In the seven years that I have worked with refugees in Calais I have heard many sad and shocking stories. Yesterday, however, I read something that chilled me to the marrow. A 🧵

We started testing passthrough support in Gesture VR this week and it works great! Now artists can draw on real paper while observing a virtual model. Note: It's not as distorted or tilted in-device. Not sure how others get such nice footage. Thanks @ecilagan for testing!

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We're so proud to unveil what we’ve been building for months: a new 501c3, The Girls Make Games Scholarship Fund! Girls Make Games Scholarship Fund will amplify our work and support GMG alumni, girls & women as they pursue their aspirations in the games industry youtu.be/Z0pYgpHtnrs #GirlsMakeGames

President Biden has gotten a lot done. Here’s what you may have missed. 🧵:

.Ida Bae Wells: "If we learn a more accurate history, then the country we have makes sense, and then we know what we can do to save our democracy." #TheReidOut

.Drexel Westphal prof Nick Cassaway's art features teachers & students from Rock Ministries’ long-running boxing program in a new mural that can be viewed while riding the El train 🎨🥊

He'wo! Oddworld: Soulstorm is currently 50% off on the PlayStation store for only a few days more! bit.ly/3ObwGUR

This 1928 self-portrait is probably the ultimate Art Deco painting. And it's by Tamara de Lempicka, the ultimate Art Deco artist. She was a unique, futuristic painter with a wild life whose work captured the spirit of the 1920s...

Alastair Low talks dyslexia-friendly options in the industry and working on his own solution to make games more accessible to dyslexic players gamesindustry.biz/lowtek-on-tack…

On this day in 1937, 1,000 white students and faculty at the University of North Carolina gathered in support of a speech openly advocating white supremacy by the Imperial Wizard of the KKK. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not in science. 🧵1/

Looking through the eyes of the ancients…

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Seems to me that all the benefit of the doubt Elon Musk received from media, from so-called thought leaders, from corporate America, comes from a society that doesn't see racism, sexism as signs of flawed character or judgment, but instead as sort of normal and besides the point.

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