Olives @olives@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo @PBruce @ech
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-ecological-destruction-from-the-border-wall-in-american-scar
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-border-wall-animal-migration-sierra-madre-mountains/
Understated consequences of the Wall.

@freemo @ech @PBruce The "don't say gay" bill is very similar to the infamous British Section 28.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/cacc0b40-c3a4-473b-86cc-11863c0b3f30 You can read about it here.

Section 28 was enacted by the Conservative Party (the same people who came up with Brexit) and was repealed by Labour in 2003.

https://www.propublica.org/article/mississippi-courts-unprepared-to-ensure-poor-defendants-have-lawyers Ideally, everyone should have access to a lawyer.

It's interesting to see the "30 million images of child porn" claim being revived, again, when we know that:

1) The same ten images, slightly modified, make up the majority of these numbers. Facebook told us this.

2) Switzerland reported 90% of the reports handed to them were not that. Ireland reported 75% were not.

3) Many reports are reported to involve "memes", "satire", and "bad humor".

4) Nearly half of investigations turn out to just involve teens sexting with each other.

What do you think of the Open App Markets Act? (This is an old post, they're not calling for a vote on it right now.)

https://reason.com/2023/07/10/brickbat-thats-all-you-need-to-know/ Disturbing conduct.

@trinsec If you hear faint sounds going "Exterminate!" coming out of your Roomba, run.

https://reason.com/2023/07/11/police-seized-innocent-peoples-property-and-kept-it-for-years-what-will-the-supreme-court-do/ What do you think of civil forfeiture?

@freemo To give you an idea of how populist he is:

He went on about how he'd shoot drug smugglers on the border.

He went on about how he'd blockade Mexico with the navy to "stop the flow of drugs".

He went on about abolishing unanimous juries to administer the death penalty.

He wants to expand use of the death penalty outside of murder.

Censorship of books in libraries.

Censorship of views in higher education.

He talks big about all that tough on crime stuff.

Lots of talk about the border and "finishing the wall".

@freemo Nah, he's still very bad, and I doubt he's doing anything out of principles, but populism.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-judicial-overhaul-jerusalem-tel-aviv-421a7f37ef0a0a75ae1469cca14b3e08 "overhaul" Interesting way of saying "we're going to create a totalitarian dictatorship".

The evolution of adult diapers?

https://reclaimthenet.org/googles-ai-is-being-used-in-hospitals Use of Google AIs in hospitals sparks privacy concerns.

Apparently, the E.U. Commission agrees with Macron that footage of French riots should be censored.

Appears the Dutch Government's instance isn't accessible from here, because they... Misconfigured their TLS certs, lol.

Apparently, there is a "quiet push forming in the Senate". That means you should take the time to oppose these bills.

Apparently, the Dutch Government has joined the fediverse, joining the German one and the E.U.