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A look back at five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases it hears have generally had limited impact (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/meta-oversight-board-5-years/

Where Meta's biggest experiment in governance went wrong
Five years after the Oversight Board's creation, few are satisfied with the result. Can it be saved?

Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p102#a260106p102

That whole article is worth a read. It’s a good yarn. Here are the final paragraphs, and the link.
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/

A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (Sam Kriss/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice.

Did you see that thing about the whistleblower engineer exposing how a food delivery company exploits its drivers? It turned out to be a hoax:
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
The thing is, I don’t doubt that companies •do• in fact do stuff like what the whistleblower described, if not in such cartoonish terms. But this story is apparently fake, and that matters.

Fooled me too, to be fair https://augsburg.social/@subraumpixel/115847631449705195

A look at how tech executives use "delay, deny, and deflect" when pressed on user safety and what it means for journalism, as shame loses power over public life (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-interview-backlash-analysis/<…

Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse
What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?

Played some of the demo of @…'s Pyrotoad - it's a total blast. Precision puzzle platformer - tough but do-able. Very challenging, really satisfying once you figure it out. Currently in biome 2, level 1- wow. That's the last pic here. Tough as hell. But fun! Try out the demo - the full game is out November 3.

"Gender-confused people love degenerate, liberal culture, especially depraved video games, such as ULTRAKILL - an extremely violent, Satanic shooter, Fallout: New Vegas - an anti-American (Fallout series makes fun of 1950s American culture), pro-SJW RPG and Celeste - a platformer which gives gender-confused people unrealistic power fantasies (such as the ability to double jump, which they do not naturally possess)."
thanks conservapedia