Papyrus Semi is TAKING TOO LONG

haven't finished rereading chapter 8 yet and idk if it's because i haven't had time or if i'm just too intimidated

Please donate! The heavy rains in Gaza are doing massive damage to what little shelter there is

folks, the reason AI slop is called slop is because pigs are often fed scraps of food waste all thrown together in one bucket. the slop bucket. it's not just Thing You Dislike; it's an intentionally chosen and purposeful term referring to the reckless random feeding of material into training models.

I do think it’s telling that Aftermath will write about Horses in this manner, but not about the various adult games removed from Steam that could also be labeled as quite tame amid fearmongering around their content

Screenshot of Cleverbot, an old chatbot from the 2010s that was a precursor to modern chatbots.

We should have killed this fucker while we still had a chance

Past my due date for credit card bill

Des was arrested and accused of moving anarchist zines from one place to another and needs our help.

Nooo fuck! RIP to a legend!

Screenshot of Discord's privacy settings.

Guys, do not use the Discord Checkpoint thing (Discord's attempt at Spotify Wrapped).

It requires enabling them access to scrape your data, and has an alarming amount of private data being used for it.

Make sure you have these disabled.

A quoted tweet from a user named Sam that reads: "How Twitter is rigged Type in all caps because you're excited? Lowers your reputation. Include links? Your score goes down. It's like the Credit Score system from Hell. And given Cisgender is treated as a slur & MAGA boosted, you can guess what's categorized as 'offensive'" The tweet they quoted is from user SADIQ and reads: "Tweepcred is X's reputation system Based on your behavior, you get a tweepcred score It determines your reach Break the algo rules, you score goes down and your reach disappears What are the rules of the X algo tho? Glad you asked." SADIQ includes a photo of Twitter's algorithm code that calculates a user's reputation. SADIQ continues: "Post 'offensive text'? 80% reach reduction Offensive username? 80% reach reduction All caps tweet? That's seen as 'shouting. Major penalization. Include links? Yup, penalized"

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being.

Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

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Alright Kojima you got me

Metroid Prime 4 listed on Nintendo Music as a special release. Metroid Prime 4 won't be out in my time zone for another two hours.

THEY DID IT AGAIN

whenever sonic plays a tabletop rpg, he is an automatic ±0.17 to the Henderson Scale of Plot Derailment

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firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now

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The situation for Mohammed's family right now is really desperate, please donate so they can at least afford a blanket!

I am so fucking tired of being told "We're sorry we have to strip you of dignity and exclude your kind ): Really it's so hard on us ):"

you can't "look at the trans men" your way out of transmisogyny (opening up trans men to anti-transmasculine violence & humiliation). bigots do not operate on gotcha logic especially when they can just use michfest logic in response to keep trans women out anyway 😭

One of the worst aspects of this is that the same groups making these legal threats then go around saying that this type of exclusion and discrimination makes transitioning so negatively affect one's life that no one should do it as if it's a choice.

while i have no doubt that elon at least partly believes the words that come out of his mouth (or phone), i think the more disgusting thing is he's probably saying this at least partially to divert scrutiny away from him as he racks up some of the biggest net worth in the world

There's a lovely template for your email included in the replies here, and in addition to all that here's a transcribed version of this image in the alt text with which you can copy/paste text into an email as well.

It has never been more urgent than this, US folks. Call your reps NOW and lay it all down. We cannot let them take this all away from us.

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For every $1 donated to your local food pantry, 10 meals will be served to families in need this holiday season

#GivingTuesday

I try not to be a "history will judge" kind of person but I do hope the TikTok ban is one day understood as one of the most explicit attacks on free speech this country has ever attempted

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Schooling has apparently just become AI writing papers for AI to grade, with humans just being meat machines serving as intermediaries for the AI. Bleak stuff, folks.

bummer situation but grim lol at this exception on the epic games store

When that tainted water moves through the data centers to absorb heat from the server systems, some of the water is evaporated, but the nitrates remain, increasing the concentration. That means that when the polluted water has moved through the data centers and back into the wastewater system, it's even more contaminated, sometimes averaging as high as 56 ppm, eight times Oregon's safety limit.

“This is exacerbated when Amazon then pulls this contaminated water, which is already over federal legal limits for nitrates, up to cool its data centers”

Areas in which centers are built are often high contamination drought areas. This process makes it much worse.

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remade gentlementlemen in HD because a version didnt exist in HD with the samples actually in sync with the song