My biggest Mega Man X take: X7 - in terms of level design - is a competently made mid game. The systems that hamper it are the targeting, camera, and wall collision in some places. It's not good, don't get me wrong... but it's not strictly *bad*. X6's levels are far worse.

Four games everyone should play once (because I can't do only one...)

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

‼️A German hacker known as "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage This happened during the recent CCC conference.

Four games everyone should play once

"so i asked chatGPT..." [remove from watch history] [don't recommend channel]

Let's start calling it "slop coding" instead of "vibe coding"

please help me report these Steam reviews (that ridicule my SA) made to my games. steam moderators cleared them as acceptable (so i can’t flag them) but i don’t think calling me a slur & bringing up my r*pist is acceptable. steamcommunity.com/profiles/765... steamcommunity.com/id/Luceres/r...

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

Gundam in general seems particularly fucked. I happen to be watching through Mobile Suit Gundam Wing on Crunchyroll right now, and it doesn't have closed captions at all, despite having aired on broadcast television. Tell the FCC about Mobile Suit Gundam, Wing, and Iron-Blooded Orphans.

I dunno, man, I am horrified that journalists are anthropomorphizing AI chatbots but I'm even more horrified that the specific ways Musk's disdain for journalism is actually resulting in journalists *rewarding* him with preferential framing they'd absolutely never give anyone else

Child exploitation content on X/Twitter sharply increased under Musk, who not only abruptly disbanded the group of volunteer experts advising the platform on child safety, image exploitation, and other abuses in 2022, but tried to blame them for the company's CSAM problem www.npr.org/2022/12/12/1...

you ever see an OSS project where it feels like they started the whole thing just so they could give it the name they did www.reddit.com/r/rust/comme...

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

*repetitive strain injury from tapping the sign*

The AI didn't consciously make an oopsie but promise to do better and that's the end of it A bunch of techbro engineers released a product with no safety guardrails and in the process hurt a fuckload of people. Report accordingly.

I know everyone is pointing it out but I do think it is absolutely reckless editorial practice to cite what an AI says, especially in a headline. Grok has no authority, nor does it have a meaningful explanation for what happened, and citing it obscures those actually responsible for literal crimes.

Grok didn't have lapses in its safeguards; xAI failed to implement them. Grok isn't "working to fix it;" xAI engineers should be (and it's unclear if they even are, since no journalists are doing their goddamned job). Grok did not "issue an apology." The account posted an apology written by ???.

tapping the sign again #art

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

deeply, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart i say fuck the new york times. stop giving them your money. cancel your subscription. drop their crosswords. move on from wordle. trans people have been saying for years this was an organized campaign of bigotry and disinformation. well here it all is

This right here is why I will share that Luddite dot pro “Lost Penny Files” article until my fingers bleed - they uncovered the ppl who created Midjourney and Stable Diffusion knew users were making CSAM w/their apps and ignored it. GenAI app makers also didn’t care abt the CSAM in the training data

And I will continue to be its biggest hater. It is *the* point at which point a good FF feels more surprising than lower mid for me. I'm glad people like it, but I'm not gonna be shy about my disdain for a dogshit game with shiny lights.

so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform

Event Exclusive Limited Run Games Founder & CEO is Leaving Limited Run Games in March Variant Cover is in Stock. ow.ly/vOvr50XQTVU

The scam website that is trying to steal money from artists is back, new logo and... very hastily made website. Be wary of them, block and report and warn other artists.

They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration. It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.

It's an uneasy alliance we've got going, but hopefully we won't get stabbed in the back or something else equally treacherous happening. New year, same timeline nonsense. www.twitch.tv/temporal_wol...

I am very, very conscious of how it looks for me to be saying this, because I own and operate a direct competitor to LJ, but: I strongly suspect, from all these signals, that Sberbank is preparing to either sell the outside-Russia part of LJ if they can find a buyer, or shut it down if they can't.

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

On December 29, the current owners of LJ posted an announcement to the Russian language news community: ru-news.livejournal.com/80899.html You can drop that into Google Translate, it does pretty okay with Russian these days.

If there is anything you still care about hosted on LJ -- posts, links, icons, photos, anything -- and you don't have a backup, get that backup ASAP. I have not stayed current on ways to back up. The ones I used to know of:

this is, indeed, a crusade by the people directly running the New York Times to destroy the rights and lives of trans people in this country they have blood on their hands and they’re proud of it

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

if you spend your holiday season stalking closed daycare centers demanding to see children that aren't yours, you are a freak. you're a degenerate weirdo that rightly deserves to be shunned by your community, and probably already are, which would explain why you have the free time to do this shit

To celebrate Touhou M-1 Grand Prix reaching a monumental 20th installment, we interviewed showrunner Ran-T, illustrator tonx, as well as EN translators @hinikuhou.bsky.social and alonectorch to learn what goes into the creation of a Touhou M-1! Be sure to check it out!

Because of a conspiracy theory-based stunt by a January 6 insurrectionist who was trying to intimidate children and daycare workers, Trump is now freezing ALL childcare payments across the country. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

Pay Attention.

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

My hero! #AEWWorldsEnd ➡️ allelitewrestling.com/aewonppv

lesson one: 'do not use ai'

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.