ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 minutes ago (1 children)

Nah, all good - it's your page, do it how you want, just trying to help by giving a perspective. Thanks for doing it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago) (4 children)

I've been waiting for journalists to link the executive orders to specific Project 2025 items, so this is great.

If I have one suggestion, it's actually to either tone down or move the editorializing (the site's opening text box content).

It seems strange to say this - I frequently call out the slow-motion trainwreck that is our descent into fascism - but the large type "FASCISM" references on the tracker page may be counterproductive to this being a widely-used resource. To some, they will close the page thinking it's another conspiracy theorist manifesto or something. The people who need to see and trust this probably first need to trust that these are facts with or without an agenda.

You could also move it to a "why did I start this project" page to not distract from the tracker.

The implementation of Project 2025 is terrifying enough, or at least should be. But journalism is failing to track it. This is great work.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What gets measured gets improved. The inverse is also true - what doesn't get (or can't be) measured deteriorates.

Google had a uniquely employee-friendly culture and probably the highest morale amongst the FAANG companies. But Sundar apparently couldn't assign a value to that like he could quarterly balance sheet improvements, and at some point it appears to have disappeared from his decision tree entirely.

So it's no surprise they discarded their entire company culture and are so concerned with the same Wall Street-pleasing nonsense efficiency metrics as a typical company. Google is no longer special in any way.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 hours ago

Murkowski and Collins are going to furrow their brows sooo hard this time, while they wait for Thune to confirm there are enough yes votes to confirm him, so they can vote no.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's opposite decade in the US.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Would you do us a public service and just keep this counter going in random comments? I could really use some indication that time is actually passing and not just looping.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

They'll never publicly sell him out, because he's already attained mythical status to his base.

He is a cult leader, and those around him want that for themselves. They know he's old and just all want to be the one he hands the cult over to.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 18 hours ago

Pretty funny, hopefully no humans get caught up in it, though. It's the kind of thing a serious stupid person could call the cops on.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 19 hours ago

I used to think that this kind of statement would make people trust Trump less. But no, this is actually going to continue to convince more people that DEI is bad.

I've learned that a huge amount of people seem incapable of seeing pathological lying. To them, Trump's comments don't lower the dignity of the presidency, they simply gained the credibility of the presidency.

It's so backwards, it's hard to even admit to myself that that is how this is all working, but it's exactly as people with dark triad mental disorders wish it, when being manipulative like Trump - their methods in fact work. And the fact that "DEI" and "crash" were used in the same sentence means that it is going to reinforce a lot of prejudices that DEI is somehow making us less safe.

So this is digging us deeper, and oof, it's not even February 2025 and it's physically hard to keep watching. It's also hard to imagine the amount of effort it will take to dig out of this hole, when we have four years of digging us deeper to still watch.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

The articles have been confusing - I guess they're announcing a physical location, but also it's a digital archive you can access on a website. Don't know why they have a landing page that doesn't clearly link to it: https://archive.gamehistory.org/

They may just have taken down the link because it's getting hugged to death.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

It's an incredible resource - here's hoping the publishers don't kill it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

It doesn't set any binding legal precedent, but it does send a message that has similar practical effects.

 

The editor-in-chief of The Verge posts a uniquely analytical, tech-site-minded endorsement of Kamala Harris.

 

Sorry if this is redundant, I didn't see another thread focused on reactions to the game itself (just the Pokemon-ripoff news cycle).

I tried it on GamePass thinking, why not - might as well see how overhyped it is. And unexpectedly, I put in about 8 hours this weekend.

Despite some rough edges and some very clear inspiration, I am actually enjoying it. It has a very satisfying gameplay feedback loop and is an overdue (if involuntary) "modernization" of the basic monster-collector format.

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