if you dont have half life 2 yet it is currently free on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/220/HalfLife_2/
The daughters of Malcolm X sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader's assassination
https://apnews.com/article/malcolmx-daughters-death-lawsuit-682c71e26cbeaf293d0ea783999c0c5e?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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If anyone can throw me some money so I can get my #car fixed, it would be greatly appreciated.
I've created a fundraiser for it via #PayPal.
https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/99y9bvGeUO
Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/steam-games-will-now-need-to-fully-disclose-kernel-level-anti-cheat-on-store-pages/
REMINDER FOR NON-BRITS:
Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the Consertive party, is a woman of colour.
But she's also:
— a climate change denialist
— denies institutional racism exists
— a militant transphobe who wants to strip transgender people of civil rights
— believes the British Empire was beneficial to its colonies
— opposes marriage equality
... She's the most right-wing leader the party's ever had.
(TLDR: She's the antithesis of Kamala Harris.)
This meme has become popular on social media, lately.
#satire #billionaires #recycling #humor #economics #press
Time for another lesson from my days fighting in the Mod Wars in one of Twitch's more famous and busy channels
A few years ago, the channel began showing the pronouns of presenters and guests on stream. And toxic gamer types complained incessantly, often in very overtly transphobic ways, regardless of whether anyone on-stream was trans. We banned every single last person who complained. I personally banned hundreds, it must have been a few thousand all together. Anyone who DM'd the mods to apologize/explain it was a misunderstanding got unbanned, but that was a tiny fraction of them; there were more than a few bonus-transphobia parting shot DMs, often aimed at me because I was the first mod alphabetically.
And after a few weeks of this slaughter... the chat became a civil paradise. It was a much healthier environment than before we began showing the pronouns and causing all the most toxic people to volunteer their identity at once. People who are really gross on one axis tend to be unpleasant on all of them.