Mxsty
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The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
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NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it
A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230.
No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech.
We can't let this happen. Share & take action
www.badinternetbills.com
A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230.
No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech.
We can't let this happen. Share & take action
www.badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
www.badinternetbills.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it
A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230.
No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech.
We can't let this happen. Share & take action
www.badinternetbills.com
A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230.
No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech.
We can't let this happen. Share & take action
www.badinternetbills.com
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Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
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Fascism in general is obsessed with aesthetics above all else, because aesthetics dictate reality for them. They will actively make themselves less capable in the name of looking the exact image they desire to project, and angering the exact people they want to anger.
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Fascism in general is obsessed with aesthetics above all else, because aesthetics dictate reality for them. They will actively make themselves less capable in the name of looking the exact image they desire to project, and angering the exact people they want to anger.
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whomst amongst us
October 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
whomst amongst us
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Anyway, the tl;dr to take away from all this is a thing I have been repeating for ages, which is that extremism symbols function on a plausible-deniability basis. People who use them 100% rely on normal people going "I had no idea, so maybe he didn't either."
October 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Anyway, the tl;dr to take away from all this is a thing I have been repeating for ages, which is that extremism symbols function on a plausible-deniability basis. People who use them 100% rely on normal people going "I had no idea, so maybe he didn't either."
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it's 2025, the most popular form of political activism is finding whatever movie or comic or game or tv show that tells you you're doing things right and there's no need to change and then make sure the parent company that made it has a good financial year
October 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
it's 2025, the most popular form of political activism is finding whatever movie or comic or game or tv show that tells you you're doing things right and there's no need to change and then make sure the parent company that made it has a good financial year
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The sci-fi setting of Neurocracy posits exactly this scenario: brain implants are initially trained on neural data from a subset of society, so getting them to work requires us to think in ways characteristic of that subset, installing biases directly in our minds and fostering a mental monoculture
Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate
and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death
and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death
This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI
A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up.
www.technologyreview.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The sci-fi setting of Neurocracy posits exactly this scenario: brain implants are initially trained on neural data from a subset of society, so getting them to work requires us to think in ways characteristic of that subset, installing biases directly in our minds and fostering a mental monoculture
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It is far too easy to get lost in the minutia of the world you’re crafting and never get around to actually #writing stories. @docseuss.bsky.social has good advice on how to keep this from happening.
‘lore’ is a trap and will kill your story if you let it. so what can we do about it?
This is not an essay about lore. I mean, it is, sure. We discuss lore, what it is, how to best use it, and how it can trap you into writing…
docseuss.medium.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It is far too easy to get lost in the minutia of the world you’re crafting and never get around to actually #writing stories. @docseuss.bsky.social has good advice on how to keep this from happening.
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no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask
October 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask
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What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody
State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.
gothamist.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
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oh shit cultural monopoly by giant companies isn't the territory to be won but a monster that squats on it????
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
oh shit cultural monopoly by giant companies isn't the territory to be won but a monster that squats on it????
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the cool thing about going after leftist media outlets is that there already aren't any
September 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
the cool thing about going after leftist media outlets is that there already aren't any
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Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents
September 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
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everyone in the media who doesn’t work for 404, Wired or similar needs to log off their own accounts and go check their sons’ browsing history bc the abysmal level of gamer understanding happening here is giving “wouldn’t spot a mass shooting being planned in their own home”
September 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
everyone in the media who doesn’t work for 404, Wired or similar needs to log off their own accounts and go check their sons’ browsing history bc the abysmal level of gamer understanding happening here is giving “wouldn’t spot a mass shooting being planned in their own home”
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this is less “the years of lead” and more “that period in the 1400s where italy was the most violent place on earth because everyone was mad at each other for some reason and also you could make a gun out of random stuff in your backyard”
September 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
this is less “the years of lead” and more “that period in the 1400s where italy was the most violent place on earth because everyone was mad at each other for some reason and also you could make a gun out of random stuff in your backyard”
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“Editing according to traffic is not editing; it’s engineering.” tell them, david remnick!! nymag.com/intelligence...
Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?
The grim calculations involved in publishing traditional written reviews.
nymag.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“Editing according to traffic is not editing; it’s engineering.” tell them, david remnick!! nymag.com/intelligence...
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It’s so embarrassing when ppl say HP was important to their childhood so they can’t let it go. Did it open a love of books & you went on to devour millions more books? Or is it just that you took one step into total brand capture before your brain was fully formed & even now you wish to remain
September 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It’s so embarrassing when ppl say HP was important to their childhood so they can’t let it go. Did it open a love of books & you went on to devour millions more books? Or is it just that you took one step into total brand capture before your brain was fully formed & even now you wish to remain
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Reminder that the idea of the personal carbon footprint was peddled by the fossil fuel industry in order to obfuscate their role in climate change
How do I feel about air conditioning? I’m very hot – but it’s destroying the planet | Emma Beddington
How do I feel about air conditioning? I’m very hot – but it’s destroying the planet | Emma Beddington
Yes, temperatures are rising. But more and more AC means more and more CO2 – and then more and more global heating. Let’s have some long-term thinking instead, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddington
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Reminder that the idea of the personal carbon footprint was peddled by the fossil fuel industry in order to obfuscate their role in climate change
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this weekend, hideo kojima and a whole host of games industry luminaries will speak at the esports world cup's new global sport conference in riyadh, saudi arabia. they are doing this of their own free will and should be judged accordingly
August 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
this weekend, hideo kojima and a whole host of games industry luminaries will speak at the esports world cup's new global sport conference in riyadh, saudi arabia. they are doing this of their own free will and should be judged accordingly
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Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place.
I think it's possible that Trump's illegal invasion of DC will really in some sense "get rid of the tents." If that happens, elite commentators will rush to praise him and attribute it to the effectiveness of cruelty, and not to the fact that they spent millions of dollars per tent cleared.
August 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place.
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the thing about incarcerated trans people is that virtually no one will stand up for them & that’s fucking horrific because i literally cannot think of a worse place to be a trans person in america than prison.
if you’re cis you should read this.
trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.
if you’re cis you should read this.
trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.
Trans people in Georgia prisons are being forced to detransition. Now they're suing.
A class action lawsuit representing nearly 300 incarcerated people says the state's refusal to allow gender-affirming care constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
www.advocate.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
the thing about incarcerated trans people is that virtually no one will stand up for them & that’s fucking horrific because i literally cannot think of a worse place to be a trans person in america than prison.
if you’re cis you should read this.
trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.
if you’re cis you should read this.
trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.
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folks I think maybe the problem is tech companies blatantly ignoring copyright law and not libgen, the website that lets you pirate college textbooks
March 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
folks I think maybe the problem is tech companies blatantly ignoring copyright law and not libgen, the website that lets you pirate college textbooks
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Any time anyone brings up whatever new shit Meta is up to, I think it's important to remember this is the evolution of a system created to non-consensually compare the relative attractiveness of teenagers.
Everything follows from that.
Everything follows from that.
August 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Any time anyone brings up whatever new shit Meta is up to, I think it's important to remember this is the evolution of a system created to non-consensually compare the relative attractiveness of teenagers.
Everything follows from that.
Everything follows from that.