Notices by Peter (peter@thepit.social)

all my love and support goes out to the people trying to bootstrap a new opposition movement. the Tesla Takedown, the pro-Palestine organizers, the people who shout obscenities at townhalls. these people are heroes, but the institutional Democratic Party is always working behind the scenes to undermine them.

there is no strong opposition movement in the United States because the mainstream Democrats **don't want one** and they have done everything possible to discourage the formation of one.

the people who typically lead protest movements--students, people of color, people with values--have been systematically maligned and marginalized by mainstream Democrats and their allies in the conservative media (New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, etc.). most of the national lawmakers who aligned with the protest movement were removed from office.

for the people in Europe wondering why Americans don't protest, they did. 2020-2021 saw the biggest protest movement in American history. and then the cops beat the shit out of everyone, and when the Democrats re-took power on the backs of those protesters, they gave all the cops raises and threw the movement under a bus.

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