Transphobic scientists are recruiting trans people for study.

Do not respond to requests from Lisa Littman, Ken Zucker, J Michael Bailey, James Morandini, Kevin Hsu, Paul Vasey, Ray Blanchard, Scott Semenyna or Alex Byrne.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/scientists-behind-the-social-contagion

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ

This Afroman trial is giving me life.

Cops raided Afroman's house for no reason. They pointed guns at him and his kids, ransacked his house, and tried to disconnect his home security cameras. They didn't disconnect them all, and so were allegedly caught on camera stealing his money.

He then made a series of music videos using footage from his security camerasz and body cam footage. Now the cops are suing him for making the videos. The ACLU is defending him.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/2m8NpGplUOM

‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images.

The article closes with:
"""
So, next time you see someone in a park trying to “catch ‘em all,” it’s quite possible the data gleaned from that scavenger hunt could play a key role in determining whether the pizzas of the future make it to their destinations on time.
"""

Haha, cute. Training pizza delivery robots with crowdsourced data (that players didn't know they were providing)—isn't that quirky.

Until it isn't...

What happens when they start selling that data to governments to help target drone strikes?

"""
That mapping effort got a significant boost in 2020, when the app added what it called “Field Research,” a feature prompting players to scan real-world statues and landmarks with their cameras in exchange for in-game rewards.
"""

Corporations, dubious ethics, and money always end up in bed together, hate-fucking the 99%.

@cyberlyra https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116239245187011717

Let’s see …

The Idiot,

• Insults our European partners by claiming NATO is a waste of money
• Withdraws support for Ukraine
• Supports Bibi in his genocide
• Kicks the hornet’s nest in the Middle East by attacking Iran
• Pisses everyone else by going tariff crazy on the world

… and then gets upset when the rest of the world says, “Naw. You got this,” when he asks for help in a losing war in Asia?

Color me shooketh.
I is speechless.

It’s official: There are now 3,000 protests planned for No Kings Day.

That means there will be more protests on March 28 than any previous day in American history.

Please join us: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible #NoKings

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@andrewducker/116250538141616177

Note that it uses wifi for networking (making it VERY susceptible to jamming/getting pwned) and it's probably not going to be anything like as fast as the Mach 2.2 FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missile! Might be good for plinking at drones, though.

Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing and there is reason to fear she may have been apprehended by authorities, possibly likely even for being framed. Nobody has been able to reach her and many of us are worried for her safety.

Joyce does work on verifiable open source hardware. She also has been an activist pushing against the rise of far-right Christian nationalism globally but especially in Singapore. Because of this and her identity, she has people who would like to see bad things happen to her.

Probably for this reason, she may have been misidentified by Five Eyes as being a threat actor. Joyce wrote about this concern in November, posting a threatening screenshot where she was tipped off. https://bitowl.online/about

Please spread this wide. Hopefully this is a false alarm but Joyce is a kind-hearted person who fights for human rights and computing freedom; many of us are worried for her safety.