Chozo

No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.

I mean, it seems pretty clear that Luigi didn’t have a personal beef with Thompson directly, but moreso with the political system that allowed Thompson to thrive. I’m not really sure why saying this was politically-motivated is so divisive.

His manifesto suggests political motives more than personal ones.

Just for what it’s worth, you don’t need CSAM in the training material for a generative AI to produce CSAM. The models know what children look like, and what naked adults look like, so they can readily extrapolate from there.

The fact that you don’t need to actually supply any real CSAM to the training material is the reasoning being offered for supporting AI CSAM. It’s gross, but it’s also hard to argue with. We allow for all types of illegal subjects to be presented in porn; incest, rape, murder, etc. While most mainstream sites won’t allow those types of material, none of them are technically outlawed - partly because of freedom of speech and artistic expression and yadda yadda, but also partly because it all comes with the understanding that it’s a fake, made-for-film production and that nobody involved had their consent violated, so it’s okay because none of it was actually rape, incest, or murder. And if AI CSAM can be made without actually violating the consent of any real people, then what makes it different?

I don’t know how I feel about it, myself. The idea of “ethically-sourced” CSAM doesn’t exactly sit right with me, but if it’s possible to make it in a truly victimless manner, then I find it hard to argue outright banning something just because I don’t like it.

I’d “love” to see Trump run off a bridge.

Deny, deport, detain

Catchy phrase, I wonder how one might use it.

I think it’s fascinating. I don’t think it holds the same reverence as man-made art by any means, but I still find it impressive.

Ergorotic literature.

always give them a wide berth because there’s no way to know if they see you and they’ll often behave erratically and unpredictably in crosswalks

All of this applies to dealing with human drivers, too.

Seems like it would be pretty trivial to make a botnet that just went around blocking users from every new top comment/post. Even better if you just manually do it with that old, organic account you never got around to deleting. That would very easily cause a huge disruption for Reddit.

Congratulations, to all of our enemy nations.

I bet having sympathy for Palestinians constitutes sympathy for terrorists

This is exactly the argument they’re using against Mahmoud Khalil right now.

Erdogan is a dictator who has the power to block X altogether.

Does it really make a difference whether it’s Erdogan or Musk who silences these people?

This will likely get removed for not being a news story. Would be a good fit for [email protected], tho.

all data on plebbit is text-only, you cannot upload media.

I worry this still puts the “host” of a community at risk. In some jurisdictions, storing functional links to CSAM on your device, even in text form, is effectively the same thing as saving the actual media file locally. This means that a community admin would need to have some sort of system in place on their own machine to scan and remove those, which there doesn’t currently seem to be a mechanism in place to do automatically.

Right now, it seems like a lot more responsibility for the end-user when creating a community, as opposed to the relatively consequence-free route of creating a community on Lemmy/Reddit.

I really wish somebody would stop him.

hunter2

No. Fuck you for asking, Bradley Bartell.

Rick & Morty for me. I thought it’s a funny show, at least the first couple seasons I watched of it. I stopped watching it because of how obnoxious the fans are, actually ruining the show for me. It got to a point where I’d watch an episode, hear a joke get repeated, and think to myself “Oh great, this will be the line that I hear everybody saying for the next six months”, to the extent that I get distracted by my own annoyance. Now I have this mental association with the show and the fans and I just can’t stand to watch it anymore.

This was all before the shit with Roiland came out, for what it’s worth. But that’s another reason I struggle to enjoy the show anymore.

What exactly makes this method “legal” compared to other DRM-stripping processes? As far as I can tell, it’s the same thing as “illegal” DRM-stripping methods, just done manually.

A plane can’t stop flying without hitting the ground

Totally unrelated to the thread, but this reminded me of Special To Hollywood, a really interesting short radio play from the 40s, about a plane that mysteriously becomes suspended in the air while the passengers and crew freak out trying to comprehend what’s happening. It’s a sort of surrealist horror story that I think was actually pretty ahead of its time.

Somehow, as a kid I ended up with a collection of cassette tapes of these Lights Out radio shows. They were all pretty basic, Twilight Zone-y stories, but this one always stood out to me. You made me remember that, so I just wanted to share this weird little story.