@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-16 10:22:41
On the first day of the #PTSD intensive, we talked about the shooting. I had felt like I was done with that, that it didn't have anything left for me. But there was something still that filled me with rage... that is still confusing and enraging.
It wasn't actually being shot. I wasn't even the possibility of death. I had been prepared to die. I always knew that was possible. It was something else.
I remember Marc Hokoana's face as he pepper sprayed pacifists, smiling and taunting, joyfully hurting people who he knew were refusing to respond. I remember their flags, the kek flag, literally a Nazi battle flag replaced in 4chan colors with the clover 4chan logo instead of the swastika. How many people have been tortured, have died? How much suffering, that these people not only welcomed but celebrated, joyfully participated in.
The cruelty was the point. It was the plan, the plan he posted to Facebook, the same plan as they have always had, of torturing people until someone responds and then murdering them. Inflicting trauma, responding with overwhelming force, showing how "big and strong" they are because they can always escalate.
Try to stop someone from peppers praying people, they shoot you. Shoot back, like Michael Reinoehl, and they send a death squad for you. But we keep standing up, so they keep escalating to the slightest imagined infraction. Now they just murder you for being in a car, for filming at a protest, for existing.
The bar for what justifies murder or torture will continue to move lower until there is no one left, or until they can no longer escalate.
The feeling of helplessness is still not the biggest thing though. It's the joy with which they inflict this on us. That's it. That's the thing.
CW: gun violence, abuse dynamics
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/the-creature-ptss-5-day-1
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-16 13:35:41
Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-17 04:21:20
Pardon the everything app screenshot but the self-immolation of Andreessen is a sight to behold
He got so upset that people call him out for his “I don’t have feelings” tweet that he is storm-posting about how he is not bothered and definitely has no feelings or any inner self
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-03-17 05:16:00
Attention Browncoats: SHARE THIS VIDEO.
As Nathan says, they need the viewing metrics to push the Firefly animated series forward!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Js56jT3F/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-14 18:48:10
There are some changes for the 2026 tax filing season that people who are 65 years of age and older should be aware of.
The most recent being the enhanced deduction for seniors
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/2026-filing-season-updates-and-resources-for-…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-02-17 06:50:37
To be clear, this is #ICE killing another person. They way they terrorize and disappear people, it is only natural to run from them.
"Ellis also pointed out that local law enforcement agencies in Chatham County have restrictive chase policies, and would not have been able to take the action ICE did."
"CCPD Chief Jeff Hadley offered his condolences to Davis’ family, say…
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizza2026-04-16 16:29:18
Something that has been bothering me since the start of the Isreal-US conflict with Iran is this idea that the war will be won quickly because Iran is just a bug to be crushed under the boot of the US military. I really get the feeling that people have this massive misunderstanding of the size of Iran, thinking it to be a small country where very few people live. That couldn't be further from the truth.
Just by numbers, Iran is about 1/6 the land mass of the United States. It's…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-16 13:05:52
Anthropic secures new London office space for 800 people, days after OpenAI unveiled its first London office; Anthropic currently has 200 London staff (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/anthropic-london-office-800-staff-openai-ex…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-16 16:23:15
A Swiss canton has suspended its pilot of electronic voting after failing to count 2,048 votes cast in national referendums held on March 8.
Basel-Stadt announced the problem with its e-voting pilot, open to about 10,300 locals living abroad and 30 people with disabilities, last Friday afternoon.
It encouraged participants to deliver a paper vote to the town hall or use a polling station but admitted this would not be possible for many.
By the close of polling on Sunday, its …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-16 18:54:36
The Trump administration has been clear in its targeting of the Somali and Latino communities through Operation Metro Surge.
President Trump called people from Somalia “garbage,”
said “we don’t want them in our country,”
and told them to “go back to where they came from.”
Following Trump's comments, ICE and CBP agents have indiscriminately arrested
— without warrants or probable cause
— Minnesotans solely because the agents perceived them to be Somal…
