Dawn

The goal is to make anything -- ANYTHING -- that P2025 views as problematic obscene. Lou Reed's "Take a Walk on the Wild Side"? Obscene. You can be arrested and charged for just listening to it.

This is foundational censorship, dressed in the same bullshit Christian Values/Protect the Children bs.

“This bill won’t pass”
“This won’t affect me outside the U.S.”

This is ignorant. These things trickle down. Go educate yourself on censorship. SESTA/FOSTA. KOSA. Age verification in US/UK/Australia. Tumblr bans. Backpage. Visa/Mastercard. ITCHIO. Patreon.

This isn’t the first canary…

Open letter for authors, publishers and booksellers linked in this article 👍

Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation. But a recent book argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

a tiny aloe plant with a post it note that says LEAVE ME ALONE! TRYING TO LIVE >:(

tell me about it, tiny aloe plant on the counter at the cafe near my house

Dawn

When I tell you white supremacy is built into every single aspect of American law and you cannot have a single effective movement without taking that into account, shit like “it’s illegal to poison a rich white neighborhood but legal to pollute a poor Black neighborhood” is what I mean.

Opinion | Where to go for accurate, up-to-date vaccine information Concerned about federal government websites? Here are some trusted alternatives.

If you can't turn to the federal government for credible vaccine information, where can you go? Here are a number of good sites and sources. wapo.st/4m3QqKt

Twitter post Nathan (New Video!) @Humanstein The Simpsons doesn't predict anything we just haven't fixed any of America's problems since 1989. 11:19 AM 1/21/21 - Twitter for Android

That's how you can tell human authors from AI.

AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.

Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

Suggested for you Follow ... More than a dozen slavery displays in Philly, including at Washington's former home, have been flagged for a Trump admin review. Thirteen items at the President's House Site, which illustrates the paradox between freedom in the new nation and the ongoing horrors of slavery, were among those flagged for review.

I don’t think there is a day that goes by that I am not reminded of an old teacher’s admonition: “If the only history that interests you is the history that makes you feel good about yourself, you are not interested in history; you’re interested in propaganda.”

YouTube video by Aranock The Author's Not Dead

I talked about the comfort drive in my most recent video, but I do genuinely think its an increasing problem youtu.be/UK5aPAJ4eYY

*keeps banging drum* the drive to comfort above all else is a detriment to being a person and actively isolates people from healthy relationships to others and their emotions.

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

I wish it showed more, but it’s a hard sell, thematically, for a lot of people. I saw it at a festival that excelled in finding movies like this and people coming out were struck from the brutality the beauty or both (like me).

Enjoy that high-def beauty! I got to see a screening when they did the restoration and it blew me away. I’m always thrilled to find more fans, it doesn’t get talked about enough.

You have one of my favorite films on that list, please enjoy it on me!!

Protest movements that stop as soon as they start seeing results fail.

Protest movements that keep going until your whole squad is across the finish line win.

Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.

Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music.

Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.

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YouTube video by Jessie Gender The Politics of Forgetting

I want to give massive kudos & love to @jessiegender.bsky.social for this video. Archival silences and the violence of the archive have long been discussed in the archival profession, but it's so important that we see the effect of it outside the profession. #GLAMS 📜
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In case you needed (further) context for most recent round of the Substack is a Nazi bar discourse.

Taylor: I had a six-figure income Substack until late 2023. I moved it first to Beehiiv then, because I didn't care for it, then to Ghost in late 2024. Each time the new site handled migration with no subscriber falloff and no income interruption. You are operating on bad information. Just move.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

YouTube video by Aranock The Author's Not Dead

My latest video on thought terminating cliches, the difficult things people dont want to think about in art and not if but how we should engage with bigoted art and artists. Please consider sharing cause the algorithm definitely wont be a fan of some of the subject matter:
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Kevin McLeod, who for 20 years has been the "royalty-free music guy" online, has just launched a new website where other composers will also be offering royalty-free music for anyone to use in their projects: freepd.com

Max is having a hell of a week. If you can drop some support, please consider doing so!!!

The reason you stand up for trans youth is because eventually the government will come for your child's healthcare. Next it'll be antidepressants, birth control, vaccines, etc.

The ongoing cultural powergrab by payment processors is, with no exaggeration, the single greatest threat to freedom of expression - and in particular queer expression - in play right now. And on Steam it will kill games, chills industries, and in the long run deaden the platform.

I think talking immediately about how it's too bad Zohran can't run for president or how Lander should run for Congress is missing the point. we don't need to elevate individual heroes as high as possible, we need to find as many principled people as possible and empower them everywhere