Notices by Adam (adamsaidsomething@mastodon.social)

The best kind of tariffs... Tariffs on oligarchs

https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/114101753913836837

Children die of hypothermia in Gaza as temperatures drop and Israel blocks tents and temporary shelter from entering, in violation of ceasefire terms.

"They were simply born and their family had no way to keep them warm" 💔

@palestine

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/25/six-children-die-of-hypothermia-amid-freezing-conditions-in-gaza

#gaza #genocide #ceasefire #freepalestine

Legislators like Rep. Bethany Soye want to jail librarians, teachers, and historians in South Dakota for lending, you know, "harmful" books to kids. The bill will now go to the Senate

https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/02/20/south-dakota-house-advances-bill-that-lawmaker-slams-as-locking-up-librarians

#uspol #southdakota #library #libraries #librarians #bookbans #civilrights

@evan @scanner

Is this one of those things like character limits where some instances give you more or even remove that restriction?

@aral

Re: "If you’re in the UK, cancel your iCloud subscription."

Surely even if you're not in the UK you should cancel your iCloud subscription. The government ordered a backdoor to iCloud accounts worldwide. The B.B.C. article even says "It is not clear that Apple's actions will fully address those concerns, as the IPA order applies worldwide and ADP will continue to operate in other countries"

She succumbed to a glamorous lifestyle while sending taunting letters to the detectives on her trail.

She was eventually betrayed, caught, and handed the longest sentence ever given for white collar crime, but used her brains to get herself out of prison twice – first by a daring escape and the next time by studying law.

She's also a domestic abuse survivor, dated horrible men, and navigated the challenges of motherhood while in prison.

Guardian portrait:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/22/tanya-smith-stole-40m-evaded-fbi-broke-out-prison

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This sounds like an extraordinary memoir!

As a teenager, Tanya Smith stole bank reserves over the phone to help friends and neighbors pay off overdue utility bills. When the F.B.I. derided her, saying Black people "don’t have the brains" to pull off complex heists, she taught herself to hack computers and went on to steal tens of millions from banks and casinos in a multi-year crime spree

@bookstodon

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c6fd7e99-e74c-4e1b-b769-9a84bf520f29

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#bookstodon #BlackHistoryMonth #minnesota #truecrime #prison

In a polarized society, it takes rare talent to find common ground across the political spectrum

#uspol #KristiNoem #MAGA #GOP #Dems #anarchism #vegan #anarchist #VennDiagram #climate #capitalism #fascism #genocide #StudentProtests #MaskBans #refugees #immigration #LGBTQ #weird #socialism #degrowth #surveillance #corruption #DEI #LGBTQIA #BookBans #democracy #elections2024

Strange times in scamming when the Tor Project launches a "Tor coin" over on Xitter while Elon Musk joins fedi to speak with his "fans" here and give away cash prizes...

Musk joining fedi to talk to his "fans" sounds so hilarious you'd think it was an early April fools joke but it seems a real scammer legit failed to read the room!

#scam #crypto #tor #fedi #musk

@smaurizi

#alt4you

Post by Andrew Feinstein on Twitter which shows text by openDemocracy which says

"The Labour Party's largest-ever donation came from a hedge fun that stood to profit from Israel's war in Gaza

Quadrature Capital held $121m worth of shares in a range of arms, tech and logistics firms which have all supported the ongoing military campaign."

They include companies that help make Israeli F-35 fighter jets, which have been used in devastating airstrikes on a "humanitarian zone"

@lxo @eff

Putting confidence in a flawed system is one of the problems, and the surveillance would still be harmful even if 100% accurate, agreed. The article says "even in a world where the technology is 100% accurate, police still should not be trusted with it", giving the example of cops using the technology to identify protesters

And cops don't stop there. They also use bullshit "gunshot detection" and "predictive policing" AI which are also flawed, biased/racist and generally problematic

@rysiek

Offdem is a thing now

https://offdem.net

@eff

You're section about "The Real Solution" is limited to privacy legislation but it should also cover deleting Meta apps and joining fedi instead. In fact that should really be step 1 if the goal is to stop Meta collecting your're data

Did fucking Donald Trump just help accomplish what Biden refused to the last one and half years?

Gonna wait to see how this plays out, but a pause, maybe an end to the carnage is in sight. Trauma, grief, and oppression will remain even if the ceasefire holds

"What is abundantly clear, however, is that Joe Biden and Antony Blinken’s repeated claims that “they can’t tell Israel what to do” were just as bogus as their detractors have repeatedly claimed"

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/did-donald-trump-force-the-ceasefire-deal-the-biden-administration-refused-to

#ceasefire #gaza

@sjvn

Private Not Chrome

@molly0xfff

Wikipedia's Tor/proxy blocking policy is an unfortunate impediment to aspiring editors wanting to maintain personal security

https://blog.torproject.org/the-value-of-anonymous-contributions-wikipedia

@wikipedia

Does Wikipedia still ban Tor users from participating? This could be stopping many potential contributors from helping out

https://blog.torproject.org/the-value-of-anonymous-contributions-wikipedia

"Meta’s attempt at microblogging, “Threads,” has been caught up in a few moderation scandals that seem pretty likely to have been caught up by terribly simplistic algorithmic bans ...

Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell... posted about Katz’s suspension ...

“Threats suspended [Katz] for this. She tells me, “I stand by my views of Hitler. Not a good guy.” And Threads suspended him for that as well"

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/01/threads-bans-anyone-for-mentioning-hitler-even-to-criticize

#threads #meta #moderation #AI #algorithms #Hitler #wapo #socialmedia

"[The racism] is rooted in a long legacy in the United States of discrimination against ... Black immigrants and people coming from Haiti ...

American slaveholders feared they would invade and free enslaved Africans ...

The U.S. ruled Haiti with a system of racial violence [and] Americans were fed images of Haiti as a “voodoo and backwards, uncivilized Black country.” [which are] the roots for Trump’s comments about eating cats and dogs"

https://theintercept.com/2024/09/12/trump-springfield-haiti-cats-dogs-racism-immigration

#Haiti #uspol #racism #BIPOC

@aral

Too much genocide would be bad