SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

They gave US zinester Elizabeth Soto *50 fucking years* in prison for publishing a zine that supports an anti-fascism stance. Prosecutors also used her feminism themed zine, and an anti-AI zine as evidence against her. This is unprecedented.

this is his gofundme btw. would encourage everyone else who can to chuck this fella a couple quid www.gofundme.com/f/get-artist...

Donate to Get Artist Des Revol Help with His Legal Case!, organized by Jonathan Rochkind

Our friend Des Revol has been wrongly arrested and convicted over a b… Jonathan Rochkind needs your support for Get Artist Des Revol Help with His Legal Case!

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Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com · 2mo ago

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts

#kimkitsuragi #discoelysium all of my kim art was turning out a bit shit but I found a solution which was to be more of a pervert

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

Discord distances itself from age verification firm after ties to Palantir's Peter Thiel surface https://kotaku.com/discord-palantir-peter-thiel-persona-age-verification-2000668951

Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel

The third party company Discord could use for their ID collection is mired in surveillance concerns and links to Epstein via one of its investors

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A good thread with very useful links.

Sarah Z@sarahz.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I've been watching what's happening in Minneapolis and I don't know what to say. Two American citizens killed by ICE in three weeks. Countless more who are not citizens. People afraid to leave their homes. For those of us not living in Minnesota, are some things we can actually do:

Commissioners and artists, be aware of this if you use the PayPal

I had my little theory that the war on porn games/art/writing was, in part, to try to make AI scraping easier, but now I can add "it was astroturfing to take out the ethical, artisanal, actually artistic competition."

聖☆Alex Degen@adactivity.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

ATTENTION BRITAIN! 🇬🇧 The UK now has a petition to STOP CENSORSHIP by MasterCard and VISA of legal products! This joins the Australian and Canadian petitions that are gaining momentum. Come on, let's get these signed! And spread the word! The UK petition: petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Paypal ramps up NSFW censorship by beginning to go after not just adult creators but also customers. In a lot of ways, this is even more terrifying than the adult creator bans. With them, it's only me at risk, but how do I navigate a space where putting a game on Itch might put customers at risk?

Hey this is really fucking dire! Keep calling Stripe. This aligns with nothing they've previously told us

ALL THE PROCESSORS YOU CAN CALL:

If you're a Patreon creator who hasn't received the AI survey, request it through their support ticket: support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/req... If you did receive it already, please do it. Make it clear you don't want AI on the platform in any way.

Meredith McClaren RCCC Booth I39@iniquitousfish.bsky.social · last yr.

I don't know if it's being sent at random, but I got an email survey from Patreon. And I never miss an opportunity to yell. It's all about AI. They very much want to use AI. They very much want to use your art to train AI. They could not broadcast more clearly how much they want a piece of that AI

Daydreaming about an adult-friendly web that forces parents to actually Parent their kids so that in an effort to shield them from said content they instead avoid misinformation, nonstop political propaganda and brain-rotting advertisement since they cant let them be raised by computers anymore.

If you use Firefox: Go into Settings, in the search bar type "Sidebar" and select "Show Sidebar." At the bottom of the sidebar, click "Customize Sidebar" (the little gear icon) and un-check the "AI Chatbot" box.

horse (disambiguation)@horsecrimes.diy · last yr.

mozilla has a rich history of shooting themselves in the foot thankfully most of the ml stuff can be disabled through about:config

I was in Ana's stream and it seems like now we're waiting to see what specific banks we need to target In the meantime keep calling paypros! All the pressure and noise we've been making has worked to squeeze out all this info so keep going! Phone numbers as always: stop-paypros.neocities.org

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

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More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy. This seems kinda significant.

We're not in theoretical "they could come after sfw queer content LATER" territory anymore. It is being used to come after sfw queer content NOW. Spread this around, send the article to any and every news outlet/content creator you can think of. The alarms need to be sounded And KEEP CALLING

this is from back in May, but while youre calling your representatives about the SCREEN act and KOSA, its worth including a mention about the 'Interstate Obscenity Definition Act' (IODA). remember, you dont need to go into great detail, you just need to be another tally of citizens saying "no"

PupAmp@pupamp.bsky.social · last yr.

This bill would criminalize pornography by legally redefining what it means to be obscene. Period. Full stop. No more porn legally. If you post porn whether free pics or paid vids. this affects you!

he hasn't stopped calling~ have you? 🫵 how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

Copying my tweet here too in case ppl are interested to know The Tumblr purge The Patreon purge The Gumroad and Pixiv purge, The Onlyfans failed purge The shitty rules on Fansly The purge on steam and Itchio It's all cause of the ppl on ExodusCry www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHH...

The Secret War To Censor The Internet

YouTube video by Lextorias

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Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI

Hey if you hate censorship and want to do more than just doompost online, you can actually do something: Being annoying! Hoards of people have been blowing up the phones of payment processing companies to pressure them not to bend to the whims of puritan groups. stop-paypros.neocities.org

:) #discoelysium #trantheidelstam

Gift horse #discoelysium #jeanvicquemare