Leigh Beadon

6 days ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

It’s time for the second in our series of posts about the winners of this year’s public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1929! We’ve already covered Best Remix winner Accoutrements, and now it’s time for a closer look at the winner of the Best Deep Cut category: A Pocketful of Peril! by Perrin EllisPerrin Ellis is our second returning winner, having won the Best Adaptation category in 2023 and 2022.

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

Many people don’t think of reproductive health and reproductive rights as tech issues, but they very much are — moreso than ever in a post-Dobbs America. The internet is vital to communication and spreading information around reproductive health care, while abortion drugs are changing the very nature of what reproductive rights protect.

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon |Stephen Stone

It’s been a while but we’ve got a double-winner this week from Thad, with a comment that took both first place for insightful and second place for funny, in response to the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling about Abrego Garcia:Wow, I never realized that Thomas, Alito, and all three of Trump’s appointees were Marxists. In second place on the insightful side, we’ve got Stephen T. Stone with a comment about the ramifications of this case:If only citizens get due process, nobody gets due process.

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

Today, we’re kicking off our series of posts about the winners of this year’s public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1929! We’ll be going through all six winners in no particular order, starting today with the winner in the Best Remix category: Accoutrements by Nora Katz. Nora Katz is one of our returning winners this year, having previously won Best Analog Game in 2022 with Nude On A Yellow Sofa, as well as receiving some honorable mentions since then.

2 weeks ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

Abrego Garcia is being held incommunicado in a foreign torture camp. As far as anyone knows, he has no idea that he is the subject of a Supreme Court ruling and a high-profile legal battle to get him home. He likely doesn’t even know if his family, or anyone else, knows where he is. We don’t know for sure either, as the government has refused to provide any official update on his whereabouts.