Owlcat founder breaks down RPG budgets and Larian’s impact on genre: “We can’t invest $200 million to make BG3” | Game World Observer (gameworldobserver.com)
Inside The Ritzy Retreats Hosting Right-Wing Judges: During Koch-funded trips to mountain resorts, Trump judges huddled over a new strategy to advance “history and tradition” as the law of the land. (www.huffpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/judges-luxury-travel-corpus-lin…
How Teens and Parents Approach Screen Time: Most teens sometimes feel happy and peaceful when they don’t have their phone, but 44% say this makes them anxious. (www.pewresearch.org)
Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form (arstechnica.com)
I, for one…
North Korea claims progress in developing a hypersonic missile designed to strike distant U.S. targets (www.nbcnews.com)
A hypersonic missile is among the high-tech weapons systems that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to introduce to cope with what he called deepening U.S. hostility....
California tribe that lost 90% of land during Gold Rush to get site to serve as gateway to redwoods (apnews.com)
The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood National and State Parks and the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League....
Threadverse Working Group is formed (mastodon.social)
At this year's FediForum one of the breakout sessions centred around the Theadiverse, the subset of ActivityPub-enabled applications built around a group-centric model of content representation....
U.S. support for LGBTQ+ rights is declining after decades of support. (www.pbs.org)
TLDW: Members of the right who were previously ambivalent/disapproving are shifting towards hate/fear....
Only half of South Koreans willing to marry; even less want kids (www.thestar.com.my)
Apple is reportedly exploring a partnership with Google for Gemini-powered feature on iPhones (techcrunch.com)
Very tactical (lemmy.world)
Most US sandwich baggies contain toxic PFAS ‘forever chemicals’, analysis says (www.theguardian.com)
Testing commissioned by Mamavation blog found high levels of a marker of PFAS in nine of 11 baggies tested
The SEC is sick of Elon Musk’s attempts to delay its Twitter investigation (www.theverge.com)
Conservative US judges criticize new rule curbing 'judge shopping' (www.reuters.com)
Two conservative federal appeals court judges on Wednesday criticized judicial policymakers for adopting a new rule aimed at curtailing “judge shopping” by state attorneys general, activists and others who challenge government policies in courthouses where one or two sympathetic judges hear most cases....
The only thing holding back Google's Find My Device network now is Apple (www.androidpolice.com)
Texas can require age-verification on porn sites, 5th Circuit judges rule (arstechnica.com)
One judge dissents, saying Texas law “limits adults’ access to protected speech.”...
I want to bring some attention to Slidge XMPP Bridges (git.sr.ht)
It seems like an awesome project that fulfills a lot of the requirements for bridging many popular messaging platforms (like FB messenger, WhatsApp, discord, signal, and more). I wanted to share because I know a lot of us have friends and family who still use antiquated/proprietary communication platforms. Fair warning, I have...
US Will ‘Do Whatever It Takes’ to Curb China Tech, Raimondo Says (www.bloomberg.com)
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Kelly Rowland cannot escape questions about texting Nelly via Excel (www.avclub.com)
Biden backtracks on climate plans and ‘walks tightrope’ to court both young voters and moderates (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden, touted as the US’s first climate president, is presiding over the quiet weakening of his two most significant plans to slash planet-heating emissions, suggesting that tackling the climate crisis will take a back seat in a febrile election year....
Our F35s with nukes (sh.itjust.works)
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Good luck out there (slrpnk.net)
Improved Version (lemmy.zip)
As more developers confirm, it looks likely that ALL Adult Swim Games titles will be removed by May (delistedgames.com)
This. Sucks. I really love games like Duck Game, Kingsway, and Super House of Dead Ninjas.
Lewiston, Maine mass shooter had traumatic brain injuries, new scan finds (www.nbcnews.com)
“Robert Card had evidence of traumatic brain injury. In the white matter, the nerve fibers that allow for communication between different areas of the brain, there was significant degeneration, axonal and myelin loss, inflammation, and small blood vessel injury,” lead author Ann McKee said in a statement issued by the family...
