After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

The way the Trump regime is trying to inexorably bind Renee Good's queerness to their accusations of "domestic terrorism" cannot go ignored.

re: Larian's CEO claiming they will train on their own data

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

I’ve seen a lot of exceptionally smart peers buy this idea without interrogating it. If these models could be trained solely on even medium sized data sets, the consumption race between the big players wouldn’t be happening. There are 2-3 companies that own an amount of assets that even gets close

The gamerculturification of the American right has made it so that a federal agent can kill a queer woman while calling her a fucking bitch and antisocial, angry streamers and politicians will unanimously agree she deserved to die because of pronouns and nose rings and being a woman.

He circled her vehicle like a shark, got told off by her wife, came up to her again, executed her, and called her a “fucking bitch” as she died. This was a homophobic and misogynistic murder in service of the State’s project of ethnic cleansing.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Some will tell you that this either belies a complete misunderstanding of the tools that they plan to use or is just a bald-faced lie to appease detractors. As an optimist, I chose to believe that Larian is hiring one billion artists for their next project.

More relevant than ever, and by popular demand: another LIMITED run of our Antifa miniatures shirt courtesy of SlowDeath Games. Available in red or black and several sizes. Only in the shop for a couple of weeks so nobody's waiting forever for these to arrive. Grab yours now, terrorists!

They tell you conflicting things so they can say you’re not listening to them and kill you either way.

i have watched the shooter's video. it's going to make you way the fuck madder.

I think a lot of people who weren't online and involved in dealing with channers/Gamergate etc. haven't understood until now how deeply depraved the right is this is what they are all like. they sincerely think not just that women/minorities should face discrimination, but that we should die

Hey, the Disco Elysium zine I made the cover for (see below - one of the few 2025 works I can share) is opening leftover sales!

All while thousands of Walmart workers need food stamps and Medicaid.

...and that's probably all it will ever be, at this point. tenpages.github.io/us-level/us....

And now, here's Tim Curry singing "Toxic Love" from FernGully

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.

Laughing at all the people saying shit like we should get rid of the few bad apples in the ethnic cleansing operation

GPT3, which is to say OpenAI's mode two generations back which was barely good enough to generate text that didn't instantly clock as nonsense, was trained on *billions* of words. This is like saying you're going to build your own aircraft carrier in your backyard.

This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.

government did right thing, says government official

the Right is about to be working overtime to try everything in their power (and also outside their power) to keep this from happening, because there is nothing more dangerous to them than people realizing the scary socialist policies actually work to improve their lives

You may have seen reports swimming around claiming that X finally restricted the Grok deepfake/undressing features behind a paid subscription. That simply isn't true. Not even close. www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

decided to start stretching up my ear piercings again. I never had huge lobe piercings, I *think* I probably topped out at about 00g/9-10mm, but for years now I've just worn mid-gauge rings and ignored them. got some tapers and delighted to find they haven't shrunk much. 0g and 1g left and right.

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

*blinking rapidly* wait are they ACTUALLY going to do something about Musk? still a case of I'll believe it when I see it, and yet

Making generating CSAM a *paid* service is worse though lol they’re insinuating it’s a FEATURE.

This is succinct and brilliant, imo. Pretty sure it will never happen, obv, but it would completely redefine the relationship between civilians and ICE brownshirts and protect people from legal repercussions when acting in self or mutual defence.

I want a bill that states clearly that the presence of a person in ICE gear (as well as the presence of any known employee or former employee of ICE in or out of gear) represents a present threat to civilian life and that civilians have qualified immunity in their response, but this is a good start.

the whole point of homeland security is authoritarian overreach in the wake of 9/11. it did not need to exist and should not exist now. the ICE agent, Ross, was not undertrained: he was an agency veteran and a firearms instructor. he didn't make a 'mistake', this is DHS and ICE working as intended.

Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others. (I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)

my prediction for "will the UK ban Twitter" was that Musk would blink and (temporarily?) disable this stuff before it actually happened. so... sort of. now it's whether the government accepts this pathetically hollow gesture as 'enough' or actually stands up to a billionaire

a 'sense of mischief'? are we going to mention Hitler's sense of whimsy, too?

when I was a kid I was really confused by the location of the gulf war because I only knew the gulf of mexico and I worry that I may have lathe of heaven'd this

uhhh

As ICE kills one and shoots two others in two days, Schumer and Jeffries are afraid of not agreeing to increase ICE funding

“Fuck ICE!” chants & a brass band performing “Which side are you on?” as hundreds march in Manhattan, NYC against ICE and in solidarity with Minneapolis.

reeling as I look back at the timeline to discover ICE tried to murder more people THE VERY NEXT DAY

These fucking politicians need to STOP CONSTANTLY admonishing protestors to be "peaceful" while they are being brutalized regularly by the gatekeepers of the state. You should be up there telling ICE and Border Patrol to be fucking peaceful.

seeing this a lot past couple days an excuse to what, dipshit?

My anger at having to stand outside my kid’s school for two hours to ensure none of their classmates, parents, or teachers get kidnapped by my own government is only slightly tempered by the amazing outpouring of support from other parents and especially neighbors who stand against this bullshit.

Holy fuck they actually did it

I hope, when this is over, you can buy little chunks of the white house in museum gift shops like they did with the berlin wall

don't mind me I'm just wishing justified harm upon my enemies

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

big tent! big tent!

been informed that playstation is just calling me out. rude.