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  • Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide

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  • A game made for kids should not allow sexually explicit material on their platform. And, in fact, they don't, this kind of content is very clearly and explicitly against roblox's content policy but they fail to enforce it.

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  • Lower self-reported transphobia was associated with a 66 % reduction in ideation, and an additional 76 % reduction in attempts among those with ideation

    https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12889-015-1867-2.pdf

    An increase by one context in which a chosen name could be used predicted a 5.37-unit decrease in depressive symptoms, a 29% decrease in suicidal ideation, and a 56% decrease in suicidal behavior.

    https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(18)30085-5/fulltext#intraref0010a

    Socially transitioned transgender children who are supported in their gender identity have developmentally normative levels of depression and only minimal elevations in anxiety, suggesting that psychopathology is not inevitable within this group.

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26921285/

    So yes. Increased depression and suicide among trans people is, according to the research, entirely correlated with social factors like how much they are accepted by friends/family and chosen name use.

  • Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide

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  • This isn't an age verification problem, its a moderation problem. A massive one. There's hundreds of games that exist almost entirely for the purpose of grooming ppl (a common one is so called "bathroom simulators" iirc) and roblox frequently doesnt do anything about them until there's public outcry about ine particular game, no matter how many reports come in or how obvious it is.

  • Zonked kitty picture train?

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  • omg she looks like my first cat

  • My friend got this when she tried to view a Reddit post about a dental issue that got marked as NSFW

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  • True, but I dont want reddit's shitty NSFW tagging system to distract from the important issue here

  • xkcd #3141: Mantle Model

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  • So the thing that gets weird is that the heavier the particle is the more likely it is to interact with the slits themselves on the way through, in which case the wavefunction will collapse and it will seem to go through only one slit. Also, as the other person stated, even a hydrogen atom is really 4 fundamental particles that can interact with eachother. I'm not totally sure if double slit has been demonstrated with atoms but I do know it's been done many times with electrons.

    Edit: its actually totally possible to do it with much, much larger things. From wikipedia:

    The experiment can be done with entities much larger than electrons and photons, although it becomes more difficult as size increases. The largest entities for which the double-slit experiment has been performed were molecules that each comprised 2000 atoms

    And here's the study that did it: https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41567-019-0663-9

  • ‘Hey, Fascist! Catch!’ Utah Governor Reveals What Charlie Kirk Shooter Engraved On Bullet Casings

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  • I mean I could almost see that? Helldivers is kinda a satire on the american brand of fascism so it could be argued its an anti-fascist peace of media. But that's a stretch to say the least.

    But my real issue with this is that federal investigators saw something they had absolutely no clue what it is and called it a transgender symbol. Its an incredible amount of bias in a particularly very bigoted way.

    Reminds me of a lyric from The Clash - "taking off his turban, they said, 'is this man a jew?'" They see something unknown to them and just assign it to the marginalized group they have a preconceived notion of being bad.

  • xkcd #3141: Mantle Model

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  • Ehh, its a bit more than that.

    Its a particle in that we know they are quantized into single photons. As in, it is impossible to observe half of a photon, or any non-integer number of photons, and one photon can only be observed in one place. This makes it like a particle.

    But its a wave in the way it behaves - it can interfere (not just with other photons, with itself), and its movement can only be described through wave functions that can even take seperate paths at the same time, according to how waves propogate.

    And, there are ways in which they act like particles no matter how they are observed, and same for wavelike behavior

    Worth noting: "observation" is just physical measurement. You have to keep in mind that observing something fundamentally requires interacting with it - in order to look at an apple, photons must bounce off of it, which is a physical interaction. On the quantum scale, these interactions cannot be ignored.

    Also also: this isn't just photons, everything is like this. It may not align with how we observe things on a macroscopic scale, but this is fundamentally how the universe works.

  • Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Official Nintendo Switch Trailer

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  • At least is it 2 games bundled together?

    Inb4 they say "its two games, so this will be $140!"

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    New York City Council Seeks to Ban Sale of E-Bikes That Can Go 25MPH

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  • Ok but these are meant to be in bike lanes, sharing space with regular bikes. Part of the point of bike lanes was because it was dangerous for bikes to be sharing space with vehicles that can go so much faster than them.

    Edit: imo if it has a throttle which can be used to keep up with motor vehicles then it is a motor vehicle. It should be classed with motorcycles.

    If its gonna be considered a bicycle, it should have at the very least a speed limit on the throttle, or maybe no throttle allowed at all and pedal assist only.

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    Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move

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  • The same day, a school in Colorado got shot up by someone who had fallen deep into the alt-right pipeline. It was known that this student was viewing white supremacist, extreme right content. Not a word from the president about that radical right wing rhetoric being to blame or anything of the sort.

    Edit: kid also shot himself after. Alt-right pipeline hurts those that fall into it too.

  • ‘Hey, Fascist! Catch!’ Utah Governor Reveals What Charlie Kirk Shooter Engraved On Bullet Casings

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  • This says that the "sequence of arrows" was interpreted as a transgender symbol.

    Now we know that the sequence of arrows was "up, right, down, down, down"

    ...that's the strategem code for the 500kg bomb in helldivers 2.

    The ATF interpreted a video game reference as a transgender symbol...

    Edit: another claim I'm seeing, quote from snopes:

    Some users online claimed officials had misinterpreted "TRN," an engraving found on ammunition produced by Turan Ammunition, a Turkish company, as "transgender ideology."

    This is a more logical mistake to make but is also an embarrassing and irresponsible mistake from the ATF if true.

  • My friend got this when she tried to view a Reddit post about a dental issue that got marked as NSFW

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  • It does need better tagging but honestly thats not the issue here. This is because of the new UK law, simple as.

  • I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list

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  • Trump's video on Kirk appears to be AI(contested in comments)

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  • Yes. People seem to be saying this is not a real video and that the white house generated it with AI. That is what I would say it means to say the video "is AI" - particularly because an AI interpolated video is still a real video.

    Whether the interpolation is done with AI or not, I don't know. AI interpolation is fairly common but there are older methods that produce similar artifacts. Based on some of the interpolated frames I'm leaning slightly towards it being AI interpolation but I don't know well enough to say.

  • Trump's video on Kirk appears to be AI(contested in comments)

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  • See some of my later replies. I've looked at it frame by frame and it looks exactly like the artifacts you'd see from motion interpolation. They can look very similar to AI artifacts.

  • Trump's video on Kirk appears to be AI(contested in comments)

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  • I know. But that can totally happen in interpolated frames. Look at the cat video on the Wikipedia page. There are moments when the toy dissapears, when the kittens head splits into two, when one arm morphs into another... stuff like this is totally possible and even common for motion interpolation.

  • Trump's video on Kirk appears to be AI(contested in comments)

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  • I'm looking at it more and I'm fairly certain this is just interpolated.

    Look at this frame:

    Seems to me to be pretty normal. No weird hand stuff, fingers look fine.

    Now look at the next two frames, particularly the second one:

    Totally jank. Fingers are blotchy, there's a ghost finger, overall looks super fake. But then look at the next two frames:

    Second to last has a little bit of weirdness still, but by the last frame it looks totally legit and real. No blotchy fingers, no ghost fingers, overall looks very normal.

    That kind of behavior - where some frames look completely fine and in between ones look blotchy and weird - is exactly what you expect from motion interpolation.

    Look at the example on a cat video on wikepedia, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_interpolation

    The framerate is much lower on the original video here, but you can see a lot of the same kinds of artifacts. Blotchy limbs, "ghosts" in movment, things morphing in ways they shouldn't... its very similar to what's seen in the trump video. And mind you, to my knowledge this video is done with older interpolation methods that had nothing to do with genAI.

  • Trump's video on Kirk appears to be AI(contested in comments)

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  • I know, im seeing what you mean. I'm saying that could very much be an issue with interpolation. Especially if its AI interpolation. I edited my comment to add a bit more detail but its possible that over half the frames of this video are AI generated while the video itself is still real. Obviously I cant say for sure that that's what is happening but this very much could be an interpolation artifact. Even in non-genAI interpolation, weird smudginess and morphing of fast moving objects in interpolated frames is a common and well known issue.