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Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ignore their boss’s calls, messages, and emails after their shift ends, in the most significant overhaul of Mexican labor law in a generation.

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This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Hey guys, my husband and I are now separated. I will be moving into another room in the house, but I'm badly in need of a bed replacement, so there is a new goal up on my ko-fi that will cover everything I need if you could drop a few bucks. YOU can help save my back and let me rest easy as I navigate how my life is changing from this point forward.

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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The Time Traveler Whose Entire Job is Showing Me My Past Faults - Submitted by SeesawSiya

I recently saw a video essay with a presenter that was pinging my uncanny valley spider-sense but wasn't overt enough to classify it as This Is Fake™.

The "presenter" was doing a bunch of things to subtly flag that they were real. Audio errors. Misspoken words. Shuffling and banging the microphone by mistake. Fidgeting with their outfit and hair.

All these little human things that are by design supposed to make you register this thing as safe and human.

So I dug through a bunch of their other videos watching for things. Looking at the creases of clothes. The way fingers moved. The way shadows blended on walls and such.

Anything I could to make this uneasy feeling go away.

Comments section didn't help as I'd imagine 97% or more of the comments are bot accounts. No one mentioning the potential AI oddities and if they did I'm sure the creator would have deleted the comment.

So, I kept watching... and the more I searched, the more uneasy I felt. Even typing now the sensation of "...am I wrong...?" keeps pinging. Because maybe there were after-effect filters used or some other form of blended reality that can muddy the water.

The thing is, though. After falling so deep into the Must Verify Reality section of thinking, I've not stopped. I'm watching a movie trailer and wondering if the actors are real or not. I'm looking at the coffee stains on my counter and wondering if they're real or just there for authenticity. Scanning memories and asking "can we prove our telehealth therapist was ever real?"

For the most part we manage our CDD symptoms fairly well. We can usually rely on objective reality to ground ourselves when symptoms flair up or have trusted people to tell us if we're perceiving things correctly. We can let the little things go like seeing things in peripheral vision or becoming convinced that users online are people from our past stalking us.

We can just "and how would your reactions change if that were true?" the question and disregard it.

But when I am lead to a point of which I cannot trust my ability to tell if something is real or fake to this level it starts bleeding into everything and it's making me feel like throwing up.

I consider myself pretty well managed in my ability to function. I'm struggling on this one. I cannot imagine how bad it must be for those who have not been provided as much understanding external support and care.