Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."

Hey guess what! Hilton the brand is an even BIGGER bootlicker than we thought! They’ve now REMOVED the franchised hotel from their system for refusing to cater to the ICE fascists kidnapping your neighbors.

we need more allies doing stuff like this instead of sharing screenshots of content by white supremacists

OooooOoooOo You want to play Gnosiaaaaaa You want to play the single-player visual novel social deduction role-playing game so baaaaad. Please I want more people to talk to about this

Today the Pentagon censured Senator Mark Kelly and moved to strip part of his earned military retirement benefits for stating the truth. This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.

It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

there is a reason librarians very intentionally don't record this information. this is that reason

I am not trying to fearmonger but if one of these people is your representative please call them and tell them to vote no on "Protect Children’s Innocence Act, H.R. 3492"

Call your senators when you can, folks. It's late for a lot of the US, but the fight's not over.

All of the bad internet bills. One website. badinternetbills.com Just finished my calls. took only a couple of minutes. We NEED people to call. your voice can help!

while KOSA passed the subcommittee, there is still the full committee meeting it needs to go through before being voted on by the Senate/House support is more split on it than you'd think, we just need to pull away enough votes to block it. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES! www.badinternetbills.com

Fuck this. What a goddam waste of everything. thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-opena...

very good tumblr post about why to make a fursona, and in the replies, a couple followups on how to make a fursona

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.

Chiitan Knight will continue to spread his message until there are no more transgender people who are subjected to unjustified criticism and slander♡ Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

A reminder this holiday season and always

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

my previous shitty job only ever brought in food or pizza when they fucked us over and we all knew it so this is a great sign

Vaccines save lives. And no, they do not cause autism.

Sure! Mastercard, Visa, Stripe + Paypal are further restricting what kinds of perfectly legal adult content you can buy through their processor (they cracked down on itchio and steam over the summer, not to mention Patreon a few years ago). We're tired of them acting like dictators instead of tools.

if youre calling paypros and looking for a talking point to use as a jumping off point, this is a great angle to go for! alongside just wasting their time, hammer the idea that their actions are LOSING them money!

Corporations are relying on shame to stop folks from fighting to keep porn around. An amazing way to fight against this stuff is to simply not be ashamed of sex and sexuality; even if you think some of it is "cringe". You'll do yourself a favor by eliminating your shame about sex.

there's an infographic here with contact info for Visa and Mastercard's call centers!

#SaveSpeech with Black Friday being this Friday the 28th, this is the time to maximize the impact we can have via call campaigns If you plan to participate in this call campaign, imo you should heavily prioritize calling Visa/MC as heavily as possible between the 27th and the 1st of dec

Idk how many times people are gonna have to say "stop using ai it is literally killing us" before people listen. No not even as a joke. don't go near this shit.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices. If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.

someone i love is trans <3 #tdor

So I was just doing the Galarian Stunfisk Side quest and this guy showed up!

Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art. Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.

hey! if I send you an invoice, shut the fuck up. do not mention NSFW stuff or even the word "furry" or anything, Paypal is company of dickbags searching for any excuse to harass creators. using invoices is the smartest/best/safest way of working as a comm artist, and this is explicit targeting

Ruin them! From @mollycrabapple.bsky.social: “Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim” secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

All of this is abhorrent and scary but shows that they're freaked out enough about us calling so much that they're making an example out of people. Keep calling, and any way you can that is still possible, show some support to Ana Valens for her amazing work on this. Keep up the good fight!

I'm watching an adult creator get systematically cut off from every income stream by payment processors and now debankment could be on the table. She makes legal content. They are trying to shut her up and hope that we'll shut up too. We must get louder. Call Visa and MC. Tell them this will stop.

Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.

This is the dumbest “scandal” I’ve ever seen. He’s never hit on them, follows a bunch of randoms (Ryan Grim) & is a pastor that actually follows the Gospel—loving thy neighbor, SWs included. So 47 is an adjudicated rapist & the GOP is covering for pedos, but this is newsworthy? Axios is a joke

I saw this on Tumblr and thought @deadmeatjames.bsky.social would get a kick out of it.

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

Apparently a lot of ppl needs to hear this #bskycensorship

I saw someone call Ai a Thneed and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionare. It left no real lasting impact, only damage.

The Gamer was pretty much the *only* outlet willing to stick their neck out for us adult game makers. Their coverage was invaluable in getting the word out about payment processor censorship 😥

Paypros are still throwing their weight around. Now's a good time to pick up yelling at them again!

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

a reminder

People should be just as pissed about this as Kimmel.