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Living under authoritarianism is horrible, but I feel a certain grim satisfaction that every centrist who bought the idea that people on the left disapproving of things was a threat to free speech has been exposed as a total mark.

We were constantly told that students objecting to bigots on campus was the greatest threat to free speech and now those same people have instituted a ideological minder program on college campuses that would make the Soviets blush.

Everytime I see shit like this is a fundamental failure to understand the role and purpose of what an "NPC" plays in game design. The role of an npc is to deliver tone, information, character. Things AI are incapable of doing because it requires intent.

Imagining one of these guys installing a genAI NPC mod and then spending hours each day being encouraged into a delusional suicidal state by Preston Garvey or Cave Johnson or Kim Kitsuragi etc

You know, 100%, that the biggest use case of genAI NPC dialogue will obviously be guys sexually harassing female characters like that CEO who bragged about sexually harassing his chatbot secretary.

And it'll end with some of them dying in extravagantly tragic ways.

Hey guys is it good if the list of issues goes to (q)

Not gonna lie, I saw the picture before reading the post and assumed this was something they were feeding prisoners and was thinking Jesus Christ that's gotta be a human rights violation, before realising they're feeding this to their troops!?

What even is that grey strip?

When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job"

ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

oh wow you’re telling me that jd vance follows yet another nazi on twitter

The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire New Epstein-linked revelations show how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging ‘memetic warfare’ against their enem...

New Epstein-linked revelations show how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer aka “Weev” became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging “memetic warfare” against their enemies.

By @barrettbrownlol.bsky.social

does bluesky have downtime because of vibecoding? hmm, unlikely. is it funny that bluesky seems to have more downtime the more smug and defensive their devs get about how great vibecoding is? extremely so

Senator Wyden can’t say it plainly without losing his security clearance, but this raises the alarm that Kash & crew have decided they can illegally surveil Americans without a warrant.

The above post but with the original and unremoved skeet wherein why from the Blue sky team says. Looking forward to what the AI sucks. Crowd actually has to say about this one.

Good thing i screencapped it

as far as i can tell pope leo has never mentioned trump by name hes just like “killing people is wrong” or “concentration camps arent good” and theyre all taking it personally

Jacob Sie... @Jacob__Sieg...• 1h G .•• Next week, I'll publish a detailed response debunking all of Diresta's claims and explaining the larger problems with her credibility as a source (Google "Project Birmingham" and "Hamilton 68"). For now, a few initial points... 1. You can read my full FP piece out from behind the paywall here: jsiegel.substack.com/p/the-censored... 2. Diresta concedes that my book is factually accurate but accuses me of arranging true facts in a way that is misleading. In other words, she accuses me of "malinformation" a category of thoughtcrime. 3. My interactions with her have been strictly professional, as the record of our emails attests. Her childish insults are not only tedious, they are an effort to forcibly muddy the issues at hand. (See the Russian art of "active measures.) 4. Much of this muddying is likely an effort to distract people from looking into Diresta's background working in companies that carried out mass propaganda operations on American citizens. Jacob Sie... @Jacen_Sie...

Meanwhile Jacob Siegel continues to write long screeds about how I am persecuting him by not letting him lie about me.

It’s Russian “active measures” to push back against a right wing bullshit artist trying to profit off smearing you. 🤷🏻‍♀️

A line edit with diffs

They line-edited my letter to the editor to strip out facts, culpability, even sentences like “A factcheck request isn’t censorship, it’s counterspeech.”

They want their readers to believe the lie. It’s that simple.

They sent out a bs story ab cEnsoRshIp to a million ppl and want it to be true.

Here is The Free Press's values page: "We seek and report the truth. We tell it plainly when we uncover it, even when it's politically inconvenient." "We assume good faith. We treat each other and our sources with the utmost respect." "We are adults, and we treat our readers like adults, too. We encourage each other to think for ourselves and change our minds when we encounter new information." And here is the timeline: On April 1, a Free Press editor read evidence that the premise of Siegel's story was wrong. On April 5, I sent the reviewer's email saying he himself asked for the takedown. On April 9, I asked the editor directly why the article still hadn't been updated with this information and they ignored the question. As of April 14, the article still shows no indication that the smear was completely baseless.

The Free Press talks a big game about its “values”. It was started after its original owner decided the NYT was too “tribal.”

It’s just another partisan rag committed to protecting its friends.

That won’t surprise many here — but the receipts are wild.

I Was Falsely Accused of "Censorship" in The Free Press. Then Their Editors Censored The Truth. The Free Press was given evidence disproving a story they'd heavily promoted. Here's what happened next.

Two weeks ago The Free Press let a whiner publish 2000 words ab how I got his book review cEnsoReD. It was pure nonsense from the moment it went out—but I spent the next 14 days trying to get them to post an Editor’s Note and admit reality.

They won’t.

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The circle of death is:

Cut faculty (or non-replace) so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so you cut faculty so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so then the market has spoken.

anyway, it got me to thinking: what works, especially TV or film, about crime *actually* make a life of crime seem unappealing? I'd argue THE SOPRANOS actually does a pretty good job. For all of Tony Soprano's personal charisma, 80% of his actual life consists of sitting around a meat shop.

I do not currently believe Senate Democrats are willing to do what it will take to de-Trumpify the judiciary. These are not serious judges nor were they appointed to be serious judges.

Always amazing when people act like “the south” means “white people in the south” and say that out loud on the interweb.

I'm kind of tired of the "we shouldn't do good things because it will cause Republicans to do bad things" argument

Tax anyone who upholds the most evil government in our nation's history into bankruptcy. Burn every confederate flag, wreck every monument, and uphold the glorious history of redemption during Reconstruction while cursing elites that stole that brighter future for the South from us.

reminder that at one point Substack was trying to poach me from patreon and when I said I didn't like how they platformed LITERAL NAZIS the best their rep could say was "yeah I hate it too but what are you gonna do"

fuck that shit

r/Landlord u/Instantnoodles1 • 6h [Landlord-US-NYC] Parent want to reclaim home after retiring but tenant is refusing to leave. Any advice is appreciated Landlord Hello everyone, my parents own a 3 family home in NYC. They are all on month to month leases. 6 months ago we sent a vacate notice to all 3 units because my parents are finally retired and ready to move into their home. My sister and I were also preparing to occupy a unit each and we wanted to renovate all 3 units at the same time. The tenant in question pays his $2400 rent on the 10th of each month (not sure why it isn't the 1st it's been the 10th for many years). Since the move out date was going to be earlier than the 10th of the next month, I texted him to let him know the rent would be prorated and he would be paying less. He then calls me and tells me he cant move out cause he is broke and going through his own legal issues. He gave me two options. Either WE find him and his wife a similar 2 bedroom apartment to rent or we buy him out for $25,000. I respectfully tell him that his personal matters aren't a good enough reason to refuse to leave and I ask him why he can't find a smaller/cheaper apartment. He tells me they have too much stuff. The only thing I could really do was laugh at that and we went back and forth a bit. I let him know that we were already working with contractors and what not and that this is now going to really affect my parents. He doesn't really care and emphasized that's the exact reason why we should make finding him an apartment a priority.

I then ask him how he got to $25,000 as his buy out number. He said that similar apartments are going for $3,500 to $3,700. He wanted first months rent, security deposit, brokers fee and for us to pay the difference between his current and new rent for a year, oh and move out costs. The most irritating part of it all was that he was quilt tripping me. He said "would you feel better by doing all this for us since you are kicking us out?" Then I just hung up on him. I am going to talk to a lawyer today, and weigh the options between eviction and a possible cash for keys deal for maybe $5,000. I honestly would rather take this guy to court than give him any money but I think my parents are afraid of how long it will take. I am aware of how long an eviction can be dragged out in NYC, but I'm hoping our advanced notice and reasoning for reclaiming the home can help speed up the process. My parents don't own a million buildings, and I know home ownership is a privilege but they have worked their entire lives for this one home and they just want to live in it with their kids. If anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it. I think I just wanted to rant about how ridiculous this situation is but thank you in advance to anyone that reads this 56 • 104

Incredible thread. Won’t someone think of the poor (checked notes) people who own extra property in New York City????

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needGuidance792087 • 6h Best way is what everyone already told you- find an agressive pro landlord attorney. A quick search showed me this one. Give them a call and see what they charge. NYC sucks for tenants rights but it's good you are already on a month to month. They aren't going to want an eviction on their record. Stop communicating with them and only go through the lawyer. I'd probably respond back, thank you for acknowledging the notice to vacant. I'll have my attorney reach out shortly. https://evictny.com/index.php? utm_source=chatgpt.com

“A quick search” you mean you typed “eviction lawyer New York” into the predictive text generator