In no small part, that's because Adobe drove off everyone who wouldn't use the slop machine and didn't consent to their work being stolen to train the slop machine. FFS, Affinity got a huge surge simply by saying they wouldn't ever push AI—enough that they became attractive enough to be bought out.

In short, this kind of article serves "A.i." billionaires by implying that "A.i." is already here to stay, conflating generative "A.i." with mundane machine learning, and leaving people with the solid option to simply shut up about their "A.i." use. Do not like!

"A.i." advocates want you to associate mundane machine learning tasks we've been doing forever with generative "A.i." so that if you criticize one, you're criticizing everything. No. Don't play with us. We hate the thieving bullshit disinfo environment-destroying CSAM machine.

Putting this out there as much for myself as anyone else because this is what I needed to hear today: You don’t need to watch it.

For The New York Times to choose to publish Jesse Singal today, of all times, is a choice to attack trans people, to make them even more vulnerable while they are already under attack. It is an appalling abdication of the Times’s journalistic duties.

There have always been horrifically anti-trans groups and individuals. Few have done more, though, to launder their hate into “respectable” conversations than Jess Singal. No publications have done more to help that along than The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Letting Jesse Singal write about trans issues in the NYT is like letting David Duke do an op-ed about racism.

At the end of the day, you can boil down Jesse Singal's entire career going after gender affirming care with 3 words: "We don't know." It's classic climate style denialism. Nitpick everything you disagree with and foment uncertainty.

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AM I SUPPOSED TO BE SUPRISED? IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WITH HALF A FUNCTIONING BRAINCELL AND A PULSE THAT'S SUPRISED?? fortune.com/2026/02/24/d...

Blackburn is one of the reps who introduced the Kids Online Safety Act and is leading the charge to "protect" children by censoring anything the government deems "harmful" to them online. While talking about KOSA, she also said children need to be protected "from the transgender in this culture"

1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people. This time, it comes from Jesse Singal. I fact check it in my latest piece. End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This is anti-vaxx logic. It is not "naive" to accept the conclusions of experts in technical fields.

The parasocial rot affects so much of society that nearly every expressive act is seen as performative when, FFS, some (most?) of us write, teach, act, draw, dance, etc. because we're introverts who prefer to do so through a medium rather than through embodying our expression & commodifying self.

The UNC Board of Governors is trying to rewrite the definition of academic freedom, restricting what faculty can say & do in their classrooms & in public. This is a broader effort to limit open inquiry & free debate in higher education. We know what the aim is. We can’t let this happen.

All Black people are impacted by the N word, not just the Black people you want to tokenize for discursive purposes

Mt Sinai has followed NYU Langone in blatantly violating NY state and NYC law by stopping provision of gender affirming care to trans youth. Seriously, what are @mayor.nyc.gov, @newyorkstateag.bsky.social, and @governor.ny.gov going to do about this? www.advocate.com/health/trans...

Cybertruck is more explosive than the Ford Pinto the data proves it fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Part of the problem with Gavin Newsom is that he's a stupid asshole who listens to stupid asshole right-wing podcasts and invites those stupid asshole right-wingers on his podcast and all of this stupid asshole influence leads him to believe and say stupid asshole right-wing talking points.

Don't watch The State of the Union tomorrow. Donald cares more about his ratings than whether Barron gets leukemia.

Minneapolis isn't an especially sweary place but there are so many houses that have homemade "FUCK ICE" signs and I've had multiple conversations with parents about how we're okay with our kids using that word in this context because sometimes it IS okay to swear and this is one of those times.

Because we're being told what he says about trans people isn't a deal-breaker for many people. It's the rhetoric he's feeding to liberals. It isn't just about Newsom. It's anyone who thinks sacrificing marginalized communities and collaborating with Nazis is the way forward.

Won't speak for The Left, but my "taking AI seriously" take is that it is misallocated investment, a financial bubble, and a privacy and security nightmare which will only get worse. Seems a bit more serious than "AI will be god soon and all fun and friendship will be replaced with AI tamagotchis"

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

There is widespread public misunderstanding of both the degree of extreme wealth concentration and how little the very rich actually pay. In fact, the very rich hardly pay any tax at all. buff.ly/2gU0YRR

love when democrats talk about kitchen table issues as if trans people and immigrants don’t have kitchen tables 🙃

Debating whether to go to the emergency department right now; I absolutely meet medical criteria for at least a CBC & MRI, but the ED generates large medical bills. the notion chronically ill people don’t have “skin in the game” so healthcare should cost more for us is despicably vile.

New from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern?: The SAVE Act is a truly extreme voter suppression bill, but in ways that might surprise you. White Christian Nationalism is driving the bill more than a cynical focus on maximizing GOP vote share. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

Judges say Trump officials violated court orders on immigration 35 times since August, per NYT. Between this and tariff ruling, it's a reminder that the main pillars of MAGA nationalism (immig/tariffs) are the things most deeply entangled with his authoritarianism newrepublic.com/article/2068...

If @umnlawschool.bsky.social is not embarrassed by Ilan Wurman, the rest of the U should be.

If Ilan keeps appearing on podcasts and media interviews claiming expertise and knowledge about the common law that is entirely underserved and flat out wrong, I will continue to explain why I suspect his methods are sloppy as hell.

I asked a certain law prof last week if he did archival work, to which he mockingly responded that my question was “deeply unserious.” One reason why you cannot database search your way through English records? Nothing is spelled the same. Trust not someone who takes mere weeks to do this work.

I’m completely over someone pretending to be an expert when they’re not.

A remarkable feature of the SAVE Act is that Republicans are explicitly burdening their own voters--conservative married white Republican women. It makes sense if you think about it as a Christian Nationalist project rather than a Republican project. From me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

The idea of a "Household Vote" (which is the effective impact of the SAVE Act, given how hard it will make for married women to vote) is common among powerful Republicans in both the White House and Congress. They don't see it as 'radical'. It's what our White Christian founders did.

Every safe blue seat should be a bright blue seat.

It's just like this now. Every single shooting that happens gets blamed on trans people. It spreads like wildfire even when it's a blatant lie.

X is actually, by design, an echo chamber. Bluesky is a place where likeminded people organically collected in opposition to the echo chamber

"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

This AM, Adobe broke my Acrobat installation. Next, Creative Cloud flipped out because it couldn't uninstall. Then an hour to reinstall from the web. Only to then have to use the least accessible program to remediate accessibility—unsuccessfully. At least there's a blizzard. #HigherEd #EduSky

X is unsafe for many people, period. I wouldn't post on there any sooner than I'd walk into a Klan convention. Literally not even an option.

Has everything on the internet gotten 500x dumber this week or is it just me? No platform seems immune. Not quantifiable but I can almost visibly see the radiation coming off the poison I'm injecting into my eyes now.

Counterpoint: No. ICE doesn’t need reform. Abolition and prosecution is the bare minimum.

Just your reminder that if you do not train an AI model, you just don't train an AI model, and if you do not feed a human, that's murder and you're evil.

Has a scent? Sure, sure. Smells like fascism. As if we needed any more proof that @60minutes.bsky.social has become nothing more than a tool of MAGA authoritarianism, here they are promoting the soul-sucking, anti-intellectual, anti-human, uncritical, and uncreative unreality slop generator.

Be aware of which political party wants the American people to vote and will protect our collective right to do so…and which political party wants to restrict that right so that they may remain in power indefinitely. The difference could not be clearer than at the present moment.

The decision by two Bay Area DAs to pursue felony conspiracy charges against student protesters has critics concerned about the growing push to suppress protest. “That’s really concerning for the health of our democracy.”

Masnick: "This is what so many of us kept pointing out throughout the 'Twitter Files' hysteria: the 'free speech' grift was never about protecting individuals from the state. It was about protecting a specific type of speaker from the social consequences of their speech."

The article literally says right in the middle that the entire premise is bullshit. That statistically, gay men aren't even overrepresented. It's just gay panic, straight up.

Not just homophobic trash: fascistic trash, reactionary conspiratorial nonsense, contemptuous of reason, deflecting attention from the capitalist class's privilege and power while tapping into sexual anxiety & traditional gender roles in a way that will inevitably rebound on the most vulnerable.