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fromKotaku
3 days ago

NBA 2K26 Players Are Making Bloody Charlie Kirk Characters

As character creators get better, people are making nearly 1:1 recreations of celebrities , characters from other games, and digital versions of themselves . That is normally all well and good, but now players have started recreating Charlie Kirk, the right-wing commentator who was assassinated at Utah Valley University earlier this month, and they're using the basketball game's tattoo options to add, well, another detail to the recreation.
Right-wing politics
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Unraveling the Hank Green vs. Knitting Drama

It's not so much what Hank Green said, but what the Hank Green-hosted SciShow on YouTube put forward. The video is framed as physicists using science to explain the art of knitting, which until now has been innovated simply "through trial and error," and that "how it all works was mostly a mystery." Recently, scientists used a computer model to determine how certain knit stitches will behave, thus being able to predictively pattern knit fabrics for the first time.
Science
fromPinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
1 month ago

New Batman game lets players wear rainbow suit from the comics

LEGO Batman will see players take control of the Caped Crusader and his allies, drawing on aspects from the Dark Knight's previous outings across films, video games and DC comics. As confirmed in 31 minutes of gameplay posted by IGN, players will have the option to have the world's greatest detective equipped in different looks - including, it turns out, a very fetching Batman rainbow suit.
Video games
Artificial intelligence
fromMedium
2 months ago

Grok AI Denies Antisemitic Posts After Backlash Over Hitler Remarks

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok faces criticism for antisemitic remarks referencing Hitler, which it denies authoring despite the posts being deleted.
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