Notices by Chris Johnson (cxj@phpc.social)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116149572698824171

Needs wider coverage for sure. The numerous and ongoing (and often illegal) avenues of attack on Minnesota as a state are just bonkers.

@dalias Imma stealin' "freeze peach" from ya'. 🙂

@inthehands I’m beginning to think I don’t want buy anything dependent on software post 2025, and avoid upgrades/updates to things as much as feasible. Unfettered swdev by AI scares the bejeezus out of me.

@Okanogen @inthehands This might be a video of that incident. There's definitely a ICE officer pointing a firearm into the crowd in it.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRm544iCqyV/

@alter_kaker @inthehands 100%. I'm too old and weak for this shit. Both accelerationists and others looking down the road to "after we win" have no idea about how brutal and unfair that road is in between.

RE: https://aus.social/@bastardsheep/115641546050077309

Well, that didn't take long. 🙄

@skinnylatte I think that’s a valuable distillation into a meme-like phrase because it will help goad rethinking and action. But it’s also inaccurate and unhelpful in that cities “have” the problem, are expected by citizens to “clean it up” but do not have the capability to really solve homelessness — which is a result of national economic and welfare policies. And actually, unfettered capitalism. Local housing policy changes, for example, are only a tiny part.

@inthehands Never mind that 99.98% [sic] of engineers are wholly unqualified to “fix” government—assuming it’s even broken. It’s not the operations that need fixing. It’s the “management”: campaign funding, political parties, lobbying, current office holders, voter education, informed public, etc. Contrary to mythology, most civil servants and agencies do a pretty good job when not twisted by political greed.

@Infoseepage @w7voa I've got to wonder how a seemingly reasonable guy went down such a rabbit hole that planning and attempting multiple murders (and succeeding at 2) would become his idea of a good thing to do.

@rachelplusplus @inthehands Very true. Reminds me of that famous LBJ quote.

@aral This seems quite applicable: https://infosec.exchange/@Blueteamsherpa/113920502396048894

@toni @dalias @mkj @futurebird Can someone explain just exactly who was the bad guy here and why, like I’m 5? I’m a longtime SO/SE user but this is first I’ve heard of it. And y’all’s writing has a lot of subtext that I’m just not catching.

People who say the American Dream is getting harder to achieve are telling the truth. Class economic opportunity gap is widening for all. https://open.substack.com/pub/ofboysandmen/p/the-cratering-economic-prospects

@dalias What did Mary save herself from?

@aral Thanks. Manifesto seems like an overblown word for what is just a short statement.

@pluralistic And to sell your location data to data brokers like Venntel (Gravy).

There is no Green Party anymore. There is only a con artist with ties to Russia running a conservative-backed psyop designed to siphon votes from actual progressives. https://www.salon.com/2024/09/23/jill-stein-paid-100000-to-a-consulting-firm-led-by-a-suspected-january-6-rioter/

@t54r4n1 @inthehands Exactly. That 20-50 year timeframe is the length of the battle without political capital. If we can change that political part some how, technologically it could be done damn near overnight (days to a few years).

@inthehands Academic question: how many miles can you drive the Civic before it exceeds the GHG involved in making/shipping the bike?

@inthehands photos? 🙂