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EldritchFemininity

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  • bigot bucket rule~

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  • They refuse to let overtly LGBTQ people stay and demand that gay men break up with their boyfriends by policy. People have frozen to death outside their centers after being denied entry or being kicked out for being LGBTQ as a result of their bigoted policies.

    Homeless shelters are usually locally run, and I'm sure your local Food Pantry or something would appreciate a donation (especially this time of the year), but if you want to help LGBTQ people worldwide, you could do worse than donating here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

  • Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

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  • There's no guarantee that it will tell you the truth. It could tell you to use Elmer's glue to keep the cheese from falling off your pizza. The AI doesn't "know" or "understand," it just does as its training set informed it to. It's just a very complex predictive text that you can give commands to.

  • is this real?

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  • Bazzite/SteamOS:

  • check

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  • TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally ill

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  • I came in here to say the same thing. It was pointed out that the USSR did this when Republicans first started with that nonsense, and it was my first thought upon seeing this post.

  • Don't crucify me

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  • You have time to build a PC but don't have time to solder the boards yourself? Doubt.

  • Don't crucify me

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  • One thing to note is that the next Xbox will very likely be more expensive than the Steam Machine, regardless of what Valve actually prices it at. This is because the Microsoft CEO is demanding that Xbox make a 30% profit, which means that they can't sell the consoles at a loss anymore.

  • Don't crucify me

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  • One thing to note is that the GPU that Valve is using is apparently a custom one that was created for a cancelled Microsoft project or something, and so Valve is probably getting a better deal on it than we ever could because they're the only ones buying it off the manufacturer.

    But regardless, anybody who is willing to build their own PC is not the target market for Valve. The target market is the other 80% of Steam users and potentially console players. A coworker of mine was just talking the other day about a friend of theirs who is replacing their PS4 because Sony is shutting down the PS4 servers, and they were telling them to wait and get the Steam Machine and get out from under Sony's thumb.

  • praise rule

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  • Ah yes, the "gifted kid to burnout (trans girl) with a praise kink" pipeline I keep hearing about.

  • Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

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  • It's not really about the porn in the first place (for advertisers it is - they hate sex unless it's selling their product). The porn is merely an avenue to attack another minority group. In this case, LGBTQ people. Make everything about them sexual in some way, and then ban them from life for sexual deviancy.

  • Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

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  • Evangelical right-wing states have a huge contingent of politicians who compete with one another to be the toughest on "child sex trafficking" and other Epstein-tangential topics. So, in the GOP primary, you get a lot of promises about how you're going to round up all the pedos and put them to the sword or whatever. And this inevitably manifests as "please insert your dick into this pepper grinder to access the pornography" laws, as a sort-of practical compromise.

    I'd say rather than a compromise, the "protect the children!" porn bans are an excuse to go after LGBTQ content by marking any and all content related to them as explicit and demonizing them as pedophiles going after children. They don't care who it hurts along the way.

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • Ironically, one of the defining features of the techno-cultists in Warhammer 40k is that they changed the acronym to mean "Abominable Intelligence" and not a single machine runs on anything more advanced than a calculator.

  • In a dramatic shift, Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost

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  • And Millennials faced the same thing when graduating college right into the wake of the 2008 crash. Thousands of dollars in debt where paying the minimum could leave you owing more than you started, and into a job market flooded with not just recent graduates but many veteran workers who had lost their jobs. Baristas with Ivy League degrees and no social safety nets.

    Told their entire lives that good grades and a college degree were the path to happiness and a job better than flipping burgers at a McDonalds, only to graduate and be called entitled for not wanting to flip burgers with your masters degree.

  • In a dramatic shift, Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost

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  • That's incorrect. Man-man, who has 7.19% of all anthropology degrees, is a statistical outlier and should not have been included.

    The majority are art majors, obviously.

  • Affinity for Linux? Canva's next big move could reshape the desktop software market

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  • Isn't it an opt-in by default program that pays artists commission fees for using their art? Or am I thinking of a different company.

    Whichever one I'm thinking of, the Gen AI was for website templates, and that's about all I can remember other than reading about it and thinking "this is how it should be - gen AI to spit out hundreds of templates for buttons on websites that nobody wants to make."

  • Stay strong

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  • Ignore them, looks like a conservative propaganda account.

    @mods are any of the posts in this instance actually balanced or is it all just left leaning like reddit.

    1 day old account, two words bunch of numbers name, claims that the cesspit that is Reddit is "left-leaning." The bot farm is starting up here, it seems.

  • I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating

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  • The difference here is that your final sentence in your previous comment is what AI is specifically used for, not just in school but everywhere. Though I do agree that removing grades won't fix it:

    the only issue is the students turned off their brain and got lazy, removing grades sadly won’t stop this behavior

    The way AI is used is exactly for that reason. To turn off your brain and get the right answer without understanding the how or why - or even if there is a right answer or not. Writing and the entire breath of the arts are different from STEM in that oftentimes there is only your voice and what you want to say, and using AI largely removes your voice from the process.

    It's not an issue inherent to AI in this regard, but AI definitely exacerbates it by making it much easier. Let the robot tell you what to think and what the correct answer is.

    When I was still doing math in school, they wanted us to write out the equations that we used to get our answer and most teachers would give you partial credit even if you got the wrong answer as long as they could understand the logic of how you got there, because the point wasn't to get the answer right so much as to prove that you understood the concepts. And even then, it was constantly drilled into us that getting a good grade was the only thing that mattered. The rote memorization and regurgitating the desired answer for every test in every subject practically killed my love of learning. It took me years after getting out of school to realize again that I actually did enjoy learning new things. AI simply allows kids to regurgitate the correct answer faster and more efficiently, with less effort on their part. It's Cliff Notes without even having to look at the Notes part - just ask Cliff to write your answer for you. The way school is set up unfortunately outright encourages this thought process.

    The modern school system was created partially during the industrial revolution in order to churn out factory workers who could repeat a rote task day in and day out. It wasn't created to make free thinkers and inspire creativity, and how we use AI reflects that. There's no desire there to put in the effort to say what you want to say or an enjoyment of the process (which is a major thing that a lot of artists enjoy about creating - the process can be even more important than the final product), only the desire to obtain a "good" product, whether that's a good grade or something else like Gen AI images to post for Twitter likes.

  • Welcome to our town :) …now leave

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  • https://invisiblepeople.tv/how-tourism-negatively-impacts-homelessness/

    https://assets.moravian.edu/static/soar/proposals/2017/Keshodkar_LaBare_Proposal.pdf

    https://www.flasprings.com/blog/drug-and-alcohol-addiction-in-tourism-hotspots/

    https://wewantrelief.com/the-nexus-between-cape-cod-tourism-and-substance-abuse/

    https://www.gdrc.org/uem/eco-tour/envi/one.html

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9389488/

    https://www.uni.lu/en/news/the-dark-side-of-tourism/

    https://mize.tech/blog/the-true-impact-of-the-tourism-industry-on-the-environment/

    Just some examples I pulled up in some quick searches. One specific to Cape Cod that I know of that's not mentioned here is the damage to fragile beach environments due to trampling delicate beach grasses by tourists who either don't know any better or don't care. The beach grass there is easily killed by walking on it, which not only destroys the environment that many creatures depend on, but also leads to rapid destabilisation and erosion and full on loss of the beaches within a handful of years (5 to 10 at most). It's such an issue that there are constant beach patrols of environmental officers across more than a hundred miles of beaches every summer.

  • In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

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  • If you're looking for something to game on, I'd also recommend checking out Bazzite. It's built on the same version of Linux as the SteamOS and comes with stuff like Steam and Nvidia drivers pre-installed. There's also a guide on the website for things like how to install it in a dual-boot setup.

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    Elon Musk’s Cronies Locking Federal Workers Out of Computer Systems

    www.yahoo.com /news/elon-musk-cronies-locking-federal-215905907.html
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    Elon Musk’s Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency

    www.wired.com /story/elon-musk-lackeys-general-services-administration/
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    Elon Musk’s Cronies Locking Federal Workers Out of Computer Systems

    www.yahoo.com /news/elon-musk-cronies-locking-federal-215905907.html