Did Mr Beast really invite Mr Beat that's so funny the two of you should've done an evil twin photo op

It really feels like the Democratic establishment is telling us with their actions that their biggest fear is having a softball election in 2028 where they could conceivably waltz right back into business as usual, UNLESS the idea that AMERICAN IMPERIALISM IS BAD goes mainstream, or worse, "viral."

keep digging lol

tweet by lauren/@NotABigJerk: i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

fair enough. No shareholder value though 😬

re the black market thing: kinda? capitalism != commerce

Directing the Herd Social media platforms don’t produce a common public; they produce competing sub-publics, each with its own sense of what everyone knows.

For @thedriftmag.com I wrote about social control, digital infrastructure, and what passes for a public sphere in our society www.thedriftmag.com/directing-th...

This is insane.

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

The psychology behind why people need tragedies to be "fake" is genuinely haunting — like our brains would rather construct elaborate conspiracies than process incomprehensible grief. The DNA thing broke something in me.

"please key my car, it's my fetish actually"

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

ridiculous

On a related note, I thought the people who made this site were free speech fetishist libertarians? That's the defence busted out when we ask why known famous transphobic figureheads aren't moderated, but it's "intolerance" to criticize a religious hegemony that dehumanises me?

All the human-in-the-loop bullshit assumes the human is a constant, unaffected by the loop. In reality, the loop is making the human stupider, lazier, and more careless.

amazing

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

es gibt Möglichkeiten, aber nicht klar ob es MS recht ist wenn ich da mehr ins Detail gehe...

(S+) Meinung: Essay von Margarete Stokowski: Es reicht nicht, wenn die Scham die Seite wechselt Die Fälle Pelicot und Fernandes zeigen mit plötzlicher Klarheit verheerende Missstände auf. Was sich ändern muss, damit sich für Frauen wirklich etwas ändert.

essay über die frage, ob sich „jetzt endlich was ändert“. und wie sich überhaupt sachen ändern können. und über „die scham muss die seite wechseln“ und „wir sind nicht wütend genug“ und „wie soll man überhaupt mit männern leben?“… und „i saw a bird today“

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For those unfamiliar with the history. Stonewall was an LGB charity - explicitly - for most of its history and actively trans hostile for an awful lot of that. An awful lot of post GRA trans activism in the 00s was directed against them.

THE REAL STORY HERE IS THAT INFLUENTIAL MEDIA BIGOTS SUCCESSFULLY TOPPLED EUROPE'S LARGEST LGBT CHARITY SPECIFICALLY B/C OF THE UK GOVTS TRANSPHOBIA ENABLING THEM TO DO SO.

They didnt go out with a bang nor a whimper. Instead they cling to the bigots who took them down hoping for a 2nd chance.

Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral Wrapped in bloodied bandages, Aline Saeed, 7, barely survived an Israeli strike on her home. She was there to bury her father when a new strike killed her infant sister and other relatives.

“Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father’s funeral” — headline that tells you all you need to know about Israel’s war on Lebanon

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Internet in Australia is rapidly becoming unusable without a VPN due to age verification. You need to verify your age to use some weather and calculator apps now. Scam apps and phishing sites are starting to realise they can just ask for your ID straight up and people will give it up. Insane shit.

"the AI company with government contracts started spouting eugenicist rhetoric, but we hoped it would come to nothing like when the President threatened to nuke a country on behalf of a genocidal apartheid state a week or two earlier"

“Porn creates violence”
Are you kidding me? How many times do we have to do the same studies that prove media is not the main issue- socialization is. Our culture is violent and that creates violence. We don’t need porn to blame when we can look EVERYWHERE.
“Porn teaches misogyny”
See above.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

But apart from all that, the entire LLM crop is deeply unethical, and the devil doesn't need an advocate

Paco Hope (@paco@infosec.exchange) Attached: 1 image One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This...

humans are *very* bad at staying vigilant all the time. Fatigue will get you. Just claiming otherwise isn't gonna cut it, you'll need studies without conflict of interest & include second order effects

infosec.exchange/@paco/115151...

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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