Peter M. Jacobsen (Fraevar)

UK folks - reiterating that it's super important that you download Wikipedia for offline use like now-ish if you want to guarantee you can keep having that incredible resource!!

www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-t...

*me knowing that the more I post the dumber the machines get*

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.

AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay Airlines, including Delta, are testing artificial intelligence in pricing. Get ready for what one startup calls the “exploitation phase.”

Get ready for the “exploitation phase” of AI driven pricing www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:

Look to the mainstream to explain the rise of the far right Extremists are not ‘capturing’ our systems – they are part of them.

"We cannot pretend to stand against the far right while referring to its politics as “legitimate concerns”."

I wrote this short piece two years ago and it's got a lot worse with that fascist-enabling Labour government

theconversation.com/look-to-the-...

This 'patriot' protesting against immigrants in Manchester is actually Irish far right thug Paul Rock, who got eight years for tying up and robbing a 76 year old woman. But yeah, just concerned parents.

Shachtman's (excellent) piece on the ADL reminds me of @naomiaklein.bsky.social's writing in Doppelganger. Zionism has been used to flatten our imagination of a better world. It treats antisemitism as a natural law that can never be overcome, therefore requiring constant, violent repression.

Sigourney Weaver eating a hot dog in Los Angeles, 1983.

Photograph by Douglas Kirkland.

Cassandra Cain jacked as fuck and in custom Bat themed exercise gear.

Cass doodle

/ #CassandraCain / #Batgirl / #DCComics / #MyArt /

Always a treat to see my favorite Batgirl done justice. Excellent work 👍😁

Party started ♡︎

#cassandracain #jubilee #dccomics #marvel

I mean...it would be bad for your Jellyboi Rank if J&A managed to finish before you did 🧐🤣😁

I would prioritize getting the writing and all the vast amount of cut content in order over graphics or combat redesigns. Maybe even go so far so as to fully implement the droid planet and the intended adaptive Darth Traya plot. Because as we know from the script, Darth Traya could be someone else.

Thoughts for a surefire #starwars gaming hit: A proper remaster/remake of Knights of the Old Republic 2. Talk to everyone who worked on it, find design docs, and tell that story the way it was intended to be told. Because it's clear @obsidianent.bsky.social wanted to do so much more with it. #games

Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

my landlord has been claiming i owe over $4,000 in missed rent payments for months, and when i asked for receipts they sent me the rental history of a person from a different building w/ all their personal info. when i pointed this out they apologized & said their chatbot generated this.

meanwhile:

Reminder that three years ago this dork was confidently insisting that the metaverse was "the next chapter of the internet".

Every single billionaire hawking their AI shit sounds like the monorail guy from The Simpsons and once you notice that it's impossible to take them seriously.

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Goooooood morning, Bluesky! CD PROJEKT RED is hiring two more writers for Cyberpunk 2. Come tell razor-sharp stories with my talented crew! #games #writing

We need an Expert Writer
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And a Senior Writer
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Don't forget how not taxing the rich impacts your Social Security

You're going to start hearing a lot of talk about moving in to crypto as a way to bypass payment processors and what I need all of you to understand is that Anybody Saying This Is Trying To Scam You. They Have Potentially Millions Of Dollars In Crypto They Can't Cash Out Unless You Buy It From Them.

Happy birthday, Aliona! You're a wonderful, kind soul and I wish you so much happiness on this spectacular day 🎉

Brazil rallies to defend much-loved payment system from Donald Trump’s attack

To connect the recent Steam and Itch situation to another ongoing bit of news: Visa and Mastercard (and other US companies like PayPal, Stripe, and Meta) clearly believe they are entitled to dictate how people spend money not just through their services, but anywhere at all

archive.ph/jigm3

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy. Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

Once again, there is an ACLU petition specifically made to stop Mastercard from unlawfully policing adult content. It’s getting pretty grim for us out there. Please sign and/or spread the word.
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

I don't know how best to do it, I just know we need to do it.
We need to contact Visa and Mastercard directly, let them know we will not tolerate them restricting legal nsfw content and LGBTQ+ material.

We won't take this ridiculous financial censorship sitting down.

Can I touch your face?
Fine.

#BG3 #Baldursgate3 #Withers #Arabella

-creates the problem
-cries about the problem
smh this is on you my guy

Common sense from my Senator. And if you think this won't eventually trickle down to you? Think again. Eventually the regime will become bold enough or the corporations paranoid enough to seek to police the actions and speech of regular employees.

Every time I think about this I feel a little dizzy

Soldiers raise the flag of the European Union, the Light of the World

🇪🇺 Freude Schöner Götterfunke 🇪🇺

#stopkillinggames
The single-player always-online nonsense will stop!
The right to play games forever shall not be infringed!

If you are from the #EU: Do not engage in online discourse, simply sign and spread the word.

eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...