#USCIS is trying to increase the application fees for #immigration processes by several hundred dollars. Many folks applying do not have work permits and the application fees will be a financial burden. Please leave a comment opposing the increases here ⬇️

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/04/2022-27066/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-fee-schedule-and-changes-to-certain-other-immigration

#USCIS is trying to increase the application fees for #immigration processes by several hundred dollars. Many folks applying do not have work permits and the application fees will be a financial burden. Please leave a comment opposing the increases here ⬇️

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/04/2022-27066/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-fee-schedule-and-changes-to-certain-other-immigration

RT @socialistlyakwd@twitter.com

Why do you think they are so interested in the emails students are sending about LGBTQ clubs?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/socialistlyakwd/status/1604507060573724673

Eu acho que a discussão sobre arte IA é na vdd uma discussão sobre capitalismo e como arte é e sempre vai ser incompatível com ele. E quem usa o argumento “arte IA nem é arte” já começa com a premissa errada

@anitanapraia a resposta a primeira pergunta é não é a resposta a segunda é sim. Então a pesquisa não é válida porque as perguntas tem respostas opostas

Far beyond the “ethics” of feeding existing artists’ work to a machine learning algorithm that spits out generated/ugly “art,” people should
1) understand those “fun” tools (Lensa, Dall-E) are propaganda/sanitizing tools for the AI used to, you know, aid police and military operations
2) understand that AI as an industry has been funded and pushed by researchers with financial ties to, for example, Blackrock.

addendum: the university-based research labs on AI or AI ethics are invested in the ongoing gentrification of their university towns, and happily participate in the MIC (of course) by taking that money, developing and researching tools later used to subjugate everyone. The apps that are understood as exploitative of independent artists are not simply exploitative of the illustrator online, but have been exploitative at ALL levels, across ALL dimensions, in serve of US empire and white supremacy.

Generally, hunger strikes require a movement in solidarity outside the walls to be successful. It can contribute to a unmanageable situation in the prison itself or even just a crisis of legitimacy. I've never seen a hunger strike succeed without significant outside pressure to make the actions visible, if nothing else. Without solidarity, a hunger strike is no different from other forms of self-harm in the eyes of the prison.

Seasonal Reminder !

The #SalvationArmy is not a #charity. They are an evangelical protestant church that uses donations to oppose #LGBTQ rights.

Give them NOTHING.

If you are ever on jury duty in a United States criminal court, you can always, ALWAYS vote to acquit.

No matter what the law says and what the evidence says, you have the right to keep that person out of prison.

@riotmuffin Oooh I read it and loved it so much. Thank you for sharing. It’s given me real food for thought

Does anyone have insight about truly non-hierarchical, safe, and serious socialist organizations to join in the U.S.? I have been warned off DSA, PSL, and Socialist Alternative

Have you ever met anyone who feels homoromantic but heterosexual?

Omegle survivors-
please dm me your wildest story from that godforsaken app. reminiscing about that unfortunate corner of the internet for some reason…

while shit like this is largely trivial, there are places where it is weirdly contiguous with regimes of state brutality. The British government is notorious for deporting people seeking asylum from homophobic persecution on the basis that they're "not really gay" because they don't go to gay nightclubs

help a black person make rent and get essentials: hi yall can yall please help me with crowdfunding for $696 I need it towards bills & housing essentials so I can have this meet by next week pls anything helps.

https://cash.app/$NiyahLee1990

A store didn’t accept a return I tried to make and it honestly sent me over the edge

hello does anyone here live in the Bay Area? peninsula preferred to avoid bridge toll!
DM me- let’s be friends

The Fourth Wall is a new project creating theatre and storytelling opportunities for returned citizens. Let’s have an abolitionist roll call on their PayPal page! I will match y’all up to a collective $322. DM me receipts for matching :)

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2MTF4UZ3NAUWL

My mom shared with me that this outfit called Chicken Daddies, which does pin-up-y calendars of men with their chickens, is looking for models. There's an application form partway down the front page of their website.

https://www.chickendaddies.com/

Sometimes being the eldest child means shielding your younger sibling(s) from your parents' bullying tactics