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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

3 days ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

This week, we’ve got a double winner taking first place for both insightful and funny.
Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Honorable Mentions

4 days ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

This is a brief detour 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 the Best Remix, Best Deep Cut, and Best Visuals, and Best Adaptation, but before we move on to the last two categories (Best Analog Game and Best Digital Game), let’s take a moment to run through the honorable mentions that we included in every category this year. First up, the honorable mention for Best Remix went to Eleanor by Micah McFarland.
IRS-ICE Immigrant Data Sharing Agreement Betrays Data Privacy And Taxpayers’ Trust

5 days ago | techdirt.com | Matthew Guariglia |Saira Hussain

In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Department of Treasury and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently reached an agreement allowing the IRS to share with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) taxpayer information of certain immigrants. The redacted 15-page memorandum of understanding (MOU) was exposed in a court case, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos v.
The Clock Is Ticking! Get Your Copy Of Our Social Media Card Game Before It’s Too Late

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

Do you have what it takes to run a social media network that grows to one billion users and beyond? That’s the question in our new card game, One Billion Users, which we successfully funded on Kickstarter last year. Now the game is entering production, and since we have no plans to make more copies after this, it’s your last chance to get one for yourself. The Kickstarter is accepting late pledges through the end of tomorrow, Wednesday May 7th.
Funniest/Most Insightul Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Bruce C. with a reply to a comment that attempted to downplay the recent behavior of federal agents:Even plain clothes officers are required to carry their badge. If they were undercover officers they shouldn’t be presenting themselves as officers to civilians unless they desire to blow their cover. In second place, it’s Strawb with another comment about that same incident in Texas:What is it law enforcement is fond of saying?
Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Calder’s Circus

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

This is the fourth 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 the Best Remix, Best Deep Cut, and Best Visuals, and today we’re looking at the winner of the Best Adaptation category: Calder’s Circus by David Harris. Regular followers of the jam are surely familiar with David Harris, our one regular entrant who has won a category every single year.
Even Better: Bethesda Gives Full Throat Endorsement Of ‘Skyblivion’

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Timothy Geigner

One of things we’ve talked about repeatedly is how much better it would be for content producers, instead of immediately defaulting to behaving like IP protectionists, to treat their fans in a human and awesome way. There are times when the need for protecting IP makes sense, but there are far more times when creative avenues could be explored to allow fans to express themselves, or to simply leave the whole thing alone if it doesn’t represent any actual danger or negative outcomes.
Texas Bookstores Push Back Against Bill That Would Allow Them To Be Sued Over ‘Harmful’ Content

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Tim Cushing

The free, independent state of Texas continues to make it clear it only respects certain rights and freedoms and only those that adhere to the Holy Trinity of guns, God, and, um… Nazi-adjacent Cybertruck manufacturers. A number of efforts have been made to remove books from schools and public libraries in recent years. None of those efforts are still intact, despite the decidedly conservative stance of local state and federal courts.
Trump Admits He Could Get Abrego Garcia Back, But Angrily Insists Non-Existent Tattoos Are The Reason He Won’t

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Mike Masnick

Bizarrely buried near the bottom of NY Times article about the chaos behind the renditioning of people to a Salvadoran gulag is an important detail: the US and El Salvador have already brought back eight people who were “mistakenly” sent there: In Washington, the Trump administration was working to address Mr. Bukele’s confusion about whom the United States had sent him. Eight women who had been mistakenly sent were swiftly flown back.
Trump Administration Violated Human Rights Law By Paying El Salvador To Imprison Immigrants

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Tim Cushing

This comes as no surprise. Pretty much everything about Trump’s extrajudicial rendering of undocumented migrants to a foreign hellhole prison has been awful, but rarely lawful, to twist a phrase that’s already pretty twisted.