Since the #Olympics are on, let's repost a classic thread here: a brief history of the practice of "sex verification" in sport.
Content warning: This thread will mention anti-intersex discrimination, FGM practices and body shaming.
one chatbot told a participant in this study to go lay down in the dark when he was presenting with a brain hemorrhage... what are we even doing
www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...
Simpson Family in their church outfits. Homer has a little flag that says 'AWARDS' on it
i haven't done this since twitter but at the request of 1 (one) person, OSCAR NOMINEES AS SIMPSONS SCREENCAPS THREAD
Trying to imagine what kind of loser you’d have to be to watch or listen to Diary of A CEO. Do you not get enough of the dumbest rich people lying to you day to day without actively seeking more of it out? As my dad says: thicker than a Boxing Day shite
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
🚨This is an emergency🚨
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
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The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material
www.404media.co/openais-sora...
New: We have just sued ICE to demand it turns over a secretive spyware contract that it refuses to release:
www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
PANEL 1: MATTIE and a FRIEND huddled behind a rock a wasteland. In the background, the silhouette of a huge robot with glowing eyes looms. MATTIE: Life has gotten WAY worse since every single rich person on the planet decided that the huge robot has to be in charge of everything. FRIEND: I don't like how the robot is blotting out the sun! PANEL 2: Everything gets much darker. MATTIE covers her head. The FRIEND nods solemnly. MATTIE: I also don't like how it really doesn't work very well, and is often raining enormous pieces of itself onto people. FRIEND: Sure. I only really use it for making a grocery list or a spreadsheet or whatever. PANEL 3: MATTIE and the FRIEND leap out of the way of a big falling gear. SFX: THUNK PANEL 4: MATTIE is sprawled on the ground, looking terrified. The FRIEND, also on the ground, shouts up at the sky. MATTIE: That was TOO close. FRIEND: Okay! I need it to be 3 columns by five rows,
i just use it for the one thing | patreon.com/lubchansky
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
standing with glinner? no. i'm SITTING for DINNER. with my wife, who has not left me,
New from 404 Media: Spotify is publishing AI-generated songs on the official pages of real artists. One problem: those artists died years ago. "One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."
www.404media.co/spotify-publ...
you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
The EHRC's lawyers have conceded its position on single sex toilets is wrong. goodlaw.social/z87e
i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable
Photo of the Madleen flotilla with text that says “ALL EYES ON DECK”
Live tracker of the Madleen freedom flotilla: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/
Banana slug: Members of my species can be male, female, both or in a state of change between those states GC: You're denying biological reality!
Slugs are WOKE and shouldn't be taught in schools
Hate or Pride?
Burberry, Adobe, KLM, Listerine, Nissan, Radisson Hotels, SoundCloud, Squarespace, Trainline and VistaPrint: the big brands that fund GB News' revolting homophobia whilst claiming to support Pride.
Here's how you write to them and ask them to choose.
goodlaw.social/xoau
I still can't get over how a group of trans women did a topless protest against the segregation of trans people, and the "Gender Criticals" are convinced that some of the protesters are cis because of how they look
You couldn't write a better argument. Unbelievable
I'm watching the Parliamentary debate about the self-ID e-petition and my JAW IS ON THE FLOOR.
The MPs speaking are hitting ALL the key pro-trans talking points:
- transphobic bias in EHRC
- nightmare of SC ruling
- toilet bans are awful
- must hear trans voices
- IGLA rainbow map
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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
There aren't any high level trans players at all in football. This is just a ban of people playing for fun at local levels
Obviously there's no moral or scientific backing for this, it's entirely political
I've been reflecting some more overnight on the For Some Women Scotland case. 🧵
"The Supreme Court’s decision regarding trans women has made me ashamed of my profession – and ashamed of what our law has become." www.independent.co.uk/voices/trans...
Trans women ARE biologically women and no biased court can stop that basic fact from being true. Sex is a homeostatic property cluster containing an array of primary, secondary, and tertiary sexual characteristics. Trans people can and do change sex
my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
Producing realistic baby bumps, placentas and prop babies, Cinebaby are working to improve the representation of maternity in film and television
OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power.
https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/
What concerns are they though, these Concerns? They have Concerns, but we never say what The Concerns are, or indeed where they come from? They're just "Concerns" that come from nothing and demand immediate, drastic, nonspecific action. Won't somebody for the love of god heed The Concerns?
