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[George Alexopoulos @GPrime85]

Contrary to what one might think, limitations force creativity, focus, and innovation. Too many options can lead to choice paralysis and wasted resources.

This is a rule in many artistic fields, maybe life too. Boundaries are actually a good thing. If you have a hundred choices instead of a handful, you may burn out trying to explore every option instead of digging deep and getting creative.

This is also true in romance: It's how we end up with 40 year old "dating experts" who can't hold a relationship and don't understand what love is, because they long stick around long enough to experience giving and receiving it.

It's how we end up with video games that look amazing and have a million features but have zero depth. Like the supermodel who has zero personality.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

A tourist was seriously injured after a bison tossed them about 8 feet into the air in Yellowstone National Park. The attack was captured on video by photographer Mike Macleod.

[☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋 @LilithLovett]

Sony announced them killing off physical games with a tweet and a blog post like it was some regular Wednesday, expecting people will be mad for a bit and move on.

And now the backlash has gotten so big it’s being covered by mainstream news outlets.

DON’T LET UP, DON’T SHUT UP.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Mexican lawmakers are preparing to file an antitrust complaint against Sony over its reported plan to stop releasing new physical PlayStation games after 2028.

They argue that if the PlayStation Store becomes the only place to buy new PS5 games, Sony could gain too much control over prices and distribution.

The complaint will reportedly be filed by Federal Representative Iraís Reyes and Senator Luis Donaldo Colosio with Mexico’s competition authority. They argue that:

- Without physical copies, PlayStation users would lose the ability to shop around for the best prices.
- Retailers that sell new games could be pushed out of the market.
- The second-hand and game-trading market would effectively disappear.
- Sony would have greater control over game pricing and distribution through the PlayStation Store alone.
- Developers and publishers could become more dependent on Sony’s platform and its commercial terms.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

They’re normalizing automated surveillance of texts, emails, and photos without warrants or suspicion.

Basically treating every citizen like a potential criminal. And once the scanning infrastructure exists, expanding it to “hate,” “disinfo,” or political speech is just one law away.

And they’re doing it while admitting the system generates massive false positives that waste police time and harass innocents.

All sold as “protecting children.”

[Emerald Apple @AI_EmeraldApple]

That person is just an online prostitute who has been saying similar things for engagement bait. They are getting more desperate because, obviously, there is a ceiling to their disgusting offerings, and fewer and fewer people are willing to pay to see things like that.

Simply, most straight men aren't interested in watching male genitalia on someone pretending to be a woman... and it is just a predictable outcome for mid- to end-stage trans adult content creators whose following is waning.

Calling people who don't want to engage with their content, transphobic is sure to bring in more customers again... or not.

Maybe they are trying to exit the space and date straight men, but again... most straight men don't want to date trans anything.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

In his final hours, Sen. Lindsey Graham called President Trump to brief him on his recent trip to Ukraine and press for a Senate vote on new Russia sanctions. Trump said he was preparing fresh strikes on Iran following another attack on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Graham later fell ill but joked, "I can't die now," insisting he still had to pass Russia sanctions, "get Iran sorted out" and achieve Israeli-Saudi normalization. He died hours later. - Axios

[Wrapbit @Wrabpit]

We shall see to it that is scattered and known.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

This is how every small act of tyranny is enacted. The administrative state does not look for permission, it does not hold a "vote". It just does things, and the things it does are always designed to reduce liberty just a little bit more, because the adminstrative state is wholly populated by awful little goblins who despise freedom.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

The surveillance state is already enforcing petty tyrannies all over the place. AI will make it far worse. Society will just become a prison, where the million little stupid laws and regulations invented by the nebbish busybodies start getting enforced down to every rigid little letter in the small print by their omniscient Cyber-Karen.

Everyone arguing from technological inevitability is mistaken. This is a political question. It's no different in concept from whether or not the state should be permitted to open your mail, or to install bugs in your house, or to tap your phone. The technology to do all of those things has existed for a long time, but that technology existing didn't make its use inevitable. Free societies deliberately prohibited such invasion of privacy. Just because the state has the technical capacity to do something does not mean that we have to tolerate it.

We aren't a free society anymore of course, and we haven't been for decades. Flock cameras are just one more element in the open air prison we're allowing to be built up around us. But again, that's not a technological question, it's a political one.

[🌘ʀᴇᴠᴇɴᴀɴᴛ⚡ @revenant_MMXX]

Flock has finally provided petty tyrants with a solution for the classic "dragnet" problem. In the past, mass surveillance didn't seem that dangerous because there was no practical way to micromanage such a large amount of data. Humans couldn't do it, but LLMs can. With enough coverage, bureaucracy will be able to use Flock for the pettiest enforcement of every microinfraction. Anyone defending is revealing themselves as short-sighted and small-minded. You simply don't have the imagination to conceptualize what can be done with this kind of infrastructure. Every little unimportant thing can potentially be documented and analyzed. Install enough cameras and they'll be able to ticket every roll through a stop sign and every five-over speeder. You will learn about laws against "crimes" you didn't even know existed because they were just unenforceable and pointless in the past.

And some of you will defend this because "buh da changing consumer habits" as if you should settle for being a slave instead of demanding the removal of the actual problem.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Chinese courts have ruled that gaming accounts, in-game items, and digital purchases can be passed on to family after death, setting a major legal precedent for digital ownership.

The decisions come from several court cases over the years, with judges ruling that these digital assets have real value and should be treated like other property. In one recent case, a mother was allowed to inherit her late son’s 87 gaming accounts.

The courts also ruled that platform terms of service cannot automatically block inheritance if the law permits it. However, personal data such as private messages and chat history remain protected and are not included.

[Chibi Reviews @ChibiReviews]

IMPORTANT NEWS:

People will look you dead in the eyes and say this isn't something to worry about

>YouTube takes down political discussion clip discussing EU's Chat Control

>Age Verification is just a tool to silence everyone and invade your privacy

>YouTube warned a week ago that the UK will be forcing their mainstream news to appear on Top of the Algorithm

>This will very likely happen in the EU soon too

>Its propaganda to censor the entire platform and hurt indie creators with the algorithm change

Remind me again how this is helping kids? Obviously its not

[Perma Banned ထ🔨 @GiveMeBanHammer]

Apparently there’s talk rn that there’s likely quite a bit of underhanded tactics that was employed to force it to pass despite lacking votes…how “Democratic”.

I don’t want to read another post or comment from some random EU-supporting comedian telling me that EU “champions democracy and free speech”, as their governments just (allegedly suspiciously) passed the biggest privacy invasion bill by far.

Your hot air means nothing. The Emperor has no clothes.

[Perma Banned ထ🔨 @GiveMeBanHammer]

Can you all just STOP it already. You World Economic Forum stooges and shills keep saying this over and over again, every single year SINCE 2016.

I am NOT going to drink the bugs.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

> European Parliament proposes a bill for “safety”
> Ask the EU if it’s a bill for safety or a totalitarian facade for censorship
> EU doesn't understand
> Show illustrated diagram explaining difference between freedom and totalitarianism
> EU laughs and says "it's a good law sir"
> Read the bill
> It's totalitarianism

[Chibi Reviews @ChibiReviews]

EU I hope you ready to have no privacy or rights

The slippery slope begins and Pandora's box is now open

[Emerald Apple @AI_EmeraldApple]

It all started with "think of the children". Remember people getting arrested for possessing legal artwork of anime illustrations on their phones? Yeah... buckle up because It's gonna get a lot worse.

Now the EU authorities will have full monitoring power over private messages and direct messages.

This isn't even the endgame of this moral panic safetyism, where people are trading their freedom for the guise of protecting their children. This mandates client-side scanning on the user's devices for any offending material before it is encrypted. Then the automatically generated report is forwarded to the authorities.

The endgame is FULL CONTROL over what you are allowed to say and not allowed to say, what you are allowed to enjoy, and might make certain video games and anime completely illegal.

Send some totally normal anime images to a friend via chat? AI content detection falsely flags it as CSAM, and then you get arrested.

Meanwhile, the real victims continue to get groomed and abused by the usual suspects as the authorities turn a blind eye, as they "don't want to exacerbate racism".

We have gone beyond the metrics of a simple "clown world"... this is just straight-up Anarchotyranny hell world, monitoring legal speech, while actual criminals are allowed to victimize anyone.

[Perma Banned ထ🔨 @GiveMeBanHammer]

Stop the gaslighting, Sony ruined their own reputation with:
1. dynamic pricing nonsense
2. being source of the Helldivers 2 PC scandal, where the game was forcibly delisted and in over 100 countries because they didn’t have PSN service even though it ran without PSN for months.
3. Removing countless movies and games over the years people have bought.
4. Mass censorship of various games primarily Japanese games.
5. Gutting Sony Japan Studios
6. Going all in on Live service, and demoting Shuhei Yoshida, a 30+ years veteran who worked with Ken Kutaragi the Playstation founder, for criticising the venture.
7. Now removing physical media by 2028

And many more.

It is not the customer’s fault that the business is chasing them away by treating them like trash and forcing them to pay more for less.

Wouldn’t you be mad if Playstation served you garbage out of a trashcan and force you to pay $70 for it? You know what perhaps a Playstation Fanboy wouldn’t be mad.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Persona 4 Revival producer Kazuhisa Wada has confirmed that some of Yosuke’s dialogue has been updated fitting for the “world we live in now."

Wada explained, “He’s a little bit insensitive in terms of how he treats outsiders sometimes.

So we wanted to lighten that up and make it a little bit more fitting for the world we live in now.”

He added that the team didn’t want to change who Yosuke is as a character. Instead, they focused on updating a few lines while keeping his personality and role in the story the same

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