Storm ΘΔ

Commission for @stormgallade.bsky.social
"PSX Style Storm"

This means Mastercard in particular is actively afraid of people bringing up Riot's connection to them negatively.

I think people should raid Riot's official livestreams and start spamming things like:

"#SaveSpeech from Mastercard!"
"MASTERCARD HATES THIS --> (.)(.)"
"#stopkillinggames"

and more

A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right

behold the "HTML bomb"

It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper

Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

i'm kinda excited to see the power rangers in fortnite, i just hope that there's some kind of tribute to jason david frank, and i hope that the mmpr theme is a jam track because i'd love to play it in festival

The internet is not dead. But we're becoming dangerously centralised.

We're not at the end game yet, but if we don't speak louder soon enough, we might be.

A thread 🧵

SCREEN ACT: -full age verification. (biometric scans, ID uploads, background checks) -Deeply unsafe for personal and data privacy. Security/data breaches are rampant, and uploading so much sensitive data to every single we site is just asking for mass ID theft. -id verification is much, much harder on small websites than larger ones, creating a chilling effect and stifling speech for anyone that isnt a massive corporation -draw comparison to UK's OSA [online safety act] and the backlash it is receiving

KOSA: -creates "duty of care,” meaning that tech companies and platform giants would be required to take steps to prevent potentially harmful encounters, such as posts about eating disorders and instances of online bullying, from impacting minors. -who gets to decide what is or is not "unsafe for minors"? Especially under the current administration -it will block access to important info minors could use to keep themselves safe or advocate for themselves. Ex: sex ed. -the vague nature of the bill will almost certainly be used to target LGBT content under the guise of "protecting children"

#SaveSpeech

Remember, if youre american, contact your reps and urge them not to support KOSA and the SCREEN act!

Unlike Pay-pros, you dont need to waste time. All they NEED is to know is that you dont support it. Heres some talking points if desired tho:

www.congress.gov/members/find...

Deleted some misinfo. Apparently Twitch doesn’t have ad preferences, just sponsor preferences. Sorry.

Regardless if you get a military recruitment ad or an ICE ad, report the ad. Fuck ICE.

Ps. Twitch does not allow any control over the ADs that are played. Streamers can choose to run midroll ads or not. Preroll ads always have the chance to play, it's a random chance unless you sub or use their dedicated service (forget the real name)

let's quote this with something helpful for creators instead, since they do have very little control.

Youtubers: Studio - Earn - Watch Page ADs - Ad Categories - Manage - Block Politics + Law & Government (most likely to have ICE ads)

More Tips in Comments 🧵 [ ICE ADs Resource ]

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

Almost half of Americans would
Struggle to afford an unexpected $500 expense.

Almost half.

25% have skipped meals just to make ends meet.

This is what the average American is going through while the rich get even richer

wanted to express this visually

REPORT THEIR DISCORD TOO IF YOU CAN

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team

Please You need to take actions about this issue, multiple accounts has been lost due to this attack.

To everyone, check your security, use everything that at least can make difficult to access to your account.

Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI

threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

I've come to the decision to delete the video. I will not be covering Deltarune songs in the future.

Hey so there's a scam on bluesky going around:

IF SOMEONE DMs YOU SAYING YOU ARE BEING IMPERSONATED

DISREGARD IT

THE PERSON MESSAGING YOU HAS BEEN HACKED AND IS TRYING TO GET YOUR ACCOUNT.

THEY WILL TRY TO GET YOU TO CHANGE YOUR ACCOUNT EMAIL.

AGAIN, THIS IS A SCAM.

Real quick PSA in light of the uproar.

Don't forget you can DETACH yourself from someone quote posting you here.

So, if someone is trying to start something or dogpile you, you can detach yourself so they no longer have your post on their TL and then block.

It's another great privacy feature.

"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you

I found her gofundme! She's already raised 41.5k of her 45k goal for gas, vehicle maintenance, phone/internet costs (for posting the videos), food and supply drives for the community, and emergency funds in case she gets into legal trouble:

too late i ate the nearest usb cable while you weren't looking

what if i ever so slightly nudged the drawing tablet so it looks like it didn't move but you just felt like something was off and you can't figure out why

a person is holding a piece of paper with the word spadder on it ALT: a person is holding a piece of paper with the word spadder on it

LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR MASTERCARD’S CEO

STEP 1: CALL +1 914 249 2000
STEP 2: TYPE 0
STEP 3: TYPE 6432224#
STEP 4: TYPE 1

Congratulations, and have fun calling the executive who matters most in this Steam / itchio censorship situation

Sign the Petition Stop Bill S-209’s De-Anonymization of Every Canadian Adult

It was only a matter of time, but Canada has joined the censorship bandwagon with Bill S-209.

Sign the petition, call your MPs, raise hell.

www.change.org/p/stop-bill-...

(late) happy birthday @fattyisfearful.bsky.social

#gardevoir

#SaveSpeech

its been a week, and while we cannot let up pressure on making phone calls, we need to start applying pressure elsewhere now as well!

PHASE 2: START MAILING PHYSICAL LETTERS

imgur: imgur.com/a/3pVupWQ

more comprehensive info can be found here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

Screenshot of my messages showing the scammer saying they found an impersonator of my account, and refusing to give details via bsky--instead insisting I should add them over discord.

same type of screenshot as before, except after I humorously responded to it, they blocked me.

PSA: Scam going around!! ⚠️
Got these two suspicious messages today within an hour of each other. Both seemed to be from followers of mine that got compromised. Don't get tricked, folks, if they can't send you the handle outright to find for yourself, it's clearly a scam.
#psa

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.