I donāt know about you, but I could definitely use a break from all of the news and this feels like the perfect antidote to give my mental sanity a little rest.
The Independent Variable
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š¤ Elon Muskās X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok
aiItās laughable it took this long.
The FBI and and anyone who has had their image created or depicted in an explicit manner should be going after Elon Musk, X, and use everything within their legal power to identify the people prompting Grok for these images and go after them using revenge porn and deepfake porn laws.
Only California, New York, and Virginia currently have deepfake porn laws on the books, but Iād still go hard after X as co-conspirators on disseminating revenge porn.
š I canāt do this
politicsI got into the irony of 2nd Amendment fanatics saying they needed gun for if the government sent masked men into their streets yelling, āpapers pleaseā, only to then cheer for those masked men when they did take to the streets.
Things have been quiet around these parts and I apologize for that. Life, holidays, work, and Foofaraw, have taken up a lot of time and the news as of late has just been devastating. Weāre invading countries, have a secret police asking people for their papers, shooting unarmed citizens in the face, storming houses without warrants, racially
š“āā ļø The United States has captured Venezuelaās dictator, NicolĆ”s Maduro
politicsIām blowing up ships in international waters, breaking domestic and international laws, invading other countries, asking people for their papers on the street and rounding them up based on inherent traits, and participating in genocide. Who am I?
š§ Streaming music is the lie we tell each other
musicIāve come to the conclusion that streaming music platforms are a shared lie we all agree to that suggests weāre paying for music when weāre actually may as well be pirating it, we just pay $10 a month to keep the cops away.
Itās been fun to see Mattās evolution of thought here, going from not thinking Spotifyās rates are an issue, To realizing all music streaming is a bit of a shamā¦ I think the one point that keeps getting glossed over is itās Spotifyās choice to do free ad-supported
š¤ Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
aiUsers voted to restrict Anthropicās Claude to its own channel, but Jason Clinton, Anthropicās Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and a moderator in the Discord, overrode them.
The word of the year might be Slop, but the theme of the year is companies forcing things on their users that they didnāt ask for and do not want.
