Spaces for kids have been destroyed or re-worked into stores, adult spaces aren't allowed to be actually "adult" lest we anger the CC companies, and supposedly neutral spaces are full of gambling/porn ads, disinformation, and right-wing pipelines. An internet that is increasingly not for anyone.
To the absolute dumpster with chilis.bsky.social
I will never darken their door again since they think that people I care about don't deserve employment.
The reich wing has declared all out war on our trans siblings, and they need to get economic warfare in return.
Send them the way of Target.
Chat be the change you wanna see lets make Chili's file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy because it would really funny to watch crackers cry about their favorite milk-toast peckerwood food franchise going out of business
NSFW Artists being attacked on all fronts while the government actively protects pedos is fucking nuts and shouldn't be ignored.
This is definitely the slogan for me.
Protecting Perverts Protects You.
Whatever weird thing you are into, no matter what it is, a lot of people out there think you’re a pervert.
Even if you hide it, even if it’s completely innocuous.
Protect Perverts, or they will come for you too.
Understanding that whatever people put into art and fiction doesn't mean they're trying to do that in the real world is just as important as understanding what is real and what isn't.
It's a fundamental part of the reality-fantasy barrier sorely lacking in people that love to start "discourse".
No, Robert Englund never wanted to actually murder teenagers, he just knows how to play Freddy Krueger perfectly for entertainment.
No, Stephen King doesn't want to eat children, but he writes it into a scary story based on our natural fears for fright factor.
And so on with about every creative.
Advocating for full artistic and creative freedom is NOT advocating for any illegal acts in the real world. The fact that young people have been all but encouraged to conflate those two is so disturbing.
For time immemorial, humans have written/drawn terrible things they would never do in reality.
Definitely comment on this and remember:
1: The proposal is good. You support it if you don't want banks/paypros telling us what to spend our money on.
2: You can mention that it doesn't yet go far enough, but this is a start based on what the board can do. Any progress is good.
Censorship is a continuous erosion that will absolutely fucking steamroll your cute little morality picket and leak right into your every day life.
People don't understand; it's about the rolling crack down on freedoms, not simply the art - look more than 2 ft in front of you PLEASE.
the continuing censorship of sexual content on the internet while the elite class still gets to use banks and credit cards when doing horrible things to children makes it obvious it’s about who has the money, power, and control, and not protecting anyone.
We didn't ruin the economy.
We didn't get you laid off.
We didn't replace you with AI.
We didn't raise gas prices.
We didn't foreclose your home.
We didn't cause your divorce.
We didn't get your kid snatched by ICE.
We aren't in the Epstein files.
Leave us the fuck alone.
Maybe the older, placating generation has to realize how things have changed. Maybe the older generation has to stop being obsessed with "civility" and "decorum" when the Repubs tossed those a decade ago.
The older generation has to evolve and adapt, or retire and get the hell out of the way.
A picture of a naked shortstack goblin girl is not morally or logically equivalent to CSAM, and I can’t believe I have to say this to anyone.
Dull is good. I want dull and functional at this point, because flashy and "cool" have just enshittified every time to screw us over.
We desperately need a set of paypros, sites, and basically an economy completely separate from the ninnies demanding control of everyone else's minds.
This is fiction and art they're banning suddenly at the whims of paypros. No victims exist, just adults creating fictional content for other adults.
This speaks for itself
I didn't before, but reading with new understanding, the way his behaviors are described hit a lot of the symptoms associated with cognitive decline, and it seems like the sort of thing Crichton would have known.
I could always be wrong in interpretation, but it really, really fits.
Reading Jurassic Park at age ~13: "Wow, John Hammond is a jerk."
Re-reading JP as an adult: "Wow. Crichton makes it clear, showing without telling, that Hammond is in early stages of cognitive impairment and mental decline while in charge, and that it's another one of the park's many problems."
Incorrect reporting.
Correction: House Republicans advanced a package aimed at creating a surveillance state and chilling freedom of expression online under the false guise of "protecting children" when the policies would actually endanger kids, especially LGBT youth.
Being in Sunday school with the person reading a religious picture book that claimed "When these people worshiped other gods, they weren't happy, but when they worshiped God™ they were so happy!"
I can literally remember little kid me thinking, "Wait, how do *you* know they weren't happy?"
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce passed the Kids Act, a mix of KOSA, Screen Act, and several other ID/facescan verification bills. There is still time before a final vote in the House, as well as a Senate version. Please use this link to call your Senators and Representatives to vote no.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
Yeah, the 00s excuse of, "It's okay, they make fun of everyone equally!" was such a trap that seemed logical on the surface, but really just left vulnerable people surrounded by toxic crap while reinforcing horrific systems of social power for people who couldn't actually be hurt by the "jokes".
Agreed, it's insane. Though probably Epic Fury is what you meant to type.
Epic Furry would be a much nicer, happier event for sure, I'd totally be down with a gov that did Epic Furry. ;)
Maybe I'm off-base, but I think RL government officials with nuclear power SHOULDN'T be just an eyepatch and steel gauntlet away from a literal comic-book/Bond supervillain monologuing about their master plan for world domination. Am I really missing something thinking that ought to be our limit?
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
"Sex work is gross and degrading and I wouldn't want to do it that's why I think it should be banned"
ok I think making advertisements or working in finance is gross and degrading and I don't want to do it yet here we are.
Work is work, everyone should have worker's rights and protections.
