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These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

This narrative that ICE has "backed off" Chicago persists despite a flood of bystander video and reports showing an unprecedented and growing wave of masked terrorists violently kidnapping Illinoisians off the streets in Chicago.

I can only assume our media ecosystem is to blame for this.

The internet was never a perfect place, but at least a lot of these media companies gave a darn about kids and gave them safe, fun spaces to be fully entertained online.

Alas, this generation will never have that experience. Maybe those that had these places will bring them back for the next one.

I would very much like things in the world to get better now

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

Glad it's actually different designs and not just "Generation Xerox" copies of the champions, like their bodies are.

Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...

It should be an active choice, not baked in, as it were.

Been loving all the fun art I've seen people doodle for this, I just did a really scrappy SOUL.

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Driving the news: The AI Accountability and Personal Data Protection Act is rolling out after a hearing where Hawley accused companies including Meta and OpenAI of pirating vast droves of protected works. It would: Bar AI companies from training on copyrighted works. Allow people to sue to sue for use of their personal data or copyrighted works without giving consent. Require companies to disclose which third parties will be given access to data if consent is given. Provide for financial penalties and injunctive relief as remedies. What they're saying: "AI companies are robbing the American people blind while leaving artists, writers, and other creators with zero recourse," Hawley said in a statement. "It's time for Congress to give the American worker their day in court to protect their personal data and creative works." Blumenthal: "Tech companies must be held accountable—and liable legally—when they breach consumer privacy, collecting, monetizing or sharing personal information without express consent."

⭐ [US] Bipartisan bill S.1993 was introduced to protect artists and limit generative AI training.

If you want to ask your senator to cosponsor, here's a link to the text of the bill:
www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...

Pauline is making me hope the next Zelda will return to have a companion, and with actual voice acting instead of Sim-lish.

r/technology Al's Biggest Threat: Young People W... 4.3k upvotes + 442 comments | recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using ai, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that chatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realize that they should not use it as a primary source.

That's 5D-educational chess.

#FuckGenAI #ChatGPT #GenAIsucksCamelDong

I feel like we owe Kojima an apology because he’s like “This is my villain, Corrupto Moneyguy. He controls the media and eats children.” As it turns out, this is a nuanced and accurate view of global politics.

I know it's heartbreaking and discouraging when ICE succeeds in kidnapping someone despite the neighborhood showing up.

But people showing up, delaying them, making ICE waste half their shift, is still an effective nonviolent organizing tactic especially at scale.

The machine can be slowed down.

If you take anything away from my post, I hope it's this:

More generally, magic "knows" the same way magic would exist in the first place, the caster has the magic act that way through whatever catalyst the world has for casting. Know the correct spell, have the knowledge to focus magic more specifically, etc.

And take the recent BG3, that had a parasite infection be the main plot point. So the parasite was specifically called out as being magically tampered so that removal = death of the host. So the plot is partially about circumventing that.

Dnd, as an easy example, has most parasite style infections only cured by specific spells, not just anything that restores HP. Plus such spells are generally only learned by the "holy" types, restricting the access further.

It's not like magic is blasting x-rays, magic can be written to affect specific things. And if it feels cheap, make the ability to do such focus a difficult trained skill; so that you would still need to see a trained specialist and not just any noob who can cast dancing lights.

Either it dies and the body still has to expel it, or the magic also destroys the parasite itself. Writers choice based on if they want the logistics to matter for the story.

Germs and viruses are both caused by physical "things" so it stands to reason magic that can "cure" ailments caused by those can take care of a parasitic infection. The specifics of how would just depend on the setting.

It really can't be stated enough how the AI craze is rooted deeply in utter vitriolic disrespect for the working class. Like I've seen multiple cases of this tech being marketed directly on sticking it to us filthy poors who want things like "benefits" and "fair pay for our labor"

Just explicitly not true.
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"X" Thread on how the timeline confusion came from Miyamoto saying things in interviews despite his general lack of care for story.

This is so bad. If they actually do, it'd mean so many games would no longer be made. It'd stop Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games as Kadokawa own Spike Chunsoft

Consolidation of the industry is bad. The fact we have people continually championing and saying one company should buy another is madness.