They’re not advocating violence, just reporting a fact. (A hammer is a tool, but also a murder weapon) But you do understand the power asymmetry of an unaccountable police force, right? And just how dangerous this is to civil society? There have been multiple accounts of excessive and incorrect deportations by ICE, with no visible effort to attempt to correct those problems. People are now using the meager tools we have left to try to enforce accountability, before there is only one last tool in the toolbox.

Can you prove that people are breaking the law by the mere collection and existence of this data?

How about those Flock ALPR cameras showing up everywhere? Can we be sure the collected data is being used in accordance with the law?

They just did this to me. How can I tell them they failed this test?

I just recently stood up a self-hosted ttrss myself, the instance I used from just after the death of reader fizzled out due to server moves, and all the feeds there also fizzeled out. I’m thirsty for some myself.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain.rss – Girl genius, Favorite Web Comic

My local Government’s CMS has a bunch of RSS feeds I added, useful to try and stay on top of things. You may be surprised to if you dig into your local town’s web site. UNFORTUNATELY my State Government’s legislature seems to have HAD rss feeds, but the link was removed, and it’s commented out in the HTML source.

You can drink US Government actions raw and unfiltered from the many RSS feeds available at the firehose here: https://www.govinfo.gov/feeds

I have a bunch of ESP32’s that … I can update and replace the firmware on, if i reset it the right way with a usb cable. the web site doesn’t explain it any way how this is any worse than that…?

We had killfiles back then. And clients that sorted/threaded conversations the way we wanted. And upstream operators that could often physically visit the offenders to tell them to knock if off. Those were the days …

The URL about:mozilla was always full of fun :)

There is an ongoing attempt to create an equivalence of Trans Persons (and anyone exposing youth to LGBTQ+ ideas in any form, including loving families) to pedophiles through CONSTANT repetition, despite any lack of widespread evidence. There is also a simultaneous attempt to strongly advocate for death penalty for pedophiles. I’m sure you can see where this is heading …

Busy with day to day affairs, gotta pay rent/mortgage/medical bills, gotta feed the family, gotta keep working, can’t take risks, …

Now we all have to pay.

This is the first thing I have heard from her about what she’s working on since she had her “wings clipped”. Hope she is still doing good…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Writer Cory Doctorow coined the neologism “enshittification” in November 2022, though he was not the first to describe and label the concept.[1][2] The American Dialect Society selected it as its 2023 Word of the Year.