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Yesterday I ordered my lunch from an AI operating a drive-thru. It was fine. Banal. Boring even. A new experience that I think will become routine in the future.The AI drive-thru operator isnt cutting edge tech deployed in an upscale market to win over high value consumers. I live at the edge of a South Carolina city with a little more than 140,000 people. A booming metropolis with the best and the finest, it is not.Theres a lot of local fast food fried chicken joints here and one of them is Bojangles. Its mid. Better than KFC and not as good as Popeyes, Bojangles is fine if youre hungry but youll forget the meal as soon as its done and youll never yearn for it. Last year the restaurant said it would deploy an AI agent at its drive-thru windows. Its called, I shit you not, Bo-Linda and made by the Israeli tech firm Hi-Auto.According to the Bojangles website, Bo-Linda can take guest orders 96+% of the time with no human intervention, and improve overall satisfaction by offloading order taking from team members and providing a consistent guest experience.When Bo-Linda finally arrived in South Carolina, I went to see what the fuss was about. It was crushingly dull. A preview of a time in the near future, I think, when the AI bubble retracts and the agents are common. It took my order with an efficiency that, Ill be honest, is not typical of the typical fast food worker. The worst part was its constant attempts to up-sell me. 0:00 /0:39 1 Do you want to upgrade your drink to our new water-melon iced tea? It asked.No thank you.Would you like to add our new peach cobbler for $1.99?No thank you.May I get you anything else?No, thats it.Would you like to round up for military scholarships?No thank you.Youre welcome. Thank you. Your total is $10.89.When 404 Media founder Joseph Cox watched the video of my interactions, he made fun of my no thank yous. What can I say? Theres an ingrained and often stifling politeness thats bred into us in the American South. Even though I knew I was talking to a machine, I couldnt not be nice to it.My thought in the immediate aftermath is that the whole thing was painless. My order wasnt complicated, but it was correct. The machine never stumbled over itself or asked for clarification. It knew what I wanted and the humans at the window gave it to me. A few conversations with friends and a quick scan of social media in the area show that other people have had much the same interactions with Bo-Linda.The drive-thru AI, much like the chicken it sold me, is fine. Forgettable.It was later, sitting at home, and doing a little research for the story that concerns popped up. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that saying please and thank you to ChatGPT has cost the company tens of millions of dollars. How much water and energy had I burned being polite to Bo-Linda the chatbot?Sometimes it feels like the answers to these questions dont matter. Were barreling forward into the AI future, whether we like it or not. Data centers are springing up across America and nuclear power plants are coming back online, so Bojangles can make a little more money and so people in the drive-thru can feel a little less friction before eating their meal.This is how a new technology takes over, what it feels like right before it becomes ubiquitous. One day you wake up and the cameras are everywhere, able to recognize your face and chart your movements across the city you live in. One day you look up and everyone has their face buried in their phone. It happened by degrees, but so gradually you didnt notice. There were signs along the way, dangers and warnings.But mostly, it was fine, as boring and routine as ordering chicken at a drive-thru.

So-called 3D-printed ghost guns are untraceable firearms that can be assembled at home. But cutting edge work from a forensic expert in California and researchers at the University of Oklahoma may soon show investigators can trace a 3D printed object to the specific printer that made it.Weapons manufactured using 3D printers have been a subject of Biden-era legislation and recent Supreme Court scrutiny. Its possible to download the blueprints for a firearm and build it in your home. Theres no serial number to track and no store to scrutinize your purchase. Luigi Mangione used a ghost gun to allegedly assassinate United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.Kirk Garrison, a forensics expert who works for the San Bernardino Sheriffs department, told 404 Media hes had early success matching 3D printed objects to the machines that made them. Garrison said his comments represent his own views and not those of the San Bernardino Sheriffs department. He also cautioned that what hes doing is in its infancy and it might be years before authorities can reliably match a gun to the machine that made it, if they can do it at all.In 2018, Garrison started seeing a lot of 3D printed gun parts in his work at the Sheriffs department. It was mostly 80% kits and automatic conversion kits, small 3D printed pieces of plastic that turn a semiautomatic pistol into an automatic one. Then he got his first case with a fully 3D printed gun frame. Thats when I was like, We might need to know a little bit more about this now if were actually going to be seeing this stuff and potentially have to testify to it, he told 404 Media.A few years later Garrison attended a conference for forensic examiners in Atalanta and caught a talk by FBI lab tech Corey Scott. Scott had been 3D printing novelty items and noticed something. He was just like, Hey, I noticed on these 3D printed items, theres these marks, but we was like: Im not actually a firearms or toolmark examiner.A toolmark is a consistent scratch or impression a harder object leaves on a softer one. A screwdriver may produce the same scratches in the head of every screw it touches. A pair of bolt cutters will scratch up a length of chain in the same way every time. Matching tools to the objects they interacted with is one of the bedmarks of forensic science and its something Garrison is an expert in.So the question was: do 3D printers leave behind consistent toolmarks on the objects they make? When he got back to his San Bernardino lab following the conference, Garrison put the 3D printed weapon frame under the microscope. He noticed that the manufacturing process had left stria, or scratch marks, behind. If a 3D printer left behind the same pattern of stria on everything it printed then it might be possible to match a printer to an object it printed.From there, Garrison started printing simple blocks at home on his own 3D printer. Hed take them into the lab on his own time and examine them under a microscope. Thats when I started seeing some of the consistency on two separate printed things, he said. It was too early to tell, and its still too early to tell, but individual printers might leave behind unique toolmarks on every object they print.A page from 'An exploratory study of topographical signatures within 3D fused deposition modelling using Polylactic Acid (PLA) filament.'Most 3D printers work by heating up a filamentoften, but not always, plasticand extruding it through a metal nozzle. The nozzle puts down hundreds, or even thousands, of layers of the heated plastic to form a solid object. Each individual level of the print is called the print line. So on the firearm, Im seeing from the trigger guardmaybe print line 200and the top of the magazine wellprint line 400the marks are staying consistent, Garrison said.It was an exciting discovery but it also wouldnt be admissible as evidence in a criminal trial. Despite the promise that we may one day be able to match a printer to the object that made it, Garrison stressed that the work was in its very early days and that it would take years, perhaps even a decade, of science to work out the truth of toolmarks and 3D printers.He was also studying this on his own time and still had a full caseload with the Sheriffs department. Garrison published a study about his results in the Forensics Science International that he co-authored with researcher Steven Pavlovich, but he knew there was more to do. Ive always been like, Hey, someone who works at a university who gets paid to do this, you should totally do this right now, he said.Enter Eric Law, an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Oklahoma Forensic Science Institute, and his graduate student Cooper Blair. Along with Garrison, the pair are the authors of a forthcoming research paper about the phenomenon of toolmarks in 3D printed objects. Once published, itll be the first of its kind.Law and Blairs focus is narrow. So if we had a single printer and we had multiple nozzles, can we tell the difference between something printed on each of those different nozzles? And also, if we have different print bed surfaces, can we differentiate those print bed surfaces and tell what object was printed on which? Law told 404 Media.The nozzles used in 3D printing are often, but not always, made of metal and printed onto a strip of material thats called a print sheet or print bed. They studied print sheets first. Not all sheets are the same, some are smooth, some are textured, and they come in a variety of different materials. So we looked at textured, because we figured if there's some texture to it, those characteristics might reproduce on the plastic, and might let us do that comparison a bit easier, Law said. So I looked at texture print beds, and we could differentiate those 100% of the time. Meaning that, both by eye and using a computer, his team could match an object to the sheet it was printed on.Its a promising early finding. The problem we get into there is we're looking at a specific area on the print bed, so you have to print something on the exact same region, because every area on that print bed is different, Law said. If we print something right in the center and then print that same object in the top right corner, those would be different from each other. So it has to be in the same location, which complicates things a little bit.He pointed to Glock switches, the conversion kits that turn a pistol into an automatic weapon. Those are pretty small and on a 3D print bed you could align a bunch of those and print them all at once, he said. Which is what you would do to produce as many as you can, as quickly as you can. If you had two of those they might look like they're from different printers, but they might have just been from different sections of the same printer.Print sheets can also move between printers and can be easily discarded. Knowing that a Glock switch was printed out on a particular sheet is not a smoking gun. So it shows promise. But there's a lot of potential issues too, Law said.Law and Blair succeeded in matching nozzles to printed objects in their study, but the results werent as promising as the print sheets. Law said the nozzle match rate was correct about 75 percent of the time. The algorithm could identify the correct nozzles, probably a little bit less than that with just visual examination, he said. It still shows promise, but is a bit more challenging.There are other issues too. All of Law and Blairs tests were done with one kind of 3D printera Prusa MK4S. Theres hundreds of different devices on the market that all behave differently. Law also pointed out that brass nozzles warp over time themselves and may produce different results after hundreds of prints and that different nozzles made from different materials may work very differently. Law would also want an examiner rate studya formal scientific inquiry into false positives and examiner bias.Theres a lot of promise in what weve seen but theres also a lot of questions still. Different nozzles, different print beds, how easy it is to swap those and whether they change, Law said. He would not, at this point, be willing to testify in a criminal case as an expert on 3D printed forensics.Garrison also said he wouldnt be comfortable using any of this in a court but he was still excited. Even if it doesnt work, and this is not a possibility, we still found out new information. Id be just as happy with that. Hey cool, I was involved in finding out that you cant do this, he said.

This articlefirst appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publications permission.Last Wednesday morning,the Labor Department quietlyrepostedgrants aimed at getting women workers into fields like construction and manufacturing, two months after DOGE sanctimoniously canceled the program.The move came as a shock to employees. DOGE previously eliminated dozens of the congressionally mandatedWomen in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations(WANTO)grants, which support recruiting and training women in industries in fields like construction, manufacturing, and information technology. AsMother Jonespreviously reported, DOGE canceled the funds, which itdismissedas wasteful DEI grants, back in May. Related Marco Rubio removes LGBTQ+ people & women from annual human rights report He also removed sections on people with disabilities and government corruption. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today The Labor Department istrying to spinthe renewed availability of the $5 million grants as proof of the Trump administrations support for women in the workforce, even though the administration is alsotrying to eliminate the congressionally mandated, 105-year-old Womens Bureau that administers them. Instead, employees at the department say the agencys attempted spin is laughable and yet another example of the administrationbacktrackingon cutting support for marginalized populations after public outcry.The press release makes it sound like its something they came up with, said Gayle Goldin, former deputy director of the Womens Bureau under the Biden administration. This is a multi-decade grant program that has had bipartisan support for years.A DOL employee familiar with the work of the Womens Bureau agreed, adding, This seems to be on trend for them, taking credit for revamping programs when they are largely the same. (The DOL employees who spoke withMother Jonesfor this story were granted anonymity for fear of retribution, given that a department official previously threatened staff who spoke to journalists with serious legal consequences, including criminal charges,ProPublicareported.) In fact, experts say the extent to which the program has been altered merely dilutes its goals. Compared withlast years detailed guidelinesfor the grant,this yearseliminate prior references to prioritizing historically underrepresented communities, such as women of color, women with disabilities, and women at or below the federal poverty line, and transgender and nonbinary people. Another DOL employee called those changes unfortunate, pointing torecent federal data showing a rise in Black womens unemployment.To remove this focus on underrepresented communities, it just makes it less likely that the organizations that ultimately get awarded will intentionally make sure that they are reaching all women, including and especially the ones who frankly need it the most, that employee said.Another major change in this years grants: It reduces the amount of funds that can be used for supportive serviceslike child care for participants kids or transportation to help them get to training programs. We know how critical supportive services are to recruiting and retaining women in these programs, the DOL employee added. The previously canceled WANTO grants, which will not be restored despite the new funding announcement, were used to support programs for getting women and nonbinary into construction in places like North Carolina and Mississippi. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee,citedsome of these details included in my previous reporting when she questioned Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer about the status of WANTO grants at a House Appropriations Committee hearing. (Chavez-DeRemer declined to comment on the specific WANTO cuts at that hearing.)Prior grantees and experts have mixed feelings about the latest development. Goldin, the former deputy director of the Womens Bureau under Biden, said that on the one hand, it is surprising, in a good way, to see the grant announcement back up.At the same time, she added, I feel like this administration is all over the place. Do they actually want women in the workforce? If so, I really hope organizations apply for this grant funding and that they go ahead and fund them. Nora Spencers North Carolina nonprofit,Hope Renovations, which supports and trains women and nonbinary people to work in construction, lost about $300,000 of its $700,000 WANTO grant in May. We have gone through all of this frustration and heartache from the grants being taken away, she told me on Wednesday, and now theyre back again with no notice to us.Spencer is unsure if she will reapply, citing ethical concerns about seeking the funding when this administration does not want to support historically marginalized populations. Those requirements, she said, would limit the people that we can serve.Organizations that received the funds last year are not eligible to apply for the new grants, the DOL says.For Rhoni Basden, executive director ofVermont Works for Women, a nonprofit that supports womens and young peoples career development,that came as more disappointment. Shehad the remainder of her organizations $400,000 WANTO grant canceled back in May. Like Spencer, she did not know that the grants had been reopened for applications until I contacted her on Wednesday morning.Even if she was eligible, she said, she is not sure if she would seek out the funds again.The application deadline is in less than a month, and her organizations prior WANTO-funded work was focused on serving marginalized populations, which seem to conflict with this administrations priorities. Using funds for support services to help participants in rural Vermont attend their programming or pay for child care was also critical, she said. For us specifically, she said, it feels dismantling and backwards.Spokespeople for the Labor Department did not immediately respond to questions fromMother Jones.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

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This house is ideal, apart from one bedroom having a full-size Skee-Ball machine in it. We dont know how they got it in there. Did they assemble it inside? Was the house built around it? We cant figure it out.Reference #257977The post Theres A Skee-Ball Machine Stuck In One Of The Bedrooms appeared first on The Onion.

Like every parent, I want my kids to be safe. I know that for my young daughter and son to grow and thrive, they need to feel secure in their surroundings. But with the way people coddle their children these days, I fear were raising a generation that wont be able to handle lifes basic challenges. So when my kids face tough situations, like getting shot at, I try not to shelter them too much. I realize if I take a bullet for them, they may never learn to take bullets themselves.When my second-graders shoe comes untied, or my kindergartners coat needs zipping, I dont immediately kneel down and do it for them. Theyre old enough to manage these things on their own, and though they may get frustrated at times, its a necessary lesson in personal responsibility. Same deal when shots are fired. I could throw myself in front of them the moment someone starts shooting in their direction, but then Im not exactly preparing them for life, am I?Obviously, I wouldnt be doing my kids any favors if I sent them out into the world not knowing how to sustain a gunshot wound to the chest.Sometimes its your job as a parent to stand back and say, You got this, buddy! Whether your child is learning to ride a bike, heading off to camp for the first time, or bleeding out because multiple shots have perforated their torso, it can be hard to watch them struggle. After all, there may be a few tears! But before you know it, theyre figuring out how to balance on two wheels, make new friends, or tear their shirt into strips to stanch the flow of blood until paramedics arrive.Unfortunately, todays helicopter parents have other ideas, hovering overhead and swooping in the moment their child faces adversity. You know the type they intervene any time their kid has an argument with a friend, gets a bad grade, or doesnt make a sports team. Well, they do the same thing in an active-shooter situation. Believe it or not, some parents will literally throw themselves on top of an armed assailant to ensure their child doesnt take a single stray bullet.I can understand their impulse, but kids need to develop self-reliance. Sometimes that means being stern and making them find their own cover when a shooter opens fire in a public space.Back when I was growing up, parents still believed in a crazy little thing called tough love. I might scream and holler and cry for help, but that didnt mean my mom and dad charged to the rescue every time I procrastinated on a science project or forgot to bring my coat to school. It can be a challenge, taking shots from a powerful rifle, but its also an experience that builds character in young people, assuming they are able to recover from the blood loss.Surely nothing is more impor-tant for children to learn than how to get back up after life knocks them down in a hail of gunfire.Someday my kids will be adults. Theyll go off to college and get shot, theyll join the workforce and get shot. I wont be there to hold their hand through the many rounds of ammunition the world fires their way. If I crouch with them under a table every time a deranged gunman storms into Baskin-Robbins, I will have failed as a father. Theyll grow up expecting someone to step in and actually do something to stop them from being torn to pieces by an AR-15.And we all know thats never going to happen.The post If I Take A Bullet For My Child, How Will They Learn To Take Bullets Themselves? appeared first on The Onion.

ST. PAUL, MNIn a comprehensive new survey of how the wealthy view their socioeconomic status, a study published this week in the Journal Of Economic Perspectives found that the majority of billionaires consider themselves to be middle class.The studywhich collected responses from 865 of the richest Americans, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Alice Walton, and Michael Bloombergreports that 70% of individualswith $1 billion or more in assets said they belong to moderate-income households. Of those, around a third acknowledged that as a result of their hard work, they may now be doing well enough to qualify as upper middle class.The billionaires we surveyed spoke a great deal of the challenges they face just keeping up with all their bills, said study co-author Simon Mendoza, who observed that while economic data suggests the wealthiest 0.0001% are doing better now than at any point in U.S. history, most do not feel this is reflected in their personal experience. Many described themselves as simple small business owners who, for example, are often forced to lay off hundreds or even thousands of employees just to keep the lights on in all their vacation homes.He added, Others cited structural disadvantages, such as supply constraints that continue to squeeze some billionaires out of private island ownership.Among the typical middle-class concerns shared by those who participated in the study was the increasing cost of putting kids through college. Many billionaires complained that a donation of a few million dollars was no longer sufficient to guarantee acceptance to elite universities, which now expect parents to subsidize a new research facility, performing arts center, or library before agreeing to admit their academically unqualified children.Billionaires who perceived themselves as middle class also expressed anger over healthcare expenses, lamenting in particular the skyrocketing price of on-call concierge physicians, routine full-body MRIs, anti-aging stem-cell therapies, jawline surgery, and continuous infusions of blood from a healthy young person.A million dollars doesnt go as far as it used to, thats for sure, said survey respondent and candy magnate John Mars, 89, who told researchers that, despite working his entire life to inherit a fortune now worth more than $40 billion, he worried about what he would leave behind for his own children. The cost of lobbying members of Congress so I can avoid paying taxes has gone through the roof. And elections are getting more expensive all the time. I spent the best years of my life trying to repeal the estate tax, and I still have nothing to show for it.Like most Americans, Id prefer to leave this world knowing I provided each of my kids with an 11-figure inheritance, Mars continued. Unfortunately, that dream may be out of reach for me.Inflation, one of the biggest worries facing the middle class, was mentioned frequently by the studys billionaire participants.Have you gone to a chain supermarket lately and seen how expensive it is to buy a controlling stake in the place? said Jeff Bezos, who purchased Whole Foods when he was CEO of Amazon and, in his survey response, described his struggles living dividend check to dividend check. With the economy like this, you have to ask yourself if you should be opening up your own Michelin-starred restaurant downtown or eating more meals at home cooked by private chefs.Lucky for me, Im just an ordinary guy with pretty basic tastes, Bezos added. Hell, I still drive the same old limited-edition Lambor-ghini Veneno Roadster I bought for $5 million back in 2014!The post Study: Majority Of Billionaires Consider Selves Middle Class appeared first on The Onion.

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A woman in Haiti has been arrested for attempting to kill her gay son, Erasing 76 Crimes reports. 17-year-old Jeffrey Val of Quartier-Morin, Haiti, was allegedly attacked and stabbed by his mother. While rumors spread on Facebook that he was killed in the attack, local activists say that he is still alive. Related A trans teen girl was put in a male detention center. They broke her jaw. Five boys have been charged with assaulting the victim. Jhonny Clergof the LGBTQ+ organization Arc-en-Ciel dHati(ORAH) told Erasing 76 Crimes that Vals mother got into an argument with her son, during which she grabbed a knife and slashed his hip. Val had to be taken to the hospital for severe bleeding. One local news source says that the argument started when the mother found Vals cell phone, but that source also said that Val was killed in the attack, which Clerg disputes.National law enforcement authorities arrested the mother, and she is still being held in police custody.Shes in prison, and she should stay there, Clergsaid. Erasing 76 Crimes reports that, on social media, many commenters are supporting the mother in her attack on her son.Homosexuality is legal in Haiti, but the country doesnt recognize same-sex relationships with either marriage or civil unions. There are no anti-discrimination protections that include sexual orientation or gender identity.Earlier this year, the country adopted a new penal code. It did not include hate crimes protections for LGBTQ+ people.

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Republicans once again blocked a vote on a measure to get Attorney General Pam Bondi to release files from the investigation of convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, with every Republican in the House of Representatives voting to stop the Democratic measure yesterday.Now Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has an idea, and shes getting mocked online for how bad it is. Related Lauren Boebert freaks out over a guy in womens bathroom. She was completely wrong. I made an error regarding a mistaken identity, Boebert later said. Moving forward, we need a special counsel, she said on rightwing commentator Benny Johnsons podcast. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Her choice for the special counsel to investigate the allegations of child sex trafficking? Someone else who has also been accused of child sex trafficking: former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).So this is certainly important and I want answers, she continued. Maybe that takes that special counsel to do so. Maybe Matt Gaetz can lead the special counsel.Would you vote in favor of that? Johnson asked. Absolutely yes. You know, Matt has spoke [sic] highly of Pam Bondi, Boebert continued. But yeah, Matt Gaetz as a special counsel, absolutely. At issue is the administrations refusal to release records associated with the investigation of Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking minors. While the medical examiner determined that his death was a suicide, many people, especially on the right, do not believe that it was, instead asserting that he was killed to keep him silent about the clients for whom he found children to sexually abuse.Many officials associated with Trump had spent years repeating the same rumors, andTrump himself said repeatedly in 2024 that the Epstein list needed to be released.In February, Attorney General Bondi said that she was reviewing a lot of names related to the Epstein investigation and said that the Epstein list is sitting on my desk right now to review. But last week, the Department of Justice released a memo that said there was no secret client list and reaffirmed the 2019 finding that Epstein died by suicide. Many Trump supporters were outraged that the rumored client list wouldnt be released, while many on the left speculated that the reason Bondi wasnt releasing it is because Trump himself or at least high-ranking members of his administration is on it.Trump had a decades-long friendship with Epsteinand joked about how his friend was fun and terrific andliked women on the younger side. Trump has also beenfound liable for sexual abuse by a jury, hasadmitted to sexually assaulting womenin the past, and hasadmitted to walking in on underage girlsas they changed clothes. He has been accused of sexual assault or other forms of sexual improprietyby at least 27 women.House Democrats have tried twice this week to introduce measures to get Bondi to release documents associated with the investigation into Epstein, with Republicans blocking the measures, fueling speculation online that Republicans are protecting either Trump or other administration officials who may have sexually abused children in connection with Epstein. Boeberts idea was panned on social media because Gaetz himself was accused of child sex trafficking and even resigned from Congress shortly after winning reelection in 2024, just before the House Ethics Committee was going to release a report on its investigation into his alleged sexual activity with minors. Gaetz has denied having sexual relations with minors.This might be the dumbest thing Ive ever heard anyone say unironically, one user on Bluesky wrote about Boeberts comments. Yes. A sex pervert investigating sex perverts. WTF, wrote another person. Bwhahahaha! Youve gotta be crazy. Oh, wait. You are, one person wrote.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

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Steam, the dominant digital storefront for PC games operated by Valve, updated its guidelines to forbid certain kinds of adult content and blamed restrictions from payment processors and financial institutions. The update was initially spotted by Steam.DB, a platform that tracks and publishes data about Steam, and reported by the Japanese gaming site Gamespark.The update is yet another signal that payment processors are lately becoming more vigilant about what online platforms that host adult content theyll provide services to and another clear sign that they are currently the ultimate arbiter of what kind of content can be made easily available online, or not.Steams policy change appears under the onboarding portion of its Seamworks documentation for developers and publishers. The 15th item on a list of what you shouldnt publish on Steam now reads: Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steams payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.Its not clear when exactly Valve updated this list, but an archive of this page from April shows that it only had 14 items then. Other items that were already on the list included nude or sexually explicit images of real people and adult content that isnt appropriately labeled and age-gated, but Valve did not previously mention payment processors specifically.Valve did not immediately respond to a request for comment and questions about where developers might find more details about payment processors rules and standards.Steam.DB, which also tracks when games are added or removed from Steam, noted many adult games have been removed from Steam in the last 24 hours. Sex games, many of which are of very low quality and sometimes include very extreme content, have been common on Steam for years. In April, I wrote about a rape and incest game called No Mercy which the developers eventually voluntarily removed from Steam after pressure from users, media, and lawmakers in the UK. The majority of games I saw that were removed from Steam recently revolve around similar themes, but we dont know if they were removed by the developers or Valve, and if they were removed by Valve because of the recent policy change. Games are removed from Steam every day for a variety of reasons, including expired licensing deals or developers no longer wanting to support a game.However, Steams policy change comes at a time that weve seen increased pressure from payment processors around adult content. We recently reported that payment processors have forced two major AI models sharing platforms, Civitai and Tensor.Art, to remove certain adult content.