Notices by kiwi (kiwi@kolektiva.social)

You ever just go to a @firestorm event and be like aww these are so my people 😊

I'm just thinking about Aaron Bushnell, and a lot of the US-based criticism of his action focuses on how revolutionary suicide won't change the oppressor's mind, but I haven't heard anything about what his revolutionary love and solidarity might mean to the oppressed in both Palestine and among Palestine liberation solidarity fighters in surrounding nations, which we now know to be: quite a lot 🖤🇵🇸🍉

Lol, lmao

@AnarchoNinaWrites oh completely agree regardless of who the VP pick is, I was more thinking about TC's particular talent at whipping up the bloodlust and how that might direct what happens before the election

@AnarchoNinaWrites this is a helpful Tucker update bc I've been thinking about how much makes sense to be concerned about his being the VP pick (by a mile) in the TPUSA straw poll at their recent Nazi convention in Phoenix -- like on the one hand the party is in shambles, and simultaneously I don't think it's at all out of the realm of possibility this happens

Text from the (Miami-based) landlord next door, lol, lmao

Keep doing crimes everybody we're winning!

@AnarchoNinaWrites oh God I had totally blocked out Bob McDonnell!!!

@atthenius @inthehands "We can't possibly know if this state policy is as racist as it looks on its face" is not the gotcha you think it is: you're baking apologia for the state violence of displacement and environmental racism into your response rather than seeking to actually confront it. In any case this is a particularly hilarious derailment attempt to be reading here in DC, where we literally collect $0 from commuters for their moving violations, so we *know* the entire financial burden falls on folks in the neighborhood:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland-virginia-drivers-dont-face-penalties-unpaid-dc-camera-tickets/65-6320057a-e45b-428a-ab3f-fd3e1301c669

@inthehands I'm just making the argument that justifying the cost of technology implementation/these contracts with private surveillance companies drives city decisionmakers' behavior in fucked up ways; it's a mistake to assume any tech is being operated neutrally because revenue or budget line items or jobs or power is always on the line
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/04/red-light-camera-monkey-business-may-be-a-national-trend/

@inthehands there's always another option https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-09/long-delayed-plan-to-have-civilians-not-police-make-traffic-stops-set-for-release

@inthehands Yeah no it literally works the same way, they place them in already heavily overpoliced neighborhoods and keep them far away from nice rich white people land https://www.propublica.org/article/chicagos-race-neutral-traffic-cameras-ticket-black-and-latino-drivers-the-most

@inthehands same with ShotSpotter https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/four-problems-with-the-shotspotter-gunshot-detection-system