You know who we need most when companies overreach and desperately need reminding of their place? People who are already spending their cash on said company. I would love to start a Cancel Your Nitro Membership and Pass Along the Sentiment train. Just cancelled mine. Join me ✨ 🌹

reminder that discord's trying to reintroduce their "Global Age Verification" as of very recently. if you haven't cancelled your nitro, do it! if you know other people who haven't, let them know abt this. not giving them anything as long as paypros/the gov keep being a bunch of pussies about this

Sarah 💜@vyletbunni.com · 2w ago

oh they are DESPERATE desperate. they almost never send promo emails for nitro.

Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

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And this is why we need to help people stop focusing on a brand name and start hating the surveillance state as a whole.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2w ago

New: Axon says cops are asking it to change its license plate readers to make them look less like Flock cameras. This is because people keep vandalizing Flock ones. Axon said it is looking to change the design. CEO said this in a now deleted webinar, but we got a copy www.404media.co/cops-are-ask...

I will add pressure to this by saying that any company that claims to not hold onto your personal data after verifying you? They're lying. Ive been nitro free since the first time they tried this, voice how you feel with your wallet people. Make them really feel that squeeze.

YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.

"Good" outcome AI predictions are indistinguishable from Human Domestication Guide fan fics

the cutting room floor has been under a sustained ddos attack by a Claude user pissed off that the site didn't allow for scraping

The Cutting Room Floor@tcrf.net · 3w ago

It seems that our friend began targeting our backup server and knocked it offline again. Well, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, so welcome to round four!

I stop eating at businesses that use AI in the art/signs. I downvote games that disclose using genAI in their creative processes. I have responded point-blank to clients asking for me to voice in something - who admit upfront to AI placeholders - I won’t even touch it until it’s completely AI-free

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · 2w ago

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

while I was already planning on boycotting this game, this is important information for people who are still on the fence, and now upgrades this game to the category of 'I will explode you if you try to make me care about it, don't ever talk to me about this thing'

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rockstar Games Collaborated With Pro-Trump Artist for GTA VI, Artist Says The video game will feature custom vehicles from a MAGA artist who appeared on stage at a Trump rally. meidasnews.com/news/rocksta...

As I warned a week ago, this proposal from the senate would be apocalyptic for biking in America. Click through and take action to defend bike lanes on local roads across the nation.

League of American Bicyclists@bikeleague.org · 3w ago

ACTION ALERT 🚨 Right now, the Senate is considering adding language to the transportation reauthorization bill to restrict bike lanes. Tell Congress: funding for bike safety projects MUST continue! Take action: action.bikeleague.org/page/101946/...

Banning or removal of bikeways on the National Highway System would include many normal surface streets in the East Bay, like Oakland’s Fruitvale Ave. Would the raised protected bikeway be removed? Who knows? It’s insanity but we have to deal w it, so sign the petition & send a letter.

League of American Bicyclists@bikeleague.org · 3w ago

ACTION ALERT 🚨 Right now, the Senate is considering adding language to the transportation reauthorization bill to restrict bike lanes. Tell Congress: funding for bike safety projects MUST continue! Take action: action.bikeleague.org/page/101946/...

going to be fun to watch libs bend over backward to justify their weird gas station fetish chic-fil-a, harry potter, buc-ee's in a nightmare "i knowwwwww it's so bad, but-" blunt rotation

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is interesting. A brand openly announcing it will only be available in Republican-led states.

How is this real

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

Age verification will NOT make the internet safer! Pass it on!

Jolly Brians@jollylizard.bsky.social · 4w ago

Age verification will NOT make the internet safer! Pass it on!

I LITERALLY SAID THIS WAS THE RISK OF CONTINUING TO USE TWITTER. EVEN IF YOU JUST POST ART THERE AND LEAVE, YOU ARE STEADILY INDOCTRINATING YOUR AUDIENCE BY PUTTING THEM IN CONSTANT PROXIMITY TO FASCISM AND RIGHT WINGERS.

John Pfaff@johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4w ago

Evidence is already accruing that spending time on Twitter pulls ppl to the right, bc the algorithm feeds you horrible stuff. And again: academics are likely more vulnerable, bc they convince themselves they are less.

This shit is why you can't separate continuing to financially support the Harry Potter IP (whether by buying the games, merch, watching the new TV show when its out) from the consequences of what JK Rowling does with that money She's become so stiflingly powerful that even private docs arent safe

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4w ago

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

🚨 The archived version of the suppressed Amnesty report into the anti-trans network operating to dismantle human rights in the UK has been "excluded" from the Wayback Machine. JKR is working very hard to scrub its existence from the eyes of the public. Thankfully, I kept screenshots.

Hey so as a heads up. This. Is. All. Commissions. PayPal is DREADFUL to work with. Do not mention the word. Do not censor the word. Please just pay the invoice. If you do the artist you commissioned WILL get in trouble.

Alex Ri (NSFW)@demonking225.bsky.social · 4mo ago

STOP ADDING COMMENTS IN PAYPAL STATING ANYTHING THAT WHAT YOUR PAYING FOR IS A COMMISSIONS ESPECIALLY A NSFW COMMISSION!!! THESE FUCKING PROCESSORS WON'T STOP PUTTING THIER OWN DISLIKES AND MORALS ON WHAT WE FUCMING BUY!!! Spread the Word!!!!

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.

Jeremy White@jeremywired.bsky.social · last mo.

POWER TRIP: ICE’s new electric shock gloves are designed to overpower subjects through intense pain. But it turns out there is a simple way to stop them working. Read the full story on @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-pa...

Salsa and Guacamole recall, see top of thread for source and further detail.

tastewart 🦋@tastewart.bsky.social · last mo.

Someone posted this list of Taylor Farms products and restaurants that use them! Avoid them if you cans and pass the on!

this meme genuinely snapped me out of a funk and made me feel better…. Thank you dog in beautiful river of life that keeps moving

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Don't fall for this. Rowling wants trans people to self censor and to stop sharing the report. If this report really was as defamatory as she claims, she wouldn't be cheering on its spread. What she really wants is a costly settlement from AI UK, humiliating apology, and permanent silence.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2mo ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

"terfism is fundamentally a pro-rape ideology" continues to be the most succinct and cutting analysis of that current

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2mo ago

J. K. Rowling posting an upskirt photo of a trans woman and then claiming she was "asking for it" because of the way she was dressed... you'd get laughed out of the writer's room if you tried to do it in an Armando Ianucci show.