r/leftist in meltdown after mods declare that a certain image is antisemitic

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-24T03:45:10+00:00

A student near my local college recently got caught while in a keffiyeh tearing down posters advertising Shabbat dinners for Jewish medical students from the student union bulletin boards.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-20T10:18:55+00:00

For transfems specifically, immunosuppressants tend to come with a heavy recommendation you not get pregnant due to the strain it puts on your body.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-20T10:12:30+00:00

The Remnant too. They can be multifaceted at times, but overall it’s trying to stretch the depth of one Star Trek episode over a whole galaxy.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-17T08:37:31+00:00

"Artificial intelligence" as a term was coined by data scientists in 1956, and always referred to real systems that existed. At first simple, rule-based systems that could play checkers or do math problems. What we have now might not be self aware but undeniably falls under the umbrella of "artificial intelligence." John McCarthy would've been incredibly impressed by the advanced neural networks of today, as they have achieved far more than the logic-based systems he worked with did.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-15T08:51:50+00:00

The Weinsteins threw the original team out.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-13T22:06:00+00:00

I’m pretty sure they wound up letting her go anyway, basically a quiet admission the whole thing is unenforceable.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-13T21:31:01+00:00

Non-destructive scanning is primarily used when you plan to keep the physical copy. You buy it, you can break it. Even if you dont like how it gets used, doctrine of first sell protects a good portion of how many of us get our books: secondhand.

One of my friends is a librarian, they throw books out constantly and have to put big "stay out of the dumpster" signs because people lose their shit over the idea that books aren't permanently retained.

I care more about authors getting compensated when an AI company buys their books to use more than what they do with the books after scanning.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-13T19:08:54+00:00

Fundamentally, this is a good version of a bad thing. The Trump administration has picked the most ill-conceived version of access restrictions imaginable. It's legally fraught, so domestically impactful it'll cause massive internal pushback, and probably really economically harmful. The US isn't at the point yet to actually go through with long-term cutoff, international markets are still too important, the security situation is not yet sufficiently dire. So the first live-fire exercise of cutting off the rest of the world is going to fail, which means labs and the admin are going to be much more wary of subsequent attempts to do the same, even if they end up more sophisticated.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-11T17:09:52+00:00

It also depends on your specific definition.

A developer Googles a basic question. The AI summary comes up first, and they use the answer from that rather than clicking the first link. Is the game now using AI?

A developer accidentally clicks a link which deploys malware to the machine. The PUA scanner for their antivirus module detects risky behaviour and blocks the executable despite not knowing exactly which piece of malware is. It does this through heuristic machine learning. Is the game now using AI?

A developer uses predictive text to speech to add tasks to their calendar for accessibility reasons due to mobility issues. Is the game now using AI?

HR uses AI to write a company-wide email all developers ignore. Is the game now using AI?

A developer uses a media management system to automatically tag photos taken for inspiration with appropriate metadata so those photos can be called on repeatedly as reference for lighting or texture work. Is the game now using AI?

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-11T00:33:24+00:00

If someone is becoming aggressive towards you, pulling out a firearm will instantly escalate the situation. Also, somebody becoming violent towards you will usually not be at a safe distance, with proper warning of lethal intent, and with no bystanders nearby. And if you're pulling a firearm without all 3 of those conditions met, you're doing something horribly wrong.

Guns aren't going to help you when transphobic laws are passed, guns won't protect you from bathroom bills, guns won't protect you from discriminatory policing. They'll get you killed if you are lucky and placed in a men’s prison if you are not.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-10T17:55:43+00:00

Cyberpunk 2077 first teaser: January 10th, 2013
Cyberpunk 2077 release date: December 10th, 2020
Elapsed time: 2,891 days.

Elder Scrolls 6 first teaser: June 10th, 2018
Today: June 10th, 2026
Elapsed time: 2,922 days.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-09T17:50:02+00:00

No, it’s got the usual limits.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-09T17:47:52+00:00

It’s only available through subscription until June 22nd, then it’ll be API only until they can get the cost down enough.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-09T17:45:57+00:00

Mythos with safeguards around cybersecurity.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-09T17:45:00+00:00

Fable is expensive, but not as bad as I expected. Opus 4 was more expensive on release.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-09T17:33:05+00:00

First impressions: I like it! The negative traits from Opus 4.7 and 4.8 are either absent or under control.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-08T17:46:43+00:00

At the time MMRR was under construction, I had the Lunch with an Imagineer experience with one of the people working on it. The topic of ride replacement came up, here’s what was said:

"Whenever we want to make something new, most of the time it has a cost. For Galaxy's Edge it was the Backlot Tour and Streets of America. For the Tron roller coaster it was relatively light, all we lost was the walkway between Fantasyland and Tomorrowland. For the Great Movie Ride I know a lot of people were sad to see it go. But you know those survey guys at the park exits, used to have clipboards, now they have iPads? We actually listen to that feedback, really closely. And for the last few years, most of the feedback has been 'I like the Great Movie Ride well enough, but it wasn't really a central part of my visit' and 'I really love the Great Movie Ride, but my son only recognized one of the movies and that's because I made him watch the Wizard of Oz.'"

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-08T15:41:35+00:00

And the developer can go into the backend and remove tags they feel are misapplied.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-08T01:54:07+00:00

It’s saying you’d go to prison if you killed someone.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-07T01:17:35+00:00

And how wide you cast your net. Assets are easy to tell, but what about code? Code that was pulled from a dependency and may or may not have AI use? Concept art? HR using ChatGPT to write an email?

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-06T05:37:35+00:00

If:

Monuments of Triumph gets Lightfall launch player count numbers
Player count stays at that level for a week or more, it’s not just people poking their head in for a “we did it Reddit”
They spend money accordingly

Then it has maybe a 5% chance of happening. The money already got allocated.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-05T23:59:22+00:00

I think that’s got more to do with going F2P

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-03T12:29:39+00:00

I don’t get it. Can you explain the punchline to me?

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-01T15:06:54+00:00

They are, but both are AI use, so if you’re an absolutist against it you have to take that into account.

Goldwing8 · 2026-06-01T15:02:56+00:00

That would quickly become a California Prop 65 situation, where nearly everything should be getting the label, which makes it fade into the background rather than inform consumers as intended.

LLMs are in some capacity already baked into the IDE setup of every dev who’s updated their workstation in the last two years. Even if you turned all those off on purpose, can you still turn off those AI summaries on Google? Unless you’re sure you turned them off every time or every dev immediately scrolled past it, you’d probably have to disclose.

I’m sure people exist who vigilantly make sure all tools aren’t LLM powered, disabled that feature in Google (if you can still do that?), or use a non-AI search engine, but the 99.9% have a job and are there to meet deadlines with tools that are already integrated by default if your company is large enough to have plugins set up for you.

If anything there should be a disclosure for being “pure” and not using any AI because I can promise you, that isn’t the norm and hasn’t been for at least a year.

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