I hope any injuries are minimal, I'm sorry that happened and hope recovery is easy 💜

Ana went for WORKING FOR VICE, AN INTERNATIONAL NEWS COMPANY this summer

to

Dominoing within a week "Personally flagged by at least First+Last name by major multibillion banking institutions for making sexy voice clips"

They can just. Decide to do that. And they've decided to

People do NOT realize debanking risks. Still gotta make rent but ALL bills/subs will get bounced to a dead account. What if you forget to transfer your phone plan by the 1st & it gets shut off? Now none of your 2FA work and you have to go in person to get it turned back on. It's devastating

to be clear I don't think either of them should've been banned, but a 3-day ban is an inconvenience at worst while Link's permaban is actively hostile and racist

If your game has been using AI assets in production, remove them, hire artists or voice actors or composers to replace the slop, it's not too late to course correct, just get rid of it before release, excise the slop. And that's the compromise position, because people still might not trust you.

I care that the art I engage with is made by humans, regardless of how "good" the tech may become, that is the underlying contention, that is important to me and cannot be bargained away. I'm sick of hearing about compromise this and middle ground that, do you want to hear my compromise?

Remove it.

Right after posting this I saw another org had shuttered a section and fired a bunch of people. I feel really bad for anyone who genuinely cares about journalism and integrity and ethics because where can they even work.

and a lot of thats down to the purposeful destruction of journalism by billionaires. Good journalists get fired, lackeys remain. Also why a lot of the actually factual work is being done independently. 2/2

I have come to the conclusion after the last decade that journalists by and large are transphobic clowns. Tbc there are some people & orgs doing good work, but its a very small fraction compared to the "lets manufacture consent for trans genocide and act shocked when bigots are bigoted" crowd. 1/2

Heritage Foundation literally pushed for us to be classed as terrorists and has an entire book about their plan to try and eradicate us. Theyve been actively supporting attacks on immigrants and women generally. I guarantee its not a segment of staff, to even work there would require being bigoted.

Reads like a parody of bad writing but I know its sincere.