Videl @Odonian@anticapitalist.party

feel like we only good at pointing out problems but lack the emotional maturity to do anything about them so we just cancel people and blast it as problematic when the nuance is too wide to ignore and too narrow to navigate so we don't even try

and it ends up with us just not saying something rather than trying to get range and stick our necks out and we're all worse off for it

Are there any co-ops that run web hosting? My food co-op is looking at hosting more stuff in the cloud and it is important for us to support other co-ops when we do so.

Also, would there be interest in setting up a co-op web host if I could talk the food co-op into investing in something like that?

yes!!!

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This is awful.

https://social.coop/media/B0HHhnSRwKh9np9ET74

News item:

Melania Trump Wore a Jacket That Says ‘I Really Don’t Care’ to the Border
https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/melania-trump-wears-i-really-dont-care-jacket-to-border.html

Her spokesperson actually said, “It’s a jacket. There was no hidden message. After today’s important visit to Texas, I hope the media isn’t going to choose to focus on her wardrobe.”

No, there was no hidden message. That's true. Hidden would mean it was something symbolic, such as wearing a brick ball printed jacket. This was in plain fucking sight.

It is interesting to watch the US public worked up about separating children of illegal immigrants, yet at the same time thousands of children and parents are slaughtered in places like Yemen with the help of the US military and tax dollars. ( no judgement of one over the other )

If there is to be pitty for the children, where is the pitty for those children? Or are they too abstract and the wrong type of brown person for society to care?

Dunno if either of these have been posted yet, sharing either way.

Archive Link: https://archive.fo/keKao

Google Drive Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gW5XWBBk3C8gOqqy96taIPk_-Ma3XUUv/view

It's another round of large protest events, so I'm going to do something I've done on in the past. A thread on police less-lethals, how to spot them and how cops use them. This is going to include a lot of imagery of weapons, and descriptions of how they can injure or kill someone.

the ICE database is definitely not on the P2P web or anything. and it's especially not at an address that looks anything like dat://386ef60e56eb9edb878738ee35ee6e95c8552902985e725a5901ae6851e25d00/

and it would be a real shame
if anyone were to look at that url or pass it around or anything

all the google interns lined up at the soylent trough

Since a lot of techies follow me I would like to remind you that places like Vigilant Solutions may try to hire you to work on technology that ICE has contracted. It is your ethical responsibility to not be a cog in the machine.

https://truthout.org/articles/the-careerists/

"I was dismayed to learn this weekend about a Tesla employee who had conducted quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations. This included making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames and exporting large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties."

it was allegedly about not getting a promotion, but let's be honest: it's probably more than that.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/elon-musk-email-employee-conducted-extensive-and-damaging-sabotage.html

Trump defends policy of separating parents and children of those trying to cross the border with Mexico: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/18/donald-trump-us-migrant-camp-border-separation

I just feel like there is something I should be doing because this is really awful and I don’t know what I should be doing. I am a US citizen so I could contact my Congress members but what else?

you know when you're witnessing an accident and all time stands still, and you're frozen like a deer in headlights?

that.

taking children away from their families is something the U.S. excels at. imprisoning or enslaving children & families for not being WASP enough is also something the U.S. excels at.

there is no reforming a country or government founded on this much blood and hatred.

there is no reforming a country where the law is more important than life.