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HEY GANG - DID YOU KNOW THAT NVIDIA JUST PUT ALL OUR GPUS INTO REMOTE ACCESS MODE FOR SLOP AGENTS TO CONNECT TO? NVIDIA APP > SETTINGS > FEATURES > ALLOW AGENT ACCESS > OFF TURN THAT SHIT OFF

re: the elon and JFK jr comments today the more these people see heinous statements go completely unpunished and unconfronted, the increasingly fucked up their statements will become. It's the same tried and tested groomer pipeline: every time you do a little worse, pushing a little farther

If Americans need our little southern recipe for how to defeat fascism it goes like this: - Put people in the streets by standing for popular demands (wages, healthcare, public services) - Do not engage with fascists online - Do not succumb to doomsayers or media-driven narratives - Be happy

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Oh fuck yeah two good things in one night!

A better world is possible. But if voting alone could bring it to bare, the forces enriched by the plight of the now would never allow you to do it. Lose? Organise. Win? Organise.

BOY WOULD WE LIKE TO

Something I wish more people would realize.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

this is beyond fucked whether you follow any SW's or not, the fact that you are even on this platform is thanks in a large part to the SW community driving traffic in the early days. SW and trans people helped Bluesky win the clone war, and the leadership has done nothing but fuck them over since.

Live footage of my coworkers clapping for new AI tool roll outs on the all hands meeting.

Sony over here trying to kill all physical media and all ownership on all forms of media, not just videogames. This is why I decided to cancel my Cruncyroll subscription and delete my account. People aren't mad enough over what Sony is trying to do to every media pie they have put their finger on.

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

I was sexually abused as a child. I'm not the only person I know who can say that. If I'd been forced to let ANYONE perform that sort of examination in order to play sports, a thing children need for health--both physical and mental? I am not unique. Vote no on unnecessarily traumatizing our kids.

It would be lovely if the video games industry would let the people who make the games buy food

There is genuine public rage about Musk, which is what Congress is responding to, so when he says he will come for the people pulling the strings, he means the voters.

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

Consolidation is killing our industry. The Gamergaters who make money off the rage game will have you think this is a victory. This is purely a loss. A loss of work and art and fun and expression in a space that desperately needs it. Massive fucking bummer.

Logically I understand that it’s been six years since the launch of the PS5 and Series X so it makes sense for talk of next gen consoles. But also like even if you disregard the absurd electronic prices these days, it just doesn’t feel like consoles games have done anything to necessitate an upgrade

If our system of justice can determine that shooting a one year-old is justified, then we do not have a system of justice, and our goal should be the eradication of the system we have and its replacement with something better.

Given that golf courses take up a bunch of land and resources, benefit only the wealthy, and historically bar minorities, this is really the Republican party distilled down to it essence.

Stfu @bsky.app

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

The Superman No Smoking Ad, but I lost the audio track and dubbed it from memory

if ppl actually gave a fuck about real incest theyd put money and resources into support systems for victims to speak up (victims usually dont speak up bc they will lose their support system) but ig thatd require too much caring and help for other ppl and not enough emotionally satisfying punishment

Trump pardoned a foreign billionaire indicted for bribery. Months earlier, the billionaire’s daughter donated $1.5M to Trump’s super PAC and pledged $2.5M to his ballroom project. Could Trump’s pay-to-pardon scheme get any more corrupt? https://youtu.be/NflcWXdV-B0?si=icf49apE-up1x1xV

Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now.

PSA: The latest NVIDIA App update adds a Default-ON option that allows AI Agents to control the app... Might want to turn it off.. Even aside from being lame AI features, that feels like making security even worse by defaulting it ON.

The Ilhan Omar stuff is grotesque and feels worthy of impeachment by itself

fucking finally

President Trump and the Republicans had a two year romp through every political fantasy nourished in their heart since The John Birch Society and Richard Nixon, and you know what: it turns out their ideas were bad and are tanking the economy.

Jury duty on my birthday? This gift sucks.

Happy indigenous peoples day!