ChunkMcHorkle

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When talking about surveilling society at large, as this person is suggesting, it's important to remember that there is no such thing as surveilling a subset of the population.

Everyone who crosses the boundaries of surveillance, without exception, gets surveilled.

When you point a camera at a crowd, it does not selectively exclude everyone but your chosen subject: a camera photographs all. People and systems behind the camera then manipulate and match that data to suit their objectives, and that's where it becomes completely unaccountable, because the data has already been collected on all.

Today, supposedly, it's dastardly men, the suggestion being that all others will be excluded and thus this extended surveillance of all public spaces must be benign for everyone who is not a dastardly man. But in other places and times, it was runaway slaves, or homosexuals. Recently it has been women seeking abortions and trans people and immigrants. Tomorrow it will be those guilty of wrongthink.

And all are surveilled, because everyone is surveilled.

This surveillance WILL be used to the maximum of its capability, and very quickly, regardless of whatever guidelines or original purpose or its stated goals are said to be in the beginning.

These are nothing but lines in the sand that will be washed away almost immediately, because there's just no way to exclude specific groups from widespread surveillance, and our collective governments are far too corrupt and unstable and greedy for power to ever cut off their own access to it.

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ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 15h ago

anna's archive

I wish. As someone astutely put it in another conversation, now that the tech companies have pilfered Anna's Archive, the big publishers are going to try to get it shut down.

ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 15h ago

Meta have paid the copyright fee

Lol, no. "Copyright fees" are what you pay your government in order to register your copyright or keep your copyright registration active.

Or to put it another way, copyright fees have fuck all to do with fair use.

You're trying make it sound as though Meta obtained consent and paid authors for their own work when in fact, Meta obtained consent from no one, and paid nothing at all to anyone, in exchange for the use of their works.

Even a light skim of the attached article would have told you that much. What do you think a copyright suit is about?

"Meta have paid the copyright fee," lol. That's some r/ConfidentlyIncorrect shit right there. Why did you even bother?

ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 2d ago

Ah, yes, the good ol' pocket veto.

ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 2d ago

So please don't identify as White to me, tell me something interesting about yourself

Make you wonder what kind of gatherings the author is attending, and then glad you're not.

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ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 3d ago

I should have just waited, lol. It's in the Congressional Record now, complete with appended source list. I've added the direct link to the pdf (see pages 18 - 23) to my post.

ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 3d ago

Oh yeah. It takes the meaning of "wall of text" to new heights, lol.

But I had copied the transcript anyway, just because I'm a better reader than listener, and as I got further in I realized what a prize this is. So what I was doing for myself anyway just to get it straight, separating it out into paragraphs and then reading for comprehension, I posted. Well that, plus a lot more formatting, spelling, and namechecking work.

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ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 3d ago

Thanks for the correction, I'll add it to the list. I posted it quite late, and of course immediately afterward I spotted over a half dozen more errors. And then later even more, lol. I'm going to go back through it line by line later this evening.

The quote placements were usually taken directly from the YT transcript, unless they were missing or I knew for a fact they belonged elsewhere, like the quote you mentioned above. My eyes were swimming by the end and I just missed it. Sen. Whitehouse quotes Vicky Ward's Vanity Fair piece extensively and I'm familiar with it, so I was going to check those directly anyway.

I can also add Wikipedia links for all the names (except Douglas Leese, who is mentioned in Epstein's entry but has no entry of his own) and not even have to look farther than my history for them, but again I just haven't had the chance.

I looked high and low for an official transcript via Sen. Whitehouse's campaign and Senate sites, but found none, at least not so far.

ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 4d ago

"Can we at least wait til he finishes?"

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ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 5d ago

To absolutely no one's surprise, Senator Tim Sheehy is also credibly accused of a form of stolen valor: he discharged a gun in a National Park in 2015 and paid a fine for it, but then claimed in his later memoir that he got that bullet wound in Afghanistan. When challenged, he refused to release any of the medical records that would prove it.

Sheehy also claims that he was discharged from the military because of injuries he sustained on duty, but then some reporter dug up the discharge records and nope, he actually just resigned.

Oh, and he apparently plagiarized several sections of his memoir.

Just another lying GOP coward.

ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 6d ago

Oh my fucking god.

The woman audibly losing her shit was the only one with a visible conscience; the whole thing is like a demonstration of the banality of evil.

At least there was one sentient human left in the room after they removed the (also sentient) marine.

I'd far rather be the guy with the broken arm and intact honor than one of the ones who couldn't even be bothered to turn around and who just sat there silently listening, even to his arm snap, as they waited for it to be over.

ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 6d ago

Yeah but it slaps

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ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 6d ago

Excellent post. But be aware that as weird as it is, the pro-Israel contract clause is standard in Texas now, and has been since 2017.

I remember that thing: it was stupid then and stupid now, performative bullshit undertaken by Texas against pro-Palestinians boycotting Israel in 2017, Trump's first term, as part of a larger national swathe of anti-BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) laws. "Anti-Israel is anti-Texas!" So Texas put it in the state code that all businesses doing deals with Texas must also swear they're not boycotting Israel and won't even think about such a thing as long as they're getting Texas cash. Then Texas got sued on 1st Amendment grounds and had to add in a bare minimum so as to not overburden small business, and they did. Then they got sued again, and thereafter just exempted the specific businesses that sued, while allowing the law to stand for everyone else.

Aged like milk, lol. But by law it's still included in all Texas govt contracts.

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ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 6d ago

“We should let him finish the job,” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Tuesday, voicing support for a U.S.-Israeli air campaign that began five days ago

This administration doesn't even know what "finish the job" looks like, you fucking Russian tool.

ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 6d ago

What a fantastic idea.

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ChunkMcHorkle @lemmy.world 6d ago

You're right, I misunderstood. Thanks for the correction.