@memeorandum@universeodon.comDue to Botched Paperwork, Comey May Never Have Been Properly Indicted (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/due-to-botched-paperwork-comey-may-never-have-been-properly-indicted
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p80#a251119p80
@hex@kolektiva.socialOne of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
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@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaOur mortgage renewal was quite simple this time. I have been working with the mortgage broker for a couple of years and is quite good and friendly.
Online call, go over the documents and terms. Electronic signature and download of the paperwork. From start to finish maybe 30 minutes.
Being paranoid I made a physical print of the pages.
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukIt's fun seeing the old amateur radio licensing paperwork my dad had; one of his early (not quite earliest) from 1965, from the GPO (General Post Office) - typed header and hand filled in. Later ones in the 60-70s are still hand filled in; As it moves from one ministry to another. So much hand written/typed stuff - must have been hell!
#hamradio
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaScientists spend 50 years ironing the kinks out of nukes and nuke procedures to make them the safest they've ever been, finally rehabbing nuclear's image sufficiently in the minds of Millennials that new plants can be built, and then these lazy jackwads decide to have ChatGPT do the paperwork.
Toss them in the cooling pond! (They'll be fine, it's not radioactive.)
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioMy mother is incredible.
We like to joke that she is a model #immigrant:
- She came to the #US fleeing from the war in #Ukraine, with no further plan besides getting to me and my husband in at least temporary safety.
- We had to run a crowdfunding campaign to help her and the kids sustain themselves as they waited for their #TPS immigration paperwork to process.
- Once her work authorization came through, she somehow managed to get a job as faculty at #Cornell - and started their #Ukrainian program, teaching the language and Ukrainian history for the first time in the university’s curriculum.
- Now she’s been accepted to academic conferences, publications, and has joined the board of the refugee support organization in #Ithaca that helped her get settled there herself.
I’m so proud of her. Y’all should read this article, it’s pretty good: https://www.ithacawelcomesrefugees.org/giving-from-abundance-krystynas-journey-to-becoming-an-iwr-board-member/
@cdarwin@c.imThe race is on to succeed Gavin Newsom,
the California governor with presidential ambitions
whose terms runs out next year
– and it’s already a crowded field.
More than 95 candidates have so far submitted paperwork
indicating their intention to run,
though the official filing period doesn’t start until 9 February.
The field looks wide open,
with polling yet to indicate a clear frontrunner
and nearly half of voters describing their prefere…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: WBD's board wanted a proposal it could sign immediately, and Netflix was the only bidder whose paperwork was fully executable the night of December 4 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0fb6c3dc-7e14-45c1-9a63-b960c82512bd
@cheryanne@aus.socialHusband is still wielding a bandaged hand but is basically managing everything himself now (day 4) 'cos he's a stubborn old bugger.
Off to the GP on Wednesday to change the dressings and hopefully he'll be permitted less obtrusive wrappings.
Hospital checkup booked for 3 months time.
He's not allowed to do anything physically strenuous for the 6 weeks after the carpal tunnel op. He fudged the medical directives but I always check the paperwork for myself beca…
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlinekegseth: to "…kill…narco-terrorists who are poisoning…American people. Every we kill is affiliated w/…Terrorist Organization."
DHS floods social media w/faces of people who failed to file paperwork, ice tears them from families w/no due process.
DoD can't tell us who 80 "traffickers" are that they killed w/no due process?
Because they were fisherman. kegseth ran out of Tequilla & so ordered their murder.
source kegsbreath's words:
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… It comes in handy all the time! Every time we get a brochure at a theme park, museum, or similar folded paperwork. I’m ready to spring into action.
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialDigital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance
[…] From passports to colonial passbooks, from welfare cards to border regimes, the apparatus of identification has always been tied to domination. Digital ID is simply the latest iteration of this long history, but with a scale and sophistication that makes its dangers even more profound. […]
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@joe@toot.worksEverything through the Department of Education takes forever. I waited four months ... and then brought my senator in to push them to answer my messages after they screwed up some paperwork. "This may take some time," and "we can not provide updates or estimates," really worries me.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems (Kayla Steinberg/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ups-delay-customs-tariffs-packages-destroyed-rcna236607
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p38#a251010p38
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaComing to the end of my paid bereavement time. I realized I am in no way ready or even fit for returning to work. Turned in paperwork for a short LOA, and requested an emergency withdrawal from school.
I managed to unpack a few boxes and put our bed together today, but everything seems to take three or four times longer than it should and I just can't focus. I keep making stupid mistakes. My brain is definitely not in gear.
What I can say on a positive note is that I have an …
@cdarwin@c.im“If a fascist is merely someone who opposes democracy, then let me be clear: I oppose democracy — and have always opposed democracy,” Jason Lee Van Dyke wrote.
That was a part of a lengthy response I received after I’d emailed the North Texas lawyer to ask a few questions
because on Nov. 11, he filed paperwork to become a Republican candidate for the open Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 seat in Wise County.
I wrote about Van Dyke for The Barbed Wireback in August, breaking …
@trochee@dair-community.socialNew band name just dropped
and bonus eponymous album cover
…in my rental car paperwork
@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.pageLocation Matters: Leveraging Multi-Resolution Geo-Embeddings for Housing Search
Ivo Silva (QuintoAndar), Pedro Nogueira (QuintoAndar), Guilherme Bonaldo (QuintoAndar)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01196
@cdarwin@c.imMusk's Starlink alone owns two-thirds of all satellites in space.
With 8,000 in low Earth orbit, the company currently has permission to launch a further 4,000,
and has reportedly filed paperwork to raise the total number to 42,000.
Amazon and a state-backed project from China have their own rivals to Starlink in the works,
all of which would see the numbers vastly multiply,
with some estimates that in a decade there could be 100,000 satellites in orbit.
