Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these services must introduce age checks to prevent children from accessing such content. Online...

When politicians pass laws restricting "pornography," this is what they actually restrict:

video games
romantasy
drag
sex education
healthcare
LGBTQ+ sites
young adult novels
sexual assault resources
dating apps
contraception
social media
Wikipedia
wifi access

Wikipedia has higher standards than the AHA. Let's all let that sink in for just a minute.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these...

The UK’s Online Safety Act is being sold as a way to protect children. But instead, UK politicians are pushing sweeping censorship and forcing platforms to implement invasive age checks. This is not safety–it's surveillance.

Honestly, with hindsight, Radcliffe, Watson and Grint's public statements where they sided with trans people, expressed their support with no caveats, and willingly blew up any chances at future ties to the franchise has only gotten more and more noteworthy as more actors are revealed to be cowards

Harry Potter Audiobooks Reveals Cast Led By Hugh Laurie, Matthew Macfadyen, Riz Ahmed & Michelle Gomez; Cush Gumbo To Narrate; Release Dates Set Pottermore Publishing and Audible are unveiling the star-studded cast lineup for Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions.

Welp. That's Dr. House in the bin...

F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats

This is a demand for unconstitutional, arbitrary power. There is no offense against the United States here. The FBI has no role to assist the State of Texas in becoming an authoritarian enclave.

F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

"Cultivating AI literacy" is a buzzword used by the corrupt to make subservience sound natural.

"Banning generative AI is not a long-term solution" -- maybe not, but it sure is a good short-term measure.

How much did OpenAI pay you to write this shit?

Dear AHA: What the fuck?

How did you get access to Elon Musk's baby-name book??!

I have no answers and won't pretend otherwise, but I'd be curious to hear what a sensitivity reader with actual pertinent experience would have to say.

I AM A TRASH GOBLIN WHO LOVES CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

Well, they are literally, not figuratively, collaborating with Republicans to pass legislation that will give Trump's FTC more power over the Internet at the expense of LGBT people, accurate information about abortion...

(#KOSA currently has 17 D cosponsors in the Senate, including Schumer.)

I wonder if it was largely written before TAKE IT DOWN passed and then just not updated.

The Ninth Circuit Finds Two New Ways to Undermine Section 230-Doe v. Twitter - Technology & Marketing Law Blog The Ninth Circuit swiss-cheesed Section 230 with two new exceptions. 📉 * * * This is a FOSTA case. The plaintiffs allege that “traffickers” coerced the victims to produce CSAM, then posted the materia...

Blog Post: The Ninth Circuit Finds Two New Ways to Undermine Section 230–Doe v. Twitter

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The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.

heads up -- this is very well done.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

This is another way of saying the only working part of Trump's economy is hype-based services and even then, AI is only "booming" because investors are lighting billions of dollars on fire hoping to be the last standing; there's no positive revenue anywhere in it. An economy of the 1% for the 1%.

It was something like, "I thought we had all agreed on how to implement Everett's idea, but then I went to a conference."

I'd say that "the Copenhagen interpretation" is ill-defined enough that we should just stop using the term. The more I read of Bohr, the less he sounds like Heisenberg, or Pauli, or Peres.

"The" Many-Worlds Interpretation is not far behind. Vaidman had a funny remark in an essay a while back...

#Transrights #NHS #UK IMPORTANT! The NHS has just launched a public consultation about the Children and Youths Gender service specification. The consultation is available until 2 Nov 2025. Please share and respond. www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...

i spent a literal decade being told that i was overreacting and that no way no how Roe was going to be overturned.

I'm getting the same reaction when I tell people that Obergefell v. Hodges (same sex marriage case) will be overturned sooner rather than later.

Why 17 Democrats in the Senate are willing to support a bill that will give Donald Trump's FTC more power is... I don't even know anymore, man.

#KOSA

Inspired by @susandblum.bsky.social, I'm writing a letter to my students this semester explaining why AI isn't allowed in my classrooms.

Yes, it's built on theft, environmentally catastrophic, doesn't care about accuracy, and undermines student learning.

But most importantly, it's dehumanizing.

Texas Redistricting Quorum Flight Time Warp! With Texas Democrats fleeing the state to prevent the quorum state Republicans...

Texas Redistricting Quorum Flight Time Warp! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/texas...

Itch.io starts reindexing free NSFW content Discussions with payment processors ongoing will dictate when paid adult content can return.

Following backlash from consumers, Itch has started re-indexing at least free adult games — and looking for other payment processors to being allowing developers to sell NSFW games on its platform again.

Even Stripe says it hasn't entirely closed the door.

Great work, folks.

Trump's FTC is spreading lies about trans people. This bill would let it wipe them off the internet The FTC’s recent anti-trans “workshop” proves the agency can’t be trusted to “protect kids” with online censorship powers.

🏳️‍🌈 FTC + KOSA Op-ed: www.fastcompany.com/91377373/tru...

S-209 An Act to restrict young persons' online access to pornographic material Short title: Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act

C-2 An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures Short title: Strong Borders Act

So now it's not just the USA that has censorship bills in the senate (KOSA, The SCREEN Act); now Canada has their own censorship bills, too! To all my Canadian folks here who value free speech, please spread the word of these bills!
#Anti-Censorship #StopKOSA #Stop-Censorship #Canada

Details for S. 1748: Kids Online Safety Act - GovTrack.us Details for S. 1748: Kids Online Safety Act

#KOSA has picked up a bunch of cosponsors this past month, now at 41 in all:

www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

My hot take on the *Hannibal* series is that it had a great cast but a lot of plodding, fundamentally mid writing, and so it often coasted as a grimdark Superwholock.

Yes! Which plays into the whole horror-of-the-mundane thing that *Manhunter* has going on. You don't know what an ordinary conversation might be making you a part of, or who might be learning about your family because of something everyone does without thinking.

It's only a nuclear family if the robot butler is atomic-powered