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Only time in my life I wished a politician leaned further to the right.

Site literally has a popup saying “outrage is not enough — we need to fight back”

I look forward to the documentary.

“Mastodon: Victory Through Technical Superiority”, available soon on Laserdisc and Betamax

He has a legal status similar to refugee, but not technically the same because he didn’t apply for asylum within a year of entering.

So yeah, not an illegal alien. Legal resident.

The extra time is spent mining $TRUMP

Cory Doctorow has a short story about this kind of surveillance hell, and the disproportionate damage it does to neurodivergent kids.

Audio version: https://craphound.com/littlebrother/2024/09/29/vigilant-a-little-brother-story/

Underappreciated fact.

I was listening to conservative AM radio (combo of morbid curiosity and masochism), and they talked about a social security warehouse full of documents and how inefficient that is in 2025, and we should get rid of it.

I’m just like:

First of all, there’s no way that’s their primary data source. So if you’re crying for modernization, that already happened a long time ago.

But if you’re saying we shouldn’t preserve paper copies, then you’re opening the door to all sorts of terrible things.

Like, saying we should just trust whatever the government says and not have to prove it in a court of law, or making our systems vulnerable to hackers, or making it so certain government actions can never be undone.

But uh... I guess all three of those things have become hallmarks of this administration anyway, huh?

“I ain’t sayin SHIT until this plane lands.”

No deets on methodology. “Of Democrats”. How many? Where? Registered Dems? Likely voters? 2024 voters?

It matters greatly. In the primaries, Obama was invisible to pollsters that were only looking at prior Dem voters. His support came mostly from first-timers and independents.

So you’re saying they didn’t even have enough resources before the slaughter began. Cool cool cool. Very nice and good.

Reminds me of how virologists were warning that we were underprepared for a pandemic even before Trump cut that funding in his first term.

Seems like the debate is always whether we can afford 10% or 30% of what a normal first-world country would have, and we act relieved when the 10% guys leave office and the 30% guys make a compromise to bring us up to 20%.

“We sometimes think that technology is essentially neutral. It can have good or bad effects, and it might be really important who controls it. But a tool, many people like to think, is just a tool. Guns don’t kill people, people do. But some philosophers have argued that technology can have values built into it that we may not realize.”

Yep: https://open.substack.com/pub/cyberintel/p/once-private-government-networks