KROGAN BROGAN

Putting off tomorrow what could interfere with Star Trek today. Previously yescharactersremaining. She/her pronouns. Secretly an unofficial Mass Effect blog.

[fishing-princess]

I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory

[leftcosine]

I Executed The Demon Lord With One Flawless Strike And After A Brief Power Struggle The New Demon Government Is Substantially More Committed To The War Because Of Some Reason I Don't Know

[humanfist]

I Successfully Overthrew The Demon Lord And Instituted Demon Democracy But They Voted For A Commie So The CIA Not Some Fantasy Equivalent The Actual CIA Who Have Known About Magic And Alternate Realms The Whole Damn Time But Won't Just Unisekai Me Launched A Counter Coup And That's When Things Really Went To Shit

[iiumz]

[sapphireh3arts]

today is the ten year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. a full decade ago, i lost a friend and a coworker. i was lucky. i had friends that lost several people. today, please remember and fight for all those that have died to live the live they should have been free to. i'll always remember you, Cory.

[peak-widow]

image description:

text on a multihued purple background.

center text on a pride flag banner reads: REMEMBERING THE 49 ANGELS. JUNE 12, 2016

Stanley Almodovar III • Almand L. Alvear • Oscar A. Aracena Montero • Rodolfo Ayala Ayala • Antonio Davon Brown • Darryl Roman Burt III • Angel Candelario-Padro • Juan Chavez Martinez • Luis D. Conde • Cory James Connell • Tevin Eugene Crosby • Deonka Deidra Drayton • Leroy Valentin Fernandez • Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez • Mercedes Marisol Flores • Peter Ommy Gonzales Cruz • Juan Roman Guerrero • Paul Terrel Henry • Frank Hernandez • Miguel Angel Honorato • Javier Jorge Reyes • Jason Benjamin Josephat • Eddie Jamal Droy Justice • Anthony Luis Loreano Disla • Christopher Andrew Leinonen • Alejandro Barrios Martinez • Brenda Marquez McCool • Gilberto R Silva Menendez • Kimberly Jean Morris • Akyra Monet Murray • Luis Omar Ocasio Capo • Gerardo A. Ortiz Martinez • Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera • Joel Rayon Paniagua • Jean Carlos Mendez Perez • Enrique L. Rios Jr. • Jean Carlos Nieves Rodríguez • Xavier Emmanuel Serrano-Rosado • Christoper Joseph Sanfeliz • Yolmaru Rodríguez Solivan • Eddie Sotomayor Jr. • Shane Evan Tomlinson • Martin Benitez Torres • Jonathan A. Cumoy Vega • Juan Pablo Rivera Velázquez • Luis Sergio Vielma • Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velázquez • Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon • Jerry Wright

[churrotowns]

since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons

[messengerofmechs]

Hey everyone. There's a new youtube feature that rolled out just yesterday that's raising some privacy concerns.

Expanding ways to share on YouTube

People in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, and Singapore can now share videos and chat with friends directly within the YouTube app. The update bring

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

Trimming the source id (the stuff after the '?' in links) will also prevent this from happening.

[thisauthorisscreaming]

Does it count as 'sword in the stone' if it looks more like 'sword in the cairn'...?

[the-haiku-bot]

Does it count as ‘sword

in the stone’ if it looks more

like 'sword in the cairn’…?

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[literallymechanical]

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world

Exclusive: Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.

Uh oh

Niantic Spatial and Vantor Partner on GPS-Denied Positioning | Vantor

Niantic Spatial and Vantor are partnering to deliver unified air-to-ground positioning in GPS-denied areas, combining VPS and Raptor for aut

UH OH

Niantic Spatial, the pioneer in geospatial AI, and Vantor, the leading provider of unified spatial intelligence, today announced a partnership to deliver a comprehensive air-to-ground positioning solution that will enable air and ground platforms to navigate and coordinate precisely in GPS-denied environments. Field testing of the integrated system is planned for early 2026.

(Those are primary sources but here's an article that quotes a couple interviews: https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/ )

[literallymechanical]

Translated from Dutch: https://www.trouw.nl/redactie/PokemonGo/

Also, Niantic Spatial does not make clear exactly what role the Pokémon Go data play in the model that Vantor will use. In response to previous questions from Trouw about another collaboration, which with delivery company Coco Robotics, a spokesperson replies that the scans of Pokémon Go have been used to train an ‘early version’ of the model.

In that response, Niantic Spatial also emphasizes that Pokémon Go players have voluntarily agreed to the terms and that the company is working ethically. “We are committed to working with all our customers and partners to ensure that Niantic Spatial’s products are used responsibly, while respecting human rights and ethical principles,” the company said.

Niantic Spatial does not want to answer a follow-up question about the cooperation with the defense company. “We don’t have any new information to share at the moment.”

[literallymechanical]

From the first link in the OP:

Niantic Spatial has trained its model on 30 billion images captured in urban environments. In particular, the images are clustered around hot spots—places that served as important locations in Niantic’s games that players were encouraged to visit, such as Pokémon battle arenas. “We had a million-plus locations around the world where we can locate you precisely,” says [Niantic Spatial CTO] McClendon. “We know where you’re standing within several centimeters of accuracy and, most importantly, where you’re looking.”

[certainly-april]

Ragebaiting my fat dog? More like master baiting my fat hog!!!!!!!!

[grimoiremanifest]

❗️Great Hog is displeased by this.

The kingly pig looks taken aback by this statement. "You claim to be 'baiting' our kind?.. A master of it, no less - after all the trust we hsve placed in you?"

- Your relationship with the Hog Society 🐖 is now Unfavourable.

[certainly-april]

[hagiomoto]

Please increase your contribution to The Sameer Project.

The Sameer Project Official: Instagram | Linktree

We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,

[kingfucko]

i dont care if monday sucks... tuesday cost me sixty bucks... wednesday thursday give no fucks. it's friday im a duck

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[kaylmao]

has anyone seen my pet bacteriophage its name is styrofoam and its about [hand touching the floor] this tall

[lesbianwyllravengard]

I will always find it so absurd that Cassandra Pentaghast is supposedly "straight". she's literally called Lady Seeker

[geth-outta-here]

i wish everyone who drives 90mph on back roads at night a very Die A Painful And Lonely Death You Pathetic Piece Of Shit Thursday <3

[canineentity]

“Why’d you do that?” Please remember that I am using what I’ve seen in humans to mimic them

[steveyockey]

affirmations they will not kill me at work today. it is not in my job description to get killed. if they did kill me at work that would be weird and probably not worth it for them

[stargazersasha]

all my haters become dilators when i get the vaginoplasty of success