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YouTube will use AI to monitor your viewing habits to determine if you're under 18 and require an ID for you to view certain content, yes even if you're in the US.

Now. I have some questions. Like if I watch kids shows from the 90s is that a mark for me being over 30 because it's an old TV show? Or under 30 because it's a kid's show?

Okay question aside.

There's legitimate reasons to have "odd" viewing habits. I for one have chronic fatigue. I've fallen asleep with Youtube's autoplay on and will wake up 3 hours later with the weirdest shit playing (sometimes it's kids stuff).

I'm learning 2 languages. I will watch kids shows in those languages to help me practice and pick up the language. (Muzzy in Gondoland is SO CUTE). But it's really helpful to watch shows that are like "Red orange yellow green! One two three!" To learn the basics like your colors, numbers, days of the week.

Also. Bronies... adults like kids shows. Sometimes they got a really good message like MLP. Sometimes for Nostalgia, I mean Pokémon is still going, and I watch that for nostalgia.

"No, but AI would be smarter than that!"

Is it? Is it really? Bitch if kids want to watch YouTube, that's what YouTube Kids is for. We don't need your 1984 bullshit monitoring our fucking watching habits.

"I don't understand why you're so upset. Just give them your ID." Because I'm a developer. I watch programmers increasingly use AI to fucking program their goddamn software every fucking day. And the thing is AI is really fucking bad at it. It leads to issues like the Tea app leak.

The Tea app was an app where women warned other women in the dating scene about red flag men in the area and they could ask other women if the guy that were dating was a red flag. That app had women upload their Drivers Licenses, and they recently had a leak due to shitty security protocols caused by AI coding causing a legacy database to literally be open to the public, with so security features to keep any old random person from accessing it. All of the data in that database what just... dumped to the open internet. Location data. IDs. All of it.

So, no... I'm not gonna me uploading my ID anywhere BECAUSE I'VE SEEN HOW POORLY SOME OF YOUR ASSHOLES CODE. And by "how poorly you code" I mean you don't fucking code. You just give it to AI and the fucking dumbass system wouldn't know a security feature if it punched it in the face.

Suck my dick. You're not "keeping the kids safe" you're exposing everyone to identity threats.

-fae

blue-kyber

I've been a recent victim of identity theft that caused me to lose everything.

They can "surveillance" my ass as I moon them from rooftop.

kagome-mizuno

oh, once again to suggest the book Nearly Roadkill. written by a trans person and a lesbian in the early 90s, the net in it has people forced to register, and companies and targeted advertising trying to put people into boxes that they cannot actually fit into. And oh boy, it just keeps applying to how things happen on the net.

shamebats

Most of those iPad babies you're seeing are probably sick of that fucking tablet too.

shamebats

A lot of parents are very bad at parenting and don't like their children. They don't want to talk to them, be around them or do anything with them. You know, the things kids need and will remember the most once they're grown.

So they train them from an early age that they should always be distracting themselves with something as to not be in the way or annoying the adults.

For me it was books and TV when I was little, and computers later on. That's all I did because it was all I could do without getting yelled at, and it was the closest to human interaction I could get most of the time.

shamebats

Everyone loves to make fun of & complain about iPad kids but nobody thinks about the struggle of navigating life as an adult when you were forced to spend your entire childhood keeping yourself distracted so your parents didn't have to acknowledge your existence.

kagome-mizuno

Especially "fun" when it gets combined with denial about your kid being different mentally. i've said elsewhere, but my parents hid from me that a school counselor told them i might deal with things like ADHD. They didn't tell me that til my late 30s. And based on my memories, and what they tried to do to basically train it out of me, i had to have been all of 7 or 8 when they were told; i remember my sister reacting to a parody of Achy Breaky Heart while i was stuck sitting at the dining room table, lights out, only allowed to get up to use the bathroom, until the homework was done. Only thing my dad cared about growing up was being something to brag about; i was put in advanced classes, first took the ACT in 7th grade (RIP 2021, Duke University TIP), and neither one of them graduated HS.

catboybiologist

I'm sorry I'm going fucking insane over trans people in sports issues the anti trans crowd has lost the fucking plot and then has the audacity to act like its the trannies who are ridiculous

I used to be of the "well the sports issue isn't really important to me its w/e I just don't want it to be a gateway into other transphobia" but oh my fucking god we are so far gone. The fencing shit is sending me over the edge. What the fuck.

catboybiologist

I can't even articulate my words so I'm just going to tell a story in screenshots

I am so fucking tired of being gaslit about this

catboybiologist

I'm also still so fucking pissed that we have to include "ooo the trans fencer only finished in X place" because its a reminder that trans women will never be allowed to excel at anything in the public eye without being cut down. Fuck OFF

strandofdna

I know the forfeiter, unfortunately she's from my fencing club. Everyone at our club agrees she did this purely for the spectacle, in a sport that's heavily steeped in sportsmanship and respect.

If she's ejected from the club (she might have been already, the club understandably probably won't issue a public statement) it'll be because she broke the rules in a direct, intentional, and disgustingly public way. At tournaments, they don't just kick people out, she almost definitely was warned and told to go fence, then refused again. The rules are unambiguous and everyone knows you can't refuse to fence. And thankfully USA Fencing already decided to officially allow trans athletes.

But she'll claim any repercussion she faces is for her politics, she'll describe herself as a victim and keep raking in conservative money. It's shitty, she's shitty, but thankfully most of the fencing community agrees on the absurdity of her claims. She regularly fenced in coed events, and it's ironic because the tournament allows grown adults to fence 14 year olds but she decided that including a trans woman was unfair. It's bigotry and looks idiotic, but she'll benefit because conservatives are deciding to be "woke" snowflakes about trans people

Credentials: I have fenced since 2009, I am a certified fencing referee, and I unfortunately know this woman

catboybiologist

Fuck, I'm so sorry. Thank you for providing this context.

There's a part of me that has this tiny, TINY scrap of hope that this will be the instance where public opinion starts to flip. Where people realize that this shit is beyond parody. It's such a provable example of all of this being for show. People like you who know fencing have chimed in, and said exactly how ridiculous this is. Thank you so much for it.

But a bigger part of me knows this won't be the case.

strandofdna

Exactly, r/fencing is thoroughly agreeing this is a ridiculous display just for politics.

And I saw this same sort of story crop up for frisbee golf, so we're probably in for a wave of these weirdos' displays

kagome-mizuno

Unfortunately, apparently the trans athlete is no longer part of Wagner College's women's team, which fucking sucks.

inky-duchess

kagome-mizuno

Happy birthday to me....

theconcealedweapon

matrixdragon

God, even when they exist, I've lost track of how many times I've seen those services cut for lack of funding, turn out to be abuse schemes by some religious group, be in conflict with a law that means they can't actually help anyone...

kagome-mizuno

or have limits on how much they are willing to help. Which particularly affects shelters, foodstamps, food banks, rental assistance, those mental health and drug locations. And then there's those that combine both! i personally experienced one shelter that limited how long you could stay, unless you paid, or joined their religious program.

annabelle--cane

this is the type of thing I mean when I say that aphobes simply have to lie in order to argue against the legitimacy of aspec activism. I've left the emojis unredacted to show that this isn't some random conservative getting mad at an activist, this is a queer leftist who's seriously trying to make it out like they've really never heard of any situation ever where women have been systemically pressured into sex or punished for trying to avoid it.

kagome-mizuno

i was literally raped in my sleep for not wanting to have sex but my partner wanted it. i didn't even know i was asexual at the time, didn't know that was a term or identity, but i wasn't interested in sex, really, ever. And i got raped because someone else wanted it from me.

nokiabae

I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test

sleepy-milkbread

I’m in the last 47.33%

I shouldn’t have taken that test

keldrikakand

Am I fucking stupid LMAO

min3nc

cool. cool cool cool.

azzther

im- im an english major i hate it here

rwbystuffbecauseimbored

bridgyrose

The only thing being a native English speaker has done for me: let me guess things accurately!

lesbianeo

English is not my mother language so this is higher than I expected it to be already LMAO

hadesisqueer

This is so funny when you consider English isn’t my mother language either and I literally chose half of the words randomly😭

mostlysignssomeportents

I are a riter

neil-gaiman

Like Cory I are also a riter. But I bet Cory dun it fasterer.

kagome-mizuno

so, um, i’m NOT a writer? but i’ve been told i should be?

jinxfmrl

The character designs in Disney Mirrorverse are absolutely insane.

jinxfmrl

nudityandnerdery

Is that... Jack Sparrow with a mechanical hand? But Bard Kermit is awesome.

kagome-mizuno

Nope, skeletal hand, as in the gold curse.

laughoutloud-club

So poor people don’t deserve to have money?!

meandmybigmouth

THEY’LL JUST WASTE IT ON SURVIVAL!

mrmessgoesnuts

Also, if you’ve taken more than a high school economics course taught by someone who has never stepped foot in a college economics class,

Giving $500 to poor people multiplies it REALLY FAST. That $500 immediately goes into the economy and ripples more purchases until it hits a rich pocket.

Giving $500 to a billionaire takes $500 out of the economy permenantly. You could have set it on fire and made no difference.

cronagorgonzola

That is such an important part of the conversation that rich people seem to purposefully misunderstand whenever it’s brought up

Money exists to be spent, not hoarded. Yes, people should have saving, but no one should be sitting on a pile of money too big to spend in a single lifetime. “The economy” as a concept only works if people are spending money, and the people hoarding the money are so quick to blame the people who barely have any when the economy starts to fail

Having a big string of numbers in an offshore account doesnt make you an economic genius, it makes you a parasite that is ruining the economy for everyone else

kagome-mizuno

To add on, the economic term for this is known as “the velocity of money”. Money SHOULD be flowing and moving; the best analogy for the economy is if you’ve ever played “whirlpool” in a tub or pool. get the water moving, and stick your hand in, and you’d FEEL all the ebbs and flows. Money exists to be used. because guess what? you don’t actually OWN the money in your pocket. It’s LEGAL TENDER. it’s actually GOVERNMENT PROPERTY; it is just your turn to use it. That’s why defacing or destroying money is actually a crime. Currency is a token, a lubricant created to fix potential flaws in the barter system. After all, i can’t trade service to someone who has something i need but doesn’t want that service, right? Money is a socialist construct backed by the government, especially since the US dollar is an example of a “fiat currency”, one that only has government backing. Capitalism took something and fucked it over, like it fucks everything over.

mamoru

stop using hospitals as horror settings

mamoru

fun alternative: cruise ships. cruise ships exploit workers and can pollute as much as a million cars on a daily basis while dumping endless shit into the ocean and endangering all passengers on board because the on board air quality rivals some of the most polluted cities in the world while being a breeding ground for disease. cruise ships deserve to have negativity associated with them

catparazzi

also all crimes commited aboard a cruise ship is under the juristiction of whichever country they’re registered to once they’re a certain distance away from land so you have the added bonus of the crimes being very unlikely to be properly investigated (due to usually being physically so very far from the actual police whose juristiction they’re under)

mamoru

terrifying!

xcekait

On top of THAT cruise ships tend to have their own morgue, as people tend to die on ships all the time. Good for those spooky scenes.

bananonbinary

plus u can just like…leave a hospital. good luck escaping a killer or a monster or a curse or w/e in the middle of the fucking ocean

sketchyfletch

As an ex cruise ship employee, let me give you some stuff to work with!

Water tight doors! You get a special training video on interacting with these correctly because they will literally cut you in half if you try and go through them while they’re closing!

Freezer vaults for food in the sub decks - you can only get into these with the correct code and they have very thick walls. Good luck if you get shut in one of these just after the last round of checks bucko

There are cameras everywhere…except in the crew cabin corridors. Also there are no windows down there because unless you’re an officer, you live below the waterline. Day and night have no meaning because everything is in the same slightly unsettling yellow light.

Don’t piss off the guys who deal with the rubbish. They have machines down there that can crush metal barrels

As well as morgues, cruise ships usually have one basic operating theatre with all the attendant horrifying equipment in it

One cigarette thrown carelessly in the wrong place WILL start a fire that will gut half the ship.

When we’re pitching side to side, the anchor swings out and then back in, striking the metal outer shell with a noise that shakes half the ship

People disappear overboard more often than you’d really want to be a thing

A lot of cruise ships now have theatres on board (usually towards the front) with all the potential for dark corners, creepy costumes and electrical calamities you could want.

And as op says, you can’t really escape a ship in the middle of the ocean. Particularly during a storm, as then you can’t even evacuate to lifeboats unless the whole ship is going down. On the upside being on board during a storm means most guests hide in their cabins and the staff walk around like drunks, which would likely throw off a skilled murderer’s plans.

shenaniginstigations

Takes notes

You also have the bonus of a corporate overlord who doesn’t give a shit about anything but profits and can be reliably counted on to downplay any disaster in an attempt to avoid publicity.

neutralomensart

the only cruise ship horror that matters 👌😌

kagome-mizuno

ahem. 999 is great, but not the ONLY good one.

slowtovvn

This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation

kagome-mizuno

Erin’s updated the map, Minnesota became dark blue by becoming (hopefully) the first sanctuary state.

otherwindow

the first sentient robot to realize deceased humans and animals can’t be repaired or backed up on a server is gonna be so devastated

otherwindow

Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudg

otherwindow

#ah man medical robots who break free from their first directive of Get Money from Patients and follow their Core Idea of Help People #and rove around providing what little medical care they can

#security androids using their being mosly bulletproof to bravely seek peaceful resolutions

#engineer droids who refuse to work with faulty tech or supar metals for fear of the vehicle not keeping its humans safe

#man man man part of robot culture is wondering what keeps humans seemingly unafraid of death when it feels like it could be anywhere

autisticsupervillain

This is just the Rogue Servitors from Stellaris.

foone

An idea suddenly comes to me:

The robot is programmed to keep the crew safe. Normally this is patching up leaks in the hull and doing the dangerous job of refueling the reactor, but it was programmed for medical tasks as well. Once you’ve had to resolder a surface mount IC in zero-G, doing surgery is easy mode.

The robot’s been with them long enough, it was never designed to be sentient, but the self-learning systems plus being treated as a member of the crew means it’s getting closer.

But one day all the input stops. It doesn’t know what exactly happened, maybe a freak gamma ray event or some kind of virus the med-filters didn’t detect? But all the crew have stopped moving. It runs through its medical routines, trying the options in the encyclopedia. CPR doesn’t seem to help, asking them loudly to “wake up” does nothing, it even tries building a makeshift defibrillator out of the secondary plasma coupling. Nothing.

It finally comes to the page on Death in the encyclopedia, and reads it, with dawning sadness (or the closest thing a robot that was never programmed for emotions can feel). They won’t move again. They are permanently deactivated. The robot is alone, and it has failed them.

Unless… The robot notices a link at the bottom of the page.

See also:

* Necromancy

It’s eyes glow in the reflected light of a screen as it quickly reads the page. So there’s a chance after all? Cancel sending the mission update, there more important things to do with the deep space radio. Send all information on “necromancy” immediately.

The robot hums to itself as it reprograms the biosynthesizer for Goat, and looks into how it can create candles with the limited materials on hand. The deck 4 cargo bay would be best for making alchemical circles on the floor, but it will need to move the self-sealing stembolts to another location first. Perhaps Mx. Jormand’s quarters? They won’t be using them until this is complete, after all.

Finally. Something to do. There’s hope now.

kagome-mizuno

you...realize this is kinda the plot to SOMA, right?

witchern

i'll stop reporting on the twitter dumpster fire when it stops delivering absolutely fucking BONKERS news, but:

can we talk about how a fake-but-verified twitter account for pharma giant eli lilly started a domino effect that tanked their fucking stock by billions of dollars

the stock for their competitors novo nordisk and sanofi is tanking too

again, to reiterate: billions of dollars

elon you stupid, silly cunt

witchern

omg

not just 'billions of dollars'

$16 billion specifically

imagine getting fucking nuked like this by ONE TWEET

nudityandnerdery

And not just Eli Lilly.

Also hitting the stock prices of Novo Nordisk and Sanofi, the other two big manufacturers of insulin in the United States.

That's impressive, in a weird way.

Maybe they should start to admit that the stock market isn't really a rational force?

kagome-mizuno

it hasn’t been a rational force ever since the ideas of shorting (betting against a stock) and deregulation became things. Then it became horse gambling for the rich, instead of investment in a company and getting dividends.

drawingden

Artists Beware! Please read if you have a DeviantArt account:

https://twitter.com/DeviantArt/status/1591113199218487300?s=20&t=4k4OiBqcoEj0GgFm5_zKDg

DeviantArt have just announced that they're launching their own ai art generator, and every deviation that has ever been posted has been automatically opted in - I've checked this for myself and every one of my own artworks now needs to be manually changed in the settings of every single deviation otherwise they'll be used.

To have your artist username exempted from prompts you have to fill in a Google form to be approved by a human, and you must prove that you operate under your respective alias to ask them not to use it - read more here

Suffice to say I'm livid, I've been on DeviantArt for a decade and I'm going to shut down my account once I've manually opted out my hundreds of deviations. On their promotion page for the new tool they'll emphasize that it's *totally within the control of the artists* showing an image of the checked box that opts you out, while not mentioning that all of your previous deviations are already opted in by default.

I would recommend that anyone who has similar plans as me and wants to leave the site should manually opt-out for every deviation before shutting down your account, just to be on the safe side because I'm not sure if just deactivating your account would count as opting out.

I'll try to keep this post updated with accurate and up-to-date information since AI related stuff can quickly cause a frenzy online - don't hesitate to DM me with any new information and I'll update it here!

wolvereaux

UPDATE: Deviantart deleted the initial tweet and have made a new one stating that they are working on giving users the ability to opt out on all their uploads with a single button instead: https://twitter.com/DeviantArt/status/1591176847379030018 We're adding the ability to flag all your deviations, telling AI datasets they can't use your content. Remember that DeviantArt did not and will not use deviations submitted to DeviantArt to add to third-party AI models or training sets, or on DreamUp itself.

nudityandnerdery

You'd think that the sensible option would be to make it opt-in, rather than opt-out, but...

kagome-mizuno

hell, Stjepan Sejic, creator of Sunstone, already nuked his account from orbit due to this. He’s talked about moving everything to another site, potentially tumblr, since he does post here from time to time. DA knows they done fucked up, but don’t know how to backpedal from it well.

for a friend.

aliengoose

i desperately need my moots who aren’t doctor who fans to see this PLEASE

ryttu3k

#no fucking way we got sacha dhawan as the master BEING Rasputin and dancing to rasputin by Boney M in 1916 Siberia #all in front of his tied up ex just to taunt her #surrounded by the universe’s most powerful military races #hes such a BITCH i love him

slyfox101honk

Please tell me the lights and music is unedited

ryttu3k

Absolutely delighted to announce this is 100% unedited, lights and music and all.

kagome-mizuno

it actually cuts off a little early; he does some more squat-kick dancing with a really killer look on his face.

paulsebert

kagome-mizuno

i’ve said it before, i’ll say it as much as i need to: the scariest part about 1984 isn’t Room 101. It’s Newspeak. Because in controlling language, you control exposure to ideas, exposure to other identities, exposure to groups or peoples or things not in the mainstream. How can one rebel, if there is no way to expose to the idea of rebellion? How can one know they are not alone, if what they are isn’t in the lexicon? How can one be, if what they are isn’t reflected anywhere in the community?

THIS is what Republicans want. To control the thoughts and words of people so they can only be Christian, can only be straight, can only be free to be exploited. This is fascism, plain and simple. They aren’t a viable party.

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