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deathbird , to Not The Onion in The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat

'That statute prohibits state officials from “corruptly” accepting “anything of value from any person, intending to be influenced or rewarded” for an official act.'

This is quite literally the 'textualists' ignoring the text of the law. Creatively redefining what 'rewarded' means. Jackson's dissent is basically 'Did you read the text?', 'Do you think Congress knows what words mean?', and 'Do you own a dictionary?'

It takes a lot of education to make a ruling this stupid. It should be impeachable.

deathbird , to Patient Gamers in [Meta] Did we drop the "what are you playing" monthly thread? Also, mods haven't been active for a while, should someone take over?

Playing Disco Elysium for the first time and it's really good. Reminds me a lot of Planescape: Torment. Really a breath of fresh air after Fallout 4.

Fallout 4 had fun gameplay, but my god did the writing suck. There were a few good bits, but overall it was garbage. The 4-options-only dialogue system blew anyway, but the options were always "Yes", "No", "Meh/Sarcastic Yes", and "Tell me more!" It was terrible.

At least in Skyrim you were a nobody that everyone wanted a piece of, you lack of internal motivation was understandable. The conflicts were between the groups were rooted in a history you woke up in the middle of. There were literally chaos gods (daedra) fucking shit up. For the love of god Bethesda, please just make the next Fallout game an actual RPG.

Oh, and I also need to circle back around to Dave the Diver now that the Godzilla DLC is out.

deathbird , to Technology in FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

the AI has to be trained on something first. It has to somehow know what a naked minor looks like. And to do that, well... You need to feed it CSAM.

First of all, not every image of a naked child is CSAM. This is actually been kind of a problem with automated CSAM detection systems triggering false positives on non-sexual images, and getting innocent people into trouble.

But also, AI systems can blend multiple elements together. They don't need CSAM training material to create CSAM, just the individual elements crafted into a prompt sufficient to create the image while avoiding any safeguards.

deathbird , to Technology in FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

It would not need to be trained on CP. It would just need to know what human bodies can look like and what sex is.

AIs usually try not to allow certain content to be produced, but it seems people are always finding ways to work around those safeguards.

deathbird , to Technology in Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto
deathbird , to Technology in Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto

Actually agree, generally.

Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme basically, but it's not the only block chain in town.

Anonymous peer-to-peer financial exchanges can actually be good.

Cooperative ledgers can be good.

Public ledgers can be good.

https://theblockchainsocialist.com/

deathbird , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Platforms wonder why piracy is spiking

Looks like it's written by AI.

deathbird , to Not The Onion in Louisiana becomes 1st state to require the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms

Depends. Are you a Louisiana Republican legislator?

deathbird , to Technology in Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route

It's not a brilliant new idea, it's a good old one. Jitneys are back baby!

deathbird , to Not The Onion in It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in NC

It's so stupid.
Like, if the protesters do something illegal (actually illegal that is) then even if they have a mask on you can arrest them and make them take it off for mugshots. Also medical masks don't really cover enough of the face to prevent identification.

deathbird , to Not The Onion in Student protesters face same suspensions as those who bring assault rifles to campus

Yeah, I don't know that it would work well in these particular protests.

deathbird , to Technology in Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain

Isn't the old bit about organized crime how they always have a second set of books? After all they do want to be able to track their finances.

deathbird , to Technology in How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas

Or at this point, the one whose tracking is easiest and safest to avoid or circumvent.

deathbird , to Technology in How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas

Also mind that soon these new cars will be used cars with the same bullshit.

deathbird , to Technology in A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well.

Yeah.
No one ever gave me AdSense dollars for nearly busting my fucking head.

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