AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech. CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders

a classic

Guys, do not use the Discord Checkpoint thing (Discord's attempt at Spotify Wrapped). It requires enabling them access to scrape your data, and has an alarming amount of private data being used for it. Make sure you have these disabled.

This is significant.

new auction is up on FA! www.furaffinity.net/view/63206718

Several Australian retailers have kept facial recognition technology (FRT) on despite the Australian Privacy Commissioner ruling Kmart and Bunnings’s use of the technology illegal, sparking concerns from computer scientists, unions and privacy advocates ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Reminder that genAI is fascist tech that really only seems capable of upholding western beauty standards through a skewed heteronormative lens. The slop machine will always spit out the same lady and she’s always white and looks a little too young in the face, it’s real creepy shit

Are you someone who claims to be a “trans ally”? Cool! Here’s your new test to see if you actually are a trans ally for real or just for “social media clout.” Stop playing Fortnite.

very funny that we couldn't allow an indigenous voice to parliament but the cops get one. Cool, normal country.

Last night @davidpocock.bsky.social and I read onto the Hansard an interview by the President of Nauru that the Albanese Government has been desperately trying to keep secret. It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.

On my hands and knees begging them to try this. Go ahead and do it, drag a decorated veteran astronaut United States Senator in for a literal court martial on charges that he said it's good to disobey illegal orders. Let's fucking go.

ALSO happy 18th birthday to Mass Effect 1 the one and only the number one forever!! Even though I played it for the first time 18 years ago it was actually like 6-7 years ago max because time is surely fake what do you mean 18 years ago

Tim Cook, the head of Apple, is having a nice dinner with MBS, who regularly orders executions, including for tweets. Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."

I need this shirt.

Control of your own devices is temporary, but surveillance is forever.

I've said this before, will say it again: The CEO of this place got her career started in the technofascist crypto space, so the idea that she was some leftist progressive stalwart has always been a bunch of horseshit. She is literally -one- of them and always has been.

When you wish upon a black hole.

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

Rhetoric taken directly from Nazi Twitter. I can tell you the precise accounts even

I believe every googler has the moral requirement to sabotage

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

2017??? right after trump spent thanksgiving with epstein? the secret service had to know. whole ass government of pedo protectors

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act. The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.

So i guess we are getting 2 of each @varhken.com

I hated AI before it was cool.

Valve announces a desktop machine and VR goggles, both powered by KDE's Plasma desktop. store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma... store.steampowered.com/sale/steamfr...

In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat. They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues. This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark." Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF

NSW police allowed a neo-Nazi rally to go ahead in Sydney today. More than 60 neo-Nazis held an antisemitic banner and chanted a Hitler Youth slogan outside NSW parliament on Saturday morning while police watched. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Wait. For. It.

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Evergreen skeet.

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials www.afr.com/technology/g...

Don't be evil, they said.

God the gold trimming is so tacky.

Called it. Side note, I guarantee you that's to show the contractors where to mount the gold letters. This is going to be permanent.

Omg look at his snoot

If llms and their creators respected robots.txt they would have more ground to stand on. But how it is now, i consider llm scrapers an active dos attack. Fuck doing anything to help these theives

A Japanese organization representing Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Toei Animation and more has demanded OpenAI to halt unauthorized use of their IP

When governments viciously prosecute people who tell the truth they scream the truth about themselves. Israel’s pursuit of a senior IDF lawyer over the leaking of the horrific torture video of Palestinian prisoners tells that truth.

Being a 'normal gay' whatever that means, will not save them from the people who hate ALL of us. It won't. It didn't in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s 1980s or 1990s, and it's not gonna work in the 21st century either. Unity works. bc we're all faggots in the eyes of the state.

Labor came to power in 2022 promising a new form of transparent, accountable politics. As recent incidents have shown, there is little sign of it.

Labor are sneaking through extraordinary powers to let police and ASIO cut peoples welfare if they’ve been charged with a crime. This is an unacceptable power grab, and will harm families and partners of people reliant on payments to survive. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Anti-trans BS hurts everyone.