Look, all I'm saying is I figured out that fella was a loose cannon long before we came to "invents a thing that lets users generate non-consensual pornography and even CSAM"

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

If you are visiting here from X because the CSAM thing was a bridge too far, welcome. I'd encourage you to carefully consider whether the things you heard about Bluesky on X are true or whether they were lies spread by the guy who owns X who controls what posts you see on his site.

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

As of today I’ve removed Twitter from my phone and locked my account. Elon going all in on Generative AI, including enabling Grok to generate deepfakes OF MINORS is unconscionable. This year we ALL need to be louder than ever about this: GenAI is largely unethical and needs to be regulated.

My cat is still missing and this year still sucks ass.

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

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

Rewatching the Murdaugh doc while I eat and dude, the general nonchalance with which he goes thru the interview days after while I sit here after crying all day cuz my cat has been gone for less than a day is mind bogglingly cold. I know people grieve different, but holy shit. Fake a feeling.

Lol Miami. Also lol Austin. As a Texan watching what's going on there with tech🤦🏼‍♀️

Started the year with my baby cat deciding to run away. Hoping this is a temporary thing and she just got out last night, was freaked out and is taking her time coming hope, but what a shit way to start a new year. I was going to go to a birthday party with a friend but now I just want to cry.

Marked safe from whatever nonsense this is. 🫠

A government of Nazi incels supervised by Nazi pedophiles who dream of deporting one-third of the country

Whelp. 2025 was pretty shit. But it did mostly bring to a fairly satisfying end my longest continuous manga relationship, aka Akatsuki no Yona finally finished. (Kinda, apparently there's like a followup chapter next month or something? But the story is done.) Anyway. 2011 (summer?) to Dec 2025.

So. Since they're apparently continuing the Tales of remastered project longer than year 30... First of all yay. Second of all, this still makes Berseria a dumb next choice. Third of all, istg y'all better give me Destiny and Destiny 2 or I will ... Cry I guess.

Hold up, hold up. Who is writing 'wallah'? Lololol. The rest I've seen but I have never in my 40 years seen 'wallah'. That's hilarious.

The Johns have been a massive disappointment. Just all of them.

Gearing up for the January reading challenge. Planning to re-read a lot of childhood favorite fantasy and sci-fi this year. Not sure why I made this decision, but mainly I want to reread The Dark is Rising Sequence, so I figured why not also do the Dealing with Dragons books, Holly Lisle books, etc.

Marriage Butter Friend Well a friend of mine did get engaged, so that makes sense. And butter will always have a place in my stomach. Seems right.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman

The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”

Literally everyone was telling you. Just like they are now for sports gambling and AI grifting.

163 years ago in Mankato, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history. I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.

Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.

I haven't touched a kindle in over a decade. I've got a Boox. Tbf I use the locked ebook tech when I read from the library, which is a large chunk, but the rest of it is through open formatting. The world could get on board and American consumers would buy, too.

Stopped 9 wars* (citation needed) started at least, what, 12?

We can’t blame any nation for not trusting the United States under Trump. I just hope they forgive us after he’s gone, quickly.

Welcome back to bsky from the exodus, friends. Don't forget, tagging your art is actually useful here and you can view ALL tags by just a certain user by clicking this!! Another tip, use your feeds!!

"people can still download your art from bsky and feed it into AI" if gamer behavior has taught me anything, just one extra button press is more than enough to annoy a MASSIVE amount of people into not making the effort

You guys caught this too, right? “Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” ███████ noted some girl with a funny name “took me into a fancy hotel or building, that’s how it happened.” Also this: she was advised to call the police. But she replied, “I can’t, they will kill me.” 1/2

When the history of this cruel era is written, the shame should be no less than the shame we now feel about the roundups and detention of Japanese Americans in World War II. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-brazen-cruelty-of-the-trump-regime

Transgender to everyone and to everyone a good night.

Rolled credits on Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment at a little over 30 hours. Didn't 100% but did do a lot of the aside stuff and looked at after credits game, which is nice. Anyhow, bawled like a freaking baby. Loved it. Made TOTK better and I adored TOTK, which is apparently a hot take now.

Delete that shit right now friends.

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?

Ugh. Really trying not to rant for the holidays. 😑 All the turning post stuff today is not helping that. Time to log off and finish Hyrule Warriors I think.

No shit Vivek. We told you this, but you wanted to grift, so you know, fafo.

Live your life in such a way that your broken jaw isn't the highlight of social media's entire year.

Let's be clear here, Elon is using a neo nazi term to call for the ethnic cleansing of Europe.

67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.