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It’s like this: my sib Tidy just called and told me that a significant portion of the population of Austin is up in arms because Dell Children’s Hospital just shut down its entire adolescent medicine dept over fallout from this anti-gender-affirming care crap.

The only MD in the city doing trans youth medicine also happens to be, by all accounts, the best MD in the city for cis girls with other complex stuff. Both of my cis nieces with weird issues are among her patients. This poor doc just said “fuck it” and quit, she couldn’t take the relentless bashing. My nieces and countless other Austin girls are now without the medical care they need and deserve. And for what? The governor’s MAGA street cred?

My point is this: even if your kids aren’t trans, this anti-trans bullshit can and will still fuck them up.

Protecting trans kids protects ALL kids.

#ProtectTransKids

—@iBlame

behold the alpacamallow.

—@rockmastermike

#OpenAI proposal for regulation of current #AI technology: zero, absolutely none, nothing.

They’re instead talking solely about tech that doesn’t exist, and they have no plan for it either.

https://openai.com/blog/governance-of-superintelligence

—@maxkennerly

People balk at app subscriptions which can in some cases aid in development costs etc, but they’ll happily pay for Netflix, favourite coffee shop or whatever.
I’m not starting beef with anyone, but I’m just here to ask a simple question. Why?
If someone works hard on something and updates multiple times a year, is an app subscription so terrible?
Your electricity doesn’t change month on month, it doesn’t exactly get better unless you live in one of these places that gets powercuts every 15 seconds, but otherwise, you still have to pay it to stay on the grid.
Is an app subscription such a terrible thing? Genuinely curious.

—@FreakyFwoof

commercials for depression meds say depression isn’t just sadness. This is true, but we shouldn’t forget that sadness is still part of it. Sometimes you can just feel very deeply sad for no apparent reason. This is part of depression, too.

—@Fragglemuppet

QOTD: “To replace creatives with AI, clients will need to accurately describe what they want… We’re safe, people.”

#humor #chatgpt #midjourney #ai

—@jtrentadams

It’s approaching June 4th, aka the yearly day Microsoft Bing accidentally filters Tiananmen Square results to airbrush history, due to ‘technical issues’ that have nothing to do with the team who operate from China.

—@GossiTheDog

Would you live in a house made of glass and walls so thin that everyone could hear your every word?
No? I thought so. That is exactly why we need #privacy

—@safing

My fellow cis Americans, I want you to look at this map. Really look at it. And I want you to imagine what it would feel like if those red states were threatening you and your family. Because, ultimately, they are.

This is what creeping fascism looks like. It will harm ALL OF US. And it will take all of us, together, to fight it.

We don’t sacrifice people. We stand with our trans siblings. When their rights are threatened, all our rights are threatened.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/may-anti-trans-legislative-risk-map

🏳️‍⚧️

—@fraying

A few months ago, myself and singer Precious Perez were tasked with creating some bespoke #podcast music for a new venture called ‘Disability Inclusion: Required’ and we’ve just been sent the first two episodes. Check it out: https://disabilityphilanthropy.org/resource/disability-inclusion-required-episode-1/

—@Onj