Notices by The Trandalorian 🏳️‍⚧️ (charliejane@wandering.shop), page 5

It's today! Bandcamp Friday is happening! If you buy music on Bandcamp today, the artists *get all the money*.

I just bought so much great stuff: some Bernie Worrell I hadn't already owned, the new Problem Patterns songs, a new mashup album by Vixoria Drift, and some old-school funk compilations.

Hey, if you're in Washington state, please call Senator Cantwell's office. According to this article (paywall-free link), Cantwell is one of the people pushing hardest for KOSA, which Republicans have admitted will be used to drive LGBTQIA+ content off the internet. (Everyone else, also please call your Senators!)

https://wapo.st/44OTpNZ

@djwudi @ToneMilazzo If I delete the acct and someone steals the username, they won't get my followers tho. They'll just get the name, with zero followers.

They're claiming that KOSA has been fixed. It hasn't been. Please read this detailed explanation of what's wrong with the current version of the bill and then CALL YOUR REPS.

https://techfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/KOSA-July-26-2023-TechFreedom-Letter.pdf

This is the best explanation I've found of how terrible the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is. It's probably worse than you thought, even in its amended form. Please call your reps now!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online

Seriously, call your Senators now. This needs to be stopped before it goes any further. They want to drive LGBTQIA+ off the internet entirely, and Democrats are on board.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/25/influencers-starting-to-realize-how-the-kids-online-safety-act-kosa-will-do-real-damage/

@robdaemon @kinyutaka @failedLyndonLaRouchite @nedhamson @sff180 @danilo Please read up on this. There's no way to do widespread age verification without violating people's privacy. Unless you're literally just going to take people's word for it that we're adults.

If you're going to be a fan of Genesis of the Daleks, you really ought to check out Phil Collins of the Daleks and Peter Gabriel of the Daleks as well.

We have a death cult in this country. It's horrifying and should be a major scandal. Every candidate for federal elected office should be asked about this constantly.

https://slate.com/technology/2023/07/pedestrian-deaths-road-safety-traffic-accidents.html

@samhainnight I don't know if that's true about covid, but I do think a lot of people were kind of broken inside by social isolation. Plus now they view all rules as arbitrary after they got mad about masking.

Hill I'm willing to die on: the Joker should not be a failed stand up comic. He's a homicidal clown, it's completely different.

Why do explorers always pack extra paper towels when they go to the Andromeda galaxy?

Because it's a Messier object.

So fucking angry about the latest SCOTUS decisions on affirmative action, student debt relief and anti-LBGTQ discrimination. I need the Democrats to get angry too.

But of course in this country, Republicans scream and cry victim if they get a paper cut, while the Democrats nod and smile as you burn down their fucking house.

This is HUGE. Tons of leaked documents show how the conservative American College of Pediatrics uses religion, not science, to guide its policies on trans people and abortion. (Paywall-free link.)

https://wapo.st/43Ik7HB

Kinda shocked that nobody out on the streets in NYC seems to be wearing a mask despite air quality that smells like pure death.

Do people just hate masking so much that they won't do it under any circumstances now? In San Francisco we've been masking for years in smoky air.

Super useful and thought-provoking --- this is a great way of thinking about ChatGPT

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/thought-experiment-in-the-national-library-of-thailand-f2bf761a8a83

I'm honestly terrified. People don't seem to realize how fucked things have gotten in a short time

https://www.lawdork.com/p/florida-lawmakers-restroom-trans-care-bills

If you send an email to press@twitter.com you get a poop emoji in response.

I'm guessing this is Twitter's way of commenting on the lack of toilet paper in their offices.

Apparently it's World Backup Day as well as #transdayofvisibility. So definitely do NOT forget to back up your trans people...

@thomasfuchs I'm every bit as much of a skeptic as you are, but I have to admit that at least the large language models are producing some surprising/interesting results. Whereas blockchain and self-driving cars always felt like a fool's errand.