“Beginning on the date that is two years after the date of22 the enactment of this Act, no Federal funds may be23 used with respect to immigration detention and24 monitoring programs, including any contract with any entity that owns or operates a program or facil-1 ity that provides services related to detention or2 monitoring.”
What are we doing for TWO YEARS? We don’t need to slowly melt ice, we need to crush it now.
The one thing the article doesn’t cover is picking filters. Is there just a number, like N95?
Sounds like the mask might be used for paint/varnish fumes while out of lawless Federal officers’ throwing range.
Illegal in the US sense of “for protesters only but fine for LEOs”?
I found myself baffled as to what the hallmarks of a riot even were. I had thought that a crowd being tear gassed in the dead of night might be similar to a mosh pit at a concert, but riddled with fear instead of elation — a crowd pushing and shoving, overcome with heightened emotion. But I found that the people around me, even when they were screaming and throwing eggs and other produce at the feds, would apologize if they even slightly jostled me. I did worry about being trampled one time, while standing next to an underprepared television crew that had come without gas masks and kept panicking throughout the night. When did a gathering turn into a riot? Were riots even real?
Yeah, insightful writing about something that should be vanishingly uncommon.
I also strongly suspect that the mask is not adequate protection against the particulates in tear gas from a health standpoint — I didn’t have a normal period for six months after the 2020 protests.
Al-Masarir’s iPhones had been hacked in 2018 after he clicked on links in three text messages seemingly sent from news outlets as special membership offers.
I wonder if opening unknown links in an Incognito session would have helped, or if he would’ve had to avoid opening them entirely.
Wikipedia says it’s “designed to be covertly and remotely installed on mobile phones running iOS and Android,” and has some detailed descriptions including:
“Google’s Project Zero documented another exploit, dubbed FORCEDENTRY, in December 2021. According to Google’s researchers, Pegasus sent an iMessage to its targets that contained what appeared to be GIF images, but which in fact contained a JBIG2 image. A vulnerability in the Xpdf implementation of JBIG2, re-used in Apple’s iOS phone operating software, allowed Pegasus to construct an emulated computer architecture inside the JBIG2 stream which was then used to implement the zero-click attack. Apple fixed the vulnerability in iOS 14.8 in September 2021 as CVE-2021-30860.”
Pegasus is a powerful and controversial hacking tool made by Israeli company NSO Group. NSO Group insists it only sells its spyware to governments to help track terrorists and criminals.
But Citizen Lab has discovered it on phones belonging to politicians, journalists and dissidents - including al-Masarir.
Promises from Israel?!
The total damages awarded are £3,025,662.83 but it’s not clear if Saudi Arabia will pay.
The BBC contacted the Saudi embassy in London but has not had a reply.
I wish him well.
The husband told MPR News that after his wife was taken into custody, he called his attorney, and soon after, he got a call from St. Peter Chief of Police Matt Grochow, whom he said he has known for years.
“I was talking to him, kind of venting some of my frustrations,” the man said, adding that he urged the chief to have his officers just be more visible during the federal enforcement actions. “If [local police] were present and they could see you, I promise you their behavior more than likely, or hopefully, would, you know, be appropriate and law abiding.”
The husband says he talked to the chief for a while and “we had a good conversation.”
“He asked me, ‘what was your wife’s name’? I told him my wife’s name. He said, ‘was she picked up in a bronco?’ And I said, ‘I’m not sure, but it was an SUV, dark colored. I’d have to look at my video.’ He goes, ‘I think I got her. I’ll call you back’.”
The husband said a few minutes later, the chief called again, “and said, I got her or I’m bringing her home.”
Seems like personal connections were maybe key, here.
I was with you until “until.” Abolish ICE.
Though that may be the most incremental progress Bernie expects to be possible.
I do like python’s syntax, and I think it’s very expressive. But what I really enjoy about working in it over years is that it has standards that can help you write good software — there’s often one best official package to do something, there’s one style most libraries adhere to, etc — and the older ways often get deprecated. When I’m working with PHP and js, especially, that’s what consistently footguns me: closely related library functions that follow different styles/conventions, inconsistent error handling.
So I guess if you’re going to hate Python maybe that’s it. But if you’re stuck with it and want to see what you can see, those aspects could be something to reflect on. (Saying this as someone currently stuck with a bunch of legacy Perl I pretty well hate.)
Since Donald Trump’s election, Google have moved rapidly to consolidate their position as the primary provider of the infrastructures of surveillance and oppression. In just the months following the inauguration, they have abandoned their pledge to not use artificial intelligence for surveillance or weaponry; they have begun work with US Customs and Border Protection to augment the southern border’s surveillance infrastructure (provided by Elbit) with AI capabilities; they have entered into an AI Lab partnership with Lockheed Martin, to use AI in targeted weapon systems; they have unveiled a collaboration with Palantir to accelerate the deployment of Google Cloud for sensitive government and military applications; and they have provided ICE with data about Palestine activists in the United States.24
Yep. Good work organizing, keep it up!
Thanks, good article pointing out where gradual but substantial shifts have been happening. Let’s keep the pressure on, get more bold leaders elected, build community power.
Specifically referencing the murder of James Byrd Jr by white supremacists in 1998?
I’m horrified by subscription features on hardware, but if Tesla wants to pour gasoline on its dumpster fire, great.
Out of curiosity, $8,000/$99 = 6yr 9mo.
As commenters on Ars have pointed out, lane keeping is a pretty standard feature at this point.
Worth a read, a lot of horrifying and heartbreaking details. Thanks for the archive link, original site had a sign-up modal blocking the article.
Minnesota Reformer has had a lot of good coverage; and from this article Unidos MN is doing brave training/aid. Donated to both.
Since 1990, I’ve programmed in BASIC, C, Visual Basic, PHP, ASP, Perl, Python, Ruby, MUSHcode, and some others. I am not an expert in any of these languages—I learned just enough to get the job done. I have developed my own hobby games over the years using BASIC, Torque Game Engine, and Godot,
I think this is where AI unquestionably shines: switching languages/projects frequently, on personal projects.
so I have some idea of what makes a good architecture for a modular program that can be expanded over time.
But I actually draw the opposite conclusion. The architecture and maintainability needs are where AI is pretty poor, and they’re vastly different and more important in a 100-1000 person 10 year production system.
Yep. Was it Marx — “There is no ethical consumption under capitalism”?
Tangent but maybe not actually Marx:
The phrase has been around in political circles and on the internet for decades, and it doesn’t appear to have a single originator. It is widely believed to be an amalgamation of ideas from Karl Marx, simmered down into a phrase that people can easily remember.
Making worthless widgets for corporate overlords for a paycheck? Sure, I sympathize. Taking other’s livelihoods, safety, and comfort so you can have your own? Nope.
“It’s at 90 PSI and is 80 percent air, 15 percent water, and 5 percent oil,” Wilson said. “When he hit the boxes with this mess, he blew memory chips and any other loose bits completely out of the motherboards.”
I’ll have to try that to get gunk out of my laptop keyboard.
And yet it’s teachers doing patrols for ICE around schools, teachers speaking at rallies, teachers getting fired for sticking to some notion of a sane curriculum.
Remember to follow your teacher’s union’s recommendation next time you’re voting for school board.
Were the Republicans just unwilling to accept the reduced ICE budget, or actually against it?