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Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995
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Exactly. The snack industry sells snacks made almost exclusively from corn, then IGCorn touts how consumers love corn-based snacks.
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‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops
That’s not what being a Luddite means
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Stumbled upon this in the France community when browsing Local. Needs to be shared wider.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.“
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Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report
If anybody is still under the impression that someone somewhere in the chain of command might refuse illegal orders, this tells you everything you need to know
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"Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers
There are literally 9000 hidden object games on Steam
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Red state GOP pushes abortion ban with possible death penalty: 'God demands equal justice'
Actually God only demands a monetary fine if you cause a miscarriage in someone who didn’t want one (Exodus 21), and requires that you drink a potion that will give you a miscarriage if you got pregnant by someone who isn’t your husband (Numbers 5). If only those Republicans could read their own Bible, they would be very upset.
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Those were the days
Revisionist bullshit. Despite what came later, Facebook was the privacy-respecting alternative to MySpace at the time.
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Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Continuing the great American tradition of jury nullification
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Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk
Translation: “we really would love to stop spending money on training new models in order for our financials to look better ahead of our IPO”
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Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors
It’s the Hertz AI scam in a different sector. I suspect every major rental company will have a version of this soon, and that none of them will be auditable or appealable.
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‘It shows such a laziness’: why I refuse to date someone who uses ChatGPT
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A calculator gives the same, right answer every time, though
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OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit
Journalistic malpractice to repeat their “accidentally” claim without attribution or quotes
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Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years
Can we please not help launder his reputation by proactively giving him credit for something he hasn’t done yet?
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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
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If you read the article, there was exactly this sort of clause in the deed, and now the courts are saying “fuck you”
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Trump imposes harsh sanctions on Colombia for not accepting "repatriation" flights
Viva Colombia
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Enzymes be like
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So close to getting it...
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UK police roll out armoured vehicles 'tried and tested on Palestinians'
Great example of what Cory Doctorow calls the Shitty Tech Adoption Curve:
If you want to do something terrible with technology, you can't just roll it out on people with money and social capital. They'll complain and your idea will tank. Successful shitty tech rollouts start with people you can abuse with impunity (prisoners, kids, migrants, etc) and then work their way up the privilege gradient.
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It's terminal
Did they make a graphic novel of Cory Doctorow’s short story “Radicalized”?
