Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

Yes please

German politician suggests boycotting US World Cup

https://p.dw.com/p/56w9S

Someone really needs to tell this old sex offending Russian asset that just because you sit with a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp you don't always get what you want. Bung us a tariff or two. See how we all weep and gnash our teeth and beat our breasts...not.

I absolutely understand many, many people do not like AI generated videos. I don't like them either.

However, do not get threatening and sanctimonious and dog pile on someone who has posted something in good faith, clearly didn't know it was AI, and doesn't have the skills to spot it.

Because people become terrified of posting anything for fear of it being AI and getting lambasted for it.

AI is DESIGNED to fool people. And when you beat up someone who is fooled, you're beating up a victim.

@pluralistic Hi, we are a group of parents in Vancouver that are trying to push back against local school board plans to deploy Microsoft Copilot into classrooms.

We have started a petition to show that parents are concerned and do not consent to their children using genAI in classrooms.

It would help so much if you could share it.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/voice-ai-concerns-to-vancouver-school-board

What #Grok generates is non-consensual and abusive. It is not "AI porn", it's AI sexual abuse materials. "#AISAM", let's call it.

Sex work is work, there are plenty of sex workers trying to make a living publishing their own works.

Conflating porn with sexual abuse materials is how we get to a place where independent sex workers get ostracized and lose their livelihood through being banned by payment processors, while a fascist oligarch can materially benefit from sexual abuse materials.

#AI

There are people who will hate you because you are the face of changes that they refuse to make. And then there are the people who will hate you because you are the face of the changes that they refuse to acknowledge are possible because they are so rare in the world to witness.

I understand who elected Trump. My question is who the fuck elected the United States?

After being let go from Microsoft, Clippy fell on hard times

"Data from hundreds of public bodies in England shows only four complaints about transgender women in women’s single-sex spaces over a period of three years, according to advocacy group TransLucent."

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almost-no-one-is-complaining-about-trans-women-in-womens-spaces-study-finds/

Yeah, Musk will become a trillionaire if Tesla, whose stock price is currently 70% of its market peak and who has seen consistently dropping sales due its CEO being a ketamine-fueled fascist dingleberry, manages to get to a market cap eight times its current valuation, so, bold move, Cotton, let's see how it plays out

"Tesla proposes Elon Musk pay package that could make him the world’s first trillionaire"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/business/elon-musk-tesla-new-pay-package

Over on Whatever, I offer some thoughts on the new "Grokipedia," through the lens of the article it has up about... me.

(Spoiler, it's not great, for the reasons you probably suspect)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a-review-of-grokipedia-using-myself-as-test-subject/

Anyone know where I can serve a DMCA Takedown notice on this paper? It was made using an LLM trained on my stolen fiction. Copyright permission was NOT sought. (I'm party to the settlement in the class action lawsuit against Anthropic and I'd be happy to join one against Google.)
https://mastodon.social/@ErsatzCulture/115838841401363457

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@dianshuo @pluralistic Break Apple's (and others') stranglehold on consumer freedom, yes

9 days after Inauguration Day, 404 Media wrote about how this declassified World War II-era government guide to sabotaging fascism became one of the most popular open source books on the internet.

One of our top stories this year. Happie holidays <3 https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

@JeniParsons @otfrom I hate that I had to click though to find out which inhumane UK government decision you were talking about.

If only we had a human rights lawyer in charge... 😬

"Yesterday, President Trump met with Benjamin Netanyahu and openly endorsed the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. He called it “voluntary” even as Israel enforces a medical siege, blocks food and fuel, and leaves children dying of hypothermia in flooded tents.

“More than half of Gaza will leave if given the opportunity,” Trump claimed, suggesting Palestinians would choose to abandon their homeland for “a better climate.” He praised Israel for “living up to the [ceasefire] plan 100 percent” even as authorities have documented 969 Israeli violations over 80 days, including 418 Palestinians killed and 1,141 wounded since the so-called “ceasefire” began.

Mainstream media has largely ignored this monumental moment: a US president openly supporting ethnic cleansing while Israel weaponizes humanitarian deprivation to force migration."

-- via Drop Site News, but I can't link there because it's on Substack. Oh well.