Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

Opinion | Half the Police Force Quit. Crime Dropped. - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/opinion/half-the-police-force-quit-crime-dropped.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

For anyone just arriving:

I am a (#gay / #lgbt / #lgbtq) 🌈 #attorney from #Madison #Wisconsin.

I handle #prosecution, but also #parking, #CivilRights, #ordinance and #contract drafting, #tax, and #municipal law.

I post about the #SupremeCourt / #SCOTUS and #law / #lawfedi news and discussions, #politics both in the us (#uspol / #uspolitics) and abroad, and especially on #Ukraine / #Russia.

And I adore #electronic #music and #videogames, #podcasts, and #books.

#new #introduction

No books
No abortion
No education
No Black folk
No Brown folk
No LGBTQIA
No Native Americans

That’s the USA
That’s fascism

#SCOTUS #BlackMastodon #Mastodon

It’s time to end legacy admissions. Each year thousands of students are admitted to colleges around the nation only because their parents went there.

Legacy admissions are back-door discriminatory policies that overwhelmingly advantage wealthy, white students over everyone else.

There’s something comforting about knowing that I’m not going to run out of wine anytime soon.🍷

So, if the United States is in a “post-racial society” that doesn’t need Affirmative Action, why was their an explosion of hate groups when a Black President was elected? And why is right-wing media bashing Critical Race Theory and warning people about Replacement Theory?

Almost seems like the most racist people are the ones who claim there’s no racism anymore.

Just another day of Republican corruption:
https://www.wlwt.com/article/ohio-house-speaker-larry-householder-sentenced-20-years/44389125

And right-wing Trump terrorism:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-with-weapons-arrested-near-obamas-dc-home/

Pretty lady #CatsOfMastodon

"The whole idea behind 'the Free State of Florida' isn’t freedom. It’s exclusion. It’s the promise that Florida is a place where the in-group has achieved enough power so that it can punish and hopefully expunge the out-group. It’s important to note that the champions of the Free State of Florida try to convince liberals of how much better life is when lived according to conservative values."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Florida #Republicans #freedom
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https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to-locker-room-talk-part

It still takes a while before Meta(P92) joins the Fediverse and the recent times we have read a lot of things from both sides

Polls are not super reliable nut maybe it will give a better overal picture of what you, the people using these platforms want

The result will not be the definite outcome for us but I do take it into heavy consider because I love you all very much!

"Would YOU want to federate with Meta's new platform?"

COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US | University of Oxford https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-01-31-covid-19-leading-cause-death-children-and-young-people-us

If you have these files we are happy to pay to take them off your hands.

#RussianCoup #Russia #Wagner #GRU

#Native folks: when posting about #Indigenous cultures and a white person comments with "beautiful," does that warrant blocking them?

Apple Maps now displays the boundaries of tribal nations overtop of the U.S. states. This is a really cool feature and shows info most people haven't grown up seeing on maps.

They should also consider overlaying the boundaries of federal land. This would be useful particularly for looking at the West, just for the average person to see how little land Western states actually own.

Okay, new Zoom background is sorted:

There are widespread reports that many Women climaxed while Jack Smith spoke about criminal charges and justice.

I feel like the fact that Ethel & Julius Rosenberg got the chair for far less than what Donald Trump has done should be a bigger story.

I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.

Concerned AI researcher

That some committees of the European Parliament are now in favour of rejecting this law is very alarming. We urge every member of the European Parliament to save this law - and by doing so save lives. Show your support and tell the decision-makers to restore nature here: restorenature.eu/en/take-action #StopExpansionStartRestoration
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike 2/2