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    Peter faces a new life cycle in Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer

    There's speculation that the girl on the bus that Peter gets smeared across in the trailer is supposed to be Rogue.
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    Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors

    Sloppy policy with vague parameters leads to the inevitable. One of the casualties of this has been Trials of Innocence, an Ace Attorney-style courtroom game which was delisted despite having no prurient content apart from an achievement called "Lolita".
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    Our first impressions after 48 hours with the Switch 2

    Least interesting comment since the last Nintendo article. Pass for me.
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    Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”

    If you remember, at the last shareholder meeting, an investor asked what Nintendo was going to do about situations like the guy who would cosplay as Mario and videochat with kids … and then flash his junk. I imagine this is part of Nintendo's response.
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    Cops pause use of flawed AI cameras secretly monitoring streets for suspects

    New Orleans has a history of shady tech-driven law enforcement practices. It wasn't that long ago that James Carville lead a project with Palantir to develop a system for NOPD to mine social media and other records to build profiles predict violent activity and monitor people for potential...
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    Hands-on with the Switch 2: It’s the Switch, too

    The Switch 2 offers variable refresh rate, which can cause flickering on OLED screens. The number of customer service calls (and returned consoles) over screen flicker would greatly outweigh the small number of potential consumers who won't buy a console without OLED.
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    Switch 2 games so far: The big, the indie, the unexpected Bloodborne successor

    There may be a new Mario game staged for the holidays, but given how Nintendo really wanted to sell the narrative of how third parties are wholly on board for Switch 2, I suspect anything about a proper Mario game would have overshadowed everything else. That's probably why the new Metroid was...
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    Anti-diversity lawsuits likely to hurt the scientific community, say scholars

    It's funny how Fausto-Sterling is portrayed as political and distorting the numbers, but there's no mention of how the supposed rebuttal comes from Leonard Sax, darling of the right and author of the thoroughly discredited Why Gender Matters.
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    Anti-diversity lawsuits likely to hurt the scientific community, say scholars

    .... speaking of people hired based on their race and gender.
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    Anti-diversity lawsuits likely to hurt the scientific community, say scholars

    When attempting to codify something into law, the exceptions are of absolute and critical importance to recognize and account for.
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    Anti-diversity lawsuits likely to hurt the scientific community, say scholars

    Because when you are dealing with white supremacists, you'll find racism at the core of nearly everything they do.
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    Anti-diversity lawsuits likely to hurt the scientific community, say scholars

    Again, it depends entirely on what the intent of the program is. There are many programs that are aiming to aid disadvantaged peoples that absolutely include those coming from poverty regardless of race. But if you're trying to increase the representation of underrepresented groups in a...
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    Anti-diversity lawsuits likely to hurt the scientific community, say scholars

    If that were the case, he would have specified genetic sex. It would still be inaccurate and inappropriate (incidentally the tagline for the entire Musk administration), but that would reflect using chromosomes to assign gender.
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    Anti-diversity lawsuits likely to hurt the scientific community, say scholars

    Trump's executive order attacking trans folks declared that gender is immutable and is determined by "biological sex at conception". And since male sex characteristics don't develop until later in gestation... boom, we're all girls in here.
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    Also, a Rivian EV spinoff, wants us to “move beyond cars”

    The reasoning for the name, from Scaringe on Facebook:
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    Anti-diversity lawsuits likely to hurt the scientific community, say scholars

    The answer is clearly no, but before we take the bait, why don't you go ahead and present your thesis on how they were able to build their industrial and economic bases?
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    Anti-diversity lawsuits likely to hurt the scientific community, say scholars

    A) Racists will always experience racial resentment when confronted with the existence of minorities. B) People generally don't think of themselves as "DEI hires", and the only people who think that they do are usually covered under point A. C) Race as a criterion depends entirely on what...
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    Anti-diversity lawsuits likely to hurt the scientific community, say scholars

    He increased the percentage of the non-white vote (among people who voted). The election was largely decided by people who abstained from voting this time around, which more than accounts for the margins in non-white votes that Trump picked up. I would, I have, and I'll do it again. Why shy...
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    Anti-diversity lawsuits likely to hurt the scientific community, say scholars

    To your second point, I think we're largely in agreement (and that's what snark is hinting at as well). White supremacists use Asians as a convenient prop against other minorities, but don't actually accept or want them around. But to your first point, Asians absolutely are overrepresented in...
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    Anti-diversity lawsuits likely to hurt the scientific community, say scholars

    Psst. If you're calling people "wokes", you're pretty much admitting you're aligned with MAGA. Just thought you should know, since you're supposedly "outside the US".