Ben Palmer exposes through his fake ICE reporting website how deeply rooted fascism already is in American culture. It's not just the thugs in masks throwing people in unmarked vans, or presidents speaking of the “enemy within” or foreigners having “crime in their genes”, it's us. It's us not just electing, but wanting that. Wanting our neighbors gone, wanting a seat at the table, even if it means killing half the country to rule over the other half.

Nice people didn't just make the best Nazis because they didn't make any waves, they also fit perfectly into the regime. They could use their privilege any time to profit off the system, claiming their neighbor's property or belongings after reporting them to the Gestapo. Any white American today can report an immigrant wishing their deportation, and in the recorded calls they often do so for wanting there to be an empty seat in a daycare, or seeing them do something they believe they have a right to.

When confronted during these fake ICE calls, the people reporting their neighbors wanting them deported for believing they are illegals (often just based off skin color) get mad being confronted with the reality of what they did. When Palmer asks them “so you want your neighbors deported?”, despite that being the point of the conversation, the callers get infuriated, as if their simple reporting was completely disconnected from what happened afterwards.

They sometimes even respond that they didn't know what this meant, which in the face of reality today can just be called what it is: a bold faced lie. When reporting immigrants to ICE you know exactly what you're doing, when someone tells it back to you without your sweet story for why you think you were justified in doing that, it somehow loses the heroic optics you gave yourself. It really makes you seem like you're the villain, which is the objective perspective on such an act.

There's people on these fake ICE calls demanding to speak with Palmer's manager, being enraged, simply because he reminded them that ICE deports people.

Did you ever idly wonder why there aren't already a zillion vendors of compatible hardware modules for Framework laptops? Did just nobody bother?

TIL the reason is that Framework made sure their design patents didn't let anyone else make modules https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230015249A1/en?q=(Framework)&inventor=Nirav+Patel&oq=inventor:(Nirav+Patel)+Framework

talk loudly about freedom with just an extremely prominent point of absolute central control? I Can't Believe It's Not Fashtech(tm)

Cloudflare continues to push the worst shit combination of centralization of the internet and genAI bullshit but congratulations, they've hit a new combo so bad I didn't even consider it possible https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/

That's right! Your agents can now provision servers, spend money, and do everything for you!

You don't even need to hand them a credit card!

What's that? Why's that?

Because they've teamed up with Stripe! Why yes, if you've signed up with Stripe Atlas (don't "shrug" this Atlas off, friends!), which is Stripe's "launch a startup for you" company-to-make-companies, they'll give you $100k of FREE credits!!!

That first hit! It's free! Hey!

I bet all the future hits will be too, right? And uh, who will be left holding that bill after you've established this nice dependency?

Vibe coding? That's nothing! Time to go all in on Vibe Founding!

“Don’t rely on responses from Gemini Apps for diagnosis, treatment, or medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice. Its output is for informational purposes only.”

motherfucker what do you think “information” is

“but how would you know what the IP address was, grandad?”

“well, that’s the thing, it didn’t have one.”

“oh, so how would you update the firmware then?”

“it had none. it was just a tea kettle.”

“woah.”

#microfiction