abby plants

The truth is, way too many journalists & content creators sat there and said nothing when SESTA-FOSTA passed, when OSA passed, when OF nearly lost porn due to paypros, even during this summer’s Collective Shout situation. A slow apocalypse for the free and open internet has been unfolding for years

ahhh that makes sense, thank you!

Go potato go!

I know this is not the point of the post, but I’m stuck on the translated image - why does it say Iranian air force? Is it some translation error with the grammar or something?

Mohammad is an amazing farmer, able to grow crops like magic in the midst of tents and rubble, and his story is devastating. Please read his words about the importance of the land and donate to him. He supports 13 people on donations alone.

*in their minds

exactly

It’s because on their minds it is a more devastating tragedy to grow up to be trans and to have agency than for that child to be raped and exploited.

💔

so is toledo!

With no federal facial recognition law, states rush to fill void Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes as Congress has yet to pass any facial recognition technology.

We’ve been screaming from the rooftops about the threat of this tech and how it would be used to control & oppress us. But it’s not too late to fight back!

At least 23 states have now passed/expanded laws to restrict biometric scanning. www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

they usually stack better since they’re stronger. The bottom pizza in the stack doesn’t get as squished

do you mean where the front side folds down? you can easily shuffle slide the whole pizza out the front and onto something else, or into the oven to keep it warm or whatever if you want, but in my mind it’s just for stability.

yes!!

and so many examples of authoritarian violence before this! Over and over.

literally yes

one bright spot at least

what does this mean for surveillance companies like flock who are rolling out constant city-wide drone-based surveillance? The line of private vs government is extremely fuzzy with those companies, so I could see them making an exception

omggggg

gm

Add consumer AR glasses (Meta, Snap) and security cameras like Ring etc which will for sure share their video data streams - and you have a recipe for a modern dystopian surveillance capitalist state.

may life treat you the same way you treat service workers

Hey y'all, this interview is a really important look at what trans protesters are facing, especially when the cops haul them off to jail on allegations like...writing "trans rights are human rights" in chalk.

"[T]he Army Reserves quietly swore in top officials from Meta, Palantir, OpenAI, and Thinking Machines Lab as lieutenant colonels ... It signals a dangerous step towards the institutional embrace of private surveillance tech giants whose products have facilitated repression and genocide."

The article talks about opening up central California to oil and gas development.. Looking at Bureau of Ocean Energy Management maps, this could include a large swath of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, including the Bodega and Año Nuevo basins, and Partington basin off Big Sur.

this is really really bad!!

what if monster mommy

fair enough!

I suppose some of it is just population, but is that all? idk, I should think about something else

found a pdf on google scholar

scholar.google.com/scholar?look...