

The Italian government has just passed an emergency decree that authorizes AI-powered face recognition in public spaces without a judge’s authorization.


The Italian government has just passed an emergency decree that authorizes AI-powered face recognition in public spaces without a judge’s authorization.
In November 1627, the test case in the King’s Bench, the “Five Knights’ Case”, found that the King had a prerogative right to imprison without trial those who refused to pay the forced loan.
The US of A found a shortcut to levying taxes without any representation in return.


As Jello Biafra sang: “Trash a bank If you’ve got real balls”


Don’t call me Shirley, though


Yes, but… here comes the next squeeze. I know that they would sell us the rope to bang them with, but god damn.


It’s your stance that’s wrong. I usually refrain from putting random bullshit on the Internet when smashed, but that’s just me.


I don’t know… tools made by companies who can’t wait to get in bed with the Pentagon to kill brown people around the world would seem to be toxic af.


Affirmanti incumbit probatio.


It may be that Linus Torvalds has the political literacy of a doorstop.


We could start considering that urban planning in America has always been aimed at making protesting almost impossible. That and most people being one paycheck away from homelessness.


If you write “money that could be spent to improve the citizens’ life” in Sharpie above your ass and the person eating you out wears a toupee and a red tie you could pass it as performance art.


Trump would execute people because they didn’t grovel enough at his feet.


All of that. Plus nuclear launch codes and a cohort of sycophants ready to drop nukes to hasten the Rapture.


The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible.


Girls like boys. That shit’s gay af.


The glorious days on which all the furries on Twitter harassed Tony the Tiger.
Short answer, yes.
Long answer: yes, because private property of the means of production is bad. And because AIs got where they are now by stealing content. And because most major AI-companies are in major with fascist and genocidal governments. And because they’re speedrunning environmental collapse.