@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-20 18:05:59
What @… says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:
- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)
- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?
- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.
- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)
- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.
So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393
@mia@hcommons.social2025-11-18 10:52:16
Last hour or so to sign up to today's UVCON! Catch up with recent work and what's coming next https://hcommons.social/deck/@universalviewer@glammr.us/115542995946017876
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-16 16:32:53
Your reminder that Trump openly threatened the citizenship of Zohran Mamdani.
✅ Trump ramps up attacks against Zohran Mamdani | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-communism-attacks-nyc-ma…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-16 20:50:19
Inspections by Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) of five Chinese generative AI apps -- Deepseek, Doubao (豆包), Yiyan (文心一言), Tongyi (通義千問), and Yuanbao (騰訊元寶) -- found violations of users' communication security across several indicators.
https://focustaiwan.tw/cross-strait/2025…
@seav@en.osm.town2025-12-16 07:06:34
Despite being chronically online, I only learned recently that @… had published his latest book, #Enshittification. And because he is a great communicator, his 16-minute interview with
@x_cli@infosec.exchange2025-12-16 10:04:01
#Malt communique des chiffres intéressants dans sa dernière newsletter :
"Aujourd'hui, plus de 900 000 freelance ont transformé cette idée en un véritable mouvement, et chaque jour, vous lui donnez vie. Une nouvelle recherche de talents est effectuée sur Malt toutes les 10 secondes, et un nouveau projet démarre toutes les 5 minutes."
Décomposons ces chiffres : 1440 minutes…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-02 20:53:41
During a recent visit to Yale, Buddhist nun and chef Jeong Kwan shared her philosophy of mindful, plant-based cuisine and treated community members to an unforgettable meal.
https://news.yale.edu/2025/10/31/mountain-temple-ya…
@lil5@social.linux.pizza2025-12-13 12:06:29
MeshCore is opensource
The foundation of MeshCore is developed primarily by a single developer who is incredibly hardworking, dedicated and idealistic about keeping everything he does fully open. The firmware and protocol specification are completely open, allowing anyone to create a client app or perform security audits on the device firmware implementation. Just hop over to the meshcore-dev github repo and have a look. There are also open source command line, python and javascript cl…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-12 09:56:02
Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service launches on "eligible" Comcast and Rogers X1 and Xfinity stream boxes in the US and Canada (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842201/amazon-luna-comcast-xfinity-rogers-cable-boxes
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-11 19:59:32
Courtesy of Maggie Miller over on BlueSky: With the House coming back into session, the House Budget Committee has scheduled a hearing for next week — on oversight of the recently hacked Congressional Budget Office. Expect the intrusion to a top subject of conversation.
https://budget.house.g…
