Facebook used to be a place to catch up with friends or join fun animal photography pages. Today, nearly all the “fun content” pages are AI generated, pushing slop. There’s now an industry based around building followers and rank with AI slop, then selling the account to malignant actors. Fight back by culling your follows. Make sure the pages and groups you participate in are real people doing their best.
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Remember the SAVE act, that would have required voter verification likely to disenfranchise anyone whose birth certificate didn’t match their current ID? (Like a lot of married women, for example…)
It didn’t die. It was reborn as a regulatory database that—coincidentally—also bears the acronym SAVE. Click through to protect voting rights.
Whether you’re skipping all shopping this week, or boycotting Home Depot, Target and Amazon, take it up a notch with a digital cart jam. From the organizers: “When thousands of carts sit full but never convert into purchases, it hits their KPIs, signals that something is wrong and shows that their business practices are failing their customers.”
With families gathering this week, the chances you’ll encounter relatives panicked about “boys in girl’s sports!” is high. Don’t just stand by silently in the face of bigotry. Arm yourself with facts and statistics, and practice speaking up. Call a friend right now and role play countering Uncle John’s fear with facts. Practice saying “I’ll be happy to drop it as soon as he does. If he doesn’t spread fear, I won’t need to bring the facts.”
“The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would severely restrict the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents. If adopted, they will give patent trolls exactly what they’ve wanted for years: a way to keep bad patents alive and out of reach.” – EFF.org
Submit comments by December 2nd, opposing this regulatory change.
Get tickets to a museum or arboretum. Have lunch at a local restaurant. Check shops for locally-made holiday gifts. Find out what makes your home great, invest in local venues and products, and tell people!
Bonus: if you’re near a target city (Portland, Chicago etc.) take a road trip and post pictures!
