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Are you too fat for Universal’s new Mario Kart ride? The average American guy is

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Critics are blasting the new Super Nintendo attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood as “blatantly fatphobic” because the augmented reality dark ride has a size restriction that will leave many Americans with larger waistlines on the sidelines.

The Orange County Register

Why the Tabletop Role-Playing World Is Furious About Changes to Dungeons & Dragons' Open Game License

For 20 years, D&D has offered third-party publishers an open, royalty-free license to create new works using its game. A leaked revision would end all of that.

Reason

FTX's SBF: I'm the 3rd-biggest GOP donor

The FTX founder says he kept donations private because "reporters freak the f--k out if you donate to Republicans"

Salon

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Gawker makes a comeback six years after it was sued into closure

A new version of the website, quietly launched a year ago under new owners, is attracting interest and readers again

The Guardian - US

‘Wildfire of disinformation’: how Chevron exploits a news desert

As the closures of newspapers leave Americans struggling for information, Chevron has swooped in to serve up a mixture of local news and propaganda

The Guardian - US

In-person teaching has resumed in the US – but electronic snooping hasn’t stopped

School surveillance software is marketed as a way to keep kids safe, but experts are concerned it’s used to punish students rather than protect them

The Guardian - US

Authors Locked Out of Files Because of Their Ideological Content?

Today's post by Prof. Victor Mair (Language Log) also led me to this story, which is covered in the Wall Street Journal (Wenxin Fan) (paywalled) and also at Gizmodo (Passant Rabie) (unpaywalled) and MIT Technology Review (Zeyi Yang); I quite from Gizmodo: A Chinese software developer is facing backlash after…

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Twitter shadow banned ads for HBO's QAnon documentary last year

In one of the few verifiable instances of internal suppression, Twitter cracked down on anti-QAnon content.

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