The future everyone, also pay $300/month please

I don't recall if I had already ordered it by the time I saw it, but the author is on Bluesky promoting their work; bsky.app/profile/ekjo... Replies suggest it's good #Dungeons&Dragons #TheDruid'sCall

Nice little delivery

"Huh, kink stuff is effected by inflation too. I wonder how much?" [online search for 'kink inflation'] "Safe search on! Safe search on!"

Today’s newsletter reveals the unrestrained and wasteful token burn inside one publicly-traded company (Zillow) and breaks down the cold, hard truth that AI is - for hyperscalers, for AI labs, and for customers - simply too expensive to ever pay off. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

“99.2% of GPS patients who received gender-affirming medical care continue to identify as transgender into adulthood. Of the remaining 0.8%, most did not regret the medical treatment they received.” This is why transphobes are terrified of youth care, and why youth care should be legal everywhere.

In Kansas, a judge looked at the medical evidence on gender-affirming care and found the evidence simply does not support the state ban on these treatments. Don't believe the propaganda. Youth trans care is not a particularly tricky or nuanced medical question. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Remember when it came out that Jeffrey Epstein and his billionaire rapist pals had deliberately manufactured modern movement transphobia to make us easier to exploit sexually and no one but us cared?

unscheduled reminder that piracy was found to not correlate to lower sales numbers, and then the EU tried to hide the study because they didn't like the result www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-e...

I feel like everyone who’s used it as a therapist needs to see this “By using it, Client waived confidentiality”

If you're a writer (I'm not), write "I waited" without saying it. Shallow breaths despite my body's protests, heart pounding in my throat unable to swallow it, sweat pouring down my face, and small sparkles at the edge of my vision. Is it still there?

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

All of this. For always.

slay the princess under $10...

One thing I wondered, far too late, is if the 'look for friends' function on your phone apps; where it goes through your contacts, was low key (possibly) illegal. Since you'd hand over privacy sensitive data that wasn't yours but someone else's and you couldn't know what was done with it

I’ve dealt with several thousand cyber incidents over the past 5 years, and currently lead a global emerging threat team. Amount of those being GenAI incidents: zero. Amount being foundational causes: every single one.

You can play it for free at VILEISBANNED.com 🤘🏻

the crew behind VLC are legit heroes. they've been offered millions (tens of millions?) to sell VLC or incorporate advertising and every time they've said, nah, we like that our video player is free software for everyone on the planet

Oh hey steam's very selectively enforced prudishness is very predictably being used as a cudgel towards a queer VN. Who could have seen this coming?/s

Exclusive: Last year, she was demonized for grading a poorly written psychology paper. Now, Mel Curth is speaking out about being targeted by Christian conservatives and to correct misinformation she believes the University of Oklahoma allowed to spread. www.advocate.com/news/people/...

goddamn, dude.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

We have a new video featuring Ross tearing down the ESA's argument against the Protect our Games Act (a more detailed breakdown of our counter-response to the ESA): www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjUa... Old-school Ross fans might remember him discussing the ESA in 2018: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-gN...

#StopKillingGames youtu.be/gjUaH1NK8uA?...

Bezoekers van 113.nl (zelfmoordpreventie) werden gevolgd door Google & Microsoft — ook na cookies weigeren. Juist de meest kwetsbare mensen, zonder toestemming. Dit is exact waarom wij sterke privacywetgeving én handhaving eisen. De AVG bestaat niet voor niets!

“We waren geen journalisten meer, maar juristen”. In NRC vertel ik over de impact van de jarenlange juridische strijd die we moesten voeren met granulietproducent Bontrup. Over het chilling effect op experts en collega's: “Iedereen is bang gemaakt, we raakten totaal geïsoleerd.” #granuliet

EU lanceert leeftijdsverificatie-app "gebouwd op succes van de corona-app". Beveiligingsonderzoekers vonden al ernstige lekken. Ondertussen: iedereen verplicht identificeren om internet op te gaan. Dit is geen kinderbescherming — dit is massasurveillance!

Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one. Not today. #pcgamer #pcgaming #darkestdungeon

I figured out you could get 65000+ of a stackable item in the original Baldur's Gate by putting an item like a potion in the quick item slot, then swapping it with a single gem, click the quick item (which still had the potion graphic), check inventory, click quick item again, & now you had 65k gems

It is infuriating that prose writers can put the most explicit content in their books but comic writers are once again punished for doing the exact same thing. WE ARE ADULTS. EVERYONE CONSUMES THIS STUFF. WHY ARE WE PRETENDING THAT WE DON'T?

#canada #cndpoli #politics #censoship remember to add bill c-22 and c-63 to any calls and emails!!

🔒 Overheden noemen VPN's een "maas in de wet" nu leeftijdsverificatiewetten massaal worden omzeild. VPN-gebruik steeg 1800% na de Britse Online Safety Act. De oplossing? Toezicht op netwerkniveau — ook wel: massasurveillance. Wij zeggen: privacy is een recht, geen loophole. #VPN #Privacy

It's hard to understate how extremely difficult it is to tell if an LLM is analyzing data you feed it, or just predicting a likely response based on its training data. I've had so many problems with analysts doing this and not realizing the LLM just guessed the answer.

In weerwil van de angstporno van mensen als Wierd Duk en Raisa Blommestijn kijkt 'Het Volk' er toch even anders tegen aan.

Main Menu - One Must Fall 2097

The Gooner War

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

🔐 DigiD in Amerikaanse handen? Dat betekent dat Trump met één druk op de knop toegang heeft tot jouw gegevens — of de Nederlandse overheid kan platleggen. Dit moet stoppen. Teken de petitie! 👇 actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/stop-de-amerikaanse-overname-digid #DigiD #DigitaleAutonomie

⚠️ De tech-lobby wint: de EU-AI-verordening is afgezwakt vóórdat die zelfs van kracht werd schrijft @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social Bescherming tegen hoog-risico AI uitgesteld tot 2027-2028. Big Tech dicteert het tempo, burgers betalen de prijs. Genoeg! 🏴‍☠️ #AIact #ArtificialIntelligence #Europa

We encourage all Californian gamers to call your reps and demand passage of AB1921. Gamers looking to join the fight for a more sustainable and consumer-friendly game industry, check out The Players Alliance and get involved! playersalliancehq.org

Surely any password *could* be guessed in one try, it's just a matter of how likely

Rummaged through my Raspberry Pis. They were running older versions of Debian (Trixie is the lastest atm), the oldest being Buster. While most just updated, two (I think due to manual meddling) I had to go into the list of repositories and change the version to Trixie by hand

I think the weirdest part with getting a constant bombardment of sponsorship emails is just seeing how many companies have managed to cram AI into anything they can think of. AI GPS trackers, AI dash cameras, AI garden hoses, AI guitars... like what are we doing here, guys?

WE WON. Amnesty named me People’s Human Rights Champion for exposing a scandal in British healthcare. My team and I found abuse, neglect, conversion therapy, and deaths, all ignored by NHS managers. See the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5w... Support our work: www.patreon.com/c/Philosophy...

Was reminded that there's a Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves prequel book (The Druid's Call) so I went to order one at my local bookstore! And they went bankrupt FIVE days ago! :O Fortunately they were part of this online network, so I ordered it from a store 10 miles away instead. Still :O