This is from a panel on writing lyrics for game music. In an official Square Enix panel

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

A San Francisco outfit called Persona handles every selfie/ID you upload to ChatGPT, Roblox, LinkedIn, and many other sites for verification. A massive leak now proves it is capable of feeding the US government with 269 sophisticated surveillance checks on millions of users.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning. www.therage.co/persona-age-...

The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

CALL SCHUMER AND YOUR SENATORS NOW.

The biggest problem with "Strong Floor, No Ceiling," besides being structurally unsound, is the enemy it identifies. It’s whoever is trying to put “a ceiling” on the top-earning Americans. That should be the Democratic Party. It's a slogan that runs against its own party base!

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

When writing this piece, I kept thinking back to this Instagram post I saw from a trans woman the other day. This is what I'm talking about. Watch this:

the AI journalism revolution continues to go great, thanks for asking

America: rugged, independent, free. unless there's a chance somebody might see boobies

Democrats spent the 2004 cycle trying to debunk the Swift Boat attacks when Kerry should have said Bush was a coward who lied us into war while Kerry had killed the enemy with his bare hands and had seen war and would end the war.

The propaganda machine is in full swing today

Greta Thunberg for Nobel Prize

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

To be slightly more serious: I think the monetization of content and the resulting drive to both create it and consume it as a way to get ahead in capitalism (as I've mentioned before) has basically broken all of our brains in irreparable ways.

you know that horrific thing trump just did to criminalize homelessness in a way to bring back forced institutionalization? gavin newsom did it years ago

while smiling! Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world. Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate; Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.

Oh, we know

Fortune writes an entire story about Sinclair's effort to ban Kimmel "to protect communities" without making a SINGLE reference to Sinclair's long history of airing election fraud conspiracy theories and medical disinformation

this business model should be flatly illegal taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome ban it completely

What it feels like posting about this administration on any social media platform today.

Truly, his politics are a mystery and we will never learn the secrets that motivated this lone wolf killer with absolutely no connections to anyone else, certainly not in politics. Now, who wants to talk about improving mental health? No, not by funding programs, silly. Just talk about it. Again.

I haven’t seen one news channel show a clip of him speaking in the last 4 hours

some racist lady threatened to punch me in the mouth last week. Her punk ass is still here. So let's be so serious about who gets protected by these "no violence" decrees and who Bluesky tells to get fucked

I'm not going to be scolded for failing to mourn the shooting death of a man who demanded shootings be an acceptable part of American life. I'm not going to feel bad for being desensitized to the gun violence he demanded we become desensitized to.

"Multiple protestors have been arrested in Orlando, Florida for recoloring the Pulse Memorial’s rainbow crosswalk, even after a judge ruled that the state’s highway patrol had no probable cause in doing so." www.them.us/story/orland...

Good read from @thepointsguy. It references my column for @frommers.com (linked below) that shed light on the airline lobby filing a "wish list" with the DOT to eradicate most passenger protections. thepointsguy.com/news/airline...

what the fuck are you talking about. what the fuck does any of this mean!!!! shut the fuck up!!!!!

“After all, the initiative outright says that the danger of pornography is that it acts as a vector for the ‘transgender ideology.’” If anyone needed evidence that their end goal is the erasure of queer visibility, and possibly even our existence itself, here it is. This is an existential threat.

#FF14 producer Yoshi-P recently talked "extreme" reactions to game devs and how some dive into demoralizing comments (to put it lightly) at the real people making games. Basically: If you feel the need to be angry at games, maybe take a chill pill and tone it down.🧊 www.thegamer.com/final-fantas...

So I'm actually animating again. After 10 years of just not being able to.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Said it many times, people nationally do not understand that SF and LA are not progressive wastelands, they are conservative wastelands draped in nominally progressive social attitudes. Killing new housing of all sorts for decades anywhere and any way they can.

he literally is just doing fascism also, but "ironically", and the libs eating this up are quite literally not distinct than the conservatives who ate up trump doing it

So with a new Kirby DLC coming out, someone decided to send in a thematically appropriate Duke meme to Claire's stream: {Suggested by @/prinplup14.bsky.social.}

For further context: Kevin McCarty threatened this as retaliation against Councilmember Mai Vang for vocally opposing the ordinance that would impose fives of $250 - $25000 against anyone caught sleeping outside city hall between reserved hours. This is dictator shit

People have this starry-eyed idea of California being a bastion of progressivism, but really much of it is run by corporate goons who love big police, fucking over the homeless, funneling money to the nimbys, etc. See Sac's mayor, Blue Fascist in Chief, Kevin McCarty. www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

"Australia and Ireland have passed similar age verification measures. Denmark, Greece, Spain, France and Italy have started testing a common age‑verification app, paving the way for potential mandatory EU-wide use." Oh great, so they lied when they said it was the other way 'round How democratic

The internet is NOT a babysitter Pass it on.

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to [email protected] they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

Any state with jurisdiction of something should call her to testify. Let her perjure herself. Pardons don't apply to ststes and aren't prospective.

yep. "Ironically, what the party could probably use most is a version of Trump who works for good rather than evil: someone who is attentive to the public mood but has a permanent and easily communicated agenda" slate.com/news-and-pol...