lmmarsano
@lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on [deleted] 19 hours ago:
OP felt a compulsion to protect our virgin eyes & ears.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 4 days ago:
Even if it successfully shielded them from 100% of civil rights cases (which it objectively has not)
Objectively, the planets sometimes align, too: the odds are highly against it.
it provides no protection from criminal charges
Also exceedingly rare: we’ve only seen any decent prosecution recently. It’s likely to fail.
While that fight should continue, society has more mundane tools to ostracize & make people’s lives hell.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 4 days ago:
I’m exceptionally doubtful that clearly established constitutional rights aren’t being violated
Anyone who’s hasn’t lived under a rock the past decade knows clearly established means practical impunity.
Some courts have required an extraordinarily precise match between the misconduct alleged in one case and in a prior one in order to find a violation of someone’s constitutional rights.
[…]
When Baxter sued, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out his case. It held that while it was well established that a police dog couldn’t be unleashed on a suspect who was lying down, there was no case addressing someone sitting down with their hands up, as Baxter said he was doing.
From Reason
“I have previously expressed my doubts about our qualified immunity jurisprudence,” writes Thomas. “Because our §1983 qualified immunity doctrine appears to stray from the statutory text, I would grant this petition.”
The judge spoke to a point that qualified immunity critics have been making for some time: The framework was concocted by the Supreme Court in spite of court precedent. It’s a perfect example of legislating from the bench—something conservatives typically oppose.
The Civil Rights Act of 1871, otherwise known as Section 1983 of the U.S. Code, explicitly grants you the ability to sue public officials who trample on your constitutional rights. The high court tinkered with that idea in Pierson v. Ray (1967), carving out an exemption for officials who violated your rights in “good faith.” Thus, qualified immunity was born.
That doctrine ballooned to something much larger in Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982), when the Supreme Court scrubbed the “good faith” exception in favor of the “clearly established” standard, a rule that has become almost impossible to satisfy. Now, public officials cannot be held liable for bad behavior if a near-identical situation has not been outlined and condemned in previous case law.
Though the original idea was to protect public servants from vacuous lawsuits, the practical effects have been alarming. As I wrote last week:
In Howse v. Hodous (2020), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit gave qualified immunity to two officers who allegedly assaulted and arrested a man on bogus charges for the crime of standing outside of his own house. There was also the sheriff’s deputy in Coffee County, Georgia, who shot a 10-year-old boy while aiming at a non-threatening dog; the cop in Los Angeles who shot a 15-year-old boy on his way to school because the child’s friend had a plastic gun; and two cops in Fresno, California, who allegedly stole $225,000 while executing a search warrant.
In other words, cops need the judiciary to tell them explicitly that stealing is wrong. The aforementioned police officers were thus shielded from legal accountability, leaving the plaintiffs with no recourse to seek damages for medical bills or stolen assets.
Court standards are so strict, nearly any meaningless, incidental difference suffices to grant officials cover of qualified immunity: literally the difference between lying down & sitting is all it takes to violate rights with impunity.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 6 days ago:
registry and gpedit
They’re still around and the various configuration technologies tap into them.
Most of us are pissed that all of those methods half work or are depreciating away for no reason other than some UIx twat couldn’t be bothered to hook something properly so they just reskin an element and misplaced half the functions.
Pretty much the case here, too. It mostly works, and the parts that don’t are super annoying & require ad hoc script-fu.
it blows my mind why this has not been resolved
Yep, configuring Microsoft has sucked incredibly hard compared to free OSs. Managing plain text configuration files in
/etc&~/.configis refreshingly nice compared to the bolt-on weirdness hidden behind various interfaces in Windows. It’s cute getting an error to contact your administrator when you’re the administrator.Attention in that area is extremely late & overdue, so I was happy to see something like
configuration.dsc.yaml.I see AI mostly as an assistant whose work I review. I might give it a fully written text, tell it to clean up my clunky language, then review it. Or I might ask it to provide some answers with references & review those references.
AI won’t fix broken foundations.
I’m sure we can ride out 11 on 10 … right?
I try to avoid Windows altogether if I can & confine it to less serious work.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
What if we had all these configuration knobs & switches controlled by a configuration file, and to replicate the configuration, we could just share the file? Maybe we could call it declarative configuration management?
That already exists (partially) & could be developed further?
- Comment on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads 1 week ago:
Centralized social media is an advertisement platform that targets advertisements according to information & conduct users feed the platform, and some of those users are teenagers?
They’re advertising to teenagers unlike ever before in the history of teen-centric media?
- Comment on Saint > Pope 1 week ago:
Which is why I think it was all on purpose.
Occam/Hanlon’s razor: it’s stupidity with opportunistic grift.
Project 2025 had pro- & anti-tariff proposals (they were split on the issue of fair vs free trade & argued both). This administration is running wild with the pro-tariff proposal, which ties tariff imbalances to trade deficits (seen this theme before?).
While the fair trade camp argued higher tariffs would somehow create jobs, the free trade camp called for realism & skepticism
trade policy has limited capabilities and is vulnerable to mission creep and regulatory capture
will fail for the same reason that a hammer cannot turn a screw: It is the wrong tool for the job. Conservatives should be similarly skeptical of recent attempts on the Right to use progressive trade policy to punish political opponents, remake manufacturing, or accomplish other objectives for which it is not suited. The next Administration needs to end the mission creep that has all but taken over trade policy in recent years.
countered that no trade policy (fair or free) creates jobs
Neither free trade nor protectionism will create jobs. Trade affects the types of jobs people have, but it has no long-run effect on the number of jobs. Labor force size is tied to population size more than anything else.
and argues more inline with textbook economics about trade, comparative advantage, specialization.
Interestingly, the free trade camp gave a brief history lesson about the interconnectedness of the economy from its agrarian beginnings
In 1776, nearly 90 percent of Americans were farmers. For 10 people to eat, nine had to farm. That meant fewer people could be factory workers, doctors, or teachers, or even live in cities, because they were needed on the farm. Accordingly, life expectancy was around 40 years, and literacy was 13 percent.
through the loss of jobs from agriculture to industry increasing the output of both
Many displaced farm laborers got jobs making the very farm equipment that made intensive agricultural growth possible, from railroad networks to cotton gins. Each fed the other. Agriculture and industry are not separate; they are as interconnected as everything else in the economy. None of this could have happened had the government enacted policies to preserve full agricultural employment.
to argue that jobs in a particular sector are the wrong measure of value
economic policy should treat value as value, whether it is created on a farm, in a factory, or in an office. A dollar of value created in manufacturing is neither more nor less valuable than a dollar of value created in agriculture or services.
growth increased as service sector surpassed manufacturing
Farmers’ share of the population continued to decline through this entire period, yet employment remained high, and the economy continued to grow. Factories were not the only beneficiaries of agriculture’s productivity boom and the labor it freed; services also grew. In fact, service-sector employment surpassed manufacturing employment around 1890—far earlier than most people realize.
economic decline based on manufacturing is a myth that disregards the big picture
In trade, as in most other areas, few people ever zoom out to see the big picture, which is one reason why so many people mistakenly believe that U.S. manufacturing and the U.S. economy are in decline.
trade leads to specialization that affects the types of jobs, not long-term employment level
The data do not show American economic carnage. They show more than two centuries of intensive growth, made possible by a growing internal market throughout the 19th century and a growing international market in the post–World War II era. The transition from farm to factory did not shrink the labor force or farm output. Later, the transition from factories to services did not shrink the labor force, factory output, or farm output. Both transitions affected the types of jobs, not the number of jobs.
declining tariffs in the post-war era made this continued prosperity possible
population growth, the U.S.-led rules-based international trading system, and the steady 75-year decline in tariffs after World War II have made possible decades of continued prosperity
That position was too nuanced for this administration.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
Welcome to the internet? Learn skepticism?
- Comment on It really is just reddit <3 2 weeks ago:
screenshot of text
no link or alt textDude, charge your battery.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 weeks ago:
you can get banned here
It takes special effort here, though.
And like it was always going to be like that anyways.
It’s not inevitable: some places are very laissez-faire.
- Comment on N the digital age, it's going to be harder for ICE agents to hide their identities than it was for Nazis trying to evade justice post WW2. 2 weeks ago:
I just had a thought: are the Signal people MAGA?
I just had a thought: are the shoelace people MAGA?
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 weeks ago:
Link to source, because screenshots of screenshots are inaccessible trash.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 3 weeks ago:
Horseshoe theory
the far-left and the far-right are closer to each other than either is to the political center
are both fascists
Are closer doesn’t mean are the same: horseshoe theory doesn’t support your claim.
They’re both authoritarians that repress human rights. They’re as bad as fascists. Identifying those elements that make them as bad—authoritarianism & repression of human rights—clarifies discussion.
When we articulate problems accurately, we can criticize them in all guises.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 3 weeks ago:
What did OP directly say or do in their post to direct a response to them rather than the image? All we have is their image in no particular context, an interpretation of the image, & a hypothetical statement I wrote?
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 3 weeks ago:
randomly criticize someone else over a meme
Someone else or the meme? Are we getting worked up over generic you?
The observation that perceived denunciation for “fighting fascists” around here may more often be someone deluding themselves, so the image rings false with self-delusion is a critique of the meme.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 3 weeks ago:
Semantics is literal meaning, though. Words mean things.
I’m sure there are many words for left-wing authoritarians: fascist isn’t it. Instead of making fascism meaningless, can we pick a correct word?
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 3 weeks ago:
No problem: sometimes we all need a reality check when we go tilting at windmills as is custom around here.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 4 weeks ago:
Self-satisfaction at stretching the definition of fascist.
If you’re getting downvoted here where anti-fascism thrives, and you think it’s for criticizing fascism, then there’s probably something else going on (and you’re probably being an idiot).
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 4 weeks ago:
tankie troika
Gotta admit that is way better.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 4 weeks ago:
Tankie Triad
Are tankies the pro- or anti-fascist crowd? I thought they were far left. It’s hard to keep track of all these vying affiliations.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
He also said bluesky’s shift toward a traditional corporate structure and the introduction of centralized moderation tools were major factors behind his leaving the company, and he vouched for alternatives like nostr.
It seems a bit more challenging to pull shit like this on nostr.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 4 weeks ago:
Guilty as charged. What is my sentence for this crime?
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 4 weeks ago:
don’t call women “females”
It’s fine. Call men “males”, too.
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 4 weeks ago:
People roman ?
I found it odd, too: dictionary entry. I’m guessing it’s cross language: romance languages tend to place nouns before modifiers.
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 4 weeks ago:
- Roman people
- pull request
- parliamentary report
- press release
- prize ring
- proportional representation
- Puerto Rico
- Permanent Resident
- Progress Report
- Pressure Regulator
- Park Ridge
- Pattern Recognition
- PageRank
- Planning and Responsibility
- Performance Review
- Performance Rating
- Problem Report
- Papa Roach
- Personal Record
- Peer Review
- ⁝
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
You wouldn’t download a car?
- Comment on Elevated 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t a little fecal matter elevate everything? 😄
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 4 weeks ago:
I understood exactly what you were saying & assuming: it’s just wrong and off-topic.
The article contends “generating Ghibli art style” is an attack on democratic values, which is bullshit. You’re saying I’m advocating for disrespecting artists, which I’m not, and has nothing to do whether “generating Ghibli art style” attacks democratic values. The pointless outrage over who is or isn’t “respecting artists” is a distraction from the broken thesis of the article: it’s wrong & you’re letting that appeal to emotion & red herring fallacy
- distract you from the fact that the article’s conclusions don’t follow from its premises
- demonize people who point this out as somehow “against artists”.
That’s wrong, irrational, and you’re falling for the article’s deception.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 4 weeks ago:
worthless when the website itself decides thatbit won’t show you the content
Businesses are legally bound to make their online content accessible: a screenshot without alt text doesn’t solve this for them. Isn’t it common practice around here to link to archives? Quoting & linking isn’t worthless.
quoting? you mean, all of the response tweets?
Yes. Unreasonable? No, compulsory & common standard industry standard. Out of legal necessity (and market reach), they already write text out (as alt text for all meaningful images). An image of a tweet with replies requires writing all that text out.
Try this exercise yourself to realize how pointless an image of text is (which images of tweets mostly are). Take an image of text, write the markup to display the image, include an
altattribute set to the full text shown in the image. If you have any sense, you’ll return to the source of the image to copy & paste the original text into thealtattribute. If you lack sense, you’ll tediously read the image and retype it into thealtattribute. Your choice.Realize anything yet?
- You’re returning to the source, so linking it is basic sense, right?
- You already write text out, but your effort is wasted as a flat text attribute for an image that adds nothing compelling, only some meaningless visuals of UI artifacts. That text could instead be the main attraction with semantic mark up (blockquotes, paragraphs, lists, etc). It makes more sense to skip the image entirely & quote the text directly: less work, more functional, better.
and how do you quote images, videos?
The way it’s already done. Online news doesn’t typically give screenshots of images or videos. They link, embed, or copy the image or video to directly provide it alongside some quotes.
Selecting lines of text instead of rectangles of screen to copy & paste isn’t a novel, farfetched idea.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 4 weeks ago:
If the point is to reproduce an image, not text, then yes, definitely provide those images. Agreed: nothing wrong in that.