Olives @olives@qoto.org

The bear case is a hilarious Fourth Amendment case. They attached a camera to a bear which is known to frequent someone's property and recorded what went on there.

The executive director of a certain infamous anti-porn and anti-LGBT group works for that Church.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/06/09/heres-request-ban-book-mormon/ After the Bible was removed in a school district, someone put in a request to remove the Book of Mormon too.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/26318318221116354
There's a weird sub-culture which believes that erectile dysfunction (ED) is linked to pornography. As is likely no surprise to anyone, this study shows it isn't. The only variable which is here is anxiety.

https://www.statology.org/moderating-variable/ If you don't understand what she means by "moderates", this resource might help you.

The idea of a criminal creating a malicious import which is likely to be hallucinated in response to a request for sample code is interesting because it mirrors the threat of an obscure library out of tens of thousands which a program might import (or it's dependencies might import) just so happening to be malicious.

I saw a bad Bluesky take. Someone is upset that Bluesky is trying to implement blocks in a decentralized manner (and currently trying to move away from public blocks). He contends it will never be decentralized and there is no point trying.

This ignores the obvious point that the entire premise behind using Bluesky, and not these other wannabe centralized social media competitors, was that it would be some radically architected platform.

We can be sceptical of that, especially as it is another group of techbros parachuting themselves in, and thinking they can solve all of the worlds problems, rather than a truly grassroots effort, however, getting mad that they are trying to do exactly what they promised to do is strange.

If the judge is going to rule that way, like a well-oiled machine, it would be better if he just did it in a cold neutral tone, rather than sadistically throwing in little demands for "remorse" (and gleefully using this to justify what it is he does) and injecting his own conservative views on the matter.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/12/woman-in-uk-jailed-for-28-months-over-taking-abortion-pills-after-legal-time-limit British woman jailed over abortion. Judge writes nonsensical piece of apologia as a "ruling".

Even the bit where he goes on about her "remorse" or whatever reeks of him trying to justify his ruling to himself, and is really quite creepy and disturbing.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/jun/13/nottingham-in-shock-after-three-die-in-early-morning-attacks Several killed in early morning rampage in Nottingham, includes a couple university students.

https://reason.com/2023/06/13/poppy-seeds-trigger-child-neglect-investigations/ Mothers subjected to non-consensual drug tests with a high number of false positives and a high risk of having their children taken away from them.

https://edri.org/our-work/the-belgian-government-is-failing-to-consider-human-rights-in-csa-regulation/ Belgian Government pushing chat control and trampling on human rights.

https://www.wired.com/story/anti-porn-covenant-eyes-bond-revoked/ Violations of the First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendments.

This is deeply suspicious and smells of a conservative judge trying to harass a family with an infamous anti-porn app (one already known to be abused for attempts at conversion therapy).

It also reminds me of their attitude towards bail more broadly.

If we let them out, they'll go back to their old ways. But, when you look at the number who do, it is absolutely miniscule. I'm suspicious it'd be similar here too, and I suppose, if he did go back to his old ways, there'd be more evidence against him?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/montana-anti-drag-ban-library-transgender/ Anti drag law leads library to cancel event with transgender speaker.

I spotted someone talking about a federated implementation of Reddit here the other day. It'd be funny if it ate Reddit's lunch after they pulled an Elon.

I suspect Reddit saw Elon, thought they could try their hand at closing the API, and it ended up scalding them.

This site has an interesting bug where a notification keeps getting revived as "new". One is from *weeks* ago.

While there are a few clearly second wave inspired feminists, puritanism appears to be primarily driven by traditionalists. Remember that anti-LGBT anti-porn religious group which took their "morality" spiel and simply rebranded it as "exploitation".