Hey folks, About that AI opt-out feature Twitch was talking about? It's not just the streamers that have to turn that off. EVERYONE has to turn it off, because anything on your account, including the clips you make, will be fed to that infernal, ignominious devil machine if you don't. /1

“By enabling the feature, Comcast says it may disclose information generated from a customer’s use of Wi-Fi Motion to outside parties under a broad array of reasons — and Comcast also says it doesn’t have to tell you.” 😬

Comcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch | TechCrunch

A new feature added to Comcast's newest routers can detect if there is motion is inside your home without needing traditional motion sensors.

techcrunch.com

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Today in luxury surveillance.

so as usual, it's not transgender women causing problems in women's sports -- it's cis men.

Forbes@forbes.com · 4w ago

WBNA eligibility rules don't use any external measures to say what defines a "woman."

"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · last mo.

EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...

This is the end result of "there are no sfw kinks" logic. Everything is a kink for someone. It doesn't matter how tame or innocuous it is; someone, somewhere, gets off to it. Amd there is no level of "toning it down" that will ever be acceptable to people whose goal is for you to not exist at all.

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · last mo.

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last mo.

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

What a distinguished gentlegay in his dino float @localswampgay.bsky.social

You wish you had a @localswampgay.bsky.social making you cinnamon rolls.

Some young gay just sat (but look at those calves @localswampgay.bsky.social )

If you didn't object when Donald Trump gloated about Robert Mueller's death your scolding over responses to Lindsey Graham's death isn't about respect for the dead, it's about censorship of the living.

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People

An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...

thedissident.news

25 years ago: "i'm sorry Mrs. Smith but your 14 year-old son Charlie downloaded a Metallica album off Napster and now he's being sued for $1 million & might go to jail" Today: "we fed every song in existence into our model what the fuck do you mean we have to pay for it? that's ridiculous!!!"

You love to see it, you really do

In a city of over 8 million, just 400 people showed up to speak at the last Rent Guidelines Board hearing — where decisions about rents are made. We can do better. The next hearings are this June — show up and make your voice heard. Visit ORGANIZE.NYC.GOV to get involved.

American gun safety moment

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Post analyzed the video. A security officer fired on Cole Allen four times. He missed each time. The video does not show Allen firing. Assessing other video evidence, an expert told the Post that there were six shots in all. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Again - the Roberts #SCOTUS is the Hormuz problem for Democrats or anyone concerned about democracy in U.S. It doesn’t matter what agenda Dems have, they’d be negligent if they don’t plan to act on an all out push to reform, rebalance (expand) to rein in the MAGA Court when they get back in power.

We told you it wasn't gonna end with just icky porn you don't like....

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 5mo ago

FCC floats censoring LGBTQ+ and other "controversial issues" on TV. In schools and museums, "controversial issues" has meant blocking discussion of race, gender, sexuality, bodily autonomy and political issues. In other words, remaking broadcast to match Christian Nationalist ideology.

Yikes! Always something… We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI. 📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

"Researchers at Dublin City University created 10 blank smartphones registered as male teenagers, five on TikTok and five on YouTube Shorts, with no history, likes or prior searches. Within 23 minutes, all of them were being served misogynistic content they had never looked for. …

Ben Whitelaw@benwhitelaw.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It’s the most FT thing in the world to describe the manosphere as a market failure but it somehow doesn’t detract from this very good piece as.ft.com/r/c3d11403-b...

The number one thing that leftists, liberals and progressives can do to improve the future fortune of our brand of politics is to start giving as much of a shit about the little races - school boards, DAs, sheriffs, judges & state reps - as we do about the big, national, high visibility ones.

Josh Cook@joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I know it's late, but I need you all to realize that as soon as we started paying attention to these races, Moms for Liberty & their ilk, started losing. They exploited a window of apathy & did a lot of damage, but they just cannot win when actually opposed. No unopposed elections anywhere.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost

“The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.

idahostatesman.com

"Why don't Americans—" we do. That's why many of my friends are in prison or dead.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh

I saw someone post a screenshot of his post and didn't want to repost it, but I immediately wondered just *how* the media would cover it. And of course I slipped into my, "If any other president had done this..." alternate timeline thinking and got mad about it. "POTUS, his boots licked." #Darmok

Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC@mattnegrin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

hatchmag.com