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Michael | 27 | he/him | I love being a one-trick pony for incredibly stupid shit that gives people brain worms

Woke up to this news and I’m beyond disgusted. It’s a US *constitutional right* now to create and own ‘CSAM,’ as long as it was made with AI?? AI gen images are built from real images, of real children. This directly re-exploits every single CSAM survivor. (More in 🧵) #abolition #trafficking

A federal judge has ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess child sexual abuse content created using Al if it does not depict a real person and remains in the home.
On Tuesday, Judge John Z. Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th District ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using artificial intelligence if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home. In his ruling, Judge Lee urged the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue of virtual abuse material of children in the age of Al, suggesting that technological advances complicate existing legal precedent.
The case Lee ruled on came about in 2024 when the Department of Justice brought charges against Steven Anderegg, alleging that he used Al to create thousands of explicit images of children. He was accused of breaking federal obscenity laws by producing, distributing and possessing obscene visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Anderegg sought to have the possession and production charges dismissed under the First Amendment. Last year, a judge in the Western District of Wisconsin agreed to dismiss the possession charge, prompting the federal prosecutors to appeal.
Lee, in his ruling upholding the lower court's decision, cited the precedent set by Supreme Court rulings from 1969 and 2002. One held that individuals have a right to possess obscenity in the privacy of their home. The other found that "virtual" child sexual abuse material, not depicting a real person is not child pornography.

getting into a battle in The World Ends With You be like Joshua: [standing in a sort of gay way] Hee hee, isn't this exciting, Neku? Neku: Eat shit and die my man the actual fucking wolves and bears in the streets of Shibuya: grrr the music for some reason: 🗣️ DID! YOU! WASH! THEM! NICE! AND! CLEAN!

how many GULP sexual erm.. (tugging my collar) p-p-partners have i had .. ?? well ah.. nine (reading the room and feeling like a loser) hundred (realizing this might make me seem like a womanizer) men (afraid of coming off like a serial monogamist) at once

Hi!! I will be participating in the Queer Wrongs Jam 2026 on itch .io. I'll be finishing up the first draft of my planned webnovel Peacekeeper. Follow my progress to complete this damn thing that's been plaguing me for the past... 7 years!!!

Peacekeeper is a sci-fi story taking place in an alternate history similar to the Cold War era of the late 60s/early 70s, particularly the United States. The story focuses on our heroine, Miriam "Miri" Simon, a teaching assistant and graduate student of anthropology. One day, her estranged childhood friend, Aurora Cervantes - a parahuman - arrives out of the blue. 

A parahuman is someone with superpowered abilities and are required to be a part of several task forces to keep the peace of the nation.

All Aurora wants from Miri is a simple favor... a favor that Aurora can't do on her own. A favor that requires Miri's assistance specifically. And this favor will lead them on a journey that will question their identities, relationships and their worldviews. 

Intended to be a duology.A drawing of the two leads of Peacekeeper, on the left is Aurora Cervantes. She has long strawberry-blonde hair and wearing a red jacket. She is looking to the right at Miri with a wistful expression on her face. On the right is Miri, who has short brown hair with an aviator cap on her hair. She has a blue jacket. She is not looking at Aurora and is instead making a neutral expression facing forward. A logo that reads Peacekeeper is over top of them.

Hey, Vancouver! There's a protest against those friggin data centers on saturday! I cannot make it due to a prior engagement doing a different kind of worker solidarity, but I encourage you to check it out! Lots of good people will be there.

Pink poster from @no.ai.vancouver on Instagram. It says:
"Say NO to AI DATA CENTERS in VANCOUVER.
PROTEST MARCH.
MAY 23rd at 1PM
STARTING AT WATERFRONT STATION"