for those who celebrate: it is the 20th anniversary of a funny dog eat a pepsi.

'It sounds extremely dismissive to everyone who is using generative AI...' Yes. Good.

Brooke | Chafee 🇨🇦@chafee.bsky.social · yesterday

I literally just peaked at the Scritchy Scratchy thread on the AP server and the mods are ripping someone apart for asking if gen AI is used in the AP world and other AP worlds they’re interested in playing. Jesus fucking christ something needs to change on that server.

No more Sims games for us. No more EA games either, for that matter. Some words on why.

all my interactions with ai are miserable and nonconsensual. it is the reason my programs are running slowly, why my weather report is inaccurate, why I always get connected to the wrong department of any automated call service. I would pay a lot of money to be rid of it.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

‼️ACTION ALERT: The Senate Commerce Committee is holding “kids safety” circus again, this time considering both KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) & SCREEN Act, two of the most dangerous censorship & age verification bills on the table! CALL YOUR LAWMAKERS & TELL THEM TO OPPOSE 📲 248-331-8665

Very easy! I've already done this, and I'll do it again.

GothSavageBowserX, CΛS-MPSE (King of Logo/Titles,SFX/VO & Gamer)@gothsavagebowserx.bsky.social · 24h ago

We need to stop both KOSA and SCREEN Act, like I said, "We fight, riot, protest, boycott & war until it's officially over, and get our freedom back." stopkosa.com badinternetbills.com fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop-the-screen-act actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-screen-act?nowrapper=true

I just wanna read through a creepypasta on stream

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.

Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666

Electronic Arts Officially Sold For $55 Billion

With the closing of the market today comes the second-biggest acquisition in gaming history

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kululu@kululu.bsky.social · 3w ago

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Whenever I am tempted to imagine what another driver might be going through, I remember this and stop

I WANNA PLAY TWILIGHT PRINCESS AGAIN GRRRRRR BARBARKABARKBARKBALRRKBARKBAKRBEB

The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.

Will this end up being yet another summer where the whole thing passes without being able to draw a single fun summer illstration? hahahahaha I guess we'll just have to wait and see 🫠

This is like 90% what the Nazis did with "degenerate art." Except they're wording it as "accountability" and denying student loans (which already restricts who can and cannot achieve higher education)

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

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Maria Bruxxxa@mariabruxxxa.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Rent is due on the 5th and we need about $1004 to pay it off! I can probably get a tiny bit from work, but anything really helps!

🐱🇵🇸 Cat Boy Vtuber @ Commissions Open@rippedcatboy.bsky.social · 2w ago

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We're going to see in about an hour if I accidentally took an extra adderall

it's fuckin g bunny day and I am FORCED TO WORK A DAY JOB INSTEAD OF BEING BUNNY !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

Don't quote me on this in like 10 years but I think one of the defining issues of the 2020s is "a better world is actually very easy to achieve, the powers that be are just not interested in achieving it."

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

I hate to keep being so annoying about this but the IRS sent me an official notice of Levy i NEED to make this amount bare minimum to keep them off my back. Please please help. i am working non stop and just paid rent donations are all i have #HelpSky #MutualAid

🗡️Wretched Creature🏹@laura.karnste.in · 4w ago

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if youre able please ahmad a few bucks! if not a repost would be awesome too👍

AHMAD_JOHAR🕊𓂆🇵🇸@ahmadjohary16.bsky.social · 3d ago

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A campaign to save and archive a MASSIVE amount of comics history and it currently has all of four backers?! Hell no.

Fortmax Headroom@hwhall.bsky.social · 3d ago

This seemed like it was worth boosting. www.kickstarter.com/projects/735...

I work in tech, and I can tell you now - the powers that be don't care if you're mocking it or sharing ironically, or what. Sharing GenAI lop is proof of engagement for them. And they are DESPERATE for that because it keeps the money flowing. You're just ensuring it gets more investments.

Jessalyn Matthews 🏳️‍⚧️@hulkied.myatproto.social · 3d ago

No. I am not boosting the Peanuts AI slop, not even for a quote dunk. Charles M. Schulz’s work is the pinnacle of *human* creativity. It is an insult to human art in general if you ask the machine to plagiarize it. It’s as bad as a slur, IMO.

hahaa apparently i had to actively tell my new bank account to decline transactions if i have no money, because otherwise it'll just overdraft my account by $120 without alerting me! so that's fun. that's a fun system we have. h e l p

Wack'd 🏳️‍⚧️@wackd.bsky.social · 3w ago

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