Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/pune-news/father-kills-teen-son-in-solapur-over-porn-addiction-101706884082672.html

Another way in which people with "conservative values" (i.e. "we hate porn") end up running apologetics for abusers (maybe not deliberately). Chances are he lives in a dysfunctional household (the parent certainly seems problematic enough). Also, even a framing of "he probably had a mental disability", and "the parent didn't really want to deal with that", would honestly be more likely than taking his arguments here at face value.

Also, slowly plotting and poisoning someone to death? I'm not really buying "heat of the moment".

Those are my thoughts though, if you have others, then I'd be interested to know.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/what-proposition-e-and-why-should-san-francisco-voters-oppose-it

"Proposition E is a “kitchen sink" approach to public safety that capitalizes on residents’ fear of crime in an attempt to gut common-sense democratic oversight of the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD). In addition to removing certain police oversight authority from the Police Commission and expanding the circumstances under which police may conduct high-speed vehicle chases, Proposition E would also amend existing laws passed in 2019 to protect San Franciscans from invasive, untested, or biased police technologies.

Currently, if police want to acquire a new technology, they have to go through a procedure known as CCOPS—Community Control Over Police Surveillance. This means that police need to explain why they need a new piece of technology and provide a detailed use policy to the democratically-elected Board of Supervisors, who then vote on it. The process also allows for public comment so people can voice their support for, concerns about, or opposition to the new technology. This process is in no way designed to universally deny police new technologies. Instead, it ensures that when police want new technology that may have significant impacts on communities, those voices have an opportunity to be heard and considered. San Francisco police have used this procedure to get new technological capabilities as recently as Fall 2022 in a way that stimulated discussion, garnered community involvement and opposition (including from EFF), and still passed."

#privacy

If someone's "solution" to someone putting something in their body (War on Drugs) which they reckon is potentially harmful is just having a cop bust down their door, shoot their dog, beat them up, and haul them into a cell where there is a good chance they'll be beaten, raped, or commit suicide (whether in the cell, even after they leave, there may be an increased chance), then maybe there is a very big problem with that "solution" indeed.

Also, tearing apart families (for however long someone is locked up for), which isn't good for their children's mental health or life prospects.

Locking people up is not a magic solution to social issues. #CriminalJustice

Interesting to see an old school style witch anime.

https://petapixel.com/2023/06/05/museum-wins-lawsuit-over-photo-of-500-year-old-sculpture-of-david/

"An Italian museum has won a lawsuit against a magazine publisher which used a photo of Michelangelo’s sculpture David without permission — despite the 500-year-old artwork belonging in the public domain."

"A related law enables the country’s public institutions, such as museums, to request concession fees for commercial reproductions of artworks of cultural heritage, regardless of their #copyright status."

I remember criticism of the bland outfits in this game.

https://reason.com/2024/02/01/he-was-arrested-for-making-a-joke-on-facebook-a-jury-just-awarded-him-205000-in-damages/

"On a Friday in March 2020, a dozen or so sheriff's deputies wearing bulletproof vests descended upon Waylon Bailey's garage at his home in Forest Hill, Louisiana, with their guns drawn, ordered him onto his knees with his hands "on your fucking head," and arrested him for a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The SWAT-style raid was provoked by a Facebook post in which Bailey had made a zombie-themed joke about COVID-19. Recognizing the harm inflicted by that flagrantly unconstitutional arrest, a federal jury last week awarded Bailey $205,000 in compensatory and punitive damages."

"This verdict is a clear signal that the government can't just arrest someone because the officers didn't like what they said."

#FirstAmendment

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/01/mastercard-launches-gpt-like-ai-model-to-help-banks-detect-fraud.html I guess you can expect more legitimate transactions to be inexplicably rejected because of their "state of the art" "AI" engine. #AI

"AI" thought control troubles?

https://reason.com/2024/02/01/nsa-purchases-internet-metadata-to-spy-on-you-without-a-warrant/

"The National Security Agency (NSA) is the latest intelligence agency spying on Americans without a warrant by buying access to their data.

That revelation comes from a letter released last week from Sen. Ron Wyden (D–Ore.) to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines. "As you know," Wyden wrote, "U.S. intelligence agencies are purchasing personal data about Americans that would require a court order if the government demanded it from communications companies.""

#privacy

What happened to the art style.