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[feverfiction]

AFTER SCHOOL is a coming-of-age story about detention, baseball, gangs and friendship.

3 Character routes to explore — Explore the stories of Dante, Adrien and Chester, with sappy friendship endings, the possibility of kissing one of them and some...not-so-good endings.

3 full CGs, as well as 6 partial CGs to unlock!

About 30-45 minutes of gameplay per route, with a total of 23k words

Play for Free on PC/Mac: [ Download ]

[sickfuture]

Field of Vision - The Moderators

In an office in India, a cadre of Internet moderators ensures that social media sites are not taken over by bots, scammers, and pornographers. The Moderators shows the humans behind content moderation, taking viewers into the training process that workers go through in order to become social media’s monitors.

Directed by Ciaran Cassidy and Adrian Chen

[workbyart]

The rise of Reddit as a tastemaker and source for journalists is the worst thing to happen to journalism since the sinking of The Maine. It's as if an energy drink-addled college sophomore who has issues with women became the internet's assignment editor. I used to rigorously comb Reddit for stories and I'm ashamed of the role I played in this state of affairs. Luckily Reddit has become increasingly self-obsessed and less useful as a source. Hopefully it will be completely irrelevant in a couple of years.

Adrien Chen on Reddit

[haengboghanyeoja]

[haengboghanyeoja]

[mediamattress]

America's deadly flying war robots are in the hands of users of the popular geek message board Reddit. And as with any profession in which Redditors can be found, U.S. Army drone operators have apparently taken to Reddit to chat about their controversial jobs with fellow users in the site's popular "Ask Me Anything" section. On Wednesday, four people claiming to be U.S. Army Predator drone operators currently deployed in Afghanistan held a question-and-answer session with Reddit users using codenames. " We feel there is a big disconnect when it comes to UAVs and the general public," wrote one of the operators. "Our group, being redditors, felt we couldn't find a better venue to try and create some understanding." The operators also discussed the U.S. drone reportedly captured by Iran last year ("I have no clue how it happened! We have SOOO many safe guards") and how they're not baby killers ("We are here to defend the constitution of the United States of America and to make sure our brothers in arms are safe from their surroundings"). The AMA didn't reveal much surprising, especially given recent media coverage of drone pilots, but the venue offered a rare, direct connection to the drone operator at war. (This wasn't even the first drone pilot AMA, though the previous one was conducted by an Air Force pilot who was not deployed.)

Adrien Chen, "The Pentagon Is Apparently Letting Redditors Pilot Drones" (Gawker)

[superchthonic]

One of the comments left in response to this article explained exactly why I despise a certain brand of trolling:

"I just like riling people up in my spare time."

You want to spend your time uplifting and making things better for people? Awesome. You just want to spend it watching mindless daytime television reruns and holed up indoors all the time eating Nutella right out of the jar? That's ok. But if you choose to spend your spare time needlessly and intentionally making things worse for people, belittling them, demeaning them, objectifying them, using strangers to fulfill your own narcissistic desire for cruelty? You very much deserve to have your own camera turned back on yourself.

Kudos, Adrian Chen. Thank you.