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This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.

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If you reduce protests against the ethnic cleansing in Gaza to "anti Semitism" you will get the quickest block from me. Few things have made Jews as unsafe or been more of an insult to our values than knee jerk support for the Netanyahu government.

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Please help us correct misinformation! Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans". We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community. Find out more @ translifeline.org

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

A little advice to artists: if an AI slopper puts your art through an AI and dare says “I fixed your art” DO NOT INTERACT, ignore & block them; they know it’s wrong and they want your angry reaction to get attention so they can show off “look I made this artist made mad lmao”

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I do genuinely wonder how many people think what happened with Wikipedia is that “society accepted it” rather than that they put a ton of work into making it reliable, something that is not going to make AI reliable because no technology to actually understand meaning has been or can be invented.

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

A very succinct summation of why AI isn't going to be the thing they say it is. There's no road to there from where we are.

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

And arresting and sending a non-citizen to a foreign prison outside of any due process is rendition. It isn’t deportation either.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

WAIT WHAT???? IT WORKS OMG! YESSSSS

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Cis folks: reach is relative. You probably don't have the clout to support trans folks in People magazine. But you do have influence with the people around you. Work, family, community. Use it. Use it not just to blast bigots; also remember to uplift trans people around you.

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🧵Confirmation via a friend: Starbucks will forbid employees from masking without a medical note. Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards? Starbucks wants you infected. 👉 #Sickbucks 👈

submitted 8 days ago • 87 comments

Seen elsenet and worth repeating: J. K. Rowling is just Andrew Tate for white women.

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.

submitted 9 days ago • 159 comments

Hi again : Shut the F*CK UP You don’t know anything. If it’s a number you don’t know Look it up Block it If someone is nosy about your business SHADDUP Don’t indulge in gossip with folks who trade secrets SHUT UP Love you all so much

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Fake literary agency alert: Pitch Ready Literary Agency prliterary.com It's slicker than usual but scam-sign is there: no sales/client list, web domain less than 2 weeks old, stock & AI images of "agents" & testimonials, "team directory" w/ names mostly stolen from Writers House

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Proof of the value of human ingenuity is that all of these fake sayings people are making up are great and I love them (and this is also a good demonstration, for those that need it, that LLMs are designed to give answers that sound right, not that are right)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is why we need to stay out of #Target - they dropped Black businesses and then billed them for marked down products.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

incredible work

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Live your life in such a way that no one will ever accuse you of having killed the Pope. With vibes. You didn't even need an instrument of killing. Just you and your vibes.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Imagine being so bad at Catholicism that you get holy ghosted by the Pope.

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

Sign of the day…

submitted 12 days ago • 184 comments

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

submitted 12 days ago • 394 comments

i need people to understand "death of the author" means the author can't dictate what you take away from the text, not that you're not complicit in what they do with the profit they make from you buying it in the first place

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country

submitted 14 days ago • 283 comments

The correct response to rfk saying he wants to exterminate autistic people is to loudly tell him "die, motherfucker" instead of trying to explain that human lives have value.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Fun fact, JK—who is English—single-handedly funded the Scotland remain movement during the referendum, and called separatists “bigots”. She’s the reason there’s no independent Scotland. She throws her money and clout around like she’s fucking Nigel Farage. She’s a billionaire corrupting politics.

submitted 15 days ago • 44 comments

"I don't see why being a terrible person should have an impact on one's career!" --Terrible People

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Honestly, mood and agree. I want to respect people's fandoms and to each their own joys, but the money JKR gets from the HP label and it being kept alive is being used to cause actual active harm to people's lives. I know it sucks. Used to be an HP fan and mourn its loss. Find other magic fandoms.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The thing about Rowling for me is that I'm not trying to give no bitch who doesn't like me or my friends my money if I can help it. And that goes for anything--a dress, a movie, a club membership. I couldn't enjoy it. Nothing could overcome my aggravation of being taken advantage of.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Can you imagine the wonderful world we could have if JK Rowling had dedicated her fame and immense wealth to good instead of evil? Imagine if she's dedicated herself to vaccination, or immigrant rights, or women's right and threw her billions behind those instead of her cadre of abusive rapists.

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

Rulings like this hurt the dignity, opportunities, and safety of all women, cis and trans. Fuck TERFs And fuck Rowling in particular for bankrolling this entire sham of a case.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

This is evil and awful and trans people everywhere deserve better than what's happening right now. And I think it's impossible to overtstate the pivotal role that JK Rowling played in mainstreaming hateful and false ideas about trans people. Every dollar you give her goes toward efforts like this.

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

>trans people told everyone not to play hogwarts legacy >’b-b-but my childhood!!!’ >two years pass >jkr uses her harry potter money to fund a case ruling trans women aren’t real women :| www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/19/j...

submitted 15 days ago • 78 comments

Every time Harry Potter makes a dollar, JK spends a quarter trying to kill a trans person

submitted 136 days ago • 2 comments

There is no difference between saying citizens and non-citizens can be deported without due process. This should be obvious, but let me explain. If there is no due-process, how do you prove you're a citizen? And to whom?

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.

submitted 16 days ago • 44 comments