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Ralph Nader, wary of Trump, offers to help Joe Biden win https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/26/ralph-nader-joe-biden-election/
Ralph Nader, wary of Trump, offers to help Joe Biden win

The political firebrand, long estranged from Democrats, fears fascism will be on the ballot in 2024 and it must be defeated.

The Washington Post
@RickiTarr — I need a mentor here. I didn’t leave Twitter for Mastodon. I left Reddit. I’m looking for how to engage in topic specific conversation with the ease of Reddit but I want this with mastodon. There was a sun called oldphotosinreallife — how does one engage in the sort of back and forth discussion of a single post? I guess I’m having trouble figuring mastodon out. Help?
2020: New Orleans bans police use of #facerecognition, recognizing it to be dangerous and invasive.
2022: Crime panic causes city to reverse course and reinstate face recognition despite earlier concerns.
2023: Face recognition has led to zero arrests. https://gizmodo.com/facial-recognition-new-orleans-police-no-arrests-1850692101
New Orleans' Facial Recognition Systems Led to Exactly Zero Arrests in Nine Months

Does surveillance tech help cops catch criminals? Not in NOLA, a new report from the city shows.

Gizmodo

We don't have a cancer drug shortage
We don't have an energy shortage
We don't have an insulin shortage
We don't have a housing shortage
We don't have a teacher shortage
We don't have a labor shortage
We don't have a food shortage

We have a billionaire excess who buy politicians to deny us our basic human rights.