When the people who you'd expect to give a shit don't

The bar for not engaging with media that directly supports genocide is in hell, apparently Photos unrelated, thought we could use some pretty. Here's Monday's sunset. I don't have a greater throughline here or moral but I kinda needed to just put some thoughts down. This week, worker-owned gaming news site Aftermath showed their ass multiple times and it's got me thinking about how easy it should be to do the right thing, and yet. And yet. First, they wrote a piece about the new Microsoft Forza game despite the ongoing BDS boycott over Microsoft's active participation in Palestinian genocide, and second, they published a piece praising the game Librarian which has "we used AI when making this" disclosures on Steam1. Both are bad on their own, but both articles include bizarre telling-on-themselves instances; the Forza piece DIRECTLY links to their own site's Games Media Can't Ignore BDS Xbox Boycott article and then continues talking about the game like it wasn't a consideration, and…