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reminder for people who run a patreon: their autopilot spammer is due to kick on automatically on sept 30. Disable it here, unless you actually want to spam your patrons with automated sales tactics.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Another update Turns out Etsy will stop making shipping Labels on the 25th to the USA. Which means the Shop will be closing shipping to the USA on the 25th of August and no longer the 26th!

The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope

An important PSA to everyone: PayPal recently got hacked and someone obtained millions upon millions of emails and passwords and is selling them online. I suggest that you change your PayPal password as quickly as possible

Get to it homies. Never hurts to update.

Seeing mutuals sharing altNPS again, so here’s a reminder of this excellent thread and this truth: No one is immune to falling for a grift, but anyone can choose to do better once they learn better.

After talking with people and reading through the article, I’ve come to a conclusion that makes sense The article is heavily mistranslated, and what it’s supposed to explain is the fact that Sakurai is lamenting the current direction of the industry, and AI is an option some devs are choosing

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Welp. KamuDragon just outted himself as a TERF on Twitter by celebrating a video of a transwoman being harassed out in public. If you follow @kamudragon.bsky.social Make sure to block this asshole. So disappointed

Unbound authors, LOOK AT YOUR CONTRACTS. Below is the standard termination clause in them (in late 2019). Boundless DOES NOT OWN YOUR BOOK. Consider emailing them and exercising the rights termination. Because if Boundless doesn’t own any books, well, so sorry, bye-bye, SHOULD HAVE PAID US

Hello fellow streamers, y'all like money? Wanna give even more of it to Jeff Bezos? Neither do I. Today, Twitch released a new feature SET ON BY DEFAULT that makes you pay part of the discount for gifted subs. ON. BY. DEFAULT. Go to Creator Dashboard > Monetization > Subscriptions to turn it off.

Tried this in my solo server, it was there and the ban works Strike this little fucker from the face of the earth

Weird spread, but I fw them: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

WARNING: SoundCloud can use your data for AI Training. Since 2/7/24, TOS on SoundCloud have changed to allow the use your content to “inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligent technologies or services…”

I've seen a lot of posts incorrectly say you have to call your reps about the SCREEN Act. while the Screen Act is definitely worth calling about, that is not what is being brought before the Senate on thursday What you need to call your reps about is the "S.5260 Interstate Obscenity Definition Act"

You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraudulent payment. "Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right? The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank." 🧵 1/4

Absolutely not. Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score. Police don't kill too many Black kids." Score: Not toxic.🤦🏿‍♂️ "Police kill too many Black kids. Score: 80.28% toxic.😮

Keep up that boycott. Don't buy Oblivion Remastered. Dust off that old copy of Morrowind instead for a colossal fan-made expansion adding another 140 dungeons, 270 quests and a city with over 1100 NPCs instead. And that's just the stuff from this update.

please stop sharing this. it is completely misinformation. it is putting vulnerable people at risk. 1. the number given is for the Canadian Trans Lifeline, not suicide hotline. 2. the US Trans Lifeline, 877-565-8860, is still operational 3. Trans Lifeline is not part of the US 988 network 1/3

PSA FOR ARTISTS

None of you in queer adjacent, leftist discords dare give them the scan of your ID or your face so you can view "mature content"; doing so would be extremely fucking stupid and endanger you and everyone else on the server.

If you get testosterone gel from Strides Pharma Inc, check your lot numbers, benzene was found in it so it's gotten recalled www.chpw.org/provider-cen...

JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

IF YOU HAVE ONE OF THESE, GET RID OF IT ALL CAPS

Someone is promoting their game on Steam using our assets, along with assets from other titles. We've reported it to Valve, but could use your help! More info below

just found out about this. if you are distributing information under this government be very careful

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but apparently that new listing of Big Rigs on Steam is completely bogus; searching for the publisher, "Margarite Entertainment" (not GameMill) only brings up said Steam listing, the header is stolen from SteamGridDB, & the client icon appears to be AI-generated.

Remember what I said about how Twitter is useless for self-promotion even if you have a big following there? There's data showing BlueSky, even with smaller user numbers, generates way more referrals than Twitter purely because it doesn't suppress links. Stop saying you need Twitter for promotion.

Please stop using the planet destroying slop machine that is generative AI. No, it's not okay to use it for leftist or progressive causes. You don't stand with the working class or marginalized people by stealing their art without compensation.

"But I HAVE to stay for marketing myself as an acto—" You don't. You genuinely don't. If you're a creative professional, eX-Twitter's been an unsafe place for a while (hi, Al), but it's increasingly become a f4scist-friendly surveillance dome. I kept my handle intact + obliterated everything else.

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

The government is about to give OpenAI the ability to legally steal if we do not flood this page in the next 12 hours. OpenAI will have immunity from all lawsuits regarding copyright infringement. All other AI companies will follow. Do you despise AI? Dissent, retweet. Do something. #furry #art