This is interesting. People are getting less weird, but also less creative?
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-decline-of-deviance
#art #culture #design #creativity
This profoundly disgusts me.
#surveillance #facialrecognition #civilliberties #biometric #privacy
"We have to find sources of entropy.
When we were kids, everything was entropy because everything was new. So we were constantly changing our preferences, our behaviors, our language, and everything."
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/humans-need-entropy
#learning #reading
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The U.S. is unique in the sense that not only are there local police, county sheriffs, and state police agencies, but almost every federal agency has its own police. There are just way too many cops.
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-does-us-law-enforcement-work-who-has-jurisdiction/
#police #usa
Sure enough, this purported "designation" cites NO statutory authority, as there isn't any.
"But the vagueness of the label can help rather than hinder the Trump administration, if its goal is to crack down on political enemies.
The RICO Act allows prosecutors to define more or less anything they want as a mafia organization, and the charges are nearly impossible to defend against, partly because the government can seize the defendant's assets before trial, making it impossible to pay a defense lawyer."
#rico #antifa #repression
The doctrine of rapture was pretty much invented by John Nelson Darby and Cyrus Schofield.
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And this tradition is reflected in Articles 1 and 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which established the post-World War II international order.
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
Sen. Tim Kaine is wrong. The idea that human rights are "God-given" is at the foundation of universal human rights applicable to everyone, everywhere. If the rights are "gifts" of politicians and governments, they can be taken away by the whims of those in power, such as Trump.
Of course, Kaine's concerns about theocracy (such as Iran) are correct. But the founders of the United States did not imply that rights came from the human institutions of religion (something they also opposed). They meant that every person has natural, inalienable rights.
This was written almost exactly 25 years ago, but it was very prescient. The problems inherent in the American republic were already identifiable then, they have metastasized over the following quarter-century period.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160909041616/http://www.worldfreeinternet.us/archive/arc24.htm
And "saving democracy" means going back to the same old dysfunctional partisan politics for and by the moneyed and privileged, and hyped and manipulated elections every 2 years giving the populace an illusion of "people power," then it will inevitably lead to another populist tyranny down the road.
My honest thought: Democracy is the problem. Democracy created tyranny, bloated government overreach, police state, mass incarceration, state-supported oligarchy, and gave them an aura of legitimacy. Democracy does not truly represent everyone. It has been a failed social experiment.
A project for total #surveillance began over two decades ago
"When we put “winning more seats in the next election” ahead of doing the right thing, we’re not defending freedom."
https://open.substack.com/pub/cyrusjavadior/p/i-stayed-in-my-seateven-when-free
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The Politics of Reading
Stop the animal abuse.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/animals-shouldnt-be-weapons-for-the-police
Don't be distracted by the spectacles of ICE raids and military reality shitshow - the "One Big Beautiful Bill" is in the Senate, Elon knows who's on Jeffrey Epstein's client list, and promised "trade deals" are far from done. 🙄
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