Nine hundred sixty-five THOUSAND new infections. Per day.

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/19/new-covid-variant-holiday-surge-jn1

Reminder: the Uvalde cops whose cowardice and stupidity got a fuckload of children killed faced basically zero consequences. At most, two officers were fired and another quit before her conduct was investigated.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02/09/texas-dps-uvalde-investigation/

These baconbacks had level 4 ballistic armor and there were over 100 officers responding to the scene, over which no one assumed command.

They should be treated like shit for the rest of their lives, everywhere they go. If you live in the same town as any of these public enemies, be sure to remind them that they are despicable.

I’ve been in the Computer Science field long enough to have seen multiple rounds of the AI hype machine. It’s always snake oil, smoke and mirrors. It never even approaches what a reasonable person would consider to be a thinking machine.

What it really turns out to be is an elaborate “pump and dump” scheme where early investors push the hype, knowing it’s all BS. Once a sufficient number of rubes jump on the bandwagon, the early investors cash out at a profit and leave the gullible behind to absorb the losses when people eventually realize that there is no value anywhere in the AI companies.

Oopsie! There went your retirement plans!

Do not be fooled by this chicanery.

There is an iconic photograph of a black man in what resembles a confederate uniform. It suggests that he was a confederate soldier. In reality, he was a slave. This misrepresentation obscures complex and often painful truths of history, replacing them with a simplified and inaccurate account.

To read uninterrupted text: https://open.substack.com/pub/400years/p/will-we-believe-our-lying-eyes?r=1pv9e3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Video Blog: https://youtube.com/@400YearsUNLeashed?si=DCP_AUYj-_7PrZWS

Video Blog 2: https://youtube.com/@BlackBiographics?si=kEV7S1ZL70qlLFCK

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Image: Clark Lee, an enslaved black man to a Confederate white officer,

For anyone wondering if the culture has changed around Oliphant's trust & safety efforts, the answers are in this thread.

https://retrogaming.social/@oliphant@oliphant.social/111349661193468392

In short, no it has not. Cis white guys can enable problematic behavior and get off scot free while apparently the victims owe apologies. Highly disappointed in Emelia's defense of such in this thread.

#trustandsafety #moderation #fediverse

If we want safety in the fediverse it starts with taking responsibility for our own.

DID I FUCKING CALL IT OR WHAT?

Kevin Dahlgren ARRESTED on several counts of 1st-degree Theft, Identity Theft, Aggravated Identity Theft, and Official Misconduct.

This anti-homeless MOTHERFUCKER was a personal target of mine back when I learned about his shady-ass connections to anti-homeless org WeHeart Portland, which originated in Seattle (see this link: We Heart Seattle Exposed: Home https://weheartseattle.exposed/ )

I KNEW he was dirty, and I suspected he was up to this shit, and I was feeding intel about him to reporters before I got too busy and stopped investigating. I wonder how the authorities got him.

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2023/10/homelessness-pundit-kevin-dahlgren-accused-of-theft-official-misconduct-at-city-of-gresham.html?outputType=amp&fuckYourPaywall

#pnw #PDX #Portland #Oregon #KevinDahlgren

Yesterday, Elon Musk tweeted that the word cis "is a heterosexual slur."

Also yesterday: Reporting showed that Twitter has lost more than half it's value since Musk took over a year ago.

Musk's attempt to distract attention from the issues at Twitter is pathetic- but it's also useful because what Musk is doing with anti-trans rhetoric is exactly what conservatism is doing, and the stakes aren't the value of a company but human's survival on this planet. #trans #news

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/cis-is-a-heterosexual-slur-tweets-elon-musk-who-halved-twitters-value