This is interesting. People are getting less weird, but also less creative?
#art #culture #design #creativity
The Decline of Deviance
Where has all the weirdness gone?
Willow
willowashmaple@iris.to
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Did you spoil a cat today?
This profoundly disgusts me.
#surveillance #facialrecognition #civilliberties #biometric #privacy
404 Media
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
"We have to find sources of entropy.
When we were kids, everything was entropy because everything was new. So we were constantly changing our preferences, our behaviors, our language, and everything."
#learning #reading
Humans Need Entropy
On Karpathy
good morning cat. good morning butt.
The U.S. is unique in the sense that not only are there local police, county sheriffs, and state police agencies, but almost every federal agency has its own police. There are just way too many cops.
#police #usa
USAFacts
How does US law enforcement work? Who has jurisdiction? | USAFacts
Law enforcement in the US is a partnership between tens of thousands of agencies.
"But the vagueness of the label can help rather than hinder the Trump administration, if its goal is to crack down on political enemies.
The RICO Act allows prosecutors to define more or less anything they want as a mafia organization, and the charges are nearly impossible to defend against, partly because the government can seize the defendant's assets before trial, making it impossible to pay a defense lawyer."
#rico #antifa #repression
Reason.com
What does it mean for Trump to designate Antifa a 'terrorist organization'?
America doesn’t have an official list of domestic terrorist organizations, but the declaration could mean heavier political surveillance.
The doctrine of rapture was pretty much invented by John Nelson Darby and Cyrus Schofield.
it is a good day to be a cat.
@Rizful.com aravah@rizful.com
good morning cats. 😺
Sen. Tim Kaine is wrong. The idea that human rights are "God-given" is at the foundation of universal human rights applicable to everyone, everywhere. If the rights are "gifts" of politicians and governments, they can be taken away by the whims of those in power, such as Trump.
Of course, Kaine's concerns about theocracy (such as Iran) are correct. But the founders of the United States did not imply that rights came from the human institutions of religion (something they also opposed). They meant that every person has natural, inalienable rights.
https://pca.st/5kbypxbf
This was written almost exactly 25 years ago, but it was very prescient. The problems inherent in the American republic were already identifiable then, they have metastasized over the following quarter-century period.
THE "RIGHT" & THE "LEFT" AND THE POLITICS OF THE FUTURE IN AMERICA
Article on the future of politics in America
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My honest thought: Democracy is the problem. Democracy created tyranny, bloated government overreach, police state, mass incarceration, state-supported oligarchy, and gave them an aura of legitimacy. Democracy does not truly represent everyone. It has been a failed social experiment.
A project for total #surveillance began over two decades ago
Activist Post
The Roots of Today
Welcome to Total Information Awareness tyranny: where people voluntarily give up privacy via social media tags, check ins, and constant self-survei...
"When we put “winning more seats in the next election” ahead of doing the right thing, we’re not defending freedom."
I Stayed in My Seat—Even When Free Speech Walked In Wearing Heels
What voting for drag history, book rights, and the First Amendment taught me about staying put when everyone else walks out.