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'A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed divorcing "#gay" from "#queer" people reinforces a hierarchy of belonging that privileges proximity to straightness, rewards conformity, and marginalizes anyone who cannot or will not meet its terms'

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#LGBTQ #LGBT

Don't fall for WSJ's 'normal gay' whitewashing of queer life

Opinion: A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed divorcing "gay" from "queer" people reinforces a hierarchy of belonging that privileges proximity to straightness, rewards conformity, and marginalizes anyone who cannot or will not meet its terms, argues J…
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#LGBTQ #lgbt #queer #gay
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This one takes the cake.🤷

Seems like a new scam is AI companies making infringement claims against the musicians they scraped for sounding like themselves.

Turns out it works because the claims are adjudicated by, you guessed it, AI agents.

"Because YouTube’s copyright claim system operates without individual human review of each dispute, Campbell’s channel was effectively handed over [to the AI company.]"

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2026-04-06 17:58:58

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Une boite d'#IA clone la voix de Murphy Campbell, une chanteuse folk américaine, à son insu, bien entendu.
La chanteuse a vu ses propres vidéos démonétisée car elle s'est faite striker par #youtube pour infraction au copyright suite à une réclamation de droits par la boîte qui a cloné sa voix.

#IArienQuiVa

rudevulture.com/ai-company-clo…


AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs

Folk musician Murphy Campbell found herself at the center of a major ordeal when an entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated imitations of her music to every major music platform, then used her recordings to strip her of her own income.
Oswin Vex (Rude Vulture)

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Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
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#Fediverse #Mastodon

Six reasons Mastodon won't survive

The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.
Lance Ulanoff (Mashable)
#fediverse #mastodon
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capitalism / monetization ruins everything?

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don’t use either. use @openstreetmap or @CoMaps. it’s the #antifa thing to do.

#maps #geopolitics #fascism

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2026-04-04 13:30:52

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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.

#antifa #fascism #geopolitics #maps @OpenStreetMap @CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive
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🚨 LinkedIn runs a silent browser scan on every Chrome user who visits the site. 6,222 extensions. ~405 million users affected. No consent, no disclosure, no mention in their privacy policy.

The scan identifies your sales tools, VPN, ad blocker, job search extensions, and extensions tied to religion, politics, and disability.

The full technical breakdown, legal analysis, and searchable database of every scanned extension:

browsergate.eu

#LinkedIn #BrowserGate #privacy

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.
BrowserGate
#privacy #linkedin #browsergate
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R L Raymond

I was locked out a year ago for no reason (probably VPN use) and was asked to go through Persona to verify. Never. Privacy Hell squared right there. So now I can’t even delete my account! Tried all communication channels but nope… locked out. So now my albeit minimal data floats in the evil æther. #LinkedIn #BrowserGate #Privacy
#privacy #linkedin #browsergate
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I want to point out that there still is a way Republicans can win in November.

By now, everyone is used to Republicans suddenly reversing positions on every imaginable topic, and that is the secret to victory.

All they have to do is reverse their position on Israel.

Come out as anti-genocide and anti-Israel, and Republicans will be able to defeat all but a handful of Democrats, who will 100% continue to express their support of Israel and genocide, thus pissing off both Democratic and a surprising number of Republican voters.

Democrats have already made it very clear that they would rather lose elections than stop supporting Israel.

Poll after poll shows that Democratic voters overwhelmingly oppose genocide and are no longer buying into the little narrative the US mainstream media spent decades selling us on.

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#CongressionalRepublicans can stop this motherfucker, Trump, anytime they want to. It’s been that way since day one of his first term, but they refuse to, because they don’t want to. They aren’t frightened, they’re complicit.
#DonaldTrump #AmericanHitler #CriminalCohorts #OathBreakers #AmericanTraitors #TrumpTools #Iran #IranWar
#iran #donaldtrump #congressionalrepublicans #AmericanHitler #iranwar #criminalcohorts #americantraitors #OathBreakers #trumptools
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"Devuan - Linux Committed to No Age Attestation" 👀👏

!!! ALL HAIL THE VAN PANTHER !!!

Click on, "Show More" or "Read More" to get the links!

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#SwitchedToLinux #Linux #Windows #Mac #Technology #Tech #AltTech #Privacy #Private #Security #Secure #FOSS #FreeAndOpenSource #FreeAndOpenSourceSoftware #FreeOpenSourceSoftware #YouTube #Odysee #Rumble #BitChute #Locals #Patreon #DLive #Twitch #AltTech #FactCheckTrue #Fediverse #SocialMedia #devuan #ageverification

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Ugh. It's been a day already and it's only 9:30am.

With a layoff at my now former company, lots of us have been impacted, including me. The good news is my calendar is now free and clear.

I have no idea what comes next but if you know of any #InternalCommunications roles in #Massachusetts, I'd really appreciate the heads up 😃

My LinkedIn is: linkedin.com/in/shartlen/.

#FediHired #LayOff

#fedihired #massachusetts #internalcommunications #layoff

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Avete visto Ben Gvir festeggiare di nuovo la reintroduzione della pena di morte in Israele (che era un paese abolizionista di fatto)? Aveva distribuito dolcetti, ora avrebbe brindato al voto definitivo.

Ceto, Ben Gvir è Ben Gvir, che si presentò in parlamento con una spilletta col cappio (a proposito ve li ricordate i nostri leghisti?).

Ben Gvir ne ha di strada da fare per arrivare ad essere all'altezza di un R. Akiva. Mi spingo al punto di dire che IMHO non lo sarà mai.

#noDeathPenalty

#nodeathpenalty

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They Trump regime still thinks allies (we) don’t understand that the greatest threat to us right now is not Iran, it is the US. But we do. We already know the US can’t be trusted or counted on (see: Ukraine, Greenland, delusional maps of “Greater America”) so why on earth would any NATO country make itself a target of Iran for the US? Pure nonsense.

Everytime a US “patriot” missile is lost at sea a baby Canada goose flies around the lake.

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Low Earth orbit is now a very dangerous environment. It didn't have to be, but world governments sold off stewardship of the sky to techbros who don't care if we can actually ever leave the planet because they intend to be princes of what's left of this one.

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LAUREN

Jensen Huang of Nvidia
Peter Thiel of Palantir
Mark Zuckerburg of Meta
Larry Ellison of Oracle
Tim Cook of Apple
Jeff Bezos of Amazon
Sundar Pichai of Google
Sam Altman of Open AI
Elon Musk of X(it)

All of these things have contributed and continue to contribute to the downfall of democracy and the murder of innocent people on this planet.

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@economics_that_works

Understand something, the super rich will pull out all the stops they can to make sure that data centers their precious totalitarian surveillance system, gets all the energy and water and resources they need. Data center construction is probably about 10% of what headline numbers you see, but even these numbers are unrealistic as the supply chain falls apart.

Remember that billionaires are an extinction cult they want the world to fall apart

@for economics discontents

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And to think, if you were to openly wish bad things on these people equal to what they do to others, there would be grounds to have your post removed.

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A Tired Fourplex Is Transformed Into an Elegant Single-Family Home

Designers Haley Dermenjian and Lindsay Mens of TOM Design Collective turn a tired Toronto fourplex into an elegant family home.
Moyo Lawuyi (House & Home)

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The Supreme Court says ISPs aren’t responsible for everything their users do online. That means your access to the internet is less likely to be cut off over accusations alone. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/supr…

Supreme Court Agrees With EFF: ISPs Don't Have To Be Copyright Enforcers

If your ISP can be liable for huge amounts of money for not terminating your access to the internet because of accusations that you—or someone in your household or college network—has committed copyright infringement, that is dangerous.
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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The following thought has not been fully thought-through.

*****

I'm Black. I love being Black. I take pride in the achievements of other Black people

But being Black is different from all my other identities: Nigerian, British, woke, F1 fan.

Being Black is not an identity I picked for myself or inherited by birth, it's one that was given to me by people who hate me (and those who look like me). I'm Black today cos 400 years ago someone wanted to enslave my ancestors.

#blackmastodon

#blackmastodon

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So there is a WH app? Go figure that is raises security issues: instagram.com/reel/DWaWZdjDit6…

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White House App Settings Grant Full Control Over Your Device: Users Warned of Extreme Risks

The Trump administration's new app demands extensive hardware permissions, raising privacy concerns and sparking calls for deletion.
Aiza Moraña (International Business Times)

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if people stopped giving all these corporations their age or id/kyc info and just canceled their subscriptions or accounts for 4 months we'd see how fast they stop asking once those next quarter results show up.

governments would wake up pretty fast with less VAT, GST, and Tax revenue, too. you give them an inch and they will take a mile. cut that inch and cut their source of revenue, and they will all fall in line.

that is the only solution to all these stupid laws.

Security Writer

2026-03-28 08:33:04

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Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”

Me: “My account is 23 years old”

Valve: “That just proves your account is old”

Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”


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Analysis: "Suez was the death knell for the British empire. Hormuz may do the same for the US."

It "risks repeating the 1956 Suez crisis, which hastened the end of sterling as a global reserve currency & forced imperial retreat".

"Empires decline when their military reach outpaces their political strategy..their economic foundations weaken..

.."& when the people they seek to dominate endure long enough to outlast their overwhelming force."

middleeasteye.net/opinion/suez…

#USPol #EUPol #Iran #Suez .

Suez was the death knell for the British empire. Hormuz may do the same for the US

As confrontation with Iran escalates, Washington risks repeating the 1956 Suez crisis, which hastened the end of sterling as a global reserve currency and forced imperial retreat
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#eupol #uspol #iran #suez

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Dear UK,

Israel thanks you for supporting their genocide. Good chaps, wot wot!

micchiato 🎋

2026-03-26 15:04:50

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“#London Met #Police arrested the Palestinian British doctor Rahma Al-Adwan for the fifth time over #socialmedia posts criticizing #Israel.”
#palestine #warcrimes #genocide #UK

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I had to be a downer, but it would be a very big collective mistake to think that even retaking both houses of Congress will fix our MAGA problem. At best they will provide an opportunity for reforms to prevent some conservative excesses in the future.

Unfortunately Liberals are better at identifying long-term problems then they are at solving them. And conversative extremists and their media cohorts have proven extremely resilient. And they never quit. They will take a midterms defeat as …

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I'm worried we're going to see a repeat of the whole SCO vs. IBM mess via AI and uncertainties about how copyright applies to its output. Open source is one of these things that has been safe because the business community actually likes it up to a point and because it's flown under the radar. But I wouldn't put it past the forces of reaction to say actually no, all GPL'd code is really owned by Larry Ellison now and we will enforce that at gunpoint.

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If you must see a Harry Potter story, watch "Weird" (2022) instead.

It has the same actor who played Harry Potter. His character still starts out as a kind of child prodigy. And it's actually funny.

Plus, it has Conan O'Brien as Andy Warhol. That's not exactly magical but it's worth seeing just for the bizarreness of it all.

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Till Kleisli

@renata I think we got used to that circle we didn't have before social media. Even with social media platforms usually there is a hand full of closer friends we meet, call or write regularly. And before social media there was the "work circle" maybe a sports club. But there wasn't that huge fuzzy circle of "facebook friends". @evan
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Blue Bottle (Nestle) has refused to negotiate a contract for over a year. Please join #BBIU and boycott Blue Bottle until Nestle signs a contract. (My daughter is a barista at one of the #Boston stores, so you'd better believe this is personal to me.)

actionnetwork.org/petitions/te…

#labor

Tell Blue Bottle: No Contract, No Customers!

For a year Blue Bottle baristas have been negotiating for a strong contract with our Nestlé-owned employer.
Blue Bottle Independent Union (Action Network)
#boston #labor #bbiu

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Our @starsandsabers Oz anthology, Omniboz: Tales from the Land of Oz, is at 36% funded! Today, it's just shy of $1900, and I'd love to see it jump to the next level. Help us get there! indiegogo.com/en/projects/jend…
#books #oz #anthology
#books #anthology #oz @Stars and Sabers Publishing

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a good idea for other provinces to emulate thewalrus.ca/manitoba-moves-ag… #Canada #Manitoba #NDP

Manitoba Moves to Outlaw Algorithmic Pricing—a First in Canada | The Walrus

The bill would ban using personal data to charge customers different prices for the same goods
Carmine Starnino (The Walrus)
#canada #ndp #manitoba

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"And at a minimum, there should be mandated transparency requirements. If companies operating in Canada are using algorithmic personalized pricing, they should have to disclose it clearly. Consumers should know when prices are being tailored, on what basis, and with what kind of oversight. Right now, too much of this happens in a black box."

they should have to give you a transparency report in the airport. "Your sandwich costs 36$ because you're flying to portugal and fuck you"

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Lorraine Lee

We need to take more seriously the problem of asymmetric information more generally. Data is as important as algorithms. Data about consumer prices should be queryable by the public, conveniently, and in machine readable form, so researchers and casual computer users (anyone) can use any analytical tools, from spreadsheets to databases to statistical software. #pubwan
#pubwan

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According to economics, competitive markets means (1) transparency and (2) low entry and exit costs. The least the economists could do is acknowledge that the reality is far from this and work (by default) from models that do NOT assume competitive markets. One implication of competitive markets is The Law Of One Price. I would think the readily observable state of the economy would rule out any hypothesis that we live under competitive conditions.

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