Federated Republic of Sean @freakazoid@retro.social

In Atlanta, armed Black Panthers showed up and formed a line to lead and protect the Black Lives Matter protests.⁠

https://twitter.com/jmcmaster29/status/1268764732619710464

"Police abolition is becoming a standard progressive value in this country. The black abolitionist left did that"

IMPORTANT
Huge list of black mutual aid, petitions, information for white people to start learning, black people to follow and black shops to buy from!
If you donate to mutual aid, remember saying less is more on the note!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zh6reFJWkZRGBL5iIezTfA2tkKBB3X9JcMh2QYT8tWk/mobilebasic

Indie videogames
https://itch.io/b/513/black-lives-matter-support-bundle
Proceeds go to national bail fund and BLM

Indie paper microgames
https://itch.io/b/504/tabletop-treehouse-blm-microgames-bundle
Indie tabletop rpgs
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Proceeds go to black visions collective. IMPORTANT: these 2 are over in about 13 hours!!!!

Currently laughing my ass off about how folks are all BLM while boosting instances that PV has said REPEATEDLY are hubs of antiblack behavior and create conflict with us for no fucking reason other than racism.

Y'all are funny, man.

@freakazoid @kemonine @nyquildotorg @mike
"it's the first time I can think of that they started acting like the Microsoft of the '90s"

Not surprising because they literally put a Microsoft guy in charge, Vic Gundotra.

@freakazoid terrible and I love it

> While public discourse has become more flexible, the emphasis is almost inevitably on generating the changes that will produce a better prison system. In other words, the increased flexibility that has allowed for critical discussion of the problems associated with the expansion of prisons also restricts this discussion to the question of prison reform.

> a new category was invented—that of the super-maximum security prison, or the supermax. The turn toward increased repression in a prison system, distinguished from the beginning of its history by its repressive regimes, caused some journalists, public intellectuals, and progressive agencies to oppose the growing reliance on prisons to solve social problems that are actually exacerbated by mass incarceration.

> The prison is one of the most important features of our image environment. This has caused us to take the existence of prisons for granted. The prison has become a key ingredient of our common sense. It is there, all around us. We do not question whether it should exist. It has become so much a part of our lives that it requires a great feat of the imagination to envision life beyond the prison.

> The history of visuality linked to the prison is also a main reinforcement of the institution of the prison as a naturalized part of our social landscape. The history of film has always been wedded to the representation of incarceration. Thomas Edison’s first films ... included footage of the darkest recesses of the prison. Thus, the prison is wedded to our experience of visuality, creating also a sense of its permanence as an institution.

> Put simply, this is the era of the prison industrial complex. The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited. Mass imprisonment generates profits as it devours social wealth, and thus it tends to reproduce the very conditions that lead people to prison.

> Because of the persistent power of racism, “criminals” and “evildoers” are, in the collective imagination, fantasized as people of color. The prison therefore functions ideologically as an abstract site into which undesirables are deposited, relieving us of the responsibility of thinking about the real issues afflicting those communities from which prisoners are drawn in such disproportionate numbers.

> Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including ourselves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment. We thus think about imprisonment as a fate reserved for others

Morning.
#Google in $5bn lawsuit for tracking in 'private' mode
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52887340

also for the record people talk about brave browser like it's some kind of last word of privacy

1. it's a chromium fork
2. brendan eich is a homophobe
3. the fact that it uses cryptocurrency/blockchain trash and also hammers it in your face that it's "privacy-focused" is SUCH a spook