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New Head Of D&D Saying All The Right Things About Mending Burnt Bridges (opens the original)
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It’s been a bit tough to watch how Wizards of the Coast (WotC) has behaved regarding its beloved TTRPG Dungeons & Dragons the past couple of years. A game that was built from its inception on encouraging fans and creators to use the game to do new and interesting things suddenly saw its shepherd turn corporate IP gremlin. Harmless fan mods for other games got lawyerly attention. And then there was the fiasco around WotC changing D&D’s OGL license to make it far less open in the name of rent-seek
CDC Finally Gets Around To Acknowledging Half Of The Measles Fatalities We Know Exist (opens the original)
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While the game-playing that RFK Jr.’s CDC has conducted is ongoing, they can only keep up the charade for so long. The nation is undergoing the worst outbreak of measles in over three decades, with Pennsylvania currently the hardest hit of all the states. As we’ve discussed, there have now been four measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania and, presumably, nation-wide to date in 2026. For a month, the CDC played games with the data, refusing to report on any of those deaths, a direct slap in the f
More Xbox Layoffs They Promised Wouldn’t Happen After Acquisition Blitz (opens the original)
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That has resulted in sad situations like one developer literally receiving a promotion and a pink slip in the same week. I suppose it speaks to a sad state of mismanagement. But it’s not so sad for the affected person, who presumably now gets termination/severance pay at the higher rate, and gets to put a better job title on their CV. It’s not as sad as a pink slip and no promotion, at least; just more attention-getting.
Promises Made, Promises Broken: RFK Jr. Keeps COVID Vaccines From Children (opens the original)
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The velocity with which RFK Jr. continues to break the promises he made during his confirmation hearings is simply incredible. As we get further and further away from those hearings, which amazingly occurred only 21 months ago, we may lose sight of the assurances Kennedy gave directly to Congress about his plans if appointed to lead HHS. For the purposes of this post, here are two we’ll key in on. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) grilled Kennedy about the money he’s made in the private sector fro
September 11, 2026 – Techdirt (opens the original)
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There’s enshittification, and then there’s enshittification. Allow me to give you an example of each. For what we’ll call enshittification classic, there’s Xbox’s Game Pass service. A mere two years ago, Microsoft made all kinds of changes to Game Pass to coincide with a serious slowdown of subscriber adoption. Those changes included doing away with previous service tiers, introducing new tiers that came in at higher prices, the removal of day-1 access to first party titles for some of the tiers
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