i can't believe the number of people in my life who are enthusiastically using Chat GPT for therapy, to analyze text conversations with partners, get advice on disputes with neighbors etc. it's just autocomplete! it doesn't "know" anything and can't give you advice! please please don't do this

Was an honor to play a few tunes for striking @sbworkersunited.org workers at the #Starbucks in Newton this morning. No contract, no coffee!

Never stops being relevant

getting into the Christmas spirit by starting fights with people on the internet, as Jesus Christ intended

from roughly 2005 - 2015 i toured relentlessly playing 200+ shows a year and scraping out a living selling self-produced CDs at DIY shows in basements and bookstores and small venues i supported a family on this income, was a member of the musicians union, & worked my ass off just to get by

maybe it's just my inner anarchist punk but "theft" is just not the thing about AI that pisses me off i'm a thousand times more concerned about, say, face surveillance or the use of machine learning for automated decision making in health care than I am about spicy autocomplete trained on my music

Here's the Senators cosponsoring new S.3546 to FULLY REPEAL SECTION 230 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... @durbin.senate.gov (D-IL) Grassley (R-IA) @whitehouse.senate.gov (D-RI) Hawley (R-MO) @klobuchar.senate.gov Blackburn (R-TN) @blumenthal.senate.gov (D-CT) Moody (R-FL) @welch.senate.gov (D-VT)

It's so embarassing to see so-called progressives like @amyklobuchar.com and @senpeterwelch.govpeeps.us on this list. Blowing up Section 230 would be devastating for abortion access www.wired.com/story/sectio... It would harm LGBTQ communities www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...

Fascists are using tech to control us and take away our rights. Resistance movements are using tech to organize, raise money, and document abuses Here @fightforthefuture.org we're laser focused on beating back censorship & surveillance so anti-fascist organizers can win fightforthefuture.org/2026

Submitted without irony, this one reminds me of my mom

i am old enough to remember when tech companies, even larger ones with unsavory business practices, had at least a few core values they seemed to stick to even when it wasn't about their profit motives ie opposing gov surveillance & defending net neutrality those days are gone. anything for a buck

we are one tech bro donation away from Trump saying he thinks people who criticize AI should be arrested and that the term "slop" should be considered hate speech

NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com

In a world without Section 230 (cont.): 😩 Corporate platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube will more heavily censor anything controversial that might get them sued: political content, LGBTQ resources, abortion information, MeToo stories, protest announcements, you name it.

In a world without Section 230 (cont.) 😩 The rich and powerful would rapidly accumulate more power to control the flow of information, and suppress information that's critical of them or harmful to their business interests. Free speech for those who can afford the most expensive lawyers.

In a world without Section 230 (cont.) 😩 The victims of online abuse won't get any meaningful justice for the harm they've experienced. And the communities who have been most harmed by Big Tech and surveillance capitalism won't benefit. The people hurt by tech will be hurt even more. Infuriating.

In a world without Section 230 (cont.) 😩 State laws in Texas etc that ban "facilitating," "harboring," or "disseminating" information about abortion, gender affirming care, etc will force platforms to censor related content en masse. Right now, those platforms are protected by Section 230(e)(3)

Yep.

It's incredible to me how the mainstream press will be incredulous and skeptical when RFK Jr and other HHS officials push they're quackery around vaccines but suddenly become credulous when they go attack trans healthcare. Anti vax and anti trans beliefs are all the same quack pseudoscience.

Experts say we have months not years to organize the type of mass protest needed to avoid authoritarianism and fascist rule taking hold in the United States. And what is Congress doing? Introducing a repeal of Section 230, the law that underpins all free speech on the Internet

US Dems including Biden rallying behind the TikTok ban cuz they thought xenophobia and national security hawkishness was "good politics" was arguably the most embarrassing unforced error of any Democratic administration in recent history.

In a world without Section 230: 😩 Big Tech companies everyone hates would win. Giants like Meta and Google have armies of lawyers to navigate compliance 😩 Alternative platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon would likely shut down, along with Wikipedia, review sites, how-to resources, small forums, etc

TikTok has officially been sold to the worst people on Earth and no this is not an Onion headline

US Dems including Biden rallying behind the TikTok ban cuz they thought xenophobia and national security hawkishness was "good politics" was arguably the most embarrassing unforced error of any Democratic administration in recent history.

In a world without Section 230: 😩 Big Tech companies everyone hates would win. Giants like Meta and Google have armies of lawyers to navigate compliance 😩 Alternative platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon would likely shut down, along with Wikipedia, review sites, how-to resources, small forums, etc

Oh and online protest movements like @50501movement.bsky.social and #NoKings would be quickly wiped off of social media by censorious lawsuits. Some of the organizers of the @teslatakedown.com protests wrote a letter about this earlier this year. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Experts say we have months not years to organize the type of mass protest needed to avoid authoritarianism and fascist rule taking hold in the United States. And what is Congress doing? Introducing a repeal of Section 230, the law that underpins all free speech on the Internet

NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com

you know who you are

i WOULD be shocked, but it's hard to be shocked when even the most supposedly progressive Dems like @warren.senate.gov throw trans people under the bus again and again (as she just did by cosponsoring KOSA)

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

We're too punk rock for an "annual report," but here's @fightforthefuture.org's year-end page about the work we did this year and the battles ahead in 2026. www.fightforthefuture.org/2026 We're focused on beating back censorship and surveillance so that anti-fascist organizers can save democracy.

i'm gonna get yelled at for this but posting "you should have read Mao" over and over again on the Internet is actually not a viable strategy for fomenting proletarian revolution

I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading. This is one of those cases.

There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.

i won't link to it, but there is an InfoWars post blaming @fightforthefuture.org for the Brown shooting because of a letter we organized from dozens of human rights groups opposing expansions of campus surveillance that targeted Palestinian activists. We're getting some fun fan mail this morning

everything is so fucking stupid

More like wrongs group

This skeet is promoting radical gender ideology. Where do I turn myself in?

In trumps defense, most of the media and a massive portion of the general public did love War for Oil 1 and did not stop loving it until hundreds of thousands of people were dead

this is so unserious (except that actually it's very serious)

i am also old enough to remember this.

They updated the website today to remove the word "independent" Before (left), after (right)

i would ask if the demonic forces are here in the room with her but she is already saying they are so

Facebook made an algorithm that gave Boomers whatever they wanted, and they destroyed democracy, and then all those FB product managers went over to OpenAI and made ChatGPT, and now they've made a chatbot that tells Boomers whatever they want to hear, and... well, this should go great.

Given that older adults are most susceptible to online scams and misinformation, I think what we really need is a Boomer Online Safety Act, or BOSA.

This is a letter from more than 10 Boston -based LGBTQ and human rights organizations begging @warren.senate.gov to listen to the community about KOSA. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-08... It requests a meeting to discuss the community's concerns. She ignored it & cosponsored anyway 🤷‍♀️

NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media. A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.

properly funding public schools and ensuring all kids have access to a counselor, a safe place to sleep at night and enough food to eat would do way more to "protect kids" than anything you could do related to Internet policy but for some reason the "think of the children" crowd never wanna do that