It's really not good that the government is trying to force AI companies to make their LLM chatbots "anti-woke" (biased in favor of the right).

Mike Ludwig@mludwig.bsky.social · 6h ago

Trump’s Federal Trade Commission Is Threatening to Punish Big Tech for “Woke AI” Free speech groups sound alarm about a proposal from Trump's FTC to jawbone companies into training AI models on white nationalist narratives and undermine state laws. Meanwhile, Elon Musk wants his nude deepfakes...

The pervasiveness of the term “biological male” is proof that the style guides are determined by a certain type of staffer and it ain’t one that knows what my hormone panels look like

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 22h ago

Did we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

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I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 22h ago

I hate sounding like a conspiracy person but there’s a reason that this Sophie Cunningham thing is on like day 7 of discourse and how there’s absolutely very little trans staff writers driving the news coverage of it.

The consequences were predictably disastrous for the trans community in terms of stripping us of a voice at a time when we were subject to a reality distorting foghorn of lies about us

This is what happened 5-10 years ago in the UK. Journalistic seriousness was stripped from trans journalists and columnists despite trans topics dominating headlines.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2h ago

I pitched both of my usual outlets about the Cunningham stuff, one said yes, one said not right now. In 2019 I would have had a dozen editors competing for my words on this.

It’s true, in the past I would have had multiple editors in my inbox asking me to write about the Cunningham stuff. I haven’t gotten a single assignment request. Trans writers used to be tokenized to write about these things but now that the topic is “mainstream,” those bylines go elsewhere.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 22h ago

I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.

There has been one editor in the country i know of who has been interested in stories about the reality for young trans kids who play sports post Hecox and BPJ. People used to beg me for stories I had all over the country. I don’t have time to pitch every outlet on earth. Silence is telling.

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 5h ago

It’s true, in the past I would have had multiple editors in my inbox asking me to write about the Cunningham stuff. I haven’t gotten a single assignment request. Trans writers used to be tokenized to write about these things but now that the topic is “mainstream,” those bylines go elsewhere.

Karl Rove's little whiteboard on Fox News, lol. Like... idk, man. I'm not sure that the strategy of expecting people to know a bunch of Hasan Piker lore AND them caring enough about it to the point that it affects who they vote for is going to work, but okay.

Just remembered when Joe Biden dropped this during a 2020 debate

✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 2h ago

starting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”

Two entries for @actualnames.bsky.social:

We think this challenge is incredibly important – it goes to the very heart of whether trans inclusion is still lawful. But it is impossible without your support.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 10h ago

🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇

We aren't backed by billionaires. We can only defend trans rights with your help. Please give your support.

Fight back against the code of practice

The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us

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We have also written a detailed legal explainer about why we think the code of practice gets the law wrong.

How the Code of Practice gets the law wrong | Good Law Project

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the government’s transphobic statutory guidance – here’s why

goodlaw.social

🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project

The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back

goodlaw.social

A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.

60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals

Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity

mediaite.com

None of this is ever attempted to be understood by anti trans campaigners, or most sport federations btw. The IOC actually did work to understand this but let federations take their own tailor made approach and they just used it to politically harm trans athletes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 21h ago

When trans people bristled at policies that required time to be on hormones before being able to join elite competition it was because: -time on HRT was arbitrary -testosterone level achieved was arbitrary -maintaining testosterone levels continually is arbitrary -no one else had these restrictions

There are no trans women in the WNBA. There are no trans women NCAA basketball players. Hell, who knows if there are even any trans girls playing HS basketball.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 22h ago

Did we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?

They know voters hate this shit. So they wait until Blanche has the votes for Collins to come out against him. So she can claim to be a moderate. So she gets reelected. So she can spend the next two years voting for more Todd Blanches.

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · 22h ago

Susan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics

Absolutely crazy interview. Check it out.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h ago

🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:

As Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices.

Trump’s FTC Is Threatening to Punish Big Tech for “Woke AI”

As Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices.

truthout.org

Ron Johnson is the king of matter-of-factly stating completely bonkers conspiracy theory nonsense that he clearly knows to be false as true.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h ago

Ron Johnson: "Aaron Rodgers was smart enough to take ivermectin when he got covid ... unfortunately, more people didn't follow him. We wouldn't have had as many of athletes falling unconscious, sometimes dead on the field of play. You've seen the video reels of this happening in 2021."

Last week, I visited Juniper Blessing’s memorial and met with trans students at UW to hear their experiences and the fear they felt after her killing. Trans people deserve to live as their full, authentic selves. I will continue to fight in Congress for them to do just that.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

I love that Cat Power's response is so insane that it makes you overlook just how crazy the post is that she's replying to.

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterday

Cat Power is antivax

The paperback of Invisible Rulers is out today! To celebrate I dropped audio of the Twitter Space where Mike Benz first groomed Matt Taibbi into believing there'd been "mass censorship" of "hundreds of millions of tweets"—something he'd then testify before Congress. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz

How independent media turned an obscure political operative into a "whistleblower"—and his claims into government action.

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joining the mob on January 6 -- to own the libs

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23h ago

voting republican to pwn leftists on twitter