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it’s hard not to feel a little sorry for him in that one episode where an alien steals his lungs and Janeway is like “well, i could get them back, but Finders Keepers!”
Cops have time to generate 500 pages of a report violating a teenage girl's privacy by grilling adults and minors about her body but somehow need more funding.
PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off
The press doesn't pick this stuff up because the assumption is it won't happen to them, it seems outlandish, far-fetched. Until it isn't. Those of us in marginalized communities know what threats of violence bring. Violence. This man and his ilk frighten me to the core.
this Tim Kreider comic was published 20 years ago and i've thought of it continually since it came out
The Onion hath bloomed.
i keep seeing pundit-type people mad at Newsom for vetoing this “AI Safety” bill, but the AI ethics experts I follow don’t seem to care, since it apparently didn’t actually address real problems with AI. Would be open to being convinced otherwise, but seems like a nothingburger.
I really want people to understand that this is just as awful and upsetting and invasive for a trans girl as it would be for a cis girl under the same scrutiny. Because when it happens to cis girls/women people get upset, but when it’s an actual trans girl somehow it’s “complicated.” It’s not.