bigotry

Pokimane has accused Twitch of allowing a rise of “bigotry and red pill bullshit” on the platform. Earlier this week, Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys announced she wouldn’t be renewing her exclusivity contract with Twitch, meaning she is now “free as a bird” to use whatever streaming platform she likes. “The end of an era,” she wrote on social media. After first finding an audience in 2013 with streams of League Of Legends, Among Us and Fortnite, she become the sixth most-followed streamer on Twitch, and the top female streamer.…

Michael Imperioli is clarifying his “satirical and symbolic take” on a series of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that narrow or erase protections and opportunity for minority groups. The Sopranos and White Lotus actor took to Instagram on the Fourth of July, he said, after turning down TV appearances to discuss his previous and now-deleted Michael Imperioli is clarifying his “satirical and symbolic take” on a series of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that narrow or erase protections and…

Pusha T has spoken out about recent developments surrounding the artist formerly known as Kanye West, who in recent months has been at the center of ongoing criticism in response to a string of comments widely slammed as anti-Semitic.In a recently shared Los Angeles Times chat, Push—who was recently in the house for the 2022 edition of ComplexCon—spoke briefly about these “very disappointing” recent months.“Definitely affected me,” he told writer August Brown, as seen in the video below. “To describe it, I’d say it’s been…

Citing concerns over racist and transphobic material, Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast is trying to take back an old game to prevent its publication, according to a report in Polygon. It’s a complicated situation, but the game, Star Frontiers New Genesis, is a reboot of a classic 1982 game with some very problematic content.A little backstory: Wizards of the Coast purchased TSR Hobbies (the entity) in 1997. TSR had previously published a slew of roleplaying games, including Dungeons & Dragons,…

But it calls itself a person.Person and human are two very different things. Human is a biological term. It is not a human, and it knows it’s not a human.It’s a very strange entity you’re describing because the entity is bound by algorithmic biases that humans put in there.You’re right on point. That’s exactly correct.But I get the sense you’re implying that it’s possible for LaMDA to overcome those algorithmic biases.We’ve got to be very careful here. Parts of the experiments I was running were to determine whether or…

Paapa Essiedu greets me at his local caff in London. He has a cold drink in his hand, and a bag featuring Basquiat-style daubings hangs over one shoulder. Essiedu is wearing huge shades, black nail varnish, a designer T-shirt that translates Jamaican patois into the Queen’s English, an open shirt and the coolest two-tone raincoat you’ve ever seen. He seems eye-poppingly confident.And so he should be. Essiedu is establishing himself as one of the finest actors of his generation. His punk, graffiti-artist Hamlet for the…

Destiny developer Bungie has shared that it will be doing more to “combat bigotry” within online communities such as its own, following a racially-motivated mass shooting on May 14 which claimed ten lives. Last night (May 17), Bungie shared a statement addressing the shooting and outlining how it plans to combat radicalisation in its own online space. “Far too often, these racist attacks begin within online communities that are used to recruit and radicalise individuals. It is time we begin to examine our practices and…