I remember when his son, Richard W. Smith and his three frat buddies selected a random UVa student and beat the hell out of him on the street while they laughed, back in 1997. UVa didn't expel them, thanks to Fred Smith's intervention. Today, Richard W. Smith is a COO at FedEx.

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KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.

Masked men in U.S. Border Patr...

@cryptadamist i thought the debt and economy problems were all fixed with the bitcoin reserve.

Trump’s killing spree now includes one more immigrant. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/22/ice-detainee-death-georgia

@ai6yr @drahardja these are the risks you have to take to get AGI.

@drahardja @ai6yr does pressing the button administer an electric shock to the AI to train it like a skinner box?

The People Being #Disappeared by #ICE in #LosAngeles

As communities across Southern #California document & #protest the escalating #raids, loved ones grapple with the unimaginable.

In Los Angeles in recent weeks, a popular phrase has been revived on protest signs & social-media posts: “Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo,” or, “only the people can save the people.”

#Trump #law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-los-angeles/the-people-being-disappeared-by-ice-in-los-angeles

from RATS: Raptors are the Solution
https://raptorsarethesolution.org/free-outreach-materials/

Poster on how anticoagulant rodenticides harm wildlife and pets.

#wildlife #nature #rats #poison #raptors #science

There is no number of immigrants whom you can deport which will solve the problems created by capitalism. The centralization of wealth and power and the disenfranchisement of the working class is the function of capital, not labor.

Immigrants aren't the problem. The obscenely rich are

I have not seen it mentioned in the media....

From the point of view of those in Iran, the US has just assumed the same role that we in the US assigned to Japan on Dec 7, 1941 - The day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.

That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:

Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

@carnage4life democrats played right into his hands trying to look tough to counter republican attacks on them wanting to weaken america. Harris during the debate was talking about having the most lethal armed forces.

@GottaLaff always a peacemaker. War is peace.

Driving while distracted kills. A new startup is shifting from soft nudges to hard enforcement, identifying all phones in a vehicle and forcibly putting them into a safe mode. Some fleet operators report as much as a 60 percent reduction in accident rates post-installation. https://spectrum.ieee.org/distracted-driving-smartphone?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

Imagine them all in cars.
Thank you Hamburg for showing love for the future.

Here’s the thing: fuck the ayatollah and his mullahs and fuck Hamas (neither of those bastards would hesitate to put a bullet in the head of an atheist apostate like me) but that doesn’t mean you attack the people of Iran (most of whom oppose the regime) or Palestine (who also suffer under the yoke of Hamas – an organisation that, furthermore, was funded and supported by Netanyahu’s regime to sabotage the peace process).

If you cannot separate authoritarian regimes from the people being oppressed by them, and if you condone the indiscriminate slaughter of the latter, then don’t be surprised when the same rules end up applying to you… given the way things are going in the United States, for example.

We have rules of combat and international law for a reason. It’s not because we’re morally superior; far from it. It’s because we don’t want that same shit done to us. That’s a dangerous thing to forget.

FitTrackee
is a popular Self-Hosted alternative to Strava

https://github.com/SamR1/FitTrackee

#FitTrackee #opensource #selfhosting #foss #strava #cycling #running

What modern monetary theory actually says and why it matters https://youtu.be/GyJckrwB4kA?si=YCjnPkiJ_vUyEMjk Forget the myths. In this video I set the record straight on MMT: what it is, how it works, and what it doesn’t claim to do. If you’ve ever wondered how modern monetary theory could change things, this is your explainer.

For the #Caturday night band on #WorldMusicDay ,
here’s a terracotta #Moche #jaguar trumpet from #Peru (north coast), 200 BCE - 600 CE, on display in the musical instruments gallery at the Met.