Notices by Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers (majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com)

There are plenty of people out there with deep, booming voices.

SAG-AFTRA challenges Epic Games over Darth Vader AI in Fortnite | VGC

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sag-aftra-challenges-epic-games-over-darth-vader-ai-in-fortnite/

#SAGAFTRA #EpicGames #Labor #VoiceActing #AI #Fortnite #Gaming

@dalias I mean if you want it to.

But who’s buying OG Doom from id (or Microsoft) in 2025?

There is, however, a new Doom game that released last week.

How's Doom going for y'all?

You know, the same Doom made by the company that revoked access to a ICC prosecutor's email account.

Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

#Trump #Sanctions #ICC #Microsoft #BDS #Tech

"Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked.

Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment."

Doom is made by id Software whose parent company is ZeniMax Media.

And guess who owns ZeniMax Media?

You guessed it!

MICROSOFT!

And guess who's on the BDS list?

https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft

https://www.bdsmovement.net/news/boycott-microsofts-xbox

#GenocideIsNotAGame

@blogdiva I don't know if they are funneling it to ChatGPT.

I think because they are using enterprise Microsoft products, it might be siloed off on private infrastructure.

Given the company I work for, I don’t think they'd want any of that data out there.

Especially since one of their corporate trainings pointed out Samsung's failure to protect their data.

Can someone tell me what the fuck this even means?!

New book alert!

As I sit here and reflect on the #MarchForPalestine yesterday, I'm reminded of all the organization and militancy of the movement.

That doesn't just happen overnight.

It takes building and studying.

But it also takes self-sacrifice. To remove oneself from the movement and to stand in solidarity with those different than you for a collective movement.

Not to think about how you're affected, but to what's happening with your fellow worker.

But to see the reactions today towards the #HandsOff marches from yesterday saddens me.

While it is important to critique movements to improve them, there are people who would rather tear them down altogether.

While I believe they didn't go far enough, I still believe that these people can be moved towards bigger causes.

While they may have been rather "tame" or "safe", under a police state that is not actually true. State violence doesn't have to be physical or immediate.

My son just discovered that the US is the richest country in the world.

Naturally, he first question was "Why is their poor people?”

I don't think he's ready.

Neither am I because I don't know how to make it simple enough to explain to him.

More and more companies are trying to weasel out of accountability to either kill us or enslave us!

Amazon wants the Consumer Product Safety Commission deemed 'unconstitutional'

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/amazon-wants-the-consumer-product-safety-commission-deemed-unconstitutional-211037804.html?src=rss

#Amazon #CPSC #Consumers #Safety #Tech

I need a really good cushion for my desk chair.

Any recommendations?

Well, that escalated quickly!
https://particle.news/share/ma0fL

I never understood why this app was behind a paywall.

Pocket Casts makes its web player and desktop apps usable without a subscription

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/pocket-casts-makes-its-web-player-and-desktop-apps-usable-without-a-subscription-193035046.html?src=rss

#PocketCasts #Podcast #App #Free #Tech

Watching a video about first responders losing health benefits due to this administration.

The first comment I see:

"They probably voted for him!"

Second:

"This is what you get!"

Why not:

"Yo, this is fucked up! We should do something!"

Just fucking trash people that I hope one day will see a better tomorrow!

Liberals make me angrier than conservatives do.

With conservatives, you get what you pay for.

Liberals, on the other hand, will wish literal death on you if their candidate didn't win!

Their support is extremely transactional!

They look at what's happening and say "This is what y'all get!" instead of fighting against unjust systems!

It makes me fucking sick to my stomach!

I'm trying to be as measured as I can about this.

I don't know if this is legitimate and maybe someone here can help me verify it.

Lately, I have been receiving one-off mentions about people asking for help buying diabetes medication.

Some of them have been posting as if they are coming from Gaza.

As a diabetic who posts about Gaza a lot, I find it odd that this is happening.

Especially when the accounts are posting anything else and were created the day before.

@renedario Because that introduces politics into a conversation that they aren't willing or ready to have.

It's almost as if they actually acknowledge how shitty all of this is, it'll all fall apart and they wouldn't be able to justify their jobs anymore because it's centered around this system.

Naw, I'm good!

I want fast speeds, not fascist speeds!
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