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Ben Lee-Cohen

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo ago

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo ago

Zero surprise that these are explicitly designed to cause pain without leaving a mark, not to incapacitate. Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.

Ben Lee-Cohen@benleecohen.com · 4mo ago

A couple weeks ago, we were on vacation with friends. After the kids were asleep, we played games. I love games. Play lots of complex, fiddly games. We did not play those. 1/2

Ben Lee-Cohen@benleecohen.com · 8mo ago

My dear friend Janet was laid off after 18 years at our local independent cinema and needs financial support while she's job hunting (and waiting on a complicated unemployment review). There are many worthy causes right now, but please consider supporting: www.gofundme.com/f/community-...

Donate to Community Care for Janet Curran, organized by Anna Moriarty Lev

Most of you know Janet. If you've been to Images Cinema in the last 25 years (almost… Anna Moriarty Lev needs your support for Community Care for Janet Curran

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Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 8mo ago

You have clearly not read the War Powers Act, Mike. Everything you've written is totally wrong. The War Powers Act SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITS military action unless: a/ there is a prior congressional authorization; or b/ it's a response to an attack against the U.S.

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Andy Pearlman@apearlma.bsky.social · 9mo ago

People who go out of their way to watch executions or murders almost always reported being changed for the negative, suffering PTSD, etc... You do not have to deliberately self-harm yourself for no benefit to stand up for others.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9mo ago

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

Dara Lind@daralind.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is a reminder that if you’ve just seen something traumatic, playing 15 min of a visually demanding game (Tetris is the go-to here, but maybe Set? Mah-jongg?) can impede memory formation and help stop it from developing into a trauma. (This doesn’t work for complex trauma but discrete events)

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice

In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 9mo ago

I need people who don’t live in the Twin Cities to stop telling people not to join massive Signal groups right now. People are doing it. They’re going to keep doing it. Give them good advice about it. The actually practical advice is don’t say anything to 1000 strangers you wouldn’t say in public

dan sinker@dansinker.com · 9mo ago

How I'm dealing with my stress: I bought a 3d printer and am producing 100 whistles at a time. 1000 heading to Minneapolis tomorrow.

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Mike Lissner@michaeljaylissner.com · 10mo ago

We’ve received a few subpoenas this year. We’ve fought them off so far, but are now working on a system that encrypts your activities on CourtListener so that it is subpoena-proof.

Tom Lee@tjl.bsky.social · 10mo ago

seeing this getting shared a lot. is there anything new here? online companies do not have a duty to secure your data against LE requests. you have to find & reward the ones that will--or, better, who don't collect or retain the data in the first place therecord.media/google-searc...

Ben Lee-Cohen@benleecohen.com · 11mo ago

In 2019 I created a task for myself to create a TUI co-worker timezone app. Every year or so I'd think about it, but had three kids in that time, instead. Yesterday, 6 years and 1 day after I created the task, I gave it to Claude Code. An hour later, I had this: github.com/heliostatic/...

GitHub - heliostatic/tui-clock: A terminal-based world clock for tracking colleague availability across multiple timezones. Built with Go and Bubbletea.

A terminal-based world clock for tracking colleague availability across multiple timezones. Built with Go and Bubbletea. - heliostatic/tui-clock

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Signal@signal.org · last yr.

In 2023, Signal was the first mainstream messenger to enable post-quantum cryptography. We’re still ahead of the (elliptical) curve, implementing a new hybrid PQ ratchet ensuring Forward Secrecy & Post-Compromise Security even in a post-quantum world. signal.org/blog/spqr/

Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR). This new ratchet enhances the Signal Protocol’s...

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