The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

“You’re expendable but trans people are not” is exactly the energy we need in the face of the elite assault on our trans comrades and loved ones

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

This is a concentration camp.

Maybe we should be clearer. Jobs aren’t at risk from AI. They’re at risk from amoral shitbag short term spec capitalists using AI against a weakly unionised workforce and broken government.

Someone very smart (maybe @hacks4pancakes.com ?) once said on reading news about big breaches "Everyone who knows anything is under NDA. So if you see someone talking, by definition they don't know what they're talking about." It stuck with me. And yeah, that basically applies to everything

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Just thinking about how we don’t have money to keep the public hospital open but there’s an unlimited budget for police overtime

A little confused by "instead" here. The saying isn't "fuck around, instead find out"

My entire adult life

average person cheering for war in iran

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s

In hindsight, expanding executive powers to normalize presidents unilaterally approving foreign strikes was a bad idea. But in midsight and foresight it was also a bad idea.

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/

can we please start electing people who understand technology? this is so stupid for so many reasons, both social and technical. it boggles the mind. www.pcmag.com/news/colorad...

So back to the pre-auth and insurance co-pay issues: I'm 100% certain people are dying because they can't bear to wait for insurance and don't have the option to pay out of pocket without guarantee of reimbursement. That supremely pisses me off. It should piss you off too. 4/

it is not enough to disable the feature that produces an AI summary of my emails at the top of my emails in gmail, I need a button that delivers an electrical shock to the person who thought it was a good idea

"Since launch, more than a dog a day has been found and more than 27 dogs a day every day every year have been shot by the police using your Search Party by Ring cameras to hunt and kidnap your neighbors who they also shoot to the tune of about 4 a day every day every year, as well as the dogs."

Such commentary seeks to redefine pornography as "whatever I wish to censor because I do not like it."

This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.

Forums are nostalgic to people of exactly my age, but I think they just have a different combination of the weaknesses of chat clients and social media. I think what ppl miss is having a small, close-knit community, and that's increasingly hard to replicate as corpos own it all.

Violent policing is wrong on every level. Abolish ice. Abolish CBP. Abolish state patrol. Abolish the MPD. All of it. Let’s build something new. We’ve already got neighborhood safety groups. We already built it.

Guillotines now

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i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

They don't need body cameras, they need a speedy trial and swift sentencing

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Open letter to our Senators: Gentlemen, Ladies, we don't really care about ICE not getting even more funding. We don't care about more "training" and more rules they won't follow. We want ICE de-funded. Dismantled. Gone. Driven out of our cities.

i have never felt less inclined to donate to political campaigns in my entire adult life

It's also what we recommend to folks whose lives literally depend on the security of their communications. All of that being said, never forget that ANY communication protocol is only as safe as the device it ends up on, and the people who receive the message.

Sometimes I wonder if this has percolated out enough from the Security Knower community: Signal is specifically and uniquely and notably Very Good about security, and should always be your first choice for talking about whatever. It's not a complicated question or anything. Use Signal.

It's obviously very far down the list of actual problems, but the cops being allowed to have uniforms and vehicles that are threatening and 'macho' looking is a contributor to the problems of current cop culture. The cops should be required to wear a uniform that is hi-vis and slightly embarrassing

someday when we get through this we gotta make sure domestic peacekeeping forces don't have anything more menacing than a Chevy Bolt on hand. this war on terror MRAP shit has got to end lol

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

I don’t think we should be using words like “innocent” or “US citizen” or “bystander” or things like that because — what if someone was an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record? Would they deserve this? No one deserves to be executed on the street in cold blood.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

i don’t actually think the state should be allowed to execute anyone, regardless of any surrounding conditions.

i don’t care if the victim was unemployed, or a nurse, or a drug dealer. i don’t care whether they were armed or unarmed, “peaceful” or not. i do not accept the premise that a state has a right to uphold power over its people through violence, and neither should you.

They wheeled this Nazi asshole into court in a wheelchair and he was still trying to hide his face in shame 76 years after World War II ended. That's the kind of commitment I'm looking for.

People remember stories of Anne Frank and other Jews hiding in attics, but they're often less aware that by the 1980s, German families were hiding their aging grandparents from Nazi hunters. From Berlin to Buenos Aires. They had to use aliases. Nowhere in the world was safe. Turnabout is a bitch.

Texas winter storm prep means that the minute, I mean THE MINUTE, the media starts making fun of Ted Cruz for going on vacation, you get your ass to HEB or else you're eating gas station snacks and Whataburger for the next five fucking days.

The funny thing about this standard MAGA response to protest is that in this case not only is it once again a lie, but the people they’re protesting — immigration officers — are literally paid agitators and chaos agents from out of state.

I’m seeking photos and videos of drones used by ICE, like these. Please send any you have my way - trying to better understand the patterns.