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The Problem With Young Men is that they don't have 24/7 wake island bf1942 64 player servers where they can healthily engage with peers and mentors

thebeemagazine.com/terminus/

who told him about k-dramas

When you buy groceries, who benefits more, you or the supermarket? It's... sort of a weird question, isn't it?

the worst part of being DOGE’d is needing to explain the entire meme history to your parents when they ask why the hell you were laid off

There is some good news. Like Mr. Rogers says, look to the helpers, such as @teslatakedown.com. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The use of Mozilla's "do not track" feature was apparently, instead, *Able To Be Used As A Metric By Which To Track People*. Y'know, eventually my brain is just going to flash boil and shoot out my ears as steam like I'm a cartoon.

There is another batch of bad abortion-related opsec advice going around, so I'm just going to link to Digital Defense Fund's guide to abortion privacy, which is realistic, practical, and explicit in its threat models: digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/a...

This is some great forensics work

I think about this a lot www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-jonath...

reposting from the other site: am i insane, or did google get a ton of flack for doing p much exactly this in like 2017 www.adexchanger.com/ai/yahoos-ne...

reposting from the other site: am i insane, or did google get a ton of flack for doing p much exactly this in like 2017

The best thing about America is all the freedom. You can also have the opportunity to get health care if you just file a lawsuit and a judge hears your case and decides in your favor.

a loophole is a small hole in a wall you can shoot arrows through. a gaping loophole would be counterproductive for the purposes of having a loophole.

Five years ago today, Jews were murdered at a Pittsburgh synagogue just a few days after an avid Trump supporter was caught sending pipe bombs to the array of political figures who topped Trump’s oft repeated list of “enemies of the people.”

[patrick voice] who are you people????????

Note that it's Franzen, George RR Martin, and <authors> taking legal action against LLMs training on their work. It's not publishers. Publishers are staying silent and biding their time. Authors and publishers' interests are NOT aligned on generative AI, just as actors and studios aren't.

notice how all the AI is designed to replicate creative talents instead of the menial tasks of the people who get rich by exploiting them