U.S. House Switchboard: (202) 224-31215 Callsto get a script and quick dial to your rep.

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it's also been mentioned contacting your senators is a good idea too so here is how to find your senators

this is apparently time sensitive since they're going to discuss this tomorrow at 2

these sneaky fucking bastards

here is a script

here is a gdoc with more info and resources and oh look, surprise surprise, ted cruz that pissant is also behind this!

I'm shocked he found time with his busy schedule in his primary job as a podcaster

states rights sure mean a lot to the "but my right to discriminate" party huh

politico talking about california and DC clashing about AI regulation

mcclintock is an old fuck but I messaged him anyway, whatever

just called my rep, and I'll call my senators too

my senators are aware of it since. well. california has actually attempted to enact AI regulation. so.

I just messaged all of them

they're all dems, but that doesn't guarantee they'd oppose it

exactly

oh I just left my shitty republican representative a hopefully coherent voicemail about how we need to be able to protect ourselves from things like deepfake kidnapping scams and we can't block ourselves from regulating it for ten years because who knows what is going to happen in that time

he's an absolute piece of shit and I hate him and all of his opinions suck but maybe that's an argument he'll respect

I emphasized the fact that they're owning the deepfakes of child porn if they allow this to go through

I know none of them give a fuck about creatives

although...

if any of y'all have that ghoul blackburn as yours...she may care. she doesn't seem to be a fan of AI

like has at one point been on the artists' sides

marsha blackburn? she's useful for something??

yeah lmao I'm shocked too

I had more studying of marsha blackburn than I ever wanted during that business with KOSA and I happened to see her questioning an AI bro about it, she mentioned "well in Tennessee we have a thriving art community."

soooooo perhaps she wouldn't be a fan of giving free reign to AI

huh, had no idea she had any redeeming qualities. glad she's got something going for her...

I got Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell, and Marilyn Strickland

all of whom are... faaaairly progressive, IIRC?

I have French Hill and Tom Cotton, so like, fuck me

well I'm going to try and go to sleep, but keep spreading this around as best you can and let's hope for the best because...

I know they don't care and all but wow messing directly with copyright law like that .....sure would make a lot of people with a lot of money very unhappy...

like perhaps...a very powerful rat named Michael...

I wonder if it's going to take targeted deepfakes to get them to understand that Ai needs to be regulated

Mentioning these disgusting deepfakes and how this could ramp the harm against women and children, is definitely the best way to go about it. America never gave a shit about artists or creatives

I mean Republicans don't give a shit about women and children quite blatantly but saying "if you allow this to go through you own the child porn that comes out of it" may help

oh and yeah I haven't seen any further news or updates yet since it's like, 7 am, but continue to replurk and call

they're planning to gut medicaid on this bill too so there's a whole host of shitty awful things and hey Dems forfeited their ability to filibuster by allowing the reconciliation so great job guys!

Yeah. Most republicans are the type of people who ascribe to the thought process of "it's not a problem until it's my problem" so if you're calling a repub or a particularly spineless/centrist dem, I'd zero in that angle or even "you'll be deepfaked next - as a public figure you'll be easier to gather data & material on for deepfakes"

ugh fjsjf I called my rep

I said I think it's absurd to impose control over the states' ability to regulate because I didn't want to go on for too long, McClintock will probably rubber-stamp it bc he does whatever trump says but he is also an old school Republican so idk

I know he won't give a shit about gutting medicaid because whatever saves money but, maybe state rights matter to him

I forgot to say my name but then I mentioned where I'm a constituent from and she didn't ask for it so shrug

30 minutes, it looks like there's a lot of shit for them to go through (all more horrible than the last) so there's still time to call if you haven't yet

also there's talk of something called the Byrd Rule that prevents off topic things like this from being put on budget bills so I guess we'll see

Trump fired the director of the Copyright Office because she raised some questions about AI. I don't know that the GOP is gonna lean hard against it.

if deepfaked video of trump sucking musks toes being broadcast in the actual capitol didn't do anything I don't think anything will

secretly I think they like having an easy out

somebody calling you out for some fucked up shit you said/did? nah, fake ai

oh the insurance you always have deny you enrollment bc of their AI system? oh well

of course the GOP isn't going to, they hate technology until techbros give them money and want people to work in meat factories and coal mines

anyway I wrote my senators and congressman, I called my congressman, I've done what I can and I need to remind myself of that

its annoying that every day I need to slap my reps with reminders to do their jobs in a way that doesn't fuck everyone over but that's life

Last year's HR 9495 was recently stuffed into this too, the "Nonprofit Killer". It's called Section 112209 in this case.

oh great! many horrors!

and that was during biden's administration and soooo many people on both sides supported it!

because of "antisemitism" (yheah sure, you care about that, totally, I believe you)

they're just totally lighting up this christmas tree bill! (hey I thought johnson didn't like making bills into christmas trees?)

update: read that someone talked to a rep for schumer and was assured that he's going to fight this

for what that's worth considering...schumer

I only bring this up because the byrd rule can be invoked by senate but house doesn't have that specific rule

indeed it can. the senate can strip it from the bill by putting it through a "Byrd bath"

lmao a byrd bath

that's what it's called

well, hopefully they'll take it through the byrd bath and even beyond to clear it out.

a few years old but a good explainer on the Byrd Rule and the Byrd Bath

hopefully dems will buck up and have a spine to fight this and the other godawful things in trump's "big beautiful bill" (all the stuff his bribers want)

The Dems forgo their right to filibuster? Oh my god...

but that was suuuuch a gooood ideeeea it's not like they were like "omg vote for us or else project 2025!" and then...proceed to just let the republicans do exactly everything to do with that same thing they were warning us about

sure guys punish us for the people who didn't vote or cared more about fucking egg prices

update: it advanced past markup because of course it did! so we have to keep yelling at our reps and senators!

also regarding the byrd rule because of course those disgusting weasels have an answer for everything

source

Stop the State AI Regulation Ban in the Budget Recon...

5calls link

I am so sick of this bullshit

also fuck that chickenshit dem that's for it but mumbled "well we only want a four year rule..."

it's not like they're WRONG that congress should be the ones doing AI control but have they? no, they fucking dragged their feet on it and mumbled out of the sides of their mouths about it

and they're clearly compromised now more than ever

padilla that fucking coward still doesn't have a voicemail but I left such a long rant on schiff's that I reached the end of recording ability

I was angry but I did my civic duty

also of note, there's a "high volume of calls" going on the house switchboard

once again I am reminding you all to call your senators and congresscreatures today, let's get that high volume of calls giving them no peace going again

cuts to Medicaid, ban on AI regulation, declaring non profit companies terrorist groups (gee it's almost like they want to target PBS and the ACLU) among other horrifying things