Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

they all knew. everyone with eyes to see or ears to hear

Too amazing: platform condemned for secret control by one major government with totalitarian leanings now overtly controlled by another such government. On the bright side, no engineer has ever been brilliant enough to do effective propaganda-monkeying with a content algorithm without ruining it.

my fav part of Godwin's Law was the bit a few years ago when Godwin went online to tell people that they should ignore his law

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

I’m a Primary Care Doctor. My Patients Are Scared to Show Up Due to ICE. truthout.org/articles/im-... (I wrote a thing in @truthout.org about what it's like to be a primary care doctor when ICE is attacking my patients. )

my big beef with voting is that people put it on a pedestal instead of simply one of many prongs, tools, tactics to make change happen. it can be a piece of weakening power to force change but man it cannot be the only thing or even the Big thing.

i'm someone who believes in all tactics, multiple prongs to make them all stronger. i believe people should vote, but 1. vote scolding does nothing. it does not change outcomes and it doesn't get people to vote. it is, at most, an emotional vent exhaust. 2. voting cannot be the Only thing.

instead of covering every magazine billboard and surface with messages telling you to REPRODUCE and CONSUME the aliens from They Live have opted to make the glasses tell you that directly

the real thing about this demo is even if it worked perfectly, what the fuck is it for? It's a guy who has all this stuff but fumbles when deciding what to do with it. It's the infomercial buffoon dot gif

Meta spent billions on AI so Mark Zuckerberg could look like a dipshit in front of millions of people: aftermath.site/meta-display-a...

This is a legitimately cool thing, and it's so straightforwardly nice to spend a few minutes watching Hank excitedly explain a scientific discovery youtu.be/iWuFBZw9Olk

My Charlie Kirk video went live for patrons earlier but I'm sitting here so MUCH ANGRIER and I'm wondering how badly the YouTube algorithm will punish me if I change the title from "Charlie Kirk and the Empathy Paradox" to "Charlie Kirk was a Nazi and Now He's Dead." www.patreon.com/posts/charli...

While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

"We're going to have to learn to live with [radical right wing demagoguery with all its associated violence]" is: - An abdication of responsibility. - An abandonment of hope. - A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it

The economic conclusion is brutal: make them more honest and people will stop using them. Make them more honest and more correct and they will become even more expensive and the business case even more absurd than it currently is

www.sciencealert.com/openai-has-a... This is a good layman's terms explanation of why chatbots are not getting significantly more correct despite immense investment.

The idea that the alleged killer in the Kirk case was a right winger is really not borne out by the evidence submitted in the indictment yesterday and people should stop saying that.

coates has turned out to be one of a vanishingly small number of people who both have something to lose and are willing to put it on the line to say what are clearly truthful if dangerous things. im impressed

My column in the new issue of @thenation.com, in which I argue that liberals who are finally acknowledging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza must atone for nearly two years of complicity.

Small correction, this is not the UN itself, but an independent investigative body appointed by the UN Human Rights Council.

we need more western leaders with this moral clarity

Israel is committing genocide www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

like part of the entire point of this shit is to harvest consumer data and im remembering when a shitfit was thrown over nintendo branded cereal

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

News orgs HAVE to stop calling these porn bans. Yes, #HB4938, does also criminalize porn — also terrible — it goes far beyond that. LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

if u see this quote with the energy u bring to bluesky

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It’s not just “chronic Lyme.” Grifters are using nonspecific (ie inaccurate) tests to diagnose people w/ Lyme who don’t even live in areas where Lyme exists. Who wouldn’t want an answer with an easy treatment for symptoms like arthritis, low energy, fatigue, forgetfulness, & other common experiences

in america, simply living with someone who might possibly be trans is terrorism now. everyone sees what their going to try to do now right

The IDF's own data notes that at least 5 in every 6 Palestinians they have *directly* killed in Gaza are civilians. www.cbc.ca/news/gaza-re...

would be a good time for the media to do their wave of “elon musk says x” articles but this time actually be honest about the violent far-right movement he’s stoking, especially in light of liberals falling over themselves to placate the extreme right in recent days

Worth noting how rare it is, especially for a professional politician no less, to simply admit that they were wrong and apologize and express regret. How many will do that about Gaza in the grand scheme? I think very few.

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Corporate media bravely continues Charlie Kirk's legacy by committing to destroy the careers of anyone who disagreed with him: www.404media.co/comcast-nbcu...

legend of zelda: a link to the past puzzle solved sound effect as i push the last deck chair into place and the titanic stops sinking

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A reminder: Ending healthcare for trans folk is political violence. Caging and deporting people who seek asylum is political violence. Arresting those who protest genocide is political violence. Political violence is pervasive, made persistent by politics that consign groups of people to death.

Anyway, violence is bad. May there never be a need for violence, and may those who wield it for greed be punished by fair and equitable laws and rules. That would be nice.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.