Cristin, the dyke who hates ice

Discord is delaying its global age verification rollout Keep your ID in your pocket for now.

They're walking it back because they got caught. That doesn't mean they won't try again. Tech companies don't deserve the benefit of the doubt when they do stuff like this.

Always, always research before trusting them with your data.

clearly "Careless People" running the show there.

Look at how this billionaire CEO dehumanizes folks, especially children.

"look, you take 20 years of life and eat so much before you become productive!"

What a complete and utter tool.

Video game 'reloots' stolen artefacts, by reclaiming works of art from Western museums

Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game.

Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era.

The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

ugh. if only it were buying the books. thanks to enshittification, you are only buying a revocable license to view the books.

"BUYERS ARE GRANTED ONLY A LICENSE FOR SOME DIGITAL PRODUCTS IN THIS PURCHASE. SEE TERMS FOR MORE DETAILS. "

Please listen to me very carefully right now: Learn to take and celebrate small short wins, to build momentum and morale, or you and everyone you need to fight beside you will be burned out, demoralized, and demotivated before the next big opportunity comes along.

New York Times headline: Mark Zuckerberg Is Done With Politics He was once a backer of liberal causes. Then everyone seemed to turn on him. Now he wants to stay away from politics — if that’s possible.

New York Times headline: Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push to Advance A.I. Agenda Meta’s biggest election investment aims to prevent state legislation that it fears could inhibit artificial intelligence development. Its spending starts this week in Texas and Illinois.

September 24, 2024: Mark Zuckerberg Is Done With Politics

February 18, 2026: Meta makes biggest-ever electoral investment in pro-AI state politicians

Blue Whale.

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop

And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)

RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

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How much is ridley tied to coal? possibly a LOT.

anyway, yeah, the asteroid analogy is pretty apt.

I'm amazed his pants are not aflame and burning up the podium when he made this statement.

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

before you post a link to that site again, you might want to read this:

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

I don't have any public photos of it on it's crane arm we had built to do engineering tests and prelim studies for some shows. It was huuuuge. But it was just the prototype.

The production camera was planned on being much smaller, and able to be shoulder-held.

a very large camera (60cm wide, 40cm tall, 220cm long) sits on top of a dolly at a corporate showcase event. a portion of the camera has its black body replaced with clear lucite, showing some orange 5cm steel tubing inside the camera holding the sensor. Several men are gathered around the right side of the camera.

I didn't work with that one, I had this monster as a pet, our cinema camera prototype. 755 megapixels. The base images were 32k exr frames prior to computation. So much fun working with light field cinema and VR, I do miss it.

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

WE all knew this, but it's good that The Guardian is reminding the normies.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

brilliant lens experimentation

Okay, this is awesome. I worked at Lytro for a while, and I loved doing this computationally with a real light field camera, but to make light field manipulation with a custom digital iris is excellent.

Why is @theguardian.com writing a story about an obviously fake image posted on instagram by an athlete?

Nobody has that much control over their bladder to cleanly write letters.

Also unlikely it was poured from a cup, the "splatter" is too even and the "C"s are identical.

Don't you be hanging this millenial on us Gen X folk.

We've got problems, but being 45 years old isn't one of them.

now is the perfect time to leave substack and start up a newsletter on a non-nazi platform

seriously, there isn't a facepalm emoji or gif big enough for the screengrab posters, and I can't wait for the "AI" grift to end.

Good grief. The original poster doesn't even know what "AGI" is, let alone that it hasn't been invented yet.

But since all the LLM data is built on completely biased training data, there is a 99.9% chance that the output data will be both made up and biased.

you are much more likely to send folks pizza, too.

Deputies: Woman takes meth, ate sushi, sweets while riding Wal-Mart cart - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale LECANTO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman has been accused of taking methamphetamine and driving a motorized shopping cart through a Wal-Mart while drinking wine and<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https...

you mean the crime from 2015; at a wal-mart; with a different person than in the photo?

wsvn.com/news/deputie...

Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of an investigation into child porn, deepfakes and more French prosecutors have launched a search at the offices of Elon Musk's social media platform X. This is part of an investigation into alleged offenses, including spreading child pornography and deepfakes.

Paris prosecutors raid the French offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of an investigation into spreading child pornography and deepfakes.

The LAPD chief does not get to make law. He does not get to make policy.

If he does not enforce the law, he should be removed from duty immediately.

an ai-generated image supposedly of multiple outlet tee adapters with almost a dozen USB wall warts plugged in. The image is clearly AI generated because one can see that a few cords are attached to nothing. some of the USB transformers don't have slots for USB ports. Two of the usb plugs are curved. one of the cables changes color. Two cables end abruptly.

think before posting #AiSlop

here is an obviously generated image and some telltales to help you in the future:

A - usb wall warts with no USB socket
B - cables abruptly end
C - usb plugs are bent/curved
D - cables going nowhere
E - cable changes color/thickness

J schools really need to get better at teaching security, and newspapers need to get better at drilling it into their journalists. This stuff is inexcusable.