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This is Trump's bordar czar, admitting that ICE arrests aren't done because of any crime
MSNBC: Does everyone who has been arrested by ICE agents have a criminal record?

TOM HOMAN: Absolutely not.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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hello, do you have an original xbox laying around?
you should run XCAT on it!
OG Xbox archival news!
The last missing Title Update for Project: Snowblind has been found. This game's XBL content is now fully archived!

5 PAL region DLC unlocks for Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix also found!

Thank you zeealucard!

Keep rocking consolemods.org/XCAT
XCAT
Xbox Content Archive Tool (XCAT) is a utility that runs directly on an Xbox console to assist in finding unarchived DLC and other lost content. When the application is run, It will scan the Xbox hard ...
consolemods.org
August 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Good morning
August 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
damn, I struggle with the social interaction of saying bye for no reason and I can't express my condolences well or sincerely enough
August 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Zaza got me feeling like everything gonna be alright
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Why am I retracting away from everybody? Why am I shutting myself in from the world?
August 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Please please please please please please please please I need this so bad

Imagine if a major AI company went down AND every struggling artist received $100k

It's enough to almost start hoping again
I believe they call this "finding out" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
August 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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thats fundamentally how rightoids and maga dipshits kept winning so much despite being numerically unpopular. They raised their voices and caused a stink while normal people never so much as send an email.

yelling at your reps to stop being dipshits genuinely has to become part of your life routine
August 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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July 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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This is not how corporations respond to an ineffective protest. This is how they respond to a protest that they would like to have go away.

So don't let it go away. Keep it going.

In fact, Streissand Effect this shit. Call attention to how much they want this to go away.
August 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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August 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Keep calling your Congressmen about stopping KOSA and SCREEN dead in their tracks.

Keep calling Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Stripe.
See OMB director Russell Vought, core to Project 2025, arguing for a national ban on pornography by starting with state ID laws. There's a clear national interest in attacking pornography from someone *within the Trump administration*

theintercept.com/2024/08/16/p...
Project 2025 Co-Author Caught Admitting the Secret Conservative Plan to Ban Porn
In a hidden-camera recording, Russ Vought explains that age verification laws are just pretext to shut down porn sites.
theintercept.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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it's a day that ends with y which means it's a great time to yellat.money
Protect Queer Creators and Sex Workers - Tell Payment Processors to STOP
TELL VISA, MASTERCARD, STRIPE, and PayPal to STOP
yellat.money
August 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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The article links to this page & creator:

ache.one/notes/html_z...

You will need some programming experience to get it running, but it won’t need any maitenance beyond that point.
August 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Blow those AI farms up
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...
August 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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dude, your soda and your boots rock
August 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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August 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Just realized the nice part of having a durable phone is that when my alarm *rudely* wakes me up in the morning I can bash that shit with my fist before turning it off
August 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I firmly believe it's not just about killing media and economies, it's about discouraging people from having media literacy, pursuing art, or having passions that don't revolve around being a wage slave dedicated to the fascist state.
the simple, unavoidable, ugly truth is that AI companies are killing the media industry: they're destroying the revenue streams of news, of publishers, of nonfiction titles - and this loss will impoverish the world and their own products www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The End of Publishing as We Know It
Inside Silicon Valley’s assault on the media
www.theatlantic.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Apparently ICE is about to start putting out ads on platforms?

If these ads come to Twitch, here's a (hopefully) handy tip when one comes on:
1. Click the gear icon, bottom right of the player.
2. Click "Report Playback Issue".
3. Select this option.

Hopefully this will work!
August 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
honestly, the only way google should've added AI should have been a drop-down tab that could give you more effectively worded searches. might not even have needed to be AI
August 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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so glad this is being said by a bigger voice in the music scene because it really sucks to see so many ppl lob vsynth software under a genAI umbrella just because it uses the phrase "AI"
Synthesizer V uses AI vocal synthesis, but it’s not generative AI like ChatGPT or Midjourney. It creates voice from written input using licensed voice models, with full consent from the voice providers.
August 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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조금 수정하고 냐미까지 그렸당 끝

#popn_art
August 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM