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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Entry: 2025-11-18 20:40:02.580068+01 problem with Rule34dl is that between by Dan Lyke comments 0
The problem with Rule34dl is that between popularity of the franchise and appearance of the particular character I have absolutely no idea of how to guess what people are making porn of...
https://rule34dle.vercel.app/daily.html
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Entry: 2025-10-29 19:11:56.540979+01 Grok and the pedocon theory by Dan Lyke comments 0
I mean, yeah, it's an LLM tuned to prey on incels, of course it's gonna do this: This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says.
As Jack William Bell @jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com observes:
You have an #LLM #AI trained on data from the Internet. You have a dial you can twiddle to select content models which make that LLM seem right or left wing in it's political output.
The right side of the dial does largely work, but it also means your LLM does this:
> https://beige.party/@adhdeanasl/115457073318432876
Now, ask yourself this question: Why is that?
Because the answer will tell you an awful lot about the difference in the underlying content model between what you perceive as right or left wing #politics.
Or: yeah. The pedocon theory is real.
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Entry: 2025-10-15 01:08:25.333231+02 FAPGPT by Dan Lyke comments 0
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
OpenAI will bring ‘erotica’ to ChatGPT once it rolls out age verification in December.
@limousine-liberal.bsky.social
FAPGPT
Addendum: Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social
booting up FapGPT to get my clankspank on
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Entry: 2025-10-13 17:28:35.267399+02 Sampling bias by Dan Lyke comments 0
While OpenAI's Sora 2 is setting a new standard for video models, xAI seems to be loosening moderation on explicit adult content
In reaction Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social observed
Just think: that imagery is derived from millions of porn DVDs of jiggling boobs. The average porn starlet is far more likely to have had work done than most women. So, that "natural motion" they're praising is derived from silicone-heavy data samples.
Masculinity is doomed.
And that got me thinking about how much video is generated from attempts at going viral, and if the training data is the model, what that means...
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Entry: 2025-09-29 23:31:19.252299+02 Latest batch of Republican creeps by Dan Lyke comments 0
The number of GOP members or self-identified fundamentalist Christians participating in child abuse is high, the number participating in sexual abuse of minors is probably a little lower, but still high. So I generally don't make a point of linking to busts, but I feel like in the next few days I'm gonna wanna dunk on some Trumper, so...
Charleston County (South Carolina) judge James Benjamin Gosnell Jr. arrested for posession of CSAM
South Carolina Republican state legislator Rep. RJ May said trans people “harm” children. He just pled guilty to child porn charges. He was a 2023 "Mom's for Liberty" Legislator of the Year.
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Entry: 2025-09-28 23:07:53.070324+02 Furry porn got me by Dan Lyke comments 0
Girl_Poss @girlposs.bsky.social
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Entry: 2025-09-23 21:08:46.417122+02 When Cicciolina Headlined at the O’Farrell by Dan Lyke comments 0
This story has it all. Sex. Politics. Diane Feinstein being petty enough to have someone arrested for an expired dog license. The Rialto Report: When Cicciolina Headlined at the O’Farrell Theater
Via MeFi, with more links.
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Entry: 2025-09-05 21:32:18.135141+02 Not a game by Dan Lyke comments 0
Via Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social who notes:
One horror of child sexual abuse is that it preys on young people when they're trying to figure out how to trust the world. This makes "Pedocon Theory" compelling: the last thing conservatives want is mutual trust strong enough to inspire mutual aid.
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Entry: 2025-09-04 20:08:46.664247+02 AI links of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
Mike Judge: Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up (Via Lobste.rs).
Cecilia Tan has a thread about LLMs and how "yes" and "no" are semantically linked that mentions back in 2023, Mason City Iowa school district banning Buzz Bissinger's book Friday Night Lights because ChatGPT said it had non-existent sex scenes.
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Entry: 2025-09-03 19:49:02.008251+02 Age verification impacts by Dan Lyke comments 0
Working as designed: The 19th: Age verification on porn sites is putting queer adult industry workers at risk
Via.
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Entry: 2025-09-02 17:51:31.305924+02 stroke after COVID-19 vaccination by Dan Lyke comments 0
My (anti-vax) mom's coming to visit in a month and a half, so I'm starting to queue up Covid stuff again. Ischemic stroke after COVID-19 vaccination: A self-controlled case series analysis
Highlights
- Using the robust SCCS method, vaccination was unrelated to ischemic stroke.
- Using standard SCCS, however, COVID-19 vaccination was related to incident ischemic stroke.
- No sex differences were found.
Via.
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Entry: 2025-08-29 23:07:04.140514+02 anti-karaoke by Dan Lyke comments 0
Interesting idea from a MeFi thread on AI generated country music by user jeffburdges:
AI music gimmik idea: You have auditions before each live show, select several fans who know the words and sing well, train your AI to convert from their voices, and then have them sing in the show. It's some stragne anti-karaoke..
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Entry: 2025-08-27 23:09:15.876067+02 "acute drug toxicity" by Dan Lyke comments 0
HRDAG was part of a coalition behind the recently-launched Police Records Access Project. The new searchable database includes millions of pages of documents about tens of thousands of police use-of-force and misconduct cases. The database includes documents related to three types of law enforcement incidents in California: instances in which a police weapon was discharged, instances where officers used force that resulted in serious injury or death, and instances in which an agency determined an officer violated certain department rules (like lying or sexual abuse).
Via HRDAG @hrdag@mastodon.social which notes:
One notable insight from reviewing the database of California police misconduct cases: deaths in the database are often labeled as something like "acute drug toxicity," even when the police were engaging with a civilian during or just before the death.
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Entry: 2025-08-27 20:57:34.82991+02 this headline wouldn’t have made any sense by Dan Lyke comments 0
Linking to Rolling Stone: Elon Musk appears to be completely addicted to anime gooner AI slop. not because of the article itself, but because Joey deVilla: Not that long ago, this headline wouldn’t have made any sense talks a little bit about the evolution of language.
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Entry: 2025-08-19 23:37:02.085223+02 front-row seat to the devil's sacrament by Dan Lyke comments 0
🆇00001 @X00001@masto.hackers.town
"Hey, have you heard about the creator you like? Apparently, they also post 🔞 content. Isn’t that a bit strange? I mean, we should probably keep this space-“
No, I don’t think so. I’ve booked a front-row seat to the devil’s sacrament, and you’re blocking my view. Just go back to the 1660 New England hole you just crawled out of and eat barley for a week to atone for your sins or whatever.
Romance? Reviews! @HornyShitposts@thicc.horse
@X00001 "isn't that a bit strange?" no fam, some of the earliest art to survive to this day is sexual in nature and the majority of adults are not asexual, so having given the matter due thought *no.*
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Entry: 2025-08-16 18:33:15.149758+02 Almodovar Papers by Dan Lyke comments 0
Via the ever amazing ResearchBuzz: UNLV Libraries Acquire Groundbreaking Sex Work Activism Archive
The Norma Jean Almodovar Papers document decades of advocacy and expand UNLV’s collecting initiative on sexual entertainment and economies.
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Entry: 2025-08-15 19:49:37.814296+02 Trans birds by Dan Lyke comments 0
Phys.org: Surprising sex reversal discovered in Australian birds
In a study of nearly 500 birds from five species—including magpies, kookaburras, pigeons and lorikeets—researchers found that up to 6% had the physical features of one sex but the genetic makeup of the other.
The Royal Society Biology Letters: Prevalence and implications of sex reversal in free-living birds.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0182
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Entry: 2025-08-15 17:52:46.57188+02 Raunchy AI country by Dan Lyke comments 0
No good answers, but some astounding examples: Why Is TikTok Overflowing With AI Country Music Erotica?
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Entry: 2025-08-08 17:46:17.186689+02 misogyny and crypto, who'd have predicted? by Dan Lyke comments 0
USA Today: EXCLUSIVE: WNBA sex toy incidents started by Crypto meme coin group.
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social
Yeah so throwing dildos at women athletes on the court is an actual example of gender-based violence against women in sports—one that transphobes and acquiescent Dems will surely make 1000% less noise about
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Entry: 2025-07-30 19:00:02.401645+02 Your regular reminder that the by Dan Lyke comments 0
Your regular reminder that the criminalization of sex work, and making "adult materials" hard to purchase, is about removing agency from non-conforming people and putting the power in the hands of pimps and brothels that are enmeshed in the power structure (*cough* Mar-a-Lago *cough*).
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Entry: 2025-07-30 17:05:42.167258+02 Joshua Weissman by Dan Lyke comments 0
Yeah, on the one hand, "influencer you've never heard of turns out to be an asshole" isn't exactly news, on the other hand I think it's important to consider the media landscape that Google/Alphabet (and, let's be fair, the other big tech companies) have created and think about what we might do to mitigate the rewards for this behavior as we build whatever's gonna come after the dominance of the current players: The Shameless Impropriety of [YouTube cooking personality] Joshua Weissman
An investigation into the provenance of Weissman’s recipes led to many of his former employees who described exploitive behavior, patterns of abuse, and pervasive sexual misconduct.
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Entry: 2025-07-24 17:48:14.123525+02 Abuse and Buddhism by Dan Lyke comments 0
Someone in my neighborhood is dealing with the fallout of sexual abuse in their spiritual community, and I follow Ricardo Mendes and I follow him on the Fediverse, and see his posts about abuse and buddhism.
This recent link was to Anna Sawerthal: Abuse and Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade, which I found worth a read.
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Entry: 2025-06-17 22:18:46.566684+02 Changing romance by Dan Lyke comments 0
Saw a bunch of links to this article: Vox: What broke teenage romance?, but didn't really follow up because I figured I kinda knew what it said. And, to be fair, I think I did, but I think there's something to take from Elf Sternberg's comment:
This article reminds me of a conversation I had with my kids. They claim that so many kids identify as queer these days not because they want to date their own gender, but because the queer community gives them a vocabulary that's not steeped in patriarchy and misogyny.
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