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It’s amazing what a difference a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they’re no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament to present their case—and it seemed to go very well.

https://sci-bot.ru/

So much for DARE program. (TikTok screencap)

alt textAn edit of xkcd 2501, “Average Familiarity": [Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.] Ponytail: Open-source alternatives are second nature to us foss nerds, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Linux and one or two degoogled Android ROMs. Cueball: And Firefox, of course. Ponytail: Of course. [Caption below the panel] Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.

Context:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/failed-paternity-test-vanished-twin

Bluesky

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Two gamers have filed a class action lawsuit against Nintendo, alleging that the company will be unjustly enriching itself with any refund it secures from the U.S. government over widespread tariffs last year that, among other things, hiked the prices of Nintendo hardware and accessories.

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116487564737536325

https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/

EDIT: A rough timeline of events here: In 2024, a user noticed this odd traffic on their local network, took a screenshot of the graph, and posted it to Twitter After discussing the issue with other Twitter users, the original poster realized that this graph was actually a mistake with their router or something. This reporting software was reporting some other device’s network traffic as being the washing machine’s traffic. The washing machine was actually only using a reasonable amount of data. Despite this past revelation, in 2026, someone put together a “meme” of sorts comparing the supposed events in that 2024 graph to what people in the past had predicted the future to be. For whatever reason, that “meme” was put through AI post-processing of some sort. Was the attempt to “upscale” this image after it had been passed around and been automatically compressed down by various platforms? Or was it someone using some newfangled AI-assisted compression technique in an attempt to create a smaller file size than any of the more traditional compression techniques? No idea. Whatever the reason was, the image was left with a bunch of nonsense text on the graph portion. I saw this “meme” and decided to share it here without scrutinizing the text on the graph. As mentioned in my first point, this graph was originally posted years ago, so I was already familiar with it and did not feel the need to read into it in the image I was sharing. I felt safe assuming it was just the same graph that I remember seeing years back. After users here called out the nonsense text, I just recreated the “meme” from scratch. I grabbed the original screenshot of the graph from Twitter and a stock photo of clouds, and then combined them along with some text so that this is more-or-less the same exact “meme”, just without the AI gibberish.

“White Female Mamdani”?

https://friendica.myportal.social/display/e65e1095-1569-f423-e2f2-637090146501

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I find this move concerning, and wish that the Founder had looked for a new CEO that shared his values rather than a Private Equity and Mergers Expert.

Online threats to children are real, but the headlong pursuit of age verification that we’re seeing around the world is unacceptable in its approach and far too broad in scope — and we simply can’t afford to get this wrong.

https://danbydraws.com/

Source: r/buttcoin

Bonus Panels

Full Report(PDF).

[green, speaking, looking smug] Okay, hear me out, here’s the plan… We go full apathy, basically we let capitalism fully spiral out into fascism. Once it’s done, people will rise up and the system will collapse under its own weight. From its ashes, with our help, a better society will rise. This is how we win. [we now see that green is tied up in front of a bleak wall, along with a group of other people, being aimed at by a firing squad of characters in fascist uniforms] [green, smiling] OK? [blue, pissed] Dude…