97.4% of survey say that writing being written by a human is very important
A reminder that when "authors" who turn to AI slop claim that "everyone's doing it and it's fine" they're talking absolute bollocks.
They're either in deep denial or they're just lying to try and normalise the practice at everyone else's expense.
ellipsus.com/blog/survey-...
what do you subsist on if you don't particularly like cooking and also don't like making the time to eat
what does one even put on a strawpage
they call me the sprint beggar on account of me begging for writing sprints in every server i'm active in
i'm really glad i'm at a place mentally where i can sign up for fandom events and trust that i will actually complete them. i used to never sign up for them because i knew i would slack on them, but now i actually write enough where i can trust i will
having an adhd med-free day and can someone make me write oh my god
A sticker from ohmygollyembroidery on Etsy that says Trans Lives Are More Important Than Harry Potter.
I can’t even, man…
A digital drawing of a little cowboy wearing cowboy boots and a cowboy hat that are much too big. There is text that reads 'This town IS big enough for both of us... because I'm only very small.'
#3307 Your new cowboy friend
normally i'm not one to hate every software update a company makes (people just don't like change and flip out over anything they can) but this new iOS update... kind of nasty looking
my tattoos help me to *not* SH, because hey! there's art right there! i can't mess that up!
these people don't know what they're talking abt
I think instead of one penalty box for each hockey team there should just be one total so if they take opposing penalties they can keep roughing each other up in there and maybe make out a little bit
I can't believe the "New Yorker" REJECTED this cartoon!
- smile, and sing, and dance, darling. It's all you're good for. -
(Flash warning)
[ #OcSky #dndoc #KuroArt #illustration #tiefling #fantasy ]
Fanart of Spocknalia Volume 2: Uhura playing a Vulcan harp. In the original her eyes are closed as she leans against the instrument, looking serene. In my fanart of this she looks more cheerful through she's performing the same actions.
Paying respect to those who came before me by drawing fanart of fanart of Uhura!
me 🤝 Proton's comms person
explaining that you cannot simply decide a court order doesn't apply to you just because you don't like it
out of context call quote: "wait, they're like the wee woo wee woos?"
a ink drawing of a man tackling another man swinging a sword by grabbing him around the waist and putting his face in his crotch
swordfighting tactics, germany, 16th century
makes me sad to see my cat whenever i open my profile but unpinning it feels like a disgrace to his memory somehow?? why am i like this
sketch of kirk soaking wet and bleeding a little in his shredded uniform
wet man wednesday kirk style
i think a massage and some EMDR therapy would fix me
digital painting of leonard mccoy, naked as a jay bird, lounging in bed with coffee.
saturday morning, mccoy ☕️
did a version of this piece three years ago; thought it was time to repaint him. longtime friends may recall he was, ah, a lil more decorated then 😌
#nsfw #nsfwart #startrek
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.
And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
