White people today: the protesters in LA are hurting their own cause, they should be like MLK and the Civil Rights Movement!
Meanwhile, white people during the Civil Rights Movement:
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I break shit for a living.
Certified Pissed and ready to throw hands with this goddamn regime.
You'll get mostly pictures of my lovely Bean (cat), occasional politics posting, and some general yapping about tech.
"I'm glad to know that the Software Engineering department isn't the only team that expects Daniel to break everything"
He/Him/They/Grilled Cheese |
I hate the expression "rubber bullet". Those bullets aren't rubber. They're hollow steel canisters with a coating of non-vulcanized rubber, like super-balls.
When they hit a person, they do considerable damage.
When they hit strangers on livestream, they leave significant and instant bruises.
When they hit my acquaintance Jonny, they tore off their fingernail and severely fractured their finger bone.
When they hit Linda Tirado, they took her eye and gave her progressive brain disease.
White people today: the protesters in LA are hurting their own cause, they should be like MLK and the Civil Rights Movement!
Meanwhile, white people during the Civil Rights Movement:
#Oregon just became the first state to end private equity and corporate control of doctor and clinical practices.
This is huge. I do wish California and other states would follow suit, but the corporate money is so entrenched in politics here that it would take a miracle for it to happen.
If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's really important to NOT do it.
"The governor is concerned about all this stuff they want us to update our record keeping so we store both gender AND biological sex."
"We need fields to store the country of origin of people's parents."
If you don't have the power to rebuff this yourself, ask for help. At minimum ask for help online anonymously.
๐ง Heading to a protest? Protect yourself from gov surveillance before you get there.
๐ Use Signal, not SMS.
๐ด Airplane mode > just "silent."
๐ต No face unlock.
๐ญ Mask up. Both kinds help.
๐ต๏ธ Donโt post live from the scene if it includes others' faces or locations.
We stand for privacy, protection, and public action.
๐ Full guide via @Wired@msdtdn.social ๐๐ฝ https://www.wired.com/story/the-wired-guide-to-protecting-yourself-from-government-surveillance/
#PrivacyMatters #DigitalSecurity #CivicTech #ProtestTools #Surveillance #ACTNetwork
Glendale, which is a city in LA County, just canceled its contract with ICE.
Because protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works.