We really should stop calling it "age verification." Because that is not what it is. Call it "forced doxxing" instead. Most people think the concept of age verification and protecting kids online is common sense. So we must rebrand it to reveal its true purpose, which is something they will fear.

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

Tired of this "cat committed voter fraud funny story" thing spreading everywhere on social media. It's not only fake but obviously a Republican agenda piece that voter fraud is easy to commit and widespread. The surname used (Martinez) being a common Hispanic surname isn't an accident.

Here’s the part we all want to know which is behind the paywall. You’re welcome.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 4,1949

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

If Sherlock Holmes can write whole monographs about cigar ash and types of dirt in London, you can have a dust collection.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller January 2,1947

if one of these things bumps into you, you should legally be allowed to hit it with a hammer

Shitty knock-offs of hot chicken. None of them taste like the actual thing. Either go to Nashville and hit up Bolton's or Princes, or quit calling your spicy chicken dish "Nashville hot chicken" I promise you it ain't.

inside of me there are two wolves

Yum

it seems like a flaw in our system that we're forced to watch helplessly as obviously corrupt institutions perpetrate atrocities to which the vast majority of us are opposed

new flavour of catholic guilt just dropped: procrastinating on your novel

when AI companies go bankrupt

AI is mainly championed by ppl who bluffed their way through life, never understanding how anything works. When AI promised to offload thinking from humans, they went "Finally, we can ALL drop the act!" only to be met with blank stares. So it's either embrace AI or admit they are failures as people.

the year is 2030 and you need a face scan, retinal scan, voice scan and to answer 20 questions about your family, health and employment history every time you use the computer. but don’t worry your personal data is safe with Butterfingers Corp in partnership with The Dark Web

It's less about banning the kids and more about destroying online privacy for everyone. Here in australia huge chunks of the internet are now inaccessible unless you send you drivers licence and picture of your taint to a Palintir subsidiary, and it is getting worse by the month.

people do know that age verification means no online privacy for anyone, right? Right?!

current events once again proving all the money in the world can't buy you an even slightly likable personality, basic morals, or a modicum of real personal worth.

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

de-anonymizing the internet won't protect kids but it sure will serve the push for mass surveillance even further and every time I witness someone otherwise progressive in their political views push for more of this crap I really have to wonder

“Does the AI love me? Can I have sex with it?” is something you can only formulate as a question if you think of a partner as someone who primarily serves your ego and not as someone with a will, desire or needs of their own.

“Is the doll / robot / AI real? Can I love her?” says the man who doesn’t believe women are people. “Is the computer real? Does it deserve rights?” says the man who doesn’t think migrants or workers or disabled people are people.

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

no swifter way to put me off an upcoming movie or television show than promoting it as "gritty" 🙄

I specifically requested no more metaphors

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

Crime drama fans have been left bewildered by Channel 4’s latest offering, which features a sleuth protagonist so neurotypical that he is completely unrecognisable as a detective, critics have claimed.

Repost the Leather Dachshund from Seattle Pride 1991 to be blessed this Pride Month!

“the filmmaker’s connection to Black Forest Labs came through BroadLight Capital, an investor in the start-up. BroadLight was co-founded by Rick Yorn, who is Mr. Scorsese’s talent manager.” Blech.

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

For the record I literally did this back around 2019 or whenever it was she started getting nasty about it. I was ass deep in a hyperfixation on the series as a whole and Snape as a character in particular. Wrote multiple fics had a tumblr etc. I just dumped it and moved on

i really just can't imagine having a whole ass harry potter themed fandom account anywhere in 2026 and claiming to give a shit about trans folks. No, I don't care about hyperfixations. I'm ADHD too. Dump it long enough and another will arise from the depths in due time.

Search I just did there now.

Me: "I'm upset that my neighbor's dog bit me!" Some guy I've never encountered in my life on bsky: "WHY DO YOU HATE EVERY DOG AND WANT TO EAT PUPPIES WITH KETCHUP FOR BREAKFAST EVERY DAY?"

I 💖 the mute button

But why are young people not thriving and having loads of children, we muse, as a series of madmen in power wreck the world, A.I. is hyped, the planet burns and social media drives everyone mad? Is it perhaps that they’re just a bit soft?

People really will make up a guy in their own head to get mad at and paste it onto a brief online comment over basically anything 🤷

#HowDoTheyRiseUp #Glorious25thMay #Discworld

when ur mentally ill in the summer

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

deeply resent that this is being referred to as an “evolution” of Google Alerts—an actually useful tool, like fucking Search once fucking was

This one took a while to write. Put out an essay about the links between fandom and consumerism, and its effect on how we interpret fiction. Hope y'all enjoy!

Nobody here needs me to tell them not to do this but Jesus Christ in a Cadillac do not do this.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.