Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-12/inquiry-supports-sex-work-decriminalisation-push-queensland/103697104
"A Queensland parliamentary inquiry has supported new laws to decriminalise sex work. "

"University of Queensland researcher Rachel Brennan said decriminalisation would improve health and safety outcomes for sex workers.

"There's a strong evidence base that supports decriminalisation as the best public health framework for sex workers and for communities," Ms Brennan said."
#auspol #HumanRights

https://reason.com/2024/04/16/the-feds-will-close-a-notorious-california-prison-where-guards-abused-women-with-impunity/
"The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced Monday that it will close a federal women's prison in California where sexual abuse was so common that it was known as the "rape club."

The Associated Press first reported that the BOP is closing Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin, a low-security women's prison in California's Bay Area, after several years of failed efforts to root out systemic misconduct and abuse."
#HumanRights

The way they want to expand Section 702 is very disturbing.

What if the Terminator has an extra finger, lol.

Something Dr. Harper fails to acknowledge (perhaps, he hasn't noticed it?) is that one sample of his is recruited from a community which appears to be marketed primarily to criminals, particularly, abusers.

Despite this being the case (and quite relevant), this is not noted anywhere, and it is merely described as a "help seeking community".

This might lead to someone erroneously concluding that the nature of it is merely "clinical" or a "mental health circle", and it might lead someone to presume that there are more criminals than there really are (or other negative implications).

Loli vampire anime, lol.

For me, "#AI" art, while perhaps having a certain degree of novelty value, isn't as interesting as something a human might make.

For each piece of "AI" art, I probably look at 1000x more pieces of human art, and it has nothing to do with politics of whether "AI" is evil.

Upside down Topsy Turvy Bizarro World!

To be fair, Carl Szabo kind of has a point when he points out that technology is not a substitute for parenting (i.e. the curfews).

Advocating for civil rights mainly through the lens of crime prevention is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen and provides meat for the conspiracy theorists to chew on.

If you've seen them, I think you'll know what I mean, I might write about them sometime.

https://themarkup.org/digital-book-banning/2024/04/13/schools-were-just-supposed-to-block-porn-instead-they-sabotaged-homework-and-censored-suicide-prevention-sites
"Some of the censorship inhibits the ability to do basic research on sites like Wikipedia and Quora. Students have been blocked from going to websites that web-filtering software categorizes as “education,” “news,” or “informational.” But even more concerning, especially for some students who spoke with The Markup, are blocks against sex education, abortion information, and resources for LGBTQ+ teens—including suicide prevention."
#FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression

https://nichegamer.com/apex-legends-wont-restrict-lgbt-cosmetics-at-saudi-arabia-event/ It could be a positive sign but I still dislike Saudi Arabia.

Using a tragedy to push through draconian powers. A classic. #auspol #privacy

If you have any suggestions for what planet I should go to next, I'll get the folks up in the mothership to beam me up, and I can finally leave this shith- this, this planet.

I see the "transported to another world" genre is still going strong.

If you are looking for a god to endorse the use of "sex dolls", try Zeus, I am sure he would be for it, lol.

Is there someone out there who actually does this?

https://act.demandprogress.org/call/no-on-section-702-call-page/
"Call your Senators right now and urge them to block the "Everyone is a spy" provision in the surveillance bill that just passed the House."
#privacy