Wafrn needs the moderation list feature so I can make a blockable list if AI poasters

Took an extra day off of work just so I wouldn’t have to take ibuprofen for a few days

Today on NovaLandia: My thoughts on Dune Awakening and my partial disappointment that what we’re dealing with is Conan Exiles in space, rather than Anarchy Online 2025

https://mkultra.monster/gaming/2025/07/17/dune-awakening/ #blogging #gaming #funcom

So payment processors are now going to decide what you can and can’t do with your own money

Please, Mastercard, Visa … don’t give crypto dudes more ammunition

The senate hearing: So, we conclude that Meta sucks ass and they disenfranchised millions of people by vacuuming up their work for their AI machine

The one dude chosen to represent Fart Fuckleburg: Well ahkshually

Mr. Hawley, despite his faults with his belief in capitalism and billionaires, is making some really great points against generative slop

“It’s morally wrong”

YEAH, it IS.

This Edward Lee guy sweating bullets trying to explain why violating the rights of every person in the country in order to feed AI sludge is good actually

You can’t compare generative slop to piracy, people aren’t pirating movies so that they can reupload them to Youtube and say, “I made this movie”

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/too-big-to-prosecute-examining-the-ai-industrys-mass-ingestion-of-copyrighted-works-for-ai-training

The virus of generative sludge is leaking into the minds and content of people who call themselves “antifascist” and “leftist” and this is entirely because people don’t speak against this oligarch-owned, climate destroying, creative death-trash enough

Sad that during potential financial censorship moving toward Steam I’m suddenly reminded of the Hardcoded cyberpunk game whose devs wanted to use my music, but I never heard from them after that? And the game’s been out? haha

Oh