My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

tapping the sign

As online ID check laws spread, companies are working out how to comply. It’s Day 5 of our week of action- we’re putting the spotlight on YouTube. YouTube rolled out age verification this summer to appease lawmakers, smoothing the way for more dangerous laws to pass. apnews.com/article/yout...

A """funny""" thing I've noticed is that if you see a buckwild and totally made up claim on Reddit and then search that claim on Google, trying to source it, the Gemini AI summary will be like "oh, yeah, that totally happened, and my source is that three hour old Reddit thread you were just reading"

We are now literally killing people for twitter meme points. I hate what America has become.

The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE. This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE

The decision to allow Israel to participate in Eurovision is an act of grotesque culture-washing and serves as nothing less than wholesale acceptance of Israel’s campaign of international PR. Our #MusicForTheMany campaign response to Israel’s participation in Eurovision.

I love how AI has basically killed Moore's Law. Maybe even reversed it.

Online age verification is a tempting idea. I'm a dad, I get it, but what's being proposed isn't just an ID check, it's a list of your kid's faces and data. A list in the hands of increasingly totalitarian governments, tech companies, and dysfunctional AI. It's not protection, it's surveillance.

Really great coverage from @wired.com about our week of action against online ID verification and how these bills are setting a dangerous precedent by making the internet more exploitative rather than safer. www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

Yawn. Procedural generation tools have existed in many industries for decades. Besides, Architects are licensed by the state and must "sign-off" on plans used in construction; AI isn't replacing that. BTW, architects already had a shakeup when computers made manual drafting skills obsolete.

#SaveSpeech tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!

KOSA is never about protecting kids. It’s anti-queer and about making sure kids don’t have access to information they need to survive - from health basics to knowing they are not alone and not broken. And it will destroy the internet as we know it.

With SCREEN Act and KOSA on the legislative block this week, there couldn't be a better time for Fight's "Stop Online ID Checks" Week of Action. Today's action: Share and sign the petition. Find out more here: www.stoponlineidchecks.org

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

You shouldn’t have to present your ID, credit card info, or face to be scanned just to access your favorite sites, news, or games yet this is the growing reality for Internet users globally. We need a firestorm to take down online ID checks for good-- so we planned one. Join us for a week of action!

This is not a dogwhistle, it's a fucking bullhorn. The Trump administration has just officially endorsed ethnic cleansing.

Looking for past Garfield Macy's balloons. Found a new reaction image

Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR. Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.

No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.

If you don't get that the "yucky porn games" are the gateway to censor further media that YOU personally think is acceptable, you need to get your head out of your ass. They're trying to divide people into smaller groups so their collective power is also smaller. Kill the cop in your head.

SOS!! Share far and wide! The US Patent Office is working to make bad patents untouchable and that’s a problem for open source hardware! Read through EFF statement and get your comments in ASAP to help prevent this www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

For those wondering if Jeff Bezos (owner of Washington Post) is in the Epstein files:

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck

Sometimes you just need a cat

Back in my younger days, colleges were bastions of free speech and controversial topics. It's sad to see what they have become now; this is just the latest disappointment.

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

#SaveSpeech if you've seen a video going around of Epstein survivors talking about their abuse, you need to be aware that video is promoting World-Without-Exploitation, an organization whose website supports legislation like KOSA, and advocates for the "Nordic model" they are not your allies.

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

AI videos being so realistic now might actually kill my scrolling habit for good. having to carefully inspect each and every video and image just for inevitable disappointment is really interfering with the mindless dopamine choo choo train

It never used to be dark by 5pm. They're doing this to demoralize you

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Google has always been the greatest evil (of the internet tech companies)

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

quit celebrating SCOTUS "rejecting the call" to overturn the same-sex marriage case as if they didn't just disallow every trans person in the united states from being able to get their passports with their correct gender marker. they WILL come back to it and we're tired of you ignoring us.

If you still support Chuck Schumer after this, you are a collaborator to fascism and a traitor to America.

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

I've come to the conclusion they got the one thing they *actually* wanted--lots of people voted for them last Tuesday in the hope that they were an opposition party. Unfortunately that's not currently the case.

everyone needs to grow the fuck up and start playing pretend with toys

While everyone is laughing at the absurdity of all this, let's not overlook that the officer committed perjury on the stand and the DOJ prosecutor suborned that perjury, both of which are felonies. He lied about the sandwich, video proved he lied, and nobody cared.

Both of these Walmart budget thanksgiving dinner lists are bullshit because they assume you have a fully stocked panty of spices and staples. But aside from that, this is a perfect example of how the economy is great and there is no inflation. Thanks Trump.

This seems appropriate. Revelations 13: 16-17 "And he causes all [...] to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name."

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

I’m fuming over the ageist garbage surrounding ACA subsidies. A lot of ppl are forced to retire. Dirty not-so-secret of Silicon Valley - numbers of men in their 50s laid off, can’t get work b/c ageism. Young ppl tossed from their parents’ health plan at age 26. Ageism is rampant even among Dems.

* Crochet Horror * #Exorcist #Halloween