Zedstrian
@Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Trump shares misleading video of King Charles and fainting worker 1 day ago:
Captions saying “the side of Trump the media doesn’t show you” and “the people’s president” appear during some of the clips and the song A Thousand Years by Christina Perri plays throughout the video.
Trump is as far from being ‘the people’s president’ as it gets.
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Is Turning A Free Speech Victory Into A Defeat 3 days ago:
Justification of transphobia is disgusting.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Earlier this year, several sports organizations, including Parkrun, were facing potential legal action over their inclusivity – this was spearheaded by the U.S-based Alliance for Defending Freedom, known for targeting LGBTQ+ people and organizations and championing far-right causes in court.
Organizations with the primary goal of denying minorities equal rights shouldn’t be allowed to use ‘freedom’ in their names.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Good to know, thanks! 👍
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Was AI used in any way to make the game or its assets?
- Comment on Xbox's Disc-to-Digital Programme Is Official, and It Starts Next Week - Digital Foundry | Latest Updates 2 weeks ago:
If discs are going away, this at least makes it more tolerable.
Manufactured consent.
- Comment on Andy Burnham defends Home Office booklet urging asylum seekers not to rape women 2 weeks ago:
Then they should be provided with mental health support beyond merely a pamphlet that implies that foreign cultures tolerate sexual assault and rape at higher levels than the UK.
- Comment on Andy Burnham defends Home Office booklet urging asylum seekers not to rape women 2 weeks ago:
Handing it out just to immigrants falsely pre-assumes that immigrants are more likely to commit rape; if reducing rape is the motive (rather than bowing to xenophobia), then those pamphlets should be handed out to British nationals too.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Because most people equate the more marketable term ‘WiFi’ with it and most people don’t use Ethernet.
- Comment on Co-op scraps policy allowing trans staff to use toilets they ‘feel safest’ 2 weeks ago:
Then the UK law would require all such bathrooms to be single-occupant, something that may not be practical for large establishments where multiple patrons of each gender may need to use the bathrooms simultaneously.
The genderless, single-occupant bathrooms argument is a solution derived for a non-existent problem; transgender women are women and transgender men are men and instituting policy that disregards that is discriminatory.
- Comment on Co-op scraps policy allowing trans staff to use toilets they ‘feel safest’ 3 weeks ago:
Because installing them is still exclusionary to trans people, telling them that they do not belong to the gender they identify as and/or that they are a danger to the people of the gender that they identify as.
- Comment on "Please Do Not Let This Vanish Into The Night" - Konami Is Terminating Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls 3 weeks ago:
A game that can be taken away (in this case, due to a subscription) is one I won’t play out of principle.
- Comment on Co-op scraps policy allowing trans staff to use toilets they ‘feel safest’ 3 weeks ago:
While the Co-op may not be transphobic itself, single occupant gender-neutral bathrooms are a solution presented by transphobes who want to continue misgendering trans men and women under the veneer of a discriminatory ‘compromise’.
Trans people across the UK are having their rights marginalized.
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 3 weeks ago:
Hyperburner’s a fun arcade flight game (though the iOS version is the definitive version).
- Comment on At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer science 5 weeks ago:
‘AI literacy’ in the context of ‘don’t use it to cheat’ or ‘it may fabricate information or attributions’ should be an extension of institutional plagiarism and acceptable source policies.
Framing it as being ‘literate’ in AI use is a tacit encouragement for such tools to be used.
- Comment on At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer science 5 weeks ago:
“In the same way that everybody needs some degree of math, reading and writing, I think everybody needs a degree of AI literacy,” he said.
🤮
- Comment on Large scale terror thwarted 5 weeks ago:
That means 200 officers taken off the capital’s streets, where they could have been tackling the crimes that matter most to Londoners.
Don’t waste law enforcement resources dismantling civil rights then.
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 1 month ago:
Someone has at least archived Grey’s video here, though Grey’s actions have put me off watching any of his content.
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 1 month ago:
While I already didn’t like CGP Grey for multi-striking a reaction channel, monetizing the ability to comment on his videos, and exploiting the algorithm with clickbait title and thumbnail changes, locking old videos behind a paid membership is astounding.
- Comment on UK government drops plan to stop paying coastguard volunteers 1 month ago:
The Starmer government certainly has a talent for u-turns.
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 1 month ago:
- Comment on 'We decided not to limit VPNs': UK government U-turns on age-gating privacy tools 1 month ago:
To the uninformed, doing this makes their unprecedented invasion of user privacy seem like a level-headed compromise.
- Comment on Man dressed as fox pulls out of Clacton election because it's become a 'circus' 1 month ago:
33% across the UK; Clacton leans right-wing, and is unfortunately likely to re-elect Farage.
- Comment on Magical Girl ER is a Japanese horror medical sim where you triage and treat magical girls injured in kaiju attacks 1 month ago:
Clearly Ubisoft is missing an opportunity to do an LLM-powered Chessmaster remake. /s
- Comment on Video - Nigel Farage’s SECRET Millions: IT’S WORSE Than You Think 1 month ago:
Because capitalizing SECRET and IT’S WORSE, insinuating the existence of a conspiracy with “Than You Think”, and putting an eye-catching yellow “EXPO$ED” on the thumbnail are hallmarks of meaningful journalism rather than sensationalist tabloids?
- Comment on Video - Nigel Farage’s SECRET Millions: IT’S WORSE Than You Think 1 month ago:
Farage is corrupt, but I’m not inclined to watch channels that feel the need to use clickbait to draw viewers.
- Comment on Graham Linehan gets £25,000 compensation and an apology from Met police after arrest 1 month ago:
The third, on 20 April, said: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and, if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”
Linehan insisted at the time that while he may have been guilty of making a “bad joke”, he had not been aiming to encourage violence.
Great, now people on TERF island are getting paid to tell people to physically assault transgender people.
The judge found that the writer had taken Brooks’s phone because he was “angry and fed up” and had damaged it by knocking it to the ground.
The conviction for damaging their mobile phone was also overturned on appeal.
And get to damage their property without repercussions.
- Comment on Remote Attestation 2 months ago:
TPMs can also be used against the interests of the user in terms of anti-consumer DRM.
- Comment on A chart of how Xbox Games Studios became the largest publisher in the gaming space. 2 months ago:
All the money being poured into Star Citizen makes me wish Microsoft realized the demand for games in the genre and gave Freelancer a proper AAA remaster (and sequel if successful), but the fan-made Freelancer HD Edition does at least modernize the game somewhat.
- Comment on A chart of how Xbox Games Studios became the largest publisher in the gaming space. 2 months ago:
It’s missing Digital Anvil, the developer of the space trading game Freelancer.