I genuinely haven’t laughed so hard in months, but because people found out that the CEO of meta gave bribes to the government both in cash and stocks to ban TikTok, people are fleeing in droves to Rednote which is the actual Chinese version of TikTok AND leaving meta! He didn’t lose users to TikTok but now that he’s playing ringmaster to be funny, he’s finding out the clowns can be fucking hilarious! Anyways, I’m now learning Mandarin, and I can’t figure out why I can’t change my profile pic but it’s a rubber ducky so I’m cool with it.
Me at age 8: I might not have any friends, but I can make imaginary friends with rich social lives to fill that hole. I bet when I’m older I’ll grow out of this.
Me at age 20: I need to make another OC to try and simulate human connection or else I’m gonna lose my mind.
Trump’s transphobic Executive Orders regarding healthcare and Federal documents are currently unenforceable and are not current actionable policy of the Federal government.
Do not despair.
Do not panic.
And most importantly: do not comply in advance.
Staying alive is a radical act as a trans person in Trump’s America.
Already seeing people on tiktok saying “I still hate trump but he ate with this one” like … babes … you just got propagandized … that’s literally exactly what he created this situation in the hopes you would say …
now that trump has tiktok, twitter, facebook and insta in his pocket, get ready for a massive wave of internet censorship. one of trump’s greatest weapons has always been misinformation; it’s going to become harder and harder to spread facts and criticism going forward. posts that aren’t made invisible will be magically ignored by the algorithm. dissidents will have their accounts deleted and voices erased.
this is a suppression tactic. this is another stage of fascism.
Tags by @biggest-gaudiest-patronuses #we will look back through the lens of history on how very first thing he did when returning to power #was to seize control of the public’s ability to communicate and organize #and it won’t be ‘lol tiktok’. it won’t be funny. it won’t be funny at all
if i had a time machine and i wanted to absolutely destroy an ancient emperor or king, i would take them to the shark tunnel of an aquarium. giving them an ozymandias view of their legacy would do nothing, they can see that all empires rot just by looking around them. but the shark tunnel of an aquarium is something they haven’t seen before, something no one has seen before, something magnificent that they could build with technology only slightly out of their reach. they would bankrupt their nation trying to recreate that shark tunnel for themself. their dynasty would collapse within three generations, and, if heaven is on my side, they themself will be eaten by a shark to the delight of generations of historians to come
so many snow animals are just white puff with dot eyes. amazing design
I just love this genre
oh this was delightful
Don’t forget owls!
Sphere = the ideal shape for maximizing internal volume with minimum surface area, thus best shape for not lose heat. Sphere stay warm! Sticky outy bits get cold!!
uh hey that person you just reblogged from used to be in our discord server but we had to kick them out because they admitted to watching t*m and j*rry… that show features violence and as such glorifies it…. when we confronted them all they said was “wtf its a show about a cat and a mouse”… if you dont believe me theres a whole callout post that features their name age and street address so you can go to their house and check… anyways you should unfollow them before people start thinking you like problematic media too :/ just trying to help
uh hey that person you just reblogged from used to be in our discord server but we had to kick them out because they admitted to watching t*m and j*rry… that show features violence and as such glorifies it…. when we confronted them all they said was “wtf its a show about a cat and a mouse”… if you dont believe me theres a whole callout post that features their name age and street address so you can go to their house and check… anyways you should unfollow them before people start thinking you like problematic media too :/ just trying to help
“I’m not on tiktok anyway so this does not affect me” no???? it’s not just about tiktok or whether or not you like the app??? it’s about them being able to censor and control what they want and what they don’t want people to see. it’s about them being able to keep people uneducated for the sake of their personal gain and benefits.
(it’s also about small businesses who relied on tiktok to gain customers / income.)
that being said, if the only thing you care about is the platforms you’re on, sorry to break it to you, but if they can ban tiktok, they can go after any other platforms too.
they can go after tumblr, archive of our own, instagram, youtube, facebook, etc, you name it.
Usually I provide alternate means, but y'all, call at 2 am if you don’t want to talk to a person, but this time, we need you to actually physically call. This one isn’t email priority. It’s please fucking call your Senators priority. I have been clear about not being alarmist, so let me say that this is one that we need to defeat. If your Senator is already firmly in the “no” camp, like mine, who introduced bills to make Bostock law, encourage them to be loud/louder about their no.
The head of the NCAA, which has about 500K athletes, said maybe five are trans people.
Oh my god, it’s more unpaid Twitter rent. Twitter’s London headquarters are on Crown Estate land, they’re the landlord.
Given that Prince Charles is still trying desperately to make us like him and has started putting a lot of publicly-known-about Crown Estate profits into the public purse, I wonder if the same would happen here if we all… made a fuss? Turned this into a public case? Made it clear this one is perfect for His Maj’s please-stop-hating-me personal campaign?
Could the struggling poor of Britain going through a cost of living crisis take Elon Musk’s money, is what I’m saying
Oh my god, it’s more unpaid Twitter rent. Twitter’s London headquarters are on Crown Estate land, they’re the landlord.
Given that Prince Charles is still trying desperately to make us like him and has started putting a lot of publicly-known-about Crown Estate profits into the public purse, I wonder if the same would happen here if we all… made a fuss? Turned this into a public case? Made it clear this one is perfect for His Maj’s please-stop-hating-me personal campaign?
Could the struggling poor of Britain going through a cost of living crisis take Elon Musk’s money, is what I’m saying
When the wage slaves stage a revolt, so you have to call in the McPinkertons
As the city burns and protesters take to the streets demanding a fair wage, Mayor McCheese heaves a sigh of regret. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. No. The workers were never meant to demand a living wage.
He reaches for the phone on his desk. The bright red stands out against the dark brown of the desk’s hand-polished wood.
It has come to this. May Ronald have mercy on his soul.
Lifting the receiver to his ear, the mayor says the five words he never thought he’d have to say: “Get me Officer Big Mac.”
Bigger claws, bigger fangs, bigger wings, bigger horns. glows purple and red. swings my big and heavy scorpion tail like a club and crushes all the bones in your body
Chimera Falin entrance sequence, but it’s Demily post demon install
Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.
and there was even less talk when openai did the exact same thing more recently
So for those who are, very understandably uninitiated on this story:
On 23 October last year (2024) the New York Times published an interview with former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji who worked on organising and gathering data for OpenAI until 2022 when he begun thinking about the morality of it. He eventually came to the conclusion that what OpenAI is doing blatantly violates copyright law and decided to leave the company altogether in August 2024.
After he came out with this accusation he was set to appear in court to testify against OpenAI’s data-gathering practices, something which had the potential of being a complete disaster for the company and the generative AI industry as a whole.
That was until 26 November, just days before he was due to appear in court, when he suddenly and mysteriously was found dead inside his own apartment. Investigators concluded that the death was self-inflicted, something which his family has disputed.
There was also “sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like someone hit him in the bathroom based on blood spots”, and his apartment showed signs of having been ransacked for evidence: “The pin drive is missing. His computer was messed up.”.
Overall it feels pretty clear-cut what happened, that is to say that OpenAI had him killed because he was a legitimate threat to their business, indicating that they are fully aware that the way they’re gathering data is completely illegal.
Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.
and there was even less talk when openai did the exact same thing more recently
So for those who are, very understandably uninitiated on this story:
On 23 October last year (2024) the New York Times published an interview with former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji who worked on organising and gathering data for OpenAI until 2022 when he begun thinking about the morality of it. He eventually came to the conclusion that what OpenAI is doing blatantly violates copyright law and decided to leave the company altogether in August 2024.
After he came out with this accusation he was set to appear in court to testify against OpenAI’s data-gathering practices, something which had the potential of being a complete disaster for the company and the generative AI industry as a whole.
That was until 26 November, just days before he was due to appear in court, when he suddenly and mysteriously was found dead inside his own apartment. Investigators concluded that the death was self-inflicted, something which his family has disputed.
There was also “sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like someone hit him in the bathroom based on blood spots”, and his apartment showed signs of having been ransacked for evidence: “The pin drive is missing. His computer was messed up.”.
Overall it feels pretty clear-cut what happened, that is to say that OpenAI had him killed because he was a legitimate threat to their business, indicating that they are fully aware that the way they’re gathering data is completely illegal.
I remember the first time I saw it, i stared at it for several minutes until I finally just started crying. It made me resolve to leave, and I turned in my resignation about a month later.
This is your reminder that if life keeps throwing you lemons you are not morally obligated to make lemonade from them. You can duck, or catch them in a trash can, or get a baseball bat and slam those fuckers into the stratosphere.
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