In Missouri, a state Senator who’s running for governor fired up a flamethrower and lit a bunch of boxes on fire.

But let me change the subject.

I had a bully in middle school. Maybe you can relate.

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/youve-persuaded-us-already

To think that the #enshittification of the Internet is a balance between the financial industry and technology leaders is to forget an important point.
The #CounterCulture is not a group of isolated individuals on the Fediverse today, as it was years ago in the open directory project.
People are taking the means to their freedom, we're not just countering the dominant capitalist internet. We are cyber punks, many of us are trans, neurodivergent, anarchists, and at the crossroads with the ecologists who are joining the movement, and I hope for as many identities as possible. Especially with more inclusion of different cultures, in other words that the #BLM and #Latinxs movements are part of where the movement is going, and not just saying "welcome".
All this certainly has a monetary cost, but you can contribute by being a co-operator, and not just with coins. We act in the way we think society should become more inspired.
These protean movements clearly have a revolutionary dimension, not just a protest dimension, and that's why we don't just complain about capitalism. We are making society.

[edit: sorry, I didn't at first mention Asian communities, of course I mean they should be included and in the particular case of Japan, there is already a huge community]

Day one of symptoms (Tuesday) I took a COVID test which came up negative (bottom). I was absolutely sick af, hot flashes, heart palpitations, headache, etc. But negative for COVID.

Today I -finally- got an instant positive on a rapid test on day 4 of sickness. At this point I almost feel well enough most people might not think I'm sick, and if I had a boss, they'd probably tell me to be in the office breathing on folks.

The false negatives are very real.

Tenants: Evictions are bad!

Landlords: *Proceed to physically assault tenants*
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/09/12/berkeley-eviction-moratorium-landlords-plan-party

You need to stop using Chrome NOW. It’s not hyperbole: Google just rolled out a change to Chrome that tracks the sites you visit, builds a profile, and shares that with any page you visit that asks.

This is real. It’s not tech bro conspiracy shit.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome

#privacy #google #chrome

Quoted in the New York Times, a constitutional law expert says that the RICO case against alleged #StopCopCity activists seems to be as much an indictment of an ideology as a description of actual criminal activity.

This is an old story. After the Haymarket riot in 1886, seven anarchists were sentenced to death, despite the fact that most of them had not even been present at the riot. The governor eventually pardoned and released the ones who had not already been executed, but by then, the state terror campaign had achieved its intended effect.

The Georgia Attorney General hopes to drum up irrational fear of anarchists and use that to secure convictions regardless of the facts of the case. If he succeeds, it will have implications for protesters of all stripes.

Solidarity with the defendants.

https://crimethinc.com/AtlantaRICO