i still think it's incredibly telling of the wider minecraft community that one of the biggest mods (>100m downloads on MR+CF) just has a clear reference to the holocaust in its description. it literally refers to itself as "the final solution". no one has even noticed for 3 years

See, the thing is, Singal did violate the TOS, unambiguously. An then Bluesky changed it to accommodate him. You know this to be the case; you were there just as much as I was. So you're telling a lie. And you know it to be a lie. And that kind of makes you look like a shithead. I'm just saying.

One thing Charlie Kirk's assassination has revealed is the extent to which the elite liberal media class has abandoned reality for a post-truth politics previously embraced by the right.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

This is completely insane and a sign of how washed A.I. truly is. Why do you have to threaten people to use this if it's so good

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.

i shit you not, i just looked this up: Twitch Plays Pokemon got the second badge in about 50 hours

I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda

with all the shit happening in the world with these angry and vocal racist/homophobic/transphobic losers - please call out this shit behavior or provide a safe space for people. if you see someone being harassed, say something or do what you can to safely get that person away.

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

TLDR: There is nothing enforceable for the immediate future. It will take months or years to implement this via rulemaking or bureaucratic changes which are then subject to legal challenge. While it's worrying, there's no immediate change yet for most trans people. Do not comply in advance.

trans folks, i don’t have anything useful to add that someone smarter or more eloquent than me won’t say. it sucks. it’s degrading. please take care of yourselves. we fought hard to become ourselves & i’d very much like all of us to survive in more than a “we’ve always been here” geological sense.

Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states: “'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell." Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.

Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed

On this inauguration day, a simple point from Assigned Media: Trans people are 1 percent of the population. The ruling GOP has made persecuting us their top priority. Any talk of distractions or common sense must reckon with this. A defenseless minority, relentlessly pursued, because of hate.

It's difficult to overstate just how much professional journalists have been trained to fear defamation lawsuits and how much it has impacted the ability to tell the truth

i just installed linux for the first time (mint cinnamon) and its really nice but where is the dedicated linkedin hotkey :(

“i just asked chatgpt and…” cool i just lost a significant amount of my respect for you

The Adrian Dittmann Story all the evidence and methodology from A to Z by @ryan.staticnoi.se and me maia.crimew.gay/posts/adrian...

Make no mistake: Markus “Notch” Persson is not a good person. ➡️ QAnon devotee ➡️ Anti-Semitic & racist ➡️ Fucked over & lied to devs ➡️ Emotionally abusive ➡️ Denigrated the #Minecraft community ➡️ Praised the NZ mosque terrorist attack Also his code was shit. Minecraft is a success in spite of him.

you can read it here without paywall. archive.is/Dj4kJ

while everyone else was busy writing slop articles about how adrian dittmann sounds like elon musk i decided to actually find him. investigation with @jsweetli.bsky.social and @ryan.staticnoi.se thespectator.com/topic/real-a...

tech companies have been anti-consumer for years now but never have i seen them commit to the complete rot of AI integrated technology despite the pushback and annoyance of the general public,

jesus christ this guys needs genuine help

"we've been purposely listening to you for years here's 20 dollars fuck you" lol

Chrome just disabled ad block along with several other extensions I use. It's made chrome unusable. I'm switching to Firefox.

habby new year!!!!

i heard that @ix0rai.bsky.social bought a cybertruck with the money from the #quiltmc curseforge and modrinth accounts

i could never get drunk because 1. i hate alcohol 2. i would definitely cyberstalk then antagonise that person who removed skin overrides from their modpack and replaced it with skin shuffle (mod developers have feelings too)

yes, i am a beautiful and delicate snowflake and I intend to stay that way

Sigh. 😓

literally every time i have a conversation with an engineer at bluesky i think "oh okay these are good people they're trying they're best and they are really thinking long-term for the broader picture, maybe bluesky is alright" and then t&s does something so fucking stupid it gives me a migraine.

great news everyone! bluesky is finally treating trannies equally by reversing our bans after a few hours too

Comfort. 😌

turns out there's a bug in modrinth where when individual versions of a project are archived, they are hidden from users (unlike documented). also, when versions are unlisted, they are hidden from everyone, including the owner. long story short i hope no one needs skin overrides 2.2.2

imagine you're dating jesse singal and as thanks for writing a hit piece he says he'll make you dinner then he tries to feed you this

I'll say BSky certainly isn't feeling billionaire proof. It feels like it's not even mid-tier substacker proof

@safety.bsky.app my juice is in a glass please advise

Somehow, I doubt the media will condemn this open celebration of a killer.

Hey @safety.bsky.app do you think it's a good sign that a guy that ran a revenge porn website and spreads false flag conspiracies about school shootings is applauding your statement

Singal is such a lying hack. He always does this thing where he hyperfocuses on a minute detail to exculpate himself. "I only shared a sentence!" Everyone is lying! No, he shared screenshot of the spreadsheet Jamie Reed kept with PHI of multiple patients including appointment times. It's still up.

this is the same branding of the account that was in my notifs yesterday, except the handle was a different keymash, and the bio was (using a slur) advocating for the genocide of trans ppl (the acc has since been suspended)

Can’t wait for generative AI to be over like NFTs. Scam tech.

“Yes, we briefly constructed a user-focused social media website so popular and culturally relevant we had Zuckerberg quaking in his boots, but we threw it all away to protect one weasely little bigot with a mid-tier Substack.” is that what we’re doing here, Bluesky it was going so well

and bsky probably just handed him her contact deets