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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Pokémon Champions finally redeems a bad grass starter 25 years later

The competitive Pokémon game boosts Mega Meganium, and in doing so, will vindicate anyone who picked Chikorita in Pokémon Gold and Silver

How to solve the Thinker's Meadow mysterious energy puzzles in Crimson Desert

How to get rid of the mysterious energies in Thinker's Meadow in Crimson Desert, which will lead to a fast travel point and an ancient ruins.

The New York Yankees Have the Best Record in Baseball

Nice 7-0 win last night over the San Francisco Giants.

The game was on Netflix, and it was the worst baseball broadcast I can recall watching in the HD era. The picture quality was just awful, with embarrassing dynamic ad injection. Yes, there was haze, but it’s not like crappy weather in San Francisco is a surprise. The game had the first Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge in MLB history, but the broadcast missed it while it happened. And Netflix’s scorebug is without question the worst I’ve ever seen — as one guy on Reddit quipped, it was somehow “too big and too small at the same time”. I’d have to stand within arm’s reach of my TV to read those player names.

If this is the level of attention Netflix is going to pay to sports broadcasts, they should stick to bumfights.

Wikipedia bans AI-generated articles

Wikipedia will no longer allow editors to write or rewrite articles using AI. The update, which was added to Wikipedia's guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for AI-written articles to violate "several of Wikipedia's core content policies" as the reason for the ban. The change applies to the English version of Wikipedia and will […]

Everything You Need to Know About the KKK

The Root is taking a closer look into the Ku Klux Klan, one of the most notorious terrorist organizations of all time.

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