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Tony Bark

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Arf! I'm Tony Bark. Artist by day, programmer by night. Gamer all the way.

Foxtrot Delta TACO.

  • Trump says China accessed 220 million US voter files, declassifies new intelligence

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  • Glances at the mountains of news of the Trump administration attempting to force their way into election offices

  • DOJ wants to help anti-voting group purge California rolls

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  • I have to agree California rolls kinda suck. Spicy tuna is king of you want a cheap simple roll.

    If only this article was about those California rolls. Then I could add it to my growing list of Not The Onion posts.

  • New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacenters

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  • These datacenters are being built or simply being green lit at a rapid pace. Putting a pause to things may not be the best solution, don't get me wrong, but it certainly buys some time given the situation.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2026/07/judge-trump-cant-deport-researchers-just-for-working-in-content-moderation/

  • Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8GB Core i5

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  • Probably. But even for a billboard this is overkill!

  • News @lemmy.world
    Tony Bark @pawb.social

    New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacenters

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/jul/14/new-york-moratorium-ai-datacenters
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8GB Core i5

    www.theregister.com /offbeat/2026/07/15/software-bloat-this-elevator-needs-an-8gb-core-i5/5270901
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    No federal heat standard? NYC workers are building their own safety net.

    grist.org /extreme-heat/no-federal-heat-standard-nyc-workers-are-building-their-own-safety-net/
  • The Trump-Epstein Files™ @lemmy.world
    Tony Bark @pawb.social

    FBI Forced to Reveal New Details on How It Redacted Epstein Files

    newrepublic.com /post/212994/fbi-reveal-redacted-epstein-files-foia
  • Boycott US @lemmy.ca
    Tony Bark @pawb.social

    An artist brought 'I.C.E. pops' to a Texas campus. The show was shut down in days.

    www.npr.org /2026/07/12/nx-s1-5783832/ice-pop-texas-victor-marka27-quinonez-artist

  • Campaign to overturn [Obergefell v. Hodges] uses 14-year-old junk science to 'prove' gay people are bad parents

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  • they want to abolish non-financially productive marriages.

    Of course. It's always about work and money with these idiots.

  • The FBI Has Deputized Local Cops as Federal Agents. Communities Are Resisting.

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  • And it's coming from conservatives!

  • AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds

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  • It's been in its infancy for a long, long time.

    "AI," as we know it today, is just marketing speak that refers to LLMs or image generators. That isn't to say there isn't grain of truth to the usage of the word. Machine learning is the underlining method used to "train" these models with whatever information needed to full fill a task. So, yes, it is "learning" per se but not in any way similar to humans. It's just a computer doing what we tell it to do at the end of the day.

    And that's fine if it weren't for the fact that the training data is based on our art and that it consumes even more power and water than even blockchain! Unlike blockchain, there is no known way to undo that. Like, I'll at least give credit to devs behind Ethereum. They acknowledged it was power hungry and switched to an efficient algorithm. Still doesn't addresses the laundry list of issues but credit where credit is due. What's the solution for AI?

  • Please Stop Making Terrible GIFs

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  • A lot of that is mostly the fault of the technology. But we still like it anyway.

  • AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds

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  • Except that hasn't happened.

    You underestimate our ability to discover patterns. It's this trait that has given us language, art, science, etc. That very same ability is why we're able to figure out small little nuances like the above mentioned delving phenomenon. And the fact that the companies behind these models are so dead set on preventing people from writing erotic fiction in favour of bland literature with forced morals only adds to said predictability.

    And if there is one thing people hate more than bad literature, it's a boring one.

  • AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds

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  • the wilful ignorance and denial is really just the unspoken feeling of uncanny valley surfacing

    This article is discussing a research paper that looked into AI's hilarious tendency to "delve," among other things, and one of the many conclusions they came to is exactly what we all already suspected: it sucks at fiction. That is the furthest thing from being willfully ignorant.

  • AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds

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  • "It will take notes"? AI is just autocorrect on steroids.

  • AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds

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  • To be fair, it was heavily implied that the Cullens were rich. At least in the films.

  • The gas is cheap. The Trump administration isn’t saying who’s paying for it.

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  • Probably the most toxic form of gas on the planet.

  • FCC General Counsel Channels Founding Fathers To Falsely Claim First Amendment Allows Banning Porn

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  • Think they'll apply this ban Twitter's disturbing porn generating machine or will they find a way to exempt Elon?

  • Trump fires all commissioners of federal election agency

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  • It is mainly handled by the states, thankfully. This commission is actually fairly new and was designed to basically streamline things. So the US can technically live without it.

    Trump is just getting desperate.

  • The land before time

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  • By the end of the century, modern fantasies is just going to be the 90s.

  • Trump fires all commissioners of federal election agency

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  • The Commission is tasked with testing and certification but they're supposed to report to Congress every two years, handle federal funds, and handle communication on laws, procedures, etc.

    Based on this news, Trump is so desperate to avoid accountability that he doesn't even want to hold a pretend election, like North Korea does.

  • Republican candidate says giraffes prove “You cannot be born gay"

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  • Most of that is just Sodom and Gomorrah. God has more to say about what to do with slaves and how to treat them compared to sexual relations between two people.

  • Tell those Bikers to stop being so DEI

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  • I just redirected $1.73 billion in USDOT grants away from Biden-era DEI pet projects

    To where? The war?