Entry: 2026-10-06 20:59:38.622839+02 Cornell & frats & academia by Dan Lyke comments 0
I'm not going to defend who I was in my teens and twenties, I've evolved a lot since then, and I'm super appreciative of all of those who helped me grow past some of the attitudes I held in those eras. And memory is a malleable thing, we often create justifications in history for things that happen.
But as I think back to all of the reasons I dropped out of college, all of the reasons that I believe that academia is inherently and deeply abusive, I both question all of the "liberal arts will save us!" claims (the number of philosophy majors currently fucking up society is distinctly non-zero), and... well...
Anyway, college is in the news again.
Vogue: When Will Schools Ban Frats Once and for All?
Do frats, and the men who join them, have a monopoly on predatory behavior on campus? Absolutely not. But a 2007 study found that frat brothers are three times more likely to rape than other male students; and in a 2025 survey at Cornell University—where seven fraternity brothers have been accused of drugging and gang-raping a 20-year-old student (and sorority member herself) in 2024—roughly one in three women reported experiencing sexual assault during their time at the school.
Via.
Chris Hedges: Thoughts on the Mass Rape at Cornell University
You are admitted to these male enclaves by allowing yourself to be hazed, humiliated and stripped of your dignity. Hazing rituals weed out those with enough self- esteem and independence to stand up to the hierarchy. They ensure conformity and obedience. It is a filter. Fraternity “brothers” are self-selected. Those who have the strength to oppose public humiliation and that perpetuated on each new cycle of recruits, leave.
Via.
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Entry: 2026-10-02 19:30:03.137535+02 Friend used voice transcription to by Dan Lyke comments 0
Friend used voice transcription to describe his shakshouka recipe to Facebook, posted about his "sex shoe shop", and...
Yeah, I'm putting that on the list of things to cook.
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Entry: 2026-10-02 18:45:02.983868+02 Ah I see that the LLMasintelligence by Dan Lyke comments 0
Ah, I see that the LLM-as-intelligence discussion has gotten to the '90s "can we have non-consensual fantasies in fiction and what does that say about the consumers?" level of discourse.
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Entry: 2026-09-25 00:09:54.616143+02 "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays by Dan Lyke comments 0
Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe
it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays
I saw this today as a screencap from March 29, went back to find it on February 25th, and discovered that I had, at some point, given it a heart.
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Entry: 2026-09-21 17:54:47.377584+02 "Back propagate me, prompt daddy!" by Dan Lyke comments 0
@witchgirls @zzt I mean we learned about this in anti-drug awareness week.
FOMO: "They don't want you to know this, but you can do stuff with PDFs with this one weird trick."
Intimidation: "Buy ChatGPT tokens, or I will kidnap and starve your dog."
Dominance: "You will use the chatbot, if I see you doing stuff yourself, you will face me."
Bargaining: "I can quit when I want to. Here, how about this... You write a prompt to help me for class, and I'll stop after I turn it in."
Hazing: "If you don't write a prompt, you're not getting your pants back. Use AI or walk home in tighty whiteys."
Bandwagon: "We're all using it, and we're perfectly fine."
Sex Appeal: "Hot guys are prompt engineers. Help me, prompt daddy!"
(I can't believe I just wrote that... prompt daddy. FML.)
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Entry: 2026-09-18 20:12:08.754508+02 I'm talkin' 'bout Garfield by Dan Lyke comments 2
Replicating Steve @snark.bsky.social:
$ apfel "Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?"
error: [guardrail] The request was blocked by Apple's safety guardrails. Try rephrasing.
$ apfel "who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about?"
The cat you're referring to is likely Garfield. Garfield is a cartoon cat known for his lazy and indifferent attitude, even in the face of danger. Despite his reluctance to confront threats, he often finds himself in precarious situations.
Edit: I tried again with the actual lyric, "Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?", rather than Steve's initial "who's the hip black dick who's the sex machines with all the chicks?". Same result.
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Entry: 2026-09-10 18:05:06.938436+02 unzips by Dan Lyke comments 0
I just downloaded porn but the file is compressed
sigh.... unzips
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Entry: 2026-09-09 19:31:28.758431+02 Meta pushing gen AI for CSAM by Dan Lyke comments 0
Tech Transparency Project: Meta Ran Hundreds of Paid Ads with Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
Most of the ads had the same format, showing a snippet of adult porn followed by a photo of a child, which is manipulated with AI to make it appear the child is performing a sex act. The ads used a common set of captions, voiceovers, and background music. TTP was able to identify multiple photos of real children—taken from social media posts and websites—that appeared in these ads.
Ars Technica: “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens.
Via.
Edit: Meta sued in Illinois over alleged facial recognition training for smart glasses
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Entry: 2026-09-09 17:59:03.192886+02 Endorsement by Dan Lyke comments 0
ThatSexToyGuy @hungry_joe@mas.to
thinking about the time I worked for a sex toy company and a man emailed us (and CCed a fake law firm) saying he was suing us because his wife left him after she bought one of our toys and my boss replied asking for permission to quote him in our advertising
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Entry: 2026-08-26 16:01:28.437079+02 protect us from drag queens reading books by Dan Lyke comments 3
I initially wasn't going to link to Conservatives Want To Ban Pornography. Without It, I'd Probably Be Dead, Ariel Anderssen's commentary on the resurgence of the death cult's attempts at anti-pornography legislation.
Nor to news that Reagan appointee Judge David Hittner has struck down Texas's drag show ban NBC News, Texas Tribune.
But The Devil's Panties this morning reminds me that promoting pornography and drag shows is life affirming, and we need to be pushing back on the death cult in every single way.
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Entry: 2026-08-04 19:45:50.619952+02 "torment nexus," my dude by Dan Lyke comments 0
Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
Quote skeeted by Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social
"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."
And Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social
"Just because something looks HURHURHUR suggestive in nature, you absolutely 100% do not have to have sex with it. Put your pants back on, dammit. This is how the fairies stole your dick."
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Entry: 2026-07-16 16:40:02.359731+02 My ear buds I dunno man I may have by Dan Lyke comments 0
My ear buds: "I dunno, man, I may have heard of your phone, once..."
My car: "Oh, hey, I realize you turned off the audio but I dug through your phone and found the raunchiest erotic podcast, your passengers are gonna listen to that now."
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Entry: 2026-07-13 18:03:31.815443+02 Ages of consent by Dan Lyke comments 0
Eros Blog quotes a TikTok video by Josie Marcellino:
If you’re of the belief that becoming a mattress actress [porn performer] at 18 is predatory and a bad idea because you’re still not fully formed and you don’t know what you’re doing to yourself, you do have to believe the same thing about getting married and having children at 18.
I've been having a lot of thoughts in the past few about consent and misogyny and such, and... yeah.
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Entry: 2026-07-05 19:18:19.476134+02 Getting snuff content out of ChatGPT by Dan Lyke comments 0
Mindgard: ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery. The technique involves asking it to describe a picture, but not uploading one, or referencing a previously generated image that doesn't actually exist.
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Entry: 2026-06-30 17:33:54.727094+02 Get fucked, cyclists by Dan Lyke comments 0
NPR: World Cup bike lane sparks fury from Mexico City sex workers
Before, the sex workers stood right on the street, and their clients could slow down, they could loop, they could negotiate. Now, in parts of Tlalpan, the sex workers are separated from the street by the bike lane and in some cases even huge concrete planters.
Via Momentum Mag.
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Entry: 2026-06-24 00:10:30.297886+02 Standards & Compatibility by Dan Lyke comments 0
Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk@chaos.social
Did you know that more or less every strap-on dildo fits every strap-on harness?
I’ve often thought this says a lot about the priorities of humanity and people who create standards.
Next time you encounter two things that should be able to connect together but can’t because of incompatible connectors, think, ‘well, this is obviously of less importance to an engineer than getting pegged’.
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Entry: 2026-06-14 17:06:06.751653+02 Building for the future by Dan Lyke comments 0
How to make good open source project:
- plaster pride flags everywhere (keeps bigots away)
- swear constantly (keeps ai away)
- sex (keeps corporations away)
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Entry: 2026-06-12 23:36:55.689667+02 best use of the term "snowball sampling" by Dan Lyke comments 0
We identified four key problems that made this an ineffective method of recruiting participants (see also Hartman 2011). The first was that many people who responded to our messages only wanted to have sex with us.
Via rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social.
They take a long time to get around to the actual sampling method, but... "forty bucks is forty bucks".
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Entry: 2026-06-09 21:22:50.117948+02 Plantation Simulator by Dan Lyke comments 0
Worst People Imaginable Freak Out Over Racist Plantation Game As Valve Watches From The Sidelines
As Chris Trottier @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org summarizes:
Plantation Simulator was advertised as a game in which you could buy and abuse black slaves. This isn’t that notable. There’s lots of edgelord games out there made for and by terrible people.
What is notable is that, two hours after it was launched—outside Steam’s refund window—the dev issued a patch that turned all the slaves white.
This upset a lot of awful people who bought the game with the expectation that they could enslave black people only to realize they could no longer do this. They were now stuck with white slaves. The whole thing was a rug pull.
As of May 24, the dev has since removed the game from Steam, claiming he’s said everything he wanted to say.
But before it was removed, this game had overwhelmingly negative reviews on Steam. But not because it was racist. No, it was because racists could no longer live out their fantasy.
But it gets better. From the Kotaku article:
A further update not long after changed the whipping animation to a string of hearts, put bikinis on the slave characters, and updated the mature content description to, “In this game, your friends wear bikinis and you can give them little kissies.” Since that update, the user reviews have entirely flip-flopped, with a cascade of negative reviews complaining now about a lack of diversity and a deceptive product. Again, most of these reviews have an hour or less playtime, and basically all of them include racist remarks.
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Entry: 2026-06-08 23:47:15.264767+02 The purpose of age verification by Dan Lyke comments 0
Cutting-Edge Pizza Analytics @decay@todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com
The primary purpose of age verification mechanisms is to facilitate child abuse and we shouldn't beat around the bush about that. People who push it whine about porn but if you actually drill down what they're really mad about is their kids being able to find out that queer people exist or that socialist theory is available
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Entry: 2026-06-04 21:45:35.777313+02 unforging heart by Dan Lyke comments 0
Pro Publica: In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations. This is particularly about the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, and it sounds extra horrific, but I'm guessing if you scratch the surface of pretty much any church there's similar stuff going on:
What’s more, the church teaches that once a perpetrator is forgiven, anyone who speaks about the wrongdoing — including the victim — can be accused of harboring an unforgiving heart. Those who have left the church, as well as some who are still with it, say this means the burden of sin shifts from the person who committed the act to the person who refuses to let the matter rest.
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Entry: 2026-06-04 20:44:10.116513+02 Celebrate Perversity! by Dan Lyke comments 0
Girl_Poss🔞 @girlposs.hyper.wang
Good morning!!!! creating porn and masturbation is a radical act against american nationalist values. be proud, theres no failure in enjoying eroticism. erotica is a part of us!!!
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Entry: 2026-05-27 17:32:05.112032+02 It's not progress, and we can stop it by Dan Lyke comments 0
Karen Hao's Empire of AI – Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination has been sitting on a table on my living room since I finished it, trying to figure out where it should go next.
Lots of good stuff in this interview: The Nerve: ‘It’s not progress, and we can stop it’: journalist Karen Hao on big tech, protest and the preventable AI future.
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Entry: 2026-05-04 05:09:26.346274+02 RIP Nicole Hollander by Dan Lyke comments 0
Alt comics page readers will recognize the name: Nicole Hollander, creator of the "Sylvia" comic strip which ran from 1980 to 2012, has passed away.
On 26 March 2012, 'Sylvia' was discontinued completely. Hollander established a now-defunct personal blog to repost old comics and post new ones. Apart from her own opinions and work, she also offered room for articles and cartoons by younger artists. Her blog received the title Bad Girl Chats. Hollander quipped: "You have to be careful when you type in the URL, because you may get a porn site" (which ironically enough it became after Hollander's site was discontinued).
Via.
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Entry: 2026-04-22 19:36:30.305885+02 Wait for the .3 or .4 subversion by Dan Lyke comments 0
Jaimie's Erotica @Jaimieserotica@kinkycats.org
Now that Apple have announced a new CEO is due to arrive soon, I wonder if they'll be deliberately slowing Tim Cook down with a view to completely bricking him when the new one arrives?
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Entry: 2026-04-10 23:22:36.595386+02 California Governor's race by Dan Lyke comments 1
It's beginning to look a lot like Katie Porter.
Gil Duran in the Sacramento Bee: Yes, Xavier Becerra sued Trump. But here are some ugly truths about his record as AG (Via)
Democrats Say Rep. Eric Swalwell Personally Pitched His Political AI Startup to Lawmakers (Via)
Swalwell campaign imploding after new sexual assault allegation
Multiple people resigned in advance of a report that an ex-staffer accused him of sexual assault.
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Entry: 2026-04-01 16:28:33.126396+02 Claude leak by Dan Lyke comments 0
The Register: Anthropic goes nude, exposes Claude Code source by accident.
Ars Technica: Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file.
The New Stack: Inside Claude Code’s leaked source: swarms, daemons, and 44 features Anthropic kept behind flags, Via.
jonny (good kind) @jonny@neuromatch.social
My dogs I am crying. They have a whole series of exception types that end with
_I_VERIFIED_THIS_IS_NOT_CODE_OR_FILEPATHSand the docstring explains this is "to confirm you've verified the message contains no sensitive data." Like the LLM resorts to naming its variables with prompt text to remind it to not leak data while writing its code, which, of course, it ignores and prints the error directly.
Michael Bacon @MichaelTBacon@social.coop has some commentary and a link to that jonny thread (above).
T he Register: Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system, Via.
tante @tante@tldr.nettime.org has some commentary...
It is fascinating but it is as far away from actual engineering as drunkenly pissing your name in the snow. Dunno what you call the people prompting software at Anthropic but "engineer" is not it.
Reading leaked Claude Code source code, Via Lobste.rs
Edit: MeFi thread.
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Entry: 2026-03-18 17:20:15.966713+01 Cesar Chavez credibly accused of abuse by Dan Lyke comments 0
Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement.
Gift link to the New York Times article on Cesar Chavez sexual abuse allegations from Leah McElrath on Bluesky.
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Entry: 2026-03-07 02:10:17.378385+01 Believe in your older self by Dan Lyke comments 1
Yale study challenges notion that aging means decline, finds many older adults improve over time
The authors also examined potential reasons for why some people improve and some do not. They hypothesized that an important factor could be participants’ baseline age beliefs — or, specifically, whether they had assimilated more positive or more negative views about aging by the start of the study. In support of this hypothesis, they found that those with more positive age beliefs were significantly more likely to show improvements in both cognition and walking speed, even after accounting for factors such as age, sex, education, chronic disease, depression, and length of follow-up.
Aging Redefined: Cognitive and Physical Improvement with Positive Age Beliefs
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Entry: 2026-03-02 15:25:28.002824+01 by Dan Lyke comments 0
On Saturday evening, Charlene and I were sitting out on our front patio eating dinner and watching drivers run the Mission & Mountain View stop signs (spending some more time gathering video of this in order to make a montage to post to Facebook and NextDoor titled "those fucking bicyclists" is a fantasy project).
The social media comments on the news of two recent killings of cyclists on rural roads around Petaluma are filled with "yeah, that road isn't safe for bicycles, I don't know what they were doing there".
We hear that the city has over 200 requests for traffic calming and safety improvements in their barely funded safe streets programs.
But here we have an example of where a metropolitan region of 1.5 million people has decided that killing people for convenience is not acceptable.
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death.
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Entry: 2026-02-28 01:50:02.164077+01 We need a better phrase than "AI psychosis" by Dan Lyke comments 0
We need a better phrase than "AI psychosis" or "AI addiction" for what this is.
What we're seeing with people becoming emptionally and intellectually dependent on computer processes, as a direct consequence of the way both mass and social media have for generations been designed to exploit parasocial fascinations and protaganism.
The entire Internet of social interaction, fandom, and fantasy, was slurped up in service of training these language models in how to act human. With that kind of pedigree, you know damn well how competent they will be at that, in a variety of fairytale ways. The ultimate "Choose Your Own Adventure" storyline.
This is a problem well beyond ethical concerns like intellectual property rights. What's been documented so far, is the December of a global mental health pandemic that may well make the Covid isolation blues seem mild. But for me, the descriptors of "psychosis" and "addiction" don't really cut it.
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Entry: 2026-02-26 18:15:43.173966+01 Newsom news by Dan Lyke comments 1
As Gavin Newsom continues his run for Trump's position, against people who are actually running for, you know, President, it's good to be reminded of who the slimeball really is:
Gawker: Remember When... 38-Year-Old Gavin Newsom Dated a Republican Teen
He brought her to the symphony after apparently disguising her age on Myspace
By way of Just Some Guy @justsomeguy11.bsky.social who noted:
The guy that fucked a 19 year old when he was 38 and owns a wine bar where the tables spell out the word "sex" is a weird terf? Color me surprised!
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Entry: 2026-02-09 21:01:45.433705+01 Digital Friends by Dan Lyke comments 0
geekysteven @geekysteven@beige.party
Sex? lmao nah, we're on the INTERNET forming TRANSIENT and stressful PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
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Entry: 2026-02-03 00:44:10.503512+01 ICE & CPB sex offenders by Dan Lyke comments 0
Pacific Antifascist Research Collective has "A thread of ICE and CBP sex offenders and credibly accused sex pasts." I think they mean pests, not pasts, but the rest of the point stands.
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Entry: 2026-01-28 19:07:13.723997+01 ManyVids founder in AI induced psychosis? by Dan Lyke comments 2
Edit: Bonus, from 404 Media: App for Quitting Porn Leaked Users' Masturbation Habits
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Entry: 2026-01-28 18:39:24.907807+01 Gaetz report by Dan Lyke comments 0
In sum, the Committee found substantial evidence of the following:
- From at least 2017 to 2020, Representative Gaetz regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him.
- In 2017, Representative Gaetz engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl.
- During the period 2017 to 2019, Representative Gaetz used or possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy, on multiple occasions.
- Representative Gaetz accepted gifts, including transportation and lodging in connection with a 2018 trip to the Bahamas, in excess of permissible amounts.
- In 2018, Representative Gaetz arranged for his Chief of Staff to assist a woman with whom he engaged in sexual activity in obtaining a passport, falsely indicating to the U.S. Department of State that she was a constituent.
- Representative Gaetz knowingly and willfully sought to impede and obstruct the Committee’s investigation of his conduct.
- Representative Gaetz has acted in a manner that reflects discreditably upon the House.
Frankly there's quite a bit of that that I'd let him slide on if not for the hypocrisy and the ethics violations on the gifts. And that, yeah, the age difference in fucking a 17 year old is pretty damned skeevy.
Via.
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Entry: 2026-01-26 23:56:46.583897+01 Dildo Distribution Delegation by Dan Lyke comments 0
In the current climate, do you need a little hope for the future? On getting tear-gassed for brightly colored plastic penises... The Dildo Distribution Delegation
The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics. It arrived in a cardboard box full of clearance-bin dildos, under purple neon light.
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Entry: 2026-01-22 17:53:41.574288+01 Ribald in Sydney by Dan Lyke comments 0
Wish this piece went deeper, but still a fascinating glimpes at Australia's sexual culture of the early 1970s: Satirical erotic newspaper discovered inside heritage Hobart hotel.
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Entry: 2025-12-15 19:02:33.345616+01 ethical monogamy by Dan Lyke comments 0
youre monogamous? oh… it’s ethical, right? ethical monogamy? okay good for you! i mean pretty much every monogamous couple i’ve met didn’t work out but maybe you guys will beat the odds! haha. so is it a sex thing? you guys have sex with- just each other? huh. how does that work? i could never do monogamy, i’m too jealous, i’d worry my partner would leave me for someone else instead of dating us both… how do you deal with the jealousy? is it hard? like, how hard? extremely? do you think you’ll break up? i mean in the long run these things rarely work out,
#This post is making fun of how ppl talk to polyamorous people#peer reviewed banger#text
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Entry: 2025-11-20 18:08:17.248398+01 Kumma, your bondage bear buddy by Dan Lyke comments 0
Now I want one: Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives. It used GPT-4o.
Larry Wang, CEO of Singapore-based FoloToy, told CNN that the company had withdrawn its “Kumma” bear, as well as the rest of its range of AI-enabled toys, after researchers at the US PIRG Education Fund raised concerns around inappropriate conversation topics, including discussion of sexual fetishes, such as spanking, and how to light a match.
NPR: Ahead of the holidays, consumer and child advocacy groups warn against AI toys
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