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@serverlessaoife ummmm its problematic to call people misogynists when they hate women

@serverlessaoife i cant fucking believe "here's a picture of me holding the weapon i'm going to kill trans women with. i'm the victim here" is still working this much. it's so cartoonishly evil lmao

@serverlessaoife also just

why is it bad to be a trans inclusive feminist

are we mad about the trans inclusivity or the feminism?

@RachelThornSub @IsabelB https://www.wearequeeraf.com/pinknews-to-move-to-a-reporter-free-newsroom-with-its-journalists-facing-redundancy/

no more journalists. take a look at the credited authors this past week versus a couple months ago. it's wes streeting, two guys, and "pinknews contributor" which im pretty sure is code for slop.

given that senior pinknews staff have been transphobic in the recent past, i think we can just assume pinknews is an arm of transphobia now.

@RachelThornSub @IsabelB their reasoning is simple, they just fired all the trans people working there.

the fact that LLM company employees are hiding that they use LLMs in their open source contributions shouldn't just give us pause, it should be setting off all the alarm bells, big red flashing lights and the loudest sirens that exist in our heads.

let me lay it out

• LLM contributions have overwhelmed open source maintainers
• maintainers and contributors have been burned out by the harassment received due to pushback against LLMs
• maintainers are quitting open source at a huge rate because of the two previous points
• slop code has tainted the entire free software stack from systemd and the linux kernel to fucking vim
• nobody knows where this code is coming from, and there's too much to properly review (as evidenced by the massive pile of slop that is the leaked claude code source)
• LLM companies have purchased and become owners of type checkers, package mangers, and even a javascript runtime
• and now the people working for the companies making LLMs are purposefully hiding their LLM usage

at best this is an open assault against the commons and free software itself

at worst this is the xz backdoor being worked into every single large open source project

i've worked in infosec and opsec. if something like this happened to our software stack, we would've considered the entire infrastructure compromised. we would've re-bootstrapped our os images and build systems using code from before the slop machines appeared, manually backporting security patches. because this situation is not acceptable. because the alternative would be throwing our hands up and accepting that everything is compromised and every one of our users was fucked and that's just life now.

the takeaway?
you're compromised.
i'm compromised.
your favorite open source project is compromised.
almost every machine on the planet is compromised.

but we're not fucked. we're only fucked if we ignore this and pretend everything is fine. there's always time to rebootstrap and kick the slop machines out. all that's required for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. we just have have to do anything. we just have to say that's fucking enough.

@danluu hey look what was posted 10 days ago

Monitor Copilot coding agent logs live in Raycast - GitHub Changelog

Raycast is a powerful free launcher for macOS and Windows. It can launch apps, search files, control your system, and leverage community-built extensions. With the GitHub Copilot extension for Raycast,…

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@atax1a you can drop the second word in that sentence and it's still true

@atax1a "nah bro u dont get it, i joined the fascist death cult because im an accelerationist" vibes

@seachanger here are a couple of links on ai's role in digital colonialism in africa and south america in case that's helpful!

https://www.ictworks.org/african-digital-colonialism/ (a synopsis of https://www.ictworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/African-Digital-Colonialism.pdf)
https://peopledaily.digital/insights/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-africas-invisible-workforce-and-digital-servitude (ironically uses an ai generated stock image as the article header)
https://www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/ai-colonialism-supertopic/ (keeps trying to sell me ai books lol)

now shut up and fuck your sister on cam to fight against transphobes and identity verification

i've seen people fight for trans rights while also wanting identity verification and porn bans, and they always compromise on the trans rights bit. they end up either doing nothing about trans rights, or they actively sell them out in favor of porn bans. every time.

because you absolutely can't have porn bans and trans rights right now. porn bans are a symptom of transphobia in current year. it doesn't matter how much you hate porn and want it banned, you can't ban it and keep trans rights, because anti-porn/anti-trans politicians and activists have linked these things together. porn bans and identity verification are just weapons being used in the fight against trans rights.

the push for age and identity verification is a direct consequence of the push to criminalize porn, which is a direct consequence of the push to label trans people as porn. these three fights are linked, and we won't win if we're only fighting one or two of them.

don't like the destruction of privacy? then you have to fight for porn and trans people.
don't like porn bans? then you have to fight for privacy and trans people.
don't like transphobia? then you have to fight for privacy and porn.

every attempt to fight for only one or two of these things has failed and will fail because people will compromise their fight for the things they want to stop the things they don't want.

you have to fight for all of them.

@alwayscurious @WeirdWriter age verification is part of the anti-trans laws. that's why all the states introducing it are transphobic. they view transness as porn and deviance, and identity verification lets them control who can see the deviance, and track the ones that do.

we have to fight this war on all fronts, because all the fronts are the same war.

i hope stallman becomes a slopbro just because that would be the hilarious cherry on this shit sundae lol

the communities responsible for meming libdvdcss and the blu-ray decryption keys and for fighting crypto export controls, is now deeply concerned that gavin newsom is going to go after them personally if they don't immediately bow down to fascism. they're also totally on board with the slop machines.

free software is finally dead, but it wasn't microsoft that killed it.

@wwahammy lots of "reasonable people" just following orders

@onni @lcamtuf kagi has always been a fascist ai company, theres nothing to enshittify

we can't even agree to treat all existing sentient life with respect and dignity and yall want to create a new form of artificial sentience? cmon now

@budududuroiu @alineblankertz ive got bad news for you about where the entirety of online culture comes from, bud

but yeah, real nice allyship to women there. definitely more concerned about misandrist slurs than pedofascist misogyny i hope a woman never has to be anywhere near you