SOME GOOD NEWS! continue to contact your reps re: KOSA and the KIDS Act, but also give yourself a pat on the back if you called! Your voice mattered!

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 7h ago

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

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Attention @crowdcontrol.live PLEASE allow streamers to turn these off, this caused a great deal of upset in my viewers during stream tonight. We do not want an integration like this that cannot be completely toggled off by the streamer.

Crowd Control@crowdcontrol.live · 2d ago

Crowd Control lets you mess with streamers, but what if it let streamers mess with viewers? INTRODUCING PRANKS & PAYBACKS 🃏 Pranks - PvP, troll your chat friend! 🔃 Paybacks - Streamers troll you back (dw you get some coins back) Both streamers & viewers can opt-out any time.

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

okay but, this is the way we fight AI in everyday life we need to foster an atmosphere of disgust and repulsion of AI, like AI is like seeing a roach in a google review. Get up and leave the restaurant. "um, I just saw some AI stuff, I just... I dunno, it's gross haha. I'm good. thanks. Thank you"

jess m. 🌤️@jametc.bsky.social · yesterday

we need to be normies about this and be like "EEEWW... IS THAT AI? THAT'S SO GROSS.... EW IT LOOKS SO GROSS (gag noise) UM, LET'S GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. EW LOL" normalize being outwardly repulsed by it physically

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All of the bad internet bills. One website.

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These grifters are just straight up bad people who will happily and proudly ruin entire communities to have their five minutes of fame and clout and be covered by videogame esoterica and other slop regurgitation machines

Are you getting demoralised by the amount of slop flooding Archipelago? Stopped developing mods due to it? Hesitant to start learning due to it? I made a server yesterday for those of us who want to make & play human-made AP worlds, without the slop or vibe coding. Come join! discord.gg/Jkm6jhRpc3

I checked the discord, and yeah, straight up people encouraging to not disclose AI usage to not get shit for it. "Hide the poop knife you used for the sandwiches you serve everyone, otherwise people will complain you made them eat poop"

PixieCatSupreme (Team Comedy)@pixiecatsupreme.com · 3d ago

More and more archipelago worlds are being vibe coded and I am just losing any and all interest in keeping up to date with it. I don't even feeling like maintaining my own ones anymore

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If Jennings is the ally he claims to be, he would use his celebrity and privilege to get this lady her account back.

Karrid 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@karrid.myatproto.social · yesterday

Well, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.

Ken threw a fit about it, I didn't see the full extent of any of his replies, but he did have a post that had a very "I have trans friends and they say it's okay" tone. He rightfully faced backlash for that, and people brought up other real shit things he's said over the years.

It's kind of insane watching the damage control and media spin happen in real time all because a famous guy couldn't own a throwaway tasteless joke

What also sucks is once a vibecoded Archipelago game gets added, even if it wasn’t tested and doesn’t work properly; it disincourages other people who might tackle the same game to make a properly ported version.

PixieCatSupreme (Team Comedy)@pixiecatsupreme.com · 3d ago

More and more archipelago worlds are being vibe coded and I am just losing any and all interest in keeping up to date with it. I don't even feeling like maintaining my own ones anymore

NOT EVERYTHING IS AI SOME THINGS ARE JUST BAD LET THINGS JUST BE BAD I legit would like more poorly written, poorly drawn, poorly whatever pierce of art and less AI. At least they tried.

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 · 2d 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.

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

Harvey & Joyce's adopted daughter Danielle is trying to raise funds to deal with Pekar's raw archive; basically four storage lockers full of notes, outlines, ideas, etc. Note this is not Pekar's comics per se. Those rights have been tied up in court for years. Long, ugly story. Worth backing.

His Name was Harvey Pekar

Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar:Urgent mission to rescue four full storage units of American Splendor history before its lost forever

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Since #artfight is over, a gentle reminder that you can just draw gifts for your friends/artists you like at any point of the year 🎁 #laveyaps

GLaDOS🤤

The chintzy-looking M64 clone console of the N64 by a company named ModRetro has been released, I think, I don't pay attention that closely to shit. But as the great @frankcifaldi.bsky.social posted before, it is our civic duty to push back against this company and shun ANYONE who doesn't.

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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.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Can we please stop reposting those 'mugshots' of women that are like 'lady does some absurd thing that sounds cool as shit' so people are like 'let women have hobbies' which I first clocked as fake when one of them supposedly took place at the mall I worked at as a teenager it's all slop!