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🎃Boonita🎃 @amanitapills.net · 1d

I'm stressed out cause I'm moving and being productive is out of the window until that whole thing is done but also we unlocked fresh new anxiety and stress factors recently and I hope THOSE won't kill my drive AS WELL

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specter @ 7.3 spoilers @specterthieving.bsky.social · 2d

like, in general it comes up a lot, being like "oh i love this female character TOO MUCH to want to put her through the same things as these male characters, i can't ship her with this guy because she deserves better, she's too good for all of this" and then just never talk about her at all

specter @ 7.3 spoilers @specterthieving.bsky.social · 2d

"you can't engage with this entire aspect of human experience that is also statedly a thing male characters are put through out of deep love and affection and interest in their inner worlds with female characters / it's inherently suspect if you want to" seems more regressive to me tbqh

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 1d

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Choco Spice @chocotaurnsfw.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 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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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 1d

Starting to think they are specifically going after porn/erotica/nudey doodles because that's competition. Like walmart driving little mom and pop shops out of business.

"Well, there's no porn in my neighborhood, so I guess I have to drive all the way over to chaptgpt just to get one off." 🙄

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

ChatGPT will soon allow sexting with verified adults

• Erotica and 'mature conversations' will be permitted

• Change arrives in December alongside new age verification tools

(via Sama | TW)

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 1d

Nah this rules, actually www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Are Labubus big and flat and shiny? No, they’re vaguely hellish-looking dolls that have become collectible because they also come in mystery boxes.

Can someone please tell gen Z that they’re doing conkers wrong? Are they? How do you do conkers, then?

You put a shoelace through the middle of them, and try to destroy everyone else’s conkers. Wow, really? That’s bizarre.

Yeah. You’ll have a much better chance of winning if you soak the conker in vinegar overnight and then bake it like a pie. Seriously?

Seriously. And if you end up collecting too many conkers, you can hurl them across the playground and all the other kids will fight each other for them. A beautiful, natural thing like a conker, and you use it as a weapon? A weapon that comes with a long set of arcane and bewildering rules?

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Mäxchen (gruselig) @maexchen.bsky.social · 1d

der beruf des comiczeichnens besteht zu ca 10% aus einem grafikdesign studium und zu 90% aus „na ja ich lass das jetzt so“

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🎃Boonita🎃 @amanitapills.net · 1d

Omggg soph happy belated birthhhhhhh

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🎃Boonita🎃 @amanitapills.net · 2d

Oh yeah I almost forgot! It all STARTED because of Voltron! I liked sheith that’s where the incest and pedo accusations all originated - the characters are unrelated adults but have an age gap and u kno how people are like abt those lol

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Ya Boy Adam 🍂#ShezSweep @forsythfan.bsky.social · 2d

Why am I catching strays as a Fire Emblem fan in an article about American politics

An excerpt from the quoted article:
The Frog might, as a person, have a
message to convey, but the Frog's
costume has no meaning, either. It is
the juxtaposition against an
increasingly militarized ICE that
makes its big googly eyes so powerful.
You might think of the dynamic here
as something like rock-paper-scissors
(or, if you're a dork, like the sword-
axe-lance triangle of the Fire Emblem
series).

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 6d

This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them.

Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment.

*Artists will.*

Phone Numbers
• Stripe (California): +1 888 926 2289 (Say you're based in California before continuing.)
• Stripe (Headquarters): +1 (888) 963-8955
• Stripe (US): +1 (877) 887-7815
• Stripe (France): +33 805-11-19-67
Mastercard (Headquarters): +1 914-249-2000 • Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-627-8372
Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-307-7309
• Mastercard (Int.): +1 (636)-722-7111
• Mastercard (AUS): +61 1800 120 113
• Mastercard (UK): 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers for Mastercard Visa (Headquarters): +1 (650)-432-3200
• Visa (US+ Can): +1 (800)-847-2911
• Visa (AUS): +61 1800 125 440 All region numbers for Visa
• PayPal (US): +1 (888)-221-1161
• PayPal (UK): +44 (0203)-901-7000
PayPal Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

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🎃Boonita🎃 @amanitapills.net · 2d

the reason was that I like kaeluc from genshin impact lol
I'm not gonna get into it but it's not even remotely incest TO ME, I am AWARE that western people who don't care abt the whole chinese culture danmei nuance thing will still read them as adopted brothers but I chalk that up to ignorance 🤷

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🎃Boonita🎃 @amanitapills.net · 2d

sidebar:
I will never not get over being called an incest apologist on x formerly known as twitter dot com - as someone who's ONLY real ick is incest 😭
I didn't watch game of thrones for the longest time cause it has lots of it and it skeeves me the fuck out
STILL DOES AFTER HAVING SEEN IT lmao

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🎃Boonita🎃 @amanitapills.net · 2d

Like... are they proud? Is this what they wanted? HOPEFULLY they are ASHAMED instead!
When they tell you "BUT THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN" then it's never about saving children - that's just the excuse idiots will buy hook line and sinker

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🎃Boonita🎃 @amanitapills.net · 2d

we got mocked with phrases like "it's not that hard to not be a weirdo" and "just say you want to fuck kids" or whatever but it's more obvious than ever that we were CORRECT about this and I wonder where those people who were in my mentions calling me an incest apologist or whatever the fuck are now

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🎃Boonita🎃 @amanitapills.net · 2d

on twitter we were constantly fighting for our lives saying that shaming people for the kinky and taboo things they like is bad and that it perpetuates a culture of censorship which inevitably leads to facism -

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

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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🎃Boonita🎃 @amanitapills.net · 2d

hehe I'm spooky now!!!

Omg. I wish that would work, all that's gonna do is have them do their purchase anyway and then complain about an employee smelling bad and then the employee would get a scolding lol

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🎃Boonita🎃 @amanitapills.net · 2d

When I have customers in retail uniforms and their breath smells like rotten garbage then I think they deserve jailtime for objecting THEIR customers to that!!!!

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🎃Boonita🎃 @amanitapills.net · 2d

Like. Female characters are written less compelling on average and this is one way people compensate for that but these days I find no comfort in it

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🎃Boonita🎃 @amanitapills.net · 2d

I used to be really into rule 63 girlies but now I'm like lukewarm on them at best.
Obviously not because I like women less (I've been peak gay this year I think) but because it's a reminder that people rather genderbend male characters than engage with female characters and that depresses me 😔

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 3d

Reading up on why various YouTubers stopped performing can be kind of a rollercoaster because it's like "said a slur", "said a slur", "lost contact while searching for a cave near Area 51 whose entrance allegedly emitted 'mysterious vibrations'; present whereabouts unknown", "said a slur".

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

tyranny of the midwits

Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 4d

I can't believe this is real

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