Since the patriot act when I was a kid, and now beyond, it's felt worse and worse. Feeling violated every time I remember a particular law is having me inspected.
I did mean to reply to you (72 days ago plus in another thread) I just can't make a Twitter, like I've tried and doesn't like my IP or email addresses or something, not sure
Hmm, that's unfortunate. Well, I hope you find a way to get on Twitter. Your thoughts are always welcome, and there are a lot of interesting people in the ML scene there.
I remember when someone explained here eloquently and inticately explained why Twitter constantly breaks in various ways, such at saying I'm not allowed to see a tweet, but then I merely hit reload and it works... easy fix posted around a year ago at least but still not implemented. Don't hold your breath.
> People who have been laid off talk at me so much more than other candidates.
Because for decades we've been systematically rejected and unable to apply our gifts due to momentary misunderstandings at interviews that just crush our lives like anvils again and again. If someone has enough to pay me enough to afford rent and expenses like internet / water / power andlemme know what I need to learn on top of all I already know and I'll deliver.
I finally am coming to understand I am just one of the millions of faceless idiots that're more and more surely gonna be rendered silenced or abused further or dead. No one has any privacy without at least a remote lot with a Faraday cage, which I don't know a way to ethically come to be able to afford.
This is just the next terrifying development on Planet China. YouTube-dl went unmolested for years. About week ago, I was party to an online conversation a week ago about how youtube-dl is an important tool for archiving videos of public officials before they can be disappeared.
Coincidence?
After the RIAA won a case against Limewire in 2010, the next significant legal action I can find in a bit of looking is that the US Supreme Court ruled against the RIAA in Allen v. Cooper (March 23, 2020).
Dismantling blackmail rings is the most important issue in politics and the same co-opted media that had Katie Couric and George Stephanopolous attend Jeffery Epstein's getting-out-of-"prison"-after-pimping-a-minor-at-his-New-Mexico-ranch-filled-with-blackmail-cameras party are not going to do it for us. Facebook, Google, Palantir, intelligence agencies - they are giant machines for harvesting blackmail material and that is their secretly most totalitarian, power-centralizing and abusive function.
Maybe, or maybe the FBI were just incompetent in this particular case and at that time didn't consider it prosecutable.
>Edmondson told the Times Union the FBI agent found the brandings disturbing, but said he did not see anything illegal about it — and said it “seemed like it was consensual.”
One could argue that Scientology similarly blackmails its members and compels them to make humiliating acts of submission and servitude, but one could also argue that it's consensual and not necessarily illegal. That was probably something like the FBI agent's thought process.
Acosta said he had signed the non-prosecution agreement because he had been told to “back off” of Epstein: “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he said, according to the White House official.
NXIVM had an “executive development” and self fulfillment training side that attracted a lot of people. It was more than a weird sex cult. There were rumors about potential connections that started when the local US Attorneys never took any action. Prosecution was run out of NYC.
No idea if that is true, but the local paper reported on shady stuff and nothing happened. The Albany County DA was essentially implicated in helping the cult in various ways that has been documented in the press, so who knows. Albany is a weird, tightly connected place.
