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Valve attempts to deal with jokes, memes and ASCII art reviews on Steam (www.gamingonlinux.com)

The Final Fantasy 9 upscale mod just got a surprise update after 3 years, including a 'full rework' of its backgrounds, 120 fps, ultrawide, and more (www.pcgamer.com)

Everyone Knew About the A-Team: How did the Alexander brothers become real-estate elites while allegedly raping or assaulting more than a dozen women? (www.curbed.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/oren-alexander-tal-alexander-br…

Sovcit was fired. (lemmy.world)

California launches electric trains as US lags behind world in rail electrification (youtu.be)

SoftBank's Intel AI processor plans in doubt as insiders say it is now considering a TSMC partnership (www.tomshardware.com)

Please help me stop my baby from crying because kodi keeps buffering

The toddler loves having Kodi full of all their faves but I haven’t been able to iron out all the buffering I’m getting streaming from my mini-pc NFS mounted shares to the pi4 libreelec hooked up via Ethernet in the living room. Everything is wired, so I wouldn’t think that would be an issue but here I am about to put down...

made sense of it (lemmy.world)

TIL that British judges and lawyers wear white wigs to bring formality, solemnity, and anonymity to the courtroom (people.howstuffworks.com)

Ukraine's Kursk Incursion Continues as Drone Strikes Target Russian Airfields (foreignpolicy.com)

Ukrainian troops advanced up to 2 kilometers (or 1.2 miles) into Russia’s Kursk region on Wednesday, adding to around 1,000 square kilometers (or 386 miles) secured since Kyiv’s major cross-border operation began on Aug. 6. This would amount to Ukraine capturing almost as much land as Russian forces took in Ukraine between...

Indian women lead night protests after doctor's rape and murder (www.bbc.com)

Tens of thousands of women in West Bengal state marched through the streets on Wednesday night in protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a state-run hospital in Kolkata last week....

Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to US (www.theguardian.com)

Kim Dotcom, who is facing criminal charges relating to the defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, is to be extradited to the US, the New Zealand justice minister has said....

86' Fleetwood Bounder (lemmy.world)

New York county signs first mask ban into US law, sparking controversy (www.theguardian.com)

I remember a time where you would get multiple results from a search with no scrolling (sh.itjust.works)

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Hugely-promising indie The Plucky Squire launches next month, day one on PlayStation Plus (www.eurogamer.net)

Been really looking forward to this one. I’m hyped!

Starbucks is giving incoming CEO Brian Niccol $85 million in cash and stock as he departs Chipotle (www.cnbc.com)

Starbucks plans to pay incoming CEO Brian Niccol $10 million in cash and $75 million in equity awards when he joins the company from Chipotle. Niccol will be paid a base salary of $1.6 million annually, with the opportunity to earn up to $7.2 million more in cash.

How ‘Deepfake Elon Musk’ Became the Internet’s Biggest Scammer (www.nytimes.com)

shapez 2 - Early Access Launch Trailer (www.youtube.com)

Can you spot the g differences?

Borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrred

Philosopher tries to convince ChatGPT that it's conscious (youtu.be)

Do you have a form of government you invented/conceived, either as an idea or for fiction (or a favorite from someone else)? How does it work?

As kids, we’re told only people who go to college/university for politics/economics/law are qualifiable to make/run a country. As adults, we see no nation these “qualified” adults form actually work as a nation, with all manifesto-driven governments failing. Which to me validates the ambitions of all political theorist...