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Co-founder of Aftermath, a website about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him https://aftermath.site/
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OK honest question what is the root of this? Is this just how you think on drugs?

NEW: The email asking fed workers what they got done last week is out. It asks "What did you do last week?" and says "Please reply to this email with approximately. 5 bullets of what you accomplished" (but no classified info). Deadline is 11:59 p.m. Monday www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Luigi Mangione, accused of killing the UnitedHealth CEO, was back in court on February 21. Hundreds of supporters packed the courthouse and the streets outside.  Read more from @miasato.bsky.social on the ground: www.theverge.com/law/617946/l...

Just saw that my favorite vape shop is finally coming back, take that Eric Adams

NEWS: The Associated Press has sued the Trump administration over Oval Office, Air Force One, and similar access denial. The case have been assigned to Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... TRO memo: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yeah, uh, best of luck with that wamu.org/story/25/02/...

Honestly I love this for him, what is happening

🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT 🚨 @propublica.org has a 6-month opening for an audience editor! More details, including pay (benefits included) and application form here👇👇 boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

As companies like Meta, Google, and Amazon follow President Trump’s moves to roll back diversity initiatives, trans and genderqueer devs worry their already struggling industry could follow suit.

Sorry, wasn't this literally the number we all said in the 90s?

from the administration supported by the “free speech absolutist”

I have questions about what year Severance takes place in based on what religious denomination some characters say they are in this episode, like you do

🚨 Scoop: Treasury Dept agrees to block DOGE access to personal taxpayer data at IRS 🚨 IRS was preparing to try to reject this request, but was able to negotiate with the Trump admin to narrow access. Now DOGE will get the same access as academic researchers and some IT professionals, per sources.

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

"Some are early-career journalists...but others are reporters with over a decade of experience. One thing they all had in common? Before last year they’d never heard of Outlier or even knew that this type of work existed."

Seems like it's, uh, a little late for "oversight" isn't it?

Ziff Davis, owner of sites including IGN and CNET, quietly removed DEI language from its website. 🔗 www.404media.co/ziff-davis-d...

No one can stop me from turning Aftermath into a theater blog

Phil Spencer that's not how games preservation works, that's not how any of this works: aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has canceled an upcoming Pride performance featuring the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C., days after President Donald Trump’s unprecedented move to name himself chairman of the prestigious institution. bit.ly/41nFf7m

Come ON

Microsoft hypes another generative AI model but doesn't really explain how it'll help developers The model will apparently 'support gameplay ideation and pave the way for future, novel, AI-based game experiences' www.gamedeveloper.com/production/m...

Loool

it appears Delaware Dems and the (also Dem) governor are attempting to rip up Delaware corporate law so they can give 55 billion dollars to Elon Musk, with a bill written by Elon's own lawyers www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/...

we've trained our new generative AI model on over 60,000 games where you traverse an open world performing combat and collecting new and better guns, and we're excited to see how creatives can use this technology to push the boundaries of what a video game can be

Silicon Valley's contempt for humanity exemplified in one horrendous piece of shit $700 brick of ewaste: www.404media.co/the-humane-a...

Please imagine that the blog I *just* published was about this instead of a gadget "While the real-time gameplay only ran at 10fps and a 300×180 resolution, it was an early demonstration of what might be possible in the future." www.theverge.com/news/615048/...

If there's a lesson to learn from the Humane AI pin's demise, it's to call bullshit on AI more often

I don't think I've ever had that happen with a FOIA request! www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

Judge won't block Musk and DOGE from accessing data, making cuts at 7 federal agencies

New by me —> As Walt Whitman once wrote, @nytimes.com is large. It contains multitudes. www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/the-...