RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116263819407575175

That's right folks, it is now easier to buy a firearm than to load open source software on your phone in America.

Sucks to be in a culture where shows about the manosphere get money and attention, but resources that provide feminist, inclusive, and entertaining content, that young men like, don't get money or attention.

https://www.bishuk.com/support/

ICYMI for my blog and newsletter: I wrote about the rise of age verification laws around the world, and why requiring you to upload your government-issued ID to access apps, websites, and VPNs is a really bad move for the internet, and puts *everyone's* security and privacy at risk.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/papers-please-age-verification-laws-threaten-everyones-online-security-and-privacy/

Zionists the first week of the war with Iran: hahaha yessss Israel the LION has kept Trump good to his word! Netanyahu has made sure America is in the fight against evil!

Zionists now: suggesting in any way whatsoever that Israel has even the slightest influence over American foreign policy is literally the worst antisemitism that exists

A few thoughts on Astral / OpenAI, now that the emotions have sat for a bit.

First, let me start by noting that AI is an attack on open source, inherently, by necessity, and at a structural level. That argument is bigger than Astral, but the short version is that you cannot simultaneously expand the public commons and work towards it's enclosure; moreover, if the public commons do not stand for the public good, then it's not really a commons any more.