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sorry if i'm gonna be quiet for a while. my country recently introduced laws that make it so that in order to use social media to the fullest (not being able to view ns/fw content and in a few cases, not even having access to dms), i HAVE to give the sites my id/face scan.

it goes into effect july 25th. it'll probably effect here too, since this place allows mature content (tho not full on ns/fw)

i'm very distressed about it bc i might end up not even being able to talk to my internet friends. i don't really have any irl ones

if i have to disappear on most socials by then, you know why.

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DID Y'ALL HEAR THE GOOD NEWS?

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yeah this is where this was always gonna fuckin go, unfortunately

she’s 35 years old, by the way

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Reading the new checks that might come in due to the Online Safety Act in the UK and this is actually bullshit

[Image Transcript:

And how will I prove my age?

There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:

Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 

Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.

Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.

Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.

Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  

Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 

Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.

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Not only is this such a fucking breach of privacy, but this is going to hurt adults in vulnerable and abusive situations. Some adults don’t have bank accounts or credit cards or even a fucking phone. I’m one of them. I could not give half of this information even if I wanted to. What the fuck is this. Fuck the UK government. This isn’t going to protect kids, this is just going to hurt adults, and I know full well when they say “sites that allow pornography” they’re going to be going after sites that have huge amounts of queer content, like tumblr and Ao3. Queer kids are gonna lose their fucking communities because of this shit. Abuse victims are going to lose online support systems because of this.

I’m genuinely fucked off about this, and worried about whether I’m going to lose every single one of my online friends. Anyone in the UK, please email your MP and sign this petition. It needs to reach 100k signatures to pass through Parliament.

I’m only hoping the backlash will be big enough for them to stop implementing these measures.

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We're at "disappear our political opponents" levels of fascism now

Zohran needs round the clock protection, I fear for this man's life and wellbeing.

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oh hell yeah!

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And this, friends, is why you DO NOT rely on LLM's to give you accurate information on literally any topic.

Not only can they just straight up hallucinate "facts" and people that don't exist, they can be tampered with incredibly easily.

Elon saw his LLM was giving information he didn't like so he went in and changed it, first forcing it to constantly talk about white genocide and now to promote openly Nazi propaganda.

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Yoooooooo

So the government just defunded PBS and NPR which is fucked. That being said, the public can cover the damage if we orginize and donate.

Only about $1.60 of tax dollars per US citizen per year are spent on the public broadcasting budget. NPR and PBS offer beong able to make small monthly donations, some being 7$ per month or lower if you want.

If you want to donate 1.60$ per month to your local station, you can multiply how much funding they get from you by 12. If you do their monthly donation of $7 per month, your donation can equal the tax dollars of 54 people spent on public broadcasting per year.

If you want to donate to your local station, look them up by your town here to make sure your local stations get helped specifically:

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Seth Moulton is not from my district here in Massachusetts but he is well known for being a Marine Iraq War veteran and an advocate of an assault weapons ban.

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To those drowning in silence !

Gaza is dying of hunger.

Its children are gasping their last breaths of childhood on the pavements of waiting,

its women enduring the siege with stomachs empty but full of pain.

Nazi-like Israel blocks the entry of flour,

choking the loaf of bread and sentencing the innocent to a slow death.

Where are you?

Is there no humanity left in you?

Who will stop this flood of death by hunger?

Who will shout to the world: Enough death, enough siege, enough hunger?

🙏 Help us survive

Donate or share our story.

🔗 https://gofund.me/d94ce09d

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Roughly 6 months in and the US is already at the ‘full blown concentration camps’ stage.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track — and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees.

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Public health groups fear the cancellation of the USPSTF meeting may be a prelude to further disruption

WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has abruptly canceled a meeting of a key expert panel that evaluates the nation’s preventive care recommendations, according to an email viewed by STAT. The email did not cite a reason.

The cancellation of the Thursday meeting of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force comes just a couple of weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the secretary’s authority over the panel, potentially paving the way for Kennedy to reject certain recommendations or reconstitute it.

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i need you all to understand that trump knew exactly what he was saying. he knew this was white supremacist language because he is a white supremacist. he is testing the waters to see how far he can go, just like elon did with his nazi salute. please for the love of fuck stop ignoring that the president of the united states is intentionally and repeatedly targeting jews and stop pretending like antisemitism is just hurt feelings.

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AOC slays.