2021-04-23
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» The Ratings Game, Part 2: The Hearing The Digital Antiquarian
It’s widely known by those who are interested in the history of gaming that the videogame industry was hauled into a United States Senate hearing on December 9, 1993, to address concerns about the violence and sex to be found in its products. Yet the specifics of what was said on that occasion have been less widely disseminated. This, then, is my attempt to remedy that lack. What follows is a transcript of the hearing in question. It’s been rather heavily edited by me with an eye toward grammar, clarity, and concision,
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You have the right to film police. Here’s how to do it effectively – and safely
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Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds | The Multidisciplinarian
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A sizable chunk of published psychological findings may be false
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Consumer Reports shows Tesla Autopilot works with no one in the driver’s seat
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Fentanyl San Francisco Contends with a Different Sort of Epidemic
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Amazon’s first Internet satellites will not launch on Blue Origin rockets
- Having failed to get the government to block SpaceX, amazon might actually have to launch a satellite or two...
Horseshit
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Notes on Implementing Vaccine Passports - The Mozilla Blog
- Guys... Stick to making the fucking browser, k?
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Show HN: Bracelets to show your Vaccination Pride and help a good cause
- I guess "Vaccine pride" is a slightly less coercive alignment than "Vaccine hesitancy" which was yesterday's new word.
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‘Large explosion’ caused by 80 pounds of tannerite in New Hampshire gender reveal party, police say.
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The Newest Status Symbol for High-Net Worth Homeowners: Trophy Trees
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Norwegian city announces plan to stop naming streets after men
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SolarWinds hack analysis reveals 56% boost in command server footprint
celebrity gossip
Obit
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
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Theatre critics should consider their ethnicity and privilege, says Equity
Theatre critics need to think harder about whether their own ethnicity and relative privilege means they are the right people to write about certain topics, new guidelines drawn up by the union Equity argue.
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The Pandemic Shrank Our Social Circles. Let’s Keep It That Way
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How American Small Businesses Are Being Coerced To Help Build The Oligarchy.
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The Great Unsettling - The Abbey of Misrule
When a plant is uprooted, it withers and then dies. When the same happens to a person, or a people, or a planetful of both, the result is the same. Our crisis comes, I think, from our being unable to admit what on some level we know to be true: that we in the West are living inside an obsolete story. Our culture is not in danger of dying; it is already dead, and we are in denial.
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Kiersten Hening: I was forced off college soccer team after refusing to kneel
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for reasons of "racial equity" Virginia moving to eliminate all accelerated math courses before 11th grade
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Sign at George Floyd Square has list of orders for white visitors
“Decenter yourself and come to listen, learn, mourn, and witness,” the first bullet points reads, adding, “Remember you are here to support, not to be supported.”
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'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad' (2016)
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Making America Great Again? National Nostalgia, Political and Racial Perceptions
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The End of Basic Education: Biden Issues Public School Critical Race Theory Order – PJ Media
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The more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences
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Democrat Mayor, BLM Activist Hit With 11 Child Sex Felony Charges.
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Bones of Black children killed in police bombing used in anthropology course
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
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Tech giants and cops at least agree thwarting terrorist or extremist activity
- If an act is "peaceful protest" or "terrorism" depending on who does it...
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All eyes are on the Facebook Oversight Board as decision on Trump looms
TechSuck
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Tesla's Autopilot 'tricked' to operate without driver - BBC News
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Experts Find Botnet Disguised as Millions of People Watching TV
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Facebook app boss says “we’ve been working on audio for a long time”
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Re: (PATCH 000/190) Revertion of all of the umn.edu commits - Kees Cook
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Starlink creates risk of internet investment doom cycle, says APNIC researcher • The Register
Economicon
Poilitcks
Security / Militaria / Crime
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Russia Behind 'Directed Energy' Attacks On US Troops In Syria: Pentagon Officials | ZeroHedge
the Department of Defense (DoD) on Thursday revealed that it believes the Russian military targeted US troops in Syria with 'directed energy attacks' in order to make them ill and unable to conduct normal operations. Apparently some US troops occupying the country began reporting "flu-like symptoms" which caused the DoD to investigate possible linkage to microwave or directed energy weapons on the battlefield of Syria. Politico reports that "officials identified Russia as a likely culprit, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter."
Health / Medicine / COVID
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CDC panel recommends resuming use of Johnson and Johnson vaccine
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New local cases of Covid-19 in Singapore had taken both doses of vaccine
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How India Went from a Ray of Hope to World Record for Most Covid Cases in a Day
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Fake COVID Vaccines Discovered In Mexico And Poland | ZeroHedge
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2015 Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research : Nature News & Comment