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I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

If you were to believe what you see our there, *everyone* is using AI to vibe code all day long...

Turns out, the majority of devs aren't even using it at all???

Full survey here: survey.stackoverflow.co/2025

We're writing to inform you of updates to our Account Use Policy that take effect on August 20th. These changes reflect our shared commitment to building a sustainable, high-trust fundraising ecosystem that serves the long-term interests of Democratic and progressive causes. Why These Updates Matter The digital fundraising landscape has evolved dramatically, and with it, we've seen practices emerge that undermine donor trust and hurt all of us. When donors encounter misleading solicitations, impersonation, or excessive spam, they lose confidence—not just in bad actors, but in our entire movement. These policy updates are designed to protect the ecosystem we've all worked hard to build. By establishing clear standards for responsible fundraising, we're helping ensure that: Donors feel confident their contributions are being used effectively Legitimate organizations can build sustainable, long-term fundraising programs Bad actors can't undermine the trust you've earned with your supporters

Key Changes That May Impact Your Operations: 1. Solicitation Standards We have strengthened our policies around impersonation, barring outside groups from using the name or likeness of any candidate, elected official, or organization in a way that falsely implies endorsement, affiliation, or authorization without documented written permission. Entities must not misleadingly suggest that donations will directly benefit specific individuals or entities without proper authorization, or misrepresent the destination or intended use of donor funds. We're also explicitly prohibiting false claims in solicitations, including references to fake voting records, non-existent memberships, or unverified matching programs. These changes ensure donors are making informed choices about their giving.

2. Responsible Stewardship & Transparency To help ensure donor contributions are being used effectively and as promised, we've introduced new provisions that allow us to request documentation when needed. These aren't blanket requirements - they're tools we can use to verify that funds are being stewarded responsibly and that fundraising claims are accurate in response to donor complaints. Impact documentation: We may request statements showing how contributions have been used to advance your stated mission Matching program verification: If you advertise matching programs, you must be able to provide documentation verifying your matching program upon request

3. Donor Relations We've all seen how excessive solicitations and aggressive fundraising tactics can drive donors away from our movement. When supporters feel bombarded or misled, they don't just unsubscribe from one organization—they often stop giving altogether. That's why we're establishing clearer standards for respectful donor engagement. If an entity becomes the subject of repeated donor complaints about excessive or aggressive solicitations, we'll investigate and work with them on corrective action. This isn't about policing every email, it's about addressing patterns of behavior that damage donor relationships across our ecosystem. All entities using our platform are expected to maintain respectful and transparent fundraising practices. By holding each other to these standards, we protect the donor relationships that sustain our collective work.

Some good news. ActBlue just announced major updates to crack down on deceptive fundraising. New rules ban impersonation, fake matches, and excessive spam. Big step in the right direction.

Shout out to Josh Nelson and everyone who has been advocating for these changes.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

A comic with several panels about ADHD and shame. First panel, Kiki struggles holding a ton of items, while her peers only hold single sheets of papers. “I Spend so much time trying to fit in, hiding how forgetful and chaotic I am, but also pretending my struggles are like everyone else's." Second panel, Kiki’s mother is pointing at her. “I’ve faced so much rejection and trouble for thing I didn’t even know were wrong, just for being myself, that it feels like I have to hide who I am.” Third panel, Kiki is taking off a wig, revealing she is an alien “but what I’m hiding isn’t that I’m an alien, what I’m hiding is all the shame I carry.” Kiki is holding her stomach in pain.

A series of Kikis with text. “Shame that I couldn’t fit a shower into my daily tasks. Shame when I can’t let people inside because it’s never clean. Shame when I cry being overwhelmed by paperwork again. Shame when I’m the only one late again. Shame for every white lie I tell because I can’t take one more rejection despite being so burnt out.” Kiki’s face is hidden in shadow as she says “of course I change my bedsheets once a week.”

“I’ve used shame as a weapon against myself as a punishment to force myself to learn.” Kiki scolds herself in the mirror. “How well has that been working for you? Are you on time now? More organized?” The Kiki in the mirror is revealed to be a child version of herself. “Why am I never good enough? If I just stopped being like this, people would like me.” Kiki hugs the child version of herself. “You have been brave long enough. You’ve been scolded enough, what you - I would have needed was to be seen. You’re not alone anymore, we will find a way. Together.”

Small kiki is pulling the adult Kiki by the hand through their apartment. “Don’t punish emotions,pay attention to them. Missing a shower isn’t failure, it’s a sign, a clue. Ask what’s missing, not what’s wrong with you.” Kiki is standing behind her child self, holding her shoulders in support. “It’s not fair that I never got to feel like I am okay the way I am, that no one say how much I struggled and took all the pain away. Look at everything you’ve been through. It makes sense that you’re the way you are. Let’s try our best. Not to get it right for others, but to finally get to know how WE do things.” “At the very least, I can have my own back.”

Shame is one of the hardest things about ADHD for me. I'm back and the book is finished but instead of feeling proud, I feel ashamed for not having managed to stay active, manage my household better or even shower regularly.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

umpires get tasers

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

On LinkedIn: Thomas Dohme CEO at GitHub posting “The evidence is clear: Either you embrace Al, or get out of this career.”

“Use AI or else” is certainly not the product strategy I would go for but what do I know

GOP Rep. Mike Flood at a town hall: "Do you think that people who are 28-years-old, that can work, & refuse to work, should get free healthcare?"

Crowd: "YESSSSSSSSSS!"

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I've updated my past newsletter platform cost comparison to incorporate Ghost's recent pricing changes for Ghost Pro. (Note that past Ghost users are grandfathered in.)

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

Hey, it would mean so much to me if y'all kept up the pressure with phone calls to payment processors to show to them how much people care and that they can't just ignore it—my livelihood depends on adult games not being censored!

You can find info and phone scripts here: stop-paypros.neocities.org

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

Yeah, AI companies are fraudlent as fuck.

Ghost 6.0 has arrived! An enormous amount of work went into delivering our biggest upgrade yet:

🔥 Networked publishing with ActivityPub
📈 Deeply integrated native analytics
🛠️ Thousands of upgrades and improvements
💸 $100,000,000 earned by indie publishers

ghost.org/6/

Screenshot from the linked article: "The social web turns your Ghost publication into a networked social profile that people can find, follow, like, reply, repost and interact with from anywhere —bringing network effects directly to decentralized publishing. Popular posts can be shared, re-posted, and discussed by millions of social web users."

Congratulations to @ghost.org on launching their 6.0 version!

#ghost #fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #blogs #blogging

Nintendo released a survey asking for feedback on physical and digital games.

This is definitely the chance to make your voice heard about Switch 2 Game Key Cards.

Source: theWellRedMage

Survey: nintendoofamerica.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

he's my muse but you're all his enablers (the sign up link is patreon.com/jeeyonshim/membership)

Happy birthday!

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For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

(Thinking of this Harris discussion)

"Scarred" or "calloused" came to mind immediately

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

This is cursed

a logo image that says - conjured ink. following the logo, the graphic says anti-censorship, pro-weird, seller shop software.

the same text as in the post is on this graphic, followed by a cartoon of a canadian witch girl flying on a hockeystick broom

Itch and Steam got a bunch of us thinking; we need a catalogue where creative (esp. NSFW & Queer) works are less vulnerable to censorship. A storefront we won't be delisted from. One giving us the autonomy to sell our stuff our way. So we're making Conjured Ink. You can join us. https://conjured.ink

Hate is a strong word.

But not strong enough

PBS: Public Broadcasting Service Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!

Corporation for Public Broadcasting has announced that directly due to federal funding cuts, they will be ending operations. PBS and NPR are separate entities, but do receive funding from CPB.
If you can spare it, I encourage setting up a monthly donation.
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Visa says they're still drowning today! Payment processors think that we're not organized enough to keep this up but it's we either prove them wrong or submit to global censorship so it's. not much of a contest. Keep calling all 4!!

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