if newt gingrich replaced his "ging" with a "rient"... let's just say i'd be a lot more interested đ¤¤
Omg I had to slowly say it out loud to myself before I included the first name and promptly lost it. đ
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if newt gingrich replaced his "ging" with a "rient"... let's just say i'd be a lot more interested đ¤¤
Omg I had to slowly say it out loud to myself before I included the first name and promptly lost it. đ
Hey so if you haven't heard about this you absolutely should give it a read because it's just as satisfying as you're hoping
The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and fail
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A judge ordered the reinstatement of a video game developer after he was fired as part of a scheme cooked up by a CEO using ChatGPT. Facing the possibility of paying out a massive bonus to the developer of Subnautica2, the CEO of publisher Krafton used ChatGPT to create a plan to take over the development studio and force out its founder, according to court records.
The Monday ruling details the bizarre story. Unknown Worlds Entertainment is the studio behind the 2018 underwater survival game Subnautica. The company has since been working on the sequel, Subnautica 2. In 2021, South Korean publisher Krafton bought Unknown Worlds Entertainment for $500 million and promised to pay out another $250 million if Subnautica 2 sold well enough.
Kraftonâs internal sales projections for Subnautica 2 looked great, and looked like it would be on the hook for the additional $250 million. In an attempt to avoid paying this, Krafton CEO Changhan Kim turned to ChatGPT for help avoiding paying the developers the $250 million bonus. âAs Unknown Worlds prepared to release its hotly anticipated sequel, Subnautica 2, the partiesâ relationship fractured,â the court decision said. âFearing he had agreed to a âpushoverâ contract, Kraftonâs CEO consulted an artificial intelligence chatbot to contrive a corporate âtakeoverâ strategy.â
Kim partnered with Krafton Head of Corporate Development Maria Park and the companyâs legal team to work out options. He toyed with finding a reason to fire the founders. According to court records, Park pinged Kim on Slack and told him that attempting to avoid paying the bonus would be legally risky. âHi CEO . . . it seems to be highly likely that the earn-out will still be paid if the sales goal is achieved regardless of the dismissal with cause,â the Slack message said according to court records. âTherefore, there isnât much that we can practically gain other than punishment with a simple dismissal alone, whereas I am worried that we may be exposed to lawsuit and reputation risk.â
But the CEO would not accept defeat. âAnd so Kim turned to ChatGPT for help,â court records said. âWhen the AI chatbot responded that the earnout would be âdifficult to cancel,â Kim complained to Park that the [payout] was a âcontract under which we can only be dragged around.ââ
Kim pressed the chatbot for an answer. âAt ChatGPTâs suggestion, Kim formed an internal task force, dubbed âProject X.â The task forceâs mandate was to either negotiate a âdealâ on the earnout or execute a âTake Overâ of Unknown Worlds. They looked to buy time,â court records said. âKim sought ChatGPTâs counsel on how to proceed if Krafton failed to reach a deal with Unknown Worlds on the earnout. The AI chatbot prepared a âResponse Strategyâ to a âNo-Dealâ Scenario.â
This was a piece of ChatGPTâs âProject Xâ for Krafton:
âa. Preemptive Framing - Repeat that protecting quality and fan trust is the highest priority, undermine the âLarge Corporation VS. Indieâ framing b. Securing Control Points - * Lock down Steam/console publishing rights and access rights over code/build pipeline through both legal and technical aspects. * For the earn-out freeze, keep room for negotiations through provision stating âimmediate removal if specific development results are achievedâ a. Systematic materials for legal defense - Prepare contract interpretation memorandums, log all communications, seek external consultation b. Team retention - Operation of retention packages for key personnel and rapid backfill pipelines in anticipation of resignation/departure scenarios c. Two handed strategy - Create a structure that allows for both hardball (Legal+ Finance) and softball (Support/Incentives) approaches so moderate factions within Unknown Worlds can push for compromise.â
Kim followed ChatGPTâs advice rather than his lawyersâ advice, according to the court records. The first step was posting a message on Subanuticaâs website to get fans on his side. According to court documents, Kim said the goal of the message was to âsecure public support from fans and legal validation of our legitimacy.â He then suggested that ChatGPT write it for him. It achieved the opposite of his intended goal. Fans found the message bizarre and worried about the future of the game. Those fears were compounded when Kim fired the gameâs original creators and entered into a legal battle with them.
The legal battle is ongoing, but Kim looks set to lose. The judge has ordered he reinstate the fired developers and has exposed the CEOâs flailing use of ChatGPT. Krafton told Kotaku that it was âevaluating its optionsâ regarding the ruling and that it âputs players at the heart of every decision
If you like ChatGPT get fucked. But if you're an idiot CEO, please use it more.
People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.
She was fursty.
âcan mutuals dm you?â my mutuals can fire me from a cannon through a brick wall, looney tunes style. as long as weâre all having fun
Oh thanks but what the fuck does any of that mean
Iâve seen quite a few of these in my time, but this one takes the cake.
This is fucking killing me
Golp: a roundel purpure.
Repeat this to yourself until it begins to have meaning
Okay then since some of you need to be reminded of this:
Roundels are circles in heraldry. They are named according to their color, which also has its own lingo. Letâs meet them!
Bezant: roundel or (gold) đĄ
Plate: roundel argent (silver) âŞď¸
Torteau: roundel gules (red) đ´
Pomme: roundel vert (green) đ˘
Hurt: roundel azure (blue) đľ
Golp: roundel purpure (purple) đŁ
Pellet: roundel sable (black) âŤď¸
If your field is strewn with roundels, you can describe it appropriately as being bezanty, hurty, golpy, and so on.
This is amazing and I will never need it again. This is now one of my favorite things.
"porn is art" porn is exploitative and misogynistic. porn ruins women's lives. porn is full of trafficking victims. porn is often RAPE on film. porn is used to groom minors every day. the normalization of porn only increases male violence and gives men more ideas of how to humiliate and abuse us.
but you probably don't care about any victims of porn since they're mostly cis women. lol. and you wonder why we don't want a bunch of rape apologists like you in our spaces.
these are issues that heavily affect trans women but cis women love to engage in denial of this so that they can monopolize victimhood
criminalizing porn and sex work disproportionately punishes marginalized women who are forced to turn to them to survive. simplifying the issue to "porn is bad," rather than laying the blame with the porn industry and its exploitations, will not stop marginalized women from turning to porn and other forms of sex work to survive. we need to attack the industry, not porn and sex work themselves, or else we are criminalizing victims alongside their abusers
a lot of cis feminists would tell you the same thing, but for some reason because I'm a trans woman this makes me a rape apologist who can't be trusted in your local walmart bathroom
Criminalising sex work makes it harder for people to come out when they are being raped and abused. This is not about cis vs trans people. Abuse is bad no matter who is the victim.
However, trans people are 4 times more likely to be the victims of sexual assault than cis people, and they are also more likely to be homeless, which puts them in an even more vulnerable position.
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OH, I see it now. I was scrolling through thinking they were chameleons.
they did heelys in spaceâŚ
Wait, is that like an actual thing people do? Ngl I kind of thought that was just a thing old people teased younger people about. "You two playing footsy under there?" Type stuff. Also, I've only ever thought of footsies as footsy pajamas.
i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because:Â
i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i liveÂ
most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white personÂ
im not a pissbaby
my white friends that have reblogged this give me life
4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP
If ur white and like this post I fux with u
^absolutely
5. Itâs hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.
i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this
6. Theyâre usually really fucking funny and donât perpetuate stereotypes that will ever affect me economically, politically, or cause me any true harm, let alone create risks that âjustifyâ my murder and/or death
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How I join skeins
Cleeeeeveeer!
It's good to learn, remember, and share stuff like this.
When my mom or her sisters did crochet growing up, their dickhead older brothers thought it was hilarious to snip the yarn somewhere in the middle of the bundle. I suspect mom would've found a trick like this really handy.
Oh, this is a modified Russian join!
Hereâs a full one:
1) find the end of both pieces. Iâm using an off-white and a variegated green so you can easily see what Iâm doing, but this can be used to join any two pieces of yarn that are the same weight as each other whether theyâre the same color or not.
2) wrap the ends around each other like this. You donât actually have to lay them down, I did it for clarity in the photos.
3) youâll need a needle like this. Theyâre sold under the names âtapestry needleâ or âyarn needle.â If you ever manage to find them made out of bamboo or wood, PLEASE TELL ME.
4) thread the yarn through itself as shown in the video above. HOWEVER, where that video shows strand #1 being threaded into strand #2, with the Russian join youâll thread strand #1 back into itself, using the wrap around strand #2 as an anchor point. I use my toes as a âthird handâ when doing stuff like this, but Iâve also seen people use the heel of their hand or a convenient paperweight or even nothing at all. Whatever will let you create a tight join is what you want to use.
Make sure you get this loop as small as you can.
5) repeat on strand #2. Trim the remaining ends.
6) youâre done! This is one of the strongest joins in crochet and knitting. Itâs virtually undetectable in a finished project, and because of the wraparound shown in step #2 it canât pull apart like a knot will.
Actually, waitâŚ
7) donât forget to put away your needle! âIâll just stick it in the ball for laterâ is a comforting lie. The needle will disappear into the ball and you will never see it again, unless your foot finds it later. Donât do it to yourself. PUT IT AWAY.
You can also make yourself a 'knitting pincushion' using worsted yarn and needles far tighter than normal - you want like, a size 5, or a 3.75mm needle, for a light worsted yarn, so it's quite tight. Make two rectangles, block your work, felt it if desired, and sew the rectangles together into a little bag, stuffing the bag with scrap yarn and quilting it if desired so the yarn doesn't move. Now you have a place for your needles and will not stab yourself, without having to fiddle with the stupid little card.
BLESS YOU FOR THIS.
Oh I need this.
Reblog and put your evil name a la Darkiplier and Antisepticeye in the tags
I don't normally post things like this but this is kind of just the last reason I needed to never even get into a Tesla. If you can't open the door from the outside in an emergency without the battery connected you shouldn't be able to sell the car. Period. On top of that there is no intuitive way to open the door without power.
a character being a perpetrator does not negate their victimhood and neither does their victimhood negate being a perpetrator. u can accept and reckon w both dimensions in ur analysis
there is nothing morally purifying about suffering or victimhood, it is not something that inculcates âgoodness.â
oneâs character has no impact on whether they were/are a victim or not, victim status is not something that is only afforded to the palatable.
it also does not = absolution.
ppl cant handle this in cartoons made for teenagers lets not get ahead of ourselves
It's also very hard to keep a handle of yourself. I feel like I have to remind myself sometimes to check my behavior when I'm feeling thin or worn out. I have to remind myself how it feels to be on the other end of a person who doesn't care about you and sometimes it's really hard. But that doesn't make it not worth doing.
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the place I work at remodeled these split gendered restrooms into âinclusive restroomsâ and never told us what they meant while construction was ongoing. I need you to know every atom of potential criticism or whining that couldâve happened disappeared when people found out this meant we got 10 fully separate private bathrooms with sinks inside. Iâve not heard a single person crack a joke about the inclusive signage. this is the world TERFs are trying to steal from you
This is called a "superloo" and terfs are actively trying to steal this from you, in the UK they changed bathroom regulations to mean new buildings have to prioritise gendered toilets rather than build superloos.
This also upset a lot of architects and designers who like the superloos. They're also typically more like small rooms rather than having doors you can look under.