I use Claude as part of my job. I use it maybe twice a week. It's about a coin flip on whether it will be effective. So ya, I'd give it up in a heartbeat.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

As we speak, Senators are discussing new age verification proposals. They claim that telling these people which of their users are children will somehow protect children. They want Jeffrey Epstein watching the hen house.

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 3h ago

NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

Weird way to support our "warfighters," Whiskey Pete

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds.

@flushes.app was one of the first examples of a totally unique ATproto app that was clearly built for fun. And a good protocol encourages people to create fun toys. But now it's back wit a new version... with a fundraiser in support of @trevorproject.bsky.social . Kudos to @dame.is on the relaunch.

Flushes@flushes.app · 24h ago

Welcome to Flushes 2.0 The Internet's Bathroom. All-gender, always. 🏳️‍⚧️ Built on @atproto.com, Flushes is a silly app for sharing when you're flushing. You know what's not silly? Bathroom bills. They target & harm trans people. Try Flushes & join our fundraiser for @trevorproject.bsky.social:

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

That is much closer to what the AGs wanted as opposed to Paramount’s request for a November trial date. It also places the Ellisons perilous close to the June must-close date. If this has to go through appeals following a bad ruling for Paramount, you could see Warner just demand its $7b kill fee.

George Pearkes@peark.es · yesterday

that's a long time to carry the deal financing huh *JUDGE SETS PARAMOUNT-WARNER BROS. MERGER TRIAL FOR MARCH 2027

Anyone have any recommendations for things to do in Vancouver? I'm going to be there for #FOSSY and will spend a few days after just to relax.

I must inform you that Rebecca Black’s “Friday” just went platinum, according to the RIAA. www.riaa.com/gold-platinu...

I reiterate: * I have a bachelor's degree in computer science * I have worked as an professional engineer for 15 years * I have programmed for more than half of my life. And I still don't have a clue what Elon means here. It just makes zero sense.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d ago

The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.

it's honestly pretty fun being the enemy of humanity

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 3d ago

really loving all the protests against and support for trans women happening in and around the WNBA, a league that has never had a trans woman play in it. we’re just THAT interesting to talk about! for everyone! how fun!!!!

“gender is what’s in your pants” [empties a metric ton of sand from the beach out of the waistband of my shorts] “ta-daa”

🎉🎉🎉

Barchart@barchart.com · 2d ago

Oracle's $ORCL risk of default has soared to its highest level in history, surpassing the peak of the Global Financial Crisis 🚨 🚨

He's losing words. Anyone with a parent or loved one suffering from dementia will recognize this pattern. Wen he says "moving cameras," it's because he can't recall the word "videos" and so he's stating the component parts as best he can. E.g., a "camera" is involved and the images are "moving"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."

Fact.

Bouba's Delivery Service@fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2d ago

Furries are an indicator species. If they start disappearing, your online ecosystem is not healthy.

Maddow asked #JamesTalarico about attacks on #trans people and those who think that to win, Dems must "moderate" on trans rights. Talarico answered, "I don't believe we win by selling people out." #Texas

“Linda McMahon didn’t do anything”? Jesus Christ please read @josie.zone’s book Ringmaster, I beg you

Michelle@michelleroy78.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Only the best people"

As a Religious Studies professor, this directly targets my livelihood in a way that makes a mockery of any supposed profession of concern the administration has ever expressed for me as a Jewish person on campus.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Genuinely, the vast majority of American voters believe that only laziness or criminal intent could be stopping the average immigrant from obtaining US citizenship. The truth is that becoming a US citizen takes years upon years of work and requires navigating a baroque bureaucratic nightmare.

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2d ago

I remember a family member of mine saying “isn’t it like going to the DMV?”

These bans are ineffective for their stated purpose, but they *do* empower states to create ugly architectures of surveillance and control. This will not solve the problems that lead social media to be a festering malignancy on democracy, it just erodes our freedoms for no discernible gain.

I intend to write more thoroughly about this soon, but the fad for social media child bans should be resolutely resisted at all costs. There are genuine public health concerns about social media, yes. But unlike smoking, it has genuinely salubrious effects as well--including for teens.

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

Good framing.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

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The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.

frankly the most annoying part of my day every day is encountering someone who is on here “for liberal politics” so I am actually in favor of expanding our reach. we gotta bring over like, those guys who get horny for old elevators

I will never have kids and yet I pay for schools. I can pay for programs that won't directly benefit me because it's good for society. Also, there are programs and policies that will directly benefit me that other folks help pay for so it evens out.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

so there's been this big Clear Channel digital countdown to the world cup billboard in Oakland for the last six months, except the world cup is over, and they haven't found someone new to buy the billboard space, so right now it just says: "-51 days till all eyes are on the Bay Area!"

but you don’t understand. i Need to use ai to generate an image of a woman with 3 breasts. if i don’t jerk off within the hour i will die

If you can vibe code a SAAS for tech folks, there's no market for selling access to it. It's cheaper for everyone to just vibe code their own.

A new study out of Canada looked at four youth gender clinics. Out of 445 patients only four who started gender affirming hormone therapy ceased taking it, and only one did so due to a re-identification with their birth sex. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

A New Study from Canada Again Finds Less Than 1 Percent of Trans Youth Detransition - Assigned Media

Out of 445 patients across four gender clinics only one who started hormone therapy stopped due to a change in gender identity.

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"It also detected an “unintended consequence” of the ban: the proportion of parents who didn’t know their child had used social media increased by 10%." Spookily enough, this complacency side effect is precisely one of the things we warned about with this and the Online Safety Act in the UK.

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...