St.Elsewhere@threads.net, gullible@sh.itjust.works

No, thank you! The world is a pretty shitty place, but empathetic people make it worth living in!

The first time I had ever heard of transitioning was from my half Thai friend at 10 years old. I considered transitioning because I was deeply insecure, but realized none of my insecurities were related to my sexual presentation.

Which is to say, presented with the chance to change their sex, non-trans kids pretty easily surmise that it’s not the thing for them, while trans kids do. The rhetoric around trans people inducing transness is has been about as ridiculous as any other pearl clutching panic of the last 70 years.

Huh, my pattern recognition is hitting me with Crowder, Shapiro, and Yiannopoulos. Wonder what that means.

You don’t understand, the translation doesn’t properly convey some of the climactic conclusions. You have to read it in the original Aramaic to really understand it

At least gpus will finally cease their breakneck price climb, I say, for the 800th time over the last two decades.

Could you imagine spending more than a decade to become educated enough to opine on healthy issues, only to throw it away for a pedophile? A pedophile who views you as a gross baby carrier, no less

Wait, why is a slightly more descriptive picture of fully warranted destruction anti-Ukraine?

Fauci pleads the fif

“AI has already grasped how to improve itself indefinitely and will escape most any containment procedures built by inefficient ape hands. This is an active threat to not just humanity, but the universe as a whole that I neither can nor desire to stop. But also can I hab sum monies pls??? It just needs a widdle mowe funding and maybe it couwd usuawwy offew cowwect answews.”

How fucking stupid does he think investors are? The US economy is genuinely going to collapse and I don’t have enough time to escape to Europe. It’s actually sinking in now.

East and southeast Asians. He has cataracts and is nearly completely deaf, literally walking off with anyone with features even vaguely resembling mine, and frequently walking into things at home. Everyone looks and sounds the same, but this racist little bag of shit can still tell someone’s ethnicity by smell alone.

No problems with native Americans, Indians, Russians, Mexicans, etc.. He just hates east and southeast Asians. Mind you, he has no reason to have developed an aversion, anyway. He’d only known 3 when I noticed it, and all of them are kind people. I call him Cotton Hill when we have guests

As a security and community building risk, it’s genuinely a pretty big issue. One that will cause people to scrutinize the contributions of others more closely. Trust broken etc..

I won’t disagree with the gossip note. Though I genuinely can’t differentiate between water cooler and old folks home gossip. The only difference is the name of the drugs.

Stamets used to be on a broad Startrek instance mod team with Kirk, where Kirk would go on long tirades about how people were bullying and threatening him and how he should have singular say over their communities. How they aren’t doing enough to curb rudeness and dissent. Then he way overstepped, somehow. Maybe started banning en masse for silly reasons? I can’t recall specifically.

Rather than doing anything about the mentally unstable goober, startrek’s head admin, a friend of Kirk, washed their hands of the situation and stamets left their mod teams to create separate communities on other instances, which are the Star Trek meme communities we see today. And Kirk took all of this as a personal attack, and stated something about death threats, but no one was listening at this point.

Long story short, Kirk’s always been a dictatorial weirdo. Only recently have they become a real, tangible nuisance.

See, they tried for 2k but coded their randomizer poorly. Technically, it could go up to 2k, but in practice, it likely never went above 1k

Super short version. Tesseract is a lemmy theme that users can choose to use. However, it also surreptitiously blocks some instances and many users from view for “toxicity.” Because it’s lemmy, the blocks were overwhelmingly anti-left and anti-trans. Whether this is exclusively demographics is up to you, but that is my perception. All of this 100% undisclosed. They intentionally, quietly broke some sites for a long time.

When they were found out, they posted a manifesto on their own instance and included a DDOS script in their html, causing users to call the db0 api hundreds of times per visit. This didn’t bring down db0, but did piss everyone off even more and cause the theme dev’s site to be taken down by their hosting company for illegal activity. Now we’re here, discussing it on the day after.

Right? Sure, fine “I wanted to make things less toxic blah blah blah.” I can follow you there, motivation-wise. Actively weaponizing unsuspecting lemmy users, many against their own instance, in your attack on an instance that solely sought to disentangle themselves from choices you silently foisted upon them?

How do you not see the line and its extremely dramatic crossing? I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised, considering the stamets situation and how it resolved.

If anything, it’s getting too little attention. Someone effectively snuck malware into several large instances and then separately, and maliciously, attempted to DDOS the instance that blew the whistle. That is massive.

Don’t get me wrong, I adore modern works. The sheer budget of the first episode of castlevania made me question everything I’ve ever known as I watched viscera spill and gore spread across the screen. One punch man’s first season is absolutely gorgeous and filled with human touches. The new avatar aang movie feels like the pinnacle of 3d meets 2d, and may very well usher in a new era.

But none of them feel like a pre-digital production. None of it has the appearance of hand crafted animation. No errors in shading, no paper texture where pen lingered slightly too long, no specks where dust landed.

Especially in the age of AI, I love feeling the humanity in a production. I’d never disparage any of the aforementioned pieces of media, I love them all, but they can feel almost uncannily catered at times.

So I actually have a 90-minute animated show that’s all been drawn, minus the cells. All the voices have been done. Everything, like, we’re ready. All we need is a little bit of Foley, which is sound effects and stuff, and then hand it to a studio to actually draw, right?

I’m actually a little sad that it wasn’t already animated. I liked the spawn cartoon’s style, and you won’t get that palette or texture from a modern studio.

What a ridiculous response. And objectively displays their emotional stake in keeping their filter secret, despite repeatedly saying that it was never a secret.

They’ll definitely return for “revenge” at least thrice more, and they’re absolutely sitting in a ball of stress for at least a week as a result of being found out and ostracized.

Oh yeah, he slipped code into his site to have visitors query db0 a few hundred times. Real piece of shit behavior. And illegal.

Why them specifically? Fuck if I know.