Ragnar the Science Fury

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.

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)

This.... this isn't what you do to someone who volunteered for almost 10 years.

My art is "not on par"

I give up. This year has been so horrible, one after another. This was the last slap in the face I can take.

Con name redacted.

The Steam Machine Has Been Delayed Because Stupid Little Babies Can't Stop Using AI To Write Their Emails 'The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing'

Dude

The guy that wrote this news article was fucking DONE

aftermath.site/steam-machin...

Furries have already achieved the dream of every shit silicon valley technology and in a more ethical and less cringe way

The metaverse: VRChat
NFTs: adoptable fursonas
Typing words into a text box and having art appear: commissions

Finally some quality content to start posting on Bsky

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Just got into a car accident. Am physically unharmed but because the airbags deployed the vehicle is currently out of use.

Any help you can give us would be so immensely appreciated right now.

Everyone please if you can help donate we might need a whole new car and we still need to move everything just been piling up we could use the extra help please

Every major website/company now: Yeah if we find out you post or look at a boob we will freeze all your accounts without warning
The CEO of every major website/company over Gmail: Oh Jeffrey you are simply a hoot. Lovely spending time with you on Party Pervert Pedo Island
Jeffrey Epstein: yeag ,

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TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list.

They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.

Keep it up. Delete ur tiktok accounts. Uninstall the tiktok app. For your own safety

Maxx failed Portal test chamber 00.

marketing email from Greyhound with subject line "Want a weekend adventure to brag about?"

NO

Another Cozy Toothless
#art #plush #needlefelting #Toothless

Once again, the fact that we are betraying the Danes & have betrayed the Canadians - quite, literally, the closest of our closest treaty allies - this way is a national shanda that should have immediately ended this presidency a year ago & should immediately end it now.

Skeb thanks!!

A Senator makes a truthful statement, protected by First Amendment and Speech/Debate Clause, and gets investigated by DOJ.

An ICE agent shoots and kills an unarmed mom, and they won’t even cooperate with local law enforcement.

WILL CAIN: I'd be careful if I were you. I believe you're liable for defamation


MAXWELL FROST: I am not going to be careful in terms of calling out what so many people saw. Renee Nicole Good did not get the due process she deserves.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

no i'm going to be honest with you, that ICE agent didn't kill Renee Nicole Good to distract you from the Epstein files. they didn't kidnap Maduro to distract anyone from Epstein. they are doing these things as steps towards real, terrible, and very well signposted goals.

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I know this is corny to say but this is the real America, man. This is what it’s all about. This is what those freaks are trying to destroy & we won’t let them

"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

Having trouble doing anything else, so had to write out how fucking angry I am about what happened yesterday and how the MAGA world is trying to rewrite the story.

Ensure Americans have health insurance and don't get murdered by the Trump administration would be the most popular legislation passed out of the house in half a decade and it's completely off the table.

You will never be pure enough. You will never be clean enough. A certain kind of person will try to bludgeon you to death with the bar of acceptability regardless of what you make or post.

So make or post whatever you want.