I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it’s totally cool to scrape everyone’s personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

@maxkennerly

Morning everybody, we're doing Monday. Just waiting on groceries and we're waiting until Wednesday for the cable guy to come out and configure the new router after ours died on Saturday since the tech John spoke to yesterday couldn't get the signal to come through. Also, I was yesterday years old when I learnd that getmac works on current Windows instead of just linux.

I continue to be mystified by the sentiment that being a First Amendment advocate means *socially* tolerating people I find obnoxious or contemptible. I keep getting “what kind of free speech advocate blocks people?” The kind who doesn’t deal with assholes when not professionally compelled to do so. The First Amendment isn’t a hair shirt.

@Popehat