Notices by Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)

@zzz a yup. And I don't care if they TECHNICALLY have the legal authority to do XYZ, fuck it. "ILLEGAL UNCONSTITUTIONAL OVERREACH!!!"

Sure, it's fun to be the "know it all" who is "technically correct". You know what they have done for the last 20 years when anyone else does literally anything they don't like. Or hell, even someone does something they do like, scream and say they didn't do it enough!

You Never Ever "Gotta Hand It To Fascists".

A friend reminded me the other day, stop with the politics "Well AkShUlLy" nonsense. Nobody cares. Just come up with whatever smears and attacks at the fash sound plausible and shout it at them. They're not concerned with reality, you don't have to either.

These have been around for a while, but I only learned about them a few weeks ago.

A book club with chapters all over the world that just involves showing up to a coffee shop and reading books alongside other people for a couple hours. Like an introvert "get out of the house and quietly exist alongside other similar sorts of people for a while without feeling obligated to interact with them".

https://silentbook.club/

Like it's not a surprise given everything, but for no journalist to even think it's worth mentioning...

I really can't believe that there's not a single headline this morning about this Trump EO.

Basically just picking and choosing any regulations and tossing them if Elon doesn't like them.

It has such winners as:

(iv) [Rescind] regulations that implicate matters of social, political, or economic significance that are not authorized by clear statutory authority;
(vi) regulations that harm the national interest by significantly and unjustifiably impeding technological innovation, infrastructure development, disaster response, inflation reduction, research and development, economic development, energy production, land use, and foreign policy objectives
de-prioritizing actions to enforce regulations that are based on anything other than the best reading of a statute and de-prioritizing actions to enforce regulations that go beyond the powers vested in the Federal Government by the Constitution.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-lawful-governance-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-regulatory-initiative/

#uspol

Obviously my biggest fear of Elon's DOGE is that they're using all this access and power to intentionally loot and extort the government to destroy political opposition and enrich the wealthy. But second fear is that they basically have no overarching goal or strategy beyond carelessly hunting down and stopping payment, deleting and firing anything and everything that "looks bad" without giving a shit about how many people and departments and programs are destroyed in the process.

Like I'm kinda uncertain whether malice or willfully ignorant incompetence is worse. Though likely the real story is they're both.

Everything the Nazis did was legal.

@burnoutqueen The basic idea of a democratic process is to be able to gradually release the pressure in a peaceful transition of power back and forth. But when one side has been pushing to break that process for years, decades tbh, the back and forth tension release no longer works. You're down to surrender or fight.

@burnoutqueen Yeah, it's like earthquakes. Yeah the event itself is short, but it's the culmination of years or decades of pressure.

Why did the poor, the largest of the classes, not simply eat the rich?

I kinda feel bad for all the judges and lawyers who are having to argue and rule on all this shit, when you know that eventually it will end up on SCOTUS's desk and they'll just rule "Trump can do whatever he wants, go away"

It's not just the US Government. Trans people are being erased from everywhere.

First they ban our words
Then they ban our stories
Then they ban our voices
Then they ban our freedoms
Then they ban our existence

https://bsky.app/profile/devtesla.bsky.social/post/3lifyaj65b22n

sigh

Delet my Facebook account because of overt transphobia and homophobia

Try to start getting involved in local activism.

Discover the only way they announce what's going on is Facebook and Instagram.

Try to make a new throwaway Facebook account.

Immediately banned for "Not meeting community standards" ... For ... Being a new account?

Attempt to appeal.

Requires a captcha, okay

Requires a confirmation code from your email, okay.

Requires a phone number ... Sigh okay

"Code not sent. Try again later or use a different mobile number."

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT FROM ME ZUCK!!!

I know, you want my real name and real account back... But I'm not restoring that account. Guess I'll just attempt to find someone that doesn't organize on Facebook...

Someone says "You should really watch this YouTube video to learn about this thing"

I nod sagely, then move on with life knowing I will never bother to watch said video.

If I can't read it, I'm not going to bother.

Meaning that they may have downgraded many people's reviews below what the person expected?

That'd be some lovely juice to uncover in discovery...
@ATLeagle @vijfhoek

Sure, but if I'm going to guess, they have some NDA, mandatory binding arbitration, can't class action us bullshit going on...
@dalias @vijfhoek

There's always a stigma against laid off people already. But come on ... Just put out there something like "we're sorry to lose these employees, but shifting business needs and priorities required us to rebalance our job titles and headcount across multiple divisions."

Idk, say various words that don't imply they're "bad", just a bland "it's not you, we just don't have the right chemistry anymore".

@vijfhoek I'm sure if you could someone would have tried it already.

But I'm sure they do have something in the employee record about how these people had gotten at least one below average performance review in the last X years or something