Yeah, payment processing is among the many many many industries that ought to be nationalized so they can be administered in a transparent and democratic manner (see also, healthcare education housing electricity internet etc.)

There’s just too much opportunity to use it to manipulate markets and oppress minority viewpoints for it to remain in private hands imo

I try to think of it like having a rambunctious friend who takes me on inconveniencing but entertaining adventures

I asked that question recently and got some helpful responses,

https://lemmy.world/post/30977919

tl;dr PieFed has different people behind it, a few more features, and is written in Python instead of Rust (I’m not a coder or an instance host, so don’t ask me what that distinction means, but I’ve anecdotally seen more people saying python is easier to work with than rust than the other way around),

PieFed communities federate with Lemmy communities, tho, so no matter which kind of instance you’re going through as a user you should be able to interact with all the communities (assuming your instance admins haven’t decided to defederate with the other instance for some reason)

Also, it’s arbitrary and capricious - this is hitting everyone in the prison, regardless of their sentence, just because they happen to be incarcerated at the wrong place and time

If they spend weeks convincing you that you should do it, give you money or other resources to do it, or so on, then it can be entrapment.

Things like that should theoretically help you make an argument for entrapment, but it’s no sure thing

I don’t think that’s inherent to the unpopular opinion format, a post could just as easily be a “I like this thing everybody else hates”. People can and frequently do use it just to troll, but that’s a problem with those people not the community.

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Good question I don’t have the answer to. I could speculate that this is all likely being sourced from some sort of marketing material that ShadowDragon put out where they just flatly say they’re gathering this information from Tesseract, and in reality they’re actually gathering any information they can on users who search for this software and download this software, but like I said I’m speculating.

If you’re really interested, I would say you should email the author of this article, reach out to Tesseract’s development team, or find a way to get a subpoena against ShadowDragon and/or ICE

Sorry to hear that, try this one

https://web.archive.org/web/20250312132300/https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-contractor-is-monitoring/

The fact that the word “populism” has gotten so demonized in the past 20 years or so by only being associated with the right wing is almost as frustrating as how the word “liberal” got a way better reputation than it deserves by being associated with everything left wing

Extended periods of detention in substandard facilities with openly racist guards is often part of the deportation experience in America

the Fediverse really seems like it could be our response to these fuckers controlling the narrative on social media. It could be more than just an interesting decentralized social media platform. I really think this could be a key step in reclaiming our democracy.

Agreed, and I would add that finding ways to get nonprofit news organizations (e.g. ProPublica) and public media (e.g. NPR, PBS, etc.) to host and administer their own instances and to start directing their readers/listeners to those services would be a great way to advance this goal

Related, “Wife of 72-year-old veteran beaten to death by a cellmate in Alabama jail sues corrections officers” (archived)

e; Actually, this needs a clarification. This news story is about a jail facility in Alabama, whereas this documentary is about a prison facility. Generally speaking, prisons are where people are said after they are convicted of crimes, jails are where they are held before trial if they are unable to post bail. Both ultimately report to the same state department of corrections, but these are separate facilities.

Kind of off topic, but I’ve just gotta add that the safety shutters over the positive and negative terminals that only open when the ground pin (which is longer than the others on the plug) is inserted up top is brilliant, it basically makes short circuiting impossible. Electrical outlet design is one of the few things I’ll concede the UK does better than the rest of the world.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=VIdONLv3qJw

e; actually, this DJ set Nicolas Jaar did for the BBC a decade ago starts with a clip from an interview with Twin Peaks music director Angelo Badalamenti that is one of my favorite stories of Lynch at work

https://soundcloud.com/otherpeoplerecords/csp06-nicolas-jaar-essential

“Sensitivity to justice? That is a problem that must be cured.” - what capitalism does to a mf-er

Nah, it’s actually very easy to see, thanks for your concern tho

This is the woke DEI agenda fascists want you to be afraid of (though I think they called it “political correctness” in those days)

They get worse every time they lose elections because they’re able to sell their voter base on all the “we need to do these horrible things to win” arguments. Step one of solving our problems is electing shitty Democratic lawmakers, step two is primarying them for failing to do what they campaigned on (with community organizing and mutual aid throughout these two steps and just as a general ongoing thing).