Publicly allying yourself with a notorious and vociferous FGC MAGA grifter after they make a half assed apology and post one (1) paid invoice That and more on this episode of "DAMN, THAT'S CRAZY!"

Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.

when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"

AI is a key component in deskilling. You don’t learn yourself, you don’t challenge answers on your own. AI is a key contributor to desensitization. Visual and audio arts are treated with skepticism, caught in crossfire, in place of wonder. AI, a weapon in control, a thief of joy, your replacement.

Nice spot for a little rest 🍃 🎨: @tomatodogart.bsky.social / vgen.co/tomatodogart #DearArtto

take a listen to the BBC Scotland call

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza. The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

Oh look Jack is reviving Vine with "no AI slop!" So why is it listed literally right next to a genAI service? Hint: this is the literal manifestation of "you are the product." DiVine exists explicitly to train their genAI slop engine. You are the training data.

if you're not fuckin with glasses girls, what ARE you fuckin with. what else could be so god damn important.

Weird how many racists like to self-identify themselves as racists.

This is the dystopian bullshit so many of us feared. It's not coming, it's here.

"talk to dead loved ones via AI" really does feel like the worst possible escalation of the late 90s/early 2ks grift of daytime psychic talk shows where people were convinced the show host was channeling their dead aunt

when people say "the world you grew up in no longer exists", Bush v. Gore is why

It's fun how that happened when I was in high school, just a few years before I could vote, and it started the chain of events that royally screwed up so many things for my adult life.

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Introducing David Blowie

bob ross is a disney princess i will not be taking any questions

As requested, our Piczel.tv mascot Pix's ref sheet for anyone that wants to draw her! We'll post some fanart we've gotten in the replies as well. Drawn by C_nit on twitter! If you like Piczel, the most valuable thing you can do is tell your friends Pix fanart is welcome! Tag her with #piczelPix

Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out. Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent

It literally has a disclosure on its Steam page. It didn't "slip through", man. You tried to charge people for a thing that's got slop in it and they're mad. I have an extension to add a pop-up on the Steam page for it but I really think it should be by default top-of-page.

They're de-banking people for kink content online now They'll come for you and your interests next - there's already been movement against vtubers in general, and games like Corpse Party are having their western releases canned over concerns about this stuff Get loud before it's too late

Abd now maybe people will understand why MFF attendees want "tacticool" gear banned.

Remember when some people were trying to tell us that furries were not a queer subculture? And now we have a gang of neo-Nazis straight up doing terrorism against a furry con. Please, tell us more about how furry-hate isn’t anti-queer.

I say this with empathy toward every struggling actor who is just trying to make due: Providing your voice for A.I. undermines everyone in the industry. It is a net negative, that will only make it harder for you and everyone else down the line. It. Is. Wrong.

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"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

I must, once again, be the fun police. Do not buy the new Inazuma Eleven nor support Level-5. They have tainted their hands in genAI slopslop.

HRT should be available for free for anyone who asks for it with no restrictions whatsoever beyond the standard level of informed consent Public transit should be free for everyone and greatly expanded in scope There should be no distinction between tax avoidance and tax evasion

Democrats agreed to more of us shitting ourselves to death from Salmonella, in exchange for their precious delay-free holiday flights home, and imho we should never let them live it down

KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out. www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...

Megyn Kelly in 2017: " If Roy Moore wants to go to the US Senate and he has a history of assaulting 14- and 16-year-old girls, it's a problem."

BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so – over Johnny Cash lyrics.

Reminder to unfollow Teen Vogue if you haven't yet!

Dean made one exuberant yelling noise and the entire political media declared him a dead man walking. NPR's Talk of the Nation had a weekly political segment and the introduction included the Dean Scream until the show ended in 2013. But our Fourth Estate decided fucking kids is no big deal.

South Korean publisher Krafton announced it's transforming into an "AI first" company last month, and is now reducing human jobs with a voluntary resignation scheme. https://bit.ly/48aIe6l

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

These are the kind of things that make the trumps relatable to the working class

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself. Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi. Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data. Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation. You can't make it up.

I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy

For each kink you hate, I guarantee you have at least one friend who is secretly into it -Each time you are aggressive about that kink, that friend is scared you will subject them to violent emotional abuse and abandonment -you can forever improve that friendship by being a bit nicer about kink art✨

I love this.

Honestly how are pharma companies not allowed to sue these people into the ground. I'm really asking.

It’s wild how many of the ICE/CBP detentions are turning out to be illegal — and yet in the US system, there are no consequences for the agents and no recourse for the victims.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

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"Age verification is not just a major invasion of privacy, but bonanza for cybercriminals. With millions of internet users uploading images of their faces alongside government IDs so they can access online content, age verification companies have become extremely attractive targets for hackers."