Well I guess we can agree to disagree

Also can’t find community pictures posted like the ones here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/comments/1lc35n3/a_few_faces_of_pride_2025/

5th one is the best.

Bruh you’re full of shit

Why would automod remove a link post discussing candidates?

Bc there are still too many people depending on it to help keep them informed, so until Lemmy grows and more people move here, it’s not as useful for communicating very important information to local communities.

A. Not a repost if the link hasn’t already been posted. Bc like I said when it first failed, I figured it had already been posted, but when I searched for it, I couldn’t find it. I would really appreciate it though if I did just miss it and you could send it to me. Maybe it’s bc I’m on mobile browser, but sorted by top, I’m still not seeing it? Would you mind sending me the link for the article post you’re referring to though?

B. Still doesn’t explain why a text post would be removed too.

My text post (not a link post) discussing the candidates was also automatically removed after the link post was removed first

Both posts were made within minutes of each other, around 6 am Saturday morning, before the voting locations had even opened.

The posts I came across at all on the subreddit discussing the election that morning, only provided information about one of the 2 candidates. A lot of info about Landry and almost nothing about who the incumbent was or how she was also qualified for the position.

It wasn’t even just New Orleans. The district covers three parishes (Orleans, Jefferson, and Saint Charles). Only 3 of the 5 voting locations were actually in New Orleans (so 900 ballots for the entire city).

So now I come to you, with open arms

Idk why I’m asking this, but I’m genuinely curious why you think reservations exist?

Those are owned by Native Americans… Not white billionaires

I’m not surprised by more of this sovereign state nonsense, I’m just disgusted that they’re proposing building it on a reservation.

Well then, I guess it must have been some other Pudutr0n. You’re off the hook, for now…

I’m not 100% sure about actually preventing states from creating laws, but given what’s happening in my city rn I would imagine, if this passes, it gives federal agencies and private companies the ability to legally ignore any city and state regulations that might be passed.

My city used to have a complete ban on facial recognition and predictive policing tech after they were caught secretly working with Palantir. In 2022, the mayor requested the ban be lifted and replaced with an ordinance.

Police in my city got caught violating the very weak ordinance that regulates how facial recognition is supposed to be used.

Since WaPo exposed them, they’ve allegedly paused using the tech. However, the tech is provided by a private company, and the city can’t enforce their regulations on the state police and ICE agents that are still using the tech with zero oversight.

Given how we know states like TX have already signed up to have their national guard invade other states in order to enforce Trump’s immigration policy, this could provide legal protection for the Texas national guard to come into a state like California and use it however they deem necessary.

They could start out by saying it’s necessary to enforce immigration (which would be fucked up enough). Very quickly it becomes necessary to protect ICE agents from protestors, and they begin using facial recognition to track protestors and anyone loosely associated with protestors.

There’s no way for the city or state laws to do anything about this bc the Texas National Guard have essentially been given blanket protection by a federal law to use AI to enforce federal immigration policy. Essentially, instead of the national guard being sent to southern states to enforce civil rights like what happened in the 1960s, the national guard from a red state would be sent into a blue state to enforce a dystopian cyber-surveillance nightmare created by the federal government.

Keep in mind this is just one possibility. Even without all that happening, the best case scenario of allowing a ban on state regulations, is you’re providing legal protection for private corporations to collect data however they want and do whatever they want with it once it’s collected.

Par for the course though. Orwell called it.

Federal intervention in states to enforce civil rights= unjust burden on states

Federal intervention in states to enforce immigration policy= send in the national guard to “liberate LA”

State regulations on AI= patchwork regulations won’t benefit corporations the country

Federal regulations on AI= these regulations are underpinned by the values we believe are important. Surely we’ve already proven over and over again you can trust us to do what’s right for corporations the country.

Never forget, corporations are people.

Exactly, they created this nightmare dystopia, sunk all their money into AI and if we don’t allow them to just invade our privacy like it’s their personal kingdom, and we exist to feed their data centers, they’re fucked.

The entire economy is fucked, but that’s 100% on them.

They wanted to just dive in head first, cut a bunch of jobs and replace everyone with AI. Who in their right mind would think that we should allow these people fewer regulations now, so they can make more money via exploitation of humans?

Exactly!

Oh regulations would cut into your profits? Boo fucking hoo

More scientists and data, but research quality in China has been very poor for quite some time, hence a lot of questions and concerns regarding methods, data collection, and number of retracted articles.

The entire idea of the “China virus” and the Trump/Republicans lab leak/attack on NIH funding to EcoHealth, and their collaboration with Wuhan Institute of Virology, hinged on pointing out the lack of lab safety standards in China that wouldn’t have allowed the research to occur here.

On the flip side, now that Trump is in power, OSTP is focused on removing regulations to science and tech bc they argue they are slowing us down in the AI race against China.

Kinda seems like a load of BS especially considering AI data in China is very poor likely bc of the lack of regulations

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/9/china-wrestles-with-quantity-over-quality-in-generative-ai-patents

Right, but it seems like they’re getting nervous people might actually be allowed to vote in the midterms

I feel like we’re going to end up with more laws protecting robots and surveillance cameras than our own civil liberties.

Wonder where all those angry white guys with tiki torches and khaki shorts are now? The ones that thought the Jews were trying to replace them? 🤔

I mean apparently they’re partnering with a private robotics company. The picture is an actual model of the company’s robot. Whether or not they actually end up implementing this, they’re allegedly currently training the robots.

Presumably, if nothing else, Amazon/Bezos is probably getting some sweet federal kick backs to attempt this and further the current administration’s agenda to beat “Gyna” in the science and tech race. Except unlike Gyna, the U.S. is firing all of their scientists (which, until Jan. 2025, was one area that the U.S. had unquestionably dominated China) bc they think AI can replace them too.

So now, they’re just handing all the resources to the kind of technocratic “elites” who are used to just purchasing their good ideas, rather than actually creating anything. This is also why they seem to genuinely believe something like Amazon humanoids is a sound investment, “durr, we don’t need people bcuz we haz robots.”

Fun fact, just learned they are indeed going to try to replace scientists with robots too. There was a meeting about it yesterday:

For all we know they made the futuristic robot exoskeleton, took some fancy pictures of it holding a package, and that’s all she wrote. The end result is just some rich assholes are slightly richer at the expense of the tax payer, and we should be grateful. 'Merica! 🇺🇲

I guess they felt like drones flying over civilian populations was a bit too unsettling in this day and age, so they are shifting to humanoids that will jump suddenly from moving vehicles and dash towards a destination.