Oliver Ghingold

Also on Fedi: @emceebois@tech.lgbt

I really do think you should vote. Your actual vote is secret, but the fact that you voted is not. Being a regular voter means campaigns will try to win you over. The more trans people are regular voters the more likely it is that candidates will worry about needing to win our votes.

Whether it’s Republicans openly demanding bribes or Democrats investigating the payment of bribes, both parties have created a tense and politicized environment for CEOs.

🙂‍↔️🫸 AI 😎👉Niu Lai

Maybe the fascists overplayed their hand; both domestic news media and foreign social media didn't so much put a thumb on the scale as elbow it from the rafters, and maybe people finally saw that. I don't know.

Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

It is also, obviously, ethically grotesque, just a fucking evil thing to do, which is perhaps something we ought to start caring about with regards to elected officials.

There's a constant low-level discussion on English-language bluesky about the electoral consequences of transphobic rhetoric from left-liberals but I think it's honestly worse than "they might not vote for you", it's more like, you're cutting yourself off from political labor and talent.

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

repost if you will never vote for a democrat willing to harm trans kids puberty blockers are medicine hormones are medicine nobody is carving your kids up children know who they feel like

Hot nights at the YASE arcade

Remember the 90s Schwarzenegger movie Eraser? Or the Charlie Sheen alien conspiracy thriller The Arrival? Or Keanu as Johnny Mnemonic? Well all three of these received FMV adventure games that CRUSHED MY ENTIRE SOUL IN UNIQUE AND HELLISH WAYS. My suffering distilled into 90 minutes, just for you:

CAPITALISM IS WHEN U THPE LIKE THIS commanism is when u end a sentence like this,

I want a blue wave that excludes every one of these craven, bigoted motherfuckers.

The idea of the AI developer as someone burgeoning with wonderful, never before seen ideas who just needed the tools to realize them is by and large a fantasy. The reality of the AI developer is someone producing spam at volume who has no ideas of their own, so just clone something popular.

AI proponents cling to the idea that the tech is going to enable boundless creativity, but I've seen what it enables; endless spam. It's enabled people without a single ounce of creativity in their bodies to make endless Balatro clones, genuinely no thoughts of their except Balatro but slop.

while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

People don't remember that gay marriage was really polarizing, not only politically but even in the LGBTQ community. The people backing the court cases were considered by many in the community to be mavericks drawing negative attention and wasting goodwill on a losing issue.

Literally fire all the Democratic fundraising consultants and shut down all these fucking companies.

See now we're fucking talking One of the only weapons we wield in this fight is our money and attendance, and if everyone involved with an event says "I'm not going unless you stop using AI" there's only two outcomes: *No AI or No Convention* Conventions are made by and for the community

Please share before the TERFs force them to delete. "We are deeply concerned that this high-level guidance will result in local policies that are exclusionary to trans and non-binary staff and patients." www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

“i’m commander shepard, and this is my favorite store on the citadel” echoing through an abandoned mall

Sakurai the GOAT

video games were a short lived entertainment medium popular from ~1970 - ~2025

EA executives ran BioWare into the ground. The Dragon Age team was forced to try to inject live-service elements into Veilguard, which delayed production and ultimately damaged the final product.

We are better than the horrible people empowered to act in our name right now.

Over on X, The Everything App, Neera Tandeen is arguing that faked primary polls (including but not exclusively in Michigan) were a conspiracy by THE LEFT and not what the reporters who uncovered them said they were, which was a scheme to manipulate betting markets.

We are at the point of the Trump administration where the courtiers are complaining about their fellow grifters for cutting in on their rackets.

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

‘No voter found’: My voter registration was purged. Here’s what to do if it happens to you. | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

This is exactly the kind of ad I've been begging Dems to run. "Republicans are perverts who want to do genital inspections on middle school girls" is not only a great message, it's the truth!

new version of the advert:

The thing about Jan Crawford’s “diatribe” and CNN’s “heated” is, we all could see the whole exchange with our own eyes, but it suggests they’ve fucked up a lot of coverage of things we couldn’t see.

She was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥