Oh hey, another anti-transphobia post is doing some sort of numbers, so please everybody be aware of @trans_rescue
They are an NGO based in the Netherlands and they help trans people leave unsafe countries around the globe. Sadly, that now includes the US. Please give them follows and boosts and, if possible, donations. They can always use money to save trans lives.
@trans_rescue Oh, and hey, HRC is calling for us all to send well-deserved nastygrams to the Wall Street Journal over their "reporting" on the Charlie Kirk shooting that endangered trans lives for NO reason. Mine is on the way.
The Wall Street Journal published a dangerous, erroneous link between the Utah shooter and the LGBTQ+ community. Demand an apology and retraction today:
You know what you should do yhis fine Saturday? Wash your vacuum cleaner attachments. Have you ever done that? I took mine with me in the shower todat. Very satisfying to wash all the grime down the drain, like a river of yuck.
In privacy, we talk a lot about how to protect our own data, but what about our responsibility to protect the data of others? If you care about privacy rights, you must also care for the data of the people around you.
"Always ask for consent before sharing the data of others. Never assume. This is a responsibility we all have towards each other: "
I am not sure exactly when we lost this concern for privacy. Back in the day before cell phones and home computers shared landlines were a thing. Yes more than one household was on the same telephone line. It was called a "party line" . As single home lines became more common there was an option, public listed home phone number or one that was never listed in a phone book.
There was a strict unwritten agreement : One NEVER gave out the number of someone who had a private phone number unless we first asked EACH time there was a request.
To share an unlisted phone number without first asking permission could mean the end of a long-time friendship!
Nowadays not enough have a concern to protect each other's privacy-that needs to change.
@SnowyCA Very true. Wanna add though that today it’s even more extreme: if you give a person e.g. your phone number, you have to assume you are basically giving it to the world. If this person has e.g. W**tsApp on their phone and grants the app access to their phonebook (standard setting), WA now has your number. WA stores it, shares it, it can be hacked and spread etc. Now copy this pattern throughout 20 apps on that persons phone aswell… and voila.
This is a reupload of a video originally created by igiulamam, which was taken down on a spurious claim. Lyrics are in the description and at least two pla...
If you really want to “avenge” Charlie Kirk’s murder, then demand your Republican members of the House and Senate vote to release the full Epstein files.
Was looking for a less stimulating launcher on F-droid (you know, cause I feel like the swiping and moving and friendly bubbly images are very satisfying which is unfortunately not very helpful for someone who is easily distracted)
And I found this and honestly the screencaps convinced me. 100% this was made specifically for me
Sadly doesn't seem to come with the background images included, now there's room for improvement
Sounds a lot like what I use, Discreet Launcher. There's a lot to be said for something easy to use that gets out of your way to let you do stuff, especially these days
In this Presidential Lecture, Anna Watts will explore how astrophysicists are starting to make sense of these weird and wonderful stars using everything from...
Because defending Angel Reese isn’t just about the game. It’s about what it feels like, deep in my body, every time a Black woman is targeted for speaking up, asking for more, or simply refusing to shrink.
Due to my lived experiences, the “maybe there’s more to the story” and “but what if…” comments never land as neutral, as reflective.
That’s why the racism swirling around Angel Reese, and so many Black women athletes, doesn’t just make it hard to enjoy women’s sports…it makes it triggering, exhausting, and too often, harmful. What’s supposed to be joyful, light-hearted, and fun, gets tangled up with survival.
This is the everyday reality of being a Black woman.
Even when we shine, even when we excel, the spotlight comes with attacks.
a long but readable read — was the US constitution really designed for democracy, or designed to protect a powerful few? Ari Berman May 2024 in Mother Jones; — “From childhood, we are taught to venerate the Constitution as a civic religion, but the truth is that America’s democratic experiment has been defined since the nation’s founding by a central tension over whom the government should favor. The United States has historically been a laboratory for both oligarchy and genuine democracy. And to grasp the present-day fight, one must understand the long-standing clash between competing notions of majority rule and minority rights…
and
“But as the United States has democratized in the centuries since, extending the vote and many other rights to formerly disenfranchised communities, the antidemocratic features built into the Constitution have become even more pronounced, to the point that they are threatening the survival of representative government in America. The timing of our modern retreat from democracy is no coincidence. The nation is now roughly 20 years away from a future in which white people will no longer be the majority…
and
“This imbalance is growing more lopsided: By 2040, roughly 70 percent of Americans will live in 15 states with 30 senators, while the other 30 percent—who are whiter, older, and more rural than the country as a whole—will elect 70 senators…
Even the dogs in the street can see the tide turning toward Trump's mini-me there.
There's a kind of guilty pleasure for an Irishman (and probably for those true Scots who want their independence) in the idea of that sad piece of human garbage as PM of Britain.
I dream that Scotland will become independent. Maybe even Wales. And maybe, at long long last, Ireland will be united.
Either way, i think the idea of the "UK" is doomed, and that warms my Irish heart. :)
Mostly depends on whether or not I'm washing my hair, but it's not the case that I have a fixed with-hair-washing protocol and a fixed without-hair-washing protocol. Also depends on how tired, sweaty or hurried I am.
Privacy Badger isn’t just for individuals. Libraries and schools can install Privacy Badger organization-wide to make private and secure browsing the default on their computers. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/libr…
Political correctness or incorrectness is not unique to progressive or left of center movements. There is a right wing version of political correctness, that is more often known as "message discipline." Right wing people are much more effective at "staying on message," probably because of their authoritarian tendencies. Right wing media obviously have a very strict editorial policy of never missing an opportunity to use "Democrat" as an adjective or "illegal" as a noun. The right wing rank and file seem to absorb this through osmosis, probably because they stay tuned to one channel. Right wing people also don't air their family laundry in public, or debate what is or isn't correct "message discipline" in ideologically mixed company. This helps them avoid the appearance of someone in their movement pushing a style guide on them, and makes their message discipline appear spontaneous. In practice, I think the mechanics of it is more "monkey see, monkey do."
i think the best way to gauge if a platform is decentralized is to say “if i got banned by the biggest server, would this hinder my ability of communicating with the people i care to a reasonable degree?”
As long as we’re in the “September Surge” (that trend where there’s a noticeable uptick in job vacancies and hiring around September and October, when companies ramp up for year-end and the upcoming year), you might as well also ask “What DON’T I want in a new job?”
Warner Brothers suing Midjourney over people being able to create infringing Batman and Scooby-Doo illustrations is hilarious, because fuck Midjourney and the other LLM landlords, but also WB and others were SO excited to use LLMs to replace creatives everywhere with digital slaves and now it’s biting them in the ass.
Sorry, folks, you helped the genie out of the bottle, and while you might be able to force LLM service providers to forbid certain terms, you can’t stop anyone with local models and LoRAs from generating an endless stream of “infringing” depictions of your “property”.
@glitzersachen @Binder Anthropic already reached a settlement with authors, and while it was monetarily enormous, it still wasn’t nearly enough to compensate them for the damage done.
The only silver lining I see is that the tech they helped bring into the world can be used by individuals on their own machines to violate as much corporate IP as they want. (At least until they succeed in outlawing general-purpose personal computing; Microsoft is well on the way to doing this with their “Windows 365” cloud bullshit.)
> can be used by individuals on their own machines to violate as much corporate IP as they want.
Not quite. As I see the future, they won't be able to keep you from generating whichever pictures you like, but they can (and will) suppress distribution via criminal laws. Remember the Anti-piracy campaigns of 2 decades ago? Like this, only harder.
@glitzersachen @Binder Oh, no doubt — I’m just saying they can’t stop the generation. And if they really did crack down in that fashion, there’s always “sneaker-net” — we shared stuff via floppies way before we had the net, after all!
@glitzersachen @Binder True, but that was only an example. Piracy, for example, is still alive and well on the net despite decades of attempts to stop it. Stopping the spread of IP violations across the entire web will require scanning of every single media file shared everywhere with resource-intensive LLMs to identify possible infringement, and while I’m not saying they can’t do that, anything that makes them have to expend more money and energy is a plus in my book.
ICYMI: I wrote a 3,500+ word deep-dive guide on how to read data breach notices. By knowing what to look out for (and what to ignore) and understanding what these notices actually mean, you can take meaningful actions to protect yourself and others.
Understanding the contents of a data breach notice can help you take measured, reasonable action to protect yourself and others following a cybersecurity incident.
This guide is one of the most detailed posts I've written in a while, using real-world examples of data breaches (coupled with my two decades of journalism experience!) to help you to read between the lines of even the most barebones data breach notices, so that you know what steps to take next.
Understanding the contents of a data breach notice can help you take measured, reasonable action to protect yourself and others following a cybersecurity incident.
The silence is deafning. Always hearing about this country or that one, this group or that one but the silence continues for #homeless people.
(Amendment I) Sorry, you don't have the right to assemble in public space even in protest because your homeless.
(Amendment IV) Sorry, you don't have the right to be served a search warrant when we steal your only way to stay warm and dry.
(Amendment VIII) Sorry, your under arrest for trying to survive in public spaces in the middle of winter/heatwave after the city/state/federal has taken everything from you and there is absolutely no place to go to get out of the weather.
A short time ago, #Trump decided that 771,000 people have no US Constitution rights when he declared it #Illegal2BHomeless in #AmeriKKKa. (whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac…) Not only do we now have to be on the lookout for city cops, shariffs, state cops, National Guards that also forgot the oath we say when joining the US Military, we have to be looking for every day haters who won't hesitate to kill us for simply not having paid for place to live.
But the Silence Continues.
BTW, the mayor of Portland Oregon has shown his true colors, he is a MAGA cult terrorist too. portlandmercury.com/news/2025/…
This weekend, the city of Portland is resuming enforcement of its local laws governing when, where, and how homeless Portlanders can live in public spaces.
The plans of zillionaires. They seem fine with murdering billions of people as long as they get to have their private child rape islands. If we want to have any other future, we're going to have to go remove them as well as go around them.
That is, get rid of systemic issues favoring money in politics so we can ditch fossil fuels as a society, in addition to individuals doing their own small part by adopting new habits. Riding bikes is nice, but it's only about 1% of the blocking issue.
@bweller this is regarding Mark Carney's plan to scrap incentive programs for EV sales in Canada, to help protect the job market in the Canadian auto sector (by curbing the demand for Teslas, Volts, etc)
There is some truth that we don't have the infrastructure or experience to build the EV components that are in demand, but it still seems like the very much wrong way to address the problem, especially since leaning into the ICE auto sector stuff is still leaning too much on an unstable partner
Good grief; I knew Audible/Amazon were predatory but I’m surprised this is legal.
Short version - if an author isn’t exclusive to Audible, then Audible will do their best to take the author’s royalties and give them to people who are exclusive.
Audible's new proposed royalty structure is a slap in the face to authors, readers who care about them, and exactly opposite of what they promised Brandon Sa...
It's amazing how rarely royalties from streaming services go to the person who earned them.
My band oddly had something that got a hell of a lot more plays on Spotify than I could ever imagine, and we received...nothing. But then, Spotify screws ALL artists.
Amazon needs to be split up. There are far too many conflicts of interest going on here, and their monopoly over the audiobook market is culturally and economically disastrous.
Yeah, I cancelled my decades long #Audible subscription two months ago, used #LIBATION to download my library to my computer and I went to #LibroFM because as Cory Doctorow points out, they don't do DRM and you can support a local book shop with your purchases from them:
Individual sailors and soldiers who destroyed boat Tuesday may have committed war crimes.
"'…zero evidence of self-defense…Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea,' according to Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at…Washington Office on Latin America. 'Even if…drugs aboard…not a capital offense.'"
Lethal force against civilians in international waters 'is a war crime if not in self-defense,” according to Isacson."
@claralistensprechen5th if he’s thought about it at all, I think you’re right. He seems to assume anything he does is a-ok because he did it; that is simply not the case.
could be. I think there may be specific criteria for what is a crime against humanity, though I don’t know off the top of my head what they are, this feels like it could be in that realm.
It’s not overly active. There are days when it’s quiet. It’s more like having friends in your pocket all the time. When you have something to say, there’s always someone willing to chime in. It’s also good if you just need someone to talk to.
If you want you can join via the web or your own Matrix app. Come join us! (please boost for visibility.)
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Grassroots-up anti-2SLGBTQIA+ / Christian right conservatism championed by * Moms for Liberty * Trump-pardoned U.S. ex-general / psy-ops expert Mike Flynn * issue across Canada * "parental rights" anti-trans wedge strategy * neophyte far-right political operatives
A brief look at the history of elected school boards in Canada shows how the powers and responsibilities of elected school board trustees have been eroded considerably.
Heather Marsh was 100% correct, you don’t need the #Epstein files when all the survivors and witnesses are still alive and amongst us. We need to support and protect them all so they can tell the world first hand who preyed on them, as they seek accountability. #opdeatheaters RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7l…
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in reply to Scary Austin • • •Oh hey, another anti-transphobia post is doing some sort of numbers, so please everybody be aware of @trans_rescue
They are an NGO based in the Netherlands and they help trans people leave unsafe countries around the globe. Sadly, that now includes the US. Please give them follows and boosts and, if possible, donations. They can always use money to save trans lives.
transrescue.org/donations/bis-…
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Oh, and hey, HRC is calling for us all to send well-deserved nastygrams to the Wall Street Journal over their "reporting" on the Charlie Kirk shooting that endangered trans lives for NO reason. Mine is on the way.
act.hrc.org/page/177823/action…
Demand a Retraction and Apology from the Wall Street Journal for Erroneous Reporting
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