it's really depressing to me that a lot of AI marketing is about devaluing ordinary people's work and life experiences and opinions. it's ok if your steam user review isn't "good writing." it's your personal experience. you don't need to use AI to punch that up. like... at all

i was reading steam reviews of an indie game and i found one that i am 99% sure was partially written by AI and it just made me really sad. like you don't think you can write a steam user review by yourself anymore?

so far my thoughts on discord alternatives: stoat, root and matrix all fail on some basic levels. stoat is buggy and weird, root is just missing a ton of functionality and has weirdly restrictive rules, and matrix... well, their top donor used to be the IDF, so.

does this look like the face of mercy to you

so far my thoughts on discord alternatives: stoat, root and matrix all fail on some basic levels. stoat is buggy and weird, root is just missing a ton of functionality and has weirdly restrictive rules, and matrix... well, their top donor used to be the IDF, so.

it’s like rainbow capitalism does it mean the performance is sincere? no is it an indication that we’re winning the cultural battle? yes

Because he's perfectly honest about who and what he is at all times. There has never been a second in his life he's had to pretend anything. Life did not allow him to, so he never leaned on it either.

funny how all the folks who usually bitch about the surveillance state or draconian government spying are suspiciously quiet same as the 2A folks being suspiciously quiet. "...'You can't do that' means YOU, not ME" is going to be a lesson learned the hard way by liberals. We tried to warn you.

pre-transition I used to go online and pretend to be a woman well before I had any kind of gender feelings because talking to other women online was the only way for my feelings and experiences to actually be taken seriously

after the shutdown of batoto, i felt the same kind of unease about mangadex's arrival as i do now, seeing everyone eyeing these discord alternatives popping up… one centralized service shuts down and we all flock to the next one, abandoning all the culture from the last? did we learn nothing?

the biggest thing stopping me to just trying steam chat as a discord alternative is the two week chat thing. everything else seems good. matrix seems to be in bed with the IDF and i have different gripes with root, fluxer and stoat which prevent me from committing to any of them.

🟢 In leaked audio, NJ Democrat Sue Altman, now running in the state’s 12th Congressional District, says she is revising her position on U.S. weapons transfers to Israel. In 2024, running in a different district, she won the endorsement of the AIPAC-aligned group Democratic Majority for Israel...

Please continue to contact your representatives and urge them to: -oppose age verification laws -rescind existing AV laws -protect peoples rights to use VPNs -protect section 230

This year, and unless things change, in order to attend @furality.org you'll have to give your data to a Palantir-adjacent company. Act accordingly.

if you ever feel bad about yourself because someone in FFXIV put you down in a way that was weirdly aggressive and personal, i implore you to remember that this tweet is still very true. it's arguably *more* true in 2026 than it was in 2022, because modding has become so much easier

ser miku

anyway for no particular reason I revive this tweet............

Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year. youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU

If you live in the US, call your fucking representatives and tell them that repealing Section 230 is a horrible idea. If Section 230 is gone, you can kiss Bluesky goodbye.

this RAM crisis feels like it’s going to ruin consumer electronics over the next decade. Bloomberg reports that Sony is considering pushing the PS6 release to 2028 or even 2029 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Skisonic's commentary gimmick (aside from commentating of course) was his signature hat, I found an old video of him without it but it's so hard to find, so when he finds out that Floe (RIP) wants it, Skisonic bites the bullet and gives away his treasured possession

To see Sam Fisher & Solid Snake finally team-up is amazing. Doesn't matter that it's happening via Rainbow Six Siege. As at one point, it seemed like this was never going to happen in any form. Despite literal decades of hope.

Which sketch? Witch sketch:

The US is gearing up to literally starve Cuba into submission. It is absolutely criminal and obscene. And this to a country that everyone knows poses *zero* threat to the US. The people of Cuba need our full solidarity in resisting this onslaught.

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i think trans surgeries for youth are worth fighting for actually. i dont like that cis ppl have determined the overton window on this issue for us

if you've wondered why shit is getting worse everywhere, like with shit bills to "protect children" which aren't going to do fuck all, discord getting worse, and just literally everything happening all at once? it's because that's part of the playbook

Transphobes get fucked forever

cw warning for abuse, homophobia, etc people in the xiv community deserve to know what tiffany lockheart is like if she remains propped up by it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Another way to phrase this is, “ICE shot someone and got caught lying about it.”

fuck discord forever btw

Discord lied. they’re now sending scanned IDs to persona, a third party company. “facial scans will never leave your device” -discord lmao.

i’m fairly certain ai companies are just paying literally every company to use ai in ads, generate ai video ads, interview ai people without questioning any of the shit they say, it’s all ad on top of ad

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

Been thinking about Highguard and the impermanence of games these days (which is to say, moreso that usual)

Who are you… You must help me, please… Bring me the salmon treats… I can't… I can't see you… hear me… I need the salmon treats, you must bring me the salmon treats… Please bring … beg of you, bring the treats… Help me… I am Babka… Given up long ago… There is one thing I need to be rescued… You must…

your roflcopter suddenly looks a lot less impressive, as i roll up in my luxurious lmaousine

cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?

We are now here

Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize automaton-media.com/en/news/youn...

Absolutely do NOT give your ID or face scan on Discord. It's even worse than expected. Apparently due to people bypassing current systems, they're switching to "persona" which is funded by fucking Peter Thiel.

this scene had me in genuine shock at how blatant it was

eat the rich

Reminder that "degenerate" was a term coined by Nazis to describe art they didn't like and labeled problematic. Unless you have proof of real world harm, leave people alone and let them draw fucknasty shit. You have block and mute features. Stop making your disgust everyone else's problem.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥