This morning, Ms. Rachel and I visited District 2 Pre-K Center, where we sang and read with the wonderful students and educators. We also discussed universal childcare - and how we're making it happen for NYC!

I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount

I am leisurely making my way through Ursula Le Guin’s “Always Coming Home” and I came across a poem I just have to share. The ending especially slaps.

Between Fortnite and Roblox , we should probably be worried the dudes making the biggest games for children right now both seem unbothered with child exploitation 🧐🧐

The double whammy of Discord moving towards an IPO and sending out a survey to see what sort of AI garbage they could get away with sends a pretty clear message about where they want to go.

Ah, capitalism, the bubble making machine that will end us all.

I just love Alariko's art so much.

This survey was very easy to answer, I recommend you fill it out and let Discord know how you feel about AI.

the AI features discord are proposing in this survey are insane. tell 'em how you feel. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

crescent county will never use AI 💜 a game by humans, for humans

As someone who has reported on deepfakes for years now, I’ve had a few moments while reporting on Grok where I feel sick to my stomach thinking about the continued escalation of sexual abuse with this technology and where it’s going. We’re not ready for this. And it didn’t have to be this way.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

This is explicitly the case with Tim Sweeney and Epic and you can just kinda assume with any other publicly traded company/company looking for investment that investors all just want the AI bubble inflated

So how we feelin' about that Epic ecosystem nowadays? We all feel confident that Fortnite is a good spot for kids to hang out?

We live in a world where men like Tim Sweeney can advocate for protecting consent-free, child-inclusive porn generators under free speech without paying an economic cost for it, but a teacher talking about how they spent their weekend on their private Facebook can be blacklisted from her profession.

Of all platforms I shared my Art vs Artist video, Twitter been the only place where some people were actually disappointed I was black! I screenshoted that one because it's so hilarious to me! If you are a popular animator and make cute things, you can't be black? So Twitter 😂😭

I did flipbooks for all of the Animorphs covers I did, but they appeared in black and white and very small, so I am posting them here so you can see them large and in color. No AI here--just Elastic Reality and painting. You can buy a signed print of this cover here: www.etsy.com/listing/798775628

the world you live in in 20 years is built today

“Technology is moving too fast” is such a bad excuse. I’ve been discussing issues in LLMs & image gen since 2018/19. Twitter/X is 20 years old! Scholars, think tanks & even industry have been warning about these issues for *years*. It’s not “too fast,” it’s that you haven’t been listening!

❓Did you know that you can donate your own better images of AI to our library? If you make your own images and would like to help improve the transparency and inclusivity of AI media, the Better Images of AI Submission Handbook makes this easier 🙌🏽 blog.betterimagesofai.org/submission-h...

From 30 years of being an adult leftist: there is no amount of polite respectability that will keep centrists from saying you’re being rude to them by existing and no amount of overt Nazi shit from the right that will make centrists agree to even moderate concessions to the left.

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them. It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.

🚨 BREAKING: Israeli forces have killed 7 Palestinians, including 5 children, the youngest 5 years old, in less than 24 hours by striking tents and homes sheltering displaced families across northern and southern Gaza, Palestinian Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said today. Since that...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?

start with what it is (not what it isn't) focus on why they're lying (not their lies) make it about them (not her) eat their frame

I feel like this is extremely relevant again Not “this was not self-defense” but “this was murder” Not “she didn’t run the ICE agent over” but “she was murdered while trying to drive away”

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

Not every game company is hopping onboard the AI hype train. Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse bans gen AI art in its contracts. "If I sound frustrated, it's because, like, honestly, all this thing has done is made our... https://kotaku.com/hooded-horse-gen-ai-art-ban-4x-strategy-steam-2000658179

I've seen people say that the officer who murdered Nicole Good should be charged with murder, and to that I add that every officer who kept medics from arriving, who barred doctors from helping should also be charged under conspiracy doctrine.

In 2024, I rose in Senate QP to ask why the Govt of Canada was still using X for official communications. Today, they are still there. What exactly will it take to break the spell?

So Musk didn't accidentally spend billions making what became a child porn machine, he purposely spent billions to make a child porn machine.

Holy shit. Turn audio on.

Vigil/press conference featuring six city councilors ends with an “abolish ICE” chant and the Portland crows circling overhead.

Absolutely phenomenal read

ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.

👉 ICE Abusing Protesters After Murdering Driver 1/7/26 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnfi...

Previously, several of these companies, like Apple, IBM, and Disney, have paused advertising on X in response to antisemitic content. But antisemitism on X never slowed, sexual abuse imagery increased, and all of these companies quietly resumed advertising anyways. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

MILESHIPS is a narrative art book by Ian McQue ( @ianmcque.bsky.social ), a most splendid showcase of the artist's gorgeous illustrations & sketches. Hardcover, 190 pages. Explore more in my review - halcyonrealms.com/books/milesh...

It’s clear that what Grok and X have done goes against a multitude of EU and Irish regulations and maybe even criminal law, as reported in recent days, writes Adrian Weckler. But do we, as a political and civic society, have the courage to follow through on enforcing that law?

trained police are allowed to react with unpredictable lethal violence and untrained civilians are obligated to behave entirely predictably to the threat of lethal violence

FWIW, many institutions _have_ made the jump; I've been loosely maintaining this spreadsheet to track them across migration waves. That includes The Guardian, NPR, Le Monde, and many others. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

It's OK everyone, now they're just selling CSAM instead of giving it away for free

"Elon Musk starts charging for admission to the CSAM factory" is the real vibe

I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.