thanks, steam, for telling us all the games not to buy, you fucking loser clowns 🥴 link: store.steampowered.com/curator/4628...
Alex/Teal~🍉@tealpixels.bsky.social · 3d agoWhy the fuck is Steam doing a slop event?? I'm so tired
Ladon DWolf back from Megaplex!
@ladondwolf.bsky.social
Next con: Midwest Furfest! I have amateur nouns. Can't afford to go pro. 18+ only! Below will be blocked! Mastodon: @LadonDWolf@furs.social "Mayonnaise is not a beverage, Tom!”
Alex/Teal~🍉@tealpixels.bsky.social · 3d ago
hey, kids, brought you present
Mollz (ballz)@dopestatistics.bsky.social · 13h agoNO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO
“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE
Sony argued that "reasonable consumers" already know they don't really own the digital goods they paid for. The Consumer Rights wiki has now made a list collecting more than 30 examples where Sony told customers they do, in fact, own the digital games they paid for. https://bit.ly/4gNi4Ls
It is our solemn duty not just to remember what happened 25 years ago but to acknowledge and repudiate the brutality it summoned in America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-quarter-century-since-911
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
propublica.org
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
wired.com
Anyone who has ever complained about London Underground, complain no more.
A gentle reminder: “Sometimes the strongest people are the ones who love beyond all faults, cry behind closed doors, and fight battles that nobody knows about.”
French prosecutors have found new investigative leads in the Epstein case, and have identified 13 new victims. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.
lemonde.fr
*taps the sign for Democrats, in case it needs clarification.* You want a trolley problem, here's your trolley problem: you can stand with us, alongside us, as part of a coalition. Or you can stand alone and die alone. Your fate will be the same as ours. #politics
So convenient, every dev and publisher you need to block on one page
Duck AI Slop!!@duckaislop.bsky.social · yesterdaySteam hosted an "Ai Gaming Fest", a free block / ignore list. We've updated our mega spreadsheet too Thread of the games with NO disclosures🧵 included! store.steampowered.com/curator/4628... steamdb.info/sales/event/...
Zohran Mamdani "was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end…Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began 'schmoozing.'" Per Steve Kastenbaum:
Someone is going around impersonating me, begging for money and offering fake comms. I only use Vgen. If I offer you any other payment method, it's NOT me. The discord ID is 1488503846371201065. Please ban it from your community and let me know if they contacted you. Please share this around.
WELP ....I haven't really sold much from Fourthwall, but this is annoying. Now I need to find a new online shop. Ugh.
Samhain the Wraith@samhainvt.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is how I learn that Fourthwall has gone all in on catering to Gen AI... I'll be taking down my Fourthwall shop later today and will be looking into alternatives fourthwall.com/blog/chatgpt...
I really do think that Democrats would be doing much, much better electorally if the democratic establishment hadn’t spent every single election cycle since Reagan dismissing and outright opposing every issue young people at the time have cared about. This is the main cause of voter apathy IMO.
According to Forbes, the Tesla Cyber Truck has surpassed the Edsel as the worst selling vehicle in history.
you can bet your life that if AI started taking power/resources from the elites of the world and distributed it to the less wealthy, AI would be shut down in an instant. never forget who these systems are for.
If a hit on the E-W pipeline is confirmed, stuff is about to get really, really stupid. Stupid…er.*
The leaked U.S. trade demands that caused Canada to halt negotiations: Washington demanded direct veto power over Canadian infrastructure, control of critical minerals, and delayed access to generic medicines.
Adam Jentleson: "we want to get the voting base really riled up" Voters "we're already as mad as it's possible to be, thank you, now we only want to support Democrats who will enact the kind of radical change we need to do anything about it." AdamJ: "NO NOT LIKE THAT!!!!!"
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3d agoThe political operative Adam Jentleson once believed “the way for Democrats to win was to get your base really riled up.” He’s now trying to wrest the Party away from its far-left flank. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
