Syn Fawkes
@synicism.bsky.social
Tabletop gamer, combat sports enthusiast, lawyer, photographer, and geeky foster parent. Giver of legal advice to Midwest Furry Fandom, Inc.
What's here are my own opinions, not those of anyone else.
FA: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/synicism
What's here are my own opinions, not those of anyone else.
FA: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/synicism
Sweeney doesn't get it. We want the Made with AI tag because we're going to vote with our wallets.
He's afraid that disclosure will hurt his sales. He knows we don't like AI and is scared.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its ‘Made with AI’ tags | The Verge share.google/JrUckGfsz8To...
He's afraid that disclosure will hurt his sales. He knows we don't like AI and is scared.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its ‘Made with AI’ tags | The Verge share.google/JrUckGfsz8To...
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its ‘Made with AI’ tags
‘AI will be involved in nearly all future production.’
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November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Sweeney doesn't get it. We want the Made with AI tag because we're going to vote with our wallets.
He's afraid that disclosure will hurt his sales. He knows we don't like AI and is scared.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its ‘Made with AI’ tags | The Verge share.google/JrUckGfsz8To...
He's afraid that disclosure will hurt his sales. He knows we don't like AI and is scared.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its ‘Made with AI’ tags | The Verge share.google/JrUckGfsz8To...
Less than four hours on the grill. I am so full.
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Less than four hours on the grill. I am so full.
I love everything about this.
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I love everything about this.
"Microsoft has issued an urgent warning to Windows 11 users: The new agentic OS features that allow AI agents to operate also open the door to malware."
This is called a design flaw and during sensible times we would have told the team to start over.
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This is called a design flaw and during sensible times we would have told the team to start over.
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
Your AI assistants in Windows 11 could be giving hackers your files
Microsoft warns that new AI agents, which access your Documents and Desktop, introduce novel security risks like Xpia.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"Microsoft has issued an urgent warning to Windows 11 users: The new agentic OS features that allow AI agents to operate also open the door to malware."
This is called a design flaw and during sensible times we would have told the team to start over.
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
This is called a design flaw and during sensible times we would have told the team to start over.
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
This is a terrible idea. Never do anything that would give a government agent access to your phone. There is no reason for this.
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www.wbez.org/springfield/...
Digital driver's licenses, IDs available to Illinois residents starting Wednesday
The Illinois General Assembly passed a law last year allowing for people to carry their IDs on their cellphones.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This is a terrible idea. Never do anything that would give a government agent access to your phone. There is no reason for this.
www.wbez.org/springfield/...
www.wbez.org/springfield/...
Hey if you're thinking about buying Call of Duty, maybe don't.
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Hey if you're thinking about buying Call of Duty, maybe don't.
Right now? Malort.
What flavor is my sona?
Hasenpfeffer.
Hasenpfeffer.
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Right now? Malort.
The only good thing the Reich has done this time around.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The only good thing the Reich has done this time around.
Good. Fucking disbar her.
Watchdog group files bar complaint against prosecutor Lindsey Halligan over Comey, James cases - ABC News share.google/MPw4FmdoSd4M...
Watchdog group files bar complaint against prosecutor Lindsey Halligan over Comey, James cases - ABC News share.google/MPw4FmdoSd4M...
Watchdog group files bar complaint against prosecutor Lindsey Halligan over Comey, James cases
Lindsey Halligan, who was picked by President Trump to lead the cases against Letitia James and James Comey, is the subject of a bar complaint regarding the prosecutions.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Good. Fucking disbar her.
Watchdog group files bar complaint against prosecutor Lindsey Halligan over Comey, James cases - ABC News share.google/MPw4FmdoSd4M...
Watchdog group files bar complaint against prosecutor Lindsey Halligan over Comey, James cases - ABC News share.google/MPw4FmdoSd4M...
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#BREAKING: Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS denies Kim Davis's petition asking the justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized federal constitutional protections for same-sex marriage):
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
#BREAKING: Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS denies Kim Davis's petition asking the justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized federal constitutional protections for same-sex marriage):
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Well this is the dumbest thing ever.
AP Race Call: Texas voters approve constitutional amendment affirming parental rights | AP News share.google/dhyIx1NCENF1...
AP Race Call: Texas voters approve constitutional amendment affirming parental rights | AP News share.google/dhyIx1NCENF1...
AP Race Call: Texas voters approve constitutional amendment affirming parental rights
Texas voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment affirming parental rights. The measure adds language to the state constitution affirming that parents are the primary decision-makers for th...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Well this is the dumbest thing ever.
AP Race Call: Texas voters approve constitutional amendment affirming parental rights | AP News share.google/dhyIx1NCENF1...
AP Race Call: Texas voters approve constitutional amendment affirming parental rights | AP News share.google/dhyIx1NCENF1...
Sure. If we had nationwide independent redistricting that would be great. Until then, it's madness to expect the left to do things fairly while the right actively disenfranchises voters.
Source: Politico
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Source: Politico
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Defeated in California, GOP megadonor calls for nationwide commitment to ‘fair and impartial maps’
Charles Munger Jr. spent upwards of $30 million in a failed effort to defeat Proposition 50.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Sure. If we had nationwide independent redistricting that would be great. Until then, it's madness to expect the left to do things fairly while the right actively disenfranchises voters.
Source: Politico
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Source: Politico
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Oh finally!
U.S. Patent Office Boss Orders Reexamination of Nintendo's Controversial 'Summon Character and Let It Fight' Pokémon Patent, Which IP Expert Claims 'Further Undermines Credibility' of Its Case Against Palworld - IGN share.google/PFkJChCUtFdG...
U.S. Patent Office Boss Orders Reexamination of Nintendo's Controversial 'Summon Character and Let It Fight' Pokémon Patent, Which IP Expert Claims 'Further Undermines Credibility' of Its Case Against Palworld - IGN share.google/PFkJChCUtFdG...
U.S. Patent Office Boss Orders Reexamination of Nintendo's Controversial 'Summon Character and Let It Fight' Pokémon Patent, Which IP Expert Claims 'Further Undermines Credibility' of Its Case Against...
The director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office has ordered a reexamination of Nintendo's controversial 'summon character and let it fight' Pokémon patent after it was heavily criticized...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Oh finally!
U.S. Patent Office Boss Orders Reexamination of Nintendo's Controversial 'Summon Character and Let It Fight' Pokémon Patent, Which IP Expert Claims 'Further Undermines Credibility' of Its Case Against Palworld - IGN share.google/PFkJChCUtFdG...
U.S. Patent Office Boss Orders Reexamination of Nintendo's Controversial 'Summon Character and Let It Fight' Pokémon Patent, Which IP Expert Claims 'Further Undermines Credibility' of Its Case Against Palworld - IGN share.google/PFkJChCUtFdG...
Well I'm glad I never bought one of these things. FFS
Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline | Tom's Hardware share.google/qegsMSRFbNhu...
Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline | Tom's Hardware share.google/qegsMSRFbNhu...
Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline
The smart vacuum cleaner was remotely bricked for not collecting data.
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November 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Well I'm glad I never bought one of these things. FFS
Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline | Tom's Hardware share.google/qegsMSRFbNhu...
Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline | Tom's Hardware share.google/qegsMSRFbNhu...
This is what conservatives are afraid of? Oh yeah so violent and scary.
Photos: Scenes from the No Kings Protests : The Picture Show : NPR share.google/Uo3fvqhy2j6c...
Photos: Scenes from the No Kings Protests : The Picture Show : NPR share.google/Uo3fvqhy2j6c...
Photos: Scenes from the No Kings Protests
People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This is what conservatives are afraid of? Oh yeah so violent and scary.
Photos: Scenes from the No Kings Protests : The Picture Show : NPR share.google/Uo3fvqhy2j6c...
Photos: Scenes from the No Kings Protests : The Picture Show : NPR share.google/Uo3fvqhy2j6c...
Whoa...
Thieves steal ‘priceless’ jewelry from the Louvre in seven-minute raid | CNN share.google/jysbfboGq7jn...
Thieves steal ‘priceless’ jewelry from the Louvre in seven-minute raid | CNN share.google/jysbfboGq7jn...
Thieves steal ‘priceless’ jewelry from the Louvre in seven-minute raid | CNN
Thieves have stolen “priceless” jewelry from the Louvre in Paris, the world’s most-visited museum, in an audacious seven-minute raid on Sunday, the French interior minister has said.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Whoa...
Thieves steal ‘priceless’ jewelry from the Louvre in seven-minute raid | CNN share.google/jysbfboGq7jn...
Thieves steal ‘priceless’ jewelry from the Louvre in seven-minute raid | CNN share.google/jysbfboGq7jn...
These kids have a third of the country actively seeking their deaths. This is, of course, by design. "Conservative" just means "bigot" these days.
Mental health distress among the nation's LGBTQ+ youth is increasing, study finds - CBS News share.google/Jr7ZeDCLHvmY...
Mental health distress among the nation's LGBTQ+ youth is increasing, study finds - CBS News share.google/Jr7ZeDCLHvmY...
Mental health distress among the nation's LGBTQ+ youth is increasing, study finds
Advocacy group The Trevor Projected released data from the first year of a study following more than 1,600 LGBTQ+ youth across the country.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
These kids have a third of the country actively seeking their deaths. This is, of course, by design. "Conservative" just means "bigot" these days.
Mental health distress among the nation's LGBTQ+ youth is increasing, study finds - CBS News share.google/Jr7ZeDCLHvmY...
Mental health distress among the nation's LGBTQ+ youth is increasing, study finds - CBS News share.google/Jr7ZeDCLHvmY...
I've seen this movie. It doesn't go well for the humans.
An unknown bacteria on Earth has developed in the Chinese space station: astronauts are faced with a situation straight out of a science fiction movie. share.google/018YNtIShvel...
An unknown bacteria on Earth has developed in the Chinese space station: astronauts are faced with a situation straight out of a science fiction movie. share.google/018YNtIShvel...
An unknown bacteria on Earth has developed in the Chinese space station: astronauts are faced with a situation straight out of a science fiction movie.
Space exploration has entered a new era where microbial discoveries challenge our understanding of life beyond Earth. The Chinese Tiangong station recently became the site of an extraordinary finding ...
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October 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I've seen this movie. It doesn't go well for the humans.
An unknown bacteria on Earth has developed in the Chinese space station: astronauts are faced with a situation straight out of a science fiction movie. share.google/018YNtIShvel...
An unknown bacteria on Earth has developed in the Chinese space station: astronauts are faced with a situation straight out of a science fiction movie. share.google/018YNtIShvel...
Kid asked for an iPhone when her old Galaxy shattered its screen from the inside. So grabbed a 15 on sale. Why the hell is so hard to use?
Can't read her contacts without manually switching the dialer to use Gmail instead of iCloud.
Can't read her contacts without manually switching the dialer to use Gmail instead of iCloud.
October 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Kid asked for an iPhone when her old Galaxy shattered its screen from the inside. So grabbed a 15 on sale. Why the hell is so hard to use?
Can't read her contacts without manually switching the dialer to use Gmail instead of iCloud.
Can't read her contacts without manually switching the dialer to use Gmail instead of iCloud.
OpenAI just needs to die. I don't care what benefits they might provide. This is bullshit. I hope they go the way of fucking Infowars - destroyed by litigation.
mashable.com/article/open...
mashable.com/article/open...
Sora update: OpenAI will require copyright holders to opt out
Copyright holders will need to manually opt their characters out of OpenAI's Sora if they don't want them used in AI-generated videos.
mashable.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
OpenAI just needs to die. I don't care what benefits they might provide. This is bullshit. I hope they go the way of fucking Infowars - destroyed by litigation.
mashable.com/article/open...
mashable.com/article/open...