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NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

My son is on blockers legally from before the ban and we did everything they told us to do and now we are being threatened with social services if we don't allow them to "safely withdraw" medication. They admit that the impact will be "stark" for our kids but they are going to do it anyway.

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

They really do plan to make healthcare for trans kids illegal… without even passing a law.

"free product unless you pay extra for the AI features" sounds a whole lot like "company that is about to lose a colossal amount of money"

Check it out. Game kicks ass.

How this has always worked:

Boss: you should exclude non white people from your unions

Union: ok. Now can we get better pay and benefits?

Boss: no i’m gonna hire the workers you excluded for have the price while you starve lol

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory.

The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

SCOOP

The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered

The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”

I got the memo laying it all out

www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Hell yeah, good call. Me too. donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

Trans rights are human rights. Newsom is fascist trash.

Fortune headline: "Bill Gates says a 2-day work week is coming in just 10 years, thanks to AI replacing humans ‘for most things"

"Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs" says Verge headline subheadline: "Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,’ an executive admitted, blaming AI for the layoffs"

I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.

Lock company has a crashout ??!

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Churchill's opposition to Hitler was entirely cynical and self-motivated, and history has never kinder to anyone than it has been to Winston Churchill. A fascist, a white nationalist, a racist. If he was in politics now, he'd be some freak in like UKIP or Britain First.

Wrote about Return of the King’s thematic lynchpin, the chapter that most hovers in my mind.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes." Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."

Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), with the caption, "Awful, isn't it?"

"If you talk about something sad you’ll see its facial expressions react almost immediately..." Microsoft is out here building robots with Genuine People Personalities. www.theverge.com/news/804106/...

sometimes i remember "calque" is a loanword and "loanword" is a calque and i get so pissed off

This is actually the thing that worries me most about AI. It's "there is no such thing as society" implemented as software solution. Needing to ask people for help, advice, or information is part of how we build and maintain social and professional bonds.

every day leaders of the new tech frontier are spending billions of dollars to digitally reconstruct the mind of george zimmerman

i thought they were against knocking down confederate monuments

The U.S. government has often lied about things but I think it’s genuinely remarkable that we’re in an era where almost every public statement contains at least one lie.

Second only to the finale of You're the Worst, imo

Geordi makes a chatbot to baby him through a problem he could have solved on his own, trains it on lectures to give it a personality but it hallucinates a romantic interest in him, then has a mental breakdown when a woman sees what he did and treats him like the incel he is

yeah that tracks

Anyone else thinking about how the Leah Brahms episode of Star Trek TNG predicted LLMs?

DAILY EXPRESS BACKING BRITAIN FOR 125 YEARS express.co.uk TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2025 EXCLUSIVE 'Magnificent Seven' Darlington nurses continue their female-only spaces fight FOR THE SAFETY AND DIGNITY OF EVERY WOMAN AND GIRLY

Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign.

notinourname.org.uk

This legislation, by design, puts children at risk by denying them access to lifesaving care. Absolutely shameful.