TrooperBari

It is actually possible to regulate gambling advertising, and while designing such a regulatory regime could be complicated, it can also be very simple, such as "there shall be no gambling advertising".

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TONIGHT: We return to #TheLongDark, just in time for a fresh dev diary. There will be much speculation about Episode 5 and Perseverance Mills as I continue to prep for having Astrid live in the mine for a month. Live NOW at www.twitch.tv/trooperbari/!

I missed seeing Methuselah. Still can't make heads or tails of what he's saying, but he's such a reassuring presence.

Ep 5 drops 1am Hong Kong time. Good thing I have April 1 off work, because it's going to be a late night.

I couldn't be a part of this. Staying would just affirm what I think of as a deeply corrupt practice that is also an invasion of my privacy.

“The memo also bars reporters from requesting public records through the Freedom of Information Act…”

your vote is rarely the single decisive vote

but sometimes it is! and you never know when that might be

Saw a lot of that during Next Fest. Demos with disclosures like "AI was ONLY used to..." -- so you admit you used it, then? One said it was to take the burden off people who were volunteering their time to make the game. How noble!

Do you know one thing that annoys me? Developers who'll use the AI generated content disclosure to plead why they're just a teeny tiny dev who's just gotta use AI, and you can't be upset because they're just a little guy who has to use it, they're just a little AI guy.

If either state lived up to their nominal founding ideals, who they played for would be ideologically relevant but the U.S. government is hostile to liberalism and the PRC are closer to Reagan's McWorld with red paint than Marx's utopia, so I just hope both girls stay safe and have fun careers.

I don't know, but I guess it bothers me some that the President of the United States posted on social media that it is his great honor to be killing people. 🤷‍♂️

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Ben Mullin @BenMullin scooplet: at the meeting, Jeff Bezos also said he had spurned seven (!) offers to sell The Post

So, Bezos doesn't want to sell the Washpost.

And he doesn't want to spend what it'd take to attract the audience the Washpost needs.

(Via @benmullin.bsky.social's account of the meeting Bezos had yesterday with Post reporters and editors)

tired: harassing athletes for not covering the spread
wired: harassing journalists for not making things up

So we finished Relooted -- and the game crashed. Again. Right before the final mission, and right before the credits. Killed the momentum and my stream, but not my overall opinion. Credit to @nyamakop.co.za, they made a fun game I recommend to others. Just hope the next one is a bit more stable.

Twitch Twitch is the world

TONIGHT: We're finishing Relooted by @nyamakop.co.za! The game turbocrashed before the final mission last stream and took my computer with it, but tonight will be better. What was Etienne thinking?

Then, more demos. I'm thinking Truckful and/or Alabaster Dawn. Live NOW at www.twitch.tv/trooperbari/

Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft "We encourage others in the industry to join us and take a stand."

all will rise is handing back Microsoft money & pledging @nogamesforgenocide.com — it’s a difficult thing to do when funding and attention are scarce commodities for indies like us, but we hope more of our fellow devs and indie studios will join us in taking a stand 🔥
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

The leadership is focused on showing how patriotic they are, and the ideas for young people boil down to "go to the mainland". So ... seems unlikely.

The 2028 primary calendar isn't set, but remember that California is one of 15 Super Tuesday primaries/caucuses in early March. Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina could all go first, and good luck thinking this ambulatory haircut plays outside the Bay Area. Ignore the astroturfing.

"These data come from parallel surveys of California voters and policy influencers, fielded by TrueDot, the AI-accelerated research platform, in collaboration with the Citrin Center at UC Berkeley and POLITICO."

That's good to hear. I had a doctor tell me something similar, that by your 40s there's no point in getting the vaccine because it's assumed you've had multiple partners and thus were exposed to HPV strains. I'll have to raise that next time I see my current doctor.

You don't fucking say.

42 people. millions of trans people are being tortured by their governments because of 42 people.

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.

I'd love to see Big Ao make the jump, but I just can't bring myself to cheer against Papayasu.

CJEU press release: Member State legislation which does not permit the amendment of the gender data of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to freedom of movement is contrary to EU law A Bulgarian national was registered at birth as being male, with a name, personal identification number and identity documents corresponding to that sex. She currently lives in Italy, where she has begun hormone therapy, and now presents herself as a woman. She instituted proceedings before the Bulgarian courts seeking a declaration that she is a female person and to have her civil status data amended on her birth certificate. Despite the medical opinions and legal assessments confirming the gender identity claimed, her request was rejected. According to national legislation, as interpreted by the plenary assembly of civil chambers of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation, the term ‘sex’ must be understood in its biological sense, excluding any amendment of the particulars relating to sex, name and identification number. The public interest, based on the moral and/or religious values of Bulgarian society, thus prevails over the interests of transgender persons. Hearing the dispute, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has doubts as to the compatibility of that legislation with EU law and has referred the matter to the Court of Justice. In its judgment, the Court holds that EU law precludes legislation of a Member State which does not permit the amendment of the gender data in the civil status registers of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to move and reside freely in another Member State. The Court emphasises first of all that, while the issue of identity documents falls within the competence of the Member States, they must exercise that competence in compliance with EU law...

Huge trans rights ruling from the EU's top court - if someone moves to another EU country and transitions, their home country can't refuse to amend their registration details to match their lived gender identity

Uff-da jeg. I had thoughts about going somewhere farther afield this year, but it looks like my travel plans won't extend much past Taiwan instead.

Meanwhile, if you are cis...

I think one issue is that we have binary concepts in conflicts. So if the USA has become 'bad' then their direct opponent becomes 'good'.

Even though human societies are far more complex than that, and its historically been entirely possible for two autocratic powers to be in conflict.