"I'm pretty close to death right now," laughs Masayoshi Soken.

"The ones who made the games are outside. [Bosses and executives] are inside patting themselves on the back"

Archived: https://archive.ph/jm2g8

Long before LibsofTikTok and Elon Musk called on parents to cancel Netflix, cartoons were already on the tail end of their queer renaissance.

Archived version: https://archive.is/9rr2A

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40188774

Woman of the Year Accurso is officially one of the world’s most influential entertainers. She has now outraged Israel lobby groups by daring to empathise with — and weep over — the tens of thousands of Palestinian children maimed and murdered during the post-October 2023 phase of the genocide.

Accurso, who is Jewish, stated that “constant attacks” by ‘StopAntisemitism’ had led to the spike in threats hurled at her. This comes after the account accused her of “Hamas-aligned propaganda.” The propaganda referred to is her posts and videos about the suffering of Palestinian children. Also for raising funds to help them.

I decided to do some research on such online harassment campaigns. What I noticed that there are multiple online harassment campaigns that, similarly to Gamergate:

• start on some levels of misinformation, usually by twisting the words or actions of the target,
• the harassers control the narrative online by attacking anyone daring to oppose it in any way of form, by further harassment,
• the harassers not satisfied until the main target (and often the newer targets) are ran off the internet, or some other demands are met.

I know that 4chan had a few rounds with harassment campaigns of the past, and I also have some suspicion that some 4chan users really wanted to chase the Project Chanology fame, but failing miserably. I did notice that some people have a weirdly specific brand of "mental health activism", that seems like it was made around the fact that the Church of Scientology was strongly anti-psychiatry, with some of those people even being leftists. I however do not remember too much of it, save for that they allegedly caused some teen girls commit suicide.

Robin Ince forced to quit Radio 4 over pro-trans views - Comic leaves Infinite Monkey Cage after pressure from bosses

id Software is the latest Microsoft-acquired team to organize

How the systems that fight misinformation and disinformation became misconstrued and dismantled.

Archived version: https://archive.is/W8Hvb

Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.

A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work and relocate from their homes.

Archived: https://archive.is/lB409

Once Tamifull’s manga moves beyond its load-bearing yuri-for-straights scaffolding, it blossoms into a remarkable queer romance

Archived version: https://archive.ph/7o85h

I’ve been a fan of shoujo manga for 20 years, and for much of that, I’ve been fighting to get other manga readers to take it more seriously. I even started a podcast, Shojo & Tell, where I talk to other fans and industry professionals about it. Even so, the word “shoujo” for me evokes knee-jerk stereotypes and assumptions that I have to consciously fight against.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/49658353

"Who cares if it's a lot of people? Who cares if it's long? They all did something and they deserve credit"

"I really don’t want this to happen to anyone else, because I feel like with the state of everything, it will absolutely happen to other people," says Drew Harrison

Archived version: https://archive.is/ixKKW

Following our previous report on the Rockstar union members fired for gross misconduct, another employee at the studio got in touch with People Make Games to share screenshots showing what they believe to be some of the key evidence used by the company to justify its decision.

Rockstar has stated that these terminations happened because the workers had shared "confidential information on a public forum", but that's not how the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain describes it. Instead, it says this is actually about union busting, with Rockstar's management hoping to use whatever reasoning they can in order to destroy a union movement that was going from strength to strength.

Meta is in more hot water.

David Baszucki spoke to the New York Times' Hard Fork podcast about the app's pedophile problem

The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.

Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social media, at their workplaces, graduating from universities, taking selfies on vacation, and more.

Archived version: https://archive.is/jT5Mv

The winner of the National Atari 2600 Space Invaders Championship among countless other professional game dev accomplishments passed away after a battle with cancer.