amazing how so few of the gazillion think pieces criticizing women for not dating straight men fail to mention the whole “many of them literally don’t wash their asses” thing:

Nikolaj Bill@nikolajbill.bsky.social · 21h ago

I remember a coworker in her late twenties saying this on how dating was so difficult. I was not surprised by her first two complaints: general anger issues and having few outside hobbies. I WAS surprised at her mention of how many men apparently don’t wash their hair or butts.

I've done okay in the tech industry and it's only recently when we have had clients that say trans people can't use the right toilets it's now increasingly becoming a "okay so you're going to have to wait a little longer because all our cisgender hackers are booked up" conversation.

We have seen multiple trans people become celebrated film, theatre, television and comedy personalities at the same time it's become impossible for trans people to talk about serious current affairs matters affecting us that are a staple of news coverage.

I seem unusual among UK trans journalists in that I have a regular publication. That's because I write about tech, if I wrote about politics or trans stuff I would be excluded like all the other trans voices. A whole generation of very bright talent, extinguished. Editors should be ashamed.

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 4h ago

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.

Trans film and arts critics have also done okay and for the most part trans columnists in apolitical "lifestyle" content seem to have been less affected. It's capital N News coverage and Political Comment journalism where trans people were purged most rigourously.

Jenny List@jennylist.bsky.social · 2h ago

I seem unusual among UK trans journalists in that I have a regular publication. That's because I write about tech, if I wrote about politics or trans stuff I would be excluded like all the other trans voices. A whole generation of very bright talent, extinguished. Editors should be ashamed.

One of the hardest things to teach people is that white supremacy doesn't require racial hatred to keep itself going, and this thread kind of does a good job at pointing out how and why that happens.

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h ago

I think a good way to think about the current moment is understanding white supremacy as a spectrum with passive acceptance as the status quo out to actively arguing for global genocide.

For my @xtramagazine.com column this month: "There are no trans women in the WNBA; there has never been an openly trans player in the WNBA... so it’s essentially impossible for a trans woman to play in the league or refute any of Cunningham’s statements." xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

The WNBA should have never let it come to this | Xtra Magazine

After Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham came out against trans women playing women’s sports, the league has allowed things to snowball

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🇨🇦 Ban Meta

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 5h ago

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

I swear to God, part of the problem of literacy is that we make kids read SO MANY books like this. Of course they’re going to associate reading with misery! We put them in a Skinner box and shock them when they read, what did people THINK would happen?

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · yesterday

Having ranted about school curriculum books, I’ve just seen my son’s summer reading list, and all I can say is “I was right”. A more depressing collection would be tricky to assemble. Are we actively trying to convey to kids the idea that reading is dismal and arduous?

"you have to use your professional credibility to praise pop culture fluff made by white men regardless of your actual feelings about it, or else it's a moral failing"

Robert Borden Stan Account@bordenstan.bsky.social · yesterday

If the academy gets pulled into coming out swinging against the biggest adaptation of Homer in probably a couple generations off the back of one prominent scholar deciding to be Reviewer 2 to Nolan's work, it will say, IMO, pretty damning things about academia's ability to foster public engagement.

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Conservative views aren't being suppressed here, they are just A) not being boosted and B) incredibly unpopular because they are odious

Sadly it is the case that this has been internalized to such an extent that there are otherwise normal people who will look at an online space and wonder what's wrong with it if they aren't seeing people openly discussing 1920s race science right away

I just can't stress enough that this isn't a real thing. What it actually means is *the absence* of some mechanism that artificially normalizes right-wing thought to give it *the appearance* of being on an even footing with what actual normal people think and talk about.

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

And I worry that there are a lot of people on the left who don't care about this problem because they hate AI. But the truth is that as this technology continues to get jammed into everything from customer service to banking to fast food orders, having built-in fair right bias is bad.

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 · 8h 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...

“That’s the real function of the heat score. It isn’t a medical tool. It’s a legal one. It gives the state a number to point to, a process it can hold up in filings and hearings as proof that vulnerable people are being found and protected.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Heat is killing Texas prisoners, and state leaders won’t shell out for AC

The system for choosing who gets a “cool bed" is “arbitrary, inadequate, and ineffective,” a judge ruled.

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I actually think that the confusion over this question—the mistaken idea that perverts and preachers have opposing projects—is responsible for a lot of the stagnated and remedial quality of sexual politics discourses.

Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · yesterday

There’s no contradiction between this kind of pornographic misogyny and puritanical misogyny of the old Christian right. Both use sexuality to enact men’s domination over women. That one sect forces sex and the other prohibits it is largely a matter of taste.

It pains me to write this, but Bret Stephen has indeed written something important. "What, uniquely, does writing do? It compels thought. It compels thinking in ways that silent contemplation or spoken language rarely can." #GiftLink 🎁

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 11h ago

I fear we may be in the end times (I’m in pretty strong agreement with a Bret Stephens piece)

One of the founders of the law firm with the new $150M contract is a former Trump EPA/Interior appointee. Another founding partner is currently in the Trump admin. The govt's goal is to deport as many immigrant children as quickly as possible & this is the firm they hired to "defend" those kids.

Houston law firm set to receive $150M contract to represent unaccompanied migrant children

The law firm is set to receive a multimillion-dollar contract to represent unaccompanied migrant children in government custody during immigration proceedings.

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Reposting.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 5h ago

The govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.

Oh terrific @mark-carney.bsky.social ! More fuel to stoke the forest fires and heat bombs in Canada! What are you thinking??😡🤬

Controversial West Coast pipeline one step closer to being fast-tracked

The federal government gave notice that it intends to designate the West Coast pipeline proposal for fast-tracking under the Building Canada Act which could make it the first project to achieve specia...

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El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

I still suspect a lot of the reason Doug Ford is so anti-speed cameras is the fact that they don't care who's breaking the speed limit. A cop doing a radar gun speed trap will probably let politicians and influential business folks off the hook from time to time. A speed camera doesn't.

A really funny complaint about the Zohran discount grocery store idea is that non-poor people could use it when there’s a grocery store half a mile from my grocery store that has everything cost 20% more that rich people go to because they don’t want to shop with normal people.

The story isn't just that batteries are getting cheaper. It's that batteries are getting cheaper while gas is getting more expensive. When the disruptor's costs fall as the incumbent's costs rise, adoption can accelerate far faster than most people expect. #SWB #Bettrification #Renewables

Batteries are getting cheaper while gas gets pricier. Here’s why

The battery boom is accelerating Australia’s shift away from gas.

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This right here

lukewsavage.bsky.social@lukewsavage.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm in the Star today with a piece on the Carney government's handling of relations with the United States. Last year, Canadians gave Mark Carney a mandate to disentangle our country from the empire to the south. By any reasonable standard, he's done the opposite. Link in first reply.

patrik.re/where-was-my... This is a pretty great reality check on Mythos hype, statistical distortions etc.

Where was Mythos when WordPress fell?

Anthropic scanned more than 1,000 open-source projects with Mythos and never said which. WordPress wasn't one of them, and a pre-auth RCE in core sat there waiting.

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