@crashglasshouses i remember watching that when it came out! (i'm old, haha)
A-Dub
trans, queer, disabled, autistic, fiftysomething, pākehā New Zealander, educator, scientist, covid-cautious, antifascist, anticapitalist
@crashglasshouses it's so weird living in this nexus of dystopias 😵💫
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Canada, let's get real: restricting access to devices like the Flipper Zero will hamper development of strong, secure technologies, and won't solve the problem of car hacking. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/restricting-flipper-zero-accountability-approach-security-canadian-government
aaaand voice-cloning technology can be used to break into bank accounts that use voice authentication 😨 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/openai-holds-back-wide-release-of-voice-cloning-tech-due-to-misuse-concerns/
wait, in this age of AI mania it has become possible to clone someone's voice in seconds and make deepfake videos from photo snapshots? um, why should i ever trust any video ever again?
@EricLawton kinda flabbergasted that it took this long
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Ontario moves to allow use of Indigenous languages in legislature
> ‘Momentous change’ will permit lawmakers in Canadian province to address chamber in ‘first languages’
might have to move instances . . .
turtle whizzing around on miniature skateboard video made my morning 🛹 🐢
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why should we federate with them when...
"extreme anti-trans hate content remains widespread across instagram, facebook, and threads. characterized by fear-mongering, lies, conspiracy theories, dehumanizing tropes, and violent rhetoric, these posts — many by high-follower accounts — aim to boost engagement, generate revenue, and seed hateful narratives about trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming people. these accounts profit from such hate, and so does meta and its shareholders"
the 2024 Ontario budget fails on so many fronts. for example it provides the poorest on social assistance with nothing. another really glaring one is the total abdication of responsibility on climate change 🌍 #OnPoli
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This website is fantastic. Shows you a COVID myth, who said it, and then a slew of articles that disprove it. https://youhavetoliveyour.life
@spore why is spore.social still federating with Threads? https://mastodon.social/@glaad/11216791482826338
— a trans person who regularly gets threats of violence
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Sacramento Passes Resolution Declaring Itself a Transgender Sanctuary City
> The resolution forbids the city from helping other jurisdictions in their pursuit to restrict gender-affirming care.
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Dear @Gargron,
A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:
“2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”
Can you please defederate from this server to protect the trans people on mastodon.social?
Thank you.
PS. It’s run by these guys: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
#mastodonSocial #fediblock #threads #meta #mastodon #transphobia
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Confession: If you send me a video, I will likely never watch it, no matter how much I like you and no matter how much you like it. I may tell myself I will watch it, I may tell you I will watch it, but I probably won't, because I absorb most of my information through text, and I prefer it that way. I can absorb a tremendous amount of info quickly through text, while telling me to stop everything I'm doing to watch a 20-minute video feels almost insulting, though I know you're being generous!
and the Gisborne cops are treating that instance of rainbow crossing vandalism as a hate crime also: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513012/three-charged-over-gisborne-rainbow-crossing-vandalism 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@EricLawton like how the Catholic church shuffles paedophile priests around parishes?
the local cops are now treating this as a hate crime: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512928/police-treat-painting-over-of-auckland-s-k-road-rainbow-crossing-as-hate-crime 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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