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  BlueSky pays lip service to federation, but they've set it up so that they've got effective control of 99% of the network. It's a sham to convince people they're different from every other corporate-owned social media platform, but it really isn't.

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  You might be right about the relative impact of AI alone, but there are like a dozen different problems threatening the job market all at once. Added up, I do think we are heading towards a future where we have to start rethinking how our society handles employment. A world where robots do most of the hard work for us ought to be a utopia, but as you say, capitalism uses unemployment as a threat. If you can't get a job, you starve and die. That has to change in a world where we'll have...

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  Pretty much every 2D game did.

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  With Splatoon 1, it's worth noting that the first few content updates were already on the disc, and would be automatically activated over time without actually downloading anything. Some of the maps from the first wave even appeared in story mode. So it wasn't a matter of them rushing an unfinished game, but a calculated move to drip-feed content as a way of keeping players coming back on a regular basis. A lot of Splatoon's design decisions can be directly attributed to a fear tha...