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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Now that devices are starting to have built in features with AI automatically combing through all information on them, the idea of this sort of stuff being logged in the first place is concerning.

    For instance, should someone prompting an AI to describe them beating up and torturing their boss be flagged for “potentially violent tendencies”? Who decides the “limit” where “privacy” no longer applies and stuff should be flagged, logged and sent off to authorities?

    As I see it, the real issue is people being hurt, not text or fictive materials, however sickening they might be.

    If the resources invested in spying on people and making databases were instead directed towards funding robust and publicly available psychiatric care I expect that’d be more efficient.




  • The court’s order for an injunction applies only to the sections relating to defining and reporting data on content violation categories. Social media companies will still be under the remainder of AB 587’s requirements, which include semi-annually creating publicly viewable reports to California on the current terms of service, how automated systems enforce the terms of service, how companies respond to user-reported violations, and what actions the companies take against violators.

    Seems like the higher courts ruling is sensible overall.








  • The article doesn’t really elaborate on what they mean by a “transgender ban”…

    There is this section:

    Despite there being transgender and nonbinary members in our organizations, no Black fraternity or sorority has a truly gender-inclusive policy, especially for people who transition after initiation. Coming into your gender identity does not equate to wanting to stop affiliation with the organization. But stepping back from our organizations is usually a byproduct of little to no pro-inclusion policies.

    Which seems to imply that the issue is with people who are initiated (as men) and then transition away (and no longer are men). If this is the case, it seems a lot less egregious. Just like sororities are organizations by and for women, fraternities are organizations by and for men.

    Whilst it may seem unfair, losing access to gendered spaces of the gender someone is transitioning away from is, in a way, a recognition of their new identity.