BlogFlockSpotted in my RSS feeds: Stonking News. From the About page: “Stonking News monitors the Bluesky firehose in real-time, tracking all link posts, including World News, Regional News, and Gift Articles. We score each link post using a proprietary weighted algorithm that ensures the most popular, and freshly trending…
Mashable: Grokipedia sourcing info from the internet’s biggest neo-Nazi forum, researchers say. “Elon Musk’s anti-woke Wikipedia rival, Grokipedia, is pulling information from widely blacklisted sources and known neo-Nazi sites, according to two researchers.”
The post Mashable: Grokipedia sourcing info from the internet’s biggest neo-Nazi forum, researchers say first appeared…Ars Technica: Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser. “Over the past couple of weeks, friends and colleagues have made me aware of multiple ingeniously implemented, browser-based ways to play classic MS-DOS and Windows games with other people on basically any hardware.”
The…Lifehacker: This New Scam Is Leaving Voicemails Saying You Owe $1,000. “As you might expect, no such charges are actually present on either our Amazon account or in our credit card history. That’s because no one bought an iPhone in our name, or by using our financial information: This…
Engadget: Ubisoft made a prototype game with voice-controlled AI teammates. “Ubisoft has announced a new game prototype featuring voice-controlled AI teammates that understand visual context and natural language.”
The post Engadget: Ubisoft made a prototype game with voice-controlled AI teammates first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.Daily Beast: Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls. “Upon rollout, rival factions began to inspect just where their online adversaries were really based on the combative social platform—with dozens of major MAGA and right-wing influencer accounts revealed to be based overseas.”
The post Daily Beast: Top MAGA…USA Today: Meta had 17-strikes policy for sex trafficking posts, lawsuit alleges. “A former employee of Meta, the owner of social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, testified as part of a major lawsuit that the tech company had a policy allowing 17 strikes before it suspended accounts…
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Sundays are for turning finally accepting it’s become Big Coat Weather by stripping off the nine-month-old dry cleaning plastic sheath from said Big Coat, slipping into the sleeves, and exhaling a relieved sigh upon discovering it still fits. Not this year, Popeyes Spicy Chicken Sandwich. Not this year.
International Business Times: Activists Turn ICE Raids Into GTA and Fortnite Lessons: Using Gaming Culture to Protect Immigrants. “The New Save Collective, a group of organisers from immigrant backgrounds, has begun staging simulated ICE raids in Grand Theft Auto V and interactive scavenger hunts in Fortnite to teach players…
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