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Call yours reps, we need to make as much noise against these online bills as much as possible!
#SaveSpeech

God bless you Sophie Campbell and your Supergirl run that is both a homage to the silver age and online queer niches

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Payment processors HATE this one weird trick!

What happened today? Behind closed doors, the Law Enforcement Working Party group approved the revised Danish Chat Control compromise with broad support. While mandatory scanning had officially been dropped, Article 4 of the new text reframes and reintroduces it by obliging providers of e-mail, chat, and messenger services to take “all appropriate risk mitigation measures”. This effectively forces providers to scan all messages, including private, end-to-end encrypted content. The same article outlaws anonymous communication by requiring every citizen to verify their age before accessing a service, kneecapping whistleblowers, journalists, political activists, and people seeking help who depend on anonymity. Article 6 further imposes a digital house arrest and would ban minors from installing software which comes with a significant risk of grooming, such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and online games like Roblox. What happens next? The legislation now moves to the Coreper (Committee of Permanent Representations) for approval. Without major political objections, the Council will formally adopt its position. At this stage, both the Council and Commission unite in imposing mass surveillance on all 450 million citizens of the European Union and we enter a rushed trilogue. Unfortunately, while the mandate of the European Parliament does not suffer from the same flaws, the Parliament is traditionally known for giving in. What now? We raise our voices. Louder.

like I knew the world was run by monsters but it truly is run by *MONSTERS*

logic brain: only a monster would use their power to gain more power while running roughshod over everyone below them, so this makes total sense and is no surprise

emotion brain: guillotine guillotine guillotine guillotine guillotine guillotine

we can't keep living in a world where there are no consequences for these beasts

not even the threat of damnation scares them anymore

every person even tangentially named here should have permanent stress-induced diarrhea

every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation

I am sticking to my "Whatever's in the Epstein files is fucking BAD, but probably not 'ends the Trump presidency' bad" position, but every day they try to not make those files public, the more doubt I have.

This was why I was always against the "no politics" blanket rule for VTubers. Because the politics of the real world affects us too, and we can and should use our platforms to address it.
If you're able to, support the raid train or donate to the campaign, and may every detainee make it out safe.

Undue Medical Debt Homepage Undue Medical Debt makes it easy for donors to make an impactful difference in the lives of those struggling with medical debt.

Seems like a good day to promote this charity that buys and forgives medical debt in the United States.

unduemedicaldebt.org

A Facebook Marketplace listing with a photo of a convenience store in a skytrain station. “CA$299,000 – Pizza Store plus Convenience store – Vancouver, BC.”

Someone on Facebook Marketplace is selling a convenience store for $300,000

I feel like devs and CEOs need to accept that a consequence of using gen AI is that a lot of people won’t like it. That’s just the case as it is and the risks you take

listen, with US journalism falling off a cliff i’ve seen multiple people touting the BBC for doing good “actual journalism”

and I need you to know they’ve been horribly transphobic and damaging to trans people for YEARS

and they’re about to get even worse

they are not the answer!

every single frame of animation, in-house developed sound effect, line of code, visual asset, chart, and line of dialogue was done by a human and done without using generative AI tools in the making of UNBEATABLE. relinquishing creative choices to tools makes your work empty, vapid, and meaningless

Ask literally any voice actor if they get royalties from the video games they worked on.

They will tell you no. They might even laugh.

Now imagine any developer actively trying to use AI VO to save money wanting to offer something like that.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

Dice 'n Goblins on Steam Dice 'n Goblins is a turn-based RPG that blends luck and strategy as you battle using dice rolls. Master your skills, chain powerful combos, and overcome the whims of fortune.

Hey transgirl here. Made Dice'n Goblins a cute grid step dungeon crawler with dice combat. It has a few dark turns too. And implied Yuri. I can't draw, but still made it myself! Have a nice day! store.steampowered.com/app/2945950/...

Solid portion of our team, including myself, are trans.

Which hopefully shows with the fact the Main protagonist of Mars Vice is a trans man and the game is full of queer folks across the spectrums.

Also fuck genAi, We make our games have meaning.

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This is getting apocalyptic for me
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Some Tennessee Libraries Shut Down For “Emergency Closure” Over Transgender Books It is unclear how many other libraries have or may need to temporarily shut their doors in order to cull their children’s sections for gender-subversive content.

1. Going to the Library in Smyrna or Murfreesboro, TN?

You might be greeted by an EMERGENCY CLOSURE sign.

Apparently they have detected the presence of "transgender books" and are quarantining them as if they were a dangerous plague.

The latest from S. Baum.

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If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

The No. 1 Country Song in America is AI-Generated

I've been seeing this headline floating around. To be clear:

1) This is "No. 1" on a miniscule chart, The "Country Digital Song Sales" chart, as in people actually paying money to download country songs which is a tiny amount of people

2) The actual consumers are almost certainly fake

UPDATE — Here are the at least 10 congressional Democrats, 5 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 6 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:

Ana has had her Patreon, and now her (empty) Ko-Fi nuked within the past 48 hours.

please support her on subscribestar, but also please raise your voices at both Patreon and Ko-Fi, because this kind of targeted behavior is extremely worrying

Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.

Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?

the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.