The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

Authenticity Problem Bonus timelapse: www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFanta... #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

BLUMENTHAL: Judge Cronan, you're already on the district court. Who won the 2020 election? CRONAN: Joseph Biden received the majority of electoral votes B: You have nothing to lose. You have a lifetime appointment, and yet you're unwilling to state the simple fact that Biden won the 2020 election

I'm so sick of unreal engine man. Games used to have art direction, and now nearly every big budget spectacle is the same quixel megascan illegibly hyper detailed soulless slurry.

I had a person IN REAL LIFE, while telling me I was the biggest AI hater he knows, ask me what kind of phone I use and then go I bet there's lots of AI in there. Yeah dude, I disabled it wherever I could, but I'm not buying a whole new phone just to not have AI. My next phone, probably.

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Ah yes, the age old "Yet you live in a society" attack. Yes, I use a phone that is chock full of AI, no that does not mean I "use AI" and certainly not in place of actual writing.

someone called our game “kirby from temu” and if that doesn’t sell it, i don’t know what will grab teeto on steam and playstation and nintendo switch one and two now! it’s like kirby but a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the quality

Time to never buy an Electronic Arts game ever again. I mean I already haven't bought them in years I think the last one was some of the Ultima games from GOG years ago but it's now officially time to make that a hard rule.

Shut up, me.

Not a word about verifying the gender of boys... this is little girl specific. Child sexual abuse on a state level 'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners www.rawstory.com/project-2025...

'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners

A Washington State ballot measure that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before taking part in sports provoked nationwide outrage.IL26-638 w...

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Nice initiative by @jaredwhite.com: a growing opt-in directory of software developers who write code by hand. If you're coding without the use of LLMs, you're invited to add yourself to the list… handcraftedcode.org #code #coder #coding #NoAI

Oops, I'm starting to post too much "non family friendly" replies. Better fix that quirk. So, anyone saw "Masters of the Universe (2026)" ? It was way more entertaining than I thought it would be. I want more movies like that.

i'm so tired of websites that insist on sending you a one-time sign in code every time you log in instead of letting you set up a normal account with a password. why are we doing this. stop it

For a "Non-Issue", sure seems to be a lot of people talking about Flock, ALPRs, AI Cameras, and all of the issues surrounding them. 🤔 #Flock #Axon #DeFlock #Surveillance www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnBP...

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John Oliver might be the closest thing to openly anti police and anti carceral on such a large, official platform in our country

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This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

businesses can you please STOP with the automated phone robots that NEVER WORK. i ALWAYS want to talk to a real agent!

Gaming-wise, I have completed Denshattack but I’m not ready for it to finish… so I’ve just been replaying levels over and over for collectibles/golds. I really hate the idea of just dropping a game to race to the next one as soon as you’re finished the campaign… I used to play these games to death!

Hey. If youre in the market for an ARPG... go check out Grim Dawn. The final expansion dropped. It is the game every other ARPG wishes it was. Yes. That includes POE and Diablo.

If I was this stupid and incompetent, I would be out of a job... just saying.

People may not know this but Doom became the big success because of sharing games, their advertising was to put the first couple levels into the hands of the players. Shareware is the way to play, so copy your games and give them away. Fuck Copyrights they exist now to prevent new business.

🤍A2 #今月描いた絵を晒そう

She Lurks… #horror #animation #erma

I realise the details are unlikely to be forthcoming, but I'd like to to know more about why OpenAI and Anthropic are unable to set up secure test environments without internet connectivity. It doesn't appear a particularly difficult task.

some transformation matrices for you to ponder

Shout-out to the devs who put out demos to their games. You're the real heroes of gaming.

currently working on the hypothesis that using a local LLM for actual work makes the user stupid in the precise same way as the online versions

The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people,” he said.

‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone

The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to...

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This is funny. He will win in court.

It's not a disagreement about politics. Itr's a morality/decency thing.