Tag: protests

• When will physical video games go away? — I wouldn’t mind going fully digital (as I did on PC) if there was actual competition in digital purchasing. There is only one place to buy digital PS5 games, and the digital version is consistently more expensive than buying a physical copy.
• Studio Notes #25 (SimpleBits)
• item-flow (Robin Rendle)
• Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout (Piccalilli)
• Forty-Seven (Naz Hamid)
• The Mac Is Where I Am (Louie Mantia)
• Weeknotes 25:13 (Jeff Bridgforth)
• Versions (Jeff Bridgforth)
• Dunkey Direct 2 (Spaghetti Night) (YouTube)
• A no-hassle static site CMS (Go Make Things)
• It’s time to organize. (Ethan Marcotte)
• CSS Clicker — “an idle game themed around making websites”
• The Design of the New Swiss Passport (kottke.org)
• Steve Coogan Plays Four Roles in Dr. Strangelove Stage Adaptation (kottke.org)
• TV Garden: stream television channels from all over the world for free (kottke.org)
• Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech (kottke.org)
• Once Again From the Top (Jason Santa Maria)
• Video Game Backlog Zero (Tyler Sticka)

News

• France Fines Apple $162M for App Tracking Transparency, Taking the Side of Surveillance Advertisers Over Users
• Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD, and it might change to black
• Coyote vs. Acme is finally coming to theaters
• Plex is rolling out its big app redesign
• ChatGPT’s improved image generation is now available for free
• Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse hits theaters in 2027
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day puts Tom Holland back in the Spidey suit
• Keanu Reeves is coming back for John Wick 5
• Visible’s Plus Pro plan puts Verizon’s Unlimited Welcome to shame
• Nintendo Switch 2 specs: 1080p 120Hz display, 4K dock, mouse mode, and more
• The Nintendo Switch 2 arrives on June 5th for $449.99
• Lego announces magnificent Beauty and the Beast Castle set
• WordPress.com owner Automattic is laying off 16 percent of workers
• Thunderbird email is going pro to better compete with Gmail
• Superman’s latest trailer introduces his team of robot assistants
• Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ and Microsoft CEOs interrupted by another employee protestor: ‘shame on all of you’
• Tron: Ares blends the real world with the digital in its first trailer
• Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin passes Wayne Gretzky as NHL goals king — Many people thought this record would never be broken, and certainly not this soon.

Politics

Hashtag tariff week:

• Donald Trump announces tariffs that could raise the price of almost everything you buy
• Trump’s tariffs are ‘a debacle of epic proportions’ for the auto industry
• China retaliates with tariff that matches Trump’s
• Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns
• The AI industry doesn’t know if Trump just killed its GPU supply
• DOGE staffers gain access to US Citizenship and Immigration Services data
• More than 1,300 rallies worldwide protest Trump and Musk and ‘Millions’ may have protested Trump and Musk yesterday
• DOGE plans now reportedly include an IRS ‘hackathon’