karenm @karenm@librem.one

In their competition for power, Kenyan politicians purposely instigate upheaval yet again.
Kenya: The making of a political crisis that never was

At the end of the day, these muppets know that fascism isn't popular, that nazis are not popular people, that 51% of the population is never going for this under their own free will. And so their plan is to normalize fascism, by removing all other options. If the only thing on your news, in your textbooks, in your entertainment, is fascism, then being a fascist becomes normal. And they don't CARE if you agree, because they CAN trick your kids and win that way. This is how fascism works.

https://ago.mo.gov/file-a-complaint/transgender-center-concerns

the fascist attorney general of Missouri has set up a tip site for complaints about gender transition, hope it doesn't get spammed by long, fake complaints over and over until he takes it down!

#trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #activism

When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood -- a truly free society.
-- Emma Goldman

#anarchism #quote #bot

Lower the retirement age to 16.

RT @numarqs
Daniel Hale. Rotting in prison. Exposed Obama’s drones had a civilian casualty rate of 97%.

Barrack Obama. Bombed civilians. Started 6 wars. Destabilized millions. Chills in $14 million homes.

Time for another xylazine theory dump!:

So.. we’ve known that spikes in norepinephrine can cause tissue necrosis since the 50s and 60s.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0002961068901712

Two nights of riots in #Tbilisi did stop ruling party from pushing further so called "russian law" in #Georgia. However some oppositional groups are not planning to stop the protest till the release of all the people arrested in last days. #Solidarity

Don't like strangers busting into your mentions to give unsolicited opinions?

This could be solved if the Fediverse had better comment controls.

You should be able to make a read-only post if you want.

And you should be able to make a public post that's only writeable to followers.

You should also be able to lock a thread if it becomes a vector for abuse.

Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers.

One legal expert said social platforms may cooperate with police even if not legally required to.

https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2

way too stoned to be in a 7-11 bathroom —

#ChatGPT and its ilk are effectively a large-scale DDoS attack on not only specific tasks (such as teaching, software maintenance and fiction editing) but on human creative inspiration, sense of self and ability to make meaning of the universe.

notice how they are
- creating work for us rather than saving us work
- automating inherently energizing and rewarding tasks such as making art rather than tiring and tedious tasks such as filing taxes
- flooding social networks with generated content that makes it harder to connect with real humans and build community
- distracting us with questions like “what if this machine is sentient?” which keep us from noticing and acting to prevent the suffering of actual humans

that thing where all search engines have become basically unusable because they’re stuffed full of AI garbage? i fear that’s about to happen to everything.

i don’t believe this is necessarily intentional, but no machine that learns under capitalism can imagine another world.

5 held after series of bombings in Fresno, #California. Police AND FBI seize bomb-making components, firearms, methamphetamine, and white supremacist paraphernalia including Nazi flags https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article272640614.html

Make a cell phone that looks like this you cowards

I very recently learned that the term “boycott” comes from someone’s actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycott’s orders and isolate him socially and economically.

They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott

It was pretty effective—the British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some £10,000 to harvest £500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.

Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.

Never forget.

#internment #Japanese #American #history #americanhistory #discrimination #Asian #history #Americanhistory #moreyouknow #usa #supremecourt #SCOTUS

"You want zero trust? Yeah, I've been hurt before."