I understand why people would think that this could be due to influence from the morality police type groups, but there’s also a pretty boring explanation. Kickstarter is seeing an increase in NSFW content and Stripe has never allowed that.

So, knowing how risky it is to try to go on social media and examine a situation with nuance… It’s pretty well understood in the industry that fraud rates are much higher for NSFW-related content

This is why your favorite porn website doesn’t charge your card directly and uses a third-party processor who charge them an increased fee (insurance) to eat the charge backs and fraud claims rather than having Visa or Mastercard block them.

Stripe doesn’t do adult-industry payments. Here’s the oldest page I could find in the Wayback machine, from 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20120511082217/https://stripe.com/terms

5. Prohibited Businesses

[…](38) sexually-oriented or pornographic products or services, […]

Kickstarter uses Stripe and so is bound by their terms. The terms are not new, they are at least 14 years old.

The thing that is new is Kickstarter is increasingly being used for NSFW content which violates the contract of the payment processor that they use.

I wonder how they like being on the other side of Embarce, Extend, Extinguish

6090, nice

Claude, find me all of the synonyms for “kiss Trump’s ass”

The Steam Big Picture mode we have at home:

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If you can mentally separate the technology from the capitalist orgy around trying to shoehorn LLMs into every possible thing, he’s not wrong.

The technology has promise, but the reality of what it can be useful for is complete overshadowed by the hype frenzy declaring the end of all knowledge workers and creatives.

LLMs are significantly better at translation than anything we’ve been able to design, for instance. But that’s not flashy, it doesn’t generate seed funding or lure investors so it’s largely not what people think of when they hear “AI”.

I really don’t like how sites don’t link to primary sources anymore.

Here’s the actual order: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/24-644/24-644-2026-04-29.html

https://theonion.com/fractures-emerge-between-gops-pro-pedophilia-extremely-pro-pedophilia-wings/

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It’s a neat mashup of genres.

They did a good job of making each of the heroes promote a unique kind of playstyle even though you’re using the same cards.

I did, at least, convince him to go to the doctor about the sores (so he would have a paper trail when he sues them).

Smartphones brought way too many people into the worst parts of the Internet without any preparation. Social media’s recommendation system and targeted advertisement made a whole section of our population crazy but LLM chatbots are a whole other level of personalized mental poison.

Right now the ‘evil’ uses of LLMs are just to run online influence campaigns more efficiently. They’re basically taking the old model that required humans to post on social media and providing a force multiplier.

We’re not ready for when these buddy chatbots start pushing political opinions directly. Grok is probably the first example of someone trying that exact thing, but they won’t be the last and they’re only going to get more effective.

People are just not mentally prepared for the level of sycophancy that these models display.

That kind of large scale gas lighting was previously only available to rich dictators but now OpenAI will rent it to you for $20/mo.

I have a relative that was convinced (by ChatGPT) that his neighbor was beaming radiowaves at him through their window because he had developed pressure sores on the back of his legs (likely from talking to ChatGPT). I brought a Software Defined Radio to his house and left it logging for a week to show him that there was no strong transmissions anywhere in the frequency range that ChatGPT had said.

He told me my equipment was broken. 😑

e: fixed pronouns

We did just fine before TSA

The SecDef position must be taking applications.

“some would call a legal lay up.”

The trick here is that you can literally use ‘some would say’ to say literally anything.

Some would say that leprechauns hide in ATMs on the east side of NYC.

Some would say that geese have 3 wings.

Some would say that the Earth is flat.

It’s a non-statement that is used everywhere. It sounds like they’re saying something, but they’re really not.

They seem confident enough to sell merch with the brand’s name:

I am far more worried about whatever the administration is planning on as far as the DHS is concerned. The PATRIOT act has granted them extraordinary powers in relation to fighting ‘terrorism’ without bothering to strictly define what ‘terrorism’ is… this administration has shown a gleeful willingness to apply that label to their political opposition.

At least National Guard members actually live in the communities that they would be asked to attack (however the administration may phrase it).

Everything is a game.

They’ve just turned this one into cat-and-mouse.

Pareto in shambles

The way they’re trying to get around this is:

1. Bribe the current administration (Already done) and;

2. Structure all of the bets so they are ‘Yes/No’ options and then pretend they are selling swaps and thus regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

3. Have the Federal Government intervene in these cases claiming that the Supremacy Clause means that only they, via the CFTC, can regulate swaps and these places are not gambling they are selling financial instruments. So any state regulation is invalid because the CFTC is already regulating these swaps which are totally not gambling.

4. Let administration official use insider knowledge to take advantage of all of the suckers so that #3. keeps going.