@glitzersachen @timnitGebru No, it historically is (hence January 6 2021 was a huge deal).

@juliewebgirl @rosalyn @elfin Yo. Anti-caste Brahmin here.

STFU and stop advocating for ICE to come after Indians, holy shit. I don't care if they're the most virulently casteist Brahmins on the planet (I know a bunch), *no one* should be subjected to ICE's horrors.

Discrepancy is real, but that means we fight to ensure others aren't treated horribly.

People are literally *dying* in ICE custody. STFU.

@juliewebgirl @rosalyn @elfin To put it bluntly, I don't want *anyone* being picked up by ICE, no matter how shitty their paperwork. I believe immigration irregularities used to be a *civil* (not criminal) violation before the DHS was created. So yeah, saying you wish ICE would go after *anyone*, no matter how much you despise them or their views, is a shitty take.

@juliewebgirl @rosalyn @elfin
> But yeah I have yet to hear of them picking up any Indians in Redmond. Shame really...

Please tell me how I'm supposed to read this any way *other than* I wish ICE would pick up (read: throw in detention camps) Indians living in Redmond.

@juliewebgirl @rosalyn I 100% guarantee that if ICE did a sweep and saw me, they would come after me. Even though I was born here and brought up here. Why? Because I'm brown and have a "funny name".

I get that you want to pretend as though this recent stuff is ICE messing up their job, but I *guarantee* you they've been terrorizing black and brown people ever since they were created. That *is* their job.

@juliewebgirl @rosalyn If your problem is that ICE isn't "doing their job properly", I'm sorry but we're not on the same side. ICE *is* doing their job - their job is to brutalize and terrorize non-white people who look like they could be foreign. And they've been doing that since day *ONE*. Pretending as though them not going after Indians is them not doing their job properly is just...wrong.

@skinnylatte @index Dietary prefs (vegan) is def top of the list for me! Esp b/c I don't have enough cultural context to make inferences like I can in India.

@skinnylatte https://jmp.chat

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/115227429617220798

Exactly. Dems are feckless, GOP is fascist. Such a wonderful political system we have.

@lindsey @skinnylatte might have suggestions?

@jwilker @scifi @bookstodon Only if DRM-free.

Signal is one of the most important anticapitalist tools we have right now. It's FLOSS, free to use, privacy-preserving, and run by a (real - looking at you Mozilla) nonprofit. But that doesn't reduce the bills Signal has to pay to make the service work: https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

I know several people here have issues with Signal's centralized nature, but it's the gold standard in encrypted messaging for a reason. Go donate if you can - we all deserve privacy.

'Science' is not neutral because 'science' is conducted by humans and humans have biases, period. The good thing about science is *not* that it's neutral but that it provides a mechanism for accountability.

As long as you have humans in the equation (and *yes*, that includes humans training AIs, motherfuckers), there *will* be bias. There *will* be narrative selection. And y'all should think a *lot* before unquestioningly using it to shut down trans and nb requests for inclusivity.

As a cis man speaking to cis people everywhere, we *have* to normalize asking for pronouns and not assuming. It's a small way in which we can make the world safer for our trans, non-binary, gender-nonconforming, etc comrades.

I know it might feel weird at first, but part of it is also retraining *yourself* not to assume, and to get rid of the internalized assumption that we can guess/infer someone's gender and pronouns based on how they look.

Latin American countries are showing more backbone than the Democratic Party right now.

@alcinnz I've focused on getting repairable tech whenever possible and investing in an iFixIt kit :)

FLOSS is essential to a functioning democracy. Nonprofit media is essential to a functioning democracy. Academic research is essential to a functioning democracy. Unions are essential to a functioning democracy.

All of these are harder to fund than the oligarchic counterparts: proprietary software, for-profit media, billionaire-owned think tanks, etc. These institutions will take a hit over the next 4 years (hopefully not longer), but we will have to rally to save them.

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@Infoseepage @protonprivacy FWIW, as someone who went to Caltech (undergrad), it's absolutely possible to be *completely* unaware of the outside world while there. It started to change a bit while I was there, but it's amazing how isolated Tech is, especially wrt sociopolitical context.

@protonprivacy There are two ways to read the fact that 88 appears (in binary) in Andy's Reddit handle:
1. He left a subtle clue for Nazi nerds.
2. He knew 88 would look bad and used binary to avoid using 88.

Frankly, it's disturbing that I don't know which explanation to believe at this point. Proton's users are (heavily?) skewed towards nerds, so 101100 was bound to get decoded soon enough. Was it just for plausible deniability?

@protonprivacy @Infoseepage