I 100% did not expect the govt to point at banks on behalf of the adult industry. We need to leverage the hell out of this Remember Mastercard and Visa blaming "banking partners"? If banks face repercussions their alibis could start crumbling as they get pinched between angry consumers and the feds

all the fake AI trash really contradicts one of the main ways we're told capitalism operates, with capitalists identifying wants/needs & developing products & services to meet those. turns out you can skip that step & just pretend. nigh everyone hates AI and it makes no money but it's everywhere

cannot stress how much better the world would be if billionaires weren't allowed to exist Each one of them could solve world hunger alone, they choose not to. The very existence of a billionaire is a failing as they only exist via mass scale exploitation

A new week has come so you know what that means? More calls. As a reminder when calling your House Rep you need to also tell them about: KOSA SCREEN Act COPPA 2.0 RESET Act Sammy Act App Store Accountability Act GAMING Act Safe Messaging for Kids Act Parents over Platforms Act Cont.

You ever just have a realization slap you in the face? Because if Nvidia AI GPUs are just being warehoused after being sold, isn't that just a huge part of the US economy being run on a scheme akin to Scientology members buying copies of Dianetics en masse to make L. Ron Hubbard a bestseller? FUUUU

Did you call Mastercard and Visa? Did you remind them you won’t stand for censorship?

Anyone who says “be normal” betrays that they have an implicit value system of who is considered normal and who is not, and when you have that, you will always value some people and traits over another. They will always replicate hierarchies of power in the long run.

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter wasn't actually that intense. A lot of the "queer community" pilloried a trans woman and ran her out of society entirely and buried her literary future because they felt like it and they could taste blood in the water, and that's how all this works.

Hey folks, it's Bandcamp Friday again! I'm still looking for work and things are still super tight for me and my fiancee. If you haven't already, why not check out some of my music? Ambient, industrial, IDM and drum&bass abound! rocketmermaid.bandcamp.com

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on. You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

Crazy to think this initial post helped kick off the call campaigns to Mastercard and Visa. All because of the $30 article drama. Silver linings!

Also tell them how much of a security risk the SCREEN act is! Remember the discord data breach that exposed IDs this year

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Game developers were here first. Not executives. Game developers make games. Not executives. Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives. Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives. Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.

They’re describing it as a “shock and awe” campaign, which is why it’s essential to show them there’s huge opposition NOW. Call / email your reps to let them know you oppose censorship bills like KOSA and the SCREEN. Read up and get involved in the @fightforthefuture.org Week of Action.

Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children. Committee hearings begin tomorrow.

Watching the internet go from a space which felt truly free to a highly regulated and corporatised wasteland is one of the more depressing things I have seen in my life.

*sigh* Well, that's not something I had on my bingo card for this year... /vagueposting

This year I wrote a novel, titled Sheam. It's in (sort of) three parts, which I like to describe as: 1. Hang on, am I a woman? 2. Hold up, am I worthy of love? Gay love? 3. Wait a sec, can my polycule overthrow the government? It's done and you can read it here: www.scribblehub.com/series/15742...

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

This shit is brain poison and should be fucking illegal.

One of the reasons I've never bought into AI doomerism, is that to believe "it's here to stay, get used to it!" you have to buy into the idea that AI generated elements are so hardcoded or integral as to be permanent, when they really aren't. You can simply remove it, and it's gone just like that.

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THANKSGIVING BLACK FRIDAY SAT + SUN CALL! CALL MASTERCARD, VISA, LET THEM KNOW YOU WON’T STAND FOR FURTHER CENSORSHIP CALL AT LEAST ONCE A DAY, ALL FOUR DAYS!!!

It would be extremely cool if a bunch of people called payment processors over Black Friday weekend to ask why they're telling people what they can and can't buy with their own money. This holiday season, give the gift of calling payment processors over Black Friday weekend

"Epic CEO angry that customers want to be informed and will refuse to purchase products they feel were made unethically so wants to take that choice away". There, fixed it for you.

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Next week the House E&C Committee is looking to run something of a shock and awe campaign, debating at least 19 bills that they say are related to "protecting kids online." Most of which are actually about censorship and control. Don't buy the framing. It's always the same damn thing.

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Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season

Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving

Let's Keep Calling!

NEW DEFUNCTLAND EVERYONE GO GO GO

Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position. Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i... We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.

THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life

My favorite piece of content today.

Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum (also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)

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Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art. Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Google literally tied everything about gmail into genAI, so if you switch it off it breaks every single feature. Jokes on you, fuckers, I grew up telnetting to email providers, the old ways are still best.

So... spells. We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning. And trapping evil cars in circles of salt. The old ways are new again.

NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY

The full count as of today: YouTube suspended Twitch banned 3x Patreon suspended (temporary) Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi) Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?) Buy Me a Coffee suspended Vice reporting censored Pornhub censored 3x times Fansly censored 1x

This is why AI is so dangerous Financial institutions will use it to scrape the web to discriminate against you — yes, YOU — and debank you Today, it’s for being an adult VA Tomorrow, for being trans? Gay?