This isn’t a woman complaining about people getting creative with her face, it’s a report on her experience with Sora.

One of the key points stated at the beginning was:

Although nudity or sexual content is banned, I discovered people making fetish content with my face.

Which opens the question about what, exactly, someone is consenting to when they allow other people to use their face, and what’s considered pornographic.

She went on to say users were making underage fetish content and potentially pornographic material anyway. This is a problem with any AI generated content and why so many stable diffusion platforms have banned words and groups of terms, if they don’t flat out ban all sexual terms. But, since the apps use real language, it’s impossible to think of every possible route to an end. The terms of service and moderation try to plug the holes, but they can’t be 100% effective.

If dead internet theory was the goal.

Man, I wish.

I wonder what CSIS is doing right now.

I wonder if we can finally get a Canadian spy thriller out of this.

The bill is still being debated in the supreme court. A timeline with more details and updates can be found here: https://ccla.org/major-cases-and-reports/bill-21/

That said, the Quebec government has been pretty fucking hostile to people who wear religious symbols. The original article frames it as residual tensions from the French Catholic chuch but a big part of it is definitely xenophobia and racism. Montreal and Quebec City are progressive havens in a land of very small, very white, very religious towns.

I’m happy, sure, but I was hoping for a thorium reactor.

Hey, fair enough. Thanks for taking the time to explain.

Well that’s kinda nuts. At some jobs we used “safety whistles” but they were pretty ineffective because everyone just thought they were excited birds. Granted, we were in the forest.

I can’t think of a situation where I’d hear a whistle at night and assume someone was getting raped.

Guess again.

“She and her husband had come home from playing wallyball, a combination of racquetball and volleyball…”

Love that they included this.

It brings me hope that people aren’t afraid to harass ICE and report on wallyball.

What the hell is a rape whistle?

That’s because my comment, overall, was about how choices in communication impact how a message is received, comparing something as direct as a statement to the subtlety of style.

The thorn is just another thing.

I could start a comment saying “As a woman” or “As a feminist” that would polarize readers before stating a point. I could phrase things more simplistically, or in purple prose, and that would change people’s opinions of what I have to say, too. Those choices could be important enough that someone won’t care if a few lemmings won’t read it. What people say in response becomes part of the discourse they decided to open by communicating the way they did.

Using the thorn is a neat way to get people thinking about language and how information is presented. It is a more efficient letter for a specific sound, and it only took me a sentence to get used to it and read the rest of the comment seamlessly. Mch lk rmvng vwls. Ornotusingspaces.

But I’m a communication nerd.

Thank you for trying to bring back the þorn.

I wish there was an easy way to do it on a phone keyboard, along with the æsh.

I agree, DHH is an open, unapologetic racist. He should not be given any benefit of the doubt unless he expresses genuine remorse and a drastic change in perspective.

Probably.

I’m seconding this and adding to it. AI is terrible for factual information but great at relative knowledge and reframing.

I use it as a starting off point in writing research when I can’t get relevant search results. Most recently, I asked it about urban legends in modern day Louisiana and got a list for more in-depth searches, most were accurate.

It’s good at mocking up accents and patterns of speech relative to a location/time as well.

Undeterred “free speech” has a self-limiting feedback loop where the most extreme views shared by a majority of users eventually drown out minority views. Threats and insults are a kind of self moderation in communities like those, they incentivise uniformity in opinions and demographic while deterring minority/disenfranchised groups from interacting, which is exactly what happened with 4Chan. For example, as of 2025 roughly 80% of 4Chan users are male compared to, say, Tumblr’s 49%

Formal moderation, while not always well done, is a way to protect diverse opinions.

They’re waiting for a supreme court decision at the moment and the fact this made it to the supreme Court says it’s not black and white.

Farms occasionally have leeway in how they manage avian flu, however, this may be a new strain that can cross over to people. Not that bird flu hasn’t been fucking terrible for bird populations over the last years, too. Toronto used to have crows.

According to the farm, only two dead ostriches were tested and the CFIA agents refused to test any live birds. Based on those tests, the farm is being ordered to destroy their entire live flock.

They tried to get an exemption because of the ostriches rare genomes and scientific merit, but since ostrich farming is new, all the applicable forms were for poultry and the CFIA wouldn’t make allowances. It looks more like a beurocratic mess than crazy farmers denying science.

If the cull were carried out, it would likely shut down the farm because their creditors will sieze any insurance money they get paid. And, this isn’t a meat farm, it’s a research farm. They’re probably trying to save the birds they can because it’s their only route to staying in business.

I can’t speak to why they’ve garnered support from convoy people, but apparently animal rights groups and locals have joined their cause as well. I would like to know how the Tyee knows the majority of their supporters are convoy people.

Finally an interesting headline in Canadian news.

I used to live in the interior and castanet is great for all things okanagan. Their article has bit more detail here:

https://www.castanet.net/news/Nelson/577116/Ostrich-farmers-say-standoff-is-no-culture-war-stunt-as-they-wait-on-Supreme-Court-of-Canada

I hitch-hiked thousands of kilometers in my younger years, Barrie was the only place the cops picked me up and drove me out of town limits. It was the only time I’ve ever been in the back of a police cruiser, too.

“Another futile attempt to breach the legal naval blockade and enter a combat zone ended in nothing,” the Foreign Ministry wrote on X.

That’s some Lex Luthor sounding shit right there.