Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her)

Thanks for this! I’ve been merrily reporting (for scam/fraud, natch) and blocking any AI content that comes across my socials.

Example of the fundraising Regulator logo

If they aren’t a registered charity and they aren’t registered with the Fundraising Regulator (example logo below), it’s probably one of these scammy orgs where the ‘profit’ is a tiny fraction of the money you handed over and some bastard gets rich on your good intentions. Give to a real charity.

It’s okay, I’m tied to the other evil tech overlord, Apple Music (it’s tied to Shazam and the playlist I’ve built from it is so huge…).

Spotify now features Al band clones discussion .. . King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard prominently left Spotify earlier this year. Today this was recommended to me by their release radar: https://open.spotify.com/intl- de/artist/6WFS7oPAEirPXePSayORzn?si=jtf|za1qI- gRyUUBjD-EHA A bad Al ripoff, from aesthetics to band name, copying their songs.

= Spotify® Open App King Lizard Wizard 29,303 monthly listeners Follow Popular Rattlesnake 32,355 The River 5,881 Gamma Knife 4,345 ... ... ..

pals you gotta quit spotify

We really do need to re-normalize the idea of calling out shitty people to their faces and then refusing to engage with their idiocy.

We’re not products for you to milk, Chad! We’re not content cows!! Try acting like a normal fucking person!!!

Grave of the FUCKING Fireflies!!!! It’s been 18 years; maybe in another 18 I’ll forget enough, watch it again, and then not watch for another 30 years. Phew.

*taking notes* Okay wait but is the while like two weeks or a few hours…?

Obviously lots of shit can still happen, but I had been preparing for the worst for several weeks and am a bit shellshocked that there is even a chance at life for this little one.

Need everyone to keep fighting censorship and make deliberately nasty art so I can host a Trans Wrongs™️ jam & bundle next year thaaank you

And if you're not American, NEITHER AM I. Ask your government and politicians why the fuck US companies are controlling what LEGAL GOODS you can and cannot buy.

the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:

there is enough.

there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.

once you accept that there's only one question:

why don't we?

imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin

Apparently for three days after, the baby has to be super stabilized because the neck blood vessels are so so so delicate.

Just had a friend get a c-section at 28 weeks and the baby is stable?? Apparently micro-preemies are relatively common? I have learned so much, holy moly. Any love you can send up to them is appreciated.

FED. IS. BEST. You go, mama! I’m sorry you went through that but glad things are working out.

And all the ingenuity of several lactation consultants, hours and hours of pumping, endless amounts of support, and every advantage in the world didn’t make me able to produce enough milk to feed my baby. Who is doing splendidly on formula, thanks so much, asshole

My friend got it while pregnant, too! Apparently she was in one of the last cohorts of moms from before the chicken pox vaccine was developed.

All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl

I just finished the third round of Gardasil, and it does seem to cause greater-than-usual muscle soreness on whichever side I get it, for a good couple of days. Still way better than dying of cervical cancer!

Have to figure out how to get the shingles vax bc NO THANK YOU.

I saw an adorable production in Florida years ago that featured all different Florida animals.

That definitely solidified my “what I don’t want, Jesus what are we doing” for queer performers. The answer is really just more queer roles written and directed by queer people, and also protections for queer people not getting hetero roles just because they’re queer.

Think of it as daily flash mobs for justice. white people love a good flash mob. All day, every day. If you see something, do something about it.

New York law has long required medically eligible children to be vaccinated against certain serious diseases, including measles, in order to attend school. In 2018, following an increase in the number of students claiming a religious exemption and a dangerous decline in vaccination rates that threatened communities’ ability to contain the disease, New York became the epicenter of what was then the Nation’s worst measles outbreak in a quarter-century. The New York Legislature responded by amending the law to repeal the only nonmedical exemption to the school vaccination requirement: an exemption for children whose parents or guardians object to vaccination on religious grounds. In making that change, the Legislature marshalled data and other scientific evidence demonstrating that the amendment would increase vaccination rates and prevent future outbreaks. The questions presented are:

It is true that New York had a religious exemption for student vaccines before 2019. But the reason lawmakers abolished that exemption was because parents began abusing it at an unprecedented scale and allegedly spurred a horrific measles epidemic. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

"I guess I have a very different view of the dangers and real-world consequences of your position than what you explored with Justice Kavanaugh. My understanding was that independent agencies exist because Congress has decided that some issues, some matters, some areas should be handled in this way by nonpartisan experts—that Congress is saying that expertise matters with respect to aspects of the economy and transportation and the various independent agencies that we have. "So having a president come in and fire all the scientists and the doctors and the economists and the PhDs and replacing them with loyalists and people who don't know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States."

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

The tech bozos should receive a bill every time a librarian has to look for a fabricated book or article. Slop enablers should be held accountable.

Another class action suit needed here - a global one. The UN needs an anti-AI charter. WTAF is this timeline.
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if courts have no authority to block Trump from firing anyone, that means Trump can fire anybody for literally any reason, including y'know, race, sex, religion, etc.

and I'm just like...are we not gonna talk about Trump basically saying he has the constitutional power to resegregate government?

That why you cannot be broadbrushing Christianity as the colonizer's evil, even if it spread through colonialism. You can't take away the agency of Black Christians experiencing authentic spirituality using Christian modes like they're all brainwashed & colonized. That's infantilizing of us.

Feeling pretty good about my "AI is for the worst fucking people around" stance. It gets bolstered seemingly every day. bsky.app/profile/more...

Ooof. Writers, we are never allowed to have imposter syndrome again.

Hot take: I keep seeing people saying that the Trump administration putting Admiral Levine's deadname on her photo is "petty," and I honestly disagree. It's an act of violence. They're leveraging the power of the federal government to erase this woman's existence. That's not "petty," it's murderous.

UWPD's careless assault on student protest Police records from the encampment crackdown in May 2024 show enforcement inconsistency and the "obstructing or resisting" trap.

There is body cam footage of my encampment arrest which means they know exactly who the fuck strangled me from behind and threw me to the ground resulting in needing months of physical and psychological therapy. ACAB all day every day. And free Palestine!

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