Notices by Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)

His NYPD security detail didn't bother to defend him. All cops are fascists, and Democrats haven't even started on making their own security forces.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/brad-lander-arrest-ice-immigration-court/

What did people globally die from, pre-Covid? Followed a chain of links and got to this source which shows causes of death globally in 2019. (Latest available from this source?)

https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death

Brief thread about some surprises

1/n

Other things that I don't know what to make of:

1) About 6% are "other noncommicable diseases", and are not cancer, heart disease, respiratory, digestive, neurological, or diabetes. I really have no idea what's in this category.

2) 5.5% are accidents which seems high. Don't know how many of these are elderly person falls.

/fin

Non-surprises (to me)

1) By 2021, Covid had jumped up to global cause of death #3.

2) Still more suicides than homicides.

3) Other than Covid, non-single-disease symdromes like pneumonia and diarrheal diseases (caused by many different agents) still largest causes of death.

These are "surprises" to me because I'm not an expert.

1) Malaria, despite its prevalence and overall disease burden, was still killing fewer people than either TB or HIV.

2) Homicides. As of 2019, and including war deaths, there was a global 1% chance of dying by homicide.

This is a good deal higher than what I had imagined. I somehow didn't think that 1/100 of us still died by someone killing them directly as opposed to indirectly.

@bruces

I knew that it was theoretically possible to be suspended by Bluesky but this is the first time I've ever heard of it actually happening.

The profound uncreativity of fascism -- same as the Nazis: kill disabled people with official eugenics, kill people with differing sexualities, various crank right-wing theories instead of science, conquest for imagined resources, police state. Same response by liberals. No one learned anything, people on the right aggressively adopted fascist boilerplate and pretend not to know where it leads.

I had low expectations for people in general throughout my life and that was accurate.

@hakan_geijer

For my "actual job" I do projects where I help to create databases of pollution and corporate violation data, and I won't do a project where the data aren't publicly accessible. There can be a "get the whole database at once" level of access for paying institutions to support the project, but there has to be at least also a base level of public, free Web access.

Anarchist projects should be even more so.

@bruces

I'm an ex-physicist and IMO you want a burner phone that looks exactly a generic burner phone. Any souped-up one would draw more attention which would be bad

@Gargron

How does this affect subtoots? That's a case where you are responding to text content created by others but purposefully not attributing it. Do you have to be careful to paraphrase it?

When the USSR fell, there were a whole lot of people on old age pensions that quickly become worth very little or unreliable. Lots of them died, part of what happens when an empire falls.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

Columbia University is union busting as well as having its students disappeared

#academia #colombia

https://uaw.org/in-shocking-move-columbia-university-fires-union-president-one-day-before-contract-negotiations-begin-in-further-crackdown-on-free-speech/

@clarity

To each their own etc. Since we get cataclysms and malignant architecture in reality I'd rather more of the experience that reality can never bring

@clarity

Dream flying can be one of the greatest joys but it exists in different varieties: the version that takes concentration or, worse, a feeling of physical effort (as if pedaling a bicycle etc.) is not worth it. Need some sort of dream therapist to encourage unconscious processes to dream the good kind.

I knew that I was not going to like the reason for this "elbows up" thing when I finally heard what it was. Yes, the US trying to absorb or conquer your country is best thought of as a game.

https://ohai.social/@MeanwhileinCanada/114139328189051458

@CedarTea

I can accept it as a part of Canadian culture which I do not understand, but even rhetorically this is comparing a potentially deadly serious conflict to one of the rituals of a hockey game. Sure you don't precisely break someone's nose in order to win, but it's a recognized and traditional part of the game.

The guy disappeared at the instigation of Columbia University literally had his lawyer on the phone, the lawyer was saying something to the cops, and the cops just hung up on the lawyer. Legality isn't going save anyone.

I hope that Trump somehow finds even more than $400 million to remove from Columbia University's funding. Let the fascists fight each other.

There is nothing more tiresome than a post where someone announces that they aren't surprised. OK I'm going to do it anyways. So CA gov Gavin Newsom is complete agreement with Charlie Kirk on "trans issues".

Come on this is California. Have people not learned anything about California yet? It's a state that all of our more ideological Nazis came from. They just rejected ending prison slavery by popular referendum!

A couple of days back I posted

"Stop creating international conferences that meet in the US.

This goes beyond conference policies. Some of your attendees will not be able to get into the US and some of those that do risk arrest."

Many people said that the current risk of arrest was low for people in "safe" categories. I sort of agreed but emphasized that the future risk wasn't. Well the future is already here.

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/02/28/german-tourist-held-indefinitely-in-san-diego-area-immigrant-detention-facility

@bruces

The whole algorithm vs not thing is so misdirected. "Show posts in order of when they arrived" is an algorithm. You can also view Mastodon through some other algorithm if you get one of the interfaces to it that does that. It's something people talk about instead of power, control etc.