It’s wild and depressing that in the space of 20 years, we went from: “I can now share my furry fanfic or my penis puppetry show with the entire world without worrying about any government or tv channel censoring or gatekeeping me out.” To: “I can’t spell the word s*x, or anything a 1960s […]

[uspol] The court is blatantly partisan, has been since at least 2000 when they stole the election for Bush, and pretending otherwise is ignorant and stupid. The SCOTUS is, at this point at least, an unelected life-term legislative body which has, for my entire lifetime, been run by the right […]

Amen! https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/free-the-icons/ Squircle Jail is the worst design-related thing Apple has ever done to Mac developers, and probably the worst icon-related thing it has ever done, period. Incredibly developer-hostile. If squircled icons are actually better, then […]

Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

Congrats @caseyliss !!!

@designatednerd this is a problem. Equally so for any parents who disagree with their kids on *any* topic. With my theology degree background I am also thinking of kids who don’t share a religion with their parents.

"Parents are in the best position to decide what's best for their family" *queers whose parents didn't accept their queerness have entered the chat* #wwdc

Fuck offfffffff kids are human people. They need to be allowed to have privacy. Parents shouldn’t be spying on kids. Everyone deserves privacy and this shit has two outcomes: either it conditions kids to accept surveillance and fascism or it trains them not to trust other adults and not come […]

Ok so… ⁃ UX improvements are good ⁃ “Trust and safety” aka censoring stuff and making kids less able to express themselves ⁃ Fuck ai #wwdc

all I want from wwdc ‘26 is for the only mention of “ai” to be “we’re removing all generative ai from our operating systems”

lmao

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116704285750838861 If you’re still using Proton mail: The company is sponsoring the videos of French right-wing YouTuber Vincent Lapierre. If encryption is part of your vision for a better society, find a better service provider. #proton #fash

all I want from wwdc ‘26 is for the only mention of “ai” to be “we’re removing all generative ai from our operating systems”

People: protect the dolls Also people when a doll either is not fuckable, exist too loudly, don't agree with them or do something bad: this person deserve to be stripped for any humanity and die anywayyy happy pride i guess 🌈

RE: https://wikis.world/@neriman/116614588413879349 Ah yes some good old union busting at Wikimedia, just great 🙃

I can't believe I've never posted this here

so fucking sick of people (and especially self-proclaimed allies) pedojacketing trans women. god forbid trans women engage with fictional works. god forbid trans women process or cope with her trauma. god forbid trans women exist in community. it’s exhausting, transmisogynistic, and kills people.

In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to […]

[Murder of Juniper Blessing] It’s nearly 3 am and I’m just sitting alone and crying about Juniper Blessing. She was just 19. From what I’ve read, she had a supportive family, supportive friends, was able to transition young, and was seemingly studying something she was passionate about […]

My old manager at Apple sent me this video from David Pogue about screenshots on the iPhone and I have a bit more background on it to share 1/8

All AIs reproduce the biaises of their society => western society is deeply, violently anti-Palestinian => most AIs are deeply, violently anti-Palestinian

Apple continues to benefit both politically and monetarily from the creation of nonconsensual sexualized imagery via Twitter and Grok. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/912297/apple-app-store-ban-grok-x-deepfakes

If all you do in your tech career is: 1. When something is slow, you look carefully at the output of a profiler or a query plan & make measured suggestions about what to improve; 2. When something breaks badly, you gently but insistently ask what & why until you truly know, then the next time […]

We knew, but the proof is nice. "Apple just proved that AI models cannot do math. Not advanced math. Grade school math. The kind a 10-year-old solves" The guess-the-next-words machines don’t actually understand anything. https://nitter.poast.org/heynavtoor/status/2041243558833987600#m #math #ai

since that browsergate site about LinkedIn seems to be gaining traction I figure I should mention: * yes, LinkedIn does do what's being claimed as best as I can tell, And that deserves attention, though it seems to have been the case for quite a long time (2017ish iirc?) and has been brought […]

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ The mere act of existing and being visible shouldn’t be as fraught as it is today. Let’s keep fighting to set things right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Transgender_Day_of_Visibility

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116315212768870068 I've been muttering to myself "how do I boycott an externality" all day now

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116291661606781634 I’ve said it before to irl friends but. Anyone who I see watching, buying merch from, or otherwise interacting with any H*rry P*tter anything (in a way that isn’t explicitly and solely calling it out for the transphobia it promotes) gets […]

This is from 1975.

LLM bros really read a book and go like "surely this text thinks!! It is so complex! I feel things when reading it!! It has to be intelligent and able to make pondered decisions"

replaying Pokémon X but this time as a girl :3 this is the main reason i fixed my 3DS this week :3

RE: https://ni.hil.ist/@riotmuffin/116134456889227783 As someone whose amended birth certificate was just invalidated without due process by the Kansas AG: THIS. Do not comply. Fight the power. For extra credit, dig up the dirt on these busybody fucks. I guarantee that these assholes have […]

Age verification in social media is just the beginning. We have to fight against identification with teeth and claws. "Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level" […]

it is not a tool, it is a an informational dirty bomb, it is a mechanism by which the worst people on the planet are enriching themselves at the expense of your ability to find information. _it has no liberatory uses_ — it must be resisted by force.

we're tired of hearing "it's just a tool" because, well, a) we disagree and b) let's pretend that we agree. okay, it's a tool: who made it? why did they make it? what is this tool good at doing? is it any better at doing it than the previous methods by which we would do this thing? why should i […]

[Politics - Tariffs] Companies are now lining up to sue the US govt to get a refund on the tariffs, which have been declared illegal by the Supreme Court (NPR, 2026). But since these tariffs were actually paid by individual consumers in the form of increased prices, what smart lawyer is going […]

Age verification is not en never was about protecting children. It's about mass surveillance. "Once a user verifies their identity with Persona, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks and scours the internet and government sources for potential matches, such as by matching your […]

@siracusa Would it be possible to add a feature to Hyperspace that tells me the total lifetime amount of space it’s reclaimed? Presumably, if this data isn’t kept right now it wouldn’t include data from before a given update but I think it would be neat to get an idea (and to show off to others) […]

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

My doctor's office is now using AI transcription for their medical notes. I learned today made multiple errors in my records after my appointment last week, and the visit notes claim I provided verbal consent for AI transcription which I absolutely did not do. I am LIVID. The angry letter I was […]

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

Currently, the outrage to the visible contents of the Epstein files is so mild that I have to think the majority of people just aren’t even casually checking them. I can’t think of a phrase to describe what I’ve read even as a forensic analyst. “Cartoonishly evil” is too gentle. Horrific. Inhuman.

[Epstein files horror] They’re not just talking about rape, they’re taking about kids. They’re not just talking about kids, they’re implying destroying bodies. They’re not just talking about destroying bodies, they’re talking about killing babies. They’re not just taking about killing babies […]

For the record, I have not and will never use generative machine learning (“AI”). Including “agents”, image generation, chatbots, apple intelligence, etc None of my (mostly non-techie!) irl friends use them. Nobody in my family (mostly non-techies, one former internet engineer) uses them — and […]

Many men learned to have a completely messed up relationship with women and their own sexuality and conflate thoughts with actions and women with sex dolls, but none of that is caused by having a high libido or finding most women you meet attractive.

"I miss when you weren't so political." "Well I miss when I didn't know how many of my friends would have complied with the Nazis."

So it looks like iOS 18.7.4 is fully impossible to update to on devices that support iOS 26. Doesn’t even work with the public/developer beta workaround that worked for 18.7.3 :/ And given the update is required (for non-26/27 devices) to continue to use iMessage and FaceTime to keep working […]

Dan Froomkin, one of America's top press critics, dissects what looks like a short-lived internal rebellion by New York Times reporters and editors who -- all too briefly -- told the simple truth about the Trump regime's murder of an American citizen in Minneapolis […]