Are game studios suddenly abandoning Black developers? (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Alice Cooper Claims Being Trans Is a Fad, Loses Deal With Cosmetics Company (www.advocate.com)
Article by Advocate about another aging rock star, in this case Alice Cooper, being an intolerable bigot who lost touch with a world that is progressing beyond his limited imagination
Discord Now Explicitly Bans Misgendering and Deadnaming Transgender People on the Platform (www.advocate.com)
Discord has expanded its Hateful Conduct Policy to explicitly include prohibitions against misgendering and deadnaming in a policy update. Accompanying this policy update, Discord has also implemented a comprehensive warning system to enforce these guidelines effectively.
Nexus Mods Says Good Riddance to Bigoted Starfield Mods: ‘We’re Not Sad to See Them Go’ (www.404media.co)
Article by 404 Media: The mod repository Nexus Mods removed a mod that allowed bigots to circumvent pronoun selection in the character creator of “Starfield”. The bigots then pretended to be very outraged.
All Those NFTs Are Officially Worthless (kotaku.com)
Article by Kotaku: It reports on the results of a market research that has concluded that the majority of NFTs has no value whatsoever anymore.
Why Warhammer 40K fans are freaking out over a female Custodes in the new codex (www.polygon.com)
Olivia Colman On Pay Disparity In Hollywood: “If I Was Oliver Colman, I’d Be Earning A F*** Of A Lot More Than I Am” (deadline.com)
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.
Legendary Industry Veterans Get Candid On Ageism In Gaming (kotaku.com)
I helped write the surprise Netflix sensation 'Suits.' My reward? $259.71 (www.latimes.com)
Article by Ethan Drogin, one of the writers on Netflix’ “Suits” who points out that the residuals he received for the show are minuscule and in no way match the long-lasting success of “Suits”
Carlos Santana goes on bizarre anti-trans diatribe during concert (consequence.net)
Article by Consequence of Sounds reporting on Carlos Santana outing himself as a transphobe
JK Rowling Holocaust Denialism: Author Pushes Claims That Trans People Were Not A Target (www.erininthemorning.com)
Not that anyone should be surprised, but the TERF Supreme now agrees with nazis.
Alex Jones is profiting from his new game on Steam — while refusing to pay the Sandy Hook families he defamed (www.mediamatters.org)
An Article by Media Matters: Conspiracy monger Alex Jones (of Infowars) has been the subject of a recently released game that promotes him and his vile conspiracies, but also benefits him financially, although he claims to be bankrupt and refuses to pay damages to the people he harmed.
The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6589988...
Seen but not heard: The New York Times failed to quote trans people in over 60% of 2023 stories on anti-trans legislation (www.mediamatters.org)
New Study Shows Kids Are Bullied For Not Spending Money In Free-To-Play Games (kotaku.com)
Fact Check: No, A New Study Does Not Show "Being Trans Is Just A Phase" (www.erininthemorning.com)
Cops bogged down by flood of fake AI child sex images, report says (arstechnica.com)
‘Starfield’ Gender Controversy: Some Gamers Go Viral—And Face Ridicule—Over Extreme Reactions To Pronouns (www.forbes.com)
Article by Forbes: Some of far-right influences attempt to generate outrage over the fact that people can choose the pronouns of their characters in Starfield.
Elon Musk claims use of ‘cis’ and ‘cisgender’ on Twitter is ‘harassment’, threatens to suspend users (www.thepinknews.com)
Article by Pink News: In a Twitter conversation, site owner Elon Musk attempts to reframe "cis" as a slur, deliberately making the site even more overtly hostile to trans and LGBT+ folks
Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers | Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist. (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9591768...
Macklemore Dares Others to Stand Up for Palestine (www.thenation.com)
After appeal to Musk, X suspends accounts that outed neo-Nazi cartoonist [and retroactively introduced rules to justify it] (arstechnica.com)
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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem (spectrum.ieee.org)
Article by IEEE Spectrum: The writers tested the two AI image generators MidJourney and Stable Diffusion, testing their abilities to generate imagery that closely resembled copyrighted material, which proves that the training data of the image generators had to contain copyrighted material. Implemented safeguards were largely...
FOX Business Calls Out Green Day, Forgets About Ted Nugent, Kid Rock (bleedingcool.com)
Article by Bleeding Cool making fun of Fox Business’ attempts to create outrage around Green Day’s performance at New Year’s Rockin’ Eve
