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Kim Wincen
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Law graduate (New Zealand), debt collector, former fraud investigator, huge nerd for all things story related (but also super cool), a man of semi-reasonable means and taste.
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Nick Calandra @nickjcal.bsky.social · 23h
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.
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Nyek London @stupidhoroscope.bsky.social · 1d
Wow The Escapist sure is doing content these days, huh
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 17h
Mind you the bill as is was trash and nonsense , but because Newsome has the moral fiber of blancmange

He manages to not elucidate the point well and making the correct choice sound like a capitulation to Capital rather than an actual policy choice that should lead to real legislation
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h
Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 17h
Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)
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Kim Wincen @wincenworks.bsky.social · 17h
Also worth noting this can easily run astray of regional content laws.

New Zealand, for instance, classifies content depicting the erotic enjoyment of urine as illegal in the same way CSAM is.

Australia's classification system is lol.

Good luck teaching ChatGPT to learn all the regional rules.
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d
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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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 18h
I can't believe we're still talking about this

aftermath.site/hasan-piker-...
hasan ranting while his dog, kaya, attempts to leave her spot
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 22h
Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d
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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Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns @osakanone.bsky.social · 19h
remigrate is not a dog whistle, and is open nazi language
Remigration Not to be confused with Return migration. Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing[1] via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.[2][3] It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement.[4][5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.[6][7][8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 17h
collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do
To be honest, I wouldn’t be mentioning this if not for the fact that it’s a microcosm of how online platforms work today: Somebody makes an accusation based on evidence that’s spurious at best, big names with something to gain (viewership or the downfall of a perceived enemy) uncritically boost it, internet sleuths obsessively piece together supporting evidence by amassing context-free clips and ignoring everything that doesn’t match their intended conclusion, and all of the aforementioned parties spread performatively apoplectic videos across Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and wherever else they can sucker in uninitiated normies. Some version of this happens every week – every day, on a smaller scale – without fail. It accomplishes nothing aside from giving the disaffected masses a brief glimmer of what feels like purpose, but is actually a bloodsucking waste of their precious time on this dying planet. And of course, it provides platforms with sweet, sweet engagement numbers. As a result, platforms will probably never intervene to disrupt this corrosive dynamic, which has broken the general public’s ability to perceive anything resembling objective reality, even as society collapses around them and people like Piker attempt to identify the real reasons why (hint: they don't involve dog collars). The internet has been like this at least since the Depp v. Heard trial, which wannabe sleuths similarly feasted on in 2022 while getting pretty much every important detail completely wrong. At least back then they were obsessing over something of consequence. Now they’ve taught viewers to regard every trumped-up non-issue they can surface with similar gravity.
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R. Eric VanNewkirk @sotsogm.bsky.social · 17h
Your regular reminder that what's behind the saying "a few rotten apples" isn't that a few rotten apples in a barrel is a small problem, it's that rotting apples generate chemicals that trigger identical reactions in adjacent apples, quickly spoiling the entire barrel.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.
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merritt @merrittk.com · 18h
when i was a kid we had two huge horse chestnut trees in our front yard and stomping on the pods to send the shiny little dudes inside flying is such a strongly engrained physical memory for me. this headline makes perfect sense, finding two inside is like a rare pull
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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 19h
Hi what
Headline: “nature’s labubu: why are gen z unboxing conkers?”
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 18h
Iterview MARTIN SHORT: Who's sexier, me or Steve Martin? DIANE KEATON: I mean, you're both idiots.
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Kim Wincen @wincenworks.bsky.social · 18h
Queerbait must hold some of record for going from valid and important call out of modern culture to... just degenerating into a random reason to justify raging at something unrelated.
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Freezer @freezer.bsky.social · 18h
Oh no someone told me they hate Nana for being "queerbait".

Look, you just can't respect two straight women that love eachother besties with the passion of a thousand suns. They long for each other and know their love is eternal cause they're just such good friends. What's not to get?
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Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 18h
"are trans women bourgeois" is a question so silly that karl marx made fun of it when he made the game disco elysium. it seems worthy only of dunking on, like the vagina bones tweet, or kurt eichenwald's hentai habit. alas, we live in a time when it must be rebuked with sincerity and truth.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 18h
Ha
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Hallow Knight Rayearth @sentient6.bsky.social · 20h
Loss meme but it’s Rogue and Gambit and Gail Simone saying no
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Kim Wincen @wincenworks.bsky.social · 18h
"We put some arbitrary limits on it to please the moral majority, and blamed those with mental illness. Now we know the moral majority are perverts in private and the software actually causes mental illness, we're taking all the guard rails off and going to blame consumers for our product."
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d
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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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 18h
Oh boy! I can't wait for the suicide slop engine to start sending me other people's dick pics!
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d
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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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d
This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...
Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business
OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...
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pfc. italian beef @realbillhicks.bsky.social · 3d
i gotta quite drinking and shopping online
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kiwisockpuppet.bsky.social @kiwisockpuppet.bsky.social · 1d
New mayor gleefully looking forward to ripping out cycle lane that passes six schools. #nzpol
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 2d
Controversial New Plymouth cycleway 'Tim Tam Alley' could be on the way out under new mayor
Controversial New Plymouth cycleway 'Tim Tam Alley' could be on the way out under new mayor
New mayor Max Brough has signalled he wants to remove the cycleway nicknamed due to its resemblance of the popular biscuit.
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Delaney (Pum)King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 1d
Eugenics are bad.

I don't believe I have to remind folks about this.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 1d
You know what’s really interesting? When conservative Christian or Muslim men don’t want to be alone with unrelated women/girls because Temptation, and don’t want girls in their family alone with men because Temptation, it’s “conservative.”

When a woman says it, because Danger, it’s “radical.”
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 1d
I was in game dev for 15 years and had 2 actual vacations in all that time.

You stop understanding how stressed you are until your body begins to inexplicably fail you.
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Natalie Spitzel | Looking for work!! @nat-the-dev.bsky.social · 1d
Believe old game devs when we tell you: burnout is real, it's painful. Be honest with yourself, take the breaks when you need them.
I've been burnt out for so long, I only just realized how long. I went from crunch at Iridium into crunch at Giant Squid with no break. About 3 years. It was too long.
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Kim Wincen @wincenworks.bsky.social · 2d
The current government cannot be clearer that they hate their constituents and they hate democracy.
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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 2d
The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in.
📝166,000 submissions.
❌98.7% opposed.
Yet National are going to continue supporting it.
🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.
Regulatory Standards Bill: Select Committee Report: 166,000 submission total 0.7% supported 0.6% unclear 98.7% opposed AUTHORISED BY DUNCAN WEBB MP, PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS WELLINGTON
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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 2d
The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in.
📝166,000 submissions.
❌98.7% opposed.
Yet National are going to continue supporting it.
🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.
Regulatory Standards Bill: Select Committee Report: 166,000 submission total 0.7% supported 0.6% unclear 98.7% opposed AUTHORISED BY DUNCAN WEBB MP, PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS WELLINGTON
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