salith @salith@computerfairi.es

At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.

that "Google made their search results worse on purpose to get more ad impressions" article that's going around is based on an internal email chain from a legal filing, in which an employee mentions this potential approach for increasing engagement metrics... as an example of a bad approach and not something they'd be comfortable doing.

based on my reading, there's nothing in here that says they actually did it. I can't see anything in there that supports that claim.

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417557.pdf

Today the FA has proven what most of us already knew: Football is an institutionally bigoted, tribalistic pastime and does nothing but foster hate & division.

There is a concept in psychology of "othering" - an "us and them" mentality that promotes and encourages discrimination. One of the first examples given of it in studies? Football.

Protest the FA's decision to ban trans players. If you don't you're as much a shitbag as they are. No discussion.

Incoming rant.

Stop using AI/LLM tools. Just stop. Especially if you're using them as a lark.

I'm going to be my most judgemental self here. If you post something that's generated by a LLM, (you know, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc) I will assume:

You don't give a shit about stealing from artists/writers.

You don't give a shit about the earth burning up.

You don't give a shit about clean, drinkable water.

You don't give a shit about people & their creative work.

#NoAI

Trans men are real men
Trans men are real men
Trans men are real men
Trans men are real men
Trans men are real men
Trans men are real men

#transrights #transmen #transrightsarehumanrights

Dear Canada

You are going to be given every excuse not to vote.

You'll be told there is already record turn out. You'll be told, the polls already favor the conservatives, losing. You will be told, that exit polls favor someone else. You may even be told, that it looks like someone else has won, before the election is over.

The same thing happen in the United States, and people felt confident, Donald Trump was going to lose. Do not make our mistake.

#Election #Vote #Canada

Let's talk about xPal, which purports to be an encrypted messaging app. https://xpal.com

Anyone that reads my blog probably already knows where this is going.

If this post accidentally reaches escape velocity and people that don't know me find it: Hi, I'm a furry cryptography nerd. Usually when I talk about so-called private apps, it's to disclose vulnerabilities in them.

(Today, I just don't have the damn energy to do a formal write-up.)

Let's start with how they market their app.

Ah, Pope Francis croaked. Another high profile reactionary transphobe bites the dust.

Catholic popes aren't and can't ever be allies, short of dismantling the entire rotten structure.

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20240402_dignitas-infinita_en.html

So let's be clear, not only did Pope Francis consider trans people to be an affront to god and a rot in society, but he also held deep anti feminist views and believed women's value was in being subservient to men and not trying to hold the same level of authority as them. Not really someone I'm going to mourn. Sorry you fell for his repainted "hate the sin love the sinner" line about gay people

Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.

jimmy neutron is actually composed of three jimmy quarks, held together by a james bond

"Our glorious leader has blessed us all, by taking away the "beautiful tariffs that will make us all win" he had blessed us with earlier."

Watched a YT vid last night about the Windscale fire.

20 mins long, and though it was well produced and enjoyable to watch something was conspicuous by its absence; the changes that UK gov forced the plant to adopt, despite protests from technical staff, which made the reactor run well outside design spec.

That might not seem like much but the vid presents Windscale as an accident due to a "fatal design flaw" and not gov pressure.