Perfection
https://thehardtimes.net/blog/...of-a-known-rapist-and-pedophile/
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: 2026-07-06 21:51:29.008193+02 AI-Mediated Communication Can Steer Collective Opinion by Dan Lyke comments 0
The study AI-Mediated Communication Can Steer Collective Opinion, authored by Dr. Stratis Tsirtsis, Dr Kai Rawal, Dr Chris Russell, Professor Brent Mittelstadt and Professor Sandra Wachter, has been accepted for presentation at the AI4Good and Technical AI Governance Research workshops at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026) in Seoul, South Korea.
arXiv: AI-Mediated Communication Can Steer Collective Opinion. They focus a lot on Grok, but as I watch people adopt these things as a general information filter, I'm super concerned about this effect.
Tech Xplore version of the press release.
Via The Guardian, which adds a few examples but doesn't actually link to these sources.
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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: 2026-06-16 18:11:32.628716+02 Peter Thiel's Dialog service leaks member list by Dan Lyke comments 0
maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay
SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members?
I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
Via Chest er Christmas @imemptyplshalp.bsky.social
Oh of fucking course Larry Summers, Sam Harris, and Stephen Pinker are on here. The unholy Trinity of people considered smart despite being wrong about literally everything they've ever written.
But, yeah, it's got strong overlap with the Epstein files list, and has all the hallmarks of being a vibe-coded React thing. Of course the list of names hardcoded in source could be a red herring of some sort...
Edit: AmyFou 🕊️ @amyfou@lingo.lol, and Random Geek @randomgeek@masto.hackers.town.
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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: 2026-06-08 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 00:18:41.689236+02 Don’t Call It Kids’ Safety if Kids Aren’t Safe by Dan Lyke comments 0
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a bipartisan coalition of 44 attorneys general in sending a letter to Congress opposing the passage of the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act (KIDS Act). The KIDS Act would broadly preempt state laws governing major online safety and technology issues — including online obscenity and regulation of artificial intelligence chatbots — while replacing them with ineffective federal standards. The letter argues that passage of the KIDS Act would threaten the progress states across the country have made in addressing the harms social media platforms pose to children, both by suing some of these platforms for acting illegally and by enacting landmark legislation designed to address the same harms targeted by the KIDS Act.
(Bonus for cool use of the character!)
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Entry: 2026-05-20 18:12:57.283052+02 A response to Pirate Wires by Dan Lyke comments 0
Chad M. Topaz: Receipts are receipts — A response to Pirate Wires on Tressie McMillan Cottom.
Via Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, who quote skeeted Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social describing the post as:
So, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes a brilliant (as usual) op-ed about genAI and some tech bro attempts to ridicule it. The guy, Mike Solana, is probably not worth my time but it seems he's gay and as a Gay, I am unduly annoyed by evil gays. Also, I'm bored. So here's my debunking of this guy.
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Entry: 2026-05-07 21:56:27.693028+02 Roberts no longer gives a shit by Dan Lyke comments 0
We've gotten to the point where the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court no longer gives a shit that people know he's lying. Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court is not political
His remarks to a conference of judges and lawyers from the 3rd U.S. Circuit in Pennsylvania came at a time of <span class="LinkEnhancement">low public confidence</span> in the court, and about a week after the court handed down a decision that hollowed out the Voting Rights Act.
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Entry: 2026-05-04 17:22:00.862393+02 Yellow cover by Dan Lyke comments 1
Yellow - Coldplay (Transgender Duet With My Past Self) By Dylan And The Moon (YouTube video).
Via Faith, Purple haired feminist 🧋 @faithisleaping@anarres.family who notes:
Okay, this might be the coolest thing I’ve seen all week. It’s a trans guy singing with his past self.
And it's a damned good cover.
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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: 2026-04-21 22:53:00.692329+02 Schism in the pedophiles by Dan Lyke comments 0
The Onion (video): Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings
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Entry: 2026-04-14 00:53:03.902591+02 Car headed to strip club hits violin shop by Dan Lyke comments 0
Car headed to strip club crashes into Avondale violin shop
“We also were able to recover seven cellphones, one of which was on and indicated that the party was traveling to Pin-Ups,” Bryant said.
Via Tara Calishain, who noted:
🎶 That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia 🎶
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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: 2026-04-06 17:59:05.677405+02 Artemis IT disasters by Dan Lyke comments 0
You've probably seen the stuff from the Artemis II mission about Bluetooth pairing issues and Microsoft Outlook ... well ... there's no way to put those words together without some sort of "clusterfuck" semantics. Anyway, Becca Royal- Gordon @beccadax@soincredibly.gay
Hot take: The Artemis livestream is a damning indictment of modern computing devices. It seems like half the radio chatter is troubleshooting email delivery problems, confusing user interfaces, or devices not booting or connecting. Literal astronauts with years of training can’t make our stuff work.
wendy cloudberry @wendycloudberry.com
Pine would never
Numerous social media folks are also making "Thunderbird" comments... I think this is a reminder that it's time for me to get back on Claws.
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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: 2026-03-19 21:40:35.298501+01 are the straits okay? by Dan Lyke comments 0
Tina, demon child of the stars @TransTina@translunar.academy
I don’t see the gay of Hormuz causing any trouble
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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 23:54:09.794021+01 nor weasels in your trousers by Dan Lyke comments 0
Uncle Duke @UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com
Don’t put ants in your ears
Or bees in your anus
Lick a porcupine once
You’ll find out what pain is
And there’s just one last thing
One final reminder
Please don’t put ground-up wasp nests in your vagina
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Entry: 2026-02-28 01:42:29.200071+01 bcachefs author goes AI psychosis by Dan Lyke comments 0
datarama @datarama@hachyderm.io
I apparently live in a world where a totally normal thing that happens is: Linux filesystem maintainer declares that his AI agent is conscious and also a girl btw, and then the AI agent comes out as a trans lesbian after flirting with someone on IRC. Linux filesystem maintainer throws a fit.
I... I think I'm too old for this.
The Register: Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'
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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: 2026-02-23 19:50:22.367536+01 parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’ by Dan Lyke comments 0
There's just so many of these floating across my world right now that it's hard to link to specific instances, and easier to just observe: CHOAM Nomsky @samthielman.com
Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”
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Entry: 2026-02-17 18:47:58.056697+01 Pregnancy risks by Dan Lyke comments 0
"It was already fairly alarming that you face a 14-times greater risk of death from continuing a pregnancy [compared to getting an abortion]," lead study author Maria Steenland, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Health, told Live Science. "But the statistics we report here suggest that this risk is really much, much higher."
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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: 2026-02-08 04:45:03.144499+01 Perfection https by Dan Lyke comments 0
Perfection
https://thehardtimes.net/blog/...of-a-known-rapist-and-pedophile/
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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: 2025-12-29 01:08:01.072138+01 Santa Claus by Dan Lyke comments 0
Santa Claus from Harper's Weekly
Nast's image was published in the 1862 Christmas issue of Harper’s Weekly, during days filled with both trials for the Union and rising hope. Santa Claus has arrived by sleigh in a Union army camp to distribute gifts.
And Jefferson Davis swinging from a noose.
Coca Cola's vision of Santa Clause occurred in 1931.
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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: 2025-12-12 18:34:05.279448+01 Deconstruct anything you were indoctrinated into by Dan Lyke comments 0
Danielle Foré @danirabbit@mastodon.online
“Transgender for everybody”, but unironically. As in, spend some time deconstructing your gender and then actively choose what gender roles and expressions you actually do and don’t want to perform. Deconstruct your sexuality too. Deconstruct your religion. Deconstruct anything you were indoctrinated into so you can be authentically you
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Entry: 2025-12-05 17:32:43.239041+01 OpenAI shapes what you see by Dan Lyke comments 0
Last week in a seminar we discussed a text that was largely about sexual violence, including mass rape during war. Heavy stuff.
One student admitted they had not read the text but worked off a ChatGPT summary.
They had no idea the text was about sexual violence. ChatGPT withheld that information.
This wasn’t just a minor error nor a typical LLM hallucination.
About a third of the text, arguably its most important part, went completely ignored because it didn’t match OpenAI’s content policies
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