charlie Kirk
2+ week, 4+ day ago (455+ words) Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post simply isn’t what it used to be. During the Trump era Bezos and his lackeys have fired all of the paper’s black columnists, turned the op-ed section into pro-corporatist agitprop, censored cartoonists that criticized Jeff, and…...
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2+ week, 5+ day ago (252+ words) An example of that can be found in the most recent State of Play showcase Sony held for Phantom Blade Zero, during which Sony decided to keep the chat associated with the stream live. You already know what happened from…...