New today: @reveleth.com has spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t. www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

I'm re-listening to the entirety of @djrupture.bsky.social Mudd Up! show on WFMU (2007-2013) from the beginning; it's impossible to exaggerate how big an influence this show was on my musical taste. www.wfmu.org/playlists/DR

Exclusive: San Diego County Sheriff’s officials failed to investigate at least seven reported sexual assaults at the privately run Otay Mesa immigration detention center in 2025 cal.news/4lOKYvF

California residents are now being sent to prison for shoplifting. In the first year of Prop 36, shoplifters have been charged with felonies + imprisoned for stealing diapers, hygiene supplies, a $13 belt, groceries and soda. DAs filed 15,000+ felonies for thefts previously treated as misdemeanors

“Both women had three prior C-sections… And both women are Black. They had argued that compelling them to have C-sections violated their rights to make medical decisions. Hospital staff said their medical decisions threatened the health of the fetus. It would be up to the courts to decide”

“City officials expect to reach a ‘water emergency’ within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic disaster without precedent, former officials say.”

I don’t think we should categorize examples where these systems are used by individuals for stalking or harassment as “misuse” of the technology. This is very much literally why the tech exists, and there are no meaningful ways these uses are prohibited.

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I consider this a loss rather than a win, as just a few years ago the redline was any military use, now it’s the most extreme use case of LAWS. AI companies have successfully moved safety thresholds without effective internal pushback. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/t...

If you, like me, have Peacock for a limited time so you can watch the Olympics and Paralympics, give yourself the gift of watching We Are Lady Parts as many times as possible before you cancel your subscription. We Are Lady Parts. Just over and over again. Your life will improve.

The Nazi tattoo, like Rahm’s candidacy, and Newsom’s podcast, are all different variations of the same message.

This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

USDS/DOGE’s tools will never dismantle USDS/DOGE’s house. DOGE could *only exist* via the unaccountable pathways forged by USDS. Those gaps need to be filled & corrected. We don’t need a different Project 2025 (tech edition), we need a functioning democracy.

Here's a good place to start freedom.press/digisec/blog...

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

out of the roughly 1,900 photos I took in 2025, these are the interesting ones

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

"In a corner conference room, it was time to party. They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake."

I got an apple with a kuato at the farmers market

this video on loop works as a yule log

great song, great video; I got teary when Björk started singing www.youtube.com/watch?v=htQB...

I may just be a simple country hooftrimming video watcher, but I think it's time we raise America's hoof, pare away the separated horn until we reach the infected area, spray it with a powerful cleansing agent, and place a salicylic acid wrap on the foot so we can begin to heal

San Francisco, earlier today

and I made a "Vampire BBS" for the official Blade (1998) site which was just a short Perl CGI script. A couple met on that forum and got married!

For example I made a shockwave game for the official Lost In Space (1998) site where you flew a spaceship around and killed all the cast members!

See this July story from NPR by @bobbyallyn.bsky.social and @shannonbond.bsky.social; also, note that, in that article, they identified the account on the left as AI-generated, the person in the embedded video thinks it's the one on the right. Maybe it's both! www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

I’m in love with this album cover and the music is good too joannaduda.bandcamp.com/album/deligh...

HBD good dog

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

post a photo you took on December 26, 2005

good morning earthquake 😪

great song, great video www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcxg...

post a photo you took on November 5, 2007

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

post a photo you took on October 12, 2013

This is a useful and well designed resource

I miss Vine

Stop talking to ChatGPT, we know it makes mistakes, every single one of you talking to it to "show how wrong it is" is not necessary! Please!!!!

This is a damning report on the state of public data about deaths in law enforcement custody www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/07/d...

We’ve launched a database with about 1.5 million pages of once-secret records detailing when law enforcement officers in California seriously injured someone or an agency found an officer violated policy with @kqednews.kqed.org, @sfchronicle.com @latimes.com @calmatters.org 1/