Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-questions-what-girls-were-doing-in-school-to-begin-with/
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I just tried to dial a phone number on my calculator, if you want a sense of how my week is going
Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her.
@pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb
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FL Reps pass bill banning local officials from "promoting" or "adopting" DEI activities related to sex/or & gender ID--which could include Pride events--redefining this as "malfeasance" which means Gov Ron DeSantis could immed. suspend them from office.
I'm all for porn literacy, but maybe telling kids that all visual depictions of sexuality is violence is not a particularly helpful.
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This division has been essential to the concept of "pornography," which developed in the late 1700s.
Pompeii's scandalous erotic were spirited away to the "il Gabinetto Segreto" — the Secret Cabinet — where they could be "studied" by scholars without accidentally corrupting poors or women.
It is always *other* weaker-brained people who are subject to porn's magical powers, never the author or the powerful.
"I used to think that people could consent privately, but now I think they shouldn't be trusted"
Historically, the idea was that poor and working class (largely non-white) people can not be trusted with pornography, or that they were unduly influenced by it.
Only wealthy, white, male elites could be trusted with such sensitive concepts. This same thinking is mirrored today:
"Make Porn Expensive Again" is part of a long tradition — from the Catholic Church to Jeffrey Epstein — of separate sexual ethics for the elite.
Stunning, though I guess not shocking, to see it rise again.
"Utah’s bill ... certainly conjures up civil liberties concerns. Aside from the glaring privacy concerns related to age verification tech, Utah has no right to restrict the communications of a private company to its customers."
I spoke with Rainey a few years back and thrilled to see this project coming to fruition.
"Weaving together over a decade of research with interviews and narratives from those personally impacted by financial censorship, Transaction Denied reveals how financial exclusion has become a tool to pressure marginalized voices into silence."
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"Newman gave the committee an example of the material one parent said her child was being exposed to while using one of the resources.
He said a parent from his district told the story of her son calling to ask, "Mom, why is this boy pretending to be a girl, wearing girls' clothes?"
Ohio legislators are using an antiporn statute to try to ban transgender content in schools.
HB 583 targets accuses two library databases of allowing access to "material harmful to minors," citing "a boy wearing girls clothes" as their example.
"This entire grift operates in direct violation of OnlyFans’ terms of service. The platform’s rules demand that every account must be linked to a verified human being. Any AI-generated content, it says, must actually resemble that specific real person and be explicitly tagged with a #AI label."
An engineer is suing LA county for allegedly violating his faith by flying a Pride flag at the Department of Public Works.
Over and over we've heard from AV providers that no data is stored, and certainly not biometrics.
Spain's filing says this isn't true. Facial scans produce a "stored template" which is kept as long as the account is active.
Age-verification provider Yoti has been fined over $1M for unlawful processing of biometric data and excessive data retention.
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Is Bluesky requiring ID in Kansas?
Obviously, an invalidated ID is a more pressing issue, but given that states are requiring IDs at scale, I'm wondering if this has already started to impact trans people (creators or otherwise) in places like Texas, Kansas, Florida and Ohio.
I'm curious to hear from trans creators using systems like Yoti and Ondato to upload content, and whether the presence of gender marker that doesn't match an image makes using these systems more difficult.
Age-verification systems already have much higher failure rates for trans people and people of color than for cis white people.
Forcing gender markers that don't match what the perceived biometrics could result in denial of access.
Conservative efforts to invalidate trans ID documents, coupled with age-verification laws, could block trans people large parts of the internet.
Platforms from Discord to Bluesky to adult sites are increasingly reliant on valid IDs for age-verification — and thus access.
"Porn addiction" pseudoscience preys on anxiety and shame around sexual desire, leading to solutions that compound it.
This is just a rehashed version of old, religious prohibitions on masturbation. If it weren't, the apps would simply recommend you masturbate without porn.
Quittr vulnerabilities exposed the masturbation habits as well as private confessional diaries of 600,000 users, including 100,000 MINORS. And didn't fix the problem despite being made aware of it more than six months ago.
It's almost as if it weren't a treatment app, but a surveillance app.
In other words, if you're concerned about what's happening with the biometric scans or your personal ID, if you worry about what might be tracked or hacked or leaked, welp, you're either a pedo or being paid by one.
That'll teach you not to object to government surveillance again.
Trump's FTC Chair posts that people opposing age-verification surveillance are just shills being "being paid by people who want to prey on your kids."
The lengths this administration goes to delegitimize dissent is staggering.
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
Either way, it's super easy. You click on the link. You put your address in and it shows you the three people to call.
Give 'em hell! It's fun! It's cathartic! It's effective!
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