How a 57-hour Donkey Kong game struck a blow against online toxicity | Tom Hawking
by Tom Hawking from Technology | The Guardian on (#47G3Q)
Harry Brewis raised $340,000 for a UK trans group and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared in a Twitch stream that was an antidote to the worst of gaming culture
One of the defining features of politics in the 21st century has been the way online cultural phenomena can cross over into the "real" world.
Unfortunately, perhaps because the internet seems to bring out the worst in people, those phenomena have largely been, well, awful.
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