Karoline Leavitt @PressSec Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness

we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.

The 3rd Monday of every April is filled with glorious traditions in Boston: Patriots' Day commemorations, the running of the Boston Marathon, and me walking to Fenway Park past BU students who are playing outdoor beer pong at 7:30am.

Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care.

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement.

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trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now

Time to inflict self harm by convincing myself that my stupid football roosters can win a soccer game! #coys

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

a trans person telling a doctor their assigned sex at birth is significantly more likely to result in their mistreatment than letting them assume cisness in 95% of cases because the average doctor does not have the care or understanding required about the nuances of trans bodies and how weve changed

Games Workshop has always known the same thing the writers of Star Trek knew: if you include just a little bit for the horny weirdo, they'll spend thousands on your merchandise. This is something George Lucas only did by accident, because he doesn't really know about sex

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

Bird watching is such a cute human hobby.

Lets look at the birds. What are they doing? Bird things. Nice.

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

> the emperor is at war with the pope

what century is it

the good news is i managed to purchase Enough Warhammer Models before the global economy collapsed, so now i only need to worry about getting food and fuel and other bullshit like that

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

Grok argues that I'm a female.

When confronted, it argues that it's literally impossible for me to be a trans woman

It triples down on its statement that I cannot be trans because my chromosomes have to be XX to have such anatomy

The other day I sought to prove that Grok has been hard-coded with TERF logic, and this was my first chat with it.

As you can see, it is literally incapable of acknowledging that passing trans people exist. That's a common, and absurd, GC/TERF talking point.

Grok is literally a propaganda machine

we built a society based on the idea that you're only a good person deserving of help if you maintain a steady job and then we made it impossible to have one of those no matter what you went to school for or how much money you make

Three of the four Artemis astronauts are dads, so I live in hope that tomorrow, right before they swing back around to earth to pick up velocity for the lunar pass, one of them will go "Oh, shit," pat his pockets, and say "I left my keys. We gotta turn around."

on balance, I would rather social media had not achieved a ubiquity that has destroyed, perhaps permanently, the social contract and the very fabric of human connection, but otoh it’s fun that there are astronauts up in space right now who have almost certainly seen the “moon’s haunted” tweet

A screenshot of David Cross and Bob Odenkirk in front of a NASA logo. Cross is speaking into a microphone at a podium. Text says " American can, should must, and will blow up the moon"

Today's the day.

Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Visibility matters because it humanizes our experience and leads to understanding. It also provides role models for the next generation to see their future. I am proud to be trans, to be out and loud.

Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I'm celebrating the resilience, strength, and authenticity of my siblings in the transgender community. Since I came out, I’m more confident, more outgoing, and finally wholly myself.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

Everyone give this a share after.

A tweet from Bluesky's official Twitter account: Congrats to X for being the world's #1 app for explaining why ephebophilia is different

i'm not running the bluesky twitter account but i would advise them to keep posting like this (genuine)

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

I am so tired of being told that because I live in a coastal city I don’t count as a Real American and it is especially grating coming from my own party

i don't much like platner for the same reason i have rapidly come to dislike annie andrews and the same reason i don't like newsom — values matter, and throwing out homophobic or misogynistic or transphobic "jokes" display contempt for the values the overwhelming majority of party voters live by

Transgender women athletes banned from Olympics by new IOC policy on female eligibility Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy It aligns with U.S.

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event).

However....
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