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a wandering vagrant on the internet I do streams sometimes at twitch.tv/zmaskm
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Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · yesterdayBy me at this.weekinsecurity.com: A major online ads company that claims to serve 1.5 billion ads a day was hacked and began serving malware designed to steal a person's crypto. This is the latest perfect example why you should use an ad-blocker.
"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoEvery now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
STOP CLICKING ON THINGS ON DISCORD UNLESS YOU LIKE LOSING YOUR ACCOUNTS TO EXPLOITS EVEN FROM PEOPLE YOU KNOW! WHY ARE THEY ASKING TO PLAY MINECRAFT, WATCH ANIME, OR TO PLAY THEIR NEW GAME THE MADE IF YOU KNOW THEY DON'T DO ANY OF THOSE THINGS
They genuinely want to silence the population, I hope that's clear. Age verification is partly blame avoidance for social media platforms, partly surveillance state garbage, and largely just class warfare. They want you to be silent, uninformed, and disconnected. Fight. Fight like hell.
Matthijs Pontier, PhD 🏴☠️ Piratenpartij@matthijs85.bsky.social · 2d agoHardware-bound 'age verification' (actually: compulsory identifation) EU, threatens Linux, GrapheneOS, custom ROMs, and open-source access linuxiac.com/eu-age-verif... #EU #ageverification #privacy #opensource #Linux #Graphene
Social media bans cannot be effectively enforced, and come with profound implications for everyone's human rights. Nevertheless the EU and Irish government seem hell bent on pushing through similar legislation here, without presenting a shred of evidence that such a ban will have a positive impact.
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
I really want to say things about this but I don't feel like my voice matters much. I will say that this thread points to why competition is so difficult though; streaming sites are EXPENSIVE to run. Without ample cash to burn, most will fail to even get off the ground.
Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 3d agoTwitch's Former Chief Product Officer says the Discovery and Ads teams were once at war over Feed impressions (solved), and that Twitch streams with fewer than 1000 viewers are dead weight (since entertainment economics runs on ad rates). Very interesting historical insight!
Remember when the fear-mongering red scare rhetoric was about Big Brother and somehow the worse one we have at home is supposed to be fine now I'm so frustrated
Desertphile@desertphile.bsky.social · 3d agoIt’s not really about crime, it’s about control: it's about arresting people who protest against government abuse and crimes; it is about following political dissidents to and from rallies; it is about monitoring reproductive health care facilities; it is about attending the correct churches.
It’s not really about crime, it’s about control: it's about arresting people who protest against government abuse and crimes; it is about following political dissidents to and from rallies; it is about monitoring reproductive health care facilities; it is about attending the correct churches.
Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows
New FBI data shows case closure rates for the Atlanta Police Department have not improved despite thousands of ALPRs installed since 2021.
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I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
This whole thing is just so astronomically stupid and honestly just exists because, rather than respect that parents need to be present in their kid's life, the system we live with would rather chain us to work and debt forever. Want to protect kids? Higher wages, more paid parental leave. Cowards.
Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d agoa bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...
A genuinely irredeemable act on the part of Amnesty, in that in addition to permanently shattering any sense of safety or reliability oppressed groups might have found from them in the face of adversity, it also yielded them nothing because Rowling intends to continue suing them anyway.
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 4d agoAmnesty International correctly called out Rowling's transphobia. She threatened them in response. And @amnesty.org surrendered. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yes, this is 100% about censorship in general, and the current anti-sexual weirdness that’s going on. But a paragraph near the end of the article is especially telling… ASMR is primarily created by women. Women doing anything will always be perceived by some as inherently sexual (excerpt in comms)
Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d agoa bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...
Every now and then, I think about "The Future In Whose Eyes?" and am just pleased that album exists.
The way genAI is being forced into our lives, and the way we're being told that everything must become training data, is such a massive consent issue that I can only imagine the people endorsing the decision have issues respecting consent in other aspects of life. Just...sit with that a while.
Reminder that we published an extensive interview with a former editor at The New York Times who laid out, in detail, how the paper's pushing of anti-trans bigotry was both very intentional and directed from the very top of the organization. The NYT plays a direct and major role in trans genocide:
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
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After we published this interview the NYT went out of its way to try to smear us and bury it. And here we are, stronger than ever, about to hit our fundraising goal thanks to a wave of support. Trans journalism will never die. transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com/projects/302...
Trans News Network@transnews.network · 5d agoReminder that we published an extensive interview with a former editor at The New York Times who laid out, in detail, how the paper's pushing of anti-trans bigotry was both very intentional and directed from the very top of the organization. The NYT plays a direct and major role in trans genocide:
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
"Let PlayStation have a Wii U generation" goes so hard.
'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Aggressive reminder that paying for ANYTHING related to Harry Potter actively puts money in this wretch's pockets.
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · last wk.They're coming for your children www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/jk-r...
My dad's NES still fucking works. My N64 is going strong. THINGS USED TO JUST KEEP WORKING.
Weebs Posting Their L's Online@weebspostingls.bsky.social · last wk.I have a 20-year-old Gamecube that still works like a dream. So up yours, asshole.
I have a 20-year-old Gamecube that still works like a dream. So up yours, asshole.
Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death
If you think this post is good, look at the replies. It just keeps getting better. Sometimes the internet is pretty alright.
Dan Olson@foldablehuman.bsky.social · last wk.I keep seeing Sex+ in people's bios and, IDK man, I'm just exhausted, does everything need to become a premium subscription service?
