dylanmorgan

@dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman accused of being shady about OpenAI’s safety efforts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also of being shady about everything else he and his company do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Better Offline (www.betteroffline.com) had an episode recently talking about how private equity has been killing journalism. This seems like a case for the site offering a subscription rather than just giving up. Video game journalism is kind of uniquely positioned to move to that model, especially something niche like a site that covers retro gaming. If they do it well, and I assume they do, their audience is likely willing to pay a few bucks a month for their work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do guys that tip cam models hundreds of dollars week after week think that model actually likes them?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They might think that, and they might be right. There have been multiple accounts from sec workers who feel friendly to their clients.

  Think about any place you go regularly: you might have a friendly relationship with the cashier/waiter/barista/bartender/whoever. That relationship only exists because you are a customer, but that doesn’t mean they don’t feel genuinely friendly to you. When I’ve worked in service jobs, there were plenty of people I only interacted with because I had to, and there were a handful of people I genuinely liked seeing. Just because someone is selling images of their naked body and a sense of intimacy doesn’t mean the dynamic is fundamentally different on their side. For the clients, there is often a misunderstanding of what the boundaries are, which is why many sex workers are extremely direct with people.