Captainant

I wonder how much their "post-graduation earnings" are goosed by the aggy Qatar campus

@Anastasis come on down and claim your award for the cessation of barbarism in Texas! Thank goodness we can all enjoy success stories like this on the regular now https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records. At that point, they should have offered to speed up the delivery or empty her uterus to stave off a deadly infection, more than a dozen medical experts told ProPublica. But when Barnica’s husband rushed to her side from his job on a construction site, she relayed what she said the medical team had told her: “They had to wait until there was no heartbeat,” he told ProPublica in Spanish. “It would be a crime to give her an abortion.” For 40 hours, the anguished 28-year-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria. Three days after she delivered, Barnica died of an infection.

The man who attacked Pelosi's husband just got life without parole https://apnews.com/article/david-depape-nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-attacked-454cbde088fcae22a356f1f8dd0e9eba Before sentencing DePape to life for the kidnapping conviction, Judge Harry Dorfman rejected defense attorneys’ arguments that he be granted a new state trial for the 2022 attack against Paul Pelosi, who was 82 years old at the time. “It’s my intention that Mr. DePape will never get out of prison, he can never be paroled,” Dorfman said while handing out the punishment. He later said, “I don’t feel sympathy for you. I feel sympathy for the victim in this case, who’s lucky to be alive.” ... When given the chance to address the court prior to his sentencing, DePape, dressed in prison orange and with his brown hair in a ponytail, spoke at length about Sept. 11 being an inside job, his ex-wife being replaced by a body double, and his government-provided attorneys conspiring against him. “I’m a psychic,” DePape told the court, reading from sheets of paper. “The more I meditate, the more psychic I get.” The judge interrupted DePape multiple times to ask if he wanted to address the jury’s verdict or his conduct on the night of the attack, but DePape ignored the offers.

I mean, "JV" seems a pretty appropriate moniker to me

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-militia-organizing-election/ What the actual fuck? Wouldn't they be shedding their section 230 safe harbor protections by creating that content as a platform? There have also been some recent instances where Facebook has even auto-generated pages for militias. In May, Facebook auto-generated a page for AP3’s Arizona chapter. In June, Facebook auto-generated a page for “AP3 NM [New Mexico] Training Range.” If you hover over the information widget on the page, Facebook’s explainer reads: “This unofficial page was created because people on Facebook have shown interest in this place or business. It’s not affiliated with or endorsed by anyone associated with AP3 Training Range.” (Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has repeatedly come under fire in the past for auto-generating pages for extremist, white supremacist, and terrorist organizations; a whistleblower first flagged the issue in 2020 in a supplement to an earlier petition filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.)

Maybe he drove into Portland ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

continues to bottle the mind how anyone could really believe that trumpco didn't fully endorse the joke - the fuckin thing was on the teleprompter!

Kinda interesting tech video a work peer sent to me showing the supercomputing cluster that xAI is building lotta flops to build a pretty middling LLM, but the datacenter architecture is neat to see as a techie

Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism lays out a pretty damn striking set of identifying properties of a fascist:

Probably lean more into slave prisoner labor, and use the #lawandorder fascist tactic to ensure plenty of free labor to the private prison system that we already have.

I mean, they're already using child labor https://www.npr.org/2023/09/25/1201524399/child-labor-perdue-farms-tyson-foods-investigation

[Laughs in child labor law rollbacks]

ayo @Incredulity come get yo man

I'm sorry I've read history books and am pointing out the striking parallels between our current path and past successful fascist takeovers of democratic governments? We still haven't even prosecuted trump's insurrection - we have an even weaker and slower response than the fucking Germans did to the beer hall putsch. Also from my view today as a Texan, hate absolutely trumps love in our state and nobody is doing a goddamn thing about basic human rights being taken away. The beatings will continue until morale improves. If they're thinking about voting for trump, it's "having my head up my ass" to call out a literal part of his campaign platform? If they're so willfully and intentionally uninformed they're about to vote for someone who wants to have mass deportations so that they can realize economic gains, that's pretty goddamn similar to the Germans of 1932-45 who didn't realize HItler was bad because they spent no time thinking about it because things were nice for them personally. Now, I'm not saying your friends are Nazis and I'm sorry for drawing parallels between their current behavior and what the people who brought Hitler to power did at the time. I didn't mean to give that impression, but mainly that if they try to sell me on voting for trump I'll just ask something like "why are you voting for a 34x convicted criminally fraudulent rapist"? And then we'll see where things go