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Chief Justice John Roberts—who helped Bush steal the 2000 election, helped gut voting rights in 2013, helped gut reproductive rights in 2022, enabled overt SCOTUS corruption, and gave Donald Trump near unlimited immunity—is now shocked that the fascist he gave unlimited immunity to is lashing out at him for not giving him even more power, and stated on Tuesday "personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it's got to stop."
Leopards Eating Faces: SCOTUS Edition. Reap What You Sow.
Audre Lorde's "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." is not just a statement about a tool being tainted by its origin. It's about what kind of tool a "master" would create: Whips. Chains. Violent suppression.
That's the meaning: You cannot just take tools whose purpose and politics is dominance and violence and "make them liberatory". This goes deeper than "just" embedded politics or lofty talks about ethics, it comes down to what kind of relations you believe do and should and must not structure the world.
If you leave the infrastructure of surveillance in place, people in power will inevitably find an excuse to resume using it. You have to take that shit down.
https://boltsmag.org/verona-wisconsin-ends-contract-flock-ai-surveillance-cameras/
Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing... Read More
The certificate you need to get to have the right to own a car in Singapore is now S$111K (US$85K). That’s on top of the price of the car.
To be clear, I support this. You do not need a car in Singapore. It’s 30 miles wide
Former Uber self-driving chief crashes his Tesla on FSD, exposes supervision problem
https://electrek.co/2026/03/17/former-uber-self-driving-chief-tesla-fsd-crash-supervision-problem/
I don’t remember the last time I read any news about BP that leads me to think that they are anything but a piece of shit.
“BP locks out union workers at its Midwest oil refinery”
I think the other thing I can't get over with DLSS5 is the industry figures going "this is how we imagined our games would look!"
The demo is running on a machine with two 5090s and your game was designed for 5 year old console hardware. I'm pretty sure if you were able to render normally across two 5090s you could get your game looking a lot better.
Why are we even pretending this is an accessible option. It sounds like Nvidia is *hoping* to get the entire stack running on a single 5090.
#CourtWatch So Afroman has been in court this week to face defamation charges for making a song about the specific bad cops who did a botched raid on his home.
And umm... these cops are WILD!
In this clip officer Randolph Walters explains how he's not sure if Afroman's lyrics about sleeping with his wife are true or not.
You see, if bad cop Walters wants to win defamation he needs to show that he and others could be confused by Afroman's satirical lyrics.
Like... the cops could have paid him his missing $400 fucking dollars and possibly a couple grand in home repairs and this raid on an innocent person would have been settled.
Instead, these cops dared a person like Afroman to find a way to hold them accountable and got upset when he dare try.
I've said it once and I'll say it again... imagine if Afroman was an average Black American.
Didn't have solid cameras, lawyers, a platform & fans.
They'd probably be in jail rn on those false charges.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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