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Another lighthearted documentary from your friends at People Make Games! This time Quinns explores the disconcertingly-familiar world of government-funded, military wargaming and its relationship with the commercial games industry.

It said opposing the tech ignores “classist and ableist” issues.

The Game of Sisyphus is about moving a boulder up a hill, but for its developers—and by extension, its players—it's about so much more.

On July 17th, 2020, at 10:10 PM–Eastern Standard Time, mind you–a transgender friend of mine sent me a link to a webcomic, saying that it felt very relatable to her. So, since I wanted to be a good friend and try to understand her situation a little bit better, I read it… and immediately plunged into an eleven-day-long panic attack. This comic said things to me openly that I’d never said to anyone, ever. I was rung like a struck bell. And, at the end of those eleven days, when I said to my therapist, “Melissa, I don’t think I’m cis,” her response was a simple, gentle, “I don’t think you are either.”

We’re gonna look at a TikTok account that uses Math to explain (Hate) women. While it’s tempting to dismiss this account as just another routine TikTok Mysoganist - because he’s so committed to charts, math and something that looks like science… he almost figures out why young men are struggling with women.

Feedback gets rid of overt biases but leaves subtle racism intact.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/16432111

Archived link for those who encounter a paywall: https://archive.is/M5lkm

A phony campaign on X backing Trump ahead of the US election is using stolen or manipulated photos of real women in Europe to push its agenda.

The actress said it was "terrifying" to have to see "dirty edited content of me as a child."

Archived version without paywall: https://archive.is/Nbmbk

Language models generate text based on statistical probabilities. This led to serious false accusations against a veteran court reporter by Microsoft's Copilot.

Journey to the rest.

In the years since the alleged death of beloved accessibility advocate Susan Banks, mounting evidence and accounts from those close to her work suggest that she was not the person she claimed to be. In fact, some are convinced that Banks may never have existed at all.

The photograph is now meaningless as evidence. We are not prepared.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has a lot going for it, but its bloated scope embodies ongoing problems with modern AAA game development.

Cutesy, pink, and girly styles are on the rise in first-person shooters. Polygon spoke to the Valorant developers about how it makes cosmetics.

While Transgender lives in the UK and US are at risk, PinkNews abandons its transgender readers.

There were rumors surrounding the document and many believed it to be fake. It has been confirmed to be genuine by now.

Fordola and Yotsuyu's treatment and ultimate fate in the story are starkly different, and in this way they clearly expose underlying gendered biases in how their writers think about Evil Women(TM) and who “deserves” redemption in narratives about trauma and war.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/15577741

For those who don't want to give the Graundian a click: Archived article

“Nudify” sites may be fined for making it easy to “see anyone naked,” suit says.

Jeff Goldblum guest hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday, introducing a segment that allowed working actors to qualify for health insurance