Well, they are British. After the Rolling Stones did a photo shoot in drag late 60s, Jagger joked, "Show some Englishmen a rack of women's clothing and they'll play dress up."
To be honest this is one case which smacks of malicious compliance.
Someone somewhere was pissed off and wanted to draw attention to the stupid new guidelines, and knew that this would make headlines.
There won't be anything left to look at or read. Just a few pages of white guys in uniforms or cleaning toilets. wtf
It all better be able to be reposted once these imbeciles are gone. The sooner the better.
I heard from a friend’s daughter that they removed the word «gender» from all documents of her NGO. I was wondering how linguists were going to deal with this erasure. After all, it’s still a grammatical term.
There's a medal of honor recipient, Harold Gonsalves, who was awarded it in 1946 posthumously (he died falling on a grenade at Okinawa), presumably because his page mentions he was Hispanic. They did a ctrl+f for a bunch of words.
I've warned for decades about the rise to power of 'educated dummies.' Most of whom harbor engineering principles that only see ONE WAY or ONE SOLUTION to approaching every single problem or obstacle; let alone carrying other biases
"did they just ctrl+f..." Yes. I have seen this in action. Massive numbers of documents and regulations, limited time, absolutely laughable manpower, now further reduced. The standard is trimmed down to be as simple and black and white as possible. Search, copy, paste to the list or send the email.
Yes. Just like they did ctrl+F for trans and ended up finding transgenic mice and special ed transition programs to help kids with special needs “transition” to high school. The more I see of what they do, the more I see how incredibly ignorant they all are.
Advertisers do the same thing. Keyword block from showing up next to articles with “shoots” in the copy thinking it’s a story about violence when really it’s just about basketball.
Anyone using keywords for this type of purpose in 2025 is just plain dumb.
Uh oh. Somebody made a serious fucky wucky and didn't review the scope of their query.
So much for being smart computer scientists—or scientists at all.
They did the same with the word diversity, biodiversity projects shut down that have nothing to do with the kind of diversity they hate. It's not just a bad timeline we're living in, it's a stupid one.
When they made a list of "racist" instances on Mastodon, it included everyone with "trans" in the description or URL, including for example, "transatlantic." No one cared.
Yea they literally did a grep ‘gay’ and no further looking was done. So Mr. Joe Gay and Gaylord Hospital pinged to be deleted. Lmao. Like remedial ass computer programming.
Hahaha. Americans thinking militaries are guardians of democracies. The Republican Guard was less indoctrinated to follow any orders than the Marines. Let alone chuck in lynch happy national guard units who will treat white Americans exactly as they treated afghans&Iraqis and blacks much worse
AI would be helpful if they wanted to be more careful, and target DEI-related content. Obviously they don’t actually care about mistakes, and are trying to erase all minorities from public life, not just a few restorative justice programs 🙃
I know destruction is their goal, but is so damn insulting to be up against, not just this level of stupidity, greed, evil & hate, but laziness masquerading as 'efficiency' as well?! Especially from people accusing everyone else of it.
In my Rhetoric of War class today we were discussing the censorship relationship between Hollywood and the Pentagon and I speculated that war movies made during the next 4 years will look very different as the Pentagon film office conditions removal of DEI from films on military support.
The Enola *REDACTED* is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola *REDACTED* Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare.
We can laugh but the BBC initially banned the OMD song Enola Gay from Saturday morning Swap Shop because it thought the song promoted homosexuality.
Yes the same BBC that was employing Jimmy Savile, Stuart Hall and Rolf Harris et al at the time…
Hegseth is doing it right in our faces. At this point, if you’re doing this…actively choosing to delete and alter historical records…you have to KNOW you’re a nazi. Idk how else someone can justify this.
A friend of mine works in PR for another org. They were given hours- at most- to take down the posts. So, most likely, yes. (Please note that they are just as upset about this as everyone else is.)
😶Looks thst way, I'm sure a ctrl-f for "trans" was how we ended up with Trump thinking scientists were making transgender mice. The collective IQ of this lot seems to be sub 100.
Isn't this AI? They are running programs that search for terms and then they accept all of the results. It's sloppy, inefficient and inhumane. Imagine what air traffic control will look like if they "upgrade" it.
They can’t take away pictures in our minds especially when set to a fun & apropos dance beat! 🎶 Can we ask OMD to update their Enola Gay video with all the pics being deleted?!! Always loved the song..🎵
They’re also deleting women, so this is a double whammy. There was a big long list of words they were screening for. Basically anything that isn’t white male is considered DEI & slated for deletion.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay-class_patrol_boat
They used an LLM.
Someone somewhere was pissed off and wanted to draw attention to the stupid new guidelines, and knew that this would make headlines.
#satire
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https://www.newsweek.com/grindr-app-crashes-milwaukee-rnc-1927750
Utah and UK:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/29/the-dirty-secret-behind-porn-filtering-laws-content-filtering-doesnt-work/
UK, Australia:
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/what-mobile-internet-filtering-tells-us-about-porn-blocks/
It all better be able to be reposted once these imbeciles are gone. The sooner the better.
I know the Enola Gay thing is funny, but these guys want our soldiers to forget they served with women.
I want somebody to forget which cell they left Elon Musk in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Until AI gets context, nonsense like this will continue.
yes they did
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Anyone using keywords for this type of purpose in 2025 is just plain dumb.
So much for being smart computer scientists—or scientists at all.
https://bsky.app/profile/beebrookshire.bsky.social/post/3ljsohpkzks2g
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Gay_Jr.
The USA are being dismantled from the inside by a bunch of morons.
Every accusation they make is a confession, etc.
They were flagging research that mentioned "bias" because the geniuses don't understand it has a statistical definition.
https://bsky.app/profile/delaneyrules.bsky.social/post/3ljqxwbdm622x
That's likely how we got the nonsense about spending $8m on "transgender mice."
Trump's crack team of "geniuses" went through https://USASpending.gov and did a search for anything "trans."
SELECT * FROM DODpublicimages
WHERE Tags LIKE '%gay%';
And then didn't even review all the records because that wouldn't be very efficient, now, would it?
Yes the same BBC that was employing Jimmy Savile, Stuart Hall and Rolf Harris et al at the time…
They are treating the federal government like AI generated code they’re trying to fix. (Because that’s all they know how to do.)
I wouldn't be the slightest surprised if Musk's AI has already started to change our past in historical digital data.
Once that happens, the physical books would need to get removed, and then all the "inconveniences of our past" will be gone.
Hegseth is doing it right in our faces. At this point, if you’re doing this…actively choosing to delete and alter historical records…you have to KNOW you’re a nazi. Idk how else someone can justify this.
Another post said that pictures of people with the last name "Gay" were also being purged
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem