Term limits, age limits. These people have PENSIONS

I will die on the hill that cities should have public bathrooms that have 24/7 staffing so the bathrooms remain clean and safe whenever you need one, with a telephone and charging stations. Living in NOLA and smelling piss everywhere has radicalized me. It's a problem that we can fix.

People sleeping outside on benches and going to the bathroom on the sidewalk are problems of the social safety net failing and it is so much cheaper and easier to just expand the safety net than to punish people who fell through it.

bene jesuit school has amazing old trees, lovely canopy, huge trunk

tin can with metal tentacles lit neon green

black bear mosaic

white caution squirrel crossing sign with rat driving pizza wedge on back of sign someone scrawled ishmael sez hi to pretty spoon

Portland evening walk

The human mind likes to be soothed, and people think they are impervious because they “understand how it works”

I’m wheezing

Whispered in the waiter’s ear or

You’re almost there

• The Portland Police Bureau will maintain core mission capabilities and meet budget cuts with a 35% reduction in external materials and services ($5.9 million), 20% in technology and fleet ($3.5 million), 80% in the Public Safety Support Specialist Program ($4.5 million), 10% of operational overtime ($1.7 million), 50% of precinct administrative staffing ($1.6

also mayor wilson is defunding the police lmao

Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

A dropdown menu presenting options for different ICE detention data-points to overlay on a map visualizer.

A map of the United States, covered in multi-colored placemarkers. Each dot on the map represents an ICE field office, detention center, check-in office, or proposed warehouse.

The question we get asked the most? "Why doesn't your tracker list existing ICE facilities?" Short answer: it does!

Use the dropdown above the map to see hold rooms, field offices, detention centers, and more. Best viewed on a desk/laptop. This data helps visualize the scope of ICE's jail network.

What?

Seattle Peeps 👇🏼👇🏼

AG Brown, along with the Attorneys General of Oregon and New York, lead a coalition of 22 states that secured a federal court order Saturday permanently blocking an unlawful attempt by the Trump administration to threaten healthcare providers for treating youth with gender dysphoria. (1/2)

They've achieved yet another direct pipeline to siphon money from the lower classes to the upper classes.

Live updates: US seizure of Iranian ship near Strait of Hormuz casts doubt on fresh ceasefire talks The U.S. attacked and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship it said had tried to evade its naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.

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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told reporters at a press conference that Iran has no plans for a second round of negotiations with the US, following an Iranian cargo ship being seized by the US.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Oh shit, the snake came out to speak. Not going well

I don’t even care about that venom. If any animal shows up like this straining their neck to give me a look? I’m humbled and going home

I’ve been following this story, and they’ll ban me if I say what those evil manchild brothers deserve

Necronomicon: all inclusive streaming service that ruins your life and can’t be canceled

Shit I would hire these people

What would your ominously named startup be and what would it do?

My quick & dirty answer is a campsite locator called Vorhees.

But I might circle back with a better answer later.

It is clear that many cis people are not aware just how up to her neck Rowling is in funding and driving anti trans sentiment in the UK.

She's not just a person with a vile opinion.

Booooooooo

No one reads these books. Not one fucking person.

Political autobiographies only exist to launder donor funds, generate publicity, and occasionally embarrass puppy-murdering freaks.

I read all the time and never once said "OH GOODIE A NEW BUNCH OF BLATHER FROM A POLITICIAN'S GHOST WRITER!"

Palantir @PalantirTech X.com Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.l. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm's way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness —a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

Points 1-11 of the Palantir plan include:

5. The question is not whether A.l. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose.

and

6. National service should be a universal duty.

and

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.

These points stand out: