but that would be a crime! instead, we'll just ask the companies to do the right thing, surely the only reason they're not already doing that is because they're unaware
I assume game studios are currently extremely well secured on par with film production considering how much money goes into it. Back in the day, maybe not so much. But then you might also be limited by the capabilities of portable data storage. Kind of harder to smuggle out a dozen floppy disks than one thumb drive. Plus, they literally get the FBI to investigate if they notice something gets stolen, so it's really not a simple thing to just walk out of work one day with the source code of the game you've been working on for years.
2 guys looking out at hell and one says 'it is even worse than I imagined' there are people all over the place saying things like "must be nice staying home all day", "yoga cured my cousin", "you don't look sick", "just be positive", "we are all tired" Artist is Glenn McCoy
Divulgazione e social: quando la competenza diventa un bersaglio
Non sono un frequentatore abituale di X (ex Twitter), non è il mio habitat naturale. Preferisco di gran lunga il fediverso, e in particolare Mastodon, dove il dialogo è più disteso, senza algoritmi e più rispettoso delle competenze. Continuo però a mantenere un account su X, principalmente per seguire voci che considero autorevoli e preziose.
Tra queste c’è un geologo, divulgatore scientifico e saggista italiano, noto anche per la sua presenza televisiva, che non si limita a spiegare: provoca, stimola, prende posizione. Lo seguo da anni, e apprezzo il suo coraggio nel dire cose scomode, specie quando si tratta di ambiente, pseudoscienza o gestione del territorio.
È proprio questa chiarezza che divide: c’è chi lo apprezza per la capacità di semplificare temi complessi e chi, al contrario, lo accusa di essere arrogante o ideologico.
Sui social tradizionali non esiste più un ambito di competenza: tutto si riduce a opinioni. Un geologo e divulgatore scientifico con trent’anni di esperienza viene contestato da profili “qualunque” che, senza alcuna preparazione, si sentono legittimati a correggerlo o ridicolizzarlo.
Sotto ogni suo post si accumulano commenti sprezzanti, battute, meme e accuse. C’è chi nega il cambiamento climatico, chi lo accusa di essere al servizio di qualche lobby o di voler fare solo propaganda. Il punto non è confutare con dati certi, ma sminuire, ironizzare, creare rumore. Sarebbe interessante vedere quegli stessi, così baldanzosi dietro la tastiera, trovarsi davanti alla lavagna a confutare i loro commenti, a voce alta, penna in mano.
Le piattaforme come X premiano la viralità, non l’autorevolezza. Più un contenuto genera reazioni, anche negative, più viene spinto in alto nei feed.
Il risvolto della medaglia? L’esperto, suo malgrado, può diventare una figura popolare proprio grazie alle polemiche. L’algoritmo trasforma il conflitto in visibilità, e in certi casi fa conoscere il divulgatore anche a chi altrimenti non l’avrebbe mai incontrato. Ma si tratta di una notorietà probabilmente distorta, basata più sull’arroganza e la cattiveria gratuita di chi attacca che sull’interesse reale per i contenuti.
La visibilità diventa così un’arma a doppio taglio: porta l’informazione a un pubblico maggiore, ma lo fa in un contesto saturo di ostilità.
Negli ultimi anni si è diffusa una retorica secondo cui ogni opinione ha lo stesso valore, a prescindere da chi la esprime. L’idea che “uno vale uno” si è trasformata, sui social, in un attacco sistematico verso chi possiede conoscenze reali, lavora con dati verificati o applica il metodo scientifico. L’idea che “uno vale uno” sui social tradizionali si è trasformata. L’espressione “uno vale uno” è spesso usata per affermare che ogni persona ha lo stesso diritto di parola. Questo è sacrosanto in una democrazia. Il problema nasce quando questo principio viene frainteso e usato per sostenere che tutte le opinioni si equivalgano, anche quando una è supportata da anni di studio e dati verificati e l’altra è solo un’impressione personale o una teoria campata in aria.
Chi rappresenta competenza viene spesso percepito come arrogante o distante, e non di rado diventa bersaglio di sfiducia o rabbia. Non serve argomentare, basta insinuare dubbi, sbeffeggiare, trasformare ogni affermazione in un’occasione per una battuta a effetto.
Esiste un’alternativa?
In ambienti come il Fediverso, ad esempio Mastodon, dove la conversazione si sviluppa senza intervento degli algoritmi i toni sono meno tossici, la comunicazione meno aggressiva, il rispetto per la competenza più presente e la visibilità non dipende da quanto rumore si riesce a fare.
Questo non significa che tutti siano d’accordo, ma il dissenso tende a manifestarsi in modo più civile e costruttivo. Per chi, come l’esperto che seguo, cerca un dialogo autentico potrebbe valere la pena esplorare questi spazi nel Fediverso.
I social tradizionali ormai non sono più solo luoghi di conversazione ma ambienti tossici dove il dibattito diventa scontro.
Forse è il momento di chiederci: vogliamo davvero continuare ad affidare la qualità del dibattito pubblico a piattaforme che premiano il rumore anziché il merito?
Three years [ago], the governor of St. Petersburg signed a sister-city agreement with the occupying authorities of Mariupol, the Ukrainian port city that was razed to the ground in a devastating Russian siege just weeks beforehand.
“Since then, St. Petersburg has hosted children from Mariupol for every camp session — both in summer and winter,” said Governor Alexander Beglov.
This summer, Russian authorities are organizing five three-week camp sessions for children from the occupied city. Each session is led by child psychologists, St. Petersburg schoolteachers and camp counselors who recently graduated from teacher training college.
More than 2,000 schoolchildren from Mariupol in total are expected to attend camps in St. Petersburg this year.
Initially, Russian authorities billed these summer programs as health and wellness retreats for children who had lived under Russian shelling.
But from the very first sessions, children were also taught to develop respect and love for the country that seized their home city.
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Today Ukraine has confirmed the deportation of 19,546 children from occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia, though experts say the real number is likely much higher.
In March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and his children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova in connection with these deportations.
Ukrainian experts say Russia is deliberately stripping these children of their Ukrainian identity and raising them to become Russians, turning minors into a new generation loyal to the Kremlin.
The educational program at Camp Druzhnykh lists goals that include fostering a national — that is, Russian — identity among the children.
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The camp also organizes a career fair where children can learn about the job market in Russia. In June, it featured a police college that accepts students as early as ninth grade. Students from the college spoke to the children about the ceremonial police oath and showed them how to take fingerprints.
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Now in high school, Masha [a girl form Mariupol, not her real name] quietly dreams of moving to St. Petersburg for university. But when she talks about the future, there is a sadness in her voice [...] “I used to think living in Russia was easy. But then my mom tried to get a job at Pyaterochka [a discount supermarket chain], and the salary was under 20,000 rubles (less than $253) — while the country’s minimum subsistence level is 17,000 ($215). That’s when I realized life in Russia is hard. You don’t live — you survive.”
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The suited line judges have been replaced by robots. Some argue it takes the theatrics out of the court and some players have reported difficulties with the tech.
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
Iran has long held that conflict with Israel can be managed by limiting its retaliation within clearly defined parameters. But through its preemptive attack, Israel has revealed that it is not a rational actor and upended the rules of war.
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Watchdogs say the spending coordination limits that Republicans are challenging were put in place to "guard against the corrupting effect of large campaign contributions."
Health officials warn of extreme heat due to climate change in Europe. UN expert calls for defossilization of economies to prevent human rights impacts. Are wealthy nations willing to take decisive action to phase out fossil fuels and protect our planet? #ClimateAction #DefossilizeEconomies
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Fossil fuel companies have for decades "instilled doubt about the need to act on, and the viability of, renewables," said U.N. climate expert Elisa Morgera.
From supermarkets to cafés and public transportation, everyday payments are made using WeChat or Alipay, two apps that have become essential to daily life in the country.
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RSS feeds are the way to go to keep in touch with events, but only when you want to and in a not addictive manner. Also, my philosophy is that some news is really really important only if somebody from my inner circle personally tells me something about it. Otherwise is just noise from media
In the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party, strategists think Project 2029 can shape the future agenda. But are they learning from past mistakes or ignoring the voices of progressives like Mamdani, Sanders, and AOC?
"Jake Sullivan's been a critical decision-maker in every Democratic catastrophe of the last decade," said one observer. "Why is he still in the inner circle?"
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In one of the world’s ‘hottest hotspots’ of biodiversity, an all-female team have turned a patch of forest into a haven for orchids, ferns, succulents and carnivorous plants
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Giugno 2025 si è chiuso con temperature eccezionalmente elevate in Toscana: oltre 40 gradi a Larciano e Massa, 38.4 a Cascina, dove per ben 20 giorni la colonnina di mercurio ha superato i 32 gradi. Nessuna pioggia, e un deficit di 38 millimetri rispetto alla media. Ma il dato più preoccupante non è solo il caldo in sé, bensì la frequenza con cui questi eventi si ripetono. È il segnale del cambiamento climatico in corso, e il rischio è quello dell’assuefazione: abituarci a condizioni che un tempo erano eccezionali. Scopri l’analisi completa su [nome del sito] e approfondisci cosa sta davvero cambiando nel nostro clima.
Il mese di giugno 2025 si è chiuso con un’ondata di calore intensa e persistente che ha investito gran parte della Toscana, registrando temperature decisamente sopra la media. I dati
Myself and some other users have been getting confused why we couldn't crosspost text posts.
Eg. I can't crosspost this https://piefed.social/post/993050 to https://piefed.
David Seymour is an evil individual and we as a society should be ashamed that we have given him this much power and that the media treat him with any degree of respect.
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in reply to Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name] • • •I don't understand those kind of scenarios. Isn't it trivial for anyone involved to just anonimously smuggle the code out?
Are those data handled like in a Mission: Impossible offline casino?
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in reply to graymess [he/him] • • •For current production, obviously, but those titles are quite literally close to abandonware range.
But I guess once they have the systems in place they use it for everything...