Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://reason.com/2023/07/03/brickbat-inmate-injury/

"Warren, Michigan, police officer Matthew James Rodriguez has been charged with assault/assault and battery and public officer-willful neglect of duty, both misdemeanors. Rodriguez punched a man being booked into the jail, slammed the man's head against the floor, and shoved him into a cell. The assault was captured on video. Rodriguez was placed on leave and the department has begun the process to fire him."

"Dwyer said a 19-year-old Detroit man was being booked on suspected felony carjacking and weapons charges when the incident occurred."

Experts Exchange had a funny URL.

It was easy to read expertsexchange as "expert sex change" until they added a hyphen to better demarcate the word boundaries.

For an idea of what happens to a site which restricts access like Twitter, you only need to look at Experts Exchange (closed) which lost to StackOverflow (open).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/02/orkney-could-leave-uk-for-norway-as-it-explores-alternative-governance Orkney islands looking to leave United Kingdom and to join Norway.

https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/ "Facebook founder called trusting users dumb f*cks"

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/1/23781271/instagram-threads-twitter-leak-android-google-play Oh no.

For the next U.S. election, Biden would be better than Trump / DeSantis, although the Democrats really need more up and rising political figures...

For the mid-terms, the Democrats holding the Senate particularly, would be good to keep the courts in order.

For starters, abolishing first past the post would be a good idea...

I don't think this other idea of selecting random people from the population is workable for a number of reasons.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/06/28/the-idea-to-overhaul-the-house-of-lords-that-politicians-arent-talking-about/
"The UK’s second parliamentary chamber is currently packed with life peers appointed by prime ministers, as well as more than 90 hereditary peers and dozens of bishops."
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https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/dan-kaszeta-end-blacklisting/ Ominous.

#anime

Apparently, the moderators of the blind community's subreddit are themselves blind (wow) and Reddit broke their ability to moderate.

They're leaving Reddit for Lemmy.

Thank you, Elon.

https://reclaimthenet.org/un-human-rights-law-ban-encrypted-messages
British Government invokes Article 8 (the right to privacy) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to avoid transparency of it's own communications.

Get accused of hypocrisy for simultaneously wanting to break encrypted communications.

https://reclaimthenet.org/macron-wants-platforms-to-delete-riot-content
Trying to address complex societal problems by blaming... Violent video games (a tired stereotype... it's never the video games...) and social media...

The Premier of NSW, Australia wants Facebook to prevent people from streaming protests.

NSW (New South Wales) is one of the states in Australia and the premier is the leader of that state.