You need empathy to moderate. What other reason is there to do it? You want to make the community a better place by keeping things civil and on-topic. You also need to be able to level with people about their criticisms and concerns.

I had no idea I even relied on them until they were down. My favorite podcast hosts through them and I had to find a workaround.

I didn’t think this was that obscure. I made heaps of MP3 CDs full of video game music for my long drives to/from college. It was all both intuitive and easy for me - like the video shows you just copy the files on the disc and burn it.

20,000 years of this, 7 more to go!

Yup, connect has been fantastic for me, and I’m very surprised at the score.

Get platonic friends through a hobby, like D&D, online gaming, rock climbing, music, etc. Find something you can enjoy locally (ideally).

“Laying on grass” is complex?

Honestly, all the respectable advertisers left anyway so they have nothing to lose

Growing up is hard. It’s hard and nobody understands.

Hey what can I say we were overdue
It’ll be over soon, just wait

Believe it or not… no jail

Hard disagree. It got me walking around and exploring my town. It got me in contact with other Pokemon fans. It’s added an extra layer of reality on top of everywhere I go - vacations become rare opportunities for indiginous species hunting, which in turn become valuable trade offers.

Exercise is now a game, and I would otherwise be in front of a PC screen.

Never really understood the complaints about this tbh. Any time there’s relevant info from another movie or show, they summarize it, or it’s not necessary to enjoy the work on its own.

Like, Ms. Marvel has a magic bracelet and Photon is upset that Capt. Marvel disappeared for her whole life. That’s enough to go on and just enjoy the movie. If you want more detail, watch a YouTube video later, or just watch the series later 🤷

The comics have been operating this way for 100 years. If you want to start reading Batman, you don’t have to start with Detective Comics #1.

In most cases, the answer should really be “It’s none of my business”, but yes, it’d involve asking the person whether they’re authentic if you needed to verify for some reason.

But yes it really is wishful thinking, because it’s honestly about to be a shitshow. People are going to start getting credibly framed for things like child porn.

The ubiquity of AI fakes will necessitate a cultural shift. Honestly, the world is going to be a nightmare of misinformation soon and nudes may very well be the least of our worries.

What other options do we have? An ironclad verification system for any fabricated content? Wildly harsh penalties for all caught creating it? The ship has sailed - we won’t be able to prevent it from happening.

I’d argue that overexposure will make people quickly become accustomed/nonplussed at information we don’t believe to be true and verify with the source. Look at how we treat other fabricated content - if I showed you a screencap of the Pope saying “Fuck” you’d want to verify with a source directly.

I think the only thing we can do is to help out by calling this out. AI fakes are just advanced gossip, and people need to realize that.

I believe their point is that an employer logically shouldn’t care if some third party fabricates an image resembling you. We still have an issue with latent puritanism, and this needs to be addressed as we face the reality of more and more convincing fakes of images, audio, and video.

Great video! I couldn’t photo/video the eclipse properly, but I was just a short distance away in Fairfield, and this captures my experience perfectly :D

The electro swing zombie apocalypse ToS is better https://app.suno.ai/song/4e6b1da9-b5b3-453d-a5df-aaafbe54b98d

But yeah you can make some legit cool songs
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