Techbros jacked my novel and I won't see a cent from this settlement.

Sora 2 is going to generate a lot of income for IP lawyers, though.

Oh HELL yeah. I had no idea somebody was doing this with the footage preserved

it's really funny how banning one problematic user is the bridge that bluesky's ceo simply won't cross, though they've banned countless others who weren't famous enough for protection

I have a google sheets document with 590 songs that was compiled by a teacher for learning Spanish Music is the easiest way for me to learn a language especially Spanish.

I don't give a shit so I _will_ name and shame here

it's a good game! I like it a lot! got in a *great* vibe with it recently and played for like an hour, very relaxing, very chill.

someone must have told gavin the game involves destroying hastily built shelters

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure. Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

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This would be a fucking stupid move if Netflix caved, on par with Target's disastrous DEI rejection. Because the conservatives wont suddenly start being better customers, and they'll lose anyone left of center. Its abandoning your core audience for one which won't show up.

It's wild that this is a real thing that happened.

Once again it is just incredible how some people are trans, have gone to such lengths, and rather than even think about liberation for others, just go and redo the same fucking dynamics seen on cis transphobes. That if someone is doing gender wrong, they ahve to be punished.

Tech CEOs trying to be funny IS itself funny, because they don’t understand things beyond a surface level, and think being funny is mostly done through references. So, I’m not surprised the CEO lady screamed waffles and then probably proceeded to piss herself with laughter and clap like a seal.

bluesky partially owes its existence to the trans people that made it a fun, inviting place to be in those early days. i am not surprised that the CEO doesn't care about us -- i am not naive -- but i am angry that she acts like we are an annoyance. "if you don't like the way i treat you, leave"

I've been watching the devposts on this and I absolutely CANNOT WAIT

FUNNY HOW THAT ALWAYS HAPPENS HUH "it is just a joke" it is *never* just a joke. bsky.app/profile/loos...

I feel like Smaug and this post is the black arrow.

This includes a group whose members have endorsed mixing in chili powder with trans girls' makeup: the idea being that the intense physical pain in their eyes will want to make them stop being trans and gender-nonconforming. They have the ear, and the admiration, of health secretary Wes Streeting.

Wait they want to shut down AAFES???

Just got served one of those nostalgic AI vids, this one aimed at my generation and it's... It's so BAD. I just want to share a single example: my favorite movie as a kid, "E.T. The The Extratraa-Terstrial."

If you praise Gavin Newsom right now, I see you. I see you as a trans refugee who fled to California this year. Less than a month after I found a place to live, the governor, Gavin Newsom, started a podcast.

Newsom's very first guest was Charlie Kirk. Yes, that Charlie Kirk. They discussed trans people. By the end, Newsom said he "agreed with Kirk" on all trans issues.

Al Jazeera reports on Israel intercepting the global sumud flotilla, boarding boats & detaining people. Those boats were in international waters & what Israel is doing is piracy and kidnapping. Where is the condemnation from our govt?

Somebody could write a whole dissertation unpacking what's going on with Rafael Cruz, Cuban-American elected in Texas, insulting a Slavic woman from Minnesota by calling her Hispanic.

The Pokemon Company are famous for not suing for copyright and trademark infringement, right?

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

YouTube put a Diggy Diggy Hole reaction on my homepage. You bet your ass I'm watching it.

The audacity of jay and paul to pretend that the singal question was out of nowhere and therefore the backlash is not fair, the utter refusal to enforce their own rules when people who happen to love charlie kirk or question the rights of trans people break them. Just evil people. Deeply evil

whatever. does this to you

"don't call me dude" "ok" completing this simple social transaction this is the most difficult challenge cis people face. to them, it is a riddle so indecipherable as to stymie the mighty oedipus or wisest batmen.

the school bus shortage is so real...but it's because Republicans have 1. Cut funding to everyone but charters 2.Tried to force in students (in heavily immigrant counties) to wear legal state IDs on the school buses this is manufactured to make our public schools, and libraries fail

Whatever reward or pardon the regime offers to those who would bend the knee, we collectively need to extract a cost twice as dear

Yup and the name of the game vis a vis capital is to make every capitulation to Trump COSTLY And really this is the name of the game vis a vis everybody, actually

Hegseth is every kid in my JROTC unit who idolized and emulated the Drill Sergeant in Full Metal Jacket and never once examined why he got fragged by Private Pyle.

I sure hope the ADL is proud that they stuck up for Elon Musk when he did a Nazi salute back in January.

I see we're using a very expansive definition of the word "talked" now (this person is saying the Palestinians should do diplomacy instead of armed struggle, like, the Irish)

"But do you condemn Hamas?" The IDF has killed more children in the past year than the total number of casualties of any age attributed to Hamas over all time, and it's not even close. So the real question is, "Do you condemn the IDF?"

A blessed fast to all my Jewish friends, and may your names be written in the Book of Life for the coming year.

Commander? I barely know'er! Monster Researcher Eclair MtG proxy painted by the incredible @jeganzero.bsky.social!!

i love that some tech people got scared of a god they made up and now all computers are insane

300 likes from ratioing jay lets get on it team

The difference is LLMs produce "correct answers" and "hallucinations" in the exact same way. Both are statistically-likely sequences of words; one just happens to conform better to consensus reality. It isn't expressing an understanding, correct or otherwise, so it can't be "wrong" in the same sense

My favorite flavor of dude the past couple of days is the "white dude political commentator clutching pearls and saying 'no one saw this coming' and then, when people point out that it was all laid out, they post receipts from other incredulous white dudes". Like... You see the problem?

As Archbishop Tutu put it with regards to South Africa: "Those who claimed they did not know cannot very well say so now. They know.” -- There is no atonement for Gaza, ever. There is only– ever– the unsparing, lifelong, work of repentance and repair.

If anyone in Portland is unable to fast and doesn't want to be alone, let me know! I'm happy to gather with other non-fasting community members.