all liquid and sparkling in the light of the moon

lilith | she/her |20's| ace | white & TME | no landlords | terfs pass away

[absinthe-and-alabaster]

[minmos]

making my own post in a similar vein to this one because i don't want to derail, but:

i just need yall to know that, if you ever message the mods of a reddit, reddit now automatically includes an AI generated summary of your entire post history with whatever message you send. yes it includes extremely personal information. i mod a support group for victims, the AI summary will regularly list out peoples' child abuse histories along with information on shit like them using reddit to seek out extramarital affairs

i don't think reddit has put out any official statements letting people know this is happening, so just as a heads up

[minmos]

fwiw, here's a few reddit posts complaining about it. most succint one so far:

& i was able to find a mention of it buried in an official mod newsletter, though obviously the average user is not reading the mod newsletters, i don't think even mods read those

[sailor-cerise]

[ID: Reddit post on r/TheoryOfReddit by chrews

As a mod I heavily disagree with the use of the new Al summaries I don't know where else to share this but I feel like talking to a wall when discussing this with other mods. Recently reddit rolled out a feature that gives you Al summaries for every user that posted in your sub. It will analyze the whole post and comment history and break it down into two or three sentences. I've seen it describe users financial situations, health problems and even how agreeable they are. I feel like I'm looking at stuff that I'm not supposed to see and I feel obligated to at least let the users know this is happening. This also seems to happen with privated accounts so there's a total miscommunication on who can see what you post about. This seems like a recipe for disaster when combined power hungry mods. All users broken down to a few words they can judge them on. Considering how much Al tends to hallucinate it's even more worrying. It just gives me the creeps where this all is going. Do I overthink this? I mean never in 10 years has something on reddit given me such a visceral reaction.

/End ID.]

[fawntastic]

Well. If the shoe fish

[greatergirlfriend]

i really like it when there's bird girls

[girlfailure-poetics]

I have kind of a niche political view on tumblr, which is that I think misogyny is bad even when it’s just hurting women

[girlfailure-poetics]

and I don’t even think it needs to have a singular benefit for men for feminism and the abolition of patriarchy to be worthwhile

[girlfailure-poetics]

in fact the abolition of patriarchy could be a net loss for men and I would still think that feminism and the abolition of patriarchy was worth it

[absinthe-and-alabaster]

they should call them cutie crawlies instead of creepy crawlies

[absinthe-and-alabaster]

[wondersmith-and-sons]

Which of the following moments in British politics was funniest?

David Cameron allegedly fucking a pig (2015)

Theresa May Brexit deal sees worst parliamentary defeat of any British PM (2019)

Dominic Cummings' social distancing scandal is named #Cumgate (2021)

Matt "Eat Out to Help Out" Hancock caught having affair with his aide (2021)

MP resignations reach critical mass under Boris Johnson (2022)

The Queen dies 2 days after meeting Liz Truss (2022)

Liz Truss who doesn't outlast head of lettuce (2022)

Nigel Farage has to run in by-election against Count Binhead (2026)

I'm American and I never read news from outside of my country

Something else entirely (I'll tell you in the tags)

Voting ended onJul 19

Note: don't let your recency bias decide this, actually think back to what was the objectively funniest time on the internet.

[absinthe-and-alabaster]

someone followed me and then unfollowed, how embarrassing for you

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Losing my mind

[innerchildabortionclinic]

So much to talk about here, but the concept of empathizing with the people who died in the fucking OceanGate submarine is just so foreign to me. These people truly walk among us? #Amongus #Scary

[soup-mother]

On average, a southern pig-tailed macaque (M. nemestrina) in Malaysia eats about 70 large rats each year.[3][4]

[soup-mother]

Life is strange if sealgirls were a more significant part of 2010's yankee youth culture: Go fuck your selkie

[mynnthia]

seeing news about the fallout remaster announcement feels like cruel irony to me

microsoft games are a bds boycott target, and because both bethesda + obsidian are owned by microsoft, this includes the games published by them.

microsoft is gonna further profit from a new virtual playground of ~post-apocalyptic bombed out towns in the desert~ while contributing to creating bombed out apocalyptic conditions in gazan towns, by collaborating with israel on so many fronts that bds calls microsoft the most complicit company in palestinian genocide.

and nostalgia-baited fans will still buy it bc playing pretend in a virtual world thats a knockoff of what real life people are currently facing – a virtual world funded by that very suffering of those real life people – is more important to them than simply playing a different game

[mynnthia]

anyway, to make this rant productive – if you have the means to send donations to palestine, heres some community initiatives:

Mona’s community aid initiative – verified by el-shab-hussein

The Sameer Project – has a british partner org, so UK folks can donate with gift aid here with no transfer fees

Revive Gaza Farmlands – has a canadian partner org, so canadians can donate via direct bank transfers with no transfer fee

Crips for eSims for Gaza – canda-based, so canadian e-transfers saves on transaction fees

[urie]

ICE killed another person in maine today, just days after the murder of lorenzo salgado araujo in houston

the maine immigrants rights coalition has released a statement confirming he was a 26 year old colombian man who was authorized to work in the US and had a valid social security number

will update this post with a gofundme link if/when one becomes available

[captain-price-returns]

The State Department Really Doesn’t Want to Talk About the Office of Remigration — WIRED

The office was created a year ago and seemingly named for a far right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations.

[endearmint]

direct article link.

[ID: Screenshot of the Wikipedia article on the concept of remigration. Text reads, "Remigration is a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry." End ID.]

“Who's to know where the money goes because there's no real monitoring, or any kind of accountability attached to these payments,” the source familiar with the work at the Office of Remigration tells WIRED. “In fact, it was made pretty explicit to us by our leadership that they weren't interested in applying the same levels of accountability as we had traditionally applied to any kind of federal funding that we were responsible for managing to international organizations or NGOs.” In response to specific questions from WIRED, the State Department provided the following statement: “President Trump promised to reverse the Biden-era invasion of illegal aliens and once again make America a country for Americans. Remigration puts these words into action," the State Department wrote in an emailed statement not attributed to a named spokesperson. “The Office of Remigration directly addresses the top priorities of the National Security Strategy: reinstating border security as the primary element of national security and ending mass migration.”

[socialistexan]

Not getting a ton of reporting in US news, but the Trump administration is going after donors to Palestine, including going as far as international extradition under the guide of "counterterrorism"

[godsfavoritespecialangel]

The chances of your fish committing credit card fraud is low, but never 0

[tuxankhamun]