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what this is really about is him wanting to sell inordinate amounts of slop on the steam storefront without customers having the opportunity to make informed choices. he ruined unreal's marketplace like this.

Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 6h ago

Steam's AI disclosures are akin to "forcing developers to list their voting history", says man who must hate seeing eggs virtue signal that they're free-range. https://bit.ly/4yHFEyK

Yeah, bad news folks: you know how everything in Britain has been increasingly generous, functional, rational, pleasant and generally awesome for the last twenty years or so? Well I’m afraid the party is over for you greedy pigs: it’s time for you to suck up some real pain. Thanks

Times Radio
• @TimesRadio • 2h
The UK must be "cruel to be kind" to be successful in the next ten years, says Yo Sushi! founder Simon Woodroffe.
"Economic success trumps individuals' human rights."

We love Eddie because he’s a broken person who keeps struggling & fighting a war on two fronts: the internal struggle against his own demons and pain, and the external climb to the top against opponents who are often stronger, faster, and younger than him. Wrestling is a performance of struggle. 🤼

Reganelite 💙@reganelite.bsky.social · yesterday

Eddie Kingston gave a heartfelt speech following his match against Luke Jacobs at PROGRESS Wrestling. Credit x.com/pwponderings... #AEW

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

BEATRICE KEUL – 24 YEARS OLD
In November 1993, Beatrice Keul, a young Swiss model and financial services
professional, was recruited by a woman named Jill Harth to attend the Donald J. Trump American
Dream Pageant for 16- to 22-year-olds in Atlantic City and New York.48 According to an interview
with Committee Staff,49 at a press luncheon at the event in then-Trump-owned Plaza Hotel, Donald
Trump approached Keul and introduced himself, saying “Finally we meet Ms. Keul,”
mispronouncing her last name as “cool.” During their at least 15-minute introductory conversation,
Trump promised Keul that he would arrange a visa for her, stating that “Paolo”—a reference to
Paolo Zampolli—would “take care of that.” Trump further stated that he personally would ensure
her acceptance into New York University (NYU). And he repeatedly offered to take care of her
and arrange her travel, insisting either “I will take care of you” or, when she said she could handle
her own visa, “No no, my friend Paolo will take care of that.”
According to Keul, after Trump stepped away from their conversation, Epstein
immediately approached her saying “I’m Jeffrey, Don’s best friend.” Epstein then spent at least 10
minutes talking to Keul, all the time looking over and grinning at Trump, who had remained in the
room and was watching their conversation from afar. Epstein also made similar promises as Trump
and asked Keul to attend a party at Mar-a-Lago in the coming months, saying, “You know I can
take care of you. We organize many parties with Don.” Epstein, like Trump, stated that all of her
needs would be met: “Flights, accommodations, you don’t have to worry about anything.” 

Images: (Left) Beatrice Keul and Donald Trump at Plaza Hotel During American Dream World Finals in
1993. (Right) Keul, second row, third from left. Provided by Beatrice Keul.
Later that day, Donald Trump’s representative invited Keul to go upstairs at the Plaza Hotel
to meet with Trump. Believing this meeting to be a lucky brea…

In 2018, Tidal did a promotion for the newest Nicki Minaj album Queen, but there was an error with the promo code and it allowed you to download any album from Tidal in both mp3 and FLAC completely for free as many times as you wanted. It remains the best thing Nicki Minaj has ever done for anyone

I've talked about how this was inevitable. Generative AI has made superficially polished "perfection" universally accessible. But things that are universally accessible have much less social or artistic value. Even disregarding the moral an political objections: Gen AI is the new "Looks cheap."

Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social · yesterday

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

oh anthropic is profitable? i guess that makes theft of the commons at unprecedented scale and destruction of the environment to power the machine that automates the wholesale slaughter of meaning okay then and i will promptly reevaluate my position on AI is what i would say if i were insane

It’s wild how the press talks about LLMs like they are literally just some cheeky child causing mischief by accident rather than, you know, software owned by billionaires with a society-degrading political agenda.