Did you know it’s not just two journalists who’ve been shot while covering the LA anti-ICE protests?

It’s many more. They appear to be targeting the press. Trying to silence them. Dissuade them from reporting on what is one of the most important issues America is facing.

Does the country want to submit to a fascist authoritarian?

Or do they want to fight back?

LA has chosen to fight back. And journalists are showing up to cover it. As they should.

Adam Rose is keeping a running tally on a thread on Bluesky. Highly recommend checking it out.

here’s some of the injured:

Ryanne Mena, shot with pepper balls

Sean Becker-Carmitchel, hit multiple times

Anthony Cabassa hit in face with chemical munition

Ryanne and Sean were hit again the next day, with a tear gas cannister

No name has been given but reports of someone from KTLA being hit with less lethal ammo and going to urgent care

Lauren Tomasi hit with less lethal ammo

Nick Stern shot with less lethal ammo and requires emergency surgery

These people were clearly identifying themselves as members of the press

They were there to do their jobs

And at least in the case of Lauren Tomasi, there’s video evidence which appears to show an officer taking clear aim and firing directly at her

Say their names.

Speak up.

The public need to know the risks the press are taking just to attempt to bring truth to the masses.

The Regime have been attempting to silence, sue and throttle the press since day one.

We shouldn’t tolerate any direct attacks on them.

#ice #abolishice #uspol #fascism #journalism #la #losangeles #resist

shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981

Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists

https://www.404media.co/senators-letter-demand-meta-answer-for-ai-chatbots-posing-as-licensed-therapists/

@postmarketOS 2 because I like triangles

@TheEnbyWitch
(Correct answer: add them to the men/non-women too)

@TheEnbyWitch But how else will players get the totally necessary breast and butt jiggle physics? /s

PEPPER SPRAY PAIN RELIEF

I was a volunteer subject in these randomized, double-blind trials to find a treatment for pepper spray discomfort. The only thing found to be better than water was a 1:1 solution of water and liquid antacid — aluminum hydroxide or magnesium hydroxide-based, such as Maalox or Mylanta. Use plain or mint. (a physician and street medic friend asked me to stress that *mint* is best, but the study didn't find that mattered)

“The Black Cross Healthcare Collective was a group of healthcare workers who lived in Portland, Oregon. They formed after the WTO protests of 1999, after seeing a need for medical care that specifically served people who were attending direct actions, demonstrations and political protests.”

"In the early 2000s they pioneered community-supported trials to find an antidote to pepper spray. These trials resulted in an antidote that has been used in street protests internationally.”

#LA #ICE

https://itdidhappenherepodcast.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/fight-the-power-do-no-harm-the-story-of-the-black-cross-healthcare-collective/

@ElisesWritings If I already know the book exists, I'll buy DRM free from wherever (except maybe apple), as long as it doesn't seem shady. For discovery, I'm most likely to discover a book through Kobo.

I wrote a program to lipsync the shipping forecast in a terminal window, and I have no regrets.

OK, this is crazy. I (think) I have finally found a clue as to what is causing the web server to slowly choke on too many open connections.

This thread from 2001 (!!!) explains the problem, AND IT IS STILL HAPPENING 24 years later. #FreeBSD

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25986

I'm rebuilding the #DEFCON server with the patch from 2013 (!!) to see if it helps.

If your corporation's business model relies on lawbreaking, your corporation has no legal legitimacy.

We don't let narcotic cartels and trafficking rings list themselves on the stock exchange: why should OpenAI or Facebook be any different?

Discovery: The "copilot" bot user that Microsoft will soon be flooding your github repos with garbage content from is implemented in some sort of special way that exempts it from the "block" feature you would normally be able to block other users/bots with

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

I would say I'm at a loss for words, but I know exactly the words.

WHAT? HE DID IT? HOLY CRAP THE GLORIOUS MADMAN FUCKING DID IT???

Did he? I mean, I'd like additional confirmation it's truly complete and encoded in D. radiodurans. But wow.

https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=11511

#DeepinDesktop removed from #openSUSE due to repeated security concerns and the inclusion of a workaround around their packaging policy

https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html

Greetings and good morning fellow web scrapers

"We have reports that DOGE has tried to enter the copyright office."

Open call for anyone who can scrape the copyright office's database.
This is the official access point: https://cocatalog.loc.gov/
And this is an experimental new entrypoint that looks to be a bit more enumerable: https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/

catch it on the hop! Put it on https://sciop.net

@cliffle @luna

You don't even need the loop!

find . -name "*.jpeg" -or -name "*.jpg" -or -name "*.webp" -execdir exiftool -gps:all= "{}" \;

New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.

https://www.404media.co/mike-lee-porn-law-interstate-obscenity-definition-act/

"A tale of a trailing dot" celebrates three years. The *evil* trailing dot.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/12/a-tale-of-a-trailing-dot/

In March, the state of Utah passed a law[1] restricting which flags could be flown by city councils. This stopped the council of Salt Lake City from flying the pride, trans, and Juneteenth flags.

One of the kinds of flag allowed by the new law is an official city flag. Therefore, Salt Lake City has just introduced three new flags, which are the three flags just mentioned with a sago lily in the corner.[2].

Image: the four official city flags

[1] https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0077.html

[2] https://www.slc.gov/mayor/2025/05/06/salt-lake-city-adopts-four-flags-to-represent-residents-visitors/

#queer #lgbtq #lgbt #flags #vexillology