the corporate press softsells it, and "AI" gets all the attention, but this administration really is trying to impose a ban on all federal and state oversight of corporate power

Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Freelance photojournalist @davedeckerphoto.bsky.social was arrested while reporting on an immigration protest outside an ICE facility in Miami on Nov. 22. He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.

To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?

Google removes a variety of longstanding GMail features if you try to withdraw your default consent (!) to having all your content read and used by Google Gemini via "Smart Features." That's an obvious attempt to coerce consent for privacy violations. Legislatures must act to make this illegal.

I've had the pleasure of watching Edie develop their comic Summer Grass, Winter Worm for a few months. It's terrific. Edie's work is so well crafted- light & fun, but substantial too. Go read chapter 1 at grassworm.net & you can see their work grow with every page. Can't wait to read chapter 2!

So just so everyone is clear about what this is : Mike Johnson and the executive branch are normalizing the claim that any kind of dissent that is fact based is treason and an executable offense to the fascist regime. This is the intellectual framework for the mass murder of your opposition.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Our All Fonts Pack is on sale again for 30 days! All 1200+ fonts we've ever made, commercial use, one low price. Pay once and use the fonts forever for game dev, TTRPGs, web comics, videos, streams, merchandise, whatever! ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack #gamedev #fonts

Books with Pictures is an irreplaceable part of the comics community! www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

i've half-joked about how you aren't actually rich until you have "cancer money", or enough that you can pay for treatment *and* be out of work for however long *and* maintain your or your family's basic quality of life (ie, not having to liquidate core assets like your primary residence).

Gave a public comment about the council amendment to cut some of the Portland sweeps budget. Lots of 'oppose,' sign up to do that or to give testimony at the actual meeting on Wed. to 'support' if you are so inclined. Sweeps are so horrible. www.portland.gov/council/docu...

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

It's all "AI is the future" and "you can't get the genie back in the bottle" until the public don't like it and then it's "nooo this was handmade by real humans, it has a heart" and you try to fabricate a process that was never there. My dudes, if AI was so great you wouldn't need to lie about it.

Fun fact: Musk's pay package would be equal to the cost of SNAP (i.e., helping 42 million people to buy food) for TEN YEARS.

I don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is. Let's say you get paid a million dollars per day. That's a lot, right? If you spend none of it and pay no taxes, you'll have a trillion dollars in approximately two thousand seven hundred (2700) YEARS. No one should have that much.

We need Nuremberg trials for Trump administration officials and ICE/Border Patrol agents.

Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

If you don't want gen AI in your manga, anime, game, and light novel translations, now is the time to make your voice heard. Write to your favorite publishers and developers and ask if they are incorporating LLMs into their process. And most importantly, tell them you will vote with your dollars.

A carved rock tied to an Indigenous creation story for Willamette Falls used to sit next to the river in Oregon City, but it’s been missing since the 1950s. Now, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde are trying to find it.

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

Librarians told 404 Media they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, academics www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

Michiganders, this is serious business! We're already seeing DTE try to push a new data center through near Ann Arbor and Saline without a chance for public comment! This WILL impact not only our land and water, but our energy bills! SAY NO.

MasterCard is marketing its new MasterCard Threat Intelligence platform to issuers & acquirers. A source familiar w/ MasterCard’s internal operations told me MTI is flagging anime, VTubing, adult content, tabletop, video games as potentially “high fraud risk” fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

Really don’t think it can be emphasized enough what an INSANELY promising technology mRNA vaccination has proved itself to be and it’s beyond infuriating that it is under active and sustained attack by the most powerful people on earth

If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would be devastated to see that his own work has been marshalled for the cause of persecution toward immigrant communities and people of color. The Rockwell family 🧵

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

chickenlegs.the-comic.org is now Live! the entire first chapter is up now! Chapter 2 coming next month!

chickenlegs.the-comic.org is now Live! the entire first chapter is up now! Chapter 2 coming next month!

Texas and Utah have passed ID verification laws (KOSA) for all appstore use.Texas starts 1/02/26 Utah starts in July. Contact your reps!! tell your senate to vote no so it isnt made federal!! support organizations who are against this like eff! contact senate: act.eff.org/action/tell-...

Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear

Hey, I tried but I was NOT LOUD ENOUGH about my new comic coming out on Halloween! The entire first chapter drops in 2 days! chickenlegs.the-comic.org

Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview. This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association. I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.

AI-generated images and videos are overshadowing crucial storm reporting and safety information as Hurricane Melissa threatens Jamaica with heavy rainfall and intense winds

Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass. It NEEDS mass pushback.

They're going to try and scare minorities away from the polls. They'll probably do this with larger minority swing districts to deter [Stephen Miller's favorite slur] from voting. Restricting voting access and gerrymandering aren't enough. They want people scared to go to the polls.

Paypal is now playing harder ball on artists, going after anyone even mentioning commissions. Artists, send invoices. That way, no one has to say what the money is for on Paypal's paper trail. Customers, SAY NOTHING about commissions. Just say "thanks" on donos. Everyone: INCREASE THE CALLS.

I have pulled Maru Kiru off of GlobalComix due to their use of AI in marketing material, their hosting of AI generated content, and their lack of strong anti-AI policy. I want to thank @roselinath.bsky.social for speaking up about this, and remind ya'll that speaking up is how we stick together...

Just so we're clear, they're proposing a tax on speech. www.goerie.com/story/news/p...

KOSA is now in red alert priority. Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA! We need to turn out in numbers against this! ⬇️

So, the other day I finished the complete draft of a novel I've been writing. It took me five years and five months but I did it. It stars this lady, Penny Issagloria, and it's set in a world where money is magic, and debt is a curse.

I'm sure I'll get accused of being anti fun or whatever, and I'm not gonna lecture anyone about wearing inflatable costumes, etc. just try and give a shit about where you send money. on a related note, the Portland Defense Fund is doing a street faire to raise money today. details in flier

The Columbia River Basin once sustained 10 to 16 million salmon and steelhead annually. Today, over a third of those populations are extinct and many are at imminent risk of disappearing.