The US attorney general does not believe there is a problem with systemic racism in law enforcement in the US.
what the actual fuck
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/george-floyd-protests.html
Did you know that the NYPD has a $6 *billion* (yes, with a b(!)) dollars per year annual budget?
Six thousand million dollars every year. $16.4 million dollars every single day for policing in NYC.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/nyregion/deblasio-nypd-funding.html
They should have been defunded substantially by now even if they were nice to people
being a baseballer is now enough to break twitter rules?
statping looks super cool: https://github.com/statping/statping
i wish rms weren't a despicable turd, otherwise he would probably be interesting to talk to: https://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html
If Zoom Is Wrong, So Is Apple.
It's already happening: American cops are interrogating protesters and asking if they are anti-fascist.
Is the authoritarian US police state basically going to make it illegal to be anti-fascist? Then it'll be totally undeniable what the USA is: fascist
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RT @Jose_Pagliery
Defense lawyer source: protestors arrested by NYPD are being pulled aside by FBI at precincts & asked about anti-fascist sentiments or connections to antifa.
M…
https://twitter.com/Jose_Pagliery/status/1268269855762976770
how did i not know about this?!!?
startups do not address other systemic societal issues (such as using platforms like AWS or Google that participate in PRISM and shred your staff and users' human rights), presumably because being a startup is hard/risky enough without also being on a societal-improvement-mission, so i'm not sure why people assume they will behave differently for d&i or systemic racism/sexism.
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