It would definitely give groups like the NRA and ADL a trip (once more people use something like this to invoke a tax-backed "hunt" for terrorists).

It takes me "so long" to read things. I'm only halfway through Supa Dupa Skies by Logic(s) whereas I've finished two copies of In These Times. In the case of Supa Dupa Skies, the essay, Origin Stories, was what I first opened up to and blew my mind. That led me to starting Accounting for Slavery, a book that I still haven't finished but from reading the references gives me very little hope for the field of management (given its shared history with the industry/system of policing, IMO). I like "jumping around" like this because it's within a domain I have a lot of interest in and keeps things interested. Note taking has helped me context-switch and as well as — and I only started this about three years ago — writing about what you've read from each chapter. Might be more obvious to college heads but this has improved both my recall but also my ability to pick up where I left off at. I still want to make some of my notes semi-public but that's for the future.

The most notable point of this bill is this phrase " a terrorist or terrorist-supporting organization within the prior three years". This would pull this status from organizations that support political prisoners if the state considers them to be a terrorist. Or anyone who's been protesting the war on Palestine.

Whyyyyyy? https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr6408

LMFAO Apple "apologized" for breaking your local middle school's piano but still will be working to replace everything in your school with it (and locking out other schools that can't afford it). https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/apple-apologizes-for-ad-that-crushes-the-sum-total-of-human-artistic-endeavor/

The bodycam era was the best thing to happen to the news because it removed the ability of citizens to report things; it returned the authority of the narrative back to the state. On par with corporate security footage being used over civilian or independent reports.

>"The host has ending the meeting"

*takes off headphones*

*turns off desktop speakers*

>THIS IS MY LAST RESOOOOOOOOOORT

https://www.blackagendareport.com/rise-militarized-policing-response-black-dissent put me onto how much COINTELPRO was so hell-bent on making sure its internal colony of Africans could not self-actualize in a meaningful way.

By 1970 fully 70% of the FBI COINTELPRO operations were aimed at Black organizations, from the non-violent SCLC led by Dr. King to SNCC, CORE, and the Black Panther Party (BPP). Ultimately, the majority of the 70% of COINTELPRO operations that focused on Black groups and Black leaders collectively were directed exclusively at the BPP. Why was this?

I'm ringing a bell that we all heard before by now but this closing line is one to close the day on:

The confirmed range for the size of these “Cop City” projects is as low as a 3,500 square foot structure on 3 acres to a 366,000 square foot village on 146 acres. The largest being planned did not include details on the actual facility, but the proposed site is a whopping 800 acres. Historically, a basic prerequisite for autocratic Fascist rule is a national militarized police force, backed by an all-pervasive civilian police intelligence apparatus with a singular national Database. It hasn’t been a long time coming but corporate America and its political power structure have fashioned a police state under cover of a spurious “electoral college” democracy and chauvinistic white nationalism. It’s called Democratic Fascism.

X-Men '97 is WILD and we got the last episode of Season 1 next week. NGL this season has been a lot but DAMN.

Ever curious about who profits from tear gas production? https://littlesis.org/oligrapher/3638-tear-gas-profiteers

Wow. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-06/apple-illegally-interrogated-nyc-retail-staff-us-labor-board-rules and https://www.nlrbedge.com/p/05072024-apple-engaged-in-illegal

Got about half a trillion strokes left. https://www.keysleft.com/

First time in a while I've seen a hosting service explictly mention Publii, via https://pages.casa/. I think https://getpublii.com/ has the right idea and is missing a few parts. Having it the act of hosting something — or even producing Web content be similar to document processing (or vector graphic creation) is where I feel we need to be moving the open Web. Making it work with ActivityPub seems doable too with more demonstration of static-site ActivityPub solutions (or one even going as far as adding a thin layer for compatible static sites to make it operate like an AP site).

Is there a site where I can see which lobbyists have funded who across the United States? https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/LD/default.aspx?lyi=11&tci=-1 gives me stuff for Florida, as a first party source.

Why isn't this coming from the Onion? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/what-can-go-wrong-when-police-use-ai-write-reports

And HE WAS LYING ABOUT IT! https://www.mediaite.com/news/rfk-jr-claims-a-worm-ate-part-of-his-brain-and-then-died/

Dude got a dead worm in his head from (potentially) eating shit in pork? Could NOT BE ME, astaghfirullah!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhh I see what you're saying! Yeah, talk about pulling your own plug

It was moreso on the evolution of commerce (not so much tech as in like VC-backed SVB kinda tech). This quote is more of the "tech" I'm thinking of (so more like VISA and Mastercard):

AM: This is another one of those situations where I think it’s useful to look back at what was actually happening at the time and how people thought about things at the time. Because the delivery regime that we have is convenient in a lot of ways for people that can afford to interface with it. It’s really easy to get used to it, especially since other options for more traditional types of commerce, in a lot of places have dwindled, especially in places with poorer populations. In the late 90s when Amazon was founded and you get a lot of other dot-com startups that were trying to figure out what this model would be to sell things online. It was met by a population that was largely pretty skeptical of having to buy something on the internet. It was a novel technology; it seemed like the Wild West. It seemed like buying something online was probably a great way to get your credit card stolen. There wasn’t a lot of trust.