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To echo others: that MasterCard is proactively reaching out to its advertising partners to try and blunt the impact of the pressure campaign is one of the surest signs the pressure campaign is having an effect (and after just two weeks, too!) Don't let up! Call/mail their asses!! #SaveSpeech

This sounds stupid but I keep thinking about this. How often do you think OpenAI does these deals, and how long do they keep a "user" on their paid and business account statistics? Altman lied about how "powerful" GPT-5 was again and again, what other overstatements has OpenAI made?

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.

And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

Sent this from a telnet connection on my MacBook. Yes, that's possible. Here's where I got the info from: bsky.app/profile/cara...

Next week, Trump meets Putin in Alaska to talk about Ukraine—without Zelenskyy.

He’s always worked against Ukraine—this is no exception.

Meanwhile, an anti-vax gunman terrorized Emory University and the CDC before killing a cop.

This is the cost of letting the far-right run America.

I have never understood the appeal of these things, especially given the price tag.

Something to keep in mind: payment processors "capitulate" to anti-porn activists so easily because they too have a lot of puritans in charge. Which is why it's important to keep up the pressure with calls - because only by making it clear that it'll cost them more to censor than not will they budge

Great idea. Mastercard DID NOT WANT to be brought up negatively in the context of their sponsorship of Riot's esports

Weaponize that against them

Seizing the property of private organizations to punish dissent is totalitarianism.

It is illegal, anti-Conservative, Soviet, and sickening.

Yet people who drool ‘freedom’ whisper not a word to object. Lift not a finger.

So we can’t use any public bathrooms without fear of harassment.

We can’t play sports.

We can’t serve in the military.

We cant have jobs where we might make someone uncomfortable.

We’re not even allowed to be mentioned by swaths of organizations.

But sure. No discrimination to be seen here.

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

The crux of their argument is that if they're found liable, then the consequences of their own actions that no one forced them to take could ruin them and the rest of their industry that undertakes similar practices.

To which I say motherfucker did you never hear about Napster

📌 The road to fascism: "They want you to accept a little bit of fascism towards the groups that "deserve" it. And when you accept it? They know you'll accept anything." 🧵 👇🏽

CAN CONFIRM. Riot's mods are immediately nuking any mention of mastercard, and giving lengthy chat timeouts for otherwise innocuous comments.

unsure how effective comments will be w/o absolutely massive numbers, but its EXTREMELY telling that mastercard feels they have to resort to this.

Thou shalt not cry about being mocked when you are literally the person in charge of ICE kidnapping people off the street.

Christ this fucking scuzzbag

If the federal government can simply seize privately held patents then that is the end of the U.S. patent system, the legal basis for American innovation.

“Riot” couldn’t be a more ironic name for a company that eager to lick boots.

the thing to take from Cuomo—a politician who was supposedly invulnerable and had control of every aspect of Albany—having a flailing campaign is that all of these assholes are really paper tigers who only thrive when their opponents are also cowards.

posting private details of a woman’s sexual trauma without her consent to your massive online following in order to further some inscrutable discourse is dehumanizing to victims and profoundly misogynistic

Cuomo stacking L’s all over the place

(above an image of Governor Tim Walz) "Shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus. ... That child deserves our support. Don't worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity."

california’s population is larger than at least a dozen red states *combined* so if we’re playing the “we deserve more representation” game give us our 500 senators

A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

You sure about this, Google?

I still can’t stop thinking about when he said ‘bacon, cheese and egg’ like why can’t he talk like an earthling man 😭😭😭

Street sign for Horneytown Rd. Under is a second sign that says "This sign has RFID and GPS tracking"

Environmental storytelling.

This labor shortage is getting serious.

They’re down to 1 boob……

So it turns out that Cuomo's slam at Mamdani's lodgings wasn't just a know-nothing misrepresentation of homelessness, rent control, and rent stabilization, it was also a stealth boosting of the landlord lobby's coming messaging on why rent stabilization should be gutted.