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If you donated to Josh Turek without realizing he was running on a federally funded trans healthcare coverage ban, you can request a refund of your donation here: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

it's not similar at all because they are not saying "you don't have to transition to be trans" what they are saying is "you should not transition" and "transness doesn't exist"

OpenAI doesn't want you to talk about gay furry cryptography bloggers fouroclockfarms.club/@MontgomeryG...

What a generous discount! Thank you NTUC

idk there was that whole algorithmic bias thing, ML based advertising and recommendation algorithms, automation of things like loan/welfare applications and content moderation leaving no human in the loop... the problems with LLMs are just a scaled up version

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FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous.

GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb

GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

one of the most devastating things about adhd, whatever version of it I have, is that thing where with Extraordinary Effort over weeks and months there were times I could Become Better by building up and reinforcing a healthy routine, etc. and then I miss the routine a single time and it's gone

A post that’s so eye-opening because this is exactly what liberals will say is GOP distraction tactics, almost as a parody— and here it really is what Gaetz is saying unironically as his GOP message.

dude what the fuck

Well things for nerdsniping me into trying to write all this shit out coherently www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

i reject this answer bc i reject writing off any demographic as being not smart or not worth saving. men end up that way bc society conditions them to. its just some shit we made up. we can unmake it too

I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.

“There has been persecution in the form of increased social scrutiny, harassment and violence. And there has been persecution in the undercutting of access to vital, lifesaving gender-affirming medication despite the overwhelming medical consensus for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

holy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???

Whenever the Discourse™️ comes up

had to look it up: average survival rate for out of hospital cardiac arrest is like 25% after 24 hours and 15% after 30 days, and is even worse for people in ill health I went for a couple of CPR courses and they never mentioned anything about the prognosis 😭

Politico reports this afternoon that a woman who dated Graham Platner says that he sexually assaulted her: www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Maine’s Dem nominee for governor, Hannah Pingree, says Platner should drop out. Also posts: “Platner tapped into something real — voters hungry for change showed up with real passion and energy. That energy doesn't have to go away. It needs a new candidate to carry it forward.”

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

the problem with the patriarchy is not the gender of the people holding power, but the holding of power itself women holding power can do as much damage as men, as every child of an abusive mother can attest to

> most of the worst content is produced by anons many people post the most abhorrent stuff while proudly displaying their name... the USA even elected one as president and made another a trillionaire (the other proposals are also iffy but this is by far the worst)

I just finished a 16,000 word whitepaper on conficker incident response in 2026 because we've gotten that many IR activations and I really didn't think this is where I'd be

It's also the present under Labour. I want to make it really clear: These photos aren't just a threat of a future under the far right. They are the present under a centre-right Labour government. Right now.

As you can see, Xbox held their presentation on 6/7, while Nintendo is holding theirs on 6/9. This is due to their core company missives; Nintendo holds fast to traditional (and successful!) gamer values, whereas Xbox is a brand that constantly tries to remain relevant by latching onto trends

There's a video game coming out which used generative AI to make assets but is also "protected by Denuvo" which is just such a perfect encapsulation of how intellectual property law works and who it is for

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