Notices by David August (davidaugust@mastodon.online)

The internet of things is truly a wonder. 😝

#dishwasher #parody #iot

One reason people on the group chat were using @signalapp instead of approved government systems was to avoid records being kept. They want to avoid freedom of information act requests, subpoenas, and criminal discovery that could hold them accountable. This violates federal law.

Project 2025 trained many now in government to avoid keeping records for that reason.

@ProPublica's investigations:
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election

#USpol #infosec #GroupChat #law

Darth Fader

Protesters in Detroit, USA and Windsor, Canada unify across the river in protest against trump.

#USpol #CApol #CDNpol #Canada #UnitedStates #protest #allies #friends #resistance

Time to see a picture of a goat perched on a capybara.

"If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable."

-Jack Lemmon

#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

hegseth just killed, among other things, "$9 million to create 'equitable' artificial intelligence."

"'I need lethal machine learning models, not equitable machine learning models,' Hegseth said."

You f-ing noob, lethality without clarity on what you're killing is worse than useless, you tool.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5206516-pentagon-cancels-wasteful-spending/

#USpol #hegseth #defense #defence #AutonomousWeapons #ai

$6 million dollars US for a year for ~250 people to be held without:

• trial,
• arraignment,
• due process,
• more than 30 minutes a day outside the cell.

Unknown if US will renew the contract after the year, or what would be done with any surviving captives after the year.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-deportations-salvador-tren-aragua-64e72142a171ea57c869c3b35eeecce7

#USpol

The gop folks:

#USpol #judiciary

The current President of the United States has not yet learned what a power button is. Not making this up.

He has a button at his desk for requesting a Diet Coke, but has his mind blown by his son using a power button.

See the video from Ingraham Angle: https://xcancel.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1902518814480212091#m

#USpol

useful citation:

RAND study Assessing the Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly, p 44: “…no significant effect of openly serving transgender service members on cohesion, operational effectiveness, or readiness.”

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1530.html

#USpol #military #TransRights

#USpol

The U.S. government is taking people off the street and sending them to the place in the bottom picture without charges filed, no arraignments, no due process and without notifying anyone of the people’s whereabouts.

El Salvador intends to never release anyone from CECOT.

#HumanRights #USpol

#USpol #coup

“By firing skilled human workers & replacing them w/spicy autocomplete, Musk is assuming his final form as both…kind of boss who can be conned into replacing you w/a defective chatbot *&* as…fast-talking sales rep who cons your boss. Musk is transforming key government functions into high-speed error-generating machines whose human minders are only the payroll to take the fall for the coming tsunami of robot fuckups.”

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asbestos-in-the-walls/

#USpol #musk #elon #ai #DataEthics #infosec #safety

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#volcano #translation #translate #GoogleTranslate #siren #mermaid #memes #meme #FunnyMemes #funny

After placing another Greencard holder in awful conditions, ICE put him in the hospital (I guess it’s good they didn’t just kill him). Unless they’re stopped, only a matter of time until they do this to everyone.

“…stripped naked, put in a cold shower by 2 officials…placed on a mat in a bright room w/other people at the airport, w/little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, & was denied access to his medication for anxiety & depression.”

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-from-new-hampshire-interrogated-at-logan-airport-detained

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#USpol #ice

DUI hire Pete can’t rehire the 16 provisional employees they unlawfully fired as the court requires them to because the mighty US military can’t handle making them new badges.

China, russia and Iran could not be reached for comment but I’m sure are quaking in their boots.

Badges, we don’t need no stinkin’ badges.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/pete-hegseths-dod-says-it-is-too-fragile-to-make-16-new-badges/

via @emptywheel

#USpol #hegseth #dod #lawless #military

Lunar eclipse right now going on, visible from North America.

Is the Government Shutting Down? What is a Continuing Resolution? What is Cloture?

Adam Schiff answers these questions in this video:

https://schiffnotes.substack.com/p/is-the-government-shutting-down?utm_source=davidaugust.com&utm_medium=social

Encourage your Senators to vote no on Cloture and the CR.

#USpol #cloture #ContinuingResolution #budget #vote