Very aptly put, David Frum.
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Congress Pushes #Apple to Remove #Deepfake Apps After 404 Media Investigation

https://www.404media.co/congress-pushes-apple-to-remove-deepfake-apps-after-404-media-investigation/

Yesterday: Among the neo-nazi X accounts revealed by Texas Observer are a 35-year-old vice president at JP Morgan Chase and a worker at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland. https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/

"If you are okay with having #Muslim, #Jewish & #Hindu students sit through a #Christian prayer at school, but not okay with having Christian students sit through a Muslim, Jewish or Hindu prayer, then it's NOT religious freedom -- it's #religious #oppression."

There was a singular moment in 2015-16 where Bernie Sanders could have been the Democrat Elect instead of Clinton. He was sabotaged, and along that, so was democracy in the US, as it opened the gates for Trump and all that ensued afterwards.

The future (and present) in the US is oligarchy, not a democratic republic. It's just that now it's going to be completely in the open, and legally elected for it. The dream is dead.

I've had this #cartoon in my files for decades. It's no longer a cartoon but the reality many Americans voted for.

There is something rather optimistic about this work/installation - Passage, 2007 by Cornelia Konrads - it suggests (to me) there is always a passage to another (better/brighter) part of the forest - we just need to find it.

h/t Womens Art (at the other place)

All Qtriots in control #QAnon #Conspiracy #photography #dogs #nature #camping #anime #music #BSD #cycling #DOS #fedi22 #fitness #FOSS #GNU #infosec #Lego #linux #MOC #MSDOS #OpenSource #OpSec #OSINT #pinball #privacy #RightToRepair #security #StarTrek #Unix #believeinfilm #fedi22 #photography #filmphotography #35mm #filmisnotdead #Politics #Fediblock #Trump #Caturday #Dutch #English #LGBTQIA #Minecraft #Programming

Bit late because of illness but I need to vent:

Watching the public’s reaction to #RachelReeves murderous budget has been infuriating. From polling, it seems that most people are ok with the budget.

The liberals on social media seem to think they’ve “played a blinder”. Fuck you all, you spineless twats.

She committed to the impoverishment and financial harm of disabled people across the country. For NO REASON. PIP fraud is at 0.2%.

https://xkcd.com/

Jonathan Watts is not mincing his words when he (rightly) concludes that:

'The unnatural disaster in Spain – Europe’s deadliest flash floods in at least half a century – is evidence of two undeniable truths: the human-caused climate crisis is just starting to pick up ferocity & we need to quickly kill the fossil fuel industry before it kills us'!

We have been warned, yet still we do too little; this is can that can no longer be kicked down the road!

#climate #politics

Any #Fishbone fans out there?

They just dropped a new song 11 hours ago

"#Racist Piece of Shit"

I'm going to ask you to peer into current events and take a wild crazy guess who the song is about 😆

https://youtu.be/fOf7-riDwDM

@Gargron I agree. From #Detroit-based #Socialist journal #AgainstTheCurrent: "Socialists should support the #HarrisWalz ticket, not because they represent a significant progressive alternative, but because it gives us four more years in our democracy — such as it is — to organize social and political movements to fight for the working class and the oppressed and raise the ideal of democratic socialism."

@Gargron
Trust the #Election.
#Vote for #Harris.
And then DEMAND #Electoral #Reform.
#USA #Politics #Biden #Harris #Trump

Elon Musk was on hand to award fascist Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni an award from the Atlantic Council last night.

He said she was “someone who is even more beautiful on the inside than she is on the outside.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/precious-genius-elon-musk-love-bombs-beautiful-giorgia-meloni-global-citizens-award-un/

I thought I was done, but I'm so enraged about it that I need to say more.
This dumb rule isn't about tallying the votes, it's about counting the number of physical ballots to confirm they match up with the count in the tabulator.
City election departments have big, powerful machines whose sole purpose is to count physical ballots orders of magnitude more quickly and accurately than people can.
THERE IS NO LEGITIMATE REASON FOR THIS HAND COUNT.
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You will not find a single reputable expert in the field of election security who thinks this policy is necessary, appropriate, or good. There is no science to back it up. There are no historical events to cite to justify it. There is no evidence that it will improve election security in any way.
All it is, is a big fuck-you to poll-workers, Georgia's voters, and everyone else in this country who cares about democracy.
/fin
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As @mattblaze will happily tell you, there is a valid concept of risk-limiting audits conducted after elections to validate that the results haven't been tampered with. But this thing the Georgia board of elections is imposing on poll-workers is not that. It's a bullshit process, and poll-workers are _guaranteed_ to make mistakes while carrying it out. It won't limit risk, it will increase risk by sowing doubt.
THAT'S THE POINT.
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The Georgia board of elections has just decided, "Hey, overworked, understaffed poll-workers! After more than 12 hours of work, when you're tired and cranky and in no condition to do detail-oriented work, we need you to stay at the polls for hours extra counting all the ballots three times, a completely useless endeavor since you're all honest people and the ballots have already been counted by the machines. Good luck with that!"
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Polling places are often understaffed due to a lack of people willing to volunteer to do the work. This is especially true for presidential elections, which are crazy busy compared to off-year and local elections.
By the time the polls close at the end of the day, most poll-workers have been there for 12 or more hours (in MA where I work the polls, it's 14). They are tired and cranky and just want to go home.
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I want to share some important background information about this new Georgia elections rule, from the perspective of a poll-worker:
Poll-workers are not skilled professionals extensively trained in the complexities of conducting an election. They're everyday people with widely varying levels of skill, intelligence, and physical ability who take a few days out of every year to help keep democracy running in this country.
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Unless these shitheads are soundly defeated in Georgia and elsewhere in November, I don't see how the trajectory we're on leads anywhere other than full-on civil war.
These people are sabotaging the election. Everyone knows that's what's going on. Claims to the contrary are transparent bullshit.
These people have given up all pretense of respecting democracy or the union. If we don't stop it soon, a total split is only a matter of time.
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Anyways I also saw this post talking about how this was run and. Uh.

Anyways mad props to the teamsters locals that have opted to do an endorsement for Harris anyways despite the IBT as a whole doing this pandering to the enemy.