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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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Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way
Mark Crail@markcrail.bsky.social · last wk.
we have thousands of potential dolly partons and tim curries already walking amongst us. most of them are begging for rent money or getting crushed at a shitty job
M. Belanger@sethanikeem.bsky.social · 2w ago“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.
getting a popup shaming me about using an adblocker with a banner advertisement floating on top of it preventing me from dismissing it sure is Something
Dolly Parton was not a billionaire, because multi-millionaires who are good people like her never get past that last finish line. Not when there are kids who need books to read and sick people who need vaccines.
Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · 3w agoevery billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
The thing about Dolly Parton is that she coulld've done what most who become wildly famous and wealthy do, which would be to let it corrode her heart and soul to a husk, but - critically - she never did. She remembered where she came from til the day she died and did all she could to lift others
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This isn't a "surprising message of support for trans adults". This is a bigot whose arm is being twisted into doing public relations damage control by the media network that invested billions into a franchise she's been poisoning with hate for the last decade.
Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · 3w agoJK Rowling issues surprising message of support for trans adults www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.
If you’re tempted by the “AI summaries are just modern CliffsNotes” argument, please remember that CliffsNotes were written and edited by people who got paid to be accurate, not built on stolen data and extruded through a LLM that doesn’t know what truth is.
Poland and Lalaland implies the further existence of Dipsyland and Tinkywinkyland
There's about to be a lot of kids who both have autism AND get measles but I'm sure they will still make up some excuse to blame Biden somehow
when your AI steals the language preference list from Ao3
David Brody@dbrody.bsky.social · last mo.Filling out the intake form for a new doctor's office, and I'm just gonna go out on a limb and guess that their patient portal was at least partially coded by AI... This does not inspire confidence in their HIPAA compliance.
It's actually quite funny that the real story turns out to be that Harry Potter fans keep despoiling an ecologically sensitive site owned by the National Trust with clutter, despite being asked repeatedly not to
Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · last mo.For some reason people lose all critical judgment when interpreting jokes made by infrastructure people at conferences or on a podcast. This just isn't what happened.
TERF Wizard fans will work their ass off to make sure a powerline doesn't cross a non-existent grave for a fictional character, but won't boycott the series to protect real life trans people. These people are not well.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · last mo.Harry Potter fans force power link diversion to avoid Dobby's grave