hi, cis folks! this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers. they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both. tap into the 🧵for a quick action.

New way to discredit anyone you dislike (rich people only): Get some AI company to pollute their search with a false accusation like this. Or just fake a bunch of articles written with AI and post them on trash sites, and the rabid public, already delegating their thinking to AI, will devour it.

AI is a cancer.

Member of the Epstein class says what

Remember how biased and leading the questions were in favour of the AI companies? And this was still the response.

i really wish people would talk about the environmental harms of ai more when explaining why it's bad

Remember: when linking to things like YouTube videos, etc. to remove the part of the URL that starts at "?si=" as it is a tracker. There are others, articles usually have ones that start with "utm" for instance. Let's all safeguard what we can of our data privacy, especially now.

Got a haircut some dickbag with a connection to the local government doesn't approve of? Now you're breaking the law.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

5 meters is an incredible amount of sea level rise. Most beaches you know of would be flooded.

I wrote this huge, 3,000-word or so deep dive into the state of game actors’ contracts in the UK, which is a hot mess of exploitation, AI clauses and chaotic rate calculations. And no one read it. But you really, REALLY should. www.gamesindustry.biz/contracts-fo...

IQ tests tend to measure a set of "skills" that your brain may be naturally good at. I tested extremely high on pattern recognition, very high on one other metric, and slightly above average on everything else. When I was 6. Didn't graduate from college though, which tells you how much that means.

many particulars of this generation of generative AI are shaped around a culturally peculiar, distorted idea of intelligence.

Experimentation, risk-taking, invention, whatever you call it, is everything. And when entities of outsized power, whatever the form, begin to impede that process, it is every single layer of this industry that suffers. https://bit.ly/4rw43oW

There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

There is no congruent way to look at generative AI and think “this is the future.” The most well known fact about it is that it messes up all the time, the next being that it loses lots of money.

Well folks, looks like Crunchyroll is insistent on going down the drain. Anyone that's got a subscription, might be time to cancel it because their content quality is only going to get worse from here.

Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week...

I hate TikTok as a platform, but this guy is doing some seriously good work spreading critical information about the way AI tools are being abused to mess with your mind. www.tiktok.com/@showtoolsai

This is basically the same nonsense they did in the UK. It does nothing but make government surveillance AND brainwashing of children easier. No matter what political opinions you have, the government having full say over what media your children consume is not a good thing.

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass. It NEEDS mass pushback.

If you are in Ontario please be aware of this. Please sign this. Please keep an eye on this This is so so so awful. Rent is already crazy unaffordable WITH controls, and we've already lost a bunch of them

This is the sort of footage you see in third world countries with competing juntas, or in places that druglords are actively fighting over or shit like that. Nope, that's just the US now, and they're getting paid more per person in 2025 than I've made in my whole life so far to be militant goons.

Good explanation here of why even some carmakers and oil and gas businesses are opposed to EPA potentially removing the finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...

Excellent rule for life in general, really. Cops are literally trained to manipulate information out of you. And for all the chatter I see about their nefarious, underhanded methods for this, the truth is, most don't need to bother, because a lot of you volunteer that shit willingly.

It makes me so mad that these huge corporations won’t take any risk on anything other than ways to get rid of human workers.

when will we have #atproto version of Notion? seems like it is one of the best place where lexicons can shine. Notion sucks as we can't own our data. Markdown isn't proper replacement for Notion. (no unified syntax) Local first note apps can't be used as a collaboration tool.

Are you ready, recruits? A Productions is currently searching for an Environment Designer working #Remote (Local) in #Bristol. Interested? Visit the direct link below. Looking for more opportunities? Bookmark cartoonrecruit.com for an ad-free animation job directory.

Oh I recognize this trope, this is the one where a dumbfuck executive tries to monetize other people's volunteer labor, while vastly overestimating what people would be willing to pay for it (nothing), driving the company they bought off a cliff! It's a sub variant of enshitification. Classic!

You know, when I heard of EA being sold to some investment company, I believed it to be dead. I was not aware it could be even deader. I suppose generative AI is useful to create new iterations of FIFA, where they really don't need any new content, just iterations of old stuff.

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

oh hell yes---i bought audiobooks through Audible that i now no longer have access to even though i still have the app installed

This! Even when they’re a real person, if they’ve already taken the low road with hate and provocation, then their entire online existence depends on you getting upset and responding. If you’re easily offended, you’re easily manipulated.

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown: 🧵

If you ever wondered why there aren’t many cartoons anymore this is it.

... So, just ended up with a restarted browser, and now Youtube has yet ANOTHER UI update. And of course it's somehow worse again. Even with my Yt improvement extension... The UI enshitification and the overflow of AI trash channels on YT are keeping me from YT premium instead of spotify (1/2)

Looks like the scammers who were going this all on various Mastodon servers a month or two ago have found a new target: Bsky.

LAPD and other local cops using flash bangs and horses against peaceful protesters without provocation in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles, not even half a mile from City Hall. (deleted older version of this as I typed block instead of mile, sorry)

TELL bsky you have an issue with this! 1) KEEP talking about it - don't let this issue fade away 2) Submit feedback to bsky! TELL them its not okay! On PC: on the right under "trending" On mobile: on the left under "settings" 2/🧵

For the morning crowd: I'm one of the federal workers affected by the shutdown. I'm the sole earner of my family rn and have no idea when I'll get paid again.

Same goes for games, too!

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

... You know, when I last played Bioshock Infinite, I knew it was a very blatant message. I did not expect to be seeing it play out in real life in every way except for the interdimensional portals and floating city. That shit was meant to be set in an alternate past, dammit.

Another reason to add alt-text to your posts:- It's used by Bluesky's search system, in addition to the main text of your post.

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...