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The whole “false allegations ruin lives” narrative has always upset me so much because it is sexual violence that ruins far more lives, but people care far more about the 2 to 5 percent of false accusations than we do about the 1 in 4 women and the 1 in 6 children who experience sexual violence.

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Our next game is Verminsteel! You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Amazon is opening its wishlists to third-party sellers, which means it can no longer control who has your delivery address. this is a huge privacy risk for sex workers, influencers, and anyone who uses public lists: www.404media.co/amazon-wishl...

Think about this. Armies of people out there, incentivized by a company hired by politicians to post AI-generated political messaging as if it’s their real, organic thought. Dystopian sci-fi? Nope. Reality. I’m partnering with @nationalobserver.com to share @rorywh.bsky.social’s huge story:

Morbin' time is a flat circle.

Every time you hear these reassuringly small or modest energy or water use per AI query numbers, you should understand that they can only be arrived at because of the GARGANTUAN underlying scale of Big Tech's AI infrastructure (often fossil fuel-powered & out-competing communities who need water)

These thieves keep stealing blueprints from my theft empire!

"AI has long been part of gaming and will continue to be" is so heckin disingenuous. I've been a game AI engineer for almost 20 years, which has absolutely nothing to do with the current bubble of generative AI that is burning the world to solve no actual problems.

Clarifying and answering some of your questions about #grok doxxing me. Thank you @noelleperdue.bsky.social and @404media.co for reporting this story. Stay safe, my friends, and FUCK GROK 💚

He won the Olympics

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

Here’s an example of a local newsroom actually informing the public about AI (the role of journalism) versus the blatant AI boosterism we’re seeing many other newsrooms engage in to the detriment of the entire profession

Missed this earlier, but what great news. Like the man said, fix your hearts or die.

Happy #FridaytheThirteenth ! The only official and accurate picture of the Friday Thirteenth Jinx. ( #PhantomsFriday for good measure.)

Manitoba public health officials are warning attendees of a Winnipeg Jets game they may have been exposed to measles earlier this month, as the province grapples with widespread transmission and new cases linked to an agricultural fair in Brandon.

it's not the worst thing AI is doing but: i love cat videos so much and it's so annoying that people are posting ai cat videos now

I posted on *three platforms* just over *20 minutes* after Radio-Canada first misidentified this innocent trans woman as a mass shooter on national television in a 6:00pmET broadcast. I tagged Radio Canada and Patrice Roy. They didn't issue a correction until after 2:00pmET today. Unacceptable.

My new article on Canada's recent AI strategy consultation. Lightning-fast engagement, dubious data protection measures, black box analysis, & AI-generated summaries from made-in-USA LLMs are not a winning strategy for building public trust betakit.com/canadas-new-...

A reasonable discussion about AI would come to the conclusion that this tech is damaging to humanity in virtually every way a tech can be damaging. But I'd rather have an emotional discussion and point out that this tech is shit made by assholes, and it stole from me, personally, so fuck it.

INFRAMAN (north american release in 1976 i believe) might be my biggest nerd flex in this category but idk

1) No we don't. 2)

Here's an interview with a woman targeted by AI-nudifiers using Grok, who then made an OnlyFans account of her 'The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:' Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans: www.404media.co/grok-nudify-...

MAHA indeed. Glad this was advertised at the Super Bowl: www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutr...

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Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

oooo, we get a friday the 13th right before valentine’s day this year double feature? #horror

It is impossible to assault a robot and people who interfere with or damage property are not assailants.

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵

So what will they do? They will blindly feed your review comments straight to their agentic coding model because that's the only thing they know how to do. By doing so the vibe coder has put the maintainer in the weird position where the maintainer is doing agentic coding through a shitty UX

This is fucking genius

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

NVIDIA: The addicts I supply are leading full, productive, pleasant lives

Hey look a new high quality scientific study showing that trans women on HRT have no athletic advantage over cis women

oooo, we get a friday the 13th right before valentine’s day this year double feature? #horror

If you're Canadian and shaking your head about the US gov arresting journalists for the crime of doing journalism, well, that happens here too. And instead of just being furious about it, you can donate money to The Narwhal, who are actually trying to stop it from happening here.

Anyways yeah if anyone has any advice on filing DMCA takedowns or reporting Roblox stuff lmk. Absurd position to be in.

This piece is almost done, but I haven't put makeup on after being a total research gremlin all day, and I have my usual livestream in a little over an hour. That means I can't pump out this video today -- but trust me, it'll be worth it tomorrow! This is gonna be a big one :) Sneak peek:

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app select the icon in the top left corner go to settings go to content and media make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off

Drop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments. I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite. Would love to gather any and all other names.

Forcing autoplay by default *and not being capable of syncing that preference to multiple devices* is irresponsible. If I made a website I wouldn’t want my coding incompetence to cause trauma to people because it forced them to see a murder but what do I know.

Bluesky enabling autoplay by default is starting to feel more and more irresponsible, btw.

TK Carter died 10 days ago, at the age of 69. Three of the cast members here shared some really lovely remembrances of him. #thething www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/ac...

Reupping Sarah's article now that I've seen the show: I thought Shane was one of the best portrayals of an autistic person in media ever. Nothing was cliched. The quiet moments worked. The "obvious autistic" moments and characteristics aren't called out for attention. It's a really good show.

Every Canadian who follows me please sign and share this

On the topic of punch cards, this 1954 instructional video for aspiring punch card operators gives a wonderfully clear (if stultifyingly slow) explanation of the technology youtu.be/etu-cH-nkIA?...

yes it will be bad if the US invades Canada, but at least I will no longer have to care about getting back into the dating scene. I do not have time to Put Myself Out There, aunt carol, I have molotovs to make out of old acting resumes and the vodka I forgot about in my freezer