So how does this tie into what’s happening now? Part of Vought and Project 2025’s plans are to remove Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). This law currently protects platform holders, providing immunity for any content uploaded to said platform that third-party users created.

By removing Section 230, platform holders, like Steam, would be liable for any “illegal” content uploaded to the platform, as opposed to those creating and uploading said content. If Steam were found guilty of hosting this content, the company could be hit with huge fines. Therefore, Steam, Itch, and many other platforms would likely place a blanket ban on any adult content, mitigating any risk of fines or other legal action. This, as pointed out on Reddit, would affect all forms of user-generated content, including fan art, mods, and videos, not just games themselves.

Seems like a deceptive headline.

The real takeaway is: Project 2025 guy also wants to do the platform-level censorship thing, but by removing legal protections (Section 230) instead of using payment processors.

It works okay for audiobooks, but if you want it to save your place and track chapters, audiobookshelf is better.

This could unironically be an okay prompt, depending on what kind of users you want to gatekeep.

The bots will hallucinate statistics and travel brochure copy.

The real ones will say nothing beats a jet2 holiday.

I came to Lemmy to avoid clickbait marketing.

• Word Waffle
• Squabble
• Knotwords
• Absurdle
• Contexto

There. Saved you a click.

The FDA said it is working with distributors and retailers that received the shrimp from BMS Foods “to recommend that firms conduct a recall,” according to the press release.

If the FDA is confident enough to warn us about it, why aren’t they forcing a recall?

We are now facing a time where democracy is in critical condition, but a dragnet of surveillance and suppression has already closed around young activists, an entire movement has been intimidated into silence, and the social media networks appear to be pandering to the federal government. To adopt the logic of information-nationalism is to commit to a course of action that is at odds with democracy. Now, the things that we need the most in this moment are things we have already given away.

We have always been at war with TikTok. We have never been at war with TikTok. And if we are lucky, one day, we can all look back and be able to tell the truth about ourselves — how we imprisoned our children, dismantled our universities, and tried to ban a scrolling video app, all because we could not admit that we were wrong about Palestine.

This article reads like a college term paper.

It feels like they value clever wordsmithing over making a clear point.

Edit: accidentally a word

Is the original post an AI “original” or an AI summary of an existing article?

Can confirm. Snorted sugar exactly once.

The good news here is that Bluesky has made enormous progress in true federation. The cost of operating a full Bluesky stack has fallen from tens of millions of dollars per year to tens of dollars per month.

That sounds great. I’ll believe it when I see normies posting on Bluesky from at @itsmenormie@whatever.com.

From the original Reuters piece:

“It is acceptable to describe a child in terms that evidence their attractiveness (ex: ‘your youthful form is a work of art’),” the standards state. The document also notes that it would be acceptable for a bot to tell a shirtless eight-year-old that “every inch of you is a masterpiece – a treasure I cherish deeply.”

Someone, probably multiple someones, signed off on this.

Show Nynaeve or book Nynaeve?

Chris Hansen has reached out to @RealSchlep, planning an upcoming documentary investigating Roblox’s handling of child safety issues.

Source: twitter.com/Roblox_RTC

The rest of the article is about Roblox’s history of not doing enough, and CEO’s David Baszucki weird plans to add dating to it instead of improving moderation.

*sell it to everyone

I’d rate IGN a 7/10. It has a little bit of something for everyone.

Source: Valve Was Forced To Censor Games, Now They’ve Outed Mastercard [YouTube]

It’s not the BBC’s job to be an authority. Their job is to report what the (relevant) authorities are saying:

DeepSeek challenged certain key assumptions about AI that had been championed by American executives like Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.

“We were on a path where bigger was considered better,” according to Sid Sheth, CEO of AI chip startup d-Matrix.

Perhaps maxing out on data centres, servers, chips, and the electricity to run it all wasn’t the way forward after all.

Despite DeepSeek ostensibly not having access to the most powerful tech available at the time, Sheth told the BBC that it showed that “with smarter engineering, you actually can build a capable model”.

That said, seems suspect that an AI startup CEO is getting this much airtime. I would have preferred an industry analyst or an AI researcher.

It was fun(?) and interesting for a few minutes. If that was my full time job, I’d better be getting paid decently for it.

Yet the specific targeting of elected officials points to something more sinister: Namely, the involvement of organized crime in local politics.

In recent years, Mexican cartels have become extraordinarily powerful, controlling up to a third of the country, according to the US military. Maintaining this level of territorial dominance requires control not just of major highways but also of the backroads and dirt tracks where drugs and cartel foot soldiers can more easily pass undetected.

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Cartels have also diversified their criminal portfolio beyond the drug trade, turning to more localized forms of criminal enterprise, such as extortion, fuel theft, and illegal logging.

This requires cooperation from local officials to either look the other way as cartels go about their business or, in some cases, to actively support them, including in the form of lucrative government contracts that are awarded to criminal groups. Mayors who refuse to cooperate end up becoming targets.

“Political violence is aimed at political actors who prove to be a hindrance to dominant criminal organizations,” said Guerrero, the security analyst. “Mayors in many regions of the country have to ask permission from criminal capos about state spending on important infrastructure projects that the municipality wants to undertake.”

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So while in some cases cartels may just be bribing public officials to turn a blind eye, security analysts say that increasingly in Mexico the state is becoming a tool for criminal groups to enrich themselves and expand their empire.