This makes me wonder… are these Americans even trying to live their self-proclaimed leftist values?

This just feels like a post that’s meant to brow-beat the left more than ask a question that’s in anyway answerable.

Like… are any of these people at least trying to fight fascism, or are they mostly just sitting scared at their computers?

Your framing is an assumption and immediately dives into what people should do (as if they’re not already).

I am not saying everyone needs to take up arms as an immediate first step to fight fascism, but there are SO many other things than can be done in your local community as a start. From planning mutual aid fundraisers, to volunteering with grassroots orgs, to forming neighborhood ICE watches to document kidnappings, to showing up to your municipal government meetings to try to stop the rise of state surveillance… Hell, even planning potlucks to share food and get to know like-minded people can be incredibly effective at offering opportunities for education and skill sharing.

Yes, people in my community are doing everything you describe here and more. People I know have been fighting for years and have suffered for it. I can’t speak for other communities, but I’m sure they are on the same page.

We’re entering a dark age that’s being marketed as a renaissance.

The tests also showed how broadly the camera’s plate detector could interpret what it saw. In some cases, it mistook bumper stickers, dealership frames, and other graphics for license plates and cropped them out as if they were plates. In one video of a passing motorcycle, the detector cropped an American flag patch on the rider’s saddlebag as if it were a plate.

This stood out to me. Call me cynical, but I don’t think this is a mistake. I think they’re calling all of these “misidentified” license plates a “license plate” to simply establish plausible deniability for collecting this data. It would be pretty trivial for their backend system to interpret the images server side and build an identification profile for each vehicle. This way, even if you remove your plate, your vehicle can be identified.

I wonder how quickly they could build a profile on every vehicle in the US simply by having cameras up in every major city? When we defeat flock/axon, what’s stopping the next surveillance company from buying that data and using it?

Can’t wait for copies of my brain to be tortured eternally by Grok

Wasn’t the Nova Music Festival also moved closer to the border days before?

Lmao the USA was the only country who voted no of course.

Isn’t Omarchy built on top of Arch Linux? I wonder what sort of effect it will have on Arch to have companies injecting millions into this downstream project?

And since the USA is at war with half the world, the Pentagon will ensure that it never dries up.

This is the guy Abdul El-Sayed is running against.

While I agree that the street-level cameras should urgently be taken care of, don’t underestimate what a stationary aerial drone can do over a couple of hours.

Listen to Radiolab’s Eye in the Sky episode. Think of the possibilities that have opened up because of drone tech in the 10 years since it first aired (and the 20 years since the tech was used in Iraq). It’s truly frightening what these drones will be able to accomplish once they are in place.

Awesome thanks for the link

Yes, they lie. GrapheneOS is the only fully degoogled android based OS, full stop.

What are they lying about? What part of their OS is not degoogled?

On some technical level you may be correct, but their site claims that /e/os is degoogled.

https://e.foundation/e-os/

/e/OS is a “deGoogled” version of Android OS. It has an open-source Android OS core, with no Google apps or Google services accessing your personal data.

• Google default search engine has been removed from the OS everywhere and replaced with our new ethical search engine: Murena Find
• Google Services have been replaced by microG
• Connectivity checks do not use Google servers
• We do not use Google’s Network Time Protocol servers
• We do not use Google’s Domain Name System servers
• Geolocation uses BeaconDB Location Services in addition to GPS

So I would love to know more about what you’re talking about.

Graphene is only on pixels

Only because Pixels have met their hardware requirements. They are going to start working with Motorola now.

why not their /e/os?

From what I understand, the two OS are not aiming for the same objectives. /e/os is a degoogled OS and that’s its main purpose. GrapheneOS is focused on hardening security on AOSP.

Yeah, I mean, that would be ideal. Not sure what that looks like though,. It’s kind of their MO to co-opt pop culture references to prop up their “movements” that are largely unpopular. And platforms probably just blanket ban to protect vulnerable populations. You just gotta live and learn.

A bunch of weird woman-hating incels co-opted the “redpill” language. I first saw it on /r/redpilll but I’m not sure that’s the origin. It honestly probably emerged from gamergate. Essentially, they rejected the notion that being a “nice guy” gets you anywhere in life. They promoted shit like “negging” instead, which was the idea that women will find you more interesting if you insult them. There was more heinous stuff than that, but you get the idea.

One highlight at the dinner party of me grabbing the glasses and snapping them in half

I’d be more concerned with how similar the method sounds to glassworm

Calm down, there isn’t a prize at the end; there is no winner or loser. We’re just having a discussion. Breathe.

You started this off claiming that this person is equivalent to an antivaxxer. You’ve repeatedly dismissed their claims/thoughts based on credentialism without demonstrating why. Now you’re telling them to calm down. I’m not even the person you’re arguing with here and I’m getting mad lol.

Not only that but they got data from all of that slop to see which slop got engagement and which did not. Now they can use that data to generate more convincing slop.