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@stoupax.northsky.social

30+ | ⚧️ | 🇺🇸/🇬🇷 new yorker living in the midwest. public servant and hobbyist illustrator. cat lover. genAI hater. fuck ice, free palestine.

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Tania Herrero@thebreadwyrm.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Barrow Keeper is a guardian of what remains and the memories it held. Bones carry remembrances that feed the earth and the stone. They transform into sacred relics. They must not be disturbed. Would you dare steal from the dead? Think twice. She may be watching. fomoria.com

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Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Any candidate who accepts Musk's money will be repeatedly asked if they think it's a political liability to partner with an open bigot—blatantly racist, unambiguously sexist, egregiously antisemitic, you can pick one of many, many available examples—and if they'll give the money back, right? Right?

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 4d ago

Elon Musk is expected to spend upward of $100 million to boost Republicans in the the midterm elections.

Micah@rincewind.run · 6d ago

sophie cunningham is going to get herself drummed out of the league and make far more money than she ever would have made starring in it and it is deeply infuriating on every level

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 6d ago

For me, the biggest takeaway from Sophie Cunningham’s hard launch into the right-wing culture wars is how *lucrative* bigotry is now. There’s an entire conservative media ecosystem that will turn anyone willing to make transphobia their personal brand into a well-compensated star.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 6d ago

For me, the biggest takeaway from Sophie Cunningham’s hard launch into the right-wing culture wars is how *lucrative* bigotry is now. There’s an entire conservative media ecosystem that will turn anyone willing to make transphobia their personal brand into a well-compensated star.

Sophie Cunningham and the cynical economics of the anti-trans athlete

The conservative media machine is turning WNBA athletes into well-compensated culture-war assets.

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Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · last wk.

This is good advice from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social, & I’m going to draft off it to suggest there is a species of pundits who are bad in a very specific way & learning to ignore them is imperative to your wellbeing. Knowing what not to read without reading it is a life hack.

The Useful Narcissist - Journal #163

Matt Seybold on the fate of public intellectuals in the age of social media.

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Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · last wk.

Life hack: When writers suck, do not read them. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-can-ig...

Sapling 🌱@sacredsapling.bsky.social · last wk.

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.
TrueRef by Abbey Esparza@trueref.bsky.social · last wk.

The bigger issue is that this gives people the ability to launder real csam. Real csam ran through AI almost instantly becomes legal.

Sapling 🌱@sacredsapling.bsky.social · last wk.

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.
Susanah Grace@susanahgrace.bsky.social · 2w ago

Stop fucking using genAI. Not even for a joke, not even for that oh so cutting political satire. Every time you use it, you are actively taking food out of our mouths. You are using the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it.

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2w ago

The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.

Michael@michael-fox.bsky.social · 2w ago

My view on driverless cars remains that it’s fine as long as somebody can tell me who goes to prison when they kill someone. Like literally the named person that takes legal responsibility for the heavy machinery that they let loose on public land and goes to prison for it

max turnbull@max.please.rest · 2w ago

everything else about AI aside, fuck it to hell forever for making me and every other person in the world have to think "is this AI" when i look at any image or video or game they spent billions of dollars to hijack all of our brains and give us an annoying thought 1000 times a day

Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2w ago

I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2w ago

“She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy,” Jane Fonda writes about her friend Dolly Parton. “That’s something of hers she’d want us all to take with us.” "To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you.” www.justjared.com/2026/08/25/j...

Jane Fonda Pays Tribute to '9 to 5' Co-Star Dolly Parton, Sends Message to Her 'Gay & Trans Fans'

Jane Fonda is mourning the loss of her 9 to 5 co-star Dolly Parton. The 88-year-old actress released a statement moments ago after learning of the news of

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Ross Johnson@rosserford.bsky.social · 2w ago

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

Micah@rincewind.run · 2w ago

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it