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Bobby Blaze | Esq.Nov 7, 2024

I see quite a few #Democrats blaming anyone and everyone except #Harris and her team (of which she is ultimately the leader.)

This is toxic and a path to make sure that #Dems never win another election again.

You cannot constantly berate and degrade people, constantly throw stones at them (sometimes literally) and think they're going to come around to your way of thinking.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.Everyone needs to face the facts and be better.

A little introspection would go a long way.

#Election #Trump #politics

Bobby Blaze | Esq.Sep 10, 2024

This guy claims to be a professor but doesn't understand basic statistics.

"Notes on Methodology: We rely on L2’s racial categorizations throughout. In Georgia, L2 uses voters’ self-identified race when available. For the set of Georgia voters who do not self-report race when they register to vote, L2 uses proprietary algorithms to estimate race and ethnicity."

a.k.a. they guessed.

Should also compare midterm to midterm. And you have to consider who was on the ballot. People vote, or don't vote, for dozens (perhaps hundreds) of reasons. Plus, 2020 was such an outlier because of mail-in voting.

– – – And if that was not enough…

"The numerator is calculated by summing the number of ballots cast by self-identified white and Black voters, and the denominator comes from the Census Bureau’s five-year estimates of the citizen voting-age population (CVAP) ending with each year. The 2022 denominator is the CVAP from 2020, the latest year available."

LOL – the number is not even calculated using registered voters!

Whatever Professor.

mastodon.social/@SteveThompson/113110822634664880

@SteveThompson

Bobby Blaze | Esq.Sep 9, 2024

Large corporations can be evil in the same way individuals can be.

Most people who scream like this are simply losers who can't compete.

RE: beige.party/users/faraiwe/statuses/113108209164856011

faraiwe (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] it's particularly funny (not in a ha-ha way) that #Lowes is the business in question, here, given the bandwagonning some were putting towards Lowe's away from #HomeDepot, given HD's owner being pro-tRump. As if Lowe's had a conscience and were some nice business. Spoiler: they are not. There are none. Large corporations are soul-less, scruple-less, and will always fuck people over, to boost bottomline, because that is how they are set up. The world will burn because CEOs need bonuses. Learn this, peeps. Don't give in to artificial culture wars. ALL large corporations are evil, no billionaires are good.

beige.party

Bobby Blaze | Esq.Aug 26, 2024

Wolfie Christl Aug 26, 2024

Texas state police "signed an acquisition plan for a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for a controversial surveillance tool called Tangles ... The deal is nearly twice as large as the company’s $2.7 million two-year contract with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)"

@dannunzio adds new details about the acquisition of 'osint' surveillance tech by US law enforcement, which can include phone location data from digital advertising (Cobwebs/Webloc):
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-tangle-cobwebs/

Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech

DPS plans to spend millions in taxpayer dollars on a controversial software, used first as part of Governor Abbott’s border crackdown, to “disrupt potential domestic terrorism.”

The Texas Observer

Bobby Blaze | Esq.Aug 24, 2024

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Chiclet Aug 23, 2024

@rpardee

I'm actually hoping that eventually there will be an executive order for all official social media accounts for the federal executive branch, migrate to GSA owned and operated federated servers.
This cannot and should not apply to personal accounts like campaigns since they need outreach to places like tiktok and even twitter.
But this trend of official government communication being hosted by partisan private companies has to end.

#Harris #mastodon #xitter

Bobby Blaze | Esq.Aug 13, 2024

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Aug 13, 2024

Nation’s best #hackers found #vulnerabilities in #votingmachines — but no time to fix them
Hackers at #DEFCON identified vulnerabilities in #voting machines used in #US #election2024, but fixes are unlikely to be implemented before Nov 5, organizers said. "#VotingVillage" event held away from the main conference floor due to security concerns, drew #election officials and cybersecurity experts. Organizers plan to release a detailed report on the vulnerabilities found.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/12/hackers-vulnerabilities-voting-machines-elections-00173668