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The shitstorm from far-right / MAGA / racists about Assassin's Creed Shadow reminded me of a blog post about the previous installement, Valhalla, described by the author (a historian specialised in ancient and military history) as "a love letter to colonialism" and "an apologia to Nazi race ideology" #Oops

acoup.blog/2020/11/20/miscella

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry · Collections: Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate ImplicationsWe’re going to be a bit silly this week (in part because the ending of this compressed semester has left me with little time) and talk about the recently released historical action-RPG comput…

"Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test" by @electrek - Article about YouTuber Mark Rober's tests of LIDAR (light detection and ranging), including performance on car auto-braking or self-driving systems. Tesla (with only cameras, no LIDAR) fails the road-painted-on wall trick made famous from 75-year old Road Runner cartoons... and drove into the wall. Sounds like a new theme for "Tesla trap" murals around town. electrek.co/2025/03/16/tesla-a #cars #tech #oops

Remember how many of us ran and drove around to collect points and virtual artefacts with Ingress and later Pokémon Go on our mobile phones? How some of us felt maybe a nagging suspicion that it might not be smart to have one company (Niantic) collecting our movements and whereabouts? Well. All that data has just been sold to a company with ties to Saudi-Arabia. #oops. Via @isotopp polygon.com/pokemon-go/538132/

Six Pokemon defend a gym in Pokémon Go.
Polygon · Pokémon Go (and other Niantic games) just sold for $3.5BBy Oli Welsh