alyaza [they/she]
internet gryphon. admin of Beehaw, mostly publicly interacting with people. nonbinary. they/she
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89·3 months agothere’s some real deadpan gold in this one, such as the immaculate:
How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod?
People occasionally just flip [me] off or whatever, but nobody’s come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. Personally, it’s kind of dumb. It’s just a vehicle. So it’s ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is. [Editor’s note: Taylor was arrested and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]
1·4 months agohere’s the website for this initiative:
1·7 months agosee also the associated Waging Nonviolence article Timely lessons for keeping people safe in the streets
you can’t just organize a general strike on the fly, and this is an actual one with actual backing from unions that’s been organized since well before our current issues. and currently it’s a struggle to even get many unions to align their contracts in a way that would be conducive to the date (since that’s not a thing you can just do, you have to negotiate that), so it’s not even a guarantee that the over three years of lead time given is sufficient.
1·9 months agodisagreement is fine, but both of you need to chill out a bit
you can find a May Day event here
9·9 months agothe website: https://onemillionchessboards.com/
the website for it is pretty comprehensive as far as i can tell
this strikes me as a fascinating idea–with a couple of eyebrow-raising backers–that is probably going to flop spectacularly because it’s too minimalistic to the point of just being cheapskate
this is good because the guy was like 80, and he sucks. hopefully he’ll be replaced by someone more progressive and willing to actually recognize the situation we’re in
13·9 months agohere’s your fun fact of the day: the hierarchy of how unchecked your law enforcement is basically goes something like federal police > city police departments > rural police departments > sheriffs of any kind. apparently, while regular police are at least nominally accountable to someone higher up than them, we basically let sheriffs do whatever the fuck they want
whatever recourse you think you have against a PD usually and very explicitly will not exist against a sheriff, even if your governor is sympathetic–most states devolve an incredible amount of power to sheriffs while demanding basically no qualifications or oversight of them. also, most outspoken police you will ever hear are probably sheriffs in specific–they are hugely over-represented in politics because there’s nothing stopping them from opining on politics even where ordinary police chiefs and the like are inhibited. (also their positions are usually elected and partisan, so they are politicians)
naturally, the mixture of election and targeting by the far-right over the past 50ish years means like 85% of these guys are just total cranks now too, because almost all of them represent Republican-leaning counties
FYI: we’ve banned this user because after communicating our disinterest in being used as an anti-China dumping ground to shadowbox with people who can’t even see our instance, the user responded with a bunch of hostility about people pushing back on them.
Literally just keeping the poorer drivers off the road for the richer ones.
i’m going to remove your comment again because you’re, again, talking completely out of your ass and asserting incorrect things with unearned confidence. at most, only half of all households in New York City own a car. the average car owner in NYC is a single-family homeowner who is twice as wealthy as someone who does not own a car. people who own cars in NYC literally are the wealthy–because the poor, supposedly plighted drivers you’re appealing to don’t actually drive in the first place, they just take the subway or ride in buses. they simply are not being “priced out of driving,” however you think that works.
but even if somehow the poor were being pushed out (they’re not)? good! cars suck, and our urban spaces should not cater to them whether they’re driven by the rich or poor! less cars mean less air pollution, less microplastics, less ambient noise, and less traffic fatalities and injuries.
let me ask you: do you think it’s bad that noise complaints are down 70% or that traffic injuries have been cut in half because of congestion pricing? do you think it’s bad that buses–overwhelmingly servicing the city’s poor–are faster across the city because of congestion pricing? do you think it’s bad that bike lanes are being put in where car traffic has been cut significantly by congestion pricing? because i don’t, and i think those benefit poor people–who mostly don’t use cars and who are disproportionate victims of air pollution and traffic injuries and fatalities–a lot more than their potential ability to drive into lower Manhattan or whatever personal freedom you think you’re valiantly defending here.
if you’re going to be this confident, have the decency to be correct instead of saying something incredibly stupid like calling congestion pricing an infringement on “freedom of movement”. if you can drive into lower fucking Manhattan–one of the most car-free areas in the country, because a huge portion of NYC residents don’t drive a car and don’t need to drive a car because they have reliable public transportation–you can pay a toll.
yeah, no shit, that’s not the same as “your entire company being predicated on the unpaid labor of children who you also let do whatever they want without supervision or actually working filtering features”–not least because you could actually get banned for both of the things i mentioned from 2010, while what’s happening now is explicitly enabled by Roblox as their business model and an externality of doing business. as has been demonstrated by recent investigations into how they work down, they basically don’t have a company without systematically exploiting children
it’s been very strange to watch this game i grew up on–pretty innocuously, i should note–gradually morph into one of the most exploitative, undignifying, generally dangerous spaces for children online. the worst stuff i got into on Roblox in 2010 was online dating and learning about 4chan. now the company seems to openly revel in exploiting the labor of children and ripping them off
- Kazumi Watanabe – To Chi Ka
- Sahib Shihab – Sentiments
- Dr. Lonnie Smith - Boogaloo to Beck: A Tribute
- Takeo Moriyama - Smile
- Sevil - Sevil
- Collage - Kadriko
stuff that is basically jazz, even though it isn’t actually:
13·10 months agofeels like Stop Antisemitism is really underrated in the “most evil domestic Zionist organization” department right now, this is literally a McCarthyist tactic
there will likely be in excess of a million people out on the streets today; there are at least 1,200 recorded Hands Off! protests today in addition to about 70 other scheduled protests against people like Elon Musk or rallying for Palestine. easily the largest mobilization so far either way–there are substantial protests in almost every city larger than about 100,000 people, and many significant ones in cities smaller than that
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given that OpenAI has a vested interest in downplaying the severity of this problem (especially relative to its total number of users) i’d treat this as a lower bound of the scale of this exists at–pretty bad!