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The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...
Tech: KOSA heads to Senate floor
The Senate Commerce Committee sent the Kids Online Safety Act to the floor on Wednesday, alongside three other bills designed to protect kids and teens using technology.
punchbowl.news
THIS IS WHY!!!! WE CALL!!! GREAT JOB EVERYONE 🩷 KOSA did pass the house but remember the senate has a conflicting version. Keep calling, it matters!
Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 9h agoSCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
thenerve.news
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social please enjoy the work of this innovative textile artist
Today one sister explained to the other sister how regular big box stores get subsidies from the government in the form of tax breaks and employees on food stamps, Medicaid & more, all while discussing Mamdani’s grocery store plan. Neither of them live in NYC. Wild how far reaching this is.
Reminding my American friends to check to make sure they're registered to vote way before November. Even if you think you are - doublecheck just to make sure you don't fall pray to shennanigans.
If anyone is getting smacked with this - just use deer.social or another alternate client. Bsky is just an AT Protocol Client, and your Bsky account is an AT Protocol account - you can use your same Bsky account thru another AT Protocol Client, no migration or loss necessary. Could not be easier.
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MapleMash@maplemash.bsky.social · 4w agoWHA OH!!! Anyway use deer.social
America’s concentration camps must be shut down now They are sites of horror: torture, rampant spread of infectious diseases, inadequate sanitation, hygiene, & medical care, & a mounting death toll Just as “better training of guards” wasn’t the answer to Auschwitz, you can’t “reform” these camps
Shawn Connery @shawnconnery.bsky.social · 2d agoImmigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. The federal New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...
‼️ALERT: KOSA is moving next week to the Senate Commerce Committee for markup! Call your reps today, again tomorrow, and all weekend leaving messages opposing this dangerous censorship bill. www.badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
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This is what we mean when we say #transrightsarehumanrights. Laws like this affect EVERYONE. They don't want any women playing sport. They want women trapped in the home.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
If you don’t want mandatory genital exams for girls’ sports, it’s time to make a donation to No Hate in WA State. An oligarch funded ballot initiative would mandate exactly that, and it would be the first of many to come. www.thecut.com/article/wash...
The Push to Force Genital Exams on Student Athletes
In just a few months, Washington could become the first state to require sex-verification tests for girls playing sports in K–12 schools.
thecut.com
FFS, typing at a LLM is Not. Research. "Research" implies that you are developing a large body of knowledge, context, and EVIDENCE from which you are developing assertions. LLM output is just gives you an assertion, and it's wrong half (or more) of the time.
This is SUCH a good show!!!! I’m so excited it got a second season.
Crowd Control@crowdcontrol.dropout.tv · 3d ago🚨 Crowd Control season two premieres TOMORROW! Featuring host Jacquis Neal, and comedians like Bob the Drag Queen, Reggie Watts, Maria Bamford, Gianmarco Soresi, Taylor Tomlinson, Ron Funches, Dulcé Sloan, and more!
Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
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Hey, friends! I put my big face in a video like the kids do! Time to join the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social and tell @mayor.nyc.gov to enact a moratorium on "A.i." in the schools! Please share - and please tell the mayor you want a moratorium! www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
just said this on another post but it bears repeating: the thing about continuing to give money to any jk rowling properties or the nyt is not that they’re shitty about trans people, which they are. it is that both of these entities MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE to the legal challenges to trans rights
A friend reached out this evening to request clarification on an AI apologist’s talking point, and it’s worth reiterating: Digitizing is a process librarians, archivists, and curators understand to preserve the information inside a book as a unique entity. What these bros are doing is destroying.
The way the creative industries treat people like a disposable afterthought is just mind blowing. Not saying anything new here but I just got served 2 "creative team laid off, exec gets a bonus" posts in a row and the injustice of it makes me want to rip someone apart with my bare teeth
Feral Pig Head Being Washed
Alt: person holding a struggling feral creature with big teeth
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99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
It will always anger me how so many want to just mentally slide past this. And how, while it was happening, so many threw public hissy fits about things like haircuts and going to the gym. This, and people’s reactions to it, changed me as a person.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d agoRunning out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
“Artificial intelligence labs are in a new arms race to buy up millions of rare books, slicing them open, scanning the pages and pulping the remains — sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed on an industrial scale.”
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · last wk.This aught to be illegal ... "AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books" www.news.com.au/technology/o...
AAAA Costa Rica was able to fully reverse deforestation HOPECOREEEE earth.org/how-costa-ri...
How Costa Rica Reversed Deforestation and Became an Environmental Model | Earth.Org
Costa Rica is the first tropical country to have stopped, and subsequently reversed, deforestation. What can the rest of the world learn from the country?
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As of this week, hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their legal status. Most have lost work permits as well. That's left many people unable to support themselves. Here is a verified link to a fundraiser supporting Haitians in Springfield. Please drop links to other fundraisers in the replies.
Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis
Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...
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