hey so! this truly feels like impending doom on a platform i have come to really care about because of the people there, please let Twitch know how you feel about this, i sure did. twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338...
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Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d agoTwitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.
This post is conveniently a part of Hater Week, and we are also having a sale, if you enjoy us talking shit about Soul Patch Fascists, here's a good way to support the site. bsky.app/profile/afte...
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"A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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First it was the writing center, now Dudley House. This was the place where people like married veterans & other students who had reasons to live off campus found community at Harvard. I refuse to believe this was extremely costly. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard to Shutter Dudley Community After More Than 90 Years | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard College will shutter the Dudley Community, ending an institution founded more than 90 years ago to provide advising and a social home for generations of undergraduates living outside the House...
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This is absolutely insane, imagine if a progressive elected official was refusing to support Haley Stevens if she won! You’d never hear the end of it. Centrists are the ones who are dividing the Democratic Party with their Islamophobia and purity tests.
what so fun (sarcastic) about this is how US states are now ramping up adoption of this "to protect children...it has enrolled millions of British adults in mandatory identity-check systems run by third-party vendors with documented histories of data breaches." NY just announced this exact thing
Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · last wk.UK's admit the that Online Safety Act has in large part failed, and announce an inquiry into why the age-verification bill has not worked as (age-verification providers) promised.
@patrickfenelon.bsky.social sorry for short notice but I’m in the twin cities got time tmrw morning/afternoonish?
Going swimmingly over there in labour land metro.co.uk/2026/07/29/m...
Powerful unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans ban
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I played one of these cabinets earlier this year! The three-screen setup was awesome, you sit inside this big cab and when you enter tunnels the sound changes to really make it seem like you're in one.
GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON)@allcityslopshop.com · last wk.this week's Arcade Archives title: 1983's ultra-wide, triple-monitor F1 racing game TX-1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSHNzQAcSis this is particularly noteworthy for being the first ACA reissue (and first reissue in general, if memory serves) from the catalogue of Tatsumi
This is a wonderfully written piece by Tyler. And this made me laugh.
Tyler Parker@tylerparker.bsky.social · last wk.Wrote about LeBron and the art of ending well.
just cool how reducing emissions isnt a thing anymore.. these things can't exist with any kind of green future
The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 3mo agoBackers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.
“Initially I couldn't believe Google could be so dumb to kill the thing it makes literally all its money from, but lately I've arrived at another conclusion: Google knows it's killing the open web and is doing it on purpose. There's no way no one at Google realizes what's happening.”
Drew Curtis@drewcurtis.bsky.social · last wk.So with regards to what I said about how Fark won't survive this year without more TF subscribers, I wrote up a longer explanation about what we're all up against. Not just Fark, all of digital media.
I'm a lot more confident The New York Times will exist two years from now than I am that 60 Minutes will.
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last wk.Genuinely bizarre that Douthat would give up the cushiest job in journalism, where management clearly loves him, to join a newsroom whose defining attributes are its internal dysfunction and the constant stream of embarrassing leaks from disgruntled staffers.
This is framed as a feel-good story, but it should scare the wits out of anybody on the road. Tesla's deceptive marketing is convincing seniors that the cars drive themselves. In reality, a human must always be ready to intervene. If someone lacks the ability to do that, they shouldn't be driving!
Forget rideshare. How seniors are using Teslas for transportation
As Waymo and Tesla robotaxi services promise more rides for more cities, seniors are taking matters into their own hands and self-driving Teslas.
detroitnews.com
ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...
ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds say
Immigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.
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AYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...
kind of a half-baked thought here but it's a shame criticism as a paid professional discipline has been sidelined by social media because it could point the way forward out of the internet madness-induced problem of writing that's crouched in what the author anticipates a comments section will say
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This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · 3w agoThis Week in Videogames has reached its first full year of operation. Thank you to our paid subscribers for helping us sustain an independent, commercial-free, AI-free, and no-nonsense approach to games coverage for everyone. Here's a brief rundown of what we've managed to achieve in Year One:
"AND THEN DESTROYING THEM" Whatever book hoard you used to feel embarrassed about, is now a crucial repository of culture. Anything. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reference, whatever you have.
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The anti-data center movement is like "I don't want to pay more money for a thing that will not benefit me at all and will actively make my life measurably worse in a bunch of ways" and the pro-data center movement is like "We want it to be illegal for you to not like us."
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Keith David on his incredible career: ‘I want you to understand Black men as full-scope human beings’
Keith David on his incredible career: ‘I want you to understand Black men as full-scope human beings’
The hard-working character actor has over 400 screen credits, from The Thing to Platoon to Rick and Morty, and he isn’t slowing down any time soon
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I think it harms Journalism that the message that the media has sent to us over the last several years is that no matter what a person does it’s impossible to credibly be sure that they are a Nazi.
So, the UK's mainstream parties spent the better part of two decades legitimising the far-right's grievances and aligning politics-as-usual with their terms and parameters, and now an increasing number of people view the far-right as the best to address said grievances. It just doesn't make sense.