powerje

@powerje.bsky.social

common sense poster

EXCLUSIVE: When elected officials and advocates in Danbury, Connecticut, said ICE arrested a parent at a school bus stop Aug. 26, federal officials denied their accounts. I got video that appears to show such an arrest. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.socialwww.ctinsider.com/news/article...

Video appears to show ICE arrest near CT school bus stop, despite federal denials

ICE has denied it made an arrest at a school bus stop, but confirmed it made 118 arrests in Connecticut that week.

ctinsider.com

@attackerman.bsky.social reported on the Amnesty report at the time, and astutely compared it to the torture boxes at Gitmo, where Ron DeSantis, as a young military lawyer, oversaw the torture. So once again, mainstream media is months behind independent media. www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz

Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

forever-wars.com

lol the vibe shift in AI hype feels like a ploy by U.S. tech bros to permanently keep out competitors. They are cosplaying concern so they can "regulate" their competitors out of existence. It's not about safety. It's about money.

Zohran is extraordinarily gracious, but he should not have to be. Why is it acceptable to ask people to accept buckets of gutter bigotry as the inevitable price for being Muslim in public life? And then news media legitimates this bigotry by presenting it as a debate!

This is a powerful story from a trans Texan (who's also quite a talented independent journalist). I've been arguing that trans people have the right to be upset with Talarico, and I think we do. This is the case for vote for him anyway, eloquently made, and by someone with the standing to make it.

Aleksandra Vaca@transiticsnews.com · 4d ago

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

Where you going? You moving to Texas? You going to buy one of those 5 BR/6.5 BA houses that’s all garage in front in Frisco, TX? With the faux brick facade? Your wife giving up Broadway and MoMA and driving to downtown Dallas? Eating at Capital Grille? STFU and open up that checkbook son

"Do you call the very obvious bullshit promise from Trump about checks what it is and in the context of his previous empty promises about checks or do you once again act like a stenographer" is a pretty low bar to get over for news media this morning & results thus far are mixed

John Fetterman, who refused to attend a funeral for three PA police officers because it was too long, speaks to Trump's midterm convention:

Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.

D Lavoie@djlavoie.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Attorney General of the United States is speaking at an explicitly partisan political rally tonight and I would never have even known if I wasn't a loser who looked up the speaking schedule myself. The Loretta Lynch tarmac meeting is so quaint.

I've been on the same shows as Dave, talked about the same games as Dave and even joined him to guest on a show.....but we've never talked about Quest 64 UNTIL NOW Join us in finally knock Quest 64 off Dave's backlog and we chit chat for like 2+ hours! talesfromthebacklog.fireside.fm/230

Quest 64 (with Mike aka Quest64Official)

Dave is joined by Mike aka Quest64Official to discuss Imagineer's 1998 RPG, Quest 64.

talesfromthebacklog.fireside.fm

Like an underrated harm of LLM coding is that it basically starts to strangle actual evolution of software engineering as a field. Why invent better ways of doing things? Why come up with better languages, better abstractions, better tooling?