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- www.yahoo.com Fake Beaches Are Popping Up Online And You Can Blame Pokémon Go Players
A large and popular open-source mapping database used by many companies, apps, and websites is currently dealing with a strange problem: Random, fake beaches are appearing in places like backyards, church parking lots, and golf courses. And the community knows who to blame: Pokémon Go players trying...
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Makes It Clear: For The Love Of Gozer, Retire The Original Cast
www.slashfilm.com Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Makes It Clear: For The Love Of Gozer, Retire The Original Cast - SlashFilmLook, we love the OG Ghostbusters cast, but Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire proves it's time for them to allow the new heroes to take full control of the franchise.
- www.rascal.news Wyrmwork Publishing Introduces First Braille Transcription of 5e SRD
This marks the first time in the history of tabletop roleplaying games that the core rules of any edition have been made available in braille.
- www.ign.com Akira Toriyama, Creator of Dragon Ball and Manga Pioneer, Dies at 68 - IGN
Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball and manga pioneer, dies at 68. A legend in anime and gaming, his work includes Dr. Slump, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, and other classic works.
- www.polygon.com Warner Bros. is now erasing games as it plans to delist Adult Swim-published titles
A long list of Adult Swim Games is being pulled from Steam and console stores
- ancillaryreviewofbooks.org An Anti-Defense of Science Fiction
Jake Casella Brookins On the other hand the aphorism often cited, that “Necessity is the Mother of Invention,” appears to be nothing better than a fragment of uncritical rationalism…Dou…
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Horror Tells Me I’m Not Alone
For decades, horror has been where I’ve gone to unwind. Not a week passes when I’m not reading it, watching it, or playing it.
- futurism.com Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a "Generally Reliable" Source After AI Scandal
Conversations between Wikipedia editors following CNET's AI scandal reflect the reputational hazards of AI content and dubious ownership.
- www.theguardian.com ‘God forbid that a dog should die’: when Goodreads reviews go bad
From cancelled books to ‘review bombing’, it might seem as though the website can make or break a career. But how influential is it really?
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The Culture War: Iain M. Banks's Billionaire Fans
bloodknife.com The Culture War: Iain M. Banks's Billionaire Fans - Blood KnifeThe Culture novels are far-future communist space opera from an explicitly socialist author. So how do we explain their wealthy, hyper-capitalist fans?
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Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media
techcrunch.com Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media | TechCrunchAs decentralized social networks become more popular, the way different protocols interact could set the stage for the future of the web.
- www.pastemagazine.com Destroying Movies for Fun and Profit
Coyote vs. Acme is the latest in the predatory trend of shelving movies for tax write-offs. It's always been here, but it's never been so bad.
- gizmodo.com The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse
Deepfakes are blurring the lines of reality more than ever before, and they're likely going to get a lot worse this year.
- www.theguardian.com Science fiction awards held in China under fire for excluding authors
Concerns raised about interference or censorship after documents showed writers were barred despite receiving enough nominations
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Burning Down the Hugo Awards
www.nerds-feather.com Burning Down the Hugo Awards: A Look at the Irregularities in the 2023 Nominating Statistics, What We Know, and What It MeansThe Hugo Awards are in the midst of what is almost certainly its most significant crisis in the history of the award, which was first given ...
A Look at the Irregularities in the 2023 Nominating Statistics, What We Know, and What It Means
- gizmodo.com The Hugo Awards Are Facing Yet Another Controversy
Fans of R.F. Kuang's highly acclaimed Babel are wondering why the Nebula-winning and best-selling novel was excluded from Hugo eligibility.
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'Our Flag Means Death' Canceled After 2 Seasons at Max
www.thewrap.com 'Our Flag Means Death' Canceled After 2 Seasons at Max - TheWrap"Our Flag Means Death" has been cancelled after two seasons at Max.
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This is a test of a new Fediverse-related service. Please pay no mind to this thread.
This is a test of a new Fediverse-related service. Please pay no mind to this thread.
- digialps.com Duolingo's Massive Layoff: AI Takeover, Impacting Thousands of Human Translators
AI Takeover: Duolingo AI adoption to replace human translators has led to a massive layoff, leaving thousands of translators in limbo.
- arstechnica.com Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos
"Imagine with Meta AI" turns prompts into images, trained using public Facebook data.
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Why does Apple TV+ have so many of the best streaming shows you've never heard of?
People may grumble about Apple's higher monthly fee, but there are a lot of original series packed in their lineup that many viewers haven't yet considered.
- www.pcgamer.com The guy who sued Amazon for infringing on his Lord of the Rings fanfic takes a massive L, now owes $134,000 to the Tolkien Estate
Author Demetrious Polychron wanted $250 million for infringement of his book The Fellowship of the King.
- www.atlasobscura.com The ‘Crispy R’ and Why R Is the Weirdest Letter
I made a bunch of linguists listen to this social media phenomenon and tell me what’s going on.
- www.themarysue.com Cait Corrain Goodreads Controversy, Explained
Almost a dozen now-deleted Goodreads accounts review bombed several upcoming authors and all 5-starred Cait Corrain.
- www.denofgeek.com Why Americans Can Never Get Godzilla Right
The decades pass, and the American filmmakers change, and yet Westernized Godzilla is still missing something that makes the Japanese Toho films so special....
- www.inverse.com Disney's Vacuous New Movie Proves Its Harshest Critics Are Right
'Wish' tries to put Disney back on the map — but in the age of 'Spider-Verse,' is there room for the brand’s traditional house style?
- www.theverge.com The influences of Godzilla Minus One go beyond the atom bomb
Princess Mononoke was a major influence on the latest Godzilla.
- www.thedailybeast.com ‘Wonka’ Is an Everlasting Gobstopper of Ridiculousness
Everything about the new musical origin story starring Timothée Chalamet is derivative and cloying.
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Was the metaverse ever a good bet?
qz.com Investments in the metaverse have plummeted in the past two years.Was the metaverse ever a good bet?
Investments in the metaverse have plummeted in the past two years.
- phys.org Small publishers increasingly important for translated literature, researcher says
Over the period 1970–2016, small publishing houses became increasingly important for the publication of literature in translation in Sweden. More than ever, Nobel laureates are being published by relatively small independent publishers. A specialization in translations often stems from a publisher's...
- www.wired.com Spotify Is Screwed
Spotify is the world’s biggest music streamer but rarely turns a profit and just cut 17 percent of its workforce. Its business model looks increasingly precarious.
- phys.org Payment controversy over 'The Elephant Whisperers' provokes questions about documentary storytelling
Months after the Indian film The Elephant Whisperers won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short at the Academy Awards this past March, the mahout (elephant rider or caretaker) couple Bomman and Bellie at the center of the film filed a legal notice.
- slate.com Miyazaki’s First Movie in a Decade Is Mysterious, Startlingly Adult, and Completely Dazzling
The Boy and the Heron is as peculiar as life itself.
- www.thepopverse.com Marvel & DC need more "experimentation" and "flexibility" to take "big swings" says Scott Snyder
"There are forces at work with Marvel and DC that really are out of our control."
- www.inverse.com The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie of the Decade Never Stood a Chance
Chinese director Neysan Sobhani’s 2021 independent sci-fi movie 'Guidance' grapples with the power of truth and technology against the backdrop of a dystopian future.
- www.denofgeek.com Russell T Davies Explains What Inspired the New TARDIS
They’ve redecorated. We like it!
- www.thepopverse.com Hilda season 3 premieres on Netflix next month
One of Netflix's best animated series, Hilda, is finishing its run next month with a third season and a special episode.
- nerdist.com Shrek Looks Scary in This Original Film Test Footage From 1995
Shrek looks absolutely horrifying in this original test footage from 1995. We are so glad this isn't the final version of this beloved ogre.
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Five Excellent Norse Fiction Books From Indie Publishers
There’s been a notable upsurge in Viking-related releases across all forms of media in recent years, as I’ve previously discussed, specifically regarding retellings of the myths and novels inspired…