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2026-08-15T01:05:36Z

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> ***Companies that kept policies did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as those that didn’t***
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> Conservative backlash was supposed to put an end to the diversity, inclusion and equity (DEI) movement as companies were warned “go woke, go broke”.
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> In January 2025, Donald Trump delivered a death knell, ending DEI within the federal government with executive orders and threatening to target companies that still supported it. Companies including Google, Goldman Sachs, McDonald’s and Walmart that had embraced DEI years earlier fell into line and announced an end to their policies.
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> But new research published on Friday and shared exclusively with the Guardian found that companies that resisted the pressure and kept their DEI practices, including Costco, Apple and Delta Air Lines, performed just as well as their competitors who pulled back.

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2026-08-13T15:27:35Z

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2026-08-06T15:01:32Z

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2026-08-02T15:20:18Z

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2026-08-01T17:37:23Z

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2026-07-30T20:59:39Z

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2026-07-28T20:58:38Z

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2026-07-28T20:31:10Z

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2026-07-28T20:29:20Z

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> Sega is the latest publisher to make its views about physical media clear, in the wake of Sony's controversial decision to kill off the manufacture and sale of discs by 2028. The president of the Japanese publisher, Shuji Utsumi, noted that he believes physical media is still important, though digital distribution is "crucial", mostly thanks to the "steadily increasing" number of people playing on PC.
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> "When it comes to titles we call 'full games' for consoles and PCs, we believe that a digital shift is crucial," he notes in an interview with Japanese publication Famitsu. "Of course, consoles are important, but the proportion of people who play on PCs is steadily increasing. Even in areas where consoles are not widely available, there are many people who say, 'I can play it on PC.
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> "In order to cultivate that market, we believe it is important to strengthen our digitalisation. We tend to think from a physical perspective, so I think we need to be more digitally conscious and become more global."
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> He then draws on Sega's own legacy, noting that - once upon a time - the company was in the hardware market itself. It learned some pretty important lessons back then, and since dropping out of the hardware race, Sega has found massive success as a publisher. This seems to colour Utsumi's belief in physical media.
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> "We were originally a platform provider, and of course, we still value the culture of physical media. Rather than completely abandoning that, we are currently challenging ourselves to shift so that we can think about and act on the important aspects of digital media in parallel."
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> Given the response to Sony and PlayStation's decision to move away from physical media altogether, this is quite refreshing. Many have outlined how a digital-only future could impact consumer rights, whilst others have begun petitioning Sony in the hopes the company will change its mind. The hardware giant seems immovable in its stance at the moment, however, likely emboldened by the fact that even the EU will be unable to influence its decision.
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> Other creators have begun weighing in on the matter, too, with the most recent comments coming from the creator of the RPG series, Disgaea. Sohei Niikawa believes that if PlayStation kills physical media, it should "get rid of the hardware" too.

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2026-07-28T20:14:48Z

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2026-07-23T21:58:52Z

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2026-07-23T20:54:49Z

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2026-07-23T20:46:47Z

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2026-07-23T20:23:16Z

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> crosspost from https://piefed.zip/c/lemmyshitpost@piefed.zip/p/1619308/videogames-then-and-now

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2026-07-19T21:57:06Z

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> The only reason I keep Facebook is for unhinged stuff like this

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2026-07-18T22:48:28Z

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2026-07-18T20:32:13Z

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2026-07-16T03:37:37Z

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> https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/116918612882977832

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2026-07-04T16:09:32Z

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2026-07-04T00:34:50Z

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2026-06-27T21:37:13Z

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> > Tim Sweeney claims it’s a “Scarlet Letter” which makes players “try to kill the game”
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> >Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has criticised rival Valve for forcing studios to disclose when they use AI in game development.
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> > Epic recently showed how it was integrating AI into Unreal Engine 6.
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> Time Sweeney said:
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> > “If you want to launch a game, and get it as widely publicized as possible, you’ve got to put it on Steam so people can wish list it, and if you want to play it on Steam, then you have to get this Scarlet Letter of AI attached to your product, and now there is a hater community trying to kill the game.
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> >“I think it’s really irresponsible of Valve. They shouldn’t do it, because it makes it much, much, much harder for a game developer to have a chance of success. You have to choose from either not using tools that can make you way more productive, and probably failing due to competition that does.”
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> Which is totally ignoring the factor that the user should know about the purchase it makes and be able to decide for themselves. Transparency for the player is not a bad thing.

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2026-06-24T17:14:30Z

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2026-06-18T19:11:22Z

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> Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It's devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.
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> Lemmy doesn't track an account's karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won't affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.
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> Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won't be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.

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2026-06-17T06:18:15Z

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> A license verification certificate expires and when it expires, Microsoft Office for Mac assumes it's unlicensed even if it has been fully paid for.
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> So, any idiot who paid for Office 2019 for Mac "perpetual" will lose access to it next month.
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> The same will happen with Office 2021 and Office 2024 in the future.
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> Pirates are unaffected, only who paid for the product gets punished
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> Good job 👍🏻

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2026-06-16T22:45:59Z

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> > The US Department of Defense has a lot of congressionally mandated homework to do every year involving hundreds of required reports on various national security topics. But Pentagon officials have been proudly describing a new shortcut—using generative AI tools to write such reports for Congress.
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> > Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael highlighted AI-generated reports to Congress as a key example of how the Department of Defense—stylized as the Department of War under the Trump administration—has adopted generative AI during an event hosted by the Hudson Institute think tank in Washington, DC, on June 12. The Pentagon has made AI tools, starting with Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government, widely available to members of all six military branches through the department’s bespoke GenAI.mil platform since December 2025.
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> > “I have to report to Congress every year on this thing,” Michael said. “Let me load all the papers onto it and have it draft me a congressional report that would otherwise take 200 hours of staffing time and do it in five hours.”

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2026-06-09T03:32:35Z

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> Mormon leaders, military veterans and elected officials reacted with anger to a new Department of Defense policy that does not consider The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be a Christian religion as part of a wider effort to cut down the U.S. military’s list of recognized faiths.
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> “The Pentagon’s decision to list The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apart from other Christian faiths is wrong and needs to be corrected,” Republican Rep. Mike Kennedy, of heavily Mormon Utah, wrote on X on Sunday.

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2026-06-07T01:14:23Z

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2026-06-04T05:09:06Z

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2026-06-03T21:52:01Z

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> > A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
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> [Archived copy of the article](https://archive.ph/JC2lo)

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2026-05-27T21:10:46Z

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2026-05-27T17:53:38Z

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2026-05-16T16:51:43Z

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2026-04-16T22:57:07Z

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> U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression, listing it among the Trump administration's top achievements.
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> Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Athens, Georgia, Vance recalled being confronted by a Ukrainian-American over his calls to halt funding for Ukraine.
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> "And this person got really agitated at me because I was saying we should stop funding the Ukraine war," Vance said.