The news that AI was being trained on stolen works? It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot. The first archive they stole was largely romance. arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241

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Same grift; different grifters (the student just so happens to be the daughter of a prominent J6 grifter)

Transphobia, like fascism (very like fascism) is ideological capture. It comes from the top down, from wealthy intellectual spaces: universities, the media, the government. It has to come from the top down because most normal people aren’t spiteful weirdos.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

When Bari Weiss and CBS decided to censor the report on El Salvador’s brutal prison, they didn’t realize that bootlegged copies would surface. Please share it with everyone you know and drive these fascists crazy.

alberta is hell for this right now, and the use of the notwithstanding clause has been a deep violation with no effective pushback. this province won't stop until it is stopped

A Lord of the Rings cover band called The Lonely Mountain Goats

When supermarkets give you the option to round up your shopping "for charity" they are using your donation as a tax write-off. Just donate directly instead.

Those of you involved with running charities, please note 👇

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

Wes Streeting doesn’t like his photo being shared, and he certainly doesn’t like it being shared alongside this other photo of Peter Mandelson.

In their ideal society, wealthy men can prey upon young women and children, without consequence. And less wealthy men can prey upon trans people, without consequence. It's not hypocrisy that they instantly started defending Epstein, it's consistency. Both are necessary parts of their ideal world

"It is concerning that NHS England, in its response, does not commit to an increase in resources to enable these recommendations": @jessothomson.co.uk, of the Levy Review.

When those who hate trans people win - or pretend to win, cf Sandie Peggie - it's all over the media, even if it's just a tribunal decision. But when they lose, even in the Court of Appeal, it's absolute bloody tumbleweed. So here's our blog about Allison Bailey latest loss. goodlaw.social/3uyd

Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.

I can *100% assure you* that if this report found that trans people & "wokeness" tanked the Harris campaign, the DNC would release it in a heartbeat

An employment tribunal has set out why Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act 2010 does not require segregating Trans+ people from single-sex spaces www.wearequeeraf.com/supreme-cour...

These people are simply being allowed to die by our government. For one crime: their voices, raised against unthinkable horror, embarrass our genocide-enabling prime minister. #gaza #israel

If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

Today, AG Letitia James of New York responded to the Trump administration's new rule attempting to ban trans youth care in hospitals nationwide. "I will not let the administration come for you." Read the latest from our writer, S. Baum here. www.erininthemorning.com/p/i-will-not...

Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election

Can you imagine how this would affect men who've lost testes? Women who have had their ovaries removed? But sex is immutable, so when their hormones crash and they fucking die, I guess it was just their time...

I’m pissed that we’re all going to have a shitty 10-15 years economically because a dozen techboys believed that it was possible to write code to the point that the program could write better code and eventually either kill us all or make us immortal, and so they spent $1.5tn for $41bn in revenue

There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.

it is terrifying and awful that this passed the House with any Dem support at all (and once again, the continued leadership support for Cuellar is unconscionable) call your senators and make absolutely sure this dies in the Senate, lives are on the line trans people deserve so much better

Every trans person and ally must boycott voting not only for these three Democrats, but any other House Democrats from the states (Texas, North Carolina) who don't condemn and disavow Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis for this sickening betrayal. There is no space in the tent for genocidal policies.

Around the world, they all know that banning PBs is very likely to cause harm but they're all putting right-wing plaudits ahead of children's lives Show them nothing but contempt

Reposting with alt text because this is literally exactly how I feel about this specific subject

After announcing the Dragon Dowser #ttrpg project just a few days ago, we’ve already surpassed 100 pre-launch followers! @loremistress93.bsky.social @kessabrae.bsky.social and I are determined to fully complete the design and writing before the July #Kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tat...

This would genuinely fix me.

Pam Bondi wants the government to create cash bounties for turning in trans equality activists www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA 1/2

- hogwarts legacy is free on epic - hp skins in fortnite Yep, it's time to tap the sign It's either us, the REAL PEOPLE in your life, or your shitty nostalgia (btw even if the games/items are free that wench still profits from it because of licensing fees)

It turned out that the Convicted FElon & his sons got the Tates Brothers free, who both were charge with underage sex trafficking, rape, assault & child pornography. Once again, a criminal help released REAL criminals. A pedophile release Pedophiles. youtu.be/m-3cpDz2ATI?...

This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON

The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor. A belief in biodestiny, in short.

when i say starmer's government is stupid i mean it quite literally @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social's segregation laws are the purest example of this it's an obvious mistake. it's inevitably going to be overturned in 5-10 yrs and labour are going to get the blame for it. you have to be stupid to do it.

Being trans is not a mental illness. It is not a failure or an outcome to be prevented. Attempts to change or suppress someone’s identity are harmful and must be banned for people of all ages. As parents of trans people, we want our children to receive timely care that supports their wellbeing.

Please help me raise money to go to Atlanta, I need to be at the trial for the murder of my brother

Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’ It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin’

If we are really worried about the pressure put on the NHS by flu then shouldn’t we have offered the flu vaccine to more people for free?

People who think the path to Democrats winning is by winning the center and poaching moderate republicans, take note. You're not providing an incentive to switch by offering them things they already have at home. You have to capitalize on policy they want but which Republicans won't offer.

Sussex. You know, where they are forcibly detransitioning trans kids...