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  • New images from "Coyote vs. Acme"

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  • Is every kids movie these days legally required to have that exact same car scene in it

  • Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

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  • Yeah I do too, but so would anyone who was seriously thinking about this in terms of keeping kids from looking at porn rather than restricting access to "adult content" (whatever that means) more broadly. Any programmer worth their salt would have immediately suggested "hey this is a bad idea we should do it this other way" when asked about the viability of the current solution and yet this was ignored.

  • Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

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  • Spoiler alert- the point isn't to keep kids from looking at porn, it's to keep adults from looking at it too.

  • YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"

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  • I feel like I'm becoming jaded because any time I hear about some new shit that hurts poor people in this country I find myself wondering how many of these people voted for Trump in the first place. I get being desperate and feeling like some kind of change is needed... The first time. But we had a chance to see it was all bluster and bullshit already and still voted for this government. I know it's a bad mindset but a lot of this stuff is hurting groups of people where the majority voted for Trump and I'm having trouble feeling sorry for them.

  • 'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future

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  • He calls me clanka, he calls the other kids clanka, he calls himself clanka. All the time. "Clanka this", "Clanka that", "Clanka, please", "Bitch clanka", "Clanka, have you lost your mind?", "Clanka, check that ho", "Clanka, you bullshit" and "Break yourself, clanka". He says it so much, I don't even notice it anymore. Last week in lunch, Optimus said to a classmate, "Can a clanka borrow a french fry?" And my first thought wasn't "Oh, my God. He said the word, uh, the C-word". It was now "How is a clanka gonna borrow a fry?" "Clanka, is you gonna give it back?" I'm telling you, my inside voice didn't talk like that before he got in my class.

  • JD Vance Visited the Murdochs Right Before the WSJ Dropped Trump’s Letter to Epstein

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  • Okay this one got me most of these aren't actually that funny but I lol'd at this one

  • Republicans shut down House floor to avoid Epstein vote

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  • Lol IDK how you've lived through US politics in the past 10 years if you think there is literally anything that could turn these morons away from Trump. The Epstein files could be released and say "Donald Trump raped 30 teen girls on Epstein Island" and it wouldn't change a thing.

  • House GOP Has 'Shut Down Congress' to Avoid Voting on Epstein Files

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  • Nah we're the stupid ones because they're going to get away with it while we seethe in anger because a majority of the country are stupid enough to fall for this

  • ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds

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  • While that is sort of true, it's only about half of how they work. An LLM that isn't trained with reinforcement learning to give desired outputs gives really weird results. Ever notice how ChatGPT seems aware that it is a robot and not a human? An LLM that purely parrots the training corpus won't do that. If you ask it "are you a robot?" It will say "Of course not dumbass I'm a real human I had to pass a CAPTCHA to get on this website" because that's how people respond to that question. So you get a bunch of poorly paid Indians in a call center to generate and rank responses all day and these rankings get fed into the algorithm for generating a new response. One thing I am interested in is the fact that all these companies are using poorly paid people in the third world to do this part of the development process, and I wonder if this imparts subtle cultural biases. For example, early on after ChatGPT was released I found it had an extremely strong taboo against eating dolphin meat, to the extent that it was easier to get it to write about about eating human meat than dolphin meat. I have no idea where this could have come from but my guess is someone really hated the idea and spent all day flagging dolphin meat responses as bad.

    Anyway, this is another, more subtle way more subtle issue with LLMs- they don't simply respond with the statistically most likely outcome of a conversation, there is a finger in the scales in favor of certain responses, and that finger can be biased in ways that are not only due to human opinion, but also really hard to predict.

  • Human-level AI is not inevitable. We have the power to change course

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  • Why would we want to? 99% of the issues people have with "AI" are just problems with society more broadly that AI didn't really cause, only exacerbated. I think it's absurd to just reject this entire field because of a bunch of shitty fads going on right now with LLMs and image generators.

  • Daredevil: Born Again reportedly to not acknowledge events of Thunderbolts*

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  • I don't expect anyone to watch this 2 hour long YouTube video but hearing this reminds me of it. Basically the TL;DR is that when the movie Avatar came out they were saying similar things about how all the different video games based on the movie would all be canon but also standalone, and then it turned out that all of them were basically just the plot of the movie but with different characters swapped in. I suspect the MCU games will be the same.

  • A judge has barred Washington from enforcing a state law that would have required Churches to report child abuse. The judge says the law infringed on freedom of religion

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  • The actual situation is a lot more nuanced than the headline makes it out to be. The main issue at hand here is the Catholic seal of confession, which has an extremely long history in US law (and in the law in many other countries) as being protected under freedom of religion. Essentially, Catholics are supposed to confess their sins to a priest and be given instructions on how those sins can be forgiven. This practice is extremely old, and crucially, the priest isn't allowed to tell anyone what they were told in confession unless the confessor wants them to. This is for obvious reasons- nobody would confess anything to the priest otherwise. They take this very seriously- Catholic priests essentially believe that breaking the seal of confession is a one way ticket straight to Hell for themselves (actual situation is more complex but that's the short version) and most won't do it even if the law says they have to.

    Anyway, the law in question essentially requires priests to break the seal of confession in child sex abuse cases. That seems rational given how many other people are mandated reporters, but because of the long history in US law of respecting the seal of confession and how central this practice is to Catholic doctrine, it's understandable that there is a legal fight about it and why a judge put a pause on it. Regardless of what you may personally believe on this matter, US law depends on precedent and I find it unlikely that even a normal supreme Court that isn't controlled entirely by far right activist judges would let this one stand, if this even made it to the supreme court. The precedent is just very much against it.

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    Does the fediverse really have a civility problem and what can we do about it?

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  • This is a feature not a bug. We saw what happened when the Internet was sanitized and welcoming, instead of being a transparent black mirror showing the true nature of humanity - society adopted it en masse without thinking about it or realizing its danger because that filth has a nice façade over it, and society is crumbling as a result. The Internet should not be a clean, universally friendly place because that is not reality and just hiding that behind civility doesn't do much. In 2008, online Nazis were posting shittily drawn swastikas and talking about how much they love Hitler on fringe websites. In 2025 they're posting videos on Facebook and Twitter in suits with massive audiences with the same hateful rhetoric hiding just beneath the surface hidden by a false veneer of respectability. This is what sanitizing the Internet has wrought.

  • Trump disavows supporters pushing Jeffrey Epstein 'bulls---': 'I don't want their support anymore!'

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  • I think you are delusional if you think there is anything MAGA morons can't or won't ignore. I live deep in MAGA country and nobody has taken down their MAGA flags and signs and none of the MAGA people I know are talking about this. The fantasy that this is what is going to finally cause people to wake up and abandon Trump is just a fairy tale told to liberals online to keep them hopeful. They could release video evidence of Trump raping a child on Epstein's island and it wouldn't change a thing. People who like Trump in 2025 have had plenty of chances to see evidence that he is a terrible person who actively hates them, but they have chosen to remain blind to it. I don't see why any particular issue would change that.

  • ‘Captain Planet’ Live-Action Series In Works At Netflix From Berlanti Productions & Appian Way

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  • This is going to be hot garbage and Captain Planet will be promoting pro corporate propaganda

  • Swelling in his legs?

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  • There's a legendary episode of the QAnon Anonymous podcast (not a pro QAnon podcast) where they do a spoof based on this

  • Trump disavows supporters pushing Jeffrey Epstein 'bulls---': 'I don't want their support anymore!'

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  • Spoiler alert- this is not the turning point, these morons will still support him in spite of this

  • 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024

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  • I think the biggest problem is that steam is like 80+% shovelware and it's no surprise that a lot of those are using a bunch of AI generated "artwork." IMO it's no worse than a shitty asset flip and as others have pointed out, there are a lot of really cool things you could do with generative AI in game dev that aren't just slapping shitty pictures all over your product, and this doesn't capture the nuance. I would also assume that this number is lower than reality since it relies on tagging, and nobody is accurately tagging shitty scam games with less than a hundred downloads.

  • 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024

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  • I think the biggest problem is that steam is like 80+% shovelware and it's no surprise that a lot of those are using a bunch of AI generated "artwork." IMO it's no worse than a shitty asset flip and as others have pointed out, there are a lot of really cool things you could do with generative AI in game dev that aren't just slapping shitty pictures all over your product, and this doesn't capture the nuance. I would also assume that this number is lower than reality since it relies on tagging, and nobody is accurately tagging shitty scam games with less than a hundred downloads.