The Person Saving The Media You Love Is You (aftermath.site)
A Statistical Analysis of the "Name 100 Women" Challenge [Video analysis by Xenoxygene] (www.youtube.com)
NYU Game Center Faculty Write Letter Of Support For Gaza Protestors (aftermath.site)
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)
Big furry creature
It really feels like the best way to describe my gender. Something I’ve been working out is I needed my body to be female but my gender isn’t woman. It’s very comfy girl coded although sometimes I dress a bit androgynous and am like :sparkle: gender :sparkle:....
North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows (arstechnica.com)
ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Detransition is Gender Liberation, Too - Here's to never being satisfied and forever changing. (drdevonprice.substack.com)
‘The Blair Witch Project’ Cast Ask Lionsgate For Retroactive Residuals and ‘Meaningful Consultation’ on Future Projects (variety.com)
Why Big Publications Like The New York Times Are Making Games (But Barely Covering Them) (aftermath.site)
Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks. Here’s how they get made. (www.vox.com)
I also highly recommend Dan Olson’s documentary that gets a shout-out in the article, although - at the time the documentary was made - AI had not been a big factor in the grift yet.
Why Warhammer 40K fans are freaking out over a female Custodes in the new codex (www.polygon.com)
Gamers Are Renting Their Idle GPUs to Generate AI Porn (www.404media.co)
Archived version if anyone hits a paywall
Owner of Grand Theft Auto to layoff hundreds and cut projects (www.theverge.com)
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, is 30 years old
It was a huge thing for me when it was released, due to my discovering queer activism around the time; and I think it was a huge thing, culturally speaking, for many queer people in many countries....
How Dolly Parton's "Jolene" Helped Me Through Queer Heartbreak (www.pastemagazine.com)
Games industry leadership pays lip service to how seriously it takes layoffs, but their actions suggest otherwise (www.gamesindustry.biz)
‘The UK has become a cautionary tale about how far and fast a country can fall on LGBTQIA+ rights’ (www.gaytimes.co.uk)
'I was born intersex and doctors tried to erase me. It's important to speak out' (news.sky.com)
Gig workers are writing essays for AI to learn from (www.businessinsider.com)
Archived, non-paywalled version: https://archive.is/yAuKY
Technology has made the fundamental aspects of my life more arduous (aftermath.site)
German parliament votes to make it easier for transgender people to change their name and gender (www.nbcnews.com)
The 30-year hunt to find the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus: ‘My jaw was on the ground’ (www.theguardian.com)
Not long after the 1994 film became a smash hit, the titular bus disappeared. Where did it go? Who had it? And could it be recovered before it was too late?