Heads up yall:

How Brothel Workers in Nevada Just Made Labor History The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.

They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

How the uncanny valley could kill the Valley Porn performer Siri Dahl and others have started sounding the alarm about AI's impacts on privacy, free speech, and legal sex work

"AI porn slop is advancing a new moral panic about online pornography, human-made and otherwise, and spurring a wave of legislation that unfairly clamps down on the legal porn industry and puts performers like Dahl and Lee at legal and financial risk."

"Jeanrenaud said he decided to make the app after reading some of 404 Media’s coverage of how people are using Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses ... specifically how men are filming women inside massage parlors seemingly without their consent."

This is why you support independent journalism.

Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK Persona confirmed all age-check data from Discord's UK test was deleted.

Discord claims their age estimation & ID check techniques are privacy preserving so cyber-security experts put these claims to the test, revealing some unsettling but predictable vulnerabilities.

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I can tell you without any hesitation - all of these new pirate sites that are set up to monetize stolen content from independent content creators are ALL affiliates of one or more of these AI 'girlfriend' sites.

The mandates are impossible to make work ... but that's the point.

The VPN ban is enforced by civil and AG lawsuits. Compliance is impossible, meaning they can sue any site with "material harmful to minors" that accidentally accepts VPN traffic.

It's about creating liability.

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

If you have to upload your ID or submit to facial recognition to create an account that posts about ICE abuses in your neighborhood

1) many people will self-censor and won't do this in the first place, for fear of retaliation, and

2) the government will unmask & persecute ppl for their speech

For years, human rights advocates have been warning that mandatory online ID checks are a death sentence for activists, journalists, and ordinary people resisting authoritarian regimes, for this exact reason.

Forcibly associating online activity with your government name puts dissidents in danger.

The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.

But in the US and around the world, lawmakers have been pushing for misguided online "age verification" or ID check laws, which would force you to upload your government ID or submit to a biometric scan of your face in order to create an account, post or access content. www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

Even if platforms receive a subpoena or valid legal request, they can only hand over the data that they have.

(This is why encrypted messaging platforms like Signal are so great. Even when they get a legal demand they have almost no data to hand over.)

DHS can't do much with your burner email

Right now, on most major social media platforms, you can create an account that is at least somewhat pseudonymous.

On Reddit, Bluesky, even Instagram you can create an account with a burner email and/or phone number, use a VPN to mask your IP address, and keep your identity mostly anonymous.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

The Department of Homeland Security is flooding social media platforms with subpoenas demanding they unmask the people behind anti-ICE accounts.

This crackdown on speech shows EXACTLY why online age verification laws are so dangerous.

Here's why: 🧵

Get out the word to Wisconsin! Tomorrow the Senate attempts to ram through one of the most restrictive internet bills in the country.

AB 105 / SB 130 bans adults from using VPNs to access material "harmful to minors"

A massive attack on online privacy.

www.defendonlineprivacy.com/wi/action.php

REMINDER!

FACE CARD (Facial Recognition Tech & Your SW) Webinar is this Tuesday. Send me an email if you’d like to join.

If you’ve RSVPed, I’ll send the link by tomorrow.

Totally not okay, but it does explain why there's a push to outlaw intimate (not sexual!) Touch and call it all pornographic.

Aka professional cuddlers and ither adjacent fields.

DHS is demanding tech platforms identify people behind accounts that document ICE or criticize the government.

EFF and ACLU are calling on the platforms to resist complying while court challenges play out.

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Roses are red
This isn't sarcasm
We're all miserable
Because conservatives won't let us orgasm

This is why I and other SW people fight against the bullshit as best we can, we need everyone to get their reps to not allow more restrictive bills/laws to be passed.

Or y'know, just pull a france against them rather than sit at home, be disruptive if you can't protest for any reason.

Hate the fact that we're losing all our 3rd spaces, both on and offline

It was interesting that fully clothed non white women dancing was considered "pornographic".

Significant legal victory today. Federal judge threw out two private lawsuits made possible by the Kansas age-verification law. Mom said her teen son accessed porn sites, wanted millions in damages.

Judge said an out-of-state company can't be sued just because it's accessible in Kansas.

If we ever unionize, the collective good sex workers have the capacity do for society would be legendary.

No

Please, don’t trust ANY anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit that refuses to support the labor rights of consensual adult sex workers.

We know for a fact that criminalization leads to exploitation and trafficking.

I would also be wary of those who fund such organizations.

Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years

It was alway going to come to this.

The Heritage Foundation has released an update to Project 2025. An 86-page "Saving the Family" which mentions porn 109 times, and blames it for undermining the family and, by extension, birth rates and the health of nation.

Hot take: If you think sex work can’t be consensual, your ‘solidarity’ is giving Victorian-era hysteria.

“Sex work can’t be ethical under capitalism!” Neither can the $7 oat milk latte you Instagrammed this morning, but here we are.