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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.

"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

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Meta is in more hot water.

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

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.

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

This video is about vechicular biking, but John Forrester reminds me of every 4chan edgelord that wants to defend their fandom from "tourists", and also those metalheads who thought listening to even old Metallica instead of some tech death curiosity will somehow destroy metal.

I might do a deeper research on fandom gatekeeping one day.

May I Ask For One Final Thing? delivers the best kind of wish fulfillment: evil rich jerks who really deserve it getting punched in the face.

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The right wing claims the corporation is ‘pro-trans’, but the people at the sharp end of its coverage disagree. The BBC must stop its attack on trans people.

We traveled to Edinburgh to meet the 31 employees fired from Rockstar Games ahead of the release of Grand Theft Auto 6. Rockstar claims these firings were due to "gross misconduct", but the workers have another two words they prefer to use instead: "union busting".

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/623795

"When companies do something like this, you can't just slink away and hide anymore"

Right-wing content creators managed to successfully brand the Portland police as ‘antifa.’

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“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

On Oct. 19, American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky was found dead in his Charlotte, N.C. home. He was a few weeks shy of his 30th birthday, and his death, which police say is being investigated as a possible overdose or suicide, has rocked the chess world. The U.S. Chess Championships held a moment of silence…

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Love and Deepspace has been out for almost two years now, but its playerbase is growing increasingly exasperated over a persistent issue impacting players with dark-skinned custom main characters: their characters are literally invisible.