This is a big hit to gaming. Polygon was a reliable source and employed a lot of knowledgeable and passionate writers and creators. It had its critics because it didn't cater to gamergate, but for most of us that was a good thing.
Valnet has blown up many sites before to make unreliable content farms. They practically invented the business.
I hope the laid off writers at Polygon are able to make something like 404media.
I'm confident leadership whipped the votes hard on this one, probably as a futile show of unity. That's where the blame lies.
It would indeed be nice to see a few democrats resisting attacks on the constitution and such but in the house a small number of voices cannot block legislation like in the senate.
I would also like to hear an explanation from AOC just to understand the politics of not acting as the singular democratic "no" vote here. But I'm not going to hold her to task given the obvious failure of leadership.
I am not really in the know about Shapiro's position on the ongoing genocide. Previously, I thought the campaign against him smelled off.
I'd like to take this article at face value, but given the publication's track record of indirectly supporting genocide through false equivalence and whataboutism, I can't. Unfortunately for Josh Shapiro such a defense will inevitably have the opposite effect, though I doubt he asked the Atlantic to run this piece.
This is not a drill. This would mean Beehaw would be at risk of being held liable for content users post. A single bad apple, intentional or otherwise, could end this community. Or any other fediverse instance.
Not to mention all the other dangerous "ministry of truth" type stuff they're trying stuff into the bill.
It's a tight race, the ADL straight up defended a Nazi solute (that was repeated for emphasis). They never took back that support either, merely regretted the "framing".
For a concurring perspective, I'm not a fan of gender roles either. But I can't imagine the way to solve the problems gender roles create is to somehow remove a related gender identity. Trying to repress a gender has never worked well, and I don't think repressing a masculine gender would be any different. Gender identity has existed for all of recorded human history, and even seems to have taken some form in prehistoric times (fertility idols and such). I think the way forward is to let a thousand flowers bloom and let anyone who wants to explore or define their own gender to do so.
Right? Imagine being the white man chosen to go to the moon based on skin color and gender, knowing that more qualified astronauts had been passed up and that you are effectively propaganda. That would not be a great moment.
There is bad clickbait out there and we do have to remain skeptical. So much is actively harmful.
To dismiss good content because it seeks an audience is to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Indeed, by dismissing higher quality content as clickbait you can unintentionally elevate the true clickbait by putting them on the same level. I'm sure you don't intend this.
Headlines, titles, thumbs don't really matter if the content is valuable. This video really was pretty good! I'd rather 14 y/o nerds or whoever watch this than some SpaceX worship or whatever other similar junk might be out there.
An important part of media literacy is understanding sources and context. This YouTube creator is anything but clickbait on the topic of orbital mechanics.
Nice work. Took until about now for me to be able to upvote and post. Solid for a small org like beehaw!