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4chan may be dead, but its toxic legacy lives on
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/4chan-may-be-dead-but-its-toxic-legacy-lives-on/It is likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again.
It is likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again.
Andor’s final chapter feels like a series of mini-movies about how wars for freedom are won in fits and starts.
The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.
Kirsche Verstahl, a Gamer Supps partner, was already in hot water after a series of racist jokes. Then, she retweeted a Nazi fan.
After a UK Supreme Court ruling, Hadley Freeman celebrated by lamenting the friendships she’s lost over her views. Her side may have won the ruling, but it won't improve her social life.
Nicola Coughlan and Bowen Yang took direct aim at J.K. Rowling in Instagram posts.
I love being able to come to you with something completely and utterly gorgeous, uplifting and entertaining. The Beekeeper’s Picnic, a Sherlock Holmes point-and-click adventure, gives us a few hours in the post-retirement life of the great detective, and the opportunity to shape his relationship with an elderly Watson. It’s an uplifting, gentle tale, packed with superbly informed references to Arthur Conan Doyle’s fiction, delivered with a bucolic charm. ... read full post
Small businesses are paying the price in Trump’s trade war
Scattered information and ever-changing stakes leave creators feeling naked against a coming economic storm.
Falling in love with a fictional character is not abnormal. Neither by societal standards based on just how many people do and by psychological standards. It is a normal thing we sometimes do as humans; become attached to someone who doesn’t really exist. Let’s take a journey into the mountain of psychological research and real life pandemonium of fictophilia.
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News.
The United Videogame Workers union is open to any gaming worker in the US and Canada and will focus on industry-wide job loss.
No Mercy was already removed by Valve in the UK, Canada, and Australia before the announcement
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28036117
A parliamentary inquiry on sexual abuse in France entertainment industry set to be released Wednesday found sexual abuse "systemic" and "persistent". The inquiry, led by Greens MP Sandrine Rousseau,…
Change can begin anywhere. It only requires that we desire it and that we're prepared to take a chance on it when we see it for what it is.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28257142
'This policy will have devastating consequences'
Here’s how one teen plans to fix schools failing kids affected by nudify apps.
Sometime between January 25th and February 7th of this year, shortly after Trump took office, YouTube quietly updated its hate speech policy to remove the phrase “gender identity.”
Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.
"The risk/benefit calculus of providing free & open access to individual genetic data in 2025 is very different compared to 14 years ago."