Notices by ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu), page 10

Does anyone know of leftist analysis of police training materials? Like from the academy to graduation, the infrastructure, etc?

Even if it's not left leaning, it'll have points for interrogation.

*things Black abolitionists since the 1800s have been yelling into the void* https://mstdn.social/@DrJackBrown/112498489623637271

Netflix got a documentary about Reading Rainbow and the way I almost came to tears seeing LeVar for no good reason lol

Me watching it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhOG3XwX9Yw

The word "pseduoscientific" isn't as bad as it sounds if you decenter science as a place of truth (or if you also understand science to be a mutable and adapting means of discovery).

Something incapable with the scientific method isn't "false" or "not true".

America wants to go green but is gonna double down in its xenophobia to do so.

Fucking markets man.

There's "anti-booing" technology?! This feels like bullshit but you can make speakers as tall as a NBA player so maybe not?

Yes yes yes

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-struggle-for-meaningful-work/

Elizabeth Anderson's work was critical in my personal messaging over the last two years, especially with @cfaworkers and having folks understand what's up.

And I'm getting Hijacked when I can.

I just want more people to read 😭

In short, Neoliberalism is the iteration of what American (and now global) ventures are based on: exploitation.

If the neolibs love it, you're being fucked over for it.

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Have people made games that were made more to explore a world as a proof of concept?

New "side project that I'll never finish but learn a lot from" alert lol

https://www.blackagendareport.com/rise-militarized-policing-response-black-dissent put me onto how much COINTELPRO was _so hell-bent_ on making sure its internal colony of Africans could not self-actualize in a meaningful way.

> By 1970 fully 70% of the FBI COINTELPRO operations were aimed at Black organizations, from the non-violent SCLC led by Dr. King to SNCC, CORE, and the Black Panther Party (BPP). Ultimately, the majority of the 70% of COINTELPRO operations that focused on Black groups and Black leaders collectively were directed exclusively at the BPP. Why was this?

I'm ringing a bell that we all heard before by now but this closing line is one to close the day on:

> The confirmed range for the size of these “Cop City” projects is as low as a 3,500 square foot structure on 3 acres to a 366,000 square foot village on 146 acres. The largest being planned did not include details on the actual facility, but the proposed site is a whopping 800 acres. Historically, a basic prerequisite for autocratic Fascist rule is a national militarized police force, backed by an all-pervasive civilian police intelligence apparatus with a singular national Database. It hasn’t been a long time coming but corporate America and its political power structure have fashioned a police state under cover of a spurious “electoral college”… https://jacky.wtf/2024/5/wBzr

There's a underlying benefit to not having to change this portion of the WikiTravel page at https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sarasota#Stay_safe. Less tourists will disturb the non-white communities (as it's a predominant region of the such and has had bad experiences with racism in the past).

WikiTravel could kinda serve as a inverse "green book" tbh with gaps of knowledge like this. (https://jacky.wtf/2024/5/4CVW)

*looks up known fiscal sponsors like OCF/OCI but for other things*

@sss I have a longer and more serious answer to this (I think I blogged about it) but these answers do fall into this category for me and it's a core reason why Trump even came to be: faith in a system that optimizes towards fascism won't have the means of protecting us from it.

The sitting president contributed to a bill that accelerated mass incarceration and the vice president has a reputation for throwing people into jail from the state with the largest women's prison. They have more experience bringing to life what Trump needs teams for. And they've done so, with little to no accountability from folks who've mentioned them to be our harm reduction options.

I have to ask, who is the harm being reduced for? Because it's not for BIPOC, women, the environment or any of the colonial regions the United States controls. It's mainly business and cishet white men.

It's definitely plausible to say that voting can be harm reduction when the options provide said harm reduction.

The 2024 election for the US does not have any harm reduction candidates. Either overt fascism or more of what we see now, respectable fascism (now with Inflation and inclusion at the forefront).

Fascism has existed and operated in the United States for years but American individuality has made it so hard to see (or easier to ignore, to be able to have a permanent homeless population, prison population and exploit migrants for your Superbowl or Tyson foods is ... well, political education is a thing).

Biden has less time now to actually get Gen Z and those who want to believe that a voting box can be a means of change but it's consistently only been direct action that's forced political capitulation towards the needs of the people.

Voting isn't equitable nor is it completely representative of the potential voting block. Sure, we can throw our pennies in for our thoughts. When you see a garbage truck of quarters dumped in, one has to ask themselves if there isn't yet another path that doesn't rely solely on hope for the change to take hold

This makes it clear that focus on local elections are critical. In #Florida, local governments can make moves that can be substantial. Efforts towards rent control were won some changes.

https://www.cltampa.com/news/citing-floridas-new-landlord-law-st-pete-city-council-votes-to-repeal-its-own-tenants-bill-of-rights-16045401

That was based on the grassroot efforts to bring what people needed and get it into law. But because of the higher government, that fell.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/03/29/gov-desantis-holds-news-conference-in-south-florida/

It'll be easy for me to say that this was a knee jerk reaction from DeSantis but that's click bait journalism and doesn't ask who did DeSantis see as benefiting from that and how did they influence him - especially when it was in reaction to one county making this change.

But even then, we can't - I really need this to be understood - rely on the government to protect and serve people when the government today operates to protect the systems that work to abuse people en masse. The fact that no state run government in the United States places the need for shelter over private property and that a case is entertaining the idea of criminalizing homelessness is an on ramp to disappearing people as a state service.

They might consider hiring an ethical homeless removal service to save the efforts of hiring public workers. And expand that to eviction programs.

Know your neighbors. The people who live near you. If not near, build better rapport with the communities you do exist in.

Figure out who's doing what near you. If you live in too rich/affluent of an area, find the area that your high property value serves as a fulcrum for rent exacerbation and redistribute wealth ($50/mo to a mutual aid group goes a long distance, now imagine if you convinced your block to pitch in with a 60% contribution rate! 80% even).

There's gonna be a Food not Bombs near you. If not, check out the local labor groups. Churches that house and feed folks. Advocacy centers. The options are there and will do more for people that are hoping for a politician to remember what they said last week.

Whew. Great read from @emilygorcenski about A24's film "Civil War" which for some reason I still want to watch.

> For all the war movies we make – for all the wars we start – we don’t really understand culturally what they look and sound and feel like. Americans are masters at empathy-at-a-distance, but Garland doesn’t understand how

https://emilygorcenski.com/post/when-charlottesville-was-the-front-lines/