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What are your favorite game consoles?

I'm 99% sure it's not real (startrek.website)

Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal (www.videogameschronicle.com)

According to SAG AFTRA, the deal will “enable Replica to engage SAG-AFTRA members under a fair, ethical agreement to safely create and license a digital replica of their voice. Licensed voices can be used in video game development and other interactive media projects from pre-production to final release.”...

AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory (9to5mac.com)

AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory::If you’ve been hoping for a second-generation AirTag, you’ll have to keep waiting. According to a new report from Bloomberg,…

Steam Deck now has thousands more games than the Nintendo Switch (www.pcgamesn.com)

Another great advert from Threads. Not really looking like my kind of place. (lemmy.world)

Looking for input regarding finding an IDE (spoilers: involves Emacs and Vim)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/9648279...

Pope says priests can bless same-sex unions, requests should not be subject to moral analysis (apnews.com)

Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God’s love and mercy shouldn’t be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” to receive it.

Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say (arstechnica.com)

Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say::Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say.

On the end of Discovery

I have mixed feelings about Disco ending. I really dug the first season’s look at a Federation at war, and following the person who arguably set that war in motion dealing with her culpability. Add to that a ship that is part weird science lab, part haunted house. And yeah, I could live with the Klingon redesign....

Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages (www.tomshardware.com)

I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change?

As strange as it may seem, I hate my accent and want to speak like an American because I think it sounds cooler and more like how I want to sound....

Firefox for Android is getting 400 new browser extensions - and you can try some now (www.zdnet.com)

Also from the official announcement (blog.mozilla.org/…/open-extensions-on-firefox-for… ):...

do you guys have this movie? (nerdica.net) en-gb

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Next generation of billionaires collect more wealth from inheritance than from work, says UBS (www.theguardian.com)

Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout (arstechnica.com)

I'll just be a quick 3h (sh.itjust.works)

History go brrrr (lemmy.ml)

South Korean Farmers Threaten to Release 2 Million Dogs in Protest of Dog Meat Ban (time.com)

Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company (www.businessinsider.com)

So uhh.. how often should I be washing me towels?

Following the prior Lemmy post about towels…...

Does everyone learn the same gravity in school or is it different everywhere?

So, I learned in physics class at school in the UK that the value of acceleration due to gravity is a constant called g and that it was 9.81m/s^2. I knew that this value is not a true constant as it is affected by terrain and location. However I didn’t know that it can be so significantly different as to be 9.776 m/s^2 in...