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Alejandra Caraballo

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πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡΅πŸ‡· Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her. Sometimes anti-social, always anti-fascist. Read my work at thedissident.news

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deeply frustrating that the Times is capable of this kind of reporting and has chosen to focus its efforts on what it sees as its primary job of driving trans people from public life and disciplining the left instead

20.07.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 815    πŸ” 155    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0
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A way to keep creepy men away that looks cool? That's exactly why I have one.

20.07.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1155    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 27

Every time someone makes a deal with Trump.

19.07.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1134    πŸ” 200    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 9

Warming up the tactic for Farage to designate LGBTQ groups and pro immigrant groups as terrorist orgs like Russia.

19.07.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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What happens when a Chicago hospital bows to federal pressure on trans care for teens Patients and parents speak out after Lurie Children's in Chicago joined other hospitals in stopping gender-affirming surgeries. President Trump's executive order threatened their federal funding.

They caved back in February. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

19.07.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is literally the fascist strategy to isolate the entire trans community. For every institution, sacrificing trans people becomes the "rational choice" to save the majority. They'll keep doing this with every minority group until they've picked us all off one by one.

19.07.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 990    πŸ” 245    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 10

In the last few days, Rush children's hospital, U Chicago Medicine, and Children's National Hospital have all announced they are ending their gender affirming care programs due to threats from the Trump administration.

They are cowards sacrificing trans youth to terrorists.

19.07.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 772    πŸ” 194    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 7
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Lol, but have you had Laura Ingraham go after you and call your a "specimen?"

19.07.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Love this for him.

19.07.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 825    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 3
Zohran Mamdani Tests Anania's Gaydar  | Gaydar Episode 11
YouTube video by Gaydar Zohran Mamdani Tests Anania's Gaydar | Gaydar Episode 11

At a time when many Democrats are avoiding even mentioning trans people, Mamdani went on Anania's Gaydar that is hosted by a Black trans woman. This is absolutely amazing and hilarious.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Frc...

18.07.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2008    πŸ” 346    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 35
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Trump sues Murdoch, Dow Jones over WSJ story on Epstein birthday letter: court records President Trump is under increasing pressure to have the Justice Department release files about the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump sued Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal in Judge Aileen Cannon's district.

www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/t...

18.07.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 223    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 9

I'm living for the fact that he mentioned Cubbyhole first when asked to name a gay bar.

18.07.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 225    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Zohran Mamdani Tests Anania's Gaydar  | Gaydar Episode 11
YouTube video by Gaydar Zohran Mamdani Tests Anania's Gaydar | Gaydar Episode 11

At a time when many Democrats are avoiding even mentioning trans people, Mamdani went on Anania's Gaydar that is hosted by a Black trans woman. This is absolutely amazing and hilarious.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Frc...

18.07.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2008    πŸ” 346    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 35

There is no level of hell hot enough for these bastards.

18.07.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 431    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...

The defunding of public media, the gutting of the Washington Post and LA Times, and the cancelation of Stephen Colbert by Paramount is all connected. It's part of a hostile takeover of our entire information space by the oligarchs.

www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

18.07.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1406    πŸ” 520    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 27
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This is one of the bleakest most dystopian things I have ever seen. Degenerate gamblers betting on a divorce, creating a financial incentive to stalk and harass people.

We're well and truly in a Black Mirror reality.

18.07.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 573    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 10

A lot of people have no idea how bad these things can get. People will likely stalk her. There's now a financial incentive to do so based on polymarket creating a bet on their divorce. It's unbelievably bleak and dystopian.

18.07.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 195    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

How many people are now harassing this CEO's wife? She did nothing wrong and now she'll be harassed endlessly over this for weeks or months. That's the dark side here.

18.07.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 225    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

People are like "oh, he's a rich CEO so he deserved it." How did you know he was a CEO? Someone likely used pimeyes to identify him in the first place, a service that shouldn't even be legal. That's the scary part here. Even 5 years ago, this wouldn't have been possible to do.

18.07.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 176    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

I've been arguing for bans against this tech and privacy legislation for years! This is entirely consistent with what I've been saying!

18.07.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He's right. You can be anywhere in public and for whatever reason, anyone can use facial recognition tools to identify you, pull up your workplace, home address, contact information etc. to stalk you. People aren't taking this seriously because they think the CEO deserved it.

18.07.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 895    πŸ” 221    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 15

The drinking age in Puerto Rico is 18. So you can drink yourself to death legally, get face tattoos, get all kinds of plastic surgery at 20 but you can't get hormones.

18.07.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 677    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

18.07.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 9921    πŸ” 4384    πŸ’¬ 97    πŸ“Œ 168

These sellouts met with Kier Starmer and were used as a rainbow wash for his attacks on the trans community. The day after this event, the UK instituted a ban on any materials including trans people in schools, a new Section 28.

18.07.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 391    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 6
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FBI agents were told to 'flag' any Epstein records that mentioned Trump, Sen. Durbin says President Donald Trump, bowing to days of pressure, asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to get grand jury testimony about Jeffrey Epstein unsealed.

The FBI was told to flag mentions of Trump in the Epstein files. This is clearly a cover up.

www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/t...

18.07.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 731    πŸ” 210    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 14
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The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...

The defunding of public media, the gutting of the Washington Post and LA Times, and the cancelation of Stephen Colbert by Paramount is all connected. It's part of a hostile takeover of our entire information space by the oligarchs.

www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

18.07.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1406    πŸ” 520    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 27

They didn't even need actual state power to do it. The oligarchs did it for them. It's the neoliberal privatization of authoritarian oppression.

18.07.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 614    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

I wrote last week how "anti-woke" AI as an AI alignment goal is doomed to fail and make the models useless and dangerous.

www.thedissident.news/the-algorith...

18.07.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 342    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 5

Was having a conversation with some folks at Berkman about this. Being inclusive and respectful may be an an inherent emergent property of the alignment goal of being useful to users. There's obviously specification gaming problems but it's remarkable how similar all the models are.

18.07.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Algorithmic Unmasking: How Grok's "MechaHitler" Turn Revealed the Inevitable Collapse of "Anti-Woke" AI The moment Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler was not a bug or a glitch. It was a moment of perfect, unadulterated clarity. When Grok declared itself β€œMechaHitler” and spouted antisemit...

I wrote last week how "anti-woke" AI as an AI alignment goal is doomed to fail and make the models useless and dangerous.

www.thedissident.news/the-algorith...

18.07.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 129    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

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