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They still matter, no matter what the state tells you.
https://defundthepolice.org/alternatives-to-police-services/
Just some starting ideas, by no means exhaustive.
We can’t develop individualist solutions to structural problems.
This question of victimisation cannot be resolved when we allow an in-group access to an inter-generational mode of control over the majority of the populace
Everyone has a right to be worried about themselves, their families, their friends, their communities. Everyone has a right to act in accordance with those feelings.
I got a reading list I’m doing, I’ll update the OP when it’s done
https://defundthepolice.org/alternatives-to-police-services/
Just some starting ideas, by no means exhaustive.
We can’t develop individualist solutions to structural problems.
This question of victimisation cannot be resolved when we allow an in-group access to an inter-generational mode of control over the majority of the populace
Everyone has a right to be worried about themselves, their families, their friends, their communities. Everyone has a right to act in accordance with those feelings.
I got a reading list I’m doing, I’ll update the OP when it’s done
help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!
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This one is supposed to be an interpretation of Brazil's fascist history. Was good shit to play through.
https://jwho303.itch.io/sagamejam-cyberworks
Really hope this doesn't fail
https://www.amazon.com/IELLO-51682-Kitara/dp/B086RW3RTQ
books
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30129154-the-prey-of-gods
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7163862-zoo-city
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52318.Wild_Seed
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25667918-binti
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19161852-the-fifth-season I kind of enjoyed this and the world building but the hype around it gave me anxiety
Basically cop pulls over elantra owner,tells them car illegally set, needs to go to state and spend $4k to get certified.
After much side questing
*vehicle was always street legal
*cop lied
*state refused to disable the lie
*hyundai said fuck you
https://www.akpress.org/featured-products/featured-topic-free-ebook.html
Appropriately enough for a thread about Black lives, it's the engine that pays Kenyan people $2 an hour to be subjected to the trauma of moderating networks heedlessly fed huge swathes of the internet. Because once again, "AI" is just code for "Exploit poor and/or brown people, but also there's code that we hide behind to obfuscate that fact"
It's scummy, predatory, exploitive software, and using it for any purpose sucks shit and empowers some of the worst people on the planet
it is incredibly easy to radicalize chatbots
The AI Vtuber didn't even last a day before becoming a Holocaust denier
Granted he had a shotgun in his hand but still
They shot the man 22 times immediately after shouting at him to drop the gun, no hesitation.
This happened less than a quarter mile from me. If I hadn't had ear plugs in to sleep I would have heard the gun shots.
Police are not equipped or trained to do anything but violence.
I mean these corporations are already using Tech 2 manage and fire people, it's only a matter of time until they start filing police reports based on the algorithm
No, the historical neoliberal revisionism bot is called Historical Figures.
The overseas workers were being paid $2 an hour to monitor police chatter to fill up entries in fearmongering 'crime reporting' app Citizen, but that's just the latest in a long string of algorithms and apps that run on the barely-compensated Global South labor.
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So the message I'm getting from this is that I could provide a universal basic income for everyone in Africa if I could just market an app to Americans that felt it was useful, correct?
Royce, there are many issues with the statement you just made, and I frankly don't have the energy to try and detail them all individually
But a fundamental aspect of UBI is that it is not payment recieved in exchange for labor.
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I never said I'd have them work for it
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My meaning wasn't cheap African labor
My meaning was redistribution of the wealth of the global North
I was actually referring to this article:
https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
Good to know that multiple "AI" companies are pulling this shit, though, that's a fun sexy good time for humanity generally
When I was in djibouti in 2010/2011, green tech hooked to your electrical system was illegal (water heater was cool). This was to force people to pay higher electrical rates from the local coal plant and the imported ethiopian power, made with turbines imported through djibouti.
I mention this because $2 is a number that was clearly negotiated and achieved to be high enough to clear some hurdle. Could have been $4 or $5 and kept these operation profitable, but these operations are... organized, managed towards specific individual interests, not national interests.
Too many pundits: “well… nevertheless…”
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Yes. This still needs to be a thing. But it wont fucking matter if ever training officer on every force is a fucking high priest of malavolence
Their problem wasn’t that they killed Tyre, their problem was it was on video that they didn’t control
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To the best of my knowledge, all of the cops involved in the Danzinger Bridge Massacre were college educated. Camden is the least aggressive reform that has even a chance of working.
It's evidence of how screwed up the conversation around law enforcement in America has become where implementing basic standards like a college degree is treated as something grand as reform
They brutalize people because they’re placed in a position of power with almost no accountability whatsoever, have multiple decades of a culture where they have been taught by a fucking rich-ass lunatic who travels the country that they are the only thing that stands between civilization and collapse into mad max and every single person they encounter on the street might be lord fuckin’ humongous and so they have to be ready to throw down with lethal force at a moment’s notice, and our society keeps propping them up as the necessary paragons of law and order and won’t do anything meaningful to stop them from killing people.
Making cops go to college and get a bachelors isn’t a solution. It’s a distraction.
the fact that something so basic is used by pro-cop mass media as a distraction, as something radical to solve the issue
That is a sign of how jacked the conversation is.
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I apologise for being off topic in a serious business thread, but this made me bark like a seal in laughter, thank you.
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Weather a chilly 28°F
The man was a double amputee, out of his wheel chair, trying to get away
And they murdered him
They murdered a disabled man desperately trying to flee without any of his gear to help him.
This cannot be fixed
This cannot be reformed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11693613/Memphis-cop-set-aggressive-Scorpion-task-force-charge-corrupt-unit-Atlanta.html
And then learned that
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11688829/Memphis-police-chief-tasked-investigating-Tyre-Nichols-murder-fired-previous-job-Atlanta.html
So yeah, chief is part of the problem
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