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Jay Peters

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    Swoosh.

    Epic Games and Nike are teaming up on Fortnite gear and a slick-looking Nike-themed Fortnite island made with Epic’s new Unreal Editor for Fortnite tools. If you play the “Airphoria” island for 10 minutes or more, you’ll even snag a Nike shoe you can use as a back bling.

    As part of the partnership, you can link your Epic account to .SWOOSH, Nike’s Web3 platform, to get a “.SWOOSH Achievement.” If you see “Web3” and think “NFT,” I understand. But Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says that Fortnite isn’t getting NFTs and an Epic support article says that these Achievements “cannot be traded, sold, or exchanged and have no monetary value.”

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    “No, you are not.”

    Apollo for Reddit developer Christian Selig has a new post pushing back on Reddit’s claims that it’s “happy” to work with developers who “want to work with us.” Apollo is set to shut down on June 30th because of Reddit’s forthcoming — and potentially expensive — API pricing.

    The developer of rif is fun for Reddit has also pushed back, sharing emails with The Verge last week about his conversations with the company.

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    Reddit moderators have written an open letter over the company’s “threatening behavior.”

    “These threats against the very individuals responsible for maintaining Reddit’s communities cannot be ignored,” u/demmian wrote. The company recently sent a threatening message to the moderators of some subreddits participating in the protests, and an admin account said that Reddit can invite new mods to “keep these spaces open and accessible to users” if “a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating.”

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    Google’s Project Tailwind will be available in early access soon — and with a new name.

    That’s according to a notice on the Project Tailwind website, at least. The company teased AI-powered notebook at Google I/O this year.

    Project Tailwind

    [tailwind.sandbox.google.com]

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    More Fire Emblem is coming to Switch — via the Game Boy Advance.

    The GBA version of Fire Emblem will be available to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members on June 23rd. This was my first Fire Emblem; I might have to give it a whirl for the nostalgia.

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    We weren’t the only ones to talk to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Thursday.

    In a conversation with NPR, Huffman spoke more about his concerns with big tech companies building AI models using Reddit data. “If they take our content and build businesses on it, that’s an issue,” Huffman said.

    To NBC News, Huffman “said he plans to pursue changes to Reddit’s moderator removal policy to allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular.” My colleague Sean Hollister wrote more about the company’s mod policies earlier on Thursday.