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Pluto’s goal: becoming the Discord of VR
If I’m not playing a game that I’m supposed to write about then chances are I’m either playing something for fun, talking about games with friends, or thinking about games while I do other things. This goes for both VR and non-VR. Point being: gaming is a huge part of my life. As a result, […]
Discord members can now spin tunes with social Spotify integration
Discord has a new feature for its community-based social network that enables people to share details about their music through the Spotify streaming service. This enables people to add more elements of their personality into their presence on Discord, which is already a home for thousands of fandoms. As part of this collaboration, Discord will […]
Discord just shut down a chat group dedicated to sharing porn videos edited with AI to include celebrities
Discord Discord has shut down a chat group on its service that was being used to share pornographic videos that had been edited using an artificial intelligence technology to include the images of female celebrities without their consent. Dozens of people were active on the channel, which Discord said violated its rules on revenge porn. […]
City of discord: How Trump’s decision on Jerusalem throws 70yrs of caution to the wind
Trump’s Jerusalem decision has undone 70 years of wary American policy in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, undermining the status of the US as one of peace brokers in the region. RT looks back at how America started, trimmed and reversed its Middle East policy. The US President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital […]
Discord makes it easier to jump into your friends’ games
Gaming chat app Discord is quickly becoming a full-fledged social network. The latest move toward this is the ability to set a status for yourself and let folks know what game you’re playing. More than that, Discord is launching an entire SDK (called “Rich Presence“) so developers can directly integrate the app within their games, […]
Victory through annihilation: Ruin, death & discord left after US-led coalition takes Raqqa
The capture of Syria’s Raqqa by US-backed militias from jihadists came at the high cost of the virtual annihilation of the city itself. This victory, reminiscent of the one in Mosul, northern Iraq, could now pit the militias against the Syrian army. Raqqa, the Syrian stronghold of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) […]
Russian bots posing as regular people are trying to sow discord on Twitter after Charlottesville
Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla Although the recent events in Charlottesville happened 5,000 miles from Moscow, Russia didn’t sit this one out. As has become almost routine after every polarizing U.S. political event in the past 12 months, online Russian propagandists quickly got involved. This time around, they took to Twitter with an army of bots to […]
Discord chats may be crucial to lawsuits over neo-Nazi violence
Discord was quick to shut down neo-Nazi servers and accounts in the wake of racist violence in Charlottesville, but that doesn’t mean those conversations are gone forever. In fact, they may be instrumental to making criminal cases and lawsuits stick. The media collective Unicorn Riot has obtained leaked Discord chat screenshots (about 1,000 of them) […]
Statues of discord: The toppling of monuments stretches far beyond anti-Confederate struggle
America’s struggle with symbols of its slavery past was highlighted amid clashes over a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Dealing with controversial pieces of historical art has a long, sometimes bloody, and occasionally amusing history. Toppling monuments is a tradition honored by centuries, even millennia. It has often been connected to cultural or […]
