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Video game 'reloots' stolen artefacts, by reclaiming works of art from Western museums

Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game.

Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era.

The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

Hey y'all.

A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews.

Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂

Day 217 #atagaday #Sheith fics - Drunk Shiro

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So I think everyone knows what Chuck E. Cheese is but for non-parents who don't know what LifeTouch is, it's the company that for decades has had a near-monopoly on school pictures.

i have drawn Discord's awful mascot, Wumpus, crying in a folding chair in the void like Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He is surrounded by paper letters on the floor and raining from above. The text reads: PAPER MAIL IS HARDER TO IGNORE. Discord Inc. 444 De Haro Street, Suite 200, San Fransisco, CA, 94107, United States of America. BONUS: call them at 888-594-0085! source: discord.com/company-information (if they remove it it's on the internet archive)

they can't use chatbots or auto-responses to deal with paper mail. they can throw it away, but it can still be a problem.

you can buy single stamps at your local post office. 😎

source for address/phone number is discord's own site:
discord.com/company-info...

temporary peace
#sheith #shiro #keith #voltron #vld

Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020 https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.

With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

Day 216 #atagaday #Sheith fics - Drunk Sex

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Day 215 #atagaday #Sheith fics - Drunk Keith

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Hey can we bring back all those internet safety campaigns we had when I was a millennial teen? It is NOT my job to parent someone else's kids and have to submit my ID to places to sanitize the internet for some puritanical outrage about kids. Parents should be doing this themselves.

For followers looking to use discord less, for whatever reason, we're on dreamwidth both as the event community & a second account to serve as a gathering space for writers.

✍️ ficwip.dreamwidth.org

☕ thecoffeeshop.dreamwidth.org

Discord's customer service email is no longer supported but their contact forms are open! Fair warning, you have to create a seperate Discord Support account in order to file a complaint

If you have a subscription with them too, cancel it. If their users can't reach them, loss of profits will

#priestbrideAU

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.

It could be really bad for Discord if Californians contact the office of the Attorney General to report the potential violations of CCPA and CALOPPA citing the recent breach from a few months back where 1.5tb of user data and millions of IDs were leaked, but who can say for sure?

Great post, and here's the image with alt text.

Go and light their feedback forms up over this, it is much more effective than emailing: dis.gd/contact

Here's Discord info on their age verification process. I guess I gotta hope I get auto-marked as an adult based on my metrics, because I ain't uploading any legal documents to them.
support.discord.com/hc/en-us/art...

- Worldwide age verification next month
- Most users will be marked teen by default
- Age verification will be via 3rd party vendor (last one had a major data breach)
- Teen blocks access to 18+ groups, stages, & any content system flagged sensitive. This includes groups you're already a member of.

twt has me in baby jail and nothing is reaching anyone but maybe here it'll be better!! Today is my anniversary✨
9 years ago today I was declared c@ncer free (stage 4 NHL) when I was 17! I had 30 treatments total.

If this reaches you would you give my art a wee look/RT?🥲❤️ thank you~~

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

The #1 rule about paying someone to teach you how to make money writing books is don't pay them if they won't even tell you what books they wrote that are making all the money.

Happy Superb Owl day to all who celebrate.

Second time in 3 days I’m posting this Vonnegut quote wrt AI.

Fandom Internet Etiquette:

1) ship and let ship
2) don't like, don't read
3) canon doesn't matter
4) trolls are just brats who need taming
5) no ship is "wrong" or immoral; they're just dolls
6) fiction =/= reality; get over it
7) respect fandom creators; they're doing this shit for free