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o.x.garnet
@oxgarnet.bsky.social
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call me O or garnet.
sometimes creative🌹 always starving🥀
idk how to make friends on socials anymore

💄she/they, gender: flipbook
🩸icon: vampire (1893), edvard munch
❤️‍🔥banner: house (1977), dir. obayashi nobuhiko
💥anti-g.ai, anti-nft
https://garnet.ju.mp/
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the-engine-idling.bsky.social
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤

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November 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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brilliantbeeh.bsky.social
From LinkedIn.

Well, yes.
November 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
oxgarnet.bsky.social
HELLO?
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
oxgarnet.bsky.social
i cannot stop telling people about this. please, my county next. please.
thetriibe.com The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 9d
NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level.

The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.

thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
Cook County becomes the first county in the US to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income  • The TRiiBE
On Thursday, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved the FY 2026 budget, which includes $7.5 million to fund the county’s guaranteed basic income program.
thetriibe.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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robpertray.bsky.social
community-oriented societies don't use phrases like "earn a living" because people naturally understand the need to contribute to society. it's only under capitalism, where your life's goal is to generate surplus value for some faceless asshole, where you'll hear an abominable phrase like that
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
oxgarnet.bsky.social
wealth. ha.
itsstormy.bsky.social Skeenita Baker @itsstormy.bsky.social · 7d
First word you see is how you will close out 2025 🌝💫
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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the-engine-idling.bsky.social
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤

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November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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sarabandebooks.bsky.social
When the NEA asked us to promise not to publish trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid authors, we told them to kick rocks. (Actually, formally, with a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, we told them to kick rocks.) So the NEA rescinded our funding.
"Your project to promote 'gender ideology' unfortunately does not align with our priorities." —NEA Notice of Termination Sarabande is exceedingly proud to be misaligned with this administration's vision for the arts. We refuse to become demoralized, soft-pedal our values, or sell out our authors for federal funding. We know you share our values and determination. Help us bridge the gap left by the NEA with a recurring monthly donation or gift of any size.
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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the-engine-idling.bsky.social
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤

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November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
oxgarnet.bsky.social
hey yeah no
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5d
The EPA has approved two new pesticides with "forever chemicals" that will be used on food.

The agency has also announced plans for four additional approvals.

The approved pesticides will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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the-engine-idling.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
oxgarnet.bsky.social
people don’t understand what woobification is and it shows
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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the-engine-idling.bsky.social
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤

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November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
oxgarnet.bsky.social
this was my hopium of the day
www.404media.co/two-years-40...
404 Media at Two Years: How We've Grown, and What's Next
We're reflecting on the impact our journalism had in year two, how we've grown with your support, and what we aspire to accomplish in year three.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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samleecole.bsky.social
I'd think it'd be better to respond and say something like yeah, we took down the face swapping feature because people were being weird with it. or whatever! even if there's no excuse for mishandling users' data.

instead they're saying nothing while their CEO scrubs his linkedin lol 🤷
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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samleecole.bsky.social
I don't think the face-swap stuff represents the majority of Secret Desires users, but I do think it was a major draw for a lot of people.

the company took down the exposed containers within an hour of me alerting them, but I still haven't heard from them or their CEO
In early 2025, Secret Desires removed its face-swapping feature. The most recent date in the faceswap files is April 2025. This tracks with Reddit comments from the same time, where users complained that Secret Desires “dropped” the face swapping feature. “I canceled my membership to SecretDesires when they dropped the Faceswap. Do you know if there’s another site comparable? Secret Desires was amazing for image generation,” one user said in a thread about looking for alternatives to the platform. “I was part of the beta testing and the faceswop was great. I was able to upload pictures of my wife and it generated a pretty close,” another replied. “Shame they got rid of it.”
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
oxgarnet.bsky.social
korean women have been screaming about this problem for over a decade, and things are only getting worse globally as ai equips cis men with the tools to carry out these horrific 'desires' with more ease than ever. more people should care about this.
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · 10d
An AI chatbot roleplay and image generator platform left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social media. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full scoop by @samleecole.bsky.social

www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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the-engine-idling.bsky.social
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤

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November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
oxgarnet.bsky.social
my friends i am tired of this timeline (i will persist, but damn)
tnewmsblues.bsky.social Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 10d
“The White House is preparing to issue an executive order as soon as Friday that enlists the power of the federal government to block states from regulating AI”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
White House prepares executive order to block state AI laws
Draft document obtained by POLITICO calls for task force and multi-agency approach.
www.politico.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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cassiewasright.bsky.social
This is obviously virulent misogyny that hurts all women, but it's also deeply disturbing to me that the ai girlfriends in these depictions are East Asian women, specifically. I haven't seen people talking about the racialized aspect of the misogyny and I'm curious if anyone has written about it
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution
October 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
oxgarnet.bsky.social
even before AI became such a massive thing, women and girls (yes, minors) in korea were dealing with their classmates, family, friends, and partners using photoshop to turn their photos into porn. when AI began proliferating, all i could think about were those people and how things would worsen.
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 11d
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
oxgarnet.bsky.social
so exciting!
the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 10d
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"Modified" bc it wasn't originally formatted for print---margins & fonts are a bit different.
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM