Dawn

Be aware that another shitty bill has been introduced: The SCREEN Act.

If passed, it would require Full. Age. Verification.

Like KOSA, call all your reps & tell them what a horrible idea this is.

Spread this pls.

Link: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

#screenact #badinternetbills
#stopkosa

Visa is now actively shutting down calls regarding their censorship and prohibition of the sale of legal product.

They clearly retrained their staff on how to deal with our calls. That doesn't happen unless there's critical mass.

KEEP IT UP. They are trying to turf the calls as fast as they can.

Uni dressed as the Knight from Deltarune, standing proudly.

The roaring Uni appeared.

You're not alone.

Please know that by reading this far into my post, some part of you truly believes this.

You're not alone.

Literally none of the time you spent calling Visa/MasterCard this week will matter if this shit passes

Yes it's exhausting to have more calls to make

But this *is* life or death

Censorship is the first stage of removing marginalized people from public life, and then from life itself

how I feel since 2016 or so

Road sign, two directions: "doing what you need to do", and "doing what you want to do", car underneath between the two directions upside down and on fire, "ADHDers somehow doing neither"

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Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

For other UK folks who see this, there is indeed a petition on fighting this! (Has 700+ signatures at the current time of posting.) If you can't sign it, please pass it on.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Yeeep, it's taking a bit of getting used to for sure

Useful technology isn't something people are forced to use. This was one of the really interesting things I heard maybe a year ago from so many pundits. Things like "I'm trying to think of ways to use this so I become good at it." That's not how productivity tools are supposed to work.

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Screenshot of the title of a 404 article discussing the AI-protection-busting provision. “Republicans Try to Cram Ban on Al Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill By EMANUEL MAIBERG • MAY 12, 2025 AT 10:09 AM Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating Al entirely for 10 years.”

“Late last night, House Republicans introduced new language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that will immiserate the lives of millions of Americans by cutting their access to Medicaid, and making life much more difficult for millions more by making them pay higher fees when they seek medical care. While a lot of attention will be justifiably given to these cuts, the bill has also crammed in new language that attempts to entirely stop states from enacting any regulation against artificial intelligence.”

“ “...no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act," says the text of the bill introduced Sunday night by Congressman Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The text of the bill will be considered by the House at the budget reconciliation markup on May 13.”

“That language of the bill, how it goes on to define Al and other "automated systems," and what it considers "regulation," is broad enough to cover relatively new generative Al tools and technology that has existed for much longer. In theory, that language will make it impossible to enforce many existing and proposed state laws that aim to protect people from and inform them about Al systems.”

Get your action hats on!
Tomorrow, the US House considers the text of a new budget reconciliation bill introduced by Kentucky Congressman Brett Guthrie.

The bill contains harmful cuts to Medicaid. It also contains a provision that would prevent states from regulating AI at all…
FOR 10 YEARS.

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Doodle of a little green alien cat and a little white astronaut cat playing among the stars in space.

out in space
floating
untethered
being weird

together

The rumors are true!! Pixel V4.0 is REAL and coming to YOU this Summer!! #pngtuber #vtuber

between the tariffs and genAI it makes any art that crosses your path, indie or mainstream, a hard-fought miracle. really appreciate the creativity you see because artists of all stripes are really working against an avalanche intent on burying us

A secret note hidden in Dachau-built ‘Violin of Hope’ tells a tale of survival and craftsmanship A violin made in 1941 inside the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau was found to contain a hidden note from its maker, Polish Jewish prisoner Franciszek Kempa.

A violin made in 1941 inside the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau was found to contain a hidden note from its maker, Polish Jewish prisoner Franciszek Kempa.

Semester's finally over, so I'm finally back to streaming with some Hollow Knight later around 7pm Eastern!

please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers

Komaru got mining fatigue...

#memes #aftereffects #blender #cats

Welcome To The Gaslight District. PILOT OUT NOW ON YOUTUBE.

So there are signs that the very unethical autodubbing feature YouTube is rolling out will be opt-out instead of opt-in. Found these on their FAQ pages for it, so please keep an eye on your channels if they ever push the dubbing to be auto-enabled.

Keep this shit off.

Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, “It really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.” “I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”

Clive Barker gets it.

faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...

Got another week or so for this semester, and then I can finally at least poke my head out of the water and be somewhat active online again

Your "dumb little projects" are so important during this harrowing time. Don't forget that. Your creativity has value, for yourself and for the world.

There's simply no ethical way to support Harry Potter in 2025. It's not possible. $0.20 from every dollar you give JK Rowling goes directly to physically harming a trans person and that's not a joke or an exaggeration.

Here's the deal:

GenAI cannot be ethical, because it wasn't created to be ethical.

It was created to avoid having to pay people.

It was created to steal jobs.

It was not created to make lives easier for those doing the work, it was created to make things cheaper for those wanting what was made.

boosting because good and we need more good

YouTube video by Bruva Alfabusa Hunter: The Parenting - Chapter 5.1 | Plane Policework

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j4q...
A normal drive through the woods with two of Norfolk's finest!
Sure, the woods are spooky, but with Guy Chapman and Deputy Kevin on the case, what could possibly go wrong...?

I also dislike the idea of remaking old movies to “update” them. At that point, you aren’t treating films like works of art, you’re treating them like products that need to be periodically fixed or upgraded, like junky old software. To me, it’s an anti-art attitude.

A doodle of Pixel over the trans flag. There's an arrow pointing to him that says "Computer program of trans your gender".

Happy #TransDayOfVisibility #TDOV!! (｡･∀･)ﾉﾞ🏳️‍⚧️

I'm proud to be a trans creative and want to continue promoting fellow artists and sharing the love!!