These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.

New U.S. border rule just dropped! Canadians now get photographed EVERY time they enter and exit the U.S. land, air, sea. ✔️ Includes children ✔️ Photos stored for life ✔️ No opt-out Driving over for the day? You’re still getting scanned. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AtXc_G3WGQgG...

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"Don't Use Murder McStealyBot To Fix Your Life. Use It To Come Up With Stolen Ideas😀😀😀"

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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

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Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf

Federal ban on healthcare for trans youth passes the House. Horrific day, horrific precedent. We continue to hurtle toward genocide.

Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.

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100% agree! You might also find this paper with @lmesseri.bsky.social helpful: bsky.app/profile/lmes...

GenAI‘s data is being increasingly corrupted by false data created by genAI.

If Americans must have an outgroup in our politics make it the greedy few who make their way at the expense of the many.

In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture. On the back of the photograph she wrote: “‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says. ‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.” The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.

This book. THIS BOOK! Gorgeous prose. An arc that took my breath away. Profoundly grateful to have performed this indescribable story.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

We have an industry that uses patients as widgets and counts profits as the only desired measure of success.

government, authority, and basically society in general is all about ensuring men are supplied with women

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The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.

Workers can regulate AI with strong contract language. Full stop. Unionized journalists just proved this at POLITICO. @pen-guild.bsky.social

@ericwickstrom.bsky.social congrats on SOVAS nom!

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

We are not mudsills.

Some days I come on here and it takes me an hour just to figure out what everyone is talking about.

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.

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I'm already seeing people saying that if OpenAI goes down it'll be the fault of authors and publishers, as opposed to actually blaming Sam Altman and OpenAI for BREAKING THE DANG LAW!

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

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another year, another question in my mandatory state employee ethics training that seems *patently absurd* as our federal administration runs on bribes & extortion Oh no, did I accidentally eat *vendor supplied pizza*? Next time I’ll request a private jet to ensure I’m ethically above board

Audiofile magazine getting us ready for Halloween! www.audiofilemagazine.com/articles/a-d...

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Opinion | It's time for corporate America to end DEI and choose its leaders on the basis of merit alone. by Barron Trump

Remember, AI bros are pushing outrageousness (“casting” beloved dead performers, inventing AI actors) because they are hemorrhaging cash and need the buzz. Ignore.

Confront shadow president Miller with Furries, whistles, and a blow up doll dance party.

Perry cites the claims of "slashed tires" and "keyed cars." "Some of this frankly sounds like a Carrie Underwood song."

Back from the grave, I've returned to @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social 😈 With my coming-of-rage short story collection TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS out now, Stephanie and I are here to recommend some of our favorite coming-of-rage horror books & movies 🖤 booksinthefreezer.podbean.com/e/coming-of-...