Notices by Peter (peter@thepit.social)

honestly, Americans deserve everything that's about to happen to us. not for a single fucking second over the last 24hrs did anyone pause to question whether we should be dropping millions of dollars worth of bombs on some poor country where people are just trying to live.

just remembering the whole Elián González thing, my god how times have changed. now you've got a Republican president doing this exact thing like hundreds of times a day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez

i'm intrigued by the fedi girl thing. it's spam, but to what purpose? it's almost like a proof of concept or something. some script kiddie messing around, seeing what they can automate.

i wish this whole shitty moment would make people reevaluate in their heads what it means when the government classifies someone as a "criminal." mostly they are just normal people and something went wrong. but it seems like not yet. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

wtf does "taken off the streets" mean? think about it. it means **permanently imprisoned**

ultimate FAFO is white people looking the other way on mass incarceration until whoops now it's you thrown down a hole and forgotten.

two hundred years of fucking around, the finding out is gonna be **wild** i certainly wouldn't want to be around for it.

anyway, shit is getting grim. **lots** of people have overstayed tourist or student visas for a few days before leaving because they didn't think it was a big deal, and it isn't. but if you did this, **do not go back to the US** even for vacation.

this seems like a very, very dangerous development that I have not seen mentioned anywhere else. **especially** if you are Venezuelan or from some other country where the US doesn't have diplomatic relations, if you get picked up by immigration, you cannot be deported, and therefore, **you get placed in indefinite detention** it's a Kafkaian black hole: you can't be deported, but you can't be released.

it seems like **tons** of people have been caught up in this, but we don't hear their stories because they aren't pretty white ladies or don't have the phone number of an immigrants rights NGO. spread the word to anyone you can. the combination of malice and incompetence makes this a **very** dangerous moment to be in the United States as a non-citizen.

saw this posted on my school job board, so i just spent a few hours slapping a draft project together and sending it along with an application because IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE A FUN CHALLENGE, ok???

btw, if you know anyone looking for an intern who is eager to do stuff with data and Python and ETL pipelines and whatnot: helloooooooo. #fedihired

I guess in retrospect, the entire world outsourcing its science to a single country was not a great idea.

brutal.

hey, it's a start.

apparently someone used AI to transcribe depositions in an important corruption case in Spain and it fucked the whole thing up and now the case is in chaos. 👍 https://www.diaridetarragona.com/cat-es-mon/la-ia-provoca-un-caos-sin-precedentes-en-el-tribunal-supremo-y-distorsiona-el-caso-abalos-HH23242243

billions and billions of dollars have been poured into this technology, and at **best** LLM-based search engines are able to return correct information ~40% of the time. unfortunately, they also sound really confident about it, which means most people won't even notice they have completely wrong information. https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php

everything else aside, it sounds like Trump is simply not in control at the White House. we're in a very serious situation where the president has dementia and is not actually able to understand what's going on around him, much less lead. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2E4.f8eL.HfFykWbEEPJx&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

huh, look at that list of email addresses.

EDIT details on provenance etc.: https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ljpyyjzfis2l

hell yeah. we are on week 5 of the Trump administration. Trump take nest egg.

they are going to announce some bullshit bailout around midday and the markets are going to breath a sigh of relief because the people who studied finance in college are actually dumber than average.