Recently read a skeet on here that was like "It's theorized men are more vulnerable to LLMs/chatbots because women are more thoroughly socially conditioned to be instantly suspicious of fawning, complimentary, compliant attention," and. Thinkin' about that, tonight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtvI...

The Hank Green Situation is Weird and Sad

YouTube video by Regular Eyepatch Wolf

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Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Stop-mo PNGtuber for @foxander.bsky.social in the style of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Foxander messaged me about the idea and it seemed so cool! He sent me drawings and screenshots for the idea I got to work, it took a bit, but I streamed most of the process and am happy with the result! #3dart #vtuber

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Goddammit.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

Let Twitch know what you think of this twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338...

I fucking hate and loathe this. Let us opt out of everything, we want nothing to do with this shit!

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d ago

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

A federal judge denied X.AI’s request to block Minnesota’s new law banning AI-generated nude images without consent. The company’s legal challenge will continue, with a hearing scheduled for next month.

Judge denies X.AI effort to halt ban on tech that depicts people nude without permission

Elon Musk’s company X.AI sought an emergency injunction blocking the law that bans nudification technology, a tool that can use someone’s likeness to make a realistic photo or video of them that’s fak...

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It's hard to believe our game has finally HATCHED! 🐣 Rita is out now on Steam, and we've been blown away by all the love so far!🐤 #indiegames #gamedev #cozygames store.steampowered.com/app/2984850/...

The full game is finally available! We can break free from this cage (literally and metaphorically) and play the rest of the game, which is happening *right now*<3 Twitch.tv/totokitty

SporkTank 🐣 Rita 🧩 OUT NOW@sporktank.bsky.social · 7d ago

🐣Our cozy puzzle adventure Rita is OUT NOW! 🎉 Join our clever little chicken on a heartwarming journey through life - full of puzzles, new friends, and memories to cherish. 💛🐥 Available now on Steam 🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/2984850/... #PuzzleGames #Indiegames #CozyGames

🐣Our cozy puzzle adventure Rita is OUT NOW! 🎉 Join our clever little chicken on a heartwarming journey through life - full of puzzles, new friends, and memories to cherish. 💛🐥 Available now on Steam 🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/2984850/... #PuzzleGames #Indiegames #CozyGames

Friends, the devs were kind enough to give us a free game key to play Plum Road Tea Dream! It’s about queer grief and joy and all between<3 Please feel free to experience it while I play<3 Twitch.tv/totokitty

It's been hot for everyone, including local wildlife. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources received reports of 65 fish killed in just five days this month, as many animals look for refuge from the heat wave.

July heat wave leads to significant fish kills in Minnesota

As temperatures rise, fish susceptible to high temperatures are finding it harder to thrive in lakes, leading to fish deaths across the state.

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"Starting July 19, 2026, the European Union officially banned large fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes, shoes, and accessories. Instead of sending perfectly good products to landfills or burning them, companies must now donate, recycle, or repurpose them." via No one Cares

A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List

A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.

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New Yorkers: Tonight's forecast calls for potentially life-threatening flooding, especially for those living in basement apartments and neighborhoods that have flooded before.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake videos or images of people naked without their consent.

Elon Musk’s company sues Minnesota over new law to bar manipulated images to fake nudity

Minnesota’s anti-nudification law is supposed to take effect on Saturday. It is being challenged in federal court by a company led by Elon Musk.

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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

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Why is everything so transparently evil now?

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

Minnesota: Businessman Gives $29 Million to Immigrants for Rent After ICE Crackdown www.breitbart.com/immigration/...

Minnesota: Man Gives $29M to Immigrants for Rent After ICE Operation

An entrepreneur has donated $29 million in rental assistance for immigrants after the federal crackdown on illegals in Minnesota.

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Anyone that has any kind of LG product (monitor, television, etc.) needs to be aware of this. They are using spyware that you can only opt out of if you’re aware of it, and, even then, it is too late. Another post breaking it down: www.tumblr.com/mamoru/82317...

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💬 11  🔁 7512  ❤️ 7381 · @gamersnexus.bsky.social · life pro tip: if you happen to be considering purchasing an LG TV or monitor, you possibly want to pick something else! and if you have an LG moni…

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@gamersnexus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Update: We are working on a follow-up to the LG story and have some disturbing findings re: LG's products. It will take us a while to parse everything and we have involved multiple security researchers, lawyers (working on reading around 40,000 words of LG agreements that are, generally, terrifying

Update: We are working on a follow-up to the LG story and have some disturbing findings re: LG's products. It will take us a while to parse everything and we have involved multiple security researchers, lawyers (working on reading around 40,000 words of LG agreements that are, generally, terrifying

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There

A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.

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If you are a @theguardian.com reader you wouldn’t know that the largest ever gathering of trans people in history yesterday was protesting against the Burnham government’s transphobic hate-policies. It had an article about making an omelette though.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

citing chatgpt for a character design and eren yeager is a choice???

I dont know if this is brazen or it has just become so normalized that people who use the stuff don't see it anymore but the text that opens the final paragraph on the right on the big slides for your sdcc presentation is WILD

Perfect illustration of the AI deskilling project trap. If you want to pretend these things are a tool (they're not) then you're completely beholden to having your tools changed or taken away by a black box system that changes on a whim. You're now completely reliant on the thing they took away.

Krista D Ball is Canada's Snarky Potato@kristadb1.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.reddit.com/r/WritingWit... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHHAHAHAHAHH *wheezing sounds* HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

Everyone should be paying attention to the current Democratic party insiders' "policy proposals" around healthcare. It's going to be Obamacare redux and we see how that has gone for most of the country. A lot of people still uninsured and even more UNDERINSURED.

What about Triple Streamer Blessing, does @midnightsumo.bsky.social know about those?? (It’s one of my fave parts of stream, the blessings~)

TOTOKITTY@totokitty.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@midnightsumo.bsky.social every 10 minutes (tbf, he’s been pretty on spot this tournament)