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This is fucking despicable. They’re copypasting their abuse of trans people onto new targets now (and many of the same targets, given how much overlap there is).

I had to fight for a shared care agreement with the ADHD meds that I fucking need to function. Taking them from anyone is beyond cruel.

Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything."

And.

Yup.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

told the story before about how I only got any of the many low-level admin jobs I applied for once I stopped being honest about being trans I just didn’t say it and let them assume I was a cis girl, then just "forgot" to present my ID to HR until they forgot about it boom: respectable university job public-facing, too. not something they let trannies do if they can avoid it the thing that gets me is that I was going for charity and public sector shit, like these are supposed to be the good guys but I could see the transmisogyny manifest like a fucking aura when it came up the other method ofc was to sign up with a temp agency, because then you just get placed and you can temp to perm with people who have to let you work at least one day, even if they know you’re a tranny. and if you’re friendly and competent and normal, congrats, you can push through the latent TME tranny hate

on employment as a trans woman

Ironically, I was raised in a cult in Oregon. I got better. People do deprogram themselves. I did. I might never have if I hadn't encountered hostility.

There is a line to be towed where you want to give people space, but if someone is demanding that their former actions never be brought up, run.

tfw stealing material history is insufficient

I love the way the various media industries have decided that the way to increase their profits is to pay for a technology that will enable them to pay writers *even less* than they were already.

Right, ‘cos THAT’S where all the money’s going.

This is so stupid. A very long time ago I was the day to day contact between the then FCO and BBCWS. FCO was always suspicious that BBCWS was running rings around it (probably rightly) but supported WS cause the value was self-evident. It's been some years since grant-in-aid was to be switched to...

Describes as 'one of the UK’s most influential cultural assets', it broadcast to millions.

Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan called it:
“Perhaps Britain’s greatest gift to the world” in the 20th century.

I learned so much working there.
Yet, its end has been coming since I joined. So sad..

the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain

Oh we're dragon posting???

dragonposting 🔥

Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

I keep seeing authors getting duped by AI users pretending to be artists (and then sadly realising it when everyone calls their book AI slop).

These grifters are everywhere and I don't have a solution, but I have a few pointers:

Krafton is a self-proclaimed “AI-first” company so do not touch this slop when it comes out

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

God I hope it goes under so video platforms stop getting flooded. I hope the videoplatforms go under. I hope its just RSS feeds. I hope I live in a cave and I have to travel 5 hours to see the internet.

Hopefully the rest of Europe will follow suit.

Hey y'all.

A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews.

Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂

Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking

Another UK case of someone misidentified by facial recognition. It's about time this gets regulated properly in the UK, best would be to ban it outright.

#dataprivacy

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/sainsbury-elephant-and-castle-london-press-association-b1269838.html

Reminder that "degenerate" was a term coined by Nazis to describe art they didn't like and labeled problematic.

Unless you have proof of real world harm, leave people alone and let them draw fucknasty shit. You have block and mute features. Stop making your disgust everyone else's problem.

Yeah, it'll be alright for THEM to do it because they do it in the right way and properly and it's natural function for a teenager to be a baby farm or whatever.

But gay people existing is bad grooming because it's degenerate and vile and corruptive.

Morality isn't what's done, it's who does it.

We’re gonna reach a point where the right are gonna start trying to justify child grooming and pedophilia as a Good Thing, Actually. It’s gonna happen, isn’t it?

I’m not talking about the creepy innuendo we’ve seen before. It’ll be full-throated “what’s wrong with a pedo island anyway?” shit.

Yeah, let what is happening to Discord radicalize you against the encroaching of puritan fascism we are seeing in laws world wide.

The US, Canada and a good chunk of the EU like Spain are looking into making laws that will actively do the same for a more expansive area of the internet.

Turning Point Northern Ireland.

In case you didn't already suspect our democracy is under fire.

#spéirghorm #ireland

We're planning to launch our free public demo on February 16th! We've sent advance access keys to content creators today and yesterday, and we're SO excited to see what everyone thinks! 🥰🥰🥰

Demo release date coming up 👀