USA’s official ball fluffer to the rich and famous actually published this about the Republican-sponsored #kidnappings #abductions #humanTrafficking to the #cryptobro concentration camp:
❝ "The officers grabbed him and two other boys…" Merwil’s father, Wilmer Gutiérrez, told Documented, before claiming, "One said, 'No, he's not the one,' like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, 'Take him anyway.' " ❞ people.com/ice-agents-arrested…
Similarly Newsweek has the info for Saturday’s protests and Rolling Stone continues to kick ass. I am also tentatively hopeful about The Atlantic. Philly Inquirer is setting the pace as well. Texas Tribune, Mississippi Free Press, Asheville Blade, all courageous, deserve our support.
The bullshit explanation the administration gave for not returning the people was that the planes were already outside US jurisdiction. Does that mean the pilots could have just flown those planes to Tahiti or something and kept the planes? I mean, once those planes leave US jurisdiction, can US law be used to force someone to return the planes?
@paco It's also really weird as the USA claims universal jurisdiction. United States v. Alvarez-Machain, they decided it was fine to kidnap someone from Mexico, all the way up to the Supreme Court.
Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.
Transfixed as the world has been by Trumpian stoushes – public service cuts, tariff wars and berating White House guests – we may have overlooked that the US President has again stated his decades-long-held belief that he could strike a deal to rid t…
This is the first year that Francisco has harvested mandarin oranges. He's working near Sanger CA and shares: The work is dangerous. I've seen other workers get injured so I'm very careful. The pay is low but I do it as my family depends on me. #WeFeedYou
It’s funny how after the end of the Cold War, it looks less like one side won and more like they’re both converging on authoritarian oligarchies with democratic window dressing.
1. VPOTUS HENRY WALLACE, who was FDR’s 2nd VPOTUS and was radicalized WHILE IN OFFICE. he was muscled out of office (for Harry Truman) because had FDR died in office USA would have had it’s first #antifa POTUS.
President Dwight Eisenhower spoke to the nation in a farewell address. The address, sometimes referred to as the "Military-Industrial Complex Speech", is considered by some to be one of the most significant speeches of the Eisenhower presidency.
Sen. Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador is happening. This really is gutsy of him. Other Democratic members of Congress are trying to get official Congressional delegation status, but of course are being blocked by Republican committee chairs. Only a bit of reliable reporting available. Here’s a piece from Axios, archived. archive.ph/2025.04.15-202815/a…
As an official delegation, members of Congress might get U.S. government funded security. Van Hollen alone won’t, but he may lawfully use campaign funds to cover personal security costs while in El Salvador — another reason I am encouraging donations to his campaign fund. secure.actblue.com/contribute/…
I am so glad he is going and hope others follow suit and go to the places where people have been kidnapped and their rights stripped. I'm thinking more local. Congresspeople, Senators, and governors should go to the "detention centers" in the US -- Texas, Louisiana, wherever -- where Khalil Mahmoud, Rumeysa Ozturk, and so many others have been kidnapped. Fan out, make a stink, don't let these people disappear!
Stacey Searle travelled into Romford from Dagenham on Sunday, March 30, and shopped in Iceland in Market Place. She bought Bernard Matthews' turkey quarter
We are USA-based, but Cowboy Cat Ranch is an international non-profit organization, helping cats around the world with the help of people around the globe! In blue: Cowboy Cat Ranch volunteers. In orange: our collaborators.
Wink Martindale has died at the age of 91. He was best known as a prolific game show host but before that TV fame he was a rock n' roll music disc jockey in Los Angeles on such legendary radio stations as KHJ and KRLA. radioinsight.com/headlines/298…
In 2017, historian Timothy Snyder wrote the concise book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, which went on to become a New York Times bestseller. A historian of fascism (then at Yale, now at U.
The not-trademarked-free-library at my curb no longer seeing massive turnover. I guess the book dealer has moved on to greener pastures (after I inked out the UPC codes and scribbled on a bunch of the covers). 🤔
I've been noting that the Trump regime seems to have forgotten the big strategic error the US made in Iraq: deBaathification. The US purged skilled professionals out of the government and the military. How'd that work out for us again?
💬 1 🔁 1916 ❤️ 2850 · web with calamistrated cribellate silk in a square-wave design . identified as Paramatachia sp. by arachnologists Piergiorgio Di Pompeo and Ethan Yeoman (photographed by Redd…
@myrmepropagandist I went digging into that and yes, it's a natural web but it's not by a Zipper Spider, which just makes zig-zags rather than square waves. It's a Paramatachia spider. ========= HA! You beat me to it.
Accuweather: Extended heatwave in India, Pakistan to test survivability limits, with temperatures reaching Death Valley levels
For hundreds of millions of people living in India and Pakistan the early arrival of summer heatwaves has become a terrifying reality that’s testing survivability limits and putting enormous strain on energy supplies, vital crops and livelihoods.
Not that it makes them categorically incapable of delivering factual info, but Accuweather has been involved with people like Santorum trying to strongarm the NWS into not providing data to the public and competing with their business (of repeating that data for a fee) and their CEO (and founder’s brother) was appointed admin of the NOAA by Trump in 2019.
No idea if that’s relevant to you, but since I’d want to know if I didn’t already, I’m sharing.
@Robo105 There is a civil disobedience action we cold take, en masse if we wanted to clog the system and bring the federal legal system to its knees in less than 4 hours. Problem is, it's a lot like trying to form a union.
Got a joint and an uber to your local DEA office? Alaska found out what happens when people demand speedy trail dates. Immigration courts have the same problem. (-;
The trick is: "gang members" don't look like me. They're obviously gang members (ie, not white) while I'm obviously a honest citizen (ie white).
This kind of thinking is why people are not as worried as they should.
In their minds there is always someone in front of them on the queue towards the meat grinder. Until there isn't. "First they came..." and all that jazz.
He doesn't have a clue what he's doing. To him dismantling enviro protections means getting rid of laws like the ones that have "plagued" his golf courses. He can't grasp that it means he & his family will be breathing & drinking toxins.
Abrego Garcia hearing over. Judge has ordered swift, intense fact finding about who in Trump exec has done what - or failed to do what - to comply with her order that the exec bring Abrego Garcia back to U.S. 1/
Judge Xinis is following exact procedure used in previous cases where cabinet officials held in contempt. See esp. Cobell v. Babbitt, 37 F.Supp.2d 6 (1999). 2/
Both prudence and law require Xinis to go through full process of fact finding before finding specific Trump officials in contempt. The standard for such a finding is that it be supported by clear and convincing evidence. 3/
There are numerous cases where reviewing courts have vacated contempt judgments bc they are not backed with clear and convincing evidence. Roberts Court will look for any excuse to vacate a contempt judgement against Trump officials. Xinis and plaintiffs attorneys must make case as airtight as possible. 4/
Meanwhile, I’m sure the Trump executive will try to appeal today’s discovery orders. I don’t know if any good legal grounds for such an appeal but that won’t matter to Trump, Noem, or Bondi. 5/
Roberts is going to be the decisive vote if it gets to Hugh court. He is dancing between avoiding conflict with exec and with seeming to assert power of judiciary. He might enforce discovery (smaller matter) only to later say that entire Abrego Garcia matter one of “foreign policy” and solely in exec’s control. That would be BS but that hasn’t stopped Roberts before.
I'm completely baffled how the deportation of a legal resident has anything to do with "national security." Maybe someone can explain it to me like I'm a five-year-old.
I'm expecting as many delay tactics as they can muster, along with simply not complying with court orders, because who is going to enforce such orders?
@Darth Sandwich 🏳️🌈 @Heidi Li Feldman \ The executive branch is responsible for enforcement, and if there's no enforcement/compliance, the executive is in dereliction of duty.
I feel like we’ve seen all of this before — last year. The courts have proven to be flatfooted and impotent when dealing with Trump. They either make infinite allowances for delays, excuses, and stonewalling, or they give him a slap on the wrist. And what can they do to him now? Warn him? Scold him? Is that all they can do? They’re scared, absolutely petrified, to do more.
A lawsuit filed in February accuses Tesla of remotely altering odometer values on failure-prone cars, in a bid to push these lemons beyond the 50,000 mile warranty limit:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
The suit was filed by a California driver who bought a used Tesla with 36,772 miles on it. The car's suspension kept failing, necessitating multiple servicings, and that was when the plaintiff noticed that the odometer readings for his identical daily drive were going up by ever-larger increments. This wasn't exactly subtle: he was driving 20 miles per day, but the odometer was clocking 72.35 miles/day. Still, how many of us monitor our daily odometer readings?
In short order, his car's odometer had rolled over the 50k mark and Tesla informed him that they would no longer perform warranty service on his lemon. Right after this happened, the new mileage clocked by his odometer returned to normal. This isn't the only Tesla owner who's noticed this behavior: Tesla subreddits are full of similar complaints:
Drivers noticed that they were getting *far* fewer miles out of their batteries than Tesla had advertised. Naturally, they contacted the company for service on their faulty cars. Tesla then set up an entire fake service operation in Nevada that these calls would be diverted to, called the "diversion team."
Drivers with range complaints were put through to "diverters" who'd claim to run "remote diagnostics" on their cars and then assure them the cars were fine. They even installed a special xylophone in the diversion team office that diverters would ring every time they successfully deceived a driver.
These customers were then put in an invisible Tesla service jail. Their Tesla apps were silently altered so that they could no longer book service for their cars for *any* reason.
Iinstead, they'd have to leave a message and wait several days for a callback. The diversion center racked up 2,000 calls/week and diverters were under strict instructions to keep calls under five minutes. Eventually, these diverters were told that they should stop actually performing remote diagnostics on the cars of callers.
Instead, they'd just *pretend* to have run the diagnostics and claim no problems were found (so if your car had a potentially dangerous fault, they would falsely claim that it was safe to drive).
Most modern cars have some kind of internet connection, but Tesla goes much further. By design, its cars receive "over-the-air" updates, including updates that are adverse to drivers' interests.
For example, if you stop paying the monthly subscription fee that entitles you to use your battery's whole charge, Tesla will send a wireless internet command to your car to restrict your driving to only half of your battery's charge.
This means that your Tesla is *designed* to follow instructions that you don't want it to follow, and, by design, those instructions can fundamentally alter your car's operating characteristics.
For example, if you miss a payment on your Tesla, it can lock its doors and immobilize itself, then, when the repo man arrives, it will honk its horn, flash its lights, back out of its parking spot, and unlock itself so that it can be driven away:
Some of the ways that your Tesla can be wirelessly downgraded (like disabling your battery) are disclosed at the time of purchase. Others (like locking you out and summoning a repo man) are secret.
But whether disclosed or secret, both kinds of downgrade depend on the genuinely bizarre idea that a computer that you own, that is in your possession, can be relied upon to follow orders from the internet even when you don't want it to. This is weird enough when we're talking about a set-top box that won't let you record a TV show - but when we're talking about a computer that you put your body into and race down the road at 80mph inside of, it's frankly terrifying.
Obviously, most of us prefer to have the final say over how our computers work. I mean, maybe you trust the maker's instructions and give your computer blanket orders to obey them, but if the manufacturer (or a hacker pretending to be the manufacturer, or a government who is issuing orders to the manufacturer) starts to do things that are harmful to you (or just piss you off), you want to be able to say to your computer, "OK, from now on, you take orders from me, not them."
In a state of nature, this is how computers work. To make a computer ignore its owner in favor of internet randos, the manufacturer has to build in a bunch of software countermeasures to stop you from reconfiguring or installing software of your choosing on it.
And sure, that software might be able to withstand the attempts of normies like you and me to bypass it, but given that we'd all rather have the final say over how our computers work, *someone* is gonna figure out how to get around that software. I mean, show me a 10-foot fence and I'll show you an 11-foot ladder, right?
To stop that from happening, Congress passed the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Despite the word "copyright" appearing in the name of the law, it's not really about defending *copyright*, it's about defending *business models*. Under Section 1201 of the DMCA, helping someone bypass a software lock is a felony punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine (for a first offense). That's true whether or not any copyright infringement takes place.
So if you want to modify your Tesla - say, to prevent the company from cheating your odometer - you have to get around a software lock, and that's a felony. Indeed, if any manufacturer puts a software lock on its product, then any changes that require disabling or bypassing that lock become illegal.
That's why you can't just buy reliable third-party printer ink - reverse-engineering the "is this an original HP ink cartridge?" program is a literal *crime*, even though using non-HP ink in your printer is *absolutely* not a copyright violation. Jay Freeman calls this effect "felony contempt of business model."
Thus we arrive at this juncture, where every time you use a product or device or service, it might behave in a way that is totally unlike the last time you used.
This is true whether you own, lease or merely interact with a product. The changes can be obvious, or they can be subtle to the point of invisibility. And while manufacturers *can* confine their "updates" to things that make the product better (for example, patching security vulnerabilities), there's nothing to stop them from using this uninspectable, non-countermandable veto over your devices' functionality to do things that harm you - like fucking with your odometer.
Or, you know, bricking your car. The defunct EV maker Fisker - who boasted that it made "software-based cars" - went bankrupt last year and bricked the entire fleet of unsold cars:
I call this ability to modify the underlying functionality of a product or service for every user, every time they use it, "twiddling," and it's a major contributor to enshittification:
Enshittification's observable symptoms follow predictable patterns: first, a company makes things good for users, while finding ways to lock them in. Then, once it knows the users can't easily leave, the company makes things worse for end-users in order to deliver value to business customers. Once these businesses are locked in, the company siphons value away from *them*, too, until the product or service is a pile of shit, that we still can't leave:
Twiddling is key to enshittification: it's the method by which value is shifted from end-users to business customers, and from business customers to the platform. Twiddling is the "switch" in enshittification's series of minute, continuous bait-and-switches. The fact that DMCA 1201 makes it a crime to investigate systems with digital locks makes the modern computerized device a twiddler's playground.
Sure, a driver might *claim* that their odometer is showing bad readings, but they can't dump their car's software and identify the code that is changing the odometer.
This is what I mean by "demon-haunted computers": a computer is "demon-haunted" if it is designed to detect when it is under scrutiny, and, when it senses a hostile observer, it changes its behavior to the innocuous, publicly claimed factory defaults:
But as soon as the observer goes away, the computer returns to its nefarious ways. This is exactly what happened with Dieselgate, when VW used software that detected the test-suite run by government emissions inspectors, and changed the engine's characteristics when it was under their observation. But once the car was back on the road, it once again began emitting toxic gas at levels that killed killed dozens of people and sickened thousands more:
Cars are among the most demon-haunted products we use on a daily basis. They are designed from the chassis up to do things that are harmful to their owners, from stealing our location data so it can be sold to data-brokers, to immobilizing themselves if you miss a payment, to downgrading themselves if you stop paying for a "subscription," to ratting our your driving habits to your insurer:
These are the "legitimate" ways that cars are computers that ignore their owners' orders in favor of instructions they get from the internet. But once a manufacturer arrogates that power to itself, it is confronted with a tempting smorgasbord of enshittificatory gambits to defraud you, control you, and gaslight you.
Now, perhaps you could wield this power wisely, because you are in possession of the normal human ration of moral consideration for others, to say nothing of a sense of shame and a sense of honor.
But while corporations are (legally) people, they are decidedly *not* human. They are artificial lifeforms, "intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic" (as HG Wells said of the marauding aliens in *War of the Worlds*):
These alien invaders are xenoforming the planet, rendering it unfit for human life. Laws that ban reverse-engineering are a devastating weapon that corporations get to use in their bid to subjugate and devour the human race.
The US isn't the only country with a law like Section 1201 of the DMCA. Over the past 25 years, the US Trade Representative has arm-twisted nearly every country in the world into passing laws that are nearly identical to America's own disastrous DMCA.
The Trump tariffs change everything, including this thing. There is no reason for America's (former) trading partners to continue to enforce the laws it passed to protect Big Tech's right to twiddle their citizens.
That goes double for Tesla: rather than merely complaining about Musk's Nazi salutes, countries targeted by the regime he serves could *retaliate* against him, in a devastating fashion. By abolishing their anticircuvmention laws, countries around the world would legalize jailbreaking Teslas, allowing mechanics to unlock all the subscription features and software upgrades for every Tesla driver, as well as offering their own software mods.
Not only would this tank Tesla stock and force Musk to pay back the loans he collateralized with his shares (loans he used to buy Twitter and the US predidency), it would also abolish sleazy gimmicks like hacking drivers' odometers to get out of paying for warranty service:
excellent thread thank you. Of the 100 questions I have the first is why is the ability to mess with the odometer even an option. Why does that ability even exist over the air?
I was under the assumption that tampering with an odometer is a crime.
that would work, if countries wouldn't be dreaming about their own silicon valleys and their own enshittification billionaires. The mental model behind all that has implanted itself all around the globe as the best way to run business, so all countries keep with the religion and will keep their laws, feed by mediocre businesses who dream about becoming global monopolists by extortion of their customers ...
"This is what I mean by "demon-haunted computers": a computer is "demon-haunted" if it is designed to detect when it is under scrutiny, and, when it senses a hostile observer, it changes its behavior to the innocuous, publicly claimed factory defaults
But as soon as the observer goes away, the computer returns to its nefarious ways."
Tesla didn't even bother making it good first. I know someone here in Aus who bought his Tesla and chose the advanced autopilot option for $5K extra. 4+ years later and no advanced autopilot and no refund.
@allsumnull A reasonable number of early UK FSD buyers have successfully claimed a refund after one brave individual said screw your NDA, I'm not just going to take the refund and stay quiet.
I'll start with a really quick summary. I bought a Model 3, taking delivery in July 2019 and paying £5800 for the FSD extra. My view was that Tesla had failed to deliver on the contract with how...
Which is why I install a heavily customized Linux on my PC. Which is why my smartphone is 10 years old, and I use it only for calls, and only when I have absolutely no other options, and then I limit the conversation to the absolute minimum.
Thankfully, I have no need of a car. But if had to buy one, I'd never consider a Tesla. Musk's spyware-infested monstrosities are gross (even if we ignore the political angle).
🤔 I wonder if this is at the root of all those “false forward collision warnings” (FCWs) triggering phantom braking, safety score downgrades, etc.?.
After all, if the vehicle suddenly jumps to >2x the speed-according-to-odometer-delta then their projected-curved-path will be significantly sharper and/or they’re clearly “driving recklessly”.
“How many of us monitor our daily odometer readings?” I’d bet a lot more than you think, especially in California. Not only that, but 72 miles compared to 20 would, I assume, be noticeably more charging.
Elon has made fraud central to his enrichment schemes. In scope if not number, he might be the single most fraudulent public figure of my lifetime. #WorldsRichestFraud
Good thread and good discussion, but instead of CWing every single post so that people have to go through clicking each (or use a separate site entirely) to read it, just set subsequent posts to quiet public and then it would be a heck of a lot easier for people to actually read...
@nazokiyoubinbou You've fallen prey to the original Fediverse urban legend. While that is *clearly* how quiet posts *should* work, it is emphatically *not* how they work. More here (including detailed instructions for managing threads in your feed, and links to get my work off-Fedi if you prefer):
baffled at how many people I knew in tech bought these cars and shouted down those of us that pointed out how bad the CEO behaved and how sloppy and anti-owner the contracts were/are. They acted like addicts. Unhealthy obsession with Musk/Tesla wasn't the only reason to block, but it was enough.
#Orwell predicted the practice, but not the process, of rewriting history. Just rewrite the computer memory. There is something to be said for paper documents and signatures in ink.
There is federal law about altering odometers. Who thought the manufacturer would alter the record upwards? #Tesla ought to be strung up for this.
@Stinson_108 unlikely that they're this clever, but one might think the way to goose an odometer "legally" is to update the distance-calculation from the wheel speed sensors, then "correct" that change with loads of commit comments about reverting a regression
@paneerakbari @Stinson_108 make the calculation depend on wheel diameter (entirely reasonable) then have an "oops" misconfiguration of the exact tires installed on this particular car, stored in NV memory on the car. Don't log updates to the wheel size, so no one can tell how the bad value got written there, and "fix" it quietly once the car is out of warranty. Maybe it was a stray cosmic ray! Good thing we caught it and fixed it.
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Anyone who has been saying we are "on the road" to fascism can stop that shit now. The road is behind us. We're putting American citizens in concentration camps now.
It really frustrates me how tagging people with visceral images of evil "push people into subways" or "hit old woman with a baseball bat" however serious these claims might be remains an effective way to short circuit the ability of many Americans to reason.
"No one should have their liberty violated by the state without a trial." "Yes, obviously." "Except for these Really Bad Dudes(tm) who I claim have done unspeakable evil" "That is so evil I will forget everything!"
And so much of the outrage at these often imaginary often racist and folklore like "evil acts" is ... performative.
I'm reminded of the kind of guy who boasts all of the time about the terrible things he wants to do "rapists" -- the kind of guy who describes in detail the horrible torture he'd inflict on "rapists" --He loves women so much, right?
Or does he love torture so much?
And when you point out that due process matters, YOU get called a monster for not sharing their bloodlust.
This whole mentality that if you aren't thrown into a state of rage that would make it easy to ignore the steps required to even know if you have the facts (if there even was a real crime) is a sign (to them) that you don't really care about women or children or their safety.
I don't want anyone to be tortured. Not even the most evil people. More human suffering is simply more human suffering. Nothing is undone by vengeance but, through vengeance more evil may be done. Is this radical?
This isn't "empathy" it's a desire to actually know what happened and act in accordance with reality not the emotional urges evoked by tales of upsetting crimes.
If there are "really bad dudes" we should find them and know exactly who they are and stop them from acting again.
But as things are going we'll need to keep waiting for them to deny the rights of a person with enough means and social network to make the public emotional enough to stop this. This sucks.
@MxSpoon I'm disturbed by the aparent need to prove to others how outraged they are by obviously bad things.
To me that's a given? You aren't remarkable. Does that make any sense.
Consider someone going on and on about "Throwing kittens in the river is evil, trowing kittens in the cold river water is wrong!" you start to wonder if *they* aren't the one throwing the kittens. Yes, we all get it. It's horrible.
This rhetoric seems to work for some people. And, I *don't* get that.
a fantasy moral dilemma i often think about is imagine if you could push one of two buttons, each of which does a mutually incompatible thing to all the billionaires, fascists, techbros, authoritarians and mercenaries causing all the evil and pollution we see today
1. they will live the happiest, most fulfilling lives they will have had, completely unpunished with no regrets, dying quietly and peacefully as centenarians at home surrounded by loved ones, but they and their kind will have no ability to ever influence politics or economy or society again
2. no promise that the evil will not return, but the people responsible for the current evil will be removed from power and tormented with all the evil they had directly or indirectly caused others before perishing once justice has been fully served so that we don't have to think about them anymore
rationally the choice is painfully obvious but i do wonder how many - possibly even a majority - of people would push the second button
@silverfish I couldn't enjoy 2 because after the first few moments it would slowly start to eat at me. Then *I* end up feeling guilty and bad about someone suffering. Because stripped of the ability to do more harm and suffering they'd just seem sad. It would be very amusing to see how angry and shocked they'd be. But that's all you get that's worth it and then the knowledge that you could have done a better job for everyone with the other choice.
@silverfish Also, being peaceful and surrounded by loves ones isn't a given for some of these men and I think that's part of the problem? Being happy can be a terrible thing if you have been a terrible person. It might allow them to catch a glimpse of who they were. In a way 1 is also a kind of punishment.
@futurebird Serial killers, nonces and other abominations hide in plain sight. Which is why I am always on my guard around the righteous populist sadists of the world.
@futurebird I’m pretty vocal about my history of CSA. Even well-meaning people often need me to be like… “hey, you responded to my experience of violence by wanting to inflict more violence, do you think that helps me? Do you think more violence will make me feel safer?”
Most of them get it. These guys tend to 180 and accuse me of deserving it, bc the violence is the point to them. But so many reasonable people default to that violence, too. It’s cultural IMO.
@futurebird Personally, I feel like they're more likely to rant about torturing pedophiles. Which, A) makes for better cover of sheer moral disgust and B) *conveniently* is wide enough a term they can fit anyone they hate under of they bend the words a little.
@futurebird yes. Just as the law applies to even the highest, even the president/prime minister it applies to the other end of the spectrum. It applies to all or to none.
@futurebird He is the sort of person who would do those things so he speaks from a place of depravity, always projecting the worst of his own thoughts onto others.
@nini This is exactly the impression I get. Men who boast constantly about the violence they would inflict on those who harm women ... they mostly scare me. They don't make me feel safe at all.
@futurebird I was briefly confused by what was supposed to be criminal or evil about "pushing people into subways", versus just a nuisance on crowded mass transit.
But then I reminded myself that facts, logic, and consistency have never been things that concern authoritarians.
@futurebird Id assume that there are many violent and cruel people who suffer immeasurably as a consequence of having to participate in the slow moving cogs that judicial accountability requires.
@futurebird I feel like when people do this they're assuming the Really Bad Dudes(tm) are already unassailably proven to be guilty. So basically they can believe justice is well served because the dude got a sort of trial. But life is so much more complicated than that.
I wish the media and the pundits would phrase it as proving guilt instead of using the phrase due process.
I'm a big believer in process but most people hear that and think "unnecessary red tape."
4chan's dead, tumblr is NSFW-warning people for posting arms, bluesky didn't upload the screenshot of tumblr censoring the arms, only mastodon still functions!
Though to be fair I don't understand how tumblr keeps going. It's mysterious. I'm very happy that it's there. There are some very fun playful communities of people who love insects there and I don't know where else they would go.
I even pay for tumblr... but lord knows not enough people are to keep it running.
Tumblr is home to some of the last innocent places on the internet. I have friends there who only care about bugs and they used to be at livejournal when it was safe in that way.
None of us ever understood the porn thing, it didn't impact us but we got mad on behalf of those who it did hurt.
@futurebird It was very annoying in the amphibian community because some toads have similar skin colors to humans and my toadposts kept getting removed with “warnings” about my adult content submissions.
Sir. Sir it does not even have external reproductive organs.
@futurebird I like Tumblr but goddamnit their moderation is...I was going to say nonexistent but no it's existent in entirely the wrong areas. "no you can't post arms but you can constantly harass random jews, literally admit you are an antisemite, and still not be banned"
(Yes, real incident. I think I still have the documentation somewhere).
@futurebird Huh, signing in and looking at my past logins, I can get a feel for how much I use it by user-agent. Firefox 137, then 132, then 109, then 107 and mobile 107.
I've always sort of liked tumblr, but it seems like they were always driving people away because you never knew what was allowed and what wasn't that day.
@futurebird I look forward to the (sadly unlikely) future in which, in part due to its bridges to other social media sites, Mastodon becomes the … elephant in the room 🐘
..and we keep innovating and moving forward. The fedi is where the survivors live.
That's what I love about it. It's like a game of musical chairs, only without eliminating the "weakest" players 'cos now anyone can magic up a chair. 🤷♂️
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in reply to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 • • •The bullshit explanation the administration gave for not returning the people was that the planes were already outside US jurisdiction. Does that mean the pilots could have just flown those planes to Tahiti or something and kept the planes? I mean, once those planes leave US jurisdiction, can US law be used to force someone to return the planes?
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in reply to Paco Hope #resist • • •It's also really weird as the USA claims universal jurisdiction. United States v. Alvarez-Machain, they decided it was fine to kidnap someone from Mexico, all the way up to the Supreme Court.
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