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Weapons of Progress

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We are the weapons of progress.
We will educate you to forget. Embrace the future, because there is nothing else for you here.

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Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Evening Standard has secretly agreed a £3 million deal with companies, including Uber and Google, to provide them with “favourable” news coverage, without telling readers. opendemocracy.net/uk/james-cusic…

The Evening Standard has secretly agreed a £3 million deal with companies, including Uber and Google, to provide them with “favourable” news coverage, without telling readers. opendemocracy.net/uk/james-cusic…
Smiling Apple.jpg (@ellaguro) 's Twitter Profile Photo

kind of sad that nothing like emulation will exist in 10 years for obscure indie PC games on Steam like it does for obscure old console games that people forgot about, and many probably won't even exist online anymore anywhere

Weapons of Progress (@weaponprogress) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Epic will save us from Steam. No, hang on, Google will save us from Steam. That's what we need, what we've always needed. A big corporation that we can trust to save us from another big corporation.

Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸 (@mattdpearce) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Man, if you want to know anything about the essential nature of social media platforms, just check out what happened to Vine when the people on the service suddenly saw themselves as workers instead of users. From “Kids These Days”:

Man, if you want to know anything about the essential nature of social media platforms, just check out what happened to Vine when the people on the service suddenly saw themselves as workers instead of users.

From “Kids These Days”:
Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: Apple lobbyists have been meeting with lawmakers in California to try to kill right to repair legislation. Using a disassembled iPhone, they are telling lawmakers that people who try to fix their own phones are likely to hurt themselves on the battery motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…

Casey Explosion (@caseyexplosion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hey folks, today let's talk about the Epic Store sale, and why it's pissing off gamers and developers/publishers alike. Because it's easy to snark and say "lol, the Gamers™ are angry about a sale!" but this is a good deal more serious. To understand why, let's talk about sales!

Hey folks, today let's talk about the Epic Store sale, and why it's pissing off gamers and developers/publishers alike. Because it's easy to snark and say "lol, the Gamers™ are angry about a sale!" but this is a good deal more serious.

To understand why, let's talk about sales!
Chris Scullion (@scully1888) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Absolutely this. And it's wholly depressing that people literally and openly paid by publishers to help 'influence' their followings are considered more trusted than the press, who would be hounded out if they were ever 'caught' doing that.

Weapons of Progress (@weaponprogress) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Independent music education channels ... are also struggling with record labels’ claims. Most of these channels aren’t amassing tens of millions of followers or views. It’s not just 2/3 videos they have to worry about, either. It’s almost every video." theverge.com/2019/5/24/1863…

Rob Donoghue (@rdonoghue) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next week. The DRM'd books will stop working. I cannot believe that sentence. "The books will stop working." I keep saying it and it sounds worse each time.

Weapons of Progress (@weaponprogress) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What's fascinating about this sorry episode is that while we talk about the "wisdom of crowds" to fuel algorithms, it just needs one foolish idea to take hold - corrupting the whole edifice.

Alan Hazelden/Draknek & Friends (@draknek) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sentences I would happily never hear again: "I can't afford for this project to fail". This almost always means "I have unrealistic expectations of success, and refuse to have a backup plan".

Alexis Kennedy 🕯 (@alexiskennedy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I think this is a stronger point too. If your game doesn't stand out, you are also screwed. But the game is the ship, and marketing is the water. If your ship is crap, it'll sink, but if it has no water, it's going nowhere. x.com/cmayer0815/sta…