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a stack of books about trans issues and/or by trans authors

sending love to all our trans friends today for transgender day of visibility and every single day afterwards ❤️

Help End Gender-Based Digital Harm - Canadian Women's Foundation Help End Gender-Based Digital Harm Hate, abuse, and harassment have become normalized in our digital world. Women, girls, and gender-diverse people are being targeted in specific ways and experiencing...

The Canadian Women's Foundation released a new report on gender-based digital harm in Canada

The project also developed an e-learning course to help victims and support workers better understand these harms and how to respond to them

Looking forward to being in Winnipeg this week to talk about deepfakes, the evolution of sex technology, and the law

#UManitoba @umanitoba.bsky.social

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Dying to win: Canadian provinces are expanding legal gambling despite one death every nine days Investigation into gambling-related suicide data shows tracking of deaths lags while governments ignore risks to chase industry profits

If you're on social media or watch sports, you are downright bombarded with ads for gambling.

Rules around it have loosened greatly in Canada, and as a result, there is a gambling related suicide in Canada on average every 9 days.

Horrifying.

I got through half of it in high school before a waterline broke and destroyed it in my locker, I was secretly relieved that this was a good reason to give up 🫣

TikTok’s Last Stand, Google’s Quantum Breakthrough and the Cult of Claude “The president was given a very clear and easy opportunity to say, ‘Yes, I am going to save TikTok,’ and he absolutely did not say that.”

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, TikTok's last stand, Google's Julian Kelly on building a quantum computer, and Kevin investigates the cult of Claude www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/p...

So happy the resources are helpful!

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Books Beyond Bars logo. A bird breaking free from it's cage and flying towards a book.

did you know we work with Books Beyond Bars, a local books to prisoners initiative? books they want to read are updated on our website & you can order a book for them at a discount or just purchase a gift card to go to the program and we'll do the rest!

check out the list : kingsbookstore.ca/bbbhfx

Love working on this team ❤️ check out our free resources for young people & their supporters!

So proud to be working with this team @diydigsafety.bsky.social.

We have created resources and infographics for youth on topics like sextortion, intimate image sharing, and tech-facilitated sexual violence. Check them out!

Has someone shared your intimate image without consent? Our team at DIY digital safety has created a fact sheet to help you understand your options for support/response in Canada: 1332d589-88d9-46fd-b342-d3eba2ef6889.usrfiles.com/ugd/1332d5_c...

sincere posting on main

before i close up today: huge thanks to everyone who supported us this year!

choosing us to buy books is obviously great but so are things that don't cost anything like sharing posts, telling friends about us, or writing google reviews. we see it all and it's so appreciated

The laws mentioned on the right side apply regardless of age, the info on the left would only matter for those under 19.

Educators & police often misinform young people about the legality of "sexting" in Canada. This creates unnecessary fear & makes victims of nonconsensual image distribution less likely to seek support. Our digital safety research team created this infographic to help clear some things up!

I've been going on about this on the other app, but in case you missed it, 1 week after International Overdose Awareness Day, the New Brunswick govt pursues Alberta-esque plans to round up and confine drug users. I hope we've changed their course.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...