Hard Pass

Related news: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/18/israeli-forces-intercept-gaza-bound-aid-flotilla

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1131888/the-owner-of-my-airbnb-has-a-dog-named-kevin-his-human-sounding-name-terrified-me-at-fir

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Too spicy?

I have a debilitating fear of needles and had to have my partner do it for me but I did it!

Unrelated picture of Ripley using his only brain cell

Here's a behind the scenes

From the creator:

The models powering generative AI platforms have been trained on the work of countless artists, generally without consent or compensation. This questionable provenance aside; it is arguable the most successful use cases for these systems are misinformation, manipulation, defamation, theft, and fraud. There is also an environmental impact to expending massive amounts of computational power on something of such dubious value. As these ethical, economic, social, and ecological issues are fundamental to the technology – I will always reject their use in my work.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1131742/linkedin-user-hides-ai-prompt-injection-in-bio-to-force-recruitment-spam-to-be-sent-in-o

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1130290/roblox-must-face-iowa-consumer-fraud-claims

Full Ruling.

On May 13, 2026, the Iowa District Court for Polk County issued a ruling allowing Iowa's consumer fraud lawsuit against Roblox Corporation to move forward.

The Court denied Roblox’s attempt to dismiss the core of Iowa's lawsuit and determined that the suit may move forward with its deception claims and certain unfair practice claims. The claims maintain that Roblox purposefully misled parents by misrepresenting both the quantity and the quality of its safety tools.

The Court's decision allows the following arguments made by the Attorney General’s Office to continue:

• Roblox falsely promised a "safety review of every uploaded image, audio, and video file" to create a false sense of security;
• Roblox intentionally misrepresented the amount of violent and sexual content on its platform to secure lower age ratings on various app stores;
• Roblox uses unfair practices, including the default allowance of adult-child communications and the misleading implementation of in-game currency;
• Roblox lacks sufficient parental controls and fails to warn users about potential harm.

Importantly, the Court rejected Roblox's attempt to evade the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act by arguing its platform is not "merchandise" simply because it is free to play. Noting that Roblox profits by selling user data and in-game currency, the Court ruled that exempting companies like Roblox under their “free” argument would “create a large loophole.”

I made a post on hierarchy a month ago but I have some more specific questions now.

I've been hit with the claim that mass production industries that are needed today would not be possible without a hierarchy. That due to regional limitations and the logistics of smartphone manufacturing, technology cannot be produced on the needed scale without a hierarchy of managers.

This is quoted in PCB fabrication, as well as other areas such as medicine and other mass produced goods.

It is also said that managers are needed for efficiency, though I don't understand that.

Because the anarchist movement, abolishing hierarchy, "runs counter" to the "global direction of humanity and progress", it is acclaimed to being "doomed to failure" and "idealist".

What would be the anarchist response to this? Would appreciate detailed responses and/or resources.

I want to improve my anarchist understanding

The president wants $1 billion from struggling taxpayers to dance in a golden dancehall.

Stop calling it a ballroom, it's just a dancehall.