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🖱️ Game designer @ Forgotten Empires
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📚️ Indie SFF author
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Tech companies (incl. techified goods & services like Uber) are constantly looking to escape liability and accountability; to escape labour obligations to their workers; and to generally pass every buck to someone else. This is a widespread problem across the entire industry, and every country.
‘They have been running literally the same play for seven years: scare, hype (evoking media interest), and (eventually) release. Scare, hype, release. And repeat. Is it that hard to see?’ garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-reveng... by @garymarcus.bsky.social
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Just a little riff on a classic concept, made for some folks in my life for whom lamotrigine is a real boon. Apparently it's a great mood stabilizer.
here’s me from earlier on power & politics talking digital safety act (tldr: age appropriate design codes + duty to act responsibly > age bans)
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Jesse Felder
Supriya Dwivedi
BREAKING: Congress is moving to shield Uber and Lyft from lawsuits over crashes, injuries, and assaults.
A provision tucked into a must-pass transportation bill makes drivers individually liable in many cases — protecting the apps unless victims can prove “gross negligence” or criminal wrongdoing.
