People need to start refusing to do this

I heard a saying once (I cannot remember the provenance) that could be paraphrased like: "The liberal is someone who is for all movements except the current movement; against all wars except the current war."

There are two important points:

1. Every major movement in history has incorporated elements of violence;
2. Which movements we retroactively consider as violent is determined by sociological consensus.

For example, the American civil rights movement is today considered by people to have been largely non-violent. However at the time the movement's opponents definitely thought of, and portrayed it as a violent enterprise.

Opponents of a movement will always portray that movement as violent. The status-quo consensus perspective on historical protests is written by the victors. Therefore, the hypothesis that "non-violent" protests are more likely to succeed than "violent" ones is self-fulfilling. When protest movements succeed we are less likely to consider them "violent".

You know, I don't recall Medicaid being mentioned once in the bible.

I do seem to remember something about giving all of your possessions to the poor though. But maybe I am imagining that.

If Jesus was real and did come back we'd probably never know because he would get deported and die in a Salvadorian torture prison.

She's an ape, not a monkey, have some respect.

God, I hate this so much. I used to frequently ask the senior engineer on my team for input on whatever I was working on, but he started just replying with copy-pasted Gemini responses.

Now I don't really ask him for input anymore.

The reason these judges won't do that is because they know that the authority they wield is only possible with the cooperation of the executive. They don't want to shatter the illusion that they are a co-equal branch because they fear that once that cat is out of the bag they won't be able to coax it back in.

Well no, the Canonical distribution is Ubuntu.

/s

There aren't really any ways to remove SC justices in the law. Thats exactly why we on the left have been raising concern about these appointees for so long.

Well, they can hypothetically be impeached, but that's unlikely to happen with the current Congress.

As a former resident of the area, yes, they absolutely did. And they were glorious.

He posted some Tweets about how he believes ChatGPT (or whichever AI service he uses, I can't recall) is sentient, and of course, female.

The Biden administration eventually lost in court. A major campaign promise was to forgive $10k in student loan debt (for those making less than X dollars in income, iirc). Congress couldn't get a bill for that through, so he tried to use an executive action to order the Department of Education to do it, but a number of (red) states fought it and won in the Supreme Court.

If you want a more modern software with the Winamp feel, the Audacious player supports Winamp skins.

The problem is that federal income taxes are generally paid directly by employers to the federal government. It's not clear by what mechanism states and/or cities might withhold them.

It's true that the State of New York, and NYC are both large employers, so hypothetically I guess they could refuse to collect income taxes from their employees on behalf of the federal government, but certainly the IRS would still hold the individual taxpayers responsible for those taxes at the end of the year.

As an additional point to add to yours, every single political protest movement in history has included violent elements. It's unavoidable. When these political "moderates" start pearl clutching about some windows being broken or whatever it is an attempt to de-legitimize the entire movement, and draw the focus away from the actual source of the majority of violence, the cops (including ICE).

One issue with this is that uutils is licensed under the MIT license, instead of coreutils' GPL license. In fact, for reasons I don't quite understand many of these rust rewrites are licensed with the MIT license. This will contribute to long term erosion of the rights granted by the GPL to software projects and users.

Is this the miniature from the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens? It was super cool, plus they have Big Bird and a Skeksis.

It's hardly surprising that these people are out of touch when they're constantly surrounded in a bubble of yes-men, cultish AI sycophants, VC investors and other "dark enlightenment" enthusiasts.

It's a pathology, really. A kind of shared delusion in service of global capital.

What do you mean? People love barbeque sauce. There's nothing more normal and human than barbeque sauce. Biological human beings are natural barbeque sauce enthusiasts.

They already do. ("They" meaning AI generally, I don't know about Claude or ChatGPT's bots specifically). There are a number of tools server admins can use to help deal with this.

See also:

• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/
• https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
• https://anubis.techaro.lol/