[Wnokette] Ron DeSantis Book Censorship Empties School Libraries, Makes Little Kids Cry
#desantis #florida #groupthing #christofascism #cansorship #indoctrination #childabuse
https://www.wonkette.com/ron-desantis-book-censorship-empties-school-libraries-makes-little-kids-cry
GOP Belatedly Realizes Its Embrace Of Propaganda And Conspiracy Results In Bizarre And Unpopular Candidates https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/01/gop-belatedly-realizes-its-embrace-of-propaganda-and-conspiracy-results-in-bizarre-and-unpopular-candidates/
Arizona’s top election official says Kari Lake’s conspiracy-driven tweet could lead to a criminal probe.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/arizona-kari-lake-tweet-fontes-rcna68372
@stopgopfox
I've been a #freethenipple activist for over ten years, trying to normalize the sight of female nipples in nonsexual situations so that maybe someday we can have the same rights to be topless in public and online as men (crazy idea, right?)
as you'd expect, I have been banned hundreds of times "from every platform you've heard of, and some you haven't," and I've got the screenshots to prove them. my last suspension on Twitter, which allows hardcore porn as long as it is in the posts not the header or profile pic, was for "sexually explicit profile pic"... it was a photo of my infant son breastfeeding, with no heinous female nipple even visible in the first place.
so I changed it to a topless picture of myself, but with my nipples censored out by intentionally-poorly-photoshopped-in assault rifles. that profile picture stayed up unbothered for two years, until I finally quit Twitter for good.
Maybe it's because I was raised from birth not to freak out about nudity (which is ENTIRELY DIFFERENT than sex, and I have no idea how anyone gets it into their head that all nudity is sexual, but somehow lap dances etc aren't as long as they keep their clothes on?) but I've never understood the normalization of US culture around violence and guns, and yes, even a photo of a gun just sitting there is violent imo. my preschooler and first grader have to go through open shooter drills. every public place is another mass shooting waiting to happen. calling a gun a mere "tool" and derailing with "anything could be deadly if you use it that way" is such a bad faith argument its not even worth discussing.
Anyway. often whenever I'm watching a video on YouTube, or looking through a gaming magazine, etc, I chuckle bitterly to myself imagining the PUBLIC OUTCRY there would be if a single gun in there was replaced with a single female nipple.
this country is so pathetic and screwed up.
I found this service: https://fetchrss.com
They are able to convert a facebook page in a rss feed and 5 of these feeds are for free.
#Apple allows to override these security settings but it's probably never really explained / shown to users. If you try executing a non-vetted software programme through the common approaches of search (I know, but that's what our students do), double-click or command-O, #macOS will block your attempts with a warning message. But if you right-click on the programme and select "Open", the warning message get's the option to override Apple's security settings at your own risk.
The problem is, most of our students and colleagues don't even know that there is (and always has been despite the infamous single button mouse) a right-click on macOS.
I stumbled upon this #iama on #reddit last night. A lot of interesting questions and answers from @tw #intrigued #ai #openai
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/10pi1d4/im_professor_toby_walsh_a_leading_artificial/
Government is NOT the problem. CONservative governMENt is the problem!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-chair-james-comer-wants-to-probe-ppp-programhe-might-start-at-home
Not really understanding why people are deer-eyedly reporting on #OpenAI claiming to have ready an AI-backed #ChatGPT Detector. ChatGPT can't write a damn haiku if you spend a day correcting its syllable counts. Unless this 'detector' just looks for a final paragraph starting with the word "Overall" and flags that as 'maybe' I foresee a lot of false positives and false negatives from a Perfectly Reliable ChatGPT Detector causing a lot more trouble than ChatGPT by itself ever would have.
From @FLFreedomRead over on Twitter:
Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.
This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.
This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks
Where do Elon Musk's political allegiances align?
Republicans
When he was in Washington, DC today, he blew off Democrats.
Twitter is now the propaganda arm of the Republican Party.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/31/elon-musk-republicans-capitol-twitter-00080516
A really fantastic article about how the #NYTimes continues to support #transphobia and contributing to making things worse for #trans kids. #LGBT #Transgender #TransHealth https://popula.com/2023/01/29/the-worst-thing-we-read-this-week-why-is-the-new-york-times-so-obsessed-with-trans-kids/
“17% of Florida's children live below the federal poverty line. Nearly 2 out 10.
1 out of 6 Florida children are food insecure, meaning they don’t know where they will get their next meal.
And @RonDeSantisFL responds by banning children's books.
GOP madness.
… In contrast, child poverty has declined in California by 5 points… And California hasn't banned books.”
James Connor
What a poster child - chip off the old #TrumpVirus - for 'projection" (spewing out his own disgusting perspective and saying it's the others doing it), and for lying/ #disinformation and sustained squeaky-voiced, brow-furrowed wondering out-loud if 'what if MTG is right? Space lasers, from Jewish owners? It's very possible, in fact likely, that Biden's laptop is being cloned and loaded into chips that are delivered in vaccines. I'm just saying...."
Why is he allowed on TV? #Fox
@carowe @DryBird2993 @stopgopfox If I walk into a restaurant and see three guys of any race with guns strapped to their backs, I am going to turn around and go to a different restaurant.
One old sitcom gag is men not wanting to know about periods. If only tired old jokes were all they were dealing with in Florida, where authorities are planning to harvest data on when underage girls last bled.
#womensrights #womenshealth #waronwomen #republicans #florida #girls #education #sports #studentathletes #sitcom #misogyny
What a fucking idiot...
#FRONTLINE investigates Russian President Vladimir Putin’s clashes with multiple American presidents as he’s tried to rebuild the Russian empire. Veteran filmmaker Michael Kirk (Putin’s Revenge, Putin’s Road to War) and his team trace the miscalculations and missteps of U.S. presidents over five administrations, culminating in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. #PBS #TraitorTrump #PutinPuppet
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/putin-and-the-presidents/