Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...

On newly-released horror game Horses, now banned from Steam, Epic & Humble: "Having finished it this morning, this “scandalous” game unapologetically criticizes the hold that religion and society have over sex, so seeing the game banned because it contains graphic..."

Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word! RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇

A contractor drove her snow plow into a pro-Palestinian protest in Toronto #toronto #topoli #ontario #canada #frankdomenic🍁

Surprise, surprise...

There might be no better example of the war coming home than a CIA trained teen death squad recruit getting asylum in the US and then shooting a bunch of soldiers who were deployed to DC for no reason other than Kabuki Security Theater

If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:

TPM readers first met the man photographed behind the Pentagon podium here when we exposed him as a prominent and devoted follower of the Neo Nazi Nick Fuentes. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/pa...

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firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

Rockstar co-founder and former Grand Theft Auto writer Dan Houser has likened AI to mad cow disease, and claimed that humanity is being pulled in a direction “by a certain group of people who maybe aren't fully rounded humans.” https://bit.ly/4pDEfoN

I know this art was picked cuz its GTA but boy howdy does it look like its suggesting a solution

So, if anyone knows the risk of unshoveled sidewalks, it has to be State Farm Insurance, right? @shovelshamechicago.bsky.social

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

An educated society is what will pull us out of our doldrums, but when the going gets a little tough, we cut education. It's like eating the seeds for next year's plantings when facing a little hunger.

lmao comparing the mile long growing list of negatives of AI to the nonexistent list of benefits and general lack of interest is just so absurd

Toronto: Hold my beer

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“There is no good Zionism; it is a racist ideology, a violent ideology,” said Miko Peled, the son of a prominent Israeli general who later aligned himself with the Palestinian cause. He added: “There is nothing to justify, nothing to excuse what Israel does.”

If an expert defers to AI, they aren’t an expert. If they take you money and defer to AI, they’re a con, a very lazy and shity con

www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mo... I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people. #morrowind #thomasthetankengine

trump won two elections because he convinced a shitload of people to vote for him. believing anything else is willful ignorance that will only hurt you.

American fascism in its brutal normality.

If we've learned anything from corporate grifts & failures, it's that the boy who pointed out that the emperor was naked would've been hanged before anyone admitted any wrongdoing. The emperor would slowly begin wearing clothes again, claiming the old clothes just werent the right market fit.

Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.

same way many streaming services work, which has achieved a remarkable situation where businesses are only able to promote their products and services with commercials specifically to consumers who necessarily would find spending an extra $10 more per month beyond their comfortable budget. geniuses🤯

possible heads up to family at thanksgiving who may even already be skeptical of AI but missed their once sensible index funds are now heavily AI bets like I have non-tech family who know crypto is a scam, if their retirement got crypto mixed in without their involvement they'd correct away from it

Did people forget this is the military invading cities for Fascism? The eulogizing is obscene as much as it unserious, and I guarantee the Fascists are looking for a gauge on reactions in society. They are looking for what sticks, resilience testing.

1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman. This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something

I think they are climate criminals and should have no part in transition away from the death they have perpetuated. I think it's time we stopped allowing them to wash thier reputations also or in this case, do it for them.

Collective, racist punishment.

Public input was overwhelming. This year, 93 percent of submissions to the Committee called for proportional representation. Only 2 percent wanted to keep first-past-the-post. 3/10

Support crosses party lines: 78 percent of BC NDP voters, 73 percent of Conservatives, and 82 percent of Greens back proportional representation. 5/10

Big news in British Columbia! The all party Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee has recommended a Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform after months of hearings. 1/10

Let's hope the BC NDP follow through on both the recommendations for a Citizens' Assembly as well as enabling municipalities to upgrade their voting system. People don't realize how our electoral system is hindering us in every sector.

Buy a solo indie dev's game because I want to support them. Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue". 🫠

i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!

They say there are no rules in writing but 'delete boring stuff' is a pretty solid rule. If it's so boring you can't be bothered to write it, who do you think wants to read it?

what does chatgpt say? I HAVE NO IDEA! How cool is that??

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

there were a couple weeks where i tried Perplexity to see if AI search engines were any good. They aren't. If you disagree let me make something clear: I am better at searching than you.

Gates insistence on prioritizing intellectual property rights before distributing the COVID vaccine definitely resulted in unnecessary deaths of children. www.wired.com/story/opinio...

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

Gaza began as a refugee camp for those displaced by the Nakba — an atrocity committed with U.N. approval. Today, the U.N. approves the foreign occupation of Gaza as a "solution" to the problem it caused. Tomorrow's article. Subscribe to read it. open.substack.com/pub/joewrote...

Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt now has a personal connection to the ICE raids. Her nephew's mother has been detained. www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-lea...

Every now and again I reflect on our Charlotte's Web GBA game we produced at Backbone. It was an action platform game that had Wilbur leaping around on platforms. We referred to it internally as "Pig of Persia," in honor of Prince of Persia, the game we absurdly based it on.

If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic That third thing is unsustainable long-term

this has been on my mind all year because irrespective of intent, this is how the mid-level of news was absolutely hollowed out. and most people i know in this line of work have endured financial hell so often and so many times even if the third thing pauses, the anxiety does not, it's damaging

It is centralized though: Russell Vought.