I should finally get my ass into gear and put some panels on my balcony.

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Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.

Today in AI:

Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials.

Everyone involved should be fired.

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How To Ban Conversion Therapy YouTube video by Philosophy Tube

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy.
Proud to expose this stuff ✊

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Patreon CEO calls AI companies' fair use argument 'bogus,' says creators should be paid | TechCrunch Patreon CEO Jack Conte says AI companies should pay creators for training data, arguing their fair use defense falls apart when they license content from major publishers.

Patreon CEO Jack Conte says AI companies should pay creators for training data, arguing their fair use defense falls apart when they license content from major publishers.

Screenshot of an X post from user “aly кишка!” reading “There’s always a tweet,” above an image of a 2016 tweet from JD Vance asking, “what percentage of the American population has @RealDonaldTrump sexually assaulted?” Below that is a separate NewsWire post quoting Vance criticizing the far left over sex offenders remaining on the streets.

The VP is a spineless hypocrite.

Text on Twitch's website saying "Verify Your Identity" "Submit proof of identity and location to receive your payout" "In order to receive your payout, you need to verify your identity through Persona, Twitch's identity verification service. You will have 3 tries. Please be ready to provide both of the following: 1. A picture of your government-issued identification card, such as an identity card, passport or driver's license. 2. A "selfie" (i.e., a picture of your face), taken using a webcam or phone camera. By clicking "Start Verification" below, you understand that you will be leaving Twitch and will be redirected to Persona's service, and further understand and acknowledge that Twitch may send Persona limited personal information about you to facilitate the identity verification process, in accordance with Twitch's Privacy Notice. Information you provide to Persona will not be used for any purposes other than to verify your identity and will not be stored for longer than necessary to fulfill this purpose. Need Help? See our detailed onboarding guide." "Start Verification"

Twitch is requiring new Affiliates, before their first payment, to give government photo ID and a separate photo to Persona, the same Persona that has connections to government mass surveillance programs. When I asked Twitch support for another option, they said there isn't one. #twitch #persona 1/4

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

Hmmm, I'm not entirely happy with their use of vibe coding that was quickly handwaved away as "but I only used it very early and despite the code still being in the current repo it isn't being used by the actual app anymore".

And why would we trust them, just months after their age verification vendor already leaked millions of documents they where supposed to never have stored?

Absolutely gobsmacked at how meh several large server admins have been about the question of Discord's upcoming requirement for face ID for all users.
And if your answer is "well don't ID yourself" .... how long until it becomes mandatory for all access? Just ask yourself that.

No idea honestly, but according to their info sheet they offer these codecs.
Opus, CELT, Speex
Where Opus seems to also be what Discord and Ventrilo are using?
Obviously results may vary by implementation.

Teamspeak had a pretty big overhaul like just last year?

I'm slightly tipsy so I'm just gonna say

if any of you fucks out there with disposable income are staying in hotels or still ordering door dash at this particular moment in time you better be tipping with $50 bills

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”

This message hits hard.

The best solution would be to not touch the hallucination plagiarism machines, the next best solution would be to have a package that doesn't even include them in the download.

Nothing more than perceived wealth that doesn’t exist for the purposes of taxes, but magically does for the purposes of leverage. Meanwhile, the rest of us pay real taxes on low wages and can’t leverage shit. The game is rigged. Tax the rich.

Gamers when RAM is $1000+

Stargate Returns! - Joseph Mallozzi's Weblog AMAZONG GREENLIGHTS A NEW STARGATE SERIES Yes, it’s true.  14 years after the franchise aired its last episode (SGU’s “Gauntlet”), a new Stargate series has been greenlit by Amazon.  And it’s not a re...

I have hope, but it's gonna take time since they are still very early in development.
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Oh yeah btw the reason why Vine is being relaunched with great fanfare and no Al is because it's jointly operated with an Al company and they probably don;t want to pollute their scrap pile with stuff they've already shat out.

perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it

it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers

they just profited from us

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?

Do not impliment the AI auto clip tool Twitch has implemented a sign up for an AI alpha auto clip tool. This is very unethical in many ways to not just content creation but also to things outside content creation. I ask twitch to remove this sign up and not engage in any use of AI when it comes to content creation. Facts about AI usage Google’s single Iowa data center alone consumed 1 billion gallons of water in 2024. The first way AI uses water is for cooling. Data centers run thousands of powerful computers around the clock. As these machines crunch numbers and manage data, they generate a lot of heat. To keep everything running smoothly, water is often used in cooling systems. This can mean circulating water through pipes to absorb heat or using evaporative cooling towers that release warm air. Ai is trained to use already created content for training with out user consent. This has already been happening on social media. Twitch's AI clip tool ''claims'' they will not use user generated clips with out consent for training to assume what constitutes as high engagement moments for clip creation. AI data centers now generate 2.5–3.7% of global greenhouse gas emissions, officially surpassing the aviation industry’s 2% contribution while growing 15% annually. It is very important that people speak up and say no to the AI clip tool especially partners and ambassadors as this tool is very harmful to the community. Turning it off as an option is not enough.

Go Tell Twitch to stuff AI right up its ass.

HERE: ▶️ twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92471... ◀️

"Sure I gotta listen closer and I got tinnitus, but that's not so bad that I got to take away the spot of someone who got real issues with their hearing!"

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

OMG

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

A screen grab of an AI generated video of a crowd of protesters right before it gets hit by a huge dump of shit by Donald Trump, front and center seems to be a person that looks like the comedian Ryan Kelly.

Wait, did whoever wrote the prompt for that AI slop video of Trump bombing protesters with shit, deliberately put in @ryankellycomedy.bsky.social at 0:10 or is he just so prolific that he ends up there by "accident"?