Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

This is someting I wish I'd realized a lot sooner in life.

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#SecondLife #SecondLifeNews #LindenLab #metaverse #LindenHomes #DeveloperUpdates #GridUpdates

Mumblegrumble. Your regular reminder that young people are still people, with agency and ideas and thoughts and beliefs.

Yes, sometimes when they are young they are also your responsibility, but this does not negate that they are individual humans and should be respected for such.

you WANT an independent third party slowing down the release process. you WANT a volunteer looking over corporate stuff and making sure it doesn't do anything obviously hostile. you WANT the software's build process to be conducted either on your machine or in your Linux distro's build farm, so that the details of it can be monitored by tooling that scans for known-vulnerable versions and so on.

Good on them. I’ve heard many woeful things about the video game industry over the years.

SAG-AFTRA members overwhelmingly vote in favour of authorising video game strike https://www.eurogamer.net/sag-aftra-members-overwhelmingly-vote-in-favour-of-authorising-video-game-strike

I would like to congratulate Google on providing us with the most well-documented, 25-year downhill slide of any corporation to date.

The oldest surviving torrent we have seen is a copy of the Matrix fan film "The Fanimatrix." The torrent was created in September 2003 and will turn 20 years old in a few days.

https://torrentfreak.com/the-worlds-oldest-active-torrent-turns-20-years-old-230924/

lately I've seen stories about how anti-trans activism is increasingly cloaking itself under the guise of "parental rights." but it's also crucial to note the many parallels between this movement & the anti-vaxx parent movement (especially spreading medical disinformation):
https://juliaserano.medium.com/understanding-the-anti-trans-parent-movement-90d126de1fc9?sk=a3ab3891f321dbd49d00774cee6a8a27
#trans #transgender #LGBTQ

May I offer you a can of Windows Home Server in these trying times?

Big news: employees at the three Hex & Company board game café locations in NYC have presented management with a notice of their desire to unionize. They're being represented by Workers United (the same group helping unionize Starbucks locations).

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/workforce/nyc-cafe-chain-will-be-test-new-unionization-process