What stage of capitalism is this?

https://www.levernews.com/fda-approved-and-ineffective/

These are masked men, with weapons, no warrants and this is extrajudicial abduction, and with local police aiding and abetting this thuggery. It is illegal under international human rights law. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/la-immigration-raids-ice.html

I just found out an old friend of mine is being held at Navos Behavioral Health.

They are trying to declare them permanently gravely disabled which allows them to be involuntarily committed. The hearing is Tuesday.

Hoping that a lawyer can help. It's possible a phone call from the right person will end this.

All the (second-hand) context I have currently is that they had a manic episode and crashed their car, realized they were having an episode, checked themselves into Harborview, got into some sort of a scuff with an orderly, who had them transferred to Navos to be committed.

Anyone with practical experience in this area? Anyone who can help? I don't know what to do, but I do know this person isn't a threat to anyone, and they certainly don't deserve being involuntarily committed.

My contact info (Signal, Matrix, email) is on my profile. Thank you ❤️‍🩹

#MutualAid #PleaseHelp #MentalHealth #Law

Time for Newsom, the California National Guard, and the LA police to turn and face illegal military deployments and protect Americans.

Hey everyone, you want to know a fun factoid? Almost all of the federal agents currently in LA aren’t local, which means they’re staying at a hotel somewhere. Hotels have fire alarms. Wanna know another fun fact? If protests start popping off in other states, they can’t be everywhere at once.

A note from a human rights lawyer to members of the U.S. Armed Forces: If you are directed to execute illegal orders, remember, declaring “I was just following orders” was not deemed a valid defense during the Nuremberg trials, and it won’t be a valid defense here either.

You have an oath to the U.S. Constitition and due process of law. Honor that—not the illegal orders of a 34X convicted felon.

@jessienab 40MB for a calculator?

What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He’s Making With Jony Ive

“The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user’s surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one’s pocket or on one’s desk, and will be a third core device a person would put on a desk after a MacBook Pro and an iPhone.”

OpenAI looking at Microsoft Recall and thinking “consumers love the idea! Let’s make something that records everything you do!” is pretty funny.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/what-sam-altman-told-openai-about-the-secret-device-hes-making-with-jony-ive-f1384005

@RichardJMurphy nonsense

#OtD 19 May 1918 the Hungarian 6th infantry regiment of Ujvideck at Pecs refused to go to the trenches. Instead they attacked the barracks and municipal buildings and cut telephone wires before occupying the railway station, resisting for 3 days https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9126/pecs-mutiny

#cat #cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #alt #humor

@marick did someone say global variable?

Periodic reminder. This is what evolution considers an elegant machine.

Your local council can ban it. No-one should be treated like a suspect just because of who they are or where they live.

Tell your councillor: BAN predictive policing tech in our community.

#SafetyNotSurveillance

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-local-council-ban-%E2%80%98crime-predicting%E2%80%99-police-tech

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

🔴 NEW: The Scottish Government claimed it would be “antisemitic” to release information about Angus Robertson’s secret meeting with an Israeli ambassador
https://theferret.scot/scottish-government-antisemitic-meeting-israel/

@_aD will add it to students homeworks, if applicable.

ai;dr

@sue what do you mean the students are treating school as just a gateway to a compulsory piece of paper they need to get a job? That’s not what we intended when we told them there was only value in doing degrees that would lead to high paying jobs over and over again