Seems more like an easy excuse to shut down a means for people to bypass their paywalls. It would be trivial for AI companies to continue getting this data without using the Internet Archive.
Anecdotally I've seen a significant uptick in folks installing dash cams in their cars.
There was a local incident where ICE drove erratically to make it look as though a legal observer initiated a crash. They then called and lied to the local police department. The activist was then released when he provided dash cam footage proving that they lied about the incident. https://lataco.com/oxnard-dash-cam-ice-crash
Regardless of the circumstances, if you're not a US citizen I would encourage you to not travel to the US. Even if you _are_ a US citizen you may well be harassed and abused by ICE.
Our city council voted 5-0 to install more. A unanimous vote which includes democrats who ran on disrupting a council that had the same members for decades.
I would also say many of the settlements from news organizations are them sucking up to Trump. They chose to pay in private agreements instead of fighting frivolous lawsuits that would easily have been won. That’s a way of paying the bribe while claiming you’re just setting a lawsuit.
I don’t find the New York Times to be of much use either — their view from nowhere approach serves to normalize extremism and they’ve been happy to platform attacks on vulnerable minorities as well.
They attempt to report as though they don't have a point of view on the issue in pursuit of objectivity, which leaves them to position themselves in the middle of two perspectives which may or may not be extreme but, by doing so, they make both position seem reasonable.
They can't or won't call out racism and extreme action by the Trump administration because they'd forfeit their right to that faux objectivity. Perhaps they'll report the facts, but their unwillingness to call something what it is makes that thing appear to be acceptable.
(1) Excessive stridency about "racism" is a magic spell that makes blacks vote Republican. I mean, a lot of Black people there is a lot more to being Black than being the descendant of slaves and they are personally offended by the further fringes of "systematic racism" talk
(2) Many people are not excited about threats to "Democracy" because they see it is for "them", see
why care about norm violations if those norms are unjust and lead to what looks like bad outcomes (and certainly capital-D Democrats seem to care less about outcomes than about following broken processes and never annoying donors)
(3) I was really burned out by talk of "fascism" ten years ago. Like yeah, Donald Trump is definitely flirting with it today but after years of left-wing "anti-fascists" who hate fascism but love the footwear, who will other with with the worst of them and seem to be jealous, who call Keir Starmer a fascist, who call your local police chief a fascist, I think it is a magic spell to bring fascism into the world but if you have a dialectical theory in which you get meaning out of saying you fight fascism maybe that's what you secretly want.
(orthogonal, but to the broken processes and sucking up to donors)
Because telling your buddy that they don't know what they are talking about is the kindergartner's^W^W rationalist way of building solidarity /s :)
Strangely, a variant of the same stance works for "fascists" ;) I think it's bc they have fewer hangups --re: dialectics-- about looking like a tool (vs leftist "rationalists")?
>jealous
Ps: just belatedly realized I was expected to weave peptalk about "envy" into "enby"
Like most infrastructure in LA, it's always under construction and yet never improving. We lived there for about 5 years and it took them as much time to add a mile of carpool lane to the 405.
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