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   BSD/r000t (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 21:10:19 JST BSD/r000t

   @thatbrickster
   That was the first thing I thought of, like pic related.

   But sf actually tore apart the code and the randomness is sampled basically the same way everything else is.

   So imo it's probably deeper

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   Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified: (nonya_bidniss@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2025 02:06:33 JST Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:

   This email from Sen. Chris Murphy is making the rounds this morning.

   Report from the Senate Floor:

   “Last night in the Senate, something really important happened. Republicans forced us to debate their billionaire bailout budget framework. We started voting at 6 PM because they knew doing it in the dark of night would minimize media coverage. And they do not want the American people to see how blatant their handover of our government to the billionaire class is.

   So I want to explain what happened last night and what we did to fight back. The apex of Republicans’ plan to turn over our government to their wealthy cronies is a giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations. And they plan to pay for it with cuts to programs that working people rely on. Popular and necessary programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP, are all being targeted.

   In order to pass the tax cut, Republicans have to go through a series of procedural steps. Last night, they took the first step which requires them to pass an outline of their plan, but with it, any senator can offer as many amendments as we want. So my Democratic colleagues and I did just that.

   Now, we knew that Republicans would largely unanimously oppose them, but we had two objectives here. One, Republicans were forced to put their opinion on record — many for the first time — on the most corrupt parts of Trump and Musk’s agenda. Two, as I’ve been saying, I am going to make every process and procedure as slow and painful as possible for as long as my colleagues choose to ignore the constitutional crisis happening before our eyes.

   So what did we propose? We proposed no tax cuts for anyone who makes a billion dollars a year. We made them vote on whether or not Elon Musk and DOGE should have limitless access to Americans’ personal data. We made them vote on whether to protect IVF and require insurers to cover it. Every single amendment Democrats proposed was shot down. On almost every single amendment, Republicans universally opposed it. Every Republican voted against our proposal to prevent more tax cuts for billionaires. The corruption and theft is happening in the open here.

   The whole game for Republicans is taking your money and giving it to the wealthiest corporations and billionaires — even if it means kicking your parents out of a nursing home or turning off Medicaid for the poorest children. They know what they are doing is deeply unpopular. They are offering a tax cut to the most wealthy that is 850 times larger than what they are offering working people. Oh and by the way, any tax cuts for working people are going to be washed out by higher costs for basic necessities, like health care and food. It’s a fundamental injustice.

   Thanks to your pressure and support, many of my Democratic colleagues have joined my effort to do everything we can to make sure they cannot destroy democracy and steal your money in the dark of the night. We are being loud about what is happening. I’m going to continue to grind the gears of Congress down as much as possible to make it that much harder and slower to get away with this corruption. That’s why the votes lasted until nearly 5 AM.

   This is a five-alarm fire. I don’t think we have two years to plan and fight back. I think we have months. It’s still in our power to stop the destruction of our democracy with mass mobilization and effective opposition from elected officials. So we can’t miss any opportunity to take advantage of opportunities to put Republicans on the record and shine a light on what is happening.

   And you have a role to play in this as well. I need you to amplify what’s happening, support the leaders who are fighting for you to make sure they can continue speaking truth to power against Musk and Trump’s billionaire cronies, and show up at rallies and town halls. Use every tool at your disposal to send a message loud and clear about how you expect my colleagues to lead and fight in this moment.

   Every best wish,” US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)

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   Church of Jeff (jeffowski@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 09:24:33 JST Church of Jeff

   in reply to

   Now that I'm over 50, I have lots of traumas from people exploiting me.

   The 7th flag is when he talked about how he wanted to partner up with me to do a new cannabis event. There it is.

   So that last one was the final straw and I let them know I was going to take a step back, after several days of reflection on everything that transpired over the previous two weeks.

   When I honestly laid out that I was going to step back, he blew up. Can you believe it?

   MORE ->

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   solarbird (solarbird@solarbird.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:59:29 JST solarbird
   tariffs, mass deportation – the pieces fit together

   I think I’ve squared a circle. Doesn’t mean it’s real; just that I’ve found a way to square it.

   Walk with me.

   Let’s say you’re Trump and you’ve promised mass deportations and huge tariffs on China and other countries.

   Let’s say that mass deportation is incredibly expensive – maybe you’re aware that Hitler’s camps and extermination programme were eating 13% of Nazi Germany’s GDP in the middle of their wars of conquest.

   Let’s say you’re also aware that this will take years and years and years, because there’s literally no way to do this quickly. Physically, I mean. 15 million people can’t be thrown out overnight, or even over months. It’ll be years.

   Let’s also say you want to keep inflation down, particularly to keep prices from skyrocketing due to your tariff policies. Tariffs are, I remind you, a tax an imports that get paid by the importer, and which are passed on to the customer. They are inflationary, by design. At least, until and unless they torpedo the economy entirely, at which point, well, you’ve set off a second Great Depression, just like Smoot and Hawley.

   Now, let’s say that it’s very important to you to keep wages down as well, because nobody wants to pay workers if they can avoid it. If you want to bring back a lot of manufacturing in an already-tight labour market, that’s going to raise labour costs. It just is.

   So you assign an amoral monster like Tom Homan – author of Trump’s Family Separation policy – as the “czar” of immigration. He’s promising the largest deportation force in history and recently said his answer to preventing “family separation” is to expel the entire family – citizenship be damned.

   (He’s also a contributor to Project 2025 and a visiting fellow at Heritage Foundation. Project 2025 absolutely is the agenda. All of it.)

   Then you start talking to people you’re already very friendly with, the operators of private prisons. They are utterly ready and looking forward to the new policies. They see it as an opportunity to double – or better – the size of their evil industry in all its forms.

   Your inner circle have already acknowledged you’ll have to build camps – lots of them, big ones. You’ll call them “prisons” or “detention facilities” or “military camps,” not “concentration camps,” you certainly won’t call them that. Let’s say “facilities.”

   Prison “facilities” are already well known for requiring prison labour, and for their pennies-per-hour payment to inmates. Private prisons have pushed the envelope on this in many ways; prison labour is a profit centre. One I was working against, before the fascist era.

   So.

   Imagine, if you would, the very easy jump.

   You’ve got to do something with these hundreds of thousands of imprisoned people, don’t you.

   Imagine expulsions taking months, then years. Years at a time. Perhaps they stop working so hard on speeding up the process. Perhaps they slow-walk it, timed to, say, suit the availability of “facility” beds.

   Of course you’ll put them to work. A rotating cast of “facility” workers – “prison workers” – worked slowly through the system so there’s no one there quite long enough to start organising.

   Paid, technically. At pennies for the hour, as a token, a pretence that it’s not slavery. But, of course, it is. You recoup the pennies you have to pay by charging them for everything. Maybe even their bed.

   And just like that you have highly profitable… North Korean-style labour camps, with entire families of workers imprisoned, for who knows how long while they are put to work as factory labour for the private prison companies which become the new internal outsourcers of zero-cost labour.

   Slavery, though not by name.

   Maybe you’ll tie camp expansions to increases in tariffs. Raise them in parallel, timed so that the internal outsourcing absorbs the cost of the new tariffs. And then look – no price inflation, no wage inflation.

   And whole new class of people to look down upon forever, if you like.

   It’s quite the plan. Very neat. Very clean. Given that Trump voters actively want “military camps” used against immigrants, it’ll be a very easy sell.

   And very, very profitable. Slave camps always have been, really.

   And all you have to be is an abomination upon the earth.

   And all your supporters have to do is let you be one.

   Is that the plan? I don’t know.

   All I know is that all the pieces seem to fit.

   #fascism #politics #uspolitics

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   Valerie Roney (vlrny@disabled.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 02:51:34 JST Valerie Roney

   K. Real talk here kids...

   8mo ago covid left me with damage to the switchboard part of my brain, which tanks my ability to turn thoughts into words and to process new experiences. I struggle to communicate and even mundane things overwhelm me. I can't even word how isolating this is.

   So if you would like to not get brain damage,

   If you would like to not see the people you love get brain damage,

   Then like maybe wear a mask yeah?

   Covid ain't playin'

   #yallMasking #covidIsNotOver

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   jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 03:38:55 JST jwz

   Rarely have I seen a misuse of the tools at hand more egregious than whatever the hell this is.

   So many terrible decisions had to stack on top of each other to make this happen.