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Those in power want to determine the worth of a person by any number of irrelevant characteristics (and the more unchangeable they are, the better). The last thing they want is for everyone to be judged by the worth of our actions alone. They want status to predetermine the worth of our actions.

We keep talking about the plight of the arts & humanities as a problem with arts & humanities, not a problem with corporations, politicians, economic systems, & national culture.

"how much important stuff could we have had instead, for the same money" is the correct frame for evaluating university spending

public universities' mission is for research and teaching — not spending money on those, while diverting it to tools of dubious utility, should be shocking

WIP. Inspired by old motherboards.

Zootopia 2 was also mostly about Judy being always right and Nick getting clowned on every step of the way, admitting that these are flaws during their allocated 'Character Development - Single Dose' towards the end, and then not having time to show that this improvement mattered.

Consultants Offered Epstein Access to Top N.Y. Democrats if He Donated

So much of the rot in this country stems from our failure to fund public goods and regulate private wealth. In that context, people who need your money won't care how terrible you are.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/n...

“Summarize this document”

No. Never. I can read, asshole robot

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that

Anthropic safety researcher quits, warning ‘world is in peril’ Other AI safety researchers have also left leading firms, citing concerns about potentially catastrophic risks.

The problems with AI are primarily ones of corporate power and governance—a tiny handful of billionaires are deciding the future of this increasingly powerful technology.

I tend to believe the whistleblowers here; but whether you do or not, the real problem is that the public doesn’t decide.

So I can vacuum your apartment?

If they went to Hell, wouldn't you need to deal with them for longer?

Writing Doesn't Always Look the Way You Think A couple days ago Penny Arcade posted a great scathing comic about an ad for an LLM; the ad promised that new users could “start writing for free!” Of course...

The mighty @maxgladstone.bsky.social is very smart about making things and you should read his newsletter.

buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...

Woodlanders.

You Have To Care How thoughtless art paves the way for AI slop and how I'm freeing myself from it.

Did low effort content pave the way for AI? While it's easy to blame big tech, the recent onslaught of slop caters to an audience that has proven time and time again that they prefer quantity to quality. I talked about what it looks like to reclaim your taste and, by extension, your self respect.

Also happy to be bullied. Uh, I mean, maybe…:

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take! Go for it!

Oh you mean the company funded by PETER THIEL?

"Calling people out for using AI is just the next generation of cancel culture"

Yeah go on, elaborate on how very real and very bad cancel culture is when all these people in the Epstein files are facing zero consequences.

I'll still call people shitty for using AI, thanks.

Let this be a reminder that, no, you cannot trust any corporation with your biometric data, this will be the end result of that.

Keep on fighting, be it discord or ID laws, do not let up.

They haven't reversed, Keep up the pressure
#discord

Disclose.tv @disclosetv NOW - EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women's rights and gender equality." • • I| 0:14 12:31 pm • 12 Feb 2026 • 174K Views

The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.

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#transformation #furry

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new vid tomorrow

"The new AI is too good. Artists are cooked", they tell me, but I keep drawing
3 months later
"The new AI is too good. Artists are cooked", they tell me, but I keep drawing
5 months later
"The new AI is too good. Artists are cooked", they tell me, but I keep drawing
1 year late-

@newrepublic ICE is now utilizing advanced social media monitoring to perform "sentiment analysis." By scraping TikTok and other platforms, they can monitor the emotional and political temperature of entire geographic areas, identifying resistance hot spots.

Why do you think they’re desperate to make sure we’re not anonymous on the internet?

Feels like bullshit, where they can push the checks to almost everyone, and still say it's a minority of the group, and that "you just happen to know a lot of people in that minority".
They can't be trusted. That trust is gone.

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)