I'd like to state clearly as a trans women that trans men are not my oppressor, they do not represent or reproduce my oppression.
It makes me so exhausted when I see fellow trans women endorse what looks very much like recycled TERF rhetoric to me.
Imagine:
You are a programmer who is all-in on LLM code generation. You get so much written every day! Hundreds of thousand lines of code, and you barely lifted a finger. But... your LLMs are trained on the entirety of Github.
How many repos on there are full of trojans and viruses? How do you know that your super-productive LLM isn't copying *those* instead of the canonical version of whatever frameworks it's building? How do you know there isn't a malicious actor out there spamming Github with throwaway projects that're chock full of their malware, hoping the next LLM training pass picks it up?
Nah, it's fine. This is AI. It's smarter than you are. It's not three thousand autocorrects in a trenchcoat that dumbly repeat the most likely followup to their input.
The fossil fuel industry funds anti-democracy movements to get climate denialists elected.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html
The irony of the rest of America facing a 250th anniversary too hot to attend safely.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevlkzer7vdo
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/01/donald-trump-great-american-state-fair
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/03/great-american-state-washington-dc
The horror of Europe facing thousands of heat deaths because Putin bought corrupt politicians.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/03/deaths-france-surged-hottest-week-record-heatwave-june
The fossil fuel industry funds xenophobic bigotry for divide & conquer partisan gain
Happy Birthday, #USA!
"Photo by Etienne Laurent / AFP / Getty
LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as Lady Liberty in chains during the 'No Kings' national day of protest in Los Angeles on March 28, 2026."
#America250 #Americas250th #USPol #FirstAmendment #NoKings #StatueOfLiberty #LadyLiberty
#otd 1917 — “From July 2 through July 5, 1917, at least 39—and by some estimate as many as 200—African Americans were shot, hanged, beaten to death, or burned alive after being driven into burning buildings.”
#history
calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
Jul. 3, 1917 | White Mobs Terr...
#otd 1917 — “From July 2 through July 5, 1917, at least 39—and by some estimate as many as 200—African Americans were shot, hanged, beaten to death, or burned alive after being driven into burning buildings. The riots caused more than $400,000 in property damage and prompted 6,000 African Americans—more than half of East St. Louis’s African American population—to flee the city.”
#history
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jul/3
@afewbugs extra bonus.
They're not retired. They run a YouTube channel and free (for your contact details which they are amassing) course, which is currently running at a small annual loss but which they clearly expect to gradually turn into money via YouTube earnings and a book deal.
https://rebeldonegans.com/does-rebel-finance-school-make-money/
I hate headlines like this. You read the article and discover she works in finance, he runs a life coaching business whatever that is, and they retired once their savings hit £1 million which didn't come from making their own sandwiches.
Meanwhile out in the real world most of us have been bringing packed lunches to work since the 2010s at least and are still one unexpected vet bill away from a couple of months of home haircuts.
This Fourth of July—the 250th anniversary of American independence—I want to have a difficult but necessary conversation.
A sitting President now operates with virtually unlimited immunity, his financial conflicts in the billions, his illegal wars unchecked. But Trump did not emerge out of a vacuum.
Let's look back at history, Dem & GOP alike. Understanding how we got here is how we revive an America where justice is our standard. If we're not already too late.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/250-years-of-independencebut-we-keep
hindenburg when frontenburg
From the NYT:
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation is assigning an army of 260 investigative analysts to a “priority” investigation related to the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., a reflection of President Trump’s ongoing push to prove his baseless claims that the 2020 election there was rigged."
"The effort is outlined in an internal memo obtained by The New York Times and confirmed by a person familiar with the investigation. The memo says that the surge is part of a “priority” effort by Kash Patel, the director of the F.B.I. The analysts will work to complete “approximately 708 records checks,” according to the memo. The type of records being checked is unknown."
"....an unsealed affidavit that was used to obtain the search warrant for that raid relied heavily on debunked claims about ballot anomalies in 2020. Those claims have been revived inside the White House by Kurt Olsen, an election denier who works in the Trump administration and who set off the current investigation, according to the affidavit."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/politics/fbi-georgia-fulton-county-2020-election.html
Good thing the POTUS has half the FBI chasing suspected undocumented immigrants and long-ago debunked election fraud claims. It's not like we just bombed the crap out of the world's biggest sponsor of terrorism or anything.
An extremely talented graphic artist (who is here on the fediverse but wishes to remain anonymous, THANK YOU FRIEND) helped me put these space-junk-for-kids pamphlets together! Here's the version that shows the page order as you would read it
Send me a message if you'd like a version that is formatted for folding!
#German Court Says #Google Is Liable For False Claims In Its #AI Overviews Because They Are Its Own Words - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/01/german-court-says-google-is-liable-for-false-claims-in-its-ai-overviews-because-they-are-its-own-words/ "More generally, #liability concerns could mean that many current use cases for #agents won’t be commercially viable."
Can we rename the EPA to the Environmental Poisoning Agency at this point?
"EPA approves fluorocarbon pesticides"
The Trump administration has approved three new pesticides that may be considered “forever chemicals” under an international definition
https://thehill.com/newsletters/energy-environment/5950626-trump-administration-forever-chemicals/
RE: https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/
"I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from Google’s latest climate report, but holy hell, I did not expect this.
The company’s total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025."
GenAI is gonna kill us and the planet
https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat
it's funny how sony managed to rally even people who don't care about retro games or game preservation against them
impressive, really
@Edent As a German living in France and writing (somehow en-GB) #English as a foreign language, I like your answer!
In times of #LLMSlop, we need even more human #writing embedded in different cultures, experiences, and history. This is what I like: With all these different shades of "English-whatever" we can learn more about the fascinating #diversity of our world!
(Yea, I know… that’s pretty much what @pluralistic’s #entshitification is all about. But it’s still crazy to me that grown ups accept the reality of an internet where “rape”, “sex” or “genocide” are big no-no words)
It’s wild and depressing that in the space of 20 years, we went from:
“I can now share my furry fanfic or my penis puppetry show with the entire world without worrying about any government or tv channel censoring or gatekeeping me out.”
To:
“I can’t spell the word s*x, or anything a 1960s Mormon housewife might object to, must keep my no-genocide politics on the down low, and constantly beg technofascist corps to let people read what I write”