raven
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Progressive activists are being disappeared and deported and we are still getting conservative whine-fests in national outlets
April 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Progressive activists are being disappeared and deported and we are still getting conservative whine-fests in national outlets
So how will this be enforced? Do people need to show a photo of their privates from when they were born before they can get to a toilet to pee?
The U.K. Supreme Court rules that Britain's equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female. The ruling means a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes.
UK Supreme Court rules that equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female
The Supreme Court has ruled that the U.K. equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female.
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April 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So how will this be enforced? Do people need to show a photo of their privates from when they were born before they can get to a toilet to pee?
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As a biologist, I find the term “biological woman” meaningless at best, a dangerously unscientific cudgel at worst. As a woman, perception and projection of my gender identity is not infringed upon in the least by anyone else’s. I stand with my trans sisters.
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As a biologist, I find the term “biological woman” meaningless at best, a dangerously unscientific cudgel at worst. As a woman, perception and projection of my gender identity is not infringed upon in the least by anyone else’s. I stand with my trans sisters.
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So...new Pantomime is up on US Netgalley. In many ways, it's scarier releasing a book with a nonbinary, intersex protagonist than it was the first time around 12 years ago, so help signal boosting appreciated. Queer magic circus, coming of age, cosy-adjacent. www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
Pantomime
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April 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
So...new Pantomime is up on US Netgalley. In many ways, it's scarier releasing a book with a nonbinary, intersex protagonist than it was the first time around 12 years ago, so help signal boosting appreciated. Queer magic circus, coming of age, cosy-adjacent. www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.
February 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.
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One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
Just filed an article about the upcoming German elections (out on Sunday) and what strikes me is how timid much of the institutional pushback against the far-right has been. Some people have distinguished themselves but for the most part it’s just been really complacent - really disappointing.
February 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
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Me: "The things you’ve told me today are—every single google workspace user has been forced into having this plagiarism software in email and drive, putting their security and potentially in cases like mine contracts and entire business at risk."
Google: "Yes."
Google: "Yes."
January 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Me: "The things you’ve told me today are—every single google workspace user has been forced into having this plagiarism software in email and drive, putting their security and potentially in cases like mine contracts and entire business at risk."
Google: "Yes."
Google: "Yes."
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I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI
January 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI
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Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.
New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link):
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
www.bloomberg.com
December 27, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.
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Calling on all teachers and counselors in Ohio to fucking ignore this
‘We’re again saving the very worst piece of legislation for the middle of the night where everyone has tuned out.’
After midnight, the #Ohio House passes 11th-hour bill forcing teachers and counselors to out #LGBTQ+ students. The bill now heads to Gov. DeWine.
thebuckeyeflame.com/2024/12/19/p...
After midnight, the #Ohio House passes 11th-hour bill forcing teachers and counselors to out #LGBTQ+ students. The bill now heads to Gov. DeWine.
thebuckeyeflame.com/2024/12/19/p...
Ohio House passes 11th-hour bill forcing teachers and counselors to out LGBTQ+ students; now heads to governor
'We’re again saving the very worst piece of legislation for the middle of the night where everyone has tuned out.'
thebuckeyeflame.com
December 28, 2024 at 4:22 AM
Calling on all teachers and counselors in Ohio to fucking ignore this