I'd not be surprised if this was behind the whole 'anti-trans' shit in the first place. 95% of the hate seemed to be aimed specifically at M-F transitions instead of the opposite, and the end result is that it's women who now 'have to prove' that they're actually women.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Sadly, these people are also utterly incapable of understanding accounts written by others. Perhaps the written word is entirely beyond them? I was born long after vaccines were standard, including covid the worst I had was a particularly bad case of chicken pox when I was VERY young.

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist original post: www.tumblr.com/chiptrillino...

"Blueskyism" is just the latest rhetorical stand-in for a certain class of political commentator to signal that principled progressivism annoys them personally. Previous stand-ins include "woke", "DEI", "critical race theory", and "political correctness"--also all used by the far-right. Curious!

What exactly is the point of continuing to pretend you are a journalist if you literally just print what this known and obvious liar says? They just murdered 11 people. They've claimed similar threats but never proven them. We're murdering Venezuelan citizens. Write that down.

. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .

This was Excellent They covered all the major points of this atrocity, and I think it did such a wonderful job of saying the fight for truth and connection is always worth it; that the only ones who don't want that are the perpetrators

Any government labeling an artwork as 'objectionable' is basically endorcing it as meaningful. I wonder when they'll finally realize that.

There's also been several cases of doctors using online medical files for stalking purposes, or finding just the right genetic candidate as a future partner. A police officer has just received a life sentence for misusing it This won't just be hacked. It will be misused by public servants

Listen. Our right wing parties have been Obsessed with surveillance for the past 25 years, and it is HELL to have to live with their designs Right now we have a majority left wing in parliament, but the right wing ministers and EU reps are back-dooring this in Please take a moment to fight this

I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is - adding backdoors into encryption on OS level - "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY - let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals it needs to be stopped, post haste

#bookban #UCP

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.

Well, I’m not far from 40 and I also support this terminology.

✨ HOW TO: support artists for $0.00 ✨ - leave a like! - repost their work - more eyes!! - comment on their posts! (an emoji goes a long way!) all of this means so much to artists and helps immensely!! just a reminder that support does NOT always have to be financial 🥰🤍✨

Been saying for a while now that "AI" chatbots brute-force the appearance of intelligence by dint of having access to billions of human ones to blend together. For every question there's a reasonable-enough answer to give by patching them together based on keywords and tags associated with them.

If you're paying for a membership, as many adults do (many nations have free memberships for kids), make use of it. Even if you check out the max you're allowed and use it as shelf decoration, it would still help the library. Most library memberships I know of are subscriptions, not usage-based.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Meanwhile, they can't seem to comprehend that putting a per-user 'ration' on chatbot usage might ALSO have the same result. But no, god forbid the water-guzzling automatic bullshit generator/data regurgitaror be in any way limited from turning maximum profit. Better take 2 min showers instead.

It’s important to stress that over a quarter of claimants are in work. Meaning tax isn’t being handed out to the work-shy, it’s subsidising business paying low wages. And the quarter not required to seek work, likely includes parent who can’t secure childcare. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Parts of the Constitution were erased from the Library of Congress website, including the section featuring the foreign emoluments clause. The removal was blamed on a "coding error." Here's a reminder of what the clause says, just in case Congress ever decides to enforce it...

If they get that tech through medical trials the US could make absolute bank selling it basically any country. People would fall all over themselves to buy it. It could be leverage over Africa to counter China's investments, even. But no, idiocy and cruelty are more important than even power &money

gentle monthly reminder 🩵

Unfortunately, this is where we are headed... shameful...🥺

When they go low, we kick dirt in their eyes.

Oh hey, if you insert anything into the data-theft machine, it'll get stolen. *surprised Pikachu* Still, not the way I expected it to, but arguably worse. This means Google is constantly corrupting its own search engine further and further.

Don't forget they stole this from us, Trump & his enablers, oligarchs & political toadies. It costs so relatively little, but they don't want you to have anything. They hate "the public." Don't forget that when they want to escape consequences by appealing to your "sense of decorum" or whatever.

I made a quick and dirty anti-censorship cheat sheet to help onboard people and direct their energy in a productive direction. This isnt as comprehensive as various websites being shared around, but it should be easy to share and save. Save the png and repost as widely as you can

The Puritan Purge begins. Google no longer qualifies as effective cloud storage. Not that it was particularly good or private before, but this is next-level.

HOLY SHIT THIS HAPPENED TO ME ONCE BEFORE. I wrote an entire script for Final Fantasy VII Remake in X Minutes, and it was suddenly deleted out of nowhere! I never knew what happened to it, but it was THIS SHIT. Holy. Fucking. Shit.

I think anyone who has done customer service before wants to be as efficient as possible when calling. But here, you need to play the part of someone who is incapable of doing any self-service while also embodying the kind neighbor who eats up 15 minutes of your life whenever you pass their porch.

Currently on the phone with Visa Instead of starting with a complaint, I approached this as a Confused American Consumer who doesn't understand why they can't buy things off a website they use The call center rep immediately asked if it was about Steam/itch (cont)

Another good idea: Contact the Better Business Bureau about these payment processors. You can fill out a form for each one. It's a common misconception that the BBB is run by the US government-- it's a third-party entity and complaints are taken seriously.

Hey, as someone who makes a living off selling adult games, I would really appreciate people helping to push back against censorship by payment processors. These puritanical extremists pressuring them have been successful because they've made a lot of noise, so we should be making even more noise!

Considering some of the nonsense going on right now, this is a petition you should really consider signing: chng.it/SyTNKHxrVH #activism #bigbrother #censorship

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

There is literally a near century of well documented far-right philosophy precipitating this present moment and oft cited by its proponents and architects, so anyone telling you this is due to the “excesses of the woke left” thinks *you* are an idiot

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One of the longest-running and most original webcomics I know of, I can definitely recommend at least taking a look. If I wasn't 2 months from broke myself I'd be all over this.

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I hope this is true because there's so many good lessons and vital skills all wrapped up in this ✨

If you need gargantuan data centers to simulate an intelligent system, you don't have an actual AI, just a fuck-huge datacenter. Stop brute-forcing sassy chatbots and start streamlining machine learning back into USEFUL purposes

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.