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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

A new California law will effectively ban officers from questioning the families of people killed by police before alerting them to the news of their loved one's death.

This practice was popularized by Lexipol, the nation’s largest developer of law enforcement policy manuals. 🧵

California cops can no longer conceal police killings while interrogating loved ones for dirt

A Reveal investigation helped spark a crackdown on a disturbing, widespread practice.

www.motherjones.com

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Choco Spice @chocotaurnsfw.bsky.social · 10h

I had my little theory that the war on porn games/art/writing was, in part, to try to make AI scraping easier, but now I can add "it was astroturfing to take out the ethical, artisanal, actually artistic competition."

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 13h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 13h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 2d

"You act like not using AI makes you superior to me!"

Yes i do. I very much do consider myself superior in skill and creativity than you will ever be.

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 5h

how it feels to get insurance to cover my lifesaving medicine every few months

nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · 5h

[to mafia thugs extorting me in a “protection” racket] excuse me, but you took an oath to protect me

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Kara Transit Authority @stormykara.bsky.social · 5h

Is it a good thing if you have to clarify which car crash and chemical attack performed by the federal government against its own people you’re talking about

(No, no it’s not)

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

This post was written before today's car crash and chemical attack. Was referring to the preceding car crashes and chemical attacks.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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Nick Calandra @nickjcal.bsky.social · 11h

Still a lot of people that seemingly don’t know we’re all @secondwindgroup.com now making the best stuff we’ve ever made.

There’s literally nobody left working on video at the old site.

Just a dead brand being used for name recognition for gambling shit.

Nyek London @stupidhoroscope.bsky.social · 18h

Wow The Escapist sure is doing content these days, huh

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1d

reading the visual studio code patch notes is nuts because like 90% of it is AI shit every time any time i ever bother to check it. what about features that are useful like omggggg

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 6h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 7h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 7h

@GrayAthene
darkly funny that the media insists that only democrats have a problem with overly online staffers/ activists while ignoring the fact that ur average young republican is some groyper with a copy of bronze age pervert and porn on their hard drive that'd get you 20 to life

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 4h

“Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.”

Incredible, timeless advice.

Also; don’t. talk to cops. If you get arrested, shut the fuck up.

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

free speech is dead

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 4h

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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bitch princess of everything (batty) @batshaped.bsky.social · Dec 8

analyzing media is not about being Correct, it's not about getting it Right by beaming a psychic ray into the author's mind. it's about discovering what's meaningful in the media to YOU and learning about yourself. if the author sees it they might even learn something about THEMself. very magical

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bitch princess of everything (batty) @batshaped.bsky.social · Dec 8

coming back to add: "sometimes the curtains were just blue" annoys the fuck outta me bc OH NO, what's the WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN if you assign unintended meaning to an story element. ENRICHING THE EXPERIENCE FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS?? DISCOVERING A TRUTH ABOUT YOURSELF VIA YOUR OWN POWER OF THOUGHT???

bitch princess of everything (batty) @batshaped.bsky.social · Dec 3

this is great to remember not only as a writer, but as a consumer of media. when you find yourself getting annoyed at a story for a character doing something that "makes no sense," give yourself a richer experience instead by asking what might that say about the character, the story, and its themes?

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 3h

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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Jazzy Oliver - Voice Actress @ladyjazzington.bsky.social · 4d

BUT HEY!

THAT'S JUST A Segway to remind you that the FNAF creator/this movie's screenwriter, Scott Cawthon, donates the money he makes from FNAF stuff to far right politicians, many of whom are currently trying to make things worse for everyone, specifically trans people. Don't support this film.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 4d

MatPat has been cast as Toy Bonnie in ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’

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Doruk Golcu @dorukgolcu.bsky.social · Aug 5

If you see this, post a sword! 🗡️

Vampire with shiny sword, surrounded by bats

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 5h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 11h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 13h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Saul T @sault.bsky.social · 55m

Remnant 2
I went in with no expectations and I came out with no satisfaction. It's hard to really say anything about it, as it's not even adventurously bad. It's just boring.

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 7h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 13h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 13h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 3h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 3h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.