Huge trans rights ruling from the EU's top court - if someone moves to another EU country and transitions, their home country can't refuse to amend their registration details to match their lived gender identity

FUCKING HELL GET IN www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".

hypothesis to test: a defining & common trait among those who don’t believe LLMs are intelligent/sentient/etc is that we *don’t* think primarily in words; we think in ideas, relationships, music, art, or some other abstract form. Pocket friends, please prove/disprove … :)

God this is dystopian. Ad in Paris Metro for an AI “friend”.

*taps the sign*

Yup. In the nazis' own writing, both the 1936 and the 2026 kinds, they admit that Hitler based his fascism and antisemitic Nuremberg laws, on Jim Crow laws. But how do you get a nation ready to ignore atrocities to 2% of the population? Start with a 1% group Have them declared "socially abnormal"

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

The timeline from gender-awakening-to-fascism is truly, shockingly, similar. I believe Weimar libertine parties peaked in the early 1920's ... barely 10 years later, and *that* happened. When was the great trans awakening of our time? A little over 10 years ago. 😬

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Apple is rolling out on-device age-verification, using data they largely already have access to, to let an app know if a user is over or under 18. Adult websites have requested this information to help block underage visitors. But Apple is refusing to share it.

Looks like Kansas gets added to the list of States where it is a crime to be trans in public, or to drive a vehicle while trans.

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

Persona also appears to come with the the potential to flag you to the financial system and get you debanked.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

** Speaker announcement ** Our final invited speaker is Æva Black! @aeva.online is a non-binary hacker, veteran of the first dot-com bubble, and the former Section Chief for Open Source Security at the U.S. CISA! Info & tickets: buff.ly/aYZerZ3 See you in Utrecht in May! #rustlang #rustweek2026

"I've hooked the synthetic text extruding machine up to other systems that take that text as input and impact the world" != "The synthetic text extruding machine knows how to use tools."

The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Filter Blockades: A Tactic to Defend Your Neighborhood from ICE We review how to establish and maintain filter blockades, share accounts from filter blockades in the Twin Cities this past week, and conclude with a broader look at the history and potential of the model.

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

😅😂🤣🙃😱

Why do your organizing over Signal? So that you don't do your organizing on an app that hasn't been tested or reviewed, run by a guy who doesn't tell his users about data breaches and security problems. www.ibtimes.co.uk/stopice-hack...

EFF is hosting a town hall online about ICE and CBP on Feb 5. Check it out. www.eff.org/event/town-h...

Attestations and funding Open Source! #FOSDEM With the lovely @aeva.online presenting

Tiktok is now owned by Trump Admin lackey Larry Ellison, so this makes sense. (I'm not saying it's ok though)

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

It should freak the American people out that Trump, Noem and Bovino lie so enthusiastically. He wasn't "brandishing a weapon". He wasn't attending a "riot" or "interfering in a crime scene". He was an ICU nurse exercising his constitutional rights. We saw what we saw.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

Turn off auto play. Immediately. You do not have to look for it. You do not have to watch or share it if you see it. Take care of yourself & your friends.

The new ICE video from this morning is a snuff film. No other way to describe it. Unless you have a reason, save yourself the psychic damage and don't watch it.

I was able to trace the flow of disinformation from a “crisis pregnancy center” site to a pdf flyer on a local dept of public health site in Louisiana to Copilot and Grok, and then eventually the top of the Google AI summary for “abortion and mental health” Now it’s ubiquitous.

The similarities between how medical professionals treat autistic woman and how they treat trans women are remarkable. A lot of which seems to stem from being attached to certain narratives about what we "should" be like and refusing to trust our testimony.

Color me skeptical that saving taxpayer money is the real reason for this change that CISA only made after RSAC appointed a Biden official as its CEO.

A public answer to the European Commission’s „call for evidence on Open Source“: Success is a collective endeavour. We dream big: We hope that our work will benefit humankind as a whole! ploum.net/2026-01-22-w...

A fantastic discussion with @rstephens.me @aeva.online and Chris about the Complex World we live in. It’s the power of the @redmonk.com community redmonk.com/videos/compl...

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

If you don't want ICE to know you were at a protest, taking a burner phone is not going to help you stay anonymous if you go home afterwards. www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

I've said for years now that LLMs are merely a novel form of Lossy Compression. This is well known to folks working in the field -- but those whose jobs depend on the lie will not say it on record! I'm glad to see research exploring this on frontier models. futurism.com/artificial-i...

This is why so many of us in academia don’t care how many “good” uses of AI you can show us. Maybe one day things will be different. But, along with enabling cheating & undermining pedagogy, the current commercial technologies on offer are criminal enterprises stealing from us & breaking the law.

With #Greenland raising awareness of our massive 24/7 dependence on US clouds for vital services, I made a list of what (government) stuff would break here under US sanctions. It is EXTREMELY depressing. Tip: also make a list like this one for your own country! berthub.eu/articles/pos...

In hiding... in the United States. Families are in hiding in the United States. Government gangs are forcing families into hiding in the United States of America.

It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.

there's a link in the replies but the long and short of it is: it's zinc chloride, which can basically cause heavy metal toxicity that can cause permanent respiratory damage as well as liver damage.