Your Government-Assigned Omega

Im Danae, erotica author, doll maker, hellenic pagan, transqueer they/them, returning under duress. Find my patreon, ao3, etc here: rifa.carrd.co

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[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[anarcho-catboyism]

We really went from "free the nipple" to "um the public didn't consent to you wearing a choker"

[hyperlexichypatia]

Around the same time as we went from "We need comprehensive safer-sex education in school because some non-negligible percent of teenagers will choose to have sex even if they're told not to" to "25 year old minor" and "17 year olds worried that they're pathological sex addicts for being horny while underage" and "11 year olds worrying that they're pedophiles because they're attracted to kids their own age."

[maureen-corpse]

One thing they don’t tell you about sewing is that it is actually ironing

[permian-tropos]

I haven’t read pathologic fic in a while but there’s a suspiciously high word count on a lot of recent multi chapter projects and I know some people are authentically immensely prolific but also I instantly found a fic that I can tell is AI generated. it LITERALLY mangled the plot details of the events it’s recounting in the first paragraph and keeps doing it, every other sentence is a mangled and overwrought metaphor, and yes it does use the not X but Y construction constantly. that’s only the tip of the iceberg. overall it SEEMS to resemble pathologic fic but if you look closer it’s just creepily wrong

I want to name the fic and let people judge for themselves but I know a lot of people aren’t attuned to these tells and won’t believe me and will play devil’s advocate. really, I kind of want to go through the whole thing line by line and eviscerate it as a teaching tool

I’m not claiming I can detect all AI text I’m saying that I am absolutely certain of this. I am witch hunting right now. I know a witch when I see one. I don’t care about this author’s feelings. if you want to forsake your humanity why should I treat you like a human. your fic is a soulless amalgam of real patho fic authors’ work. how very dare you.

[permian-tropos]

i’m still deliberating whether to outright name the author but I saw this on twitter, and I think this is why there are so many people complaining about a “witch hunt” because this problem is IMMENSE and a lot of people are probably trying to seed doubt into the conversation bc they are AI users

this is the study

fic prompters probably think their impact is negligible but you are actually some of the biggest users of this technofascist torment nexus

[betrayedbycinnamon]

Even if you’re right who are you helping? Airing the name just gives that person more readers as everyone flocks to see if they see the same thing you did and hop of the harassment bandwagon. Back out, block the author and leave it alone.

I’ve seen too many authors and artists devastated when falsely accused to see the benefit of weeding out the jerks using AI.

[permian-tropos]

The fic in question was tagged as having been written with AI assistance by the author, before I named it publicly. But I don’t consider this to be a problem of “jerks” in fandom but of people becoming unwitting tools of an apocalyptic technofascist scheme. GenAI is now a major part of the global capitalist military-industrial complex, on top of being used to accelerate climate chaos. I don’t actually want individual fanfic authors to suffer, but a loud and public boycott is nicest thing we can do. It’s common during a boycott for the boycotted industry to try to conceal itself to coerce people into violating their own boycott unawares. People hiding their use of AI are doing the company’s dirty work by violating the autonomy of the conscientious masses.

[mismedleym]

pet portraits from may! also comms are open again!

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[rifa]

Just deadass got an ad on YouTube for some ai chat app that had straight up bestiality?????????? I reported it but it looks like it was already taken down im just like??? What are we doing!!!!!!!

[rifa]

Nothing gives you the same sort of rush as digging a hole and extracting a surprisingly large rock out of said hole.

[cutecipher]

started laughing in the kitchen because ive been having really nightmarish chronic pain, feeling like i was being attacked and what i was doing was getting apple juice. thank you for the very important signals nervous system.

[cutecipher]

wouldn't want to let my guard down around apple juice.

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[eroscestlavie]

This just pissed me off so baaaad 😂

[starryizsleepy]

You pull up to the transmasc meetup and it looks like this

[archivearchangelica]

Pig Girl Discount Store, 2011

[kremlin]

uninstall adobe acrobat. it is malware. it has been malware. these aren't opinions: acrobat meets the definition of malware.

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

cheers

[andmaybegayer]

Firefox's built-in PDF.js viewer: does everything you could want from a basic viewer, fast enough search, and can now do annotations for filling in forms and such

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.

LibreOffice Draw: I don't ever really like having to open this but if you have to edit a PDF in detail it does work, and doesn't just vomit up a bunch of polygons when you give it text to work with. Better as an authoring tool than an editor.

[ms-demeanor]

I've 100% replaced free acrobat with the firefox built-in and it works wonderfully for general office use and research/reading/viewing. It doesn't have robust redaction capabilities, but if you need to fill and sign and highlight a form it's actually much more intuitive than acrobat reader.

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Tiktok post by @ topfreakdaddy666 (he/him).

[infectiouspiss]

restrained summer fun. tied up summer fun. bound and gagged summer fun.

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