No more time for #Bluesky means a little more time for #nostr. Let's see.

This Week in Videogames

Tomb Raider Remastered Developer Accused of Non-Consensual AI Use

The longtime French voice of Lara Croft has accused Aspyr Media of using AI to replicate her voice for new lines, without her consent.

Good for Mme Cadol, and every such lawsuit hopefully helps educate an industry that is notoriously bad at learning lessons otherwise. Let these companies and their shareholders bleed more money than they ever hoped to save by taking exploitative shortcuts.

@𝖘𝖊𝖙𝖙𝖔 Let nobody say I'm not quick to change my mind at times. Thanks to everything you said, I quit Masto. x) Granted, my confusion at 'mostr' bridged accounts led to me believing more ppl are using it already than I thought and it doesn't seem possible to reply to those bridged posts with them seeing them, but eh, give it a few years I suppose. My ties on socmed are loose, and the important ppl are all also on Bsky anyway, if not here. So anyway, thanks for your patient explaining, it paid off I suppose, I treat nostr as the go-to free web/socmed for now and will recommend it as such.

I've been here a while, sporadically checking and posting, but my impression stands: the anything-but-obvious path to using #nostr both on desktop and mobile, and the lack of a quick and seamless setup and onboarding for any kind of person with near-zero foreknowledge is what I think the greatest entry barrier for most people. Compared to this, Fedi is a cakewalk (and it always felt that way to me, but apparently not to most people).

I sometimes feel that there's his impulse a *lot* of people seem to have to inwardly or openly resent other people for being more active, more helpful, more constructive, generally 'do-gooders'. I don't get it. I mean, I'm fully aware I'm not as useful to my causes of interest as much as I maybe could be. But that doesn't translate into resentment for me. It just makes makes me support the people who do something, in any way I can.

Already from back in December, just in case anyone was wondering where *that* particular company is going.

The Independent

Disney withdraws from ‘culture wars’ amid bruising encounters with Trump and DeSantis

Company chose to settle a defamation lawsuit with Trump last week, leading to pushback

Another great idea from our techbro overlords. The nonsense of 'Earthscrapers':

It seems impossible to get or mod a #degoogled phone smaller than 6". The only candidate seems to be e/OS/ on an Asus Zenfone 8. Hard enough to find smaller phones these days, but degoogled? Forget it. ;_;

So, last year at #Davos, 250 #millionaires + #billionaires demanded to be taxed more because they fear for the stability of democracy when inequality rises. This year, it's been 370. Maybe these people should meaningfully donate to left parties and projects if they're being serious? #taxtherich

'Control the conversation', 'Never play defense' and other chapters from the "alt-right playbook" ( )all have one thing in common: bad actors do or say something short, wrong and bad, and we feel compelled to invest time and energy to explain at length why it was wrong and bad. I have no recipe how to resist this, other than that we should try to be the ones who determine what we focus on, not them. #hitlersalute #elonmusk

@𝖘𝖊𝖙𝖙𝖔 Thanks for the nostr address / NIP-05! It seems on my current domain endolexis.net I can't manage the "well-known" file without also renting webspace, which I'll probably only do once I have an idea what to use it for. So I'll stick with this yoursfor now, thanks! :)

"The Lost Art of #collectivist #RPGs -- With the #Gothic Remake on the horizon and #PiranhaBytes 6 feet under, the #CrocodileGambit channel saw an opportunity to compare #Gothic2 to #Skyrim to really nail down what makes the #Gothic-Like formula.