The person who posted the screenshot has never played Final Fantasy 7.

The right wing culture warriors were always fake gamers.

Google and Apple should add a device-level AI permission, just like it does for other potentially invasive privacy features, like location, to their phones. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Maybe it's just me but I feel like they've started to advertise AI in the same way as like, alcohol. Or nicotine. Or casinos.

Like genuinely it feels more and more like the business plan is to get people hooked and dependant.

(1/4) If you are part of the Online community of adult and queer artists and consumers of all sorts of media, this involves you!
Petitions:
chng.it/WHLcwkHZz6
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Numbers and Emails in Pictures

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: In a dangerous evening escalation of the anti-porn war on the gaming industry, indie platform @itch.io has banned a number of NSFW titles and delisted thousands of others.

Trans authors are caught in the crossfire.

MasterCard, Visa, and anti-porn group Collective Shout drove the ban.

Be angry at this even if what you create/buy/play/read/etc is SFW, because the ultimate goal is to ban all queer content of any sort, as well as any speech the right-wing puritans disagree with.

Why was I trying to have a separate political account at Mastodon when I never know which account to use and the fact I exist is becoming increasingly political?

In addition to urgent need to preserve trans literature, good Qs to get you started helping back up any data. Not just gov docs; we need folks preseving fan fic+art, Flickr albums, webcomics, social threads, emuseum items, whatever you care about that fuels you participating. Friendly how-to:

Plasma 6.3 is Pixel Perfect!

This is what you can expect in your next update: massive steps in the support and configuration of drawing tablets, pixel perfect window placing and zoom, extended hardware monitoring, even more customization possibilities, and so much more.

kde.org/announcement...

I have been waiting for this, but today there are a lot of distractions needing my attention and taking time I would rather use for reading, but maybe tomorrow

This is an amazing illustration of a deep truth...

Right up there with the Commander Vimes Boots Theory of Socio-economic Unfairness

Oh meow?

Hi @scalzi.com, could I ask you please for a signal boost for a debut trans author? Unexploded Remnants, my first novella, out today from Tor in all the places. Action, adventure, a trans main character, and inspirations from Stargate to Indiana Jones

New from 404 Media, something we've been thinking about for a while: has Facebook just given up? The site is overrun with AI and scams, and the experts who used to help with content moderation there tell us Facebook has stopped asking them for help www.404media.co/has-facebook...

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

I am supposedly an adult so I choose to follow my alarm clock and go to school to learn cybersecurity even if my inner feline is telling me today would be a great day to just lie in bed with tea and kindle, maybe with a side of chocolate. Just when I was probably going to meet the cover character 😾🐾

Hi, I am Aminda, I got asthmatic cough from COVID-19 a month ago, I am not infectious, but feel better wearing a mask anyway.

This is my first post, so I may be #newhere, usually I think I am bad at introductions, but lately I have been acing it. I am also #asexual, trans, autistic, hsp, furry, etc