I hate the Bluesky character limit. Anyway, thought I had tonight:

A point about the Gen AI push I don't see raised enough: I just want to be able to search for things again. Big tech companies have enshittified traditional search engines to the extreme even compared to just last year, and all to promote ✨️Ask AI✨️ type services they know couldn't compete otherwise.

Spiral room breakdown 🌪️ #pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

I just feel like I'm mentally caught between a future and a past that are somehow both moving farther away from this present. It's not fun. Despite how it might seem at times, I don't hate everything about this time and place, it's just frustrating that I don't feel at home here.

Reminding ny'all of this. If you do this kinda shit, you're low-life scum, and the most impactful thing you'll do for this planet is feed the worms.

Ok, but can I raise you the Doom 64 missing texture? In all seriousness, even placeholder graphics have value. Even if Generative AI had no environmental impact (which it does), you'd be missing out on all the injokes with the development team/your friends that would otherwise exist.

We wanted to express our gratitude to the brave, patriotic people who are video-taping and posting the disgusting crimes that Trump’s masked goons commit every day on American streets. History will not remember this shameful period nor those who perpetrated it kindly

Game: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1992, NES) TAS Author: link_7777 Source: tasvideos.org/6397M

yes, our current IP law is corporate opression, butwe need to replace them tho, professional need to not only be able to own what they produce, but also know were said intelectual property comes from and be able to do something about to when someone doesnt want to respect that.

Never stops being relevant

maybe it's just my inner anarchist punk but "theft" is just not the thing about AI that pisses me off i'm a thousand times more concerned about, say, face surveillance or the use of machine learning for automated decision making in health care than I am about spicy autocomplete trained on my music

The Supreme Court too. I get that has no bearing on lowering healthcare premiums, but it's important to remember the totality of their control.

Maybe Israel will pass that death penalty only for Palestinians law, maybe they won't, but for all I've heard this is a fringe party (which merely holds the balance of power), I also heard strenuous denials that Israel would destroy every hospital in Gaza. Right up until they did.

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If the administration is willing to go to extreme lengths to conceal damaging allegations that trump is a pedophile and part of a sex trafficking ring, it raises serious questions about how much trust we should place in their claims— including the legitimacy of the last fucking election.

Jack Smith testified that his team had proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump committed crimes — election interference and obstruction — and the only reason he wasn’t convicted is DOJ policy shielding a sitting president. Innocent people don’t need constitutional loopholes to avoid prison.

If there only was a word for a governing system in which one set of laws applied to people of a specific race, and a completely different and much harsher set of laws applied to those of another race... www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Answer: People think voting works. People think the republic as a system of government works. People think that there is a way to deal with corruption of this magnitude within the confines of the law (which reminder, is whatever they want it to be at this point). This is why we're allowing this.

Once again getting depressing reminders that I was either born way too early (assuming beyond reason things get better enough at some point) or born when I shouldn't have been at all (the more realistic view that they don't).

Labels matter. I wasn't radicalized at all, everything has been changing drastically for the worse around me my entire life. Just because I noticed and hate it doesn't make me radicalized.

Older Star Trek shows and movies (pre-2005) painted a really convincing picture of a better way. I could name so many different episodes and moments, where the cast see some bigotted/stupid idea or societal problem that's commonplace today, and react with such incredulity to the very notion of it.

i’m just going to assume the 90% of pages that they blacked out is ONLY donald trump

Playing indie games be like

I’ve had this happen to me by people who continued to pretend to be my friends up until the Big Dump of problems :)))

I think everyone should read this thread of posts from OP. I've been blindsided by this shit enough (twice for ~9 months a piece) that I'm a little suspicious of everyone now, even my closest friends, because it's impossible to tell who's secretly keeping a list about you.

... I wonder if this also ties into RSD? I've noticed this seems to have some level of triggering when this is used against me but now I know what to call this sort of thing. Though there's also the potentially deadly effect of being suddenly cut off and not knowing why, only that you did something

There's a particular abusive behaviour enacted by both individuals and organisations that I like to call "laundry listing" It's when, instead of confronting you when you are perceived to have misbehaved or done something wrong, it is simply "saved for later" so it can all be dumped on you at once.

ok. it's def time to take the use of "degenerate" in a joking manner out back. there's other, more fun words to use than that anyways, so it's not that big of a deal but I wanna at least be far more deliberate about it now.

let me spell it out - Cybertruck Collab - AI Darth Vader - Skipping Pride - HP How you react and handle it is your own choice, there needs to be some community organization to have an effect but if you're still playing you better be prepared for them to test what you'll keep playing through again.

I've seen a few mutuals not understand this so for people trying to avoid spending on the fortnite hp collab, that's not enough. Avoiding it but playing isn't going to work, they'll just see that collaborating with her didn't hurt their bottom line and that they can keep going. And it will get worse

This applies to everything in general i think. Just by being made by someone else, a thing is gonna be different in extremely meaningful ways. This works in either case of suddenly being aware a similar idea has existed or being aware of it for the entire process

My hatred for humanity grows.

They don't *want* you to use normal search engines anymore, they want you to ✨️Ask AI✨️, and we're past the point now where for highly technical/specific information, you either *do* ask one of those stupid fucking LLMs, or you give up entirely because there ***are no other viable options anymore***.

Based on the past, I seem to be about... 6 years ahead of everyone else on understanding society's political trajectory? If I'm still alive in 2032 (unlikely if people keep letting the world decline like they have for the past 10 years) I'll probably be saying "I told y'all so in 2025" about a lot.

Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.

Oh and online protest movements like @50501movement.bsky.social and #NoKings would be quickly wiped off of social media by censorious lawsuits. Some of the organizers of the @teslatakedown.com protests wrote a letter about this earlier this year. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

In a world without Section 230: 😩 Big Tech companies everyone hates would win. Giants like Meta and Google have armies of lawyers to navigate compliance 😩 Alternative platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon would likely shut down, along with Wikipedia, review sites, how-to resources, small forums, etc

In a world without Section 230 (cont.): 😩 Corporate platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube will more heavily censor anything controversial that might get them sued: political content, LGBTQ resources, abortion information, MeToo stories, protest announcements, you name it.

In a world without Section 230 (cont.) 😩 The rich and powerful would rapidly accumulate more power to control the flow of information, and suppress information that's critical of them or harmful to their business interests. Free speech for those who can afford the most expensive lawyers.

In a world without Section 230 (cont.) 😩 State laws in Texas etc that ban "facilitating," "harboring," or "disseminating" information about abortion, gender affirming care, etc will force platforms to censor related content en masse. Right now, those platforms are protected by Section 230(e)(3)

In a world without Section 230 (cont.) 😩 The victims of online abuse won't get any meaningful justice for the harm they've experienced. And the communities who have been most harmed by Big Tech and surveillance capitalism won't benefit. The people hurt by tech will be hurt even more. Infuriating.

Experts say we have months not years to organize the type of mass protest needed to avoid authoritarianism and fascist rule taking hold in the United States. And what is Congress doing? Introducing a repeal of Section 230, the law that underpins all free speech on the Internet

It's incredible to me how the mainstream press will be incredulous and skeptical when RFK Jr and other HHS officials push they're quackery around vaccines but suddenly become credulous when they go attack trans healthcare. Anti vax and anti trans beliefs are all the same quack pseudoscience.

Please make sure @whitehouse.senate.gov and @durbin.senate.gov get up to speed on this. Some of your (specific) colleagues really need to understand this.

Don’t tell us, tell the rest of Congress. We know. They don’t.