New PEN America Report Documents Surge in ‘Educational Intimidation’ Bills

"a new report released this week documents the rise of a new wave of state legislation designed to force librarians and educators to self-censor."

LGBTQ content is particularly targeted, as are LGBTQ creators. And laws require teachers to out LGBTQ kids to their parents.

The Republican Party believes it’s the role of government to police sexual purity. That’s ... https://mitchw.blog/2023/10/05/new-pen-america.html 

 A California bakery sculpted a “Last of Us” “clicker” zombie from bread https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/last-of-us-bread-sculpture-18407167.php#photo-24307142 

 How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review Via https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/10/04/lopatto-isaacson-musk. Tx @ce72be9b

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 Google's enshittification memos: Truly, Big Tech can't stop telling on itself — @b92dcc07  https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/ 

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