Friendly reminder to not play this bullshit. Not only is it a blatant LoR ripoff it also uses Gen AI and gets promoted by some of biggest NFT parasites in the card gaming sphere.

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Megan Piontkowski Illustration@meganpiont.bsky.social · last yr.

"How to Report ICE" regional zines available for free printable download: Northern California Southern California Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Durham Massachusetts NYC Philly Pittsburgh More to come! Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.

Techdirt@techdirt.com · last yr.

House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…

The #1 thing I've learned talking to ppl who subscribe to this kind of legislation is that they truly believe that the homeless do not want to be helped, and are incapable of improving their material conditions. Basically, they give up before ever trying anything that WE ALL KNOW WORKS.

KTLA 5@ktla.com · last yr.

Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments

NEW: SSA CDO Chuck Borges says he was 'involuntarily' forced out Friday, days after filing a whistleblower complaint. About 30 min after his resignation email went out, it vanished from inboxes. w/ @davidgilbert.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/charle...

SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes

Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email.

wired.com

Silicon Valley doesn’t sell tech, it sells the concept of innovation

Michael Meir Saltzman@saltzman.bsky.social · last yr.

Seems like ppl might finally be catching up to the idea that the LLM rollout has just been pivot-to-video but for every single facet of society/industry & 1000x worse.

Pour overs like the v60 allow for so much more skill expression than immersion brewers like French presses lol

New: the inside story of how Tea collected millions of women's secrets, then exposed them to the world. We've found Tea raided women safety groups to get users; paid influencers to undermine others, much more. The “motive is money, not actually to protect people.” www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World

A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.

404media.co

Every once in a while I miss being an active designer in a community where we critique the shit out of a rebrand. Holy hell this is bad. Kerning that makes it look like a feminist mag, the flag shape, lines in the tagline that read like navigation. This is supposed to look like a source we trust?

New: Lizelle Gonzalez is suing officials who wrongly charged her with murder for an abortion—and depositions with investigators show that, if given the chance, they would handle future cases the same way Police and sheriffs have so much power to ruin people’s lives by manipulating the legal process

Texas Cops: We Wrongly Tried to Get a Woman Charged With Murder For an Abortion, and We’d Do It Again

Generally speaking, it is not a great sign when when cops admit things like “I don't know what the law states right now” under oath.

ballsandstrikes.org

New — I wrote about the violent assault on a DC delivery worker this morning by masked federal agents, and how these agents have made the disturbing turn from quiet thugs to playing for the cameras.

Federal agent during violent DC arrest: “Liberals already ruined” this country

Trump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight.

thehandbasket.co

Figma balls

I know a lot of things feel like escalations these days but this *really* feels like an escalation

Immigration is good, actually. Cities are good, and if you don't like them you don't have to live in them.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last yr.

What we actually need is a full-throated defense of cities—and that means a full-throated defense of a pluralistic society. Because you will never get those specific voters on board as long as they believe lies simply because the people they’re telling them about have darker skin

More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy. This seems kinda significant.

In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. (Published April)

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…

propublica.org

For everyone waiting to binge Book One of The Wizard, the Witch and the Wild One, @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social’s first campaign - the Finale is HERE! Umora is my love letter to the worlds I grew up loving, and it is the honor of a lifetime to have gotten to tell this story with these people.

Worlds Beyond Number@worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social · last yr.

We gotta GO. The Book I finale of #TheWizardTheWitchandTheWildOne is out NOW on your favorite podcasting platforms! Join us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/public...

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

When I say "ban 'A.i.,'" I mean BAN A.I.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

“Delete your old emails to save water” isn’t bad because it’s individualising the climate crisis, it’s bad because it’s complete nonsense from top to bottom. It’s like saying “eat less lettuce to save water”, you can see the thought process but it’s that of a child who knows two facts

remember to call Stripe at 1+ 888-926-2289, and say youre from "California" when prompted. try to get clarification on where Stripe stands on LGBTQ content on online storefronts

"I'm not racist, I just run a racist Twitter account" is quite the defense.

Jeffrey F Steiner@jfs.bsky.social · last yr.

Wow.

A few years ago we went to a family law firm in SF and said “we want every document that will give our family the same rights a monogamous couple would have” and their reply was roughly “we’ve been doing gay marriage equivalency since the 80s, we’ve got this”

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · last yr.

Married LGBTQ people: CALL A LAWYER. Get copies of birth certificates and custody for your children on paper. Make sure life insurance policies, property that you own, bank account information, passwords for things, Powers of Attorney, etc. are all set up & understood

Israel has no "Gaza War" - not for Gaza, nor for narrative. Israel massacres Palestine as its fascist genocidal solution to the Nakba's echoes, and massacres the truth with US/EU support. Journalists, aid workers, infants, educators, athletes, poets, artists - they're obstacles to extermination.

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel

Arkane Studios' STJV section in France has published an open letter in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement.

gamedeveloper.com

who knew all this time the inequality guy just wanted 3 dollars

@plante.bsky.social you mention how physical games won’t be flooding Walmarts and targets but I’ll raise you vinyls being carried by both!

UK folks - reiterating that it's super important that you download Wikipedia for offline use like now-ish if you want to guarantee you can keep having that incredible resource!! www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-t...

How to Download Wikipedia for Offline, At-Your-Fingertips Reading

Who doesn't want a personal copy of the largest encyclopedia in human history?

howtogeek.com