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New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Despite what @jordanmiddler.bsky.social & @scully1888.bsky.social said about his music on the @videogameschronicle.com podcast, he wears his new badge with honour

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From now on I'm making a point to use the correct language to describe technology that is currently described as "AI." An LLM isn't AI Image generators aren't AI Machine learning isn't AI Algorithms aren't AI AI is a marketing term that obscures meaningful critique of real technologies.

Hollow Knight: Silksong review: A game that intends to make you suffer, even to its own detriment. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.videogameschronicle.com/review/hollo...

One of the architects of Ubisoft's Snowdrop engine says the Switch 2 version of Star Wars Outlaws is a Game-Key Card because of storage speed, not cost. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/star-wa...

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

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