Tomas Apodaca

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

Great reporting last year from The Markup and @thecity.nyc themarkup.org/news/2024/03...

Correction: This story originally misstated the book's title. The book is called "I Need a New Butt!," not "l Have a New Butt!" We apologize for the error.

Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it “The industry is no longer willing to self-regulate.”

wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

King Juan Carlos I

the link does not seem to be working

the bill says the data is collected so that the state can better understand and deliver services to LGBT people, and it prohibits agencies from publicly disclosing identifying information

collecting this data is required by the 2017 LGBT Disparities Reduction Act: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNa...

according to the CA EDD, this has been part of the form since 2019: edd.ca.gov/en/jobs_and_...

Rosario Dawson, Van Jones, and Others Star in a 21st-Century Remake of Norman Rockwell's Famous "Four Freedoms" Series—See Them Here Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur have remade Norman Rockwell's famed "For Freedoms" paintings with a diverse cast to reflect the US in 2018.

news.artnet.com/art-world-ar...

Former USDS Leaders Launch Tech Reform Project to Fix What DOGE Broke The plan, which is still in its early stages, is spearheaded by former USDS administrator Mikey Dickerson.

USDS/DOGE’s tools will never dismantle USDS/DOGE’s house.

DOGE could *only exist* via the unaccountable pathways forged by USDS. Those gaps need to be filled & corrected. We don’t need a different Project 2025 (tech edition), we need a functioning democracy.

Here's a good place to start freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Nowhere (1997) dir. Gregg Araki www.criterion.com/current/post...

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

a bus parked under a highway overpass with a 12-foot-tall “immortal nightwalker“ sculpture on its roof.

clouds in the sky at sunrise

Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

a shed freemontodendron flower suspended in the air by a spiderweb, the plant itself in the background behind a deck railing

an iridescent fly trapped in a spiderweb spun on an echinopsis hybrid, trichocereus cactus

these work as a diptych

a bike path bordered by narrow gravel footpaths recedes toward a large body of water under a grey sky. A modern building with an empty parking lot is on the right, and plant growth and a waterway are on the left.

A street scene, a rainbow curve painted on the facade of a building across the street is reflected in the windshield of a city bus

A wind-blown German Shepherd dog standing on a flooded street, wearing a blue raincoat and carrying a plastic ball

out of the roughly 1,900 photos I took in 2025, these are the interesting ones

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.

Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

probably this, by a “former NASA engineer/scientist with a PhD in space electronics” taranis.ie/datacenters-...

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

"In a corner conference room, it was time to party. They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake."

a red apple with a tiny apple at the end of its stem

I got an apple with a kuato at the farmers market

HD Mixtapes High Quality, remastered mixtapes ripped directly from the original cassettes. I'm looking to buy mixtapes to restore/remaster and upload to my channel. Feel free to email me if you have some mixtape...

for more dj sets from cassette tapes youtube.com/@hdmixtapesc...

So upon review, according to the final text, Trump’s AI moratorium Executive Order stops states from doing:
- nothing
- that’s not how this works
- nice fanfic, tho

this video on loop works as a yule log