AcidicBasicGlitch

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I'm not surprised by more of this sovereign state nonsense, I'm just disgusted that they're proposing building it on a reservation.

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Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

Sigh... Yes let's pivot away from the actual point. How about MOVE in Philadelphia?

Telling people to arm themselves and go confront the literal army Trump has just sent to purposely exacerbate this situation because he's hoping for a confrontation that will allow him to claim there is an "insurrection"

Not to mention all the Red state Governors that are hoping they will be asked to prove their loyalty and send their own state national guard into California to help crack down on that "insurrection"

What could you possibly be encouraging 🤔

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Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

This dude is no Malcolm X. You also need people to be smart, and not fall for pretty obvious bait.

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Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

Berlin would disagree with you. Regardless, even if you want to believe that protesting will do nothing, Waco should be all the history you need to know about to know what actually happens in the scenario you're encouraging.

That was over 30 years ago, against one government agency, on a compound armed to the teeth, and with a president in power that actually cared about how something like that might look to the rest of the world.

Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

They seem really skilled at stirring shit up.

Kinda wonder if these assholes that are shooting people, (especially the one that knew he was being filmed yet still turned, lifted his gun, looked at the camera like he was on the fucking office, and shot that reporter in the back like he wanted the whole world to know what he was doing), are hoping to achieve something similar.

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Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

I know, I didn't mean people weren't paying attention to the news. It kinda seems like it's intentionally not being mentioned. It happened yesterday.

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Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

Literally who is doing nothing? All these people in the street? The cop that stopped to check on her? The people trying to spread information when it's being actively suppressed?

I would say encouraging violence when you know damn well what the outcome will be with civilians going against an entire police force, ice agents, public military, and likely private mercenaries, is about the fastest way to escalate this and exactly what trump is hoping for

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Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

Well then, I guess it must have been some other Pudutr0n. You're off the hook, for now...

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Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

I got this crazy idea: What if we could protest invasive policies the majority of people don't want enforced in a city without having an abusive dictator continuously escalate things, and indicate to other abusive pieces of shit there would be no consequences for this kind of behavior? What if we fired and criminally charged the asshole that shot this lady, and tried to encourage more cops to be like the only one that actually stopped to check on her to try and stop the bleeding?

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Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

That's what the article is about.

This is the only news coverage I've seen of it, and most of America doesn't even seem to know about it

Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

Yeah I posted here a few days ago about trying to find a good alternative. I'm very sad to see lemme.ee go

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Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

This video is fucking insane: https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1l74ji0/i_hope_she_survives_this_and_got_medical_attention/

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Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

Sorry if this is a dumb question, still figuring things our.

How else would you use the platform without joining an instance? Just have a private server?

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Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

Idk I think it's pretty clear that they want to weaponize that idea to fit the Trump/RFK/Thiel narrative, but I do think there can be some truth to it. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Completely aside from their arguments about how this applies, there are examples where individuals in science have had to go against the common assumption to reach a new discovery.

Most obvious example that comes to mind is the guy that discovered the mirror box as a treatment for people dealing with phantom limb pain. Most people thought what he was proposing was a dumb idea bc it seemed way too simple.

Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

I'm not 100% sure about actually preventing states from creating laws, but given what's happening in my city rn I would imagine, if this passes, it gives federal agencies and private companies the ability to legally ignore any city and state regulations that might be passed.

My city used to have a complete ban on facial recognition and predictive policing tech after they were caught secretly working with Palantir. In 2022, the mayor requested the ban be lifted and replaced with an ordinance.

Police in my city got caught violating the very weak ordinance that regulates how facial recognition is supposed to be used.

Since WaPo exposed them, they've allegedly paused using the tech. However, the tech is provided by a private company, and the city can't enforce their regulations on the state police and ICE agents that are still using the tech with zero oversight.

Given how we know states like TX have already signed up to have their national guard invade other states in order to enforce Trump's immigration policy, this could provide legal protection for the Texas national guard to come into a state like California and use it however they deem necessary.

They could start out by saying it's necessary to enforce immigration (which would be fucked up enough). Very quickly it becomes necessary to protect ICE agents from protestors, and they begin using facial recognition to track protestors and anyone loosely associated with protestors.

There's no way for the city or state laws to do anything about this bc the Texas National Guard have essentially been given blanket protection by a federal law to use AI to enforce federal immigration policy. Essentially, instead of the national guard being sent to southern states to enforce civil rights like what happened in the 1960s, the national guard from a red state would be sent into a blue state to enforce a dystopian cyber-surveillance nightmare created by the federal government.

Keep in mind this is just one possibility. Even without all that happening, the best case scenario of allowing a ban on state regulations, is you're providing legal protection for private corporations to collect data however they want and do whatever they want with it once it's collected.

Basic Glitch @lemm.ee 9mo ago

Par for the course though. Orwell called it.

Federal intervention in states to enforce civil rights= unjust burden on states

Federal intervention in states to enforce immigration policy= send in the national guard to "liberate LA"

State regulations on AI= patchwork regulations won't benefit ~~corporations~~ the country

Federal regulations on AI= these regulations are underpinned by the values we believe are important. Surely we've already proven over and over again you can trust us to do what's right for ~~corporations~~ the country.

Never forget, corporations are people.