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retroactivebakeries

the entrapment princess isn’t a cop, silly! she has to tell you if she’s a cop

ceruleanheaven

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

ceruleanheaven

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

ceruleanheaven

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third

ceruleanheaven

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

ceruleanheaven

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

ceruleanheaven

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third

analog-delight

Queerest thing you can do as a cis person is shut the fuck up

sailatina3

As time goes on the idea of a "transtrender" gets funnier and funnier. At what point in time has there ever been a trend or clout to gain from being trans?

sailatina3

Gen z is getting into this new trend which involves losing all your friends and family and being effectively legal to rape and murder.

subwaybug

More people should get into poly shipping. Both because polyamory is awesome and because it's really fun to make complicated ass diagrams

missstrogen

@staff stop terming my friends. Why are you letting nazis thrive and terminating trans girls fifty times in a row

phantomrose96

Hiromu Arakawa’s genius is obvious throughout all of FMA but her first and biggest leap of genius was in how she crafted her protagonist.

Arakawa realized the burgeoning youth of the early 2000s wasnt interested in another plucky spry optimistic young shonen protag. Instead she gave us a short ugly egotistical asshole smarter-than-you atheist with so much money and power that people could no longer best him in arguments by telling him “dude shut up ur literally like 12″

Five pages in we’re told Edward’s famous and rich and powerful. Five more pages and he’s calling some girl stupid for thinking God exists. Five more pages and he’s proven right. Five more and he’s kicked an evil priest’s teeth in. And no one can tell his mom on him.

Hiromu Arakawa figured out the dream of every edgy young weeb discovering internet arguments for the first time and she cast them an idol made of gold.

phantomrose96

charl0ttan

hihihi so a few months ago i was in an extremely dark place and i sent u an ask on anon like, how do i stay strong and keep living even when things are really hard and lonely, and i just wanted to say that i made it!! i made it through, and life is still hard and i still get lonely but im finally able to see that things don’t have to stay that way!! and that some types of loneliness aren’t always Bad, either

ive been able to make so many big changes for myself just by starting with the little things, i’ve been connecting with new people and reconnecting with friends and rediscovering old passions and making art and i just feel so so light these days even when i’m sad

so i just wanted to thank you for the encouragement back then, and also say to anyone else who needs it that Yes change takes time and Yes things can be really really hard, but any little thing you do to make your own life better will pile up. sometimes things will tumble off the pile, but that doesn’t mean you can’t put them back, that you’ll never have your pile again. sometimes the whole pile falling apart is a chance to rebuild it into something stronger. idk if that’s anything, but mostly i wanted to say thank you and that i’m happy 🐏 😊 🦌 😊

aaaaaaa thats so so wonderful!!!! there is hope there is always hope.. that middle part was truly so terrific to read:) warms my heart tysm for sharing^-^

idiosyncatsy

really underrated part of the LotR films is when gollum gets exposition lines. like can you imagine? you're travelling with the most fucked-up evil little murder greyhound creature imaginable and he lives in a cave and doesn't know about potatoes but from time to time you have to ask him about local geopolitics. and he answers you

soundofbloom

So anyway, planet gone, all rocks and dust but the human race lives on, spread out across the stars.

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The Compliance Gap Google Just Exposed at I/O 2026

An Agentic Commerce Compliance Response by SmarterTariff

Date: May 19, 2026 Author: Chris Edwards, SmarterTariff / Renew EcoMe LLC Today at Google I/O 2026, Google officially declared the arrival of the Agentic AI Era. The keynote, the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) — all of it confirms what we’ve been saying at SmarterTariff since before these names existed:

Agentic commerce is not coming. It’s here. And almost no one is compliant for it.

What Google Announced — And What They Didn’t Say Google’s UCP is genuinely impressive. An open standard — backed by Walmart, Target, Shopify, Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, and 60+ partners — that lets any AI agent (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) shop, checkout, and transact across merchants using a single protocol layer. Cart support, product catalogs, loyalty rewards, Google Pay integration. All live, all expanding globally in 2026. AP2 (Agent Payments Protocol) goes further: it creates “irrefutable proof of user authorization” for every agent-initiated transaction. Built on MCP and A2A foundations. Here’s what they didn’t announce: who verifies that merchants are actually ready to receive agents safely, legally, and compliantly.

UCP defines the language agents use to shop. It does not audit whether a merchant’s policies, data handling, accessibility, tariff obligations, and legal disclosures are in order before the agent arrives. That gap is real, growing, and consequential.

The Compliance Gap Is the Business Risk Nobody Is Solving When an AI agent completes a purchase on behalf of a consumer, the merchant assumes they have: • Machine-readable, accurate product data (Schema.org, UCP-compatible catalogs) • Accessible, agent-readable policies (returns, privacy, consent, data use) • Tariff and trade compliance for cross-border agent-initiated transactions • ADA / EAA accessibility standards so agents can interact at all • Audit trails that satisfy EU AI Act requirements for human oversight and explainability • Clear authorization records — who permitted the agent, what scope, when Most merchants have none of these fully in place. The result: agents will transact on their behalf, regulators will ask for records, and businesses will have no defensible answer.

That is not a hypothetical. The EU AI Act’s compliance deadlines are arriving in August 2026. NIST AI RMF is already shaping enterprise procurement requirements. And as agents begin transacting at scale — McKinsey forecasts up to $5 trillion in agentic commerce by 2030 — the liability exposure compounds with every unaudited transaction.

What SmarterTariff Does SmarterTariff is the compliance and readiness rail for agentic commerce. We built it before the protocols had names, and before the big platforms had launched their standards. Our GroundTruth engine maps merchant claims — across site content, APIs, policies, and transaction data — to verifiable, scored reality. The output is an Agentic Readiness Score: a structured, explainable picture of exactly where a merchant’s infrastructure is ready for agents, and where it creates legal, regulatory, or operational risk. We cover: • UCP / MCP / A2A readiness — can your catalog, checkout, and policies be consumed by agents? • Tariff and trade compliance — are agent-initiated cross-border transactions correctly classified? • EU AI Act + NIST AI RMF alignment — do you have the audit trails and control evidence regulators will require? • ADA / EAA accessibility — can agents actually interact with your storefront? • Authorization and consent records — is there irrefutable proof of what was authorized and by whom?

This is infrastructure — not a one-time audit. It runs continuously, integrates via API into your stack, and is designed to be embedded white-label into platforms, payments providers, and enterprise compliance tools.

The Moment Is Now Google just told every merchant, every platform, and every enterprise in the world that agents will be shopping, transacting, and acting on behalf of their customers — at scale, starting now. The window to get compliant before the first wave of agent-initiated disputes, regulatory inquiries, and failed transactions is narrow. The window for platforms and infra providers to build compliance into their agentic commerce stack before a competitor does it first is equally short. SmarterTariff exists to be that rail — globally, quietly, and under whatever brand it needs to be.

If you’re building on UCP, MCP, AP2, or any agentic commerce stack and need compliance infrastructure, we should talk.

→ smartertariff.com | [email protected]

SmarterTariff is a product of Renew EcoMe LLC. Built in Portland, Maine. Solo Founder LLC. First to name and build for agentic commerce compliance.

Source: The Compliance Gap Google Just Exposed at I/O 2026

were--ralph

[ASMR] Dr. Blastoise gives you an enema

strawberry-crocodile

"it's not a monkey it's an ape" is so funny because. apes are monkeys. and then you'll hear someone like "i know phylogenetically yes but thats not how it's colloquially used." but like. clearly it is. someone just used it.

strawberry-crocodile

People are offering a lot of theories as to why people care, but I think it's important not to leave out that the historical and christian perspective on biology is that life is organized in a hierarchy with humans at the top and everything else ranked by proximity to humans. Apes are closer to humans than other monkeys are; thus, they are "higher" on the "pyramid of life" than all other monkeys.

This philosophy is still one a lot of people have in the modern day; fish and insects, which are distant from humans, are treated as "lesser" animals, sometimes not even animals at all, while mammals and birds are valued over reptiles and amphibians. In this philosophy, the idea that apes are monkeys is perceived as a slight; to call an ape a monkey is to treat it as "lesser" (see: every talking cartoon chimp ever), and also, implicitly, an insult to humans (because we connect with the ape and consider it "greater" because it's close to us).

strawberry-crocodile

but also to the original point. when you "correct" someone that an ape "is not a monkey"... on what authority are you doing it? like there's no scientific information being conveyed, you only have old linguistic perscriptivism to fall back on. your pedantry is hollow.

fenmere

humans are fish!

fenmere

OK, but, now, to create something that emphasizes these very good points, we want to work out a story where a visiting alien civilization gets confused about language a bit, sparking this kind of conversation amongst the MCs.

But instead of the aliens calling humans "monkeys", which is very unlikely, they go the other way, to the extreme.

Because, like, it's been done, where aliens remind humans of their own evolutionary origins by classifying them as monkeys, but obviously in a derogatory way. And all that does is make the aliens look like militaristic, colonialist bigots. And it's also very unlikely they'd make the mistake that way. If the don't care about how humans classify themselves, they're not likely to even learn the word "monkey" or how humans are related to monkeys.

While, on the other hand, they might very well hear the word "human" and assume it fits a broader category.

So, they might say things like, "I've heard about your little hairy humans with tails that like to climb trees. May I visit them? I'd like to hear their stories!"