@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

@Mastodon, @pixelfed, and others need to be thinking of a concrete way to take on AI crawlers. Not only b/c tons of people on here would like to not be scraped by AI bots, but also because not doing anything is going to lead to huge increases in the amount of resources needed to run a Mastodon or Pixelfed (or other) server, leading to consolidation, increased maintenance costs, etc.