Once this review is complete, we will introduce new compliance measures. For NSFW pages, this will include a new step where creators must confirm that their content is allowable under the policies of the respective payment processors linked to their account.

kind of a clever way to say “hey don’t give us grief, if you want to change this go complain to visa and mastercard.”

the payment processors didn’t randomly wake up this week and decide to ban NSFW video games on a power trip.

they are being financially pressured in some way to threaten game platforms that they’ll remove their services completely. the implication of that is they’re worried about losing even more money than they make from payments on game platforms.

from the payment processors perspective, they’re thinking, “okay this is not a hill we want to die on and it’s a small percentage of our business anyway.”

i’m not worried about the transparency, i’m sure they’ll tweak that til it works.

what has me intrigued is the new spacing of the UI elements at the bottom of apps. for example the very first pic of the music app - everything looks cramped together with a bunch of wasted space near the edges.

But, sometimes it’s hard to tap buttons in the corners with my thumb, so moving the buttons out of the corners may be nice ergonomically. curious to try it out.

just as frustrating are all the people in the “middle” who are more ambivalent about trump but still voted for him because of egg prices.

more like pre-alpha. veeeery early stages of development.

the problem is “he” isn’t the only one building AI. If it wasn’t openAI it would have been someone else. And soon almost anyone with small business level of resources will be able to have an AI platform at their disposal.

I’m not saying the guy is a paragon of virtue or anything, but a voice from within the industry should be valuable to get legislators on board to do something about it. Not that I have great faith in them either.

Inverse Ron Swanson. Inhabit corporations and make shit run as inefficiently as possible.

the mythical horse sized duck?

she’s a theoretical physicist but thinks she’s an expert on everything.

it’s not just billionaires, it’s all the people who don’t want their precious 20th centruy lifestyle to be altered in the slightest and selling out the future for it. If we the people voted to protect the environment, we would be doing that.

Lysenkoism 2025

More than 3,000 mainstream biologists were dismissed or imprisoned, and numerous scientists were executed in the Soviet campaign to suppress scientific opponents.[1][2][3][4] The president of the Soviet Agriculture Academy, Nikolai Vavilov, who had been Lysenko’s mentor, but later denounced him, was sent to prison and died there, while Soviet genetics research was effectively destroyed.[3][4] Research and teaching in the fields of neurophysiology, cell biology, and many other biological disciplines were harmed or banned.

what ever happened with the sequel? i thought it was nearing completion years ago.

edit: supposedly to be released in october

i really liked the combat, that was the best part of the game. i remember the shotgun/biotic build was especially fun.

splinter cell, tomb raider, call of juarez

mRNA vaccine research in America? don’t need that, cancel the funding!

i was curious about the ethics of exposing people to toxic fumes (even with consent):

The key to maintaining volunteer safety is that researchers dilute pollutants to levels roughly matching those found in major urban centres.

“[Pollution] will be created by the engine or the furnace and then diluted by filtered air down to a safe level,” said Carlsten.

It will take another five seconds to find the same info using the web.

good. every additional hurdle between a suicidal person and the actual act saves lives.

Unless you also think we should censor the entire web and make it illegal to have any information about things that can hurt people, like knives, guns, stress, partners, cars…

this isn’t a slippery slope. we can land on a reasonable middle ground.

People will not be stopped suiciding because a chat bot doesnt tell them the best way, unfortunately.

you don’t know that. maybe some will.

the general trend i get from your comment is you’re thinking in very black and white terms. the world doesn’t operate on all or nothing rules. there is always a balance between safety and practicality.

I dont agree with the argument that chat gpt should “push back”. They have an example in the article where the guy asked for tall bridges to jump from, and chat gpt listed them of course.

but that’s an inherently unhealthy relationship, especially for psychologically vulnerable people. if it doesn’t push back they’re not in a relationship, they’re getting themselves thrown back at them.

but:

1. way less convenient to generate dozens and dozens of unique, complex passwords. which means it’s less likely to be used/updated as much as it should be.

2. not tied into MFA which is an additional layer of security and convenience

or even if the dude was just not draped all over the lady in a public arena with tens of thousand of other people.