"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

  • 🔧 Actively working on site again.
Everyday I grow fonder of AI. In a modern world where everything new is shit and gay, "artists" can't make anything good, and we are surely plunging into an incompetency crisis, how does someone who is not creatively gifted make good media for themself? Its simple, just have robots make it. I for one bow down to our new AI overlords, I mean they can't be much worse than the bankers and baby rapers who already rule over us, right?
 
Joshua Moon, who is a vocal critic of CloudFlare, has been caught starring a CloudFlare repository on GitHub:
1709420576921.png

How will he ever recover?
 
Joshua Moon, who is a vocal critic of CloudFlare, has been caught starring a CloudFlare repository on GitHub:
View attachment 5775722
How will he ever recover?
He's already said he uses Rust, the language of trannies, so maybe we now have a hint as to what he plans to announce on Friday.
 
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you

Rats and Riches​

View attachment 5775082
View attachment 5775074
mAtI - Mad at the Internet

View attachment 5775189

* EDIT- This shit is a lot of fun to play with. I would recommend trying it out if you can.
Good enough to be stream bumpers /intros/outros, imo. Another step towards making absolute amateur streamers look like they have deep pockets and fans.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Let's find Crack
on the same line of Twitter
Last April, Twitter quietly edited its abuse and harassment policy to no longer explicitly ban deadnaming (calling transgender people by a former name) or misgendering (purposely using non-preferred pronouns or gender labels).

Twitter's decision came after Elon Musk suggested that his own tweets might violate the long-standing policy, which was first enacted in 2018. And that seemed to be that—until last month, when the platform, now called X, just as quietly reinstated a version of the old policy.
In a section labeled "Use of Prior Names and Pronouns," X's updated policy confirms that X will "reduce the visibility of posts that purposefully use different pronouns to address someone other than what that person uses for themselves, or that use a previous name that someone no longer goes by as part of their transition."

GLAAD's senior director of social media safety Jenni Olson told Ars that she believes policies explicitly banning deadnaming and misgendering are better than vague policies that don't make it clear what's banned. Clarity makes it easier for content moderators to act on valid reports of hate speech.

X's policy acknowledges that mods might struggle to discern violative uses of prior names and pronouns. That's why X says that, "given the complexity of determining whether such a violation has occurred, we must always hear from the target to determine if a violation has occurred."

Requiring users to self-report these attacks, Olson told Ars, places a significant burden on the victim, which is why GLAAD—which has spent the past 16 years providing guidance to all the major platforms on LGBTQ+ safety—doesn't recommend self-reporting requirements in a platform's moderation policies.

While Olson sees the changes at X as positive, the company's decision to reduce the visibility of attacks—rather than explicitly ban them—is still viewed by GLAAD as a step back from the stronger protections that users enjoyed on Twitter for years. X did not respond to Ars' request to comment.

Smaller platforms embrace stronger protections
On Thursday, GLAAD released a report asking all social media platforms to explicitly recognize targeted misgendering and deadnaming as hate speech.

Sharing results from a 2023 survey of six widely used social media platforms' policies—including TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads—GLAAD found that "only TikTok expressly prohibits targeted misgendering and deadnaming in its hate and harassment policy." As with X, rather than proactively removing offending posts, Meta's platforms provide paths for users to self-report misgendering and deadnaming.

For years, GLAAD has focused its efforts to expand online LGBTQ+ protections on companies operating the biggest platforms—Meta, Google, and Twitter/X. But more recently, GLAAD has had better luck winning over the operators of smaller platforms, like Discord and Snapchat.

For example, after a round of outreach to smaller platforms late last year, GLAAD advised Snapchat on a policy change in January in which Snapchat started prohibiting "any abuse in the form of intentional deadnaming or misgendering."

"The health and well-being of our community are our top priority, and we believe we have both a responsibility and a meaningful opportunity to support Snapchatters by maintaining a safe space for them to communicate with their friends," a Snap spokesperson told Ars. "We regularly update our community guidelines to ensure they continue to meet this goal, and most recently did so in January."

Discord similarly made headlines for working with GLAAD. Last December, it specified that "you may not post, share, or engage in: Repeatedly using slurs to degrade and demean individuals or groups. This includes deadnaming or misgendering a transgender person."

Discord's "important policy update," a spokesperson told Ars, was part of Discord's "ongoing efforts to ensure Discord remains a safe and inclusive place for people to hang out and talk together." Because of the explicit ban, targeted deadnaming and misgendering is now included in sweeps that proactively removed hate speech from Discord's servers 96 percent of the time in the last quarter of 2023, the spokesperson said.

GLAAD's report points to other platforms with explicit bans, including Tumblr, Pinterest, NextDoor, Post.news, and Spoutible. And Twitch's community guidelines expressly ban “intentionally referring to someone using a pronoun or form of address that does not correctly reflect the gender with which they identify, such as repeating incorrect pronouns after being asked to stop."

Olson said that seeing this momentum was "exciting" because although these are "small" changes, GLAAD sees them as "really important" protections.

"This is not about accidentally getting someone's pronouns wrong," Olson told Ars. "That's fine. That happens. This is about targeted misgendering and deadnaming with a clear intent of expressing hate and disrespect and contempt."

Some analysts consider decentralized social networks (read our primer) to be the future of social media. In these online ecosystems, users can choose their preferred servers with content moderation rules that share their values, which they can leave at any time without losing all the content they have posted or the connections they have made.

Olson told Ars that GLAAD has been working with the Independent Federated Trust and Safety (IFTAS) moderator community, which last month shared a sample code of conduct for Fediverse providers that want to ban misgendering and deadnaming. Noting that the "Fediverse has a proud history of longstanding support of LGBTQ+ issues," IFTAS put out a statement encouraging the adoption of rules it considers best practices because "it offers clear guidance to users, and it assists moderators in recognizing and understanding the intent behind such statements."

It's also important to understand that just because a platform has strong LGBTQ+ protections, it doesn't necessarily mean those policies are consistently enforced, Olson said.

"The actual enforcement of these things is a whole other topic," Olson said, noting that GLAAD found that all platforms "need to vastly improve on enforcement."

Loopholes allow targeted harassment of public figures
In 2023, GLAAD reported that a record number—91 percent—of "non-LGBTQ Americans overwhelmingly agree that LGBTQ people should be free to live their lives and not be discriminated against." However, on social media, Olson said, a small minority of people exploit loopholes in platforms' hateful conduct policies that make exceptions for speech targeting public figures.

"Public figures are not protected from a lot of extreme forms of hate speech," Olson told Ars, adding that this impacts other LGBTQ+ users, not just the person being targeted.

"Historically, marginalized groups—LGBTQ people, people of color, women—when they see those attacks on people who are part of the group that they belong to, they experienced that as harm to themselves," Olson said. Realizing this, "particularly high-follower hate accounts will use the attack on a public figure as a way of expressing general anti-trans hate."

GLAAD's report specifically calls out Meta as needing to close loopholes allowing targeted hate of public figures, likening Meta's hesitancy to do so to its history of failing to recognize that Holocaust denial is antisemitism.

"As is true of other creative hate and dog whistle content, targeted misgendering and deadnaming of public figures is quite obviously anti-trans hate speech," GLAAD's report said.

Meta did not respond to Ars' request to comment.

But the problem goes beyond Meta, GLAAD's report said, also calling out YouTube and X for allowing targeted hate of public figures.

One example in GLAAD's report highlighted a demonetized YouTube video attracting 3.5 million views from the controversial online commentator Jordan Peterson that deadnamed trans actor Elliot Page "dozens of times in the course of a 15-minute rant." After X removed policies banning misgendering and deadnaming in 2023, Peterson continued targeting Page on that platform, GLAAD's report said.

Other frequent famous targets, GLAAD said, include model Geena Rocero, Department of Health and Human Services official Admiral Rachel Levine, TikToker Dylan Mulvaney, and former NBA star Dwyane Wade's daughter, 16-year-old Zaya Wade.

GLAAD plans to continue advising platforms on best practices to improve LGBTQ+ safety, including releasing a second report Thursday recommending that platforms remove content promoting so-called "conversion therapy." Currently, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat have policies banning such content, but platforms like X, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Discord do not, GLAAD found.

Olson told Ars that advocating for better protections is important because "social media, especially for LGBTQ people, and especially for LGBTQ youth, is this incredibly valuable, necessary resource" to connect, share experiences, and organize.

"It's where all kinds of good things do happen," Olson said.
...
1709438542540.png
1709438630746.png
X owner Elon Musk has seemingly fixed his platform's "misgendering" rules everywhere outside of Brazil, where a court ruling upholds them.

Musk has been busy this week responding to complaints on X when the platform reinstated its rules against "posts that purposefully use different pronouns to address someone other than what that person uses for themselves, or that use a previous name that someone no longer goes by as part of their transition.” When Musk took over the platform, he swiftly removed the rule titled “Use of Prior Names and Pronouns” in April 2023.

At first, Musk tried to explain away the policy as just being "about repeated, targeted harassment of a particular person." Then on Saturday, he provided another explanation.

"Turns out this was due to a court judgment in Brazil, which is being appealed, but should not apply outside of Brazil," Musk wrote in response to another complaint about the new policy.

This was likely in reference to Brazil's Supreme Court ruling from August 2023 that homophobic slurs were punishable by prison. Nine of the 10 Supreme Court judges found that homophobic slurs fell under the South American country's law against racial slurs, which are also a punishable offense.
1.
PolitiFact has repeatedly debunked false claims that former first lady Michelle Obama was born a man, but they persist online.

A Feb. 15 Facebook post, for example, claims that official government documents "expose" her "14 year history as a man."

The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook.)

A video in the Facebook post cites what a July 2022 News Punch blog post described as "official documents obtained from the Illinois State Board of Elections" that supposedly "reveal Obama officially changed her sex to female."

The image in both the blog post and the Facebook post appears to show a voter registration card for Michelle Obama. In the space to indicate the applicant’s sex, the M is circled, and in a section for the applicant’s name, if changed, Obama’s maiden name is misspelled: "Michelle L Robison." Her maiden name is Robinson.
Matt Dietrich, a public information officer for the Illinois State Board of Elections, told PolitiFact that the agency doesn’t keep original voter registration cards like the one that appears in the posts.

The card pictured in the video didn’t originate at the Illinois agency, Dietrich said. "We have no record of this voter’s record ever indicating any gender other than female."

We contacted the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners to try to learn more about the purported voter registration card in the posts but didn’t hear back.

However, it has long been established that Obama was never a man.

She was born Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in January 1964 and gave birth to two daughters.

We rate claims that government documents prove she was a man Pants on Fire!
1709439443790.png1709439805729.png



2.
A near-unanimous ruling in a Brazilian High Court has ruled that homophobic hate speech is on the same level as racist hate speech – and is punishable with a prison sentence.

A 9-1 ruling handed down through the Supreme Federal Court (STF) on Tuesday (22 August) ruled that homophobia is a crime, much like other forms of hate speech.

Lead judge on the case, Justice Edson Fachin, said in his ruling that protecting LGBTQ+ citizens under the law was a “constitutional imperative.”

Article 20 of the Brazillian Penal Code states that practising, inducing, or inciting discrimination “based on race, colour, ethnicity, religion, or national origin” is punishable by one to three years in prison and a substantial fine.

Other hate speech protections already imposed in Brazillian law extend to HIV-positive individuals. Those found guilty of discriminating against HIV-positive people can face one to four years in prison.

Judges had previously ruled in 2019 that homophobic hate speech is a crime equivalent to racism, but earlier decisions pertained to the LGBTQ+ community as a whole rather than attacks on specific individuals.

The ruling, which was brought by the rights group ABGLT, means that those protections will be extended further.

ABGLT argued that, because Brazil’s legislature separately defines hate speech against a group, which it calls a “crime of racism” and hate speech against an individual, which it calls a “crime of racial injury,” LGBTQ+ citizens were not currently protected.

The only judge to vote against the request, minister Cristiano Zanin, argued that to recognise homophobia as a “crime of racial injury” was not relevant to previous rulings.

Brazil is considered to be one of the most dangerous places in the world for trans people according to the rights group Transgender Europe.

Statistics show that 1,741 trans people have been murdered in the country between 2008 and 2022, with 228 murders of LGBTQ+ people in Brazil in 2022 alone
 
Last edited:
Nobody can make the argument that a piece of paper properly cleans literal shit.
Of course! Doesn’t everyone have a tame liberal to lick you clean?

If not, baby wipes are the literal shit if you need something for an emergency.

And even so, there is a difference between having some tp between your hands and the will wonka factory and just rubbing wet fingers all amongst your beef starfish.

Either way you’re gonna wash your hands but one is gonna require scrubbing your nails.
 
Of course! Doesn’t everyone have a tame liberal to lick you clean?

If not, baby wipes are the literal shit if you need something for an emergency.

And even so, there is a difference between having some tp between your hands and the will wonka factory and just rubbing wet fingers all amongst your beef starfish.

Either way you’re gonna wash your hands but one is gonna require scrubbing your nails.
The winning move is to wet about four or five bundles of toilet paper before sitting down. If you're in public, just go to a restroom that's empty and prep your toilet paper before sitting down. If you're in private, again, just prep it before sitting. Just prepare. Anything is better than pure paper. But then again if you're on this site, you probably treat your ass to something better than just paper.
 
The winning move is to wet about four or five bundles of toilet paper before sitting down. I f you're in public, just go to a restroom that's empty and prep your toilet paper before sitting down. If you're in private, again, just prep it before sitting. Just prepare. Anything is better than pure paper. But then again if you're on this site, you probably treat your ass to something better than just paper.
gold-toilet-paper.jpg
I can't flush it though since I'm on a septic system. The gold messes up the digestion process.
 
Back