We have to take out the people at the top for the illegal orders, but I do actually think it’s just as important to take out the people at the bottom who followed them.

Make following illegal orders a liability and we’ll have another layer of protection from this bullshit.

We slowed the progression of the ratchet on Tuesday.

We reverse it in the primaries.

0 is too much. It needs to be an active liability.

Some of his himes have been leaked and even made the news. But he and other billionaires have many properties all owned by LLCs, and knowing where they lay their heads any given night is difficult.

With people as high-profile as Musk, it’s even more difficult because his entourage of staff, security, etc is big enough that they need their own support. You’d think that makes it easier - just follow the line of black vehicles. But lots of the secondary support apparatus may actually be kept at a different site nearby, so the house with all the visible security may be where the support staff and mobile security/logistics team is, while Musk himself may onky have 2-3 vehicles going to his site.

I’ve voted in every Texas election for 24 years, and I’ve been so scared to hope.

I work in government and have the ability to fuck up people’s lives with 3 mouse clicks. But that doesn’t mean I have the authority to do it.

SpaceX is not actually supposed to even have direct control over Starshield. It uses Starlink infrastructure, but is a military application that is supposed to be under the control of the federal government.

SpaceX shouldn’t have the option to pitch different plans.

The City isn’t their real customer, and public safety isn’t their real product.

The like the public safety angle, because then they get cities to pay the costs of deployment, but it’s profitable without them.

I workforna city that just fired Flock, and what’s making them move the cameras is that we’re revoking their right-of-way permits and paving the shoulders where the cameras are located. Our ROW encroachment agreement boilerplate language allows us to destroy anything that is in the way of a public works project if it isn’t removed within 10 business days of notice of revocation.

The quality of AI programming has improved. For large scale projects it still probably isn’t worth it, but there’s an industry built around small-scale bespoke apps. I used to work at an engineering firm that had over 5,000 custom programs written for very specific tasks. Almost all of these were very simple wrappers for very simple tasks that had to be performed regularly - often for a specific pipeline or offshore rig project.

Lots of these bespoke apps are simple enough that an LLM can probably do what you need in minutes, and if if there’s an issue, it may be easier to just do the prompt again and see if it fixes it the next round.

No disagreement that they’ve failed in their mission and have become a tool of fascism, but conceptually there’s a place for an investigative law enforcement agency specializing in immigration and customs. Having undercover assets investigating human trafficking and smuggling would be appropriate as a part of that agency’s activities.

It should still be abolished, of course. ICE is irredeemable at this point.

ICE isn’t just supposed to be Nazi gestapo rounding up people the President is tarelgeting as a political distraction.

There is a place for undercover investigations of smuggling and human trafficking rings.

Depraved-heart murder (also known as depraved indifference) is a legal mechanism that can be used when someone knowingly takes an action likely cause death. It allows the extreme disregard for the potential lethal consequences of their action or decision to be treated essentially as malice aforethought (essentially intent to harm), and they can be charged with second degree homicide.

Lock. Him. Up.

Thank you - I was trying to remember the name.

My cousin’s. Their pre-transition name was “Jerry” and they transitioned to “Gerri”.

It made it way harder to fuck up and deadname them.

Wasn’t this from the same site as the “We like the moon” stuff?

People should have been imprisoned over the Sony rootkit scandal.

For those who don’t know - their music CDs had malware built in that automatically installed itself on PCs without prompting or notification that gave unsecured root access to any PC through a hidden service that couldn’t be detected or disabled from within Windows. It was as bad as bad gets. There was no hidden EULA or anything. They just straight-up installed viruses on millions of PCs that opened the door for other malware to install itself at the root level where it couldn’t be detected.

Sony should have been shut down entirely over it.

The US has a violence problem. We also have lots of guns.

I love guns. I enjoy shooting them, building them, and collecting them. I’ve got over 50 firearms ranging from a 50-dollar unbranded used 22 to a “I don’t really want to think about how much I’ve spent on this” custom Bergara precision rifle. And of course I have a ton of optics and a few silencers. I also recognize that most of that collection was too easy for me to get, and that if I were unstable or violent I could cause a lot of harm.

I also concede that the pro-2A crowd has a point that registration of firearms is a line they don’t want to cross because it’s a necessary first step towards mass confiscation.

And with the current political climate, I’m glad the government doesn’t know about my guns. If they could look up how many guns I own and that I’m a leftist, how quickly would they label me as an armed enemy of the state?

The guns are a very hard nut to crack, and the political reality is it’s almost impossible to restrict them. There’s millions of pro-gun single-issue voters and almost no pro-gun-control single-issue voters.

So the more realistic approach is to violence, not gun violence. We do that by making society more equitable, providing social services, free healthcare (including mental health), and worker protections. Keep peope from being driven by desperation into crime and provide mental healthcare to those who need it, and we’ll significantly reduce gun violence without doing a thing about guns themselves.

It was genius. Instead of installing surveillance systems in everyone’s homes, they marketed the surveillance systems as luxury products and let our consumerism do the work. Instead of forcing it on the general public, they made us want it to the point where they can cite consumer demand as the reason they don’t even offer products that don’t invade your privacy.

No. LG says they’re not recording your private conversations continuously. Their lawyers didn’t have them add that qualifier for nothing. As long as they take a break a few minutes a day they can still claim they aren’t continuously recording. And they absolutely are recording you, the law be dawned.

Until people are imprisoned and the fines are large multipliers of the money made off this bullshit, it will keep getting worse.

Soon enough, I expect TVs to have built-in cellular modems so they can collect and transmit data even when you don’t connect them to your network.

“Failed to secure” is a funny way of saying they had a public-facing REST service he downloaded because they explicitly made it available for download.

I run a GIS department. I have to choose to make data available.