Let's be clear: Trump's attacks on "antifa" are an attack on America. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and has experts worried about the future of free expression online. www.wired.com/story/vpn-us...

The Christian right is absolutely giddy connecting the decisions in Free Speech Coalition v Paxton and Mahmoud v Taylor as both protecting minors for "sexual material." They plan to merge the two in legal doctrine, branding LGBTQ+ content as "pornography" — and thus subject to restriction online.

"It’s easy to imagine LGBTQ resources or sex education sites becoming targets despite having the exact kind of social value the law is supposed to exempt... The question 'What is porn?' is going to have a tremendous impact on the internet."

We found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb, hoping to find out what it's really and truly like to be in a serious relationship with an AI partner. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/couple...

These two psychos have access to all your personal data, by the way.

I recently found out a podcast I recorded a few months ago is live, and it dives into a lot of what I have been focused on as Mayor of Doraville. It was a great discussion that hit on many of my key priorities.

The car did fit in the space…

“There are people who would like to get all sexual material offline,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @404media.co. “So in some ways it's laughable, but if it does gain momentum, this is really, really dangerous.”

Doctor Who fan theories are almost always more interesting than what actual ends up on screen

No government agent should be masked or anonymous.

“If people can’t trust that the data they are giving the government will be protected, (and believe) that it will be used for things other than what they gave it for, it will lead to a crisis of trust,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @nytimes.com.

A bidet should be a standard feature on all toilets. Love my Toto washlet.

Watched the doc this weekend. Felt empathy for Reubens as a brilliant man who forced himself into a persona because society wouldn’t accept who he was… Then who got used as a punching bag for 30+ years for daring to be a gay man with a sexuality who also made children’s content.

A new Mississippi law will anyone in the state to sue someone who posts "hardcore pornography" on the internet — up to $500,000 in damages. Focus on the Family, the right-wing evangelical group behind the censorship bill, say it are the next step in attacking porn after age-verification.

It's not just you - it's hypernormalization

Trump wants to kill ENERGY STAR – here’s how that impacts you

A few weeks ago some Cybertruck owners started getting itchy to unload. The trade-in offers they got were gothic.

KOSA’s “sponsors are claiming—again—that the latest version won’t censor online content. It isn’t true,” EFF’s @jmullin.bsky.social said. “This bill still sets up a censorship regime” that'll “suppress lawful, important speech online, especially for young people.”

Ralphs (7257 Sunset) at 4:03 and Safeway (7319 Sunset) at 4:24. Neither is still standing, but there is a newer Ralphs on the site of the old one. youtu.be/dbPtnf4j9fQ?...

The Supreme Court holds that fascism is bad. Thomas and Alito dissent.

The amount of work it’s taken to reach this milestone cannot be overstated. This new Downtown Doraville city center brings a 20-year dream of our community to life. Making this project a reality is why I ran for City Council and for Mayor. Reaching this point is deeply meaningful to me.

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Glad to know what this was. I was thinking there might have been a tree that fell nearby when I felt it

In Texas they are calling any books that include LGBTQ people “pornographic.” Beyond imposing a fundamentalist morality on consenting adults, this “anti-porn” project is really about banning gay and trans people from tv, books and any other aspects of public life.

I'm glad this house found these owners.

I’m excited to announce I’m running for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. We need Democrats who fight. That means showing up, saying hard truths out loud, and refusing to comply in advance.

The Amazing Stories Quartely cover was the header for my blog in the mid-aughts

"'The idea of an agent is that it’s working on my behalf — not on trying to manipulate me on others’ behalf,' says Justin Brookman, the director of technology policy for Consumer Reports. Personalized advertising powered by AI 'is inherently adversarial,' he says."

A woman's husband "was saying that he would need to leave [her] if [she] didn’t use [ChatGPT], because it [was] causing him to grow at such a rapid pace he wouldn’t be compatible with [her] any longer"

Ready Player One?

Take It Down Act heads to Trump’s desk

Matt makes a strong argument for why Vicious is the true claimant to the title “The Gay Golden Girls.”

Texas bookstores erupt over a new censorship bill that would allow a parent to sue them if their child reads a book with a sex scene or LGBTQ+ characters So-called "harmful to minors" laws are being introduced across the country to force censorship of libraries, schools, bookstores and websites.

The Dem co-sponsor of the now-defeated right-wing age-verification bill in Colorado is saying the opposition "went off the rails" By which they mean we brought up how it could easily be weaponized against LGBTQ groups and Planned Parenthood. I'm sorry if that was inconvenient.

Congressman Hank Johnson gets existential.

The simple explanation for all this insanity is that Trump and his friends are rigging the market to make themselves rich. They're putting the global economy on thin ice and tanking your 401k to do it, but someone with inside info is getting very, very rich from it.

So you'll forgive me for getting frustrated in the middle of a right-wing government censorship scheme when I see the mainstream press echoing weird religious talking points to excuse child abusers. bsky.app/profile/mike...

Great video about The Pansy Craze of the early 30s: A time when gay men and drag queens were suddenly everywhere in pop culture, before being swiftly shoved back into the closet and erased from history. There are a lot of parallels between that moral panic and the anti-lgbt rhetoric we hear today.

Once annexed by Canada, the slightly-distressed 50 states will be combined into one large province, to be re-named “South Manitoba”. Plans will then commence to distribute Maple Leaf flags and Swiss Chalet restaurants from the 49th parallel all the way down to the region formerly known as Texas. […]

The christian religions will never let this be big news because it would undermine so many grifts

The Georgia Legislature is trying to sneak through a law to effectively create secret police in this state. The changes in the bill, if passed, would gut the Georgia Open Records Act. My understanding is that it puts initial incident reports by police off limits.

Out of Touch. BTW - one of the main things I learned in various middle and high school history classes is that tariffs made the Great Depression worse. Maybe the "G" in MAGA actually stands for "Great Depression"

🚨 HEADS UP: We’ve learned that SB 36, the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act, will be called for a vote in the State House tonight. This is intended to create a license to discriminate under the guise of religious freedom. 🧵We’ll live post here once it’s up. Watch along: www.legis.ga.gov

Hopefully people on all sides of the aisle are finally starting to wake up to the dangers in these laws. Do not invite the government into your house.

People who are in the country legally are literally being disappeared. Even when the administration admits it is wrong, it declines to do the right thing. Be angry. Demand better from our government.

Disappointed by this news. @lucymcbath.com was the Rep for Doraville during my first two years as mayor. She was great and I was looking forward to supporting her for governor. That said, I appreciate her putting family first and wish her and her husband well.

I, for one, welcome the “abundance” fight. It shows the left can fight Trumpism while wrestling with how we can be better than we’ve been. I have no interest in “actually the government has been doing great” liberalism.

In California this week, I spotted two different Cybertrucks trying to distance themselves from Tesla/Musk—one using bumper stickers, the other attempting to “debrand.” Ironic, considering they’re both rolling around in steel billboards that scream “TESLA.”.