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CileTheSane

@ CileTheSane @lemmy.ca

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  • More than 1,000 events planned in US after ICE shooting in Minneapolis

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  • They aren't seeing any crowds of MAGAs counter protesting, just their opponents, and they are growing.

    The No Kings protest had record numbers of people and achieved nothing. That's because it had a limited time frame and a mandate to not be disruptive.

    It doesn't matter how many people you have if you annouce ahead of time "we will gather until 10:00pm, then clean up after ourselves and go home." That just tells the people you are opposing that they can ignore you and you will leave on your own.

    Those numbers only matter if you take action with them until you get results. The protests need to be every day and continuous until Trump is removed from office. Not "evenings and weekends while we still continue to go to work and provide value to the oligarchs."

  • More than 1,000 events planned in US after ICE shooting in Minneapolis

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  • they are in the streets every week or every evening.

    It needs to be every day. It needs to be desrupting day to day functions, and it needs to have an end goal not an end time.

    Staying in your designated spaces on Saturday and Sunday then going back to work on Monday just means you can be ignored until you give up.

  • A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers

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  • So it would be effective at preventing your site from being used as training data.

  • Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy

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  • Not surprising. I had to remove my credit card information from Amazon because I kept getting automatically signed up for Prime without my consent.

  • Growls menacingly

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  • "you have no bills, no job, no agency, no control. You are carried around to familiar and unfamiliar places at random whether you want to or not. Large unfamiliar creatures are constantly around you. You cannot communicate with your captors handlers, they only react when you scream."

  • Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'

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  • They are not going to charge them. They are just going to disappear.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'

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  • Okay, but the original post is how Grok is taking pictures of children and removing their clothes. That's not cartoons and not fictional people, so I don't know why the conversation is being shifted this far away from the actual issue at hand here.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'

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  • The issue with child porn is how you specify victim. One could argue easily available pornographic images of fake children increases the market and desire for pornographic images of real children and as such can result in more victims. Especially if someone can argue that images of real victims are "fake and AI generated."

    In regards to X and Grok however, my understanding is it is taking images of real children and producing naked images of those children. So there are real victims and Tim Sweeny is saying that shouldn't be censored.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'

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  • Making porn of actual people without their consent regardless of age is not a thought crime. For children, that's obviously fucked up. For adults it's directly impacting their reputation. It's not a victimless crime.

    That is also drawing a certain arrangement of lines and colours, and an example of "free speech" that you don't think should be absolute.

  • Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6%

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  • It's a negligible cost. Evidenced by the fact that despite a significant number of "new users" just collecting the free games and not spending any money, EGS continues to give away free games.

    Clearly padding the number of users is worth it to them more than the 'cost' of those users claiming a free license on their account. Otherwise they would stop doing it.

  • try it. just a little taste.

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  • I've never launched a rocket and he's launched more than Kerbal Space Agency.

    I thought you were talking about Stardew and was wondering how much of the game I was still missing out on.

  • Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6%

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  • You're still being an "active user" that they can use to pad their numbers and entice investors.

    If you want to hurt Epic the best way to do it is to not log into their system at all.

  • Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6%

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  • Epic pays a flat rate to make the game free, not per download.

  • Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6%

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  • Yar me hearty 🏴‍☠️

  • Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6%

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  • Borderlands 3 launching as an Epic exclusive saved me from making the mistake of purchasing it. By the time is was available elsewhere reviews were pretty universal on it not being worthwhile.

  • Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6%

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  • And when you went to investors you would just tell them you've increased your customers by 170% and leave out the part that they aren't buying anything. You might try to make more money from investors than you're losing in free books.

  • Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6%

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  • The developers get paid a flat rate for allowing their game to be free, not per download. You are not sending the developer any money and allowing epic to inflate their user numbers (up 167% !!!) to investors.

  • Denmark ‘will shoot first and ask questions later’ over Greenland

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  • Great Mug

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  • I irony being anyone who owns such mug does give a fuck what you believe.

  • Great Mug

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  • Science just sees it as a problem to be sorted by good study design and statistics

    And those studies are going to care about what you believe.