J. K. Rowling Is Officially Too Toxic to Defend (www.assignedmedia.org)
Elon Musk, Jonathan Chait, and Debbie Hayton are among the diverse figures distancing themselves from Rowling’s increasingly open hostility to trans women.
Patriarchy According to The Barbie Movie (Video essay by Pop Culture Detective) (www.youtube.com)
Revisiting "Days Gone" After Five More Years of American Decline (www.pastemagazine.com)
French Film Industry & Cannes Film Festival Reportedly Bracing For Avalanche Of #MeToo Accusations (deadline.com)
Macklemore Dares Others to Stand Up for Palestine (www.thenation.com)
Trans "Dead By Daylight" star Zoey Alexandria dies aged 29 (www.thepinknews.com)
Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15189440...
Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government (www.404media.co)
Hi-Fi Rush Was The Hit Xbox Needed, And It Still Wasn't Enough For Them (kotaku.com)
Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Trans children could be 'forced to detransition' under leaked NHS England plans (www.thepinknews.com)
Fake Beaches Are Popping Up Online And You Can Blame Pokémon Go Players (kotaku.com)
The Wandering Village is proof of TikTok’s impact on games (www.polygon.com)
Dave & Buster’s is adding real money betting options to arcade staples (arstechnica.com)
An Open Database Leaked Submissions to Utah’s Transphobic ‘Bathroom Bill’ Snitch Form (www.404media.co)
Archived version: https://archive.ph/xwq93
RIP Roll7, You Deserved Better Than This - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
Workers seek to alter the balance of power in Canadian video game industry (www.polygon.com)
Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women (www.404media.co)
Narcissus wasn’t an abuser, he was queer (medium.com)
Meta Doesn't Want To Remove Hateful Content, They Just Want You To See It Less (www.socratically.net)
As a general trigger warning, the first section of the post shows some examples of the content Meta is ignoring: transphobia, homophobia, etc.