And corporate landlords that form duopolies and then price fix.

Boy buddy do I fucking believe it.

aren’t you afraid of how you’ll be treated if minorities become the majority?

Many (mostly white) people are convinced that others will seek “racial” vengeance.

It’s all throughout the myths regarding what they thought would happen if we freed the slaves, to what they thought would happen if we allowed black people equal footing under the law, to what they thought would happen if a black man was elected to the presidency.

It’s really one thing the entire time: the false insistence that “race” is some kind of determining factor in a person’s soul or essence, and the loathsome postulate that at some point there will be a “race” war in which their “race” will reign supreme.

It’s in the Nazi myths; it’s in the KKK myths; it’s in the Turner diaries; it’s in the neo-Nazi myths; it’s in the Manson family myths; it’s in the Ruby Ridge myths; it’s in the Waco myths; it’s in the Timothy McVey myths; it’s in the myths of the racially motivated mass shootings in South Carolina and New York; it’s in the MAGA myths.

To say the idea is pervasive is almost an understatement.

These people continually try to incite a “race” war through their actions and insist that if another “race” was in charge they would do the same thing.

Really, they’re just massive pieces of shit racists and they haven’t realized that most people aren’t such losers that they consider their “race” to be worth killing or dying over.

I tested mine using my keyfob (which is what I bought it for). Test, for sure, but there are ones that work. Aluminum foil also works.

Just like a prank bro, don’t worry bro it’s just a prank

You can buy faraday wallets for like $20.

I think I’d prefer to shutter the museum over pretending that you can somehow compromise on what the truth is. The Smithsonian, like many institutions in the last year, folded with little to no resistance.

How much of history do you alter before your museum is a farce? How much truth can you change to lies for the sake of funding before your museum is just a propaganda program for an authoritarian regime?

Then just choose another word and use that.

Why wait? Capitulate today!

Sometimes I like to think these types of things are being implemented by people that expect to revert them if there’s ever a next administration,

Well the thing about that is that is not how history is supposed to fucking work. If history seriously is just whatever politician thinks it was then the whole enterprise is worthless.

Fake fucking museum

The whole comparison of “you laughed at Charlie thing, and now we’re laughing at ice killing” is so hard for these people to understand why most sane people view these deaths differently.

The primary difference here is that Charlie was murdered by a citizen who was arrested as soon as his identity was uncovered and is now in custody.

Renee Good was murdered by a federal agent that has the full support of the federal government and will likely never be arrested or face any accountability.

The problem though is much bigger than “verifying” an image’s authenticity. 99% of people are not going to go to a website to learn how to do some new thing to verify the authenticity of an image that confirms and validates positions they already hold.

Right, so once you have the technology to verify that a picture or video was captured by an actual camera, you show this seal of authenticity right next to the media itself in the feeds, and make it very easy to do so. Then, people can look at a glance and see it isn’t verified (similar to how you get all kinds of warnings that a website isn’t secured) and while that still doesn’t prevent people from thinking AI genned shit is real, it’ll help all the most willfully ignorant.

I do think the authenticity problem is harder to crack than is assumed here, and I also think that GenAI companies (and their co-conspirators like X and Facebook and friends) are trying to make it hard to tell whether or not something is real on purpose to push the technology or their agenda.

You mean like from our government? Because our government started the misinformation immediately after the news surfaced.

Completely fucking illegal. Add it to the pile, I guess. 🤷

“someone else with completely different characteristics died under completely different circumstances and you reacted somewhat differently, you’re a hypocrite”

• people who haven’t completed a book since their mom read them green eggs and ham

“We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Jeffries told reporters.

Counterpoint: no you fucking won’t

The only one I heard of was this one: https://generalstrikeus.com/ and I think Cory Doctorow was trying to get one planned: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-11-11-rip-jane-mcalevey-organize-f8ba7e91c5c9. He set his date out pretty far in the future because he knows that it’s difficult to organize one.

I have no idea. I didn’t say I had a friend that was a plumber. I said I had a plumber. This is the states man, people don’t usually get all up in each other’s business like this. We’re a transactional, individualistic, and now fascistic people. But he seems like he’s doing pretty well.