Nationwide book banning bill HR 7661 is BAD. Find out more here, including what we can do to help stop it: bookriot.com/hr7661-advan...

The party that wants to eliminate every obstacle that would prevent me from buying a weapon of war whose only use is to murder large numbers of people, wants to erect a thicket of obstacles between me and my right to cast my vote. Also, the illegal voting they’re trying to prevent is already illegal

Please call your Reps and tell them to vote NO on the SAVE ACT, HR 22/S 128. Five Calls has a good script: 5calls.org/issue/save-a...

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Modern Republicanism is making up a thing to be scared about and then using that as the basis for policy

Gupta: Why is Dr. Casey Means not right for the role of Surgeon General? First, she’s somebody who wraps herself in a white coat — she did a lot of that during her confirmation hearing — but she doesn’t actually practice medicine. In some ways it’s just false valor.

42 people. millions of trans people are being tortured by their governments because of 42 people.

It crazy how many people will support a war if they are told it is a just war. There are no just wars.

"Imagine if they had an army of gundams, think about what a terror that would be."

what the fuck is going on in Sam Altman’s head

using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him

A striking feature of Trump and his team is: they somehow imagine a world in which they are the only actors, only ones with power, and whether it's Tehran or Minneapolis are surprised when it turns out others do. There are many kinds of power and many nations with power.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art) Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

call your reps. This package was pushed through the house.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

I've never used grammarly but if you have an account, I'd throw it in the trash and set it on fire because what the actual fuck

I definitely want to hear more deep thoughts from the guy who claimed Elon Musk's purchase of twitter would "extend the light of consciousness"

Target all like "wE JusT cAn'T fiGurE oUt wHy eVeRyOne sToPpeD shOpPinG hEre!!" when everyone has been screaming at them for the past like three years that they are scumbags for removing DEI and allowing ICE to kidnap our neighbors in their fucking stores

go bankrupt ♥️

Make it stick.

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

The KIDS Act (mass censorship and surveillance law that would eliminate anonymous internet use) is moving forward in the House, and the only opposition is from Democrats who claim it doesn't censor and surveil ENOUGH. When is the left going to wake tf up???

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Screaming

the only consistent funny thing about trump is how little he respects anyone in his orbit

T-minus three weeks until “why don’t women want to date them?”

“Choosing” brother a shoebox costs $3000

The package of censorship and surveillance bills brought up in todays markup has been advanced Continue to contact your representatives and demand this legislation be opposed. Tell your family and friends, explain how these bills are not what they appear, and ask them to join us in opposition!

House hearing on fake "kids safety" censorship bills happening right now. Call your lawmakers!!!! badinternetbills.com

"Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society."

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Please, PLEASE, be loud about this topic, Android being open is what makes it useful, you own your phone and you should be able to install apps from wherever you wish to, don't let Google tell you what's allowed on the device you payed for! keepandroidopen.org

Mind you these workers are specifically Kenyan workers who are made to view and annotate the absolute worst things created by man and machine for extremely low pay and absolutely no support or care from Meta for the trauma they endure every day at work

Ken Paxton is on the ballots for which Ken Paxton is now putting his thumb on the scale.

Don't let them kill free speech, call your reps ahead of Thursday when bills including KOSA will be discussed again

"What Bryant Novak didn’t know, and what most people actually don’t know, is that much in the same way HR exists to protect the company, Title IX offices function as a way to protect the accused"

The partial sentence "[a]fter Rebecca got expelled following her Title IX complaint" tells you everything you need to know about how women are treated across academia (and not just STEM academia).

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Anti-vaxxers are bad parents. Not vaccinating your child is abuse. We should eliminate all non-medical exemptions for vaccines. Sorry, not sorry.

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

If you haven't called any of your reps yet, or it's been over 3 weeks, PLEASE call them today and tell them you oppose all ID verification bills. It's great if you can include each bills name but if you get nervous and flub up, just mentioning you don't want any internet surveillance will work.

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

I have a piece out in @theguardian.com today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back with everything we have

Just because it's liberating to say obvious shit out loud sometimes: this is not what "defensive" means.

A nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Here's what you need to know about HR7661, including who is behind it, the history behind such bills, and what you need to do to stop it. bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

fundamentally I think it is good to be able to hold all of these ideas simultaneously: - what the bad guys are doing is bad - they are going to do enormous damage - they are not infallible supergeniuses whose every move turns out perfectly as planned