Nothin else for it

They're having a coming-out party, good for them

been thinking about this so much -- how it poisons the enjoyment of sports, sports commentary, parasocial relationships with players. how it hurts families and causes arguments. how it bypasses state & local gaming laws that have been wrestled over for decades

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I don't think the fight against disinformation and foreign malign influence campaigns is *compatible* with free speech. I think it is *necessary* to protect speech. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

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Since the 2000s there has been increased tension between literal payment processors (PayPal) and NSFW creators. I believe banks and card networks became more anxious around adult material after the Obama era DoJ rolled out Operation Choke Point, an anti-fraud initiative that ended up debanking many

Please don't the cat. 📸 Chung Wong

Creator day sale! Itch is waiving their cut, so we put LT on sale with that 15% taken off. wick.itch.io/lancer-tactics

I hate that negativity gets all the amplification by social media algorithms. Let’s amplify LOVE instead. I am beaming love at you. Right now. Fuck the haters. I defy you. I am beaming extra love right into your face. Relax and be loved.

And this is one of the best depictions of life under the newer Jim Crow.

I had to fight the lighting to grab these photos (why is it so daaaaaaark), but.. two new patterns are live 🎉✨

what if good things happened instead of bad things

thsi little guy is the most successful hunter

she heard something

hangin out with roux

Morale at paypros call centers is in the toilet right now. It’s not just normal Black Friday stress, they’re being pounded. Corporate is pressuring bosses to end the paypros call campaigns. Source familiar w/ internals at MC stressed that folks should stand their ground but be kind to agents (1)

Hot take: your game’s survival mechanics are just another annoyance if they’re not fun/rewarding. If you’re forcing me to eat/drink/sleep, I’d better be getting some tangible benefit out of it. Not just avoiding debuffs or something.

Dude who got his ass blocked went from arguing with me to replies, to trying to quote-skeet me to dunk on (I detached), didn't take the hint and tried it *again* and got his ass blocked entirely. GEE I WONDER WHY PEOPLE ARE GETTING FED UP WITH THE FOLKS TRYING TO SELL US ON "AI."

I remember when NFTs hit and once we understood how they worked (a receipt for a purchase without an establishment of ownership of anything at all) we immediately got it: you were selling star-naming as a tech scam. And you said that wasn't true. And it was. We *remember,* assholes.

In short we don't like "AI" because we can see a fucking used car salesman coming a mile away and yet you keep insisting there are five lights. We're not all stupid and we're not all gullible, and we won't blindly accept an obvious scam. You fucking ruined every product you've touched you assholes

It's a black box and you won't disclose how it generates answers even though that process can be manipulated. You've crammed dozens of disparate technologies under the same "AI" banner despite them being unrelated, damning them all. You blather fantastical nonsense simply to encourage hype.

It's bad for the environment. It makes products worse but you won't admit it. Even if it could improve them you won't take the time to properly test them because you're rushing to beat the end of the bubble. You have no viable business model. You're ruining the hardware market needlessly.

Why don't we like "AI?" You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways. It doesn't work the way you claim it will. You don't pay for the work you use to generate it. Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return. You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it. You lie about it.

linktr.ee/PeachFleur_ throne.com/peachfleur Chronically ill survival SWer who has been too sick (lung infection) to do FS/in person work for the past 2 weeks. Please help me live. Do not donate if you’re also a SWer barely getting by. Please don’t forget about SWers this holiday season. 💖♥️💚

Cartoon full of misinformation in the Guardian. We have the tools to prevent sickness. The real denial is ignoring that high quality masks and vaccines reduce infections. This isn’t hard.

I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”

Happy SWer Saturday babes! Fellow SWers, post your tip links below and if you use an img pls use alt text! 🖤🧡 Everyone else! SWers are consistently under paid, under attack, and need support. Support a SWer today, make sure to open your wallets and send tips, give some love, and repost us! 💵

If you don't need captions, I'm still selling stickers (and accepting donations) over at my Ko-Fi!

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On my 15 min break trying to afford a single 3.87 30g protein yogurt drink. I have 2.86 to my name. Please help me eat for the first time today. Black friday / small biz saturday is insanely busy, im exhausted and had nothing and no time for breakfast. @orionfern on venmo #MutualAid

Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…

Archaeologist in race against time to save Sudan’s heritage amid ongoing war

For fuck’s sake. For a studio that was once part of Grasshopper, seeing the Let it Die team crawling around in the AI filth hole is particularly fucking sad. Never thought I would see people with that kind of creative pedigree become embarrassing fucking hacks.

Mastercard is REALLY trying to pass the buck off onto banks (who, granted, ARE part of the problem but its still mostly MC and Visa) do as Ana says here and tell them your bank told you to contact THEM. easy way to tack on more time in the call stop-paypros.neocities.org

Nya #digib_art Art by skeb.jp/@kanemitsu41...

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

A Google software engineer won his battle against MetLife to receive disability benefits for Long Covid. This is huge Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability. You’re told to “try harder”. It’s “not that bad”. You can “still work”. Not everyone can

Support your local devs! It's Creator Day on itch.io where the devs receive most of the funds from purchases. I have been keeping a games list of Atlantic Canadian developed games at the link below. itch.io/c/3613272/at... #novascotia #newbrunswick #pei #nfld #gamedev

Canada’s top political leaders are climate deniers. There’s no such thing as “decarbonized” oil and no environmentally conscious way to increase fossil fuel production. Mark Carney and his government are sacrificing the climate and baking in worse natural disasters in the hope of short-term profit.

Good example of this is The Roottrees are Dead Back in 2023 for the game jam version, the developers used AI generated art. For the full retail version however, they hired very well renowned artist Henning Ludvigsen, which is extremely good and well worth praising. It's not here to stay!

I thoroughly reject that generative AI is something we are going to have to accept, it's simply not going to be true even in the wildest dreams of AI evangelists, and we have plenty of examples of games where AI generated elements were removed, so we know for a fact it can be done successfully.

One of the reasons I've never bought into AI doomerism, is that to believe "it's here to stay, get used to it!" you have to buy into the idea that AI generated elements are so hardcoded or integral as to be permanent, when they really aren't. You can simply remove it, and it's gone just like that.