Entry: 2025-09-05 21:32:18.135141+02 Not a game by Dan Lyke comments 0
Via Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social who notes:
One horror of child sexual abuse is that it preys on young people when they're trying to figure out how to trust the world. This makes "Pedocon Theory" compelling: the last thing conservatives want is mutual trust strong enough to inspire mutual aid.
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Entry: 2025-09-04 20:08:46.664247+02 AI links of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
Mike Judge: Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up (Via Lobste.rs).
Cecilia Tan has a thread about LLMs and how "yes" and "no" are semantically linked that mentions back in 2023, Mason City Iowa school district banning Buzz Bissinger's book Friday Night Lights because ChatGPT said it had non-existent sex scenes.
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Entry: 2025-09-03 19:49:02.008251+02 Age verification impacts by Dan Lyke comments 0
Working as designed: The 19th: Age verification on porn sites is putting queer adult industry workers at risk
Via.
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Entry: 2025-09-02 17:51:31.305924+02 stroke after COVID-19 vaccination by Dan Lyke comments 0
My (anti-vax) mom's coming to visit in a month and a half, so I'm starting to queue up Covid stuff again. Ischemic stroke after COVID-19 vaccination: A self-controlled case series analysis
Highlights
- Using the robust SCCS method, vaccination was unrelated to ischemic stroke.
- Using standard SCCS, however, COVID-19 vaccination was related to incident ischemic stroke.
- No sex differences were found.
Via.
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Entry: 2025-08-27 23:09:15.876067+02 "acute drug toxicity" by Dan Lyke comments 0
HRDAG was part of a coalition behind the recently-launched Police Records Access Project. The new searchable database includes millions of pages of documents about tens of thousands of police use-of-force and misconduct cases. The database includes documents related to three types of law enforcement incidents in California: instances in which a police weapon was discharged, instances where officers used force that resulted in serious injury or death, and instances in which an agency determined an officer violated certain department rules (like lying or sexual abuse).
Via HRDAG @hrdag@mastodon.social which notes:
One notable insight from reviewing the database of California police misconduct cases: deaths in the database are often labeled as something like "acute drug toxicity," even when the police were engaging with a civilian during or just before the death.
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Entry: 2025-08-27 20:57:34.82991+02 this headline wouldn’t have made any sense by Dan Lyke comments 0
Linking to Rolling Stone: Elon Musk appears to be completely addicted to anime gooner AI slop. not because of the article itself, but because Joey deVilla: Not that long ago, this headline wouldn’t have made any sense talks a little bit about the evolution of language.
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Entry: 2025-08-24 02:40:03.203563+02 Giggling over the notion of a virgin by Dan Lyke comments 0
Giggling over the notion of a "virgin White Russian", but then I guess that's basically what Starbucks serves...
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Entry: 2025-08-19 23:37:02.085223+02 front-row seat to the devil's sacrament by Dan Lyke comments 0
🆇00001 @X00001@masto.hackers.town
"Hey, have you heard about the creator you like? Apparently, they also post 🔞 content. Isn’t that a bit strange? I mean, we should probably keep this space-“
No, I don’t think so. I’ve booked a front-row seat to the devil’s sacrament, and you’re blocking my view. Just go back to the 1660 New England hole you just crawled out of and eat barley for a week to atone for your sins or whatever.
Romance? Reviews! @HornyShitposts@thicc.horse
@X00001 "isn't that a bit strange?" no fam, some of the earliest art to survive to this day is sexual in nature and the majority of adults are not asexual, so having given the matter due thought *no.*
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Entry: 2025-08-16 18:33:15.149758+02 Almodovar Papers by Dan Lyke comments 0
Via the ever amazing ResearchBuzz: UNLV Libraries Acquire Groundbreaking Sex Work Activism Archive
The Norma Jean Almodovar Papers document decades of advocacy and expand UNLV’s collecting initiative on sexual entertainment and economies.
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Entry: 2025-08-15 19:49:37.814296+02 Trans birds by Dan Lyke comments 0
Phys.org: Surprising sex reversal discovered in Australian birds
In a study of nearly 500 birds from five species—including magpies, kookaburras, pigeons and lorikeets—researchers found that up to 6% had the physical features of one sex but the genetic makeup of the other.
The Royal Society Biology Letters: Prevalence and implications of sex reversal in free-living birds.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0182
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Entry: 2025-08-08 17:46:17.186689+02 misogyny and crypto, who'd have predicted? by Dan Lyke comments 0
USA Today: EXCLUSIVE: WNBA sex toy incidents started by Crypto meme coin group.
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social
Yeah so throwing dildos at women athletes on the court is an actual example of gender-based violence against women in sports—one that transphobes and acquiescent Dems will surely make 1000% less noise about
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Entry: 2025-08-01 19:21:23.350547+02 LinkedIn changes their terms by Dan Lyke comments 0
The change, which was first noted by the organization Open Terms Archive, was the only modification to the "hateful and derogatory content" policy. An archived version of the rules includes "misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals" as an example of prohibited content under the policy. That line was removed on July 28, 2025.
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Entry: 2025-07-30 19:00:02.401645+02 Your regular reminder that the by Dan Lyke comments 0
Your regular reminder that the criminalization of sex work, and making "adult materials" hard to purchase, is about removing agency from non-conforming people and putting the power in the hands of pimps and brothels that are enmeshed in the power structure (*cough* Mar-a-Lago *cough*).
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Entry: 2025-07-30 17:05:42.167258+02 Joshua Weissman by Dan Lyke comments 0
Yeah, on the one hand, "influencer you've never heard of turns out to be an asshole" isn't exactly news, on the other hand I think it's important to consider the media landscape that Google/Alphabet (and, let's be fair, the other big tech companies) have created and think about what we might do to mitigate the rewards for this behavior as we build whatever's gonna come after the dominance of the current players: The Shameless Impropriety of [YouTube cooking personality] Joshua Weissman
An investigation into the provenance of Weissman’s recipes led to many of his former employees who described exploitive behavior, patterns of abuse, and pervasive sexual misconduct.
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Entry: 2025-07-24 17:48:14.123525+02 Abuse and Buddhism by Dan Lyke comments 0
Someone in my neighborhood is dealing with the fallout of sexual abuse in their spiritual community, and I follow Ricardo Mendes and I follow him on the Fediverse, and see his posts about abuse and buddhism.
This recent link was to Anna Sawerthal: Abuse and Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade, which I found worth a read.
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Entry: 2025-07-16 23:25:59.578299+02 Newsweek Discovered Bisexuality by Dan Lyke comments 0
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Day that Newsweek Discovered Bisexuality. To mark the occasion, I’m going to tell you all a little story.
A Bluesky thread about becoming the face of bisexuality and mentioned into the records of the House of Representatives, with bonus illustration of a cover of the lamented magazine Anything That Moves.
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Entry: 2025-07-10 16:59:36.884129+02 But I'm A Cheerleader turns 25 by Dan Lyke comments 0
Vanity Fair: “Wow, This Is So Gay”: An Oral History of But I’m a Cheerleader. Wow, I forgot that I saw this movie twice in the theater.
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Entry: 2025-07-07 17:20:02.842497+02 Home from a fun weekend at Hitchike by Dan Lyke comments 0
Home from a fun weekend at Hitchike Across The Galaxy, the 42nd convention of the International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs (IAGSDC) with about 900 of our closest friends. We dressed relatively conservatively for the banquet this year.
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Entry: 2025-07-04 01:00:02.957008+02 At the Gay square dance Callers by Dan Lyke comments 0
At the Gay (square dance) Callers Association annual meeting, someone was praising Allan Hurst's efforts in pulling students into caller school, described him as "good at recruiting", and... uh... cough.
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Entry: 2025-06-17 22:18:46.566684+02 Changing romance by Dan Lyke comments 0
Saw a bunch of links to this article: Vox: What broke teenage romance?, but didn't really follow up because I figured I kinda knew what it said. And, to be fair, I think I did, but I think there's something to take from Elf Sternberg's comment:
This article reminds me of a conversation I had with my kids. They claim that so many kids identify as queer these days not because they want to date their own gender, but because the queer community gives them a vocabulary that's not steeped in patriarchy and misogyny.
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Entry: 2025-06-17 00:52:09.352522+02 "few signs of political extremism" by Dan Lyke comments 0
Dave Zaffrann @dzaffrann.bsky.social
This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."
Suspect showed few signs of political extremism before lawmaker shootings
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Entry: 2025-06-10 00:12:15.449229+02 clergy sexual abuse in NM by Dan Lyke comments 0
CSWR: Archdiocese of Santa Fe Institutional Abuse Collection
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Entry: 2025-06-08 06:48:09.756957+02 critical thinking, education, and chatgpt by Dan Lyke comments 0
nova (they/them) @nova@sharkey.stellar.gay
correlating a lack of critical thinking in 18 year olds with chatgpt instead of the holistic failure of the education system is such a joke and insult to kids, honestly
the failure didn’t start when they were 15 and chatgpt became commonplace
the failure started at the start of their education, when the sole intention of the system is to produce malleable workers who do not question authority
we are failing our kids and have been since long before chatgpt. stop acting like it’s not the fucking design of the education system to make a complacent public.
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Entry: 2025-06-01 23:40:38.837523+02 Happy Pride Month by Dan Lyke comments 0
Irenes (many) @ireneista@irenes.space
be gay do crime
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
🏳️⚧️❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️⚧️
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d@nny disc@ mc² @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run
make sure to do crimes if you're not gay to contribute to the statistical noise that drowns out the gays doing crimes
Be sure to break small rules so that when it comes time to break big rules, you're in practice.
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Entry: 2025-05-28 20:13:36.270822+02 Seattle PD shows up. Sometimes. by Dan Lyke comments 0
The Needling: Phew! City Always Has Enough Seattle Police Officers Around to Harass Queer Community
“Can our police respond to every domestic violence call? No. Can they respond to the scene of every shooting with a victim 5 minutes away in less than 20 minutes? Also, no,” said Mayor Harrell. “But I give you my word that there will always suddenly be a phalanx of cops available and quickly on-hand any time a queer person is legally naked at public longtime nude beach, exercising their First Amendment rights at a public park named after a gay legislator in the middle of a gay neighborhood, or asserting they have just as much a right to be at Seattle City Hall as any right-wing, religious nut-job does. Men baring nipples at a gay club? We always have enough cops to shut that shit down too.”
Non-satirically: 8 more arrests at dueling protests, this time at Seattle City Hall
The religious group arrived downtown first, finding a section of Fourth Avenue barricaded. They occupied the space behind the barricade and blocked exits with their private security, backed up by Seattle police officers, controlling the flow of people allowed onto the steps of City Hall.
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Entry: 2025-05-28 01:43:55.720441+02 Utah Youth Trans Care report by Dan Lyke comments 0
Almost as good as when the Meese Commission found out that pornography wasn't in fact all of the evil... Plentiful Data, No Regret: What the Utah Review on Youth Trans Care Found
A 1,000-page report by the College of Pharmacy at the University of Utah, which found care safe and effective, stands out from others: It’s both independent and an actual review of the evidence.
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Entry: 2025-05-22 17:06:42.119618+02 AI summarization isn't, again, redux by Dan Lyke comments 0
PsyPost: AI chatbots often misrepresent scientific studies — and newer models may be worse
The researchers also found that prompting the models to be more accurate didn’t help—if anything, it made things worse. When models were instructed to “avoid inaccuracies,” they were nearly twice as likely to produce generalized statements compared to when they were simply asked to summarize the text. One explanation for this counterintuitive result may relate to how the models interpret prompts. Much like the human tendency to fixate on a thought when told not to think about it, the models may respond to reminders about accuracy by producing more authoritative-sounding—but misleading—summaries.
Royal Society Open Science: Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research Uwe Peters and Benjamin Chin-Yee https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241776
Notably, newer models tended to perform worse in generalization accuracy than earlier ones. Our results indicate a strong bias in many widely used LLMs towards overgeneralizing scientific conclusions, posing a significant risk of large-scale misinterpretations of research findings.
Via Calishatat @researchbuzz, who also observed:
The emperor is running around nude and the tech media keeps going "Oh what a lovely wardrobe"
And via.
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Entry: 2025-04-27 00:08:17.680579+02 Gaydient by Dan Lyke comments 0
Gaydient, various gay/queer flag CSS color schemes, for your own gradients.
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Entry: 2025-04-27 00:05:19.560016+02 risks of gender by Dan Lyke comments 0
This conjunction of toots arrived on my stream and I'm going to be processing it all day...
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@treehouse.systems
“Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look like from a male point of view. Men are almost never expected to do the same for women. So deeply internalized is this pattern of behavior that many men react to any suggestion that they might do otherwise as if it were itself an act of violence.”
― David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
joelle @joelle@social.joelle.us
Pro-trans satire, mention of sex assault
I’m okay with cis women using the women’s bathroom with me. I recognize they can’t help their biology, and are more likely to be a victim of sexual assault than a victimizer.
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Entry: 2025-04-23 20:38:12.235686+02 You wouldn't download a font by Dan Lyke comments 0
Today I learned that the font used in the much parodied "You wouldn't download a..." anti-piracy campaign is pirated from a design by Just van Rossum, brother of Guido, the creator of Python.
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Entry: 2025-04-22 18:14:58.393821+02 normalizing men's violence by Dan Lyke comments 0
Talia "Epistemic" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io
So I can't help but notice that all this brouhaha about single sex spaces and trans exclusion from them is eliding the axiom underlying the panic.
Namely: taking the normalization of men's violence against women as a given that cannot be meaningfully ameliorated except through sex-segregation.
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Entry: 2025-04-12 18:08:51.08637+02 Acceptance saves lives by Dan Lyke comments 0
Stored for dropping a link in the replies the next time some old high school classmate posts some anti-trans stuff on the social media. (I can't find it right now, which is why I'm saving this off, but it was some bigoted bullshit about about equating acceptance with bad parenting.)
The TGNB youth assigned male at birth with acceptance from at least one adult had 40% lower odds of attempting suicide in the past year compared with TGNB youth who were not accepted (aOR=0.60), and TGNB youth assigned female at birth with acceptance from at least one adult had 29% lower odds of attempting suicide compared with those who were not accepted (aOR=0.71). Acceptance from at least one peer was associated with 46% lower odds of attempting suicide in the past year for TGNB youth assigned male at birth (aOR=0.54) and 27% lower odds of attempting suicide in the past year for TGNB youth assigned female at birth (aOR=0.73).
doi:10.1089/trgh.2021.0079
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Entry: 2025-04-09 18:27:53.256126+02 Border Patrol lying by Dan Lyke comments 0
Nationwide there are roughly four times more Border Patrol than ICE agents. In El Centro, there are five Border Patrol agents whose job it is to produce videos.
Their latest project is a series of fictionalized videos portraying migrants crossing the border as menaces with a bloodlust to commit crimes. Bovino shared the first video on social media with the caption: “Any town. Any neighborhood. Any family. When heartless criminals, sex offenders, and human traffickers illegally enter the United States and get away, they prey on our children, the most vulnerable members of our communities.”
We know, of course, that immigrants, both documented and undocumented, statistically are less likely to engage in criminal activity than citizens.
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Entry: 2025-04-09 17:17:22.030788+02 forgot that it wasn't allowed by Dan Lyke comments 0
Molly White @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io on the defense of Avi Eisenberg who has been convicted in a $110M cryptocurrency scheme and is accused of posession of child pornography:
He’s attempting a rather novel argument for leniency in his sentencing: there’s just so much crime in crypto that he forgot it wasn’t allowed.
This, in light of the news that Trump has ordered the USDOJ's cryptocurrency enforcement unit disbanded.
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Entry: 2025-04-07 17:37:14.965549+02 vanilla by Dan Lyke comments 0
alber @captainacab.airbud.website
due to the 47% tariffs on madagascar, vanilla sex is discontinued until further notice
But my freak flag is made in Vietnamese sweat shop! What can I do?
And, inevitably:
✨ brit ✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social
i’m sorry you can’t fuck the bean
LeDiva, Apprentice Bodega Cat 🐈⬛ @lediva.bsky.social
Can we still flick it, at least?
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Entry: 2025-03-28 16:43:08.346421+01 Bias in medical imaging models by Dan Lyke comments 0
Today in "who saw that coming?": AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
Compared with the patients’ doctors, the AI model more often failed to detect the presence of disease in Black patients or women, as well in those 40 years or younger. When the researchers looked at race and sex combined, Black women fell to the bottom, with the AI not detecting disease in half of them for conditions such as cardiomegaly, or enlargement of the heart. These disparities persisted when the team tested CheXzero using four other public data sets of chest x-rays from other regions, including Spain and Vietnam.
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Entry: 2025-03-21 16:39:13.911508+01 Raw Ricci Wynne by Dan Lyke comments 0
I'm not sure I need to be noting every MAGAt busted for sex abuse, but it seems like we've got a cluster of 'em recently, and this asshole made his popularity through particularly heinous means to start with: MAGA Influencer And Fox News Guest "Raw" Ricci Wynne Indicted On Child Sex Abuse Charges
The influencer was already being investigated by San Francisco police at the time of his November arrest and was named a suspect in the sexual assault of a 15-year-old, according to The San Francisco Standard. Authorities say they found evidence on Wynne’s cellphones and at his luxury apartment that indicated he was facilitating a sex work operation that spanned multiple cities.
Wynne pleaded not guilty to those charges, according to the</span> San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.
On Tuesday, however, a federal grand jury indicted Wynne on two counts of producing child pornography, according to an indictment obtained by HuffPost.
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Entry: 2025-03-19 17:38:57.228436+01 Civil Action No. 25-cv-00240 decision by Dan Lyke comments 0
Transgender persons have served openly since 2021, but Defendants have not analyzed their service. That is unfortunate. Plaintiffs’ service records alone are Exhibit A for the proposition that transgender persons can have the warrior ethos, physical and mental health, selflessness, honor, integrity, and discipline to ensure military excellence. Defendants agree. They agree that Plaintiffs are mentally and physically fit to serve, have “served honorably,” and “have satisfied the rigorous standards” demanded of them. Tr. (Feb. 18, 2025) at 9–14, 148; see also Tr. (Mar. 12, 2025) at 130. Plaintiffs, they acknowledge, have “made America safer.” Tr. (Feb. 18, 2025) at 10. So why discharge them and other decorated soldiers? Crickets from Defendants on this key question.
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Entry: 2025-03-18 20:34:40.441259+01 Keep kids away from the GOP by Dan Lyke comments 0
Another predator: GOP state Sen. Justin Eichorn arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with a 16-year old girl
For context: Minnesota Republicans' bill to define "Trump derangement syndrome" as mental illness provokes backlash. Eichorn, of course, is one of the sponsors.
The bill's authors define, in the bill's wording, the syndrome as "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump," and go further to argue that it "produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump's behavior."
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Entry: 2025-03-14 00:48:39.053601+01 Robert Morris indicted by Dan Lyke comments 0
I dunno, is it even news when yet another evangelical Christian goes down for sexual abuse of children? Megachurch founder Robert Morris indicted on charges of "lewd acts" with a child
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