thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation

Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all

namco museum

Ask yourself this: Do you want this to be the future of your anime watching experience, forever? If your answer is no, then act on it! If you are a journalist or anyone with a platform, talk about this! If you know such people, urge them to do so! Use my article as base! Now, before it's too late!

If you see an audition for Unicorn Academy, no you didn't. Down with union busting

After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.

Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed. I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

@moderation.bsky.app showing their whole ass just banning people left and right for 🥺being mean to the tech bros🥺 while letting literal nazis trolls harass trans women and palestinians for existing. bring @wendyxu.bsky.social back.

i think dispatch is a good game but it is another unfortunate contender in the "oh so it's ok for american eroge to be streamed on twitch, but if it's from Asia that's bad" war

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

If Paypal asks for your opinion, you do NOT say it was NSFW or a commission! Spread the word, because we need to innoculate ourselves to this paypro bullshit.

This is why it's really imp't for regular folks to speak up, keep calling, and hopefully get wider coverage in media. sex workers and people in the scene can get retaliated against easily bc paypros can shriek "high risk! high risk!" Harder to do that to normies and customers just asking questions

waaaaa jamiroquai was so good!! I wanna go party again

Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position. Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i... We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.

every author in the class action, please file the claim.

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

so many queer FNAF fans are also insanely creative use that make a better scary mascot game or comic or whatever, make what you enjoyed out of FNAF into something that isn't FNAF, make it a middle finger to Cawthon and bigots

That this is even remotely legal is an egregious failure of regulation of an industry that is clearly out of control. Make the calls. Complain to MC and Visa. Call your reps. Tell them that payment processors should be required to process any legal transaction.

There will be all kinds of people coming out of the woodwork to ensure that the only result of the Epstein files coming out is more restrictions on sex work and more censorship. They can and will use it as an excuse to make sex workers less safe.

lol I fucking knew that little shit wasn't to be trusted. Avoid the new Vine like a plague, they just want a pure dataset to scrape.

My favorite development of this is the excuse that if the board of ethics WERE to follow their current rules, there would be too MANY companies they'd have to divest from. Capital will stop at nothing to gain more capital. They've spent decades spending the lives of others. Soon it will be yours.

game ads that provide no way to return to the game without pushing you to its app marketplace page should be illegal

Today was Palestinian Independence Day. As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does. Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.

Banks are targeting individuals by name because of their "high risk" line of work who are too outspoken. This is why we need you to stand up for nsfw creators

They're de-banking people for kink content online now They'll come for you and your interests next - there's already been movement against vtubers in general, and games like Corpse Party are having their western releases canned over concerns about this stuff Get loud before it's too late

Call campaigns work! But we need as many people joining as possible Join today and yell at paypros to stop discriminating against adult content and sex workers! stop-paypros.neocities.org

I honestly cannot tell if people genuinely dislike banjo-tooie, or if it just sounds bad in comparison to the hallowed golden masterpiece of a game they perceive banjo-kazooie as. I find the differences between the two games to ultimately be kinda minute and I like them both, maybe tooie a tad more

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

The part I hate most is when they decide to have the bark delay by some time as a "oh if the player doesn't notice it, THEN we'll give them a hint", then when I play I enter the room and am like "oh what a cool room, I will explore and enjoy the ambiance a minute" and I exceed the timer and it Barks

Really good example of trying to foster AI doomerism in the comments I was describing. Even IF all of that is true (it's not, but sure), I can't stand the attitude of, well, since you *must* use X that's ethically compromised, you might as well just give up on everything! Just begging for a pass

please please please let the metroid prime 4 expeiwnce ultimately be at least mostly free of handholding and annoying (and honestly just any and all) characters

everyone is blaming miles mackenzie on the wrong things. nier automata...god of war 2018...the rot is deeper. and older.

next week will be the both the least and the most stressful

Yes, ABSOLUTELY call your GOP senators and demand they vote to release ALL the Epstein files. You don’t have to lie about who you voted for and they won’t ask - just tell them to do it. Find your reps here: reps.fyi

On one hand, it's disappointing that my most anticipated game of the year is cooked. On the other, I appreciate Nintendo saving me 70 bucks before the holidays!

Ghosts of Trump’s past

hmm nah

reading about a viddy games reception and unscrupulous practices

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Call a Senator that voted no tonight and demand that they vote to remove Chuck Schumer as Senate Minority Leader. He has weaponized his incompetence against the American people by allowing 8 Dem Senators to cave to an authoritarian regime. We need real leadership, not the oligarchy’s lapdog

It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare

It wasn’t 8 democrats. It was all of them. Never forget this. They decided to sell you out because they want to go on vacation and don’t want their flights delayed. They don’t care if you die. They will never fight for you.

Primary the entire Dem Senate Caucus. We all see right through this political theater. I'm done.

When the Conservative Party in Korea declared martial law, the Korean Democrats knew if they didn’t send them to hell there would be no opposition afterwards. And look at them. They’re taking the ex conservative president and ensuring he never breathes free ever again.