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BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care.

This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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cyberciti.biz
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
A screenshot from the official Mozilla blog that reads: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.
December 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
it cannot be said enough, and should be shouted from the rooftops:

this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16d
BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to take up a challenge to President Trump's January 20 birthright citizenship executive order.

The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.
(ORDER LIST: 607 U.S.) FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2025 24-621 ORDER IN PENDING CASE NRSC, ET AL. V. FEC, ET AL. The motion of Court-appointed amicus curiae in support of the judgment below for leave to file a supplemental brief is granted. 25-83 25-197 25-365 25-5146 CERTIORARI GRANTED JULES, ADRIAN V. ANDRE BALAZS PROP., ET AL. T. M. V. UNIV. OF MD MEDICAL SYS., ET AL. The petitions for writs of certiorari are granted. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S., ET AL. V. BARBARA, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment is granted. ABOUAMMO, AHMAD V. UNITED STATES The motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to Question 1 presented by the petition. QUESTION PRESENTED The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those "born ** * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," are U.S. citizens. U.S. Const. Amend. XIV, § 1. The Clause was adopted to confer citizenship on the newly freed slaves and their children, not on the children of aliens temporarily visiting the United States or of illegal aliens. On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order No. 14,160, Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, which restores the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause and provides, on a prospective basis only, that children of temporary visitors and illegal aliens are not U.S. citizens by birth. The Citizenship Order directs federal agencies not to issue or accept citizenship documents for such children born more than 30 days after the Order's effective date. The question presented is whether the Executive Order complies on its face with the Citizenship Clause and with 8 U.S.C. 1401(a), which codifies that Clause.
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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zappit.bsky.social
Nobody asked for a revival of Vine, but don’t use the revival, since it’s going to be scraped for AI training.

The “No AI on diVine” rule is just there to ensure it’s fed real content and not more AI slop.
catsharkchaireth.bsky.social Chaireth, Padoru on Sight @catsharkchaireth.bsky.social · Nov 19
Finding out the it'll likely be used to train AI required a little deeper digging.
The articles on this app mention Nostr, but when you look up Nostr...
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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elea.fyi
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
live view from cuomo hq
a photo from dashcon with a small ball pit in a large convention ballroom
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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volts.wtf
Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.

Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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python.org
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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jamellebouie.net
white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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meemalee.bsky.social
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
The proliferation of online disinformation targeted at women, which falsely claims that the most effective forms of woman-controlled contraception are dangerous, is an underrated part of the right’s weaponization of epistemic collapse.
reproductivefreedomforall.org Reproductive Freedom for All @reproductivefreedomforall.org · Oct 1
ALWAYS consult your doctor before making any decisions about your reproductive health care, and look out for your peers by calling out disinformation online.
October 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
BREAKING: Prince George's County, the DC suburb of about 1 million people, is moving to suspend all data center permits while a task force completes a review of the projects and their impacts.
September 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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gatamchun.bsky.social
I’m not gonna pretend Koreans have better immigration politics than anyone else, I would guess that part of the furor here is that they simply did not think they would be Treated Like This as tho they are like those other illegal/undocumented workers. HOWEVER -
September 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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heyitshamhocks.bsky.social
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️
August 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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cyberstalin.bsky.social
i havent seen a lot of people talking about this for some reason but all my love and solidarity to lil nas x right now. leo herrera had a really beautiful post about this situation on instagram. unconditional support for struggling queer black people.
August 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
mandufondue.bsky.social
Me in 2008: Crank that (Soulja boy)
Me in 2025: Crank that (manual standing desk)
August 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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krfabian.bsky.social
HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE ALL-TIME BANGER THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-A...
They're Taking The Hobbits To Isengard HQ
YouTube video by Erwin Beekveld
m.youtube.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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slugworlds.bsky.social
if it's cisco with a c, infocom for thee
but sysco with an s brings wholesale chicken breast
August 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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edzitron.com
You're so close
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".
August 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation
University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas
The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.
lailluminator.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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mikestabile.bsky.social
Less than 24 hours after @acvalens.net broke this story, it was removed from the site following direct intervention from VICE’s owners, who were reportedly uncomfortable with the subject matter.

Censoring a story on censorship is about as 2025 as it gets.
mikestabile.bsky.social Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Jul 19
The censorship of 80+ games on Steam this week was apparently the work of Australian antiporn group Collective Shout, which partnered with US evangelicals to pressure Visa and Mastercard.

They claimed, without evidence, that the games involved child abuse.

Great work by @acvalens.net for VICE.
Group Behind Steam Censorship Policies Have Powerful Allies — And Targeted Popular Games With Outlandish Claims
The organization behind Steam's latest payment processor censorship, Collective Shout, appears to tell some misleading tales.
www.vice.com
July 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
mandufondue.bsky.social
What I really gets me about this is that we've had machine translation for years! Was the act of copying and pasting into google translate too much?
July 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM