I did mention the ultra wealthy (like those in charge of Visa and MasterCard) have christofascist leanings and they caved super easy probably because of it, using them happily as a scapegoat.
I’m sure there’s a lot more that can be said about the global elite that others have said before
Yes, I literally linked to some of their history. They’re all linked to right wing conspiracy groups. The founders and several of their members have posted long tirades against diversity programs, constantly retweet staunchly anti-trans people, have claimed sexually diverse (though they say perverse with no distinction about anything) nerds are the cause of all problems.
Even several of the games Collective Shout targeted specifically shows they don’t actually care about truth and just want to scream louder until they get their way. They campaigned against Detroit: Become Human saying it’s a vile sexist game because of a scene where you actually save a woman from being beaten by her husband, thus eliciting empathy in many players for victims of abuse (I personally remember it opening people’s eyes when they played it).
They claim videogames make people violent and sexist despite mountains of evidence otherwise.
They claim Tate as their success despite many other groups actively pushing against him and his media.
Numerous LGBTQ organizations have stated how Collective Shout negatively impacts them by targeting healthy representation of being LGBTQ by calling it sexual perversion. Even Vice if I’m not mistaken ran articles diving into their negative impacts.
If you want to support truly feminist work there are plenty of valid, successful, known anti-trafficking and anti-abuse charities doing good work.
Are you really a racist and a bigot and mysoginist? The founders have a history of not just being anti-nsfw but also being anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion, and conspiracy theorists. The founder comes from Women’s Forum Australia, a group so crazy they were known to withdraw their kids from school because they thought the Wi-Fi was making them sick.
These people are anti education. Anti women’s rights under the guise of moral superiority. They are against legitimate sexual education (that thing proven to reduce child sex abuse cases). They are not who you want to back unless you are a right wing nutter.
It was the work of Collective Shout.
They’re an Australian christofascist group trying to push right wing purity nonsense. There was one game, No Mercy, that really did push things too far. Collective Shout was able to poster child that game and pressure payment providers into pressuring game platforms to delist a lot of NSFW games.
A lot of the ultra wealth you may have noticed have a christofascist lean, so with the vocal pressure from Collective Shout it was easy for them to claim economic harm saying if they didn’t pull games there’d be a boycott or something.
Hey I saw this episode of One Punch Man.
Came in specifically to mention Dropout.tv too. SNL even snagged one or two of their writers. This is where the comedy is.
Honestly surprised how long it took for someone to drop that, lol. Thanks.
Also literally my cat at times -_-
I’m gonna point you at the comment chain I’ve got adjacent to this with Zeoic if you missed it. I think it’s ultimately dancing around the same stuff and expresses my thoughts more cleanly on this topic.
I have tried that shift from “AI is Evil” -> “Irresponsible AI use is Evil” and what I found is everyone then goes “well I’m one of the responsible ones” and we end up right back where we started with them pumping every thought into a prompt and churning out whatever with no regard. Humans are very skilled at believing they aren’t the problem and are the hero of their own story.
If however, the lazy approach is taken of “AI is evil, fuck you for using it” (those are my words but with the asterisk of if you truly are part of the 0.01% using it responsibly then ignore me) then people understand that, yes, I mean you guy running claude code to “write” your next big app.
It’s the same problem of why marginalized people get overlooked or alienated in general. They’re in the margins because they aren’t the norm. Not saying it’s good, just this is more of that and I’ve never seen a good solution.
I explicitly did not call you a Nazi or far right. I do see how what I wrote could be interpreted that way and isn’t my intent so my bad on that one.
I said that that’s a far right attitude to take. Shutting out the opinion of people against it because you view them as obnoxious. Nothing good will happen if we all did that in my opinion.
“The anarchist cells responsible for sabotaging rail systems across France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands in 2026, relied on A/I Collective tools and services to claim responsibility for the attacks, publish official communiqués, and disseminate manuals for constructing improvised incendiary devices to target railways and other critical infrastructure.”
Supposedly used the tools to coordinate their attacks. I haven’t looked into the truth of it because ultimately I don’t care because as you said, any modern e2ee offering could have been chosen.
I’m looking at you music players. If I click that red x it doesn’t mean hide in the flipping volume control on the taskbar and keep playing!
I am sorry you get tossed out with the bathwater.
It absolutely is something I struggle with. To me, I know LLMs are just called AI but aren’t, and machine learning is not LLM. I’ve actually developed a neural network based program for a previous company before and know it can be useful in certain cases.
But how do I know the person I’m talking to knows that? How do I know the person is one of the minority who is trying to do it ethically and responsibly? How do I express just how truly damaging the current mainstream “AI” methods are succinctly and strongly without getting bogged down in that discussion and sidetracked from the bigger picture (which is exactly what’s happening here in this comment for example).
You’re literally the one who was using him as your example…
I mean this in the worst way possible. Your attitude mirrors the far right and is just as bad a take. That’s their approach to everything.
“Oh, you’re fighting against something you see as a danger to literally the entire world? Well if you’d just stop shoving your opinion in our face we’d be happier.”
I still use this on occasion when my wife’s cooking or is has a snack I want.
In my eyes this is no different than Autistici/Inventati. Both made a “tool”. That tool was misused by someone. Both should be held to the same standards.
(Yes, we all know why they aren’t)
Hey, uh, any ereaders or tablets in that pile? I need something basic I can just read comics or books with but all the used stuff around me is priced as new and the new stuff is priced insane.