Something this article weirdly doesn’t touch on is the overtly racist and white supremacist thread running through all of this

The post included pictures of Griner as well as Courtney Williams (Minnesota Lynx), Natasha Cloud (Chicago Sky), Alyssa Thomas (Phoenix Mercury) and Crystal Dangerfield (formerly of the Dallas Wings, she currently plays for a Turkish basketball club).

all of these athletes are people of colour

and I’m sure its a coincidence that the WNBA terf queen is a blue eyed blonde white woman…

“Sophie Cunningham is a man, you see it right?”

well, even the brownshirts didn’t survive

look you obviously don’t do grassroots political organising if you’re asking such silly questions - this whole thread was about you thinking numberless signal accounts aren’t useful - and being more worried about your made up spam boogieman - than the actual threat of fascistic state violence

prepaid sims exist, yes briar exists but it’s not viable when people need to communicate over whole city distances (eg for spotting), if the cops can connect your burner to your actual ID at an anti-ICE protest - they can very easily raid your house after the fact - and no they don’t even need a warrant due to the extraordinarily powers given to “anti-terror” police forces.

please touch grass and stop being an armchair security expert and let the adults think about applied security in the real world

ah yes the paranoia of documented evidence…

i wish I could live in your fantasy land where fascists weren’t in power and being an antifascist wasn’t a terrorism offence

huh? you can’t see the difference between a grapheneos burner linked to a gov ID backed phone number and one that isn’t?

like what happens when you go to a protest and they pull out a Stingray and get your IMEI+ICCID down that’s directly linked to you? you’re telling me you don’t see any issues with cops/ICE being able to know exactly who goes where?

this has strong “I don’t need freedom of speech because I have nothing to say” vibes - it’s fine if you don’t see the value but I can assure there very much is

tbf as the other commenter pointed out FreeBSD might introduce slop at any point even if they’re holding off for now so I wouldn’t put my eggs in that basket

also steam definitely uses AI for development (so does Blender as well as KDE stuff like Krita) so you really should be avoiding them anyways

fortunately we’re blessed to exist at the same time as 9front that’s actually taken a stance on being free of slop <3

for art things paint(1) is an amazing drawing tool and if you’re into gaming there’s timeless classics like pokemon, doom and wipeout

also the OS is still being actively developed by very passionate people that truly care about software so supporting one of the last bastions of hope against clankers just makes you feel giggly and good ^°^

not that its surprising as most people are but just fyi P&P creators are lowkey transphobic ;(

FreeBSD?

maybe we should tho

even when reporting on literal child murder they had to finish the article with an IOF quote saying how they’re just “killing terrorists” - which while I get the backhanded approach to showing how out of touch that is - I can guarantee there’s people out there that will think “well killing kids is obviously bad but the soldiers are just protecting civilians from terrorists so it’s an unfortunate sacrifice - if they didn’t want Palestinian kids to get killed Hamas shouldn’t have started the war”

especially when they say:

That date marked the start of the Gaza war, triggered by a Hamas attack on southern Israel which killed about 1,200 Israelis (of which about 800 were civilians and 38 were children).

but doesnt even consider mentioning that just in 2022 alone Israel had killed practically as many children as Hamas did on Oct 7th - or the fact that 2,171 Palestinian children had been killed since 2000 by Israeli forces and settlers…

I know its a low ball but verifiably at least 37k people…

could it not be both? obv profits drive the desire to sell more shrimp but at the same time if you know slaves are processing your “good food” would you not feel some moral responsibility to not consume it or at least attempt to find more humane alternatives?

It’s such a shame that still only Nova supports multi-page dock icons and icon swipe gestures 🥲

mmm love me some warmongering propaganda arm funding my wholesome foss game engine…

i mean good for devs since 30k a month in funding is practically nothing for a game engine but just wish we didn’t have to get scraps from the PR of the industrial military complex…

Commission Blanch said it was not his “intent” for the technology to be used at protests “except if we have intelligence that there is a significant risk of someone seeking to do harm”.

But he said that could be the case at the upcoming Land Forces defence expo, which Perth will host in October, if police had intelligence of a threat to that event

inb4 harm means Palantir top brass not being able to attend because there’s protestors blockading the event

Asked about the cameras, opposition leader Basil Zempilas said he supported police having more tools to do their job.

“I’ve always had the view if you haven’t done anything wrong, you haven’t got anything to worry about, and I’m not sure it’s any different when it applies to this,” he said.

another dont thread on me shitlib licking the mass-surveillance boot at every opportunity

also let’s not pretend the recovery email is for the user - it’s for proton to ensure they don’t register spammers that can get their domain blocklisted

wait you’re telling me that all this time governments could have just threatened CEOs with jail time over not doing something?? why not start by jailing the zucc for his company directly partaking in sex trafficking children?? - why do they need to scan every message ever sent if we already have evidence of this happening and no-one is being held accountable?? or what about all the epstein pedophiles - where is bill gates’ arrest warrant?? if any of this was ever to protect children this is where they would start…

oh shoot my bad - yeah I’ll redact that!

I got confused because of his wife and the story about Robin Ince having to step away from The Infinite Monkeys Cage due to his pro-trans, pro-Palestinian and anti-trump comments on socials - to which Brian hasn’t said anything and is continuing with the show without Robin (which imo feels Cox is at the very least fence-sitting)

Just FYI: Cox is pals with JK Rowling and (wrong Brian Cox sorry) but his wife used to be on the advisory board for the terf advocacy group Sex Matters

I’m sorry but you have to recognise that Ukrainians are refugees and those that want to return are expecting to do so once the war is over (ie making it not an ethnic cleansing) while the same is not the case for Palestinians (ie the “one-way journey”) which is the part that makes this an ethnic cleansing

I’m in a union myself but how do we reconcile with the fact that modern day unions rarely fight for workers rights (4 day work week, more control of the workplace, etc) and instead usually boil down to just getting more money? Like I’m not saying that it’s bad for workers to be paid more - but it seems to be the only thing unions are fighting for these days