Brazil legislation: Digital Statute For Children And Adolescents
Apple App Store Age Verification
These are not tumblr specific policies. Tumblr is implementing age verification in response to legislative moves that were made months ago.
Tumblr is a failing social media site that has escaped death multiple times already; they do not have the social cachet to defy state regulatory agencies. We know they won't say no to Apple, either--the porn ban on tumblr was in response to Apple's crackdown on explicit content.
If you did not know this was happening, you were behind the curve. That is fine. You're caught up now. The next step is to link up with people in your country who are working to preserve privacy, to roll back these laws where they exist, and to prevent their passage where they do not. In the US the organization you want is Stop KOSA--in the EU you can start with Fight Chat Control.
Repealing ID verification and blocking chat control will help everyone, especially the most vulnerable. We can push this back, but we cannot get it done through the Feedback form. We have to get it done at the legislative level and lock it down so it cannot be forced upon us. I see lots of anger out there. Good. Put it to use.
every year i get so irritated having to remind people that the met gala is a CHARITY for the ARTSSSS
if there is fucking anything that rich people can put their money towards during an ai wave, it is this
literally every single dollar goes towards the museum and keeping it free for new york, new jersey, and connecticut residents, along with maintaining the met’s archive, because it is NOT government funded and the gala is what provides majority of the museums funding
Y'all if you're American please email AND CALL your politicians and senators against the parents decide act. I'm fucking begging because we're reaching a tipping point.
(this list is mainly ways non-locals can donate but by extension offers a lot of resources and places to volunteer in the Twin Cities + there are specific ways to donate time under the cut which can be adjusted to your local neighborhood)
full credit to cataloo from r/minnesota [x]
🩵Immigrant support
Immigrant Defense Network – coalition of 90+ groups organizing rapid response and collecting evidence.
Immigrant Law Center of MN – free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees.
COPAL – advocacy, organizing, phone hotline. Focus on Latine community.
Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) – education and protest organizing.
Interfaith Coalition on Immigration – advocacy, aid, events.
Monarca MN – training and phone hotline.
Unidos MN – education, protests, advocacy.
Center for Victims of Torture – advocacy and mental health services for immigrants and refugees.
International Institute of Minnesota – refugee resettlement group that provides support and legal help to vulnerable new-to-country families.
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota – offers services to refugees, including legal aid to non-citizens.
🩵Food support
If local, food donations are welcome, otherwise monetary donations help these types of orgs source what is most needed
VEAP
Second Harvest Heartland
Every Meal
The Food Group
Meals on Wheels MN
Find a local food shelf
🩵Mutual aid funds & community support
Community Aid Network
Twin Cities Trans Mutual Aid
Leo's Tow (Venmo @leostowingmn) is towing cars back to families if a car is stranded when someone is detained.
🩵More links
MN50501 Mutual Aid Linktree – well-organized list of various Twin Cities groups.
Mplsmutualaid Linktree – many neighborhood and individual GoFundMes listed here.
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.
Stand with Minnesota – extensive list of organizations, mutual aid, and crowdfunding campaigns.
🩵Donate blood
Memorial Blood Center declared a blood emergency on Tuesday, Jan 13. MBC is the blood supplier for both tier 1 trauma hospitals in the metro area (Hennepin County Medical Center and North Memorial Health).
American Red Cross
🩵Donate food or other goods
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.
Volunteer your time (under the cut)
🩵Mutual aid
Reach out to your neighbors – especially if you know they are staying home right now – and ask if they need groceries or toiletry items. Offer to pick up prescriptions, give rides, or shovel their driveway. If you know them well, bring them a treat that you know they'll enjoy. Or just ask them how they're doing and let them know you are there to support.
Connect with any of the orgs above and see if they are looking for volunteers.
Connect with a church or mosque in your area. From u/MuddieMaeSuggins: "I know a lot of regular Redditors are not religious (myself included) but like it or not this is a where a lot of community organizing happens, especially in immigrant communities."
Connect with your local school's admin office and/or their PTA. It's ok to reach out even if you don't have kids at the school. PTAs are organizing mutual aid for school families, safe rides, school observers.
🩵Activism
Find an official protest or other event via Indivisible, 50501, FREE AMERICA, or MIRAC. Students at many high schools are staging walk-outs; if your local school is doing this, reach out to school leadership or the PTA and ask how you can support as a community member.
Join the effort to stop Hilton from housing ICE by booking hotel rooms and then cancelling at the last minute. This action can be done from home! The effort is being organized by Sunrise Movement, who are telling activists to target specific hotels one-by-one. More info: SHUT DOWN HILTON
Find people in your area who are actively monitoring ICE and/or stationing themselves in high-traffic areas and ask how you can help. Check for local FB events where people are organizing and just show up.
At minimum, read the COPAL Handbook before you go out to observe. The DFL, Monarca, and other orgs have been hosting online trainings for constitutional observers (though these fill up quickly).
When you see ICE in action, start recording. Be as loud and as disruptive as possible: honk your horn, set off your car alarm, blow your whistle. Let people know that ICE is in the area. If you see someone being detained, try to get their name and a phone number to call their emergency contact.
If you do not feel comfortable observing ICE in person, there are ways you can support from home. Just ask the people who are organizing in your area. I have social anxiety, and I had never participated in any kind of political action before this past Saturday. If I can do it, you can!
Local organizers are requesting that people who help monitor ICE DO NOT participate in 1-to-1 mutual aid efforts, as these can put the families you are helping at risk.
If you have friends/acquaintances who are sympathetic but not politically active, reach out to them. Show them that they're not alone in feeling helpless. Pick a few low-commitment actions from this list and do them together.
If you’re looking something up and remember a page or article you saw one time that perfectly answered your questions before the internet was buried in AI slop:
Open Duck Duck Go
Enter your search term
In search tools, set the date range from 1993 to 2022
Bask in AI-free results and images
Another method for even briefer information searches, or ones that require data from the last three years:
Open Wikipedia and search there
Donate to Wikipedia
Donate again
Donate again because they are one of the last flickering candles in the misinformation darkness
Mozilla CEO will Eventually Implement AI into Firefox
For anyone wondering, The Verge shared a post on Bluesky linking to an article titled Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox. Forbes has also posted an article on their website titled Mozilla Bets Trust And User-First AI Wins The New Browser Wars. Long story short, they're going to be adding AI shenanigans to their browser much to the dismay of ... well ... everyone.
I'm very much displeased with the outcome and outlook of Firefox because I've been using it for 15+ years. With that being said, I definitely think y'all should switch web browsers ASAP. I 100% recommend the following:
Floorp
LibreWolf
Waterfox
All three are forks of Firefox (meaning that they created a browser using Firefox's code and such) so if you're used to Firefox's UI then you won't have any problems using the these three. Floorp and LibreOffice haven't implement ANY forms of AI into their browsers as of yet. Waterfox, on the other hand, has EXPLICITLY STATED that they're anti-AI. So that's definitely something worth looking into.
UPDATE: I've done a strikethrough for Floorp and LibreWolf because I just found out they do, in fact, have AI shit planned later on down the road. I definitely recommend you going with Waterfox.
UPDATE #2: While Gen AI has been brought to many users' attention for LibreWolf (which can be seen in the comments section) well over a year ago, and it does look like they've since dealt with it as seen here, it's definitely safe to use LibreWolf from the looks of it!
If you posted anything publicly regarding the murder of Charlie Kirk please be aware that you are at risk of being doxxed.
People are putting together a list of people that posted anything less that sympathetic about the murder of Charlie Kirk including addresses and employers at
Charliesmurderers.com
If you think you might be at risk of being doxxed, please set up a Google alert following these steps.
You can get emails when new results for a topic show up in Google Search. For example, you can get info about news, products, or mentions of
This will have Google use a bot to constantly crawl the website and notify you if your name or information appears on there.
If you want to do something to slow down this doxxing website. The email that they're using to get in "tips" is [email protected]
Sign them up for all kinds of garbage. Create a bot that sends them the Shrek movie using temporary email addresses like temp-mail.org. Add them to an RSS feed for something.
Make some "legit" sounding reports for ligma balls and ben dover or whatever meme names kids use these days.
Fill it with so much garbage that the email address is unusable for legit reports and they can't dox people anymore.
I’ve been hesitant to share this, but the truth is… as much as I’d love to handle everything on my own, it’s been really hard. With your help, I can finally get back to doing what I love most — drawing my favorite characters, making comics, and reconnecting with the fandom I’ve missed so much. 💛
The recent Digital Circus episodes were amazing, and I kept wishing I had the energy to draw (especially Ragatha, my girl deserves all the love!!). I want to return to art with a fresh start and a lighter heart.
Please don’t worry — I’m not alone in this, and I’m taking care of myself by going to therapy regularly. I just need a little extra support right now.
Thank you so much for reading, donating, sharing, or even just sending kind words. Every bit helps me and Yuki get closer to a brighter chapter.
"I'm against abortion, but I'll make an exception if their life is in danger."
"I'm against government assistance, but I'll make an exception for people with disabilities."
Bullshit.
How do you decide how much danger a pregnant person is in, and how do they prove it? How do you decide how disabled someone is, and how do they prove it?
That's how harmful policies like this pass. First, they create a harmful policy and promise that there are exceptions when it really matters. Then, they reduce how many exceptions there are until there are none.
Okay, so here’s the updated plans for fighting against youtube's new ai age policy and privacy violating rule (I believe in us!)
Plan 1. Black out and leave youtube/ youtube boycott (August 13 to the point where the policy is gone)
It’s a very simple plan, but this time we just leave until it’s fully reversed. That way YouTube doesn’t just ignore us and the original black out. We have to stand our ground and show them we aren’t going to give up. We have to last as long as possible and let their revenue drain until they concede or someone else comes in and makes another platform (that isn’t based on politics but the same ideas as the original YouTube)
Plus I would like to add some small extra things that will help with the blackout though. That being mass downloading YouTube content. Now this might be the easiest thing for certain people, but it’s something.
Mass downloading YouTube content can help in case there a couple of videos or channels you want to watch during the blackout.
(I use something called a ytdlp but there might be better options for you out there, there might even be built in ones in a web browser or two, just search around the place, you'll find it eventually)
Forget what I said about alternatives that block YouTube, avoid anything that even remotely connects to YouTube. If it connects to YouTube it still provides traffic and helps it out, we want to disconnect from it completely, don’t let it have a drop of traffic
Plan 2. Bugging the crap out of them.
Now since they have a mail box for us to use, that can be used for our advantage here. So here’s what we do, send them letters asking them to reverse the decision, that way they will be overwhelmed by letters that have to eventually give up. Now I don't want you guys to send out slurs, curses or whatever. I need you guys to be kind and critical. I want you to point everything wrong with this and why it is destined to fail and leave the company crumbling
In addition to these letters, if at all possible, I want you guys to include photos of comments made by other people (Twitter, tumblr, whatever) criticizing this and making it known that it’s not just you guys who are angry, but people all over too.
Now we can also include emails in this, but that might be harder than excepted, but in case you do want to send in a email, you can send it that way
I can't find any other way of sending them an email, but good to you if you do find it (though I would recommend a letter much more)
UPDATE, someone has pointed out that we should all send out our letters on a single day, Im taking around August 5th about a week before the thing actually rolls out and than maybe we’ll do another batch on the 8th just in case
Make sure you mass send a bunch of letters
WIP plan 3, legal bull
I wish I could say this plan was finished, but unfortunately, it is not at all. All we have to go for here to filing a complaint towards the FTC about this and or using what this user recommneds (though I can't fully say if it'll work or not)
This plan will be worked on as much as possible
I want everyone if they can to spread to outside of tumblr, talk about it on twitter, facebook, blusky, youtube itself, this plan has to spread to as much people as possible.
I believe we can do our best and shine a light through these horrible times, we can be light in the darkness that will help others shine a burn a hole in this horrible system of censorship
I believe in every last one of you, I believe you can do good and spread good, because in your hearts, you are good
If you have any other ideas, let me know, cause i know more minds are better than one.
Good luck!
Update! We have a discord server now! We will be planning, spreading news and of course sharing ways to deal with YouTube’s ID policy
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