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Absolutely do NOT give your ID or face scan on Discord. It's even worse than expected. Apparently due to people bypassing current systems, they're switching to "persona" which is funded by fucking Peter Thiel.

Discord lied.

they’re now sending scanned IDs to persona, a third party company.

“facial scans will never leave your device” -discord lmao.

Thank you for your AI hate, it’s truly appreciated 🙏🙏🙏

The feels

A portrait of both a T-Virus infected zombie and Jill Valentine from Resident Evil (1996). The zombie is rotting, slacked jaw showing his jagged teeth stained in red. Jill meantime is seen looking over her back, look of worry as she has her handgun at the ready. This piece is a love letter to the original Resident Evil game. I was too young to play it but I remember watching my brother and cousin play it, walking right in when the dog breaks through the window. You know the scene.

SURVIVAL HORROR 1996

#art #digitalart #fanart #residentevil

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow.

@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Pam Bondi is the Attorney General, head of the department of justice, she’s covering for Trump and a plethora of other billionaire child rapists and traffickers. She had a hearing in front of congress today, where all her responses were embarrassing deflections and Trump glazing shit.

We are the same

The victims are there too, this looks so fucking bad

Bondi is so fucking bad at this, her long pauses, her fumbling through her notebook for desperate deflection, shaky voice, grasping for straws.

Her voice is like nails on a chalkboard, hope this Nazi is grilled relentlessly

I’m not kidding, guys.

I BARELY HAVE ENOUGH for apartment rent and I’m NOT GETTING ENOUGH WORK SHIFTS to pay the bills.

If this keeps going…. I might end up being homeless without anything in place.

This is no longer a suggestion, this is life or suffering.

Please… Help me.

‘Tödlein’, Death as an archer.
Made from pear wood.
Dated to before 1519; artist: Hans Leinberger
www.khm.at/kunstwerke/t...

I wanna draw Red Sonja, that pocket change bikini would be fun to render

RPG for @podrace-explode.bsky.social

False God Gantiffur

A character from Bedlam and my upcoming graphic novel The Rivers Ran Red, did this as a painting demo in front of my students today!

I’d be honored!

Rowling is no Lovecraft, whose bigotry is mitigated on account of him being a big dead bitch. Rowling is alive and uses the money earned through things like this to fund a transphobic hate campaign. There is no excuse for buying anything with Harry Potter branding.

If this guy ends up being an ubiquitous parapolitical figure I’m gonna be so fucking annoyed. How many idiot boy kings could one civilization possibly need

A woman sits on the edge of a bathtub, pulling open her robe before she sits in the water.

Rest and Relaxation

And just collecting as much of our facial data or otherwise as possible

All commission emails have been responded to! Thanks to everyone who sent one in!❤️

False God Gantiffur

A character from Bedlam and my upcoming graphic novel The Rivers Ran Red, did this as a painting demo in front of my students today!

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)

screenshot of discord's Confirm cancellation screen, reporting that "Something went wrong while processing your request" for some reason.

if you're in line at the nitro canceller, STAY IN LINE

Same :/

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

discord.com/press-releas...

One of my all time favorite videos lmaooo

There should be clips of Bryan Callen from tfatk defending weird predatory behavior making Brendan Schaub uncomfortable in the process lol

youtu.be/nVf6l4ne2Fk?...