Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

The thing that gets me is we already had working speech transcription, we had useful digital assistants, and the insertion of LLM based "AI" made them worse and even less reliable.

happy Suez Canal Obstruction day to those who celebrate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction

#boatStuck

this is incredibly funny (it would be less funny if i had to live there though)

breaking the law by importing a twenty dollar tp-link

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yuup2vqg3cibjwhdw2ajq36g/post/3mhqya4pffc2b

Whoa, that escalated quickly. This just got sent out by the press folks at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC says it has decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are henceforth prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the United States.

"Update Follows Determination by Executive Branch Agencies that Consumer-Grade Routers Produced in Foreign Countries Threaten National Security

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2026—Today, the Federal Communications Commission updated its Covered List to include all consumer-grade routers produced in foreign countries. Routers are the boxes in every home that connect computers, phones, and smart devices to the internet. This followed a determination by a White House-convened Executive Branch interagency body with appropriate national security expertise that such routers “pose unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States or the safety and security of United States persons.”

"The Executive Branch determination noted that foreign-produced routers (1) introduce “a supply chain vulnerability that could disrupt the U.S. economy, critical infrastructure, and national defense” and (2) pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure and directly harm U.S. persons.”

"This action does not affect any previously-purchased consumer-grade routers. Consumers can continue to use any router they have already lawfully purchased or acquired."

"Producers of consumer-grade routers that receive Conditional Approval from DoW or DHS can continue to receive FCC equipment authorizations. Interested applicants are encouraged to submit applications to conditional-approvals@fcc.gov."

Not sure how many consumer-grade routers will be left for sale if it really is a ban on approvals for any foreign-made consumer routers like they said, and not just a bunch of already restricted Chinese makers like Huawei and ZTE.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-updates-covered-list-include-foreign-made-consumer-routers

FCC's "covered list" of "thou shalt not entities": https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist

This is the trans fairy.
Every time you retoot the trans fairy,
a trans person gets to start HRT.
And a transphobe dies.

i've seen people fight for trans rights while also wanting identity verification and porn bans, and they always compromise on the trans rights bit. they end up either doing nothing about trans rights, or they actively sell them out in favor of porn bans. every time.

because you absolutely can't have porn bans and trans rights right now. porn bans are a symptom of transphobia in current year. it doesn't matter how much you hate porn and want it banned, you can't ban it and keep trans rights, because anti-porn/anti-trans politicians and activists have linked these things together. porn bans and identity verification are just weapons being used in the fight against trans rights.

the push for age and identity verification is a direct consequence of the push to criminalize porn, which is a direct consequence of the push to label trans people as porn. these three fights are linked, and we won't win if we're only fighting one or two of them.

don't like the destruction of privacy? then you have to fight for porn and trans people.
don't like porn bans? then you have to fight for privacy and trans people.
don't like transphobia? then you have to fight for privacy and porn.

every attempt to fight for only one or two of these things has failed and will fail because people will compromise their fight for the things they want to stop the things they don't want.

you have to fight for all of them.

alright fuck you *uncurls your fries*