NYPD just committed a mass shooting to stop a $2.90 fare evasion. NYC has an $11B police budget while it shutters libraries.

Chicago’s city council to vote on spending $15M in CPD settlements, having already spent $40M this year. Chicago is running a $1B deficit.

Who honestly looks at these complete failures in budgets and says "Yeah, this makes sense." smh

Mozilla leadership
(edit: it was in ref to https://web.archive.org/web/20240917173016/https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249 , but still works in 2025)

#comic #firefox #mozilla

The European mind cannot comprehend this:

“The University of California just announced a list of military weaponry it wants in order to escalate its warfare on its students:
3000 rounds of pepper munitions
500 rounds of 40mm impact munitions
12 drones
9 grenade launchers

Read the full list here: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept24/c1.pdf “

So, I've heard a lot of people make fun of Hunger Games, but let me show you a passage that explains why it's one of the best book series about revolution:

"What do you hate more- the atrocities or the people who commit them against you? Because like it or not there IS a difference. If you hate the people who commit acts of pure evil more than you hate the acts themselves, what will stop you from becoming just like your enemies in your pursuit of justice? What will keep you from commiting those very same acts against THEM when the opportunity arises? And what then? The cycle of pain and suffering will never stop. Round and round it'll go. Nothing will ever change. But. BUT. If you hate the atrocities. If you hate the vile, senseless acts MORE than you hate the people who did them to you. If you are able to see that evil is evil regardless of who does it... The cycle ends with you. No, you may never get justice. But you will never be responsible for making others, even your enemies, suffer the same crimes you have. The atrocities will never be committed by you, never by your hand. And that's the way you change the world. It's the ONLY way"

“Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI - The Atlantic”

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/microsoft-ai-oil-contracts/679804/?gift=lhL3dXSYCcu9vqTqEbg0OHfJiu_TRdq079IHN4QaSAE

> Microsoft is reportedly planning a $100 billion supercomputer to support the next generations of OpenAI’s technologies; it could require as much energy annually as 4 million American homes. Abandoning all of this would be like the U.S. outlawing cars after designing its entire highway system around them.

Fuck every single person who is helping this disaster happen