Gaarawarr

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He/They. Content Creator, Streamer, Community Management. Business contact: gaarawarrgabs@gmail.com Profile pic by @lukemckay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/Gaarawarr

It’s not your fault you’re disabled. It’s not your fault you’re chronically ill. It’s not your fault you’re living in poverty, lacking health insurance, homeless or unemployed. The billionaire class wants us to believe these are moral failings so they don’t have to help people. We should help.

This is the end result of "there are no sfw kinks" logic. Everything is a kink for someone. It doesn't matter how tame or innocuous it is; someone, somewhere, gets off to it. Amd there is no level of "toning it down" that will ever be acceptable to people whose goal is for you to not exist at all.

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

This was, is, and always will be a brilliantly shit illustration of how stupidly self defeating business people can be. Forgoing the universal positive of a staff self-training on their own time, because of the vague fear that one in a hundred might make some money.

Chris Kerr@kerrblimey.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: I spoke with multiple video game developers and a U.S. employment lawyer to learn more about restrictive side clauses that often prevent employees at major companies from pursuing hobbyist work or personal projects. In an industry renowned for creativity, why are we stifling it?

IN AN EFFORT TO FORESTALL MODEL COLLAPSE GAI techbros are scanning and shredding rare books to feed to their GAI-LLMs the necessary non-GAI information required for them to avoid model collapse, due to ingesting AI-adjacent data. www.yahoo.com/news/science...

AI Companies Are Still Buying Up Old Books by the Pallet – Then Shredding Them

AI companies are bulk-buying used books, scanning them, then destroying the originals to build clean training datasets - and a court ruling made it legal.

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Hey folks. If you've got a WordPress site, you need to check what version you're on. There's a critical vulnerability for versions 6.9.0 to 7.0.1. Update immediately. Like put your phone down now & do it. Not tomorrow. Complete compromise & remote code execution are possible w a simple script

Technical Advisory: wp2shell — Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution and Full Site Takeover in WordPress Core

Threat actors are actively exploiting two vulnerabilities in WordPress Core. The vulnerabilities carry a combined CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.

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I have not ever seen a single story about a trans kid causing any issue in some sport they’re playing (other than other butthurt parents) yet this is somehow an exponentially bigger problem than an ocean of conservative men preying on children and women.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Republican member of the West Virginia House has just been charged with enticing a 15-year-old minor through Roblox and Snapchat.

As someone who just left a codev studio because Several Major Studios cancelled so many projects in recent months that we started to hemorrhage billable seats, let me just underline that there are MANY layoffs that don’t get covered because they’re down stream from what happens at the big studios.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2w ago

Thousands of full-time video game industry workers have been laid off in the last several years as game companies scramble to cut costs. But there are even more cuts happening quietly to contract workers, wh... https://kotaku.com/amidst-mass-layoffs-contract-workers-devastated-video-games-2000718416

The Odyssey is a nice example of the problem with every effort to "understand" Trumpers. There's nothing to "understand" here: this man has no idea what happens in Homer's epic, he's an arrogant dimwit with a made-up version in his head that he uses as an excuse to be weird and racist. That's it.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2w ago

Matt Walsh complains that Nolan brought his obsession with nonlinear story telling to the Odyssey, undercutting the original's narrative. The defenders of western civilisation, folks.

Matt Walsh tweets: Nolan's obsessions with the non-linear storytelling gimmick really hurts this film. It jumps around so much, and spends so little time on any one particular moment or scene, that you never really feel like Odysseus is on an epic journey spanning many years. When he makes it home, you never feel like he's been gone for 20 years. The film does not capture the grandeur and scope of the original epic. That's why it feels rushed and too long simultaneously. The movie comes off like a rough draft. Nolan was searching for the actual story but never quite found it.