It’s complicated. This pretty clearly targeting our “progressive” sheriff who the governor believes was installed by George Soros (I’m not joking).

The state already sued and took her to court to make her drop the city’s sanctuary policy that is a result of a federal consent decree. They lost in court, so they made this new law to try and force her instead.

It’s been a wild few months

Then after all that we still had the 10 inmates who escaped after being let out of her overcrowded and underfunded jail by a jail employee. This is also being blamed on “progressive policies” (Even though the reason it was overcrowded was bc the governor established a permanent police force in the city and filled the jails with people who were pulled over for things like window tint level and then arrested on unrelated charges.)

Because they are state police, they have never been bound by city rules, and they can do whatever they want. They have already been working with ICE this whole time. The governor has even released an EO that brought on 5 state agencies to already work with ICE that ranges from the National Guard to the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (I’m not joking)

Still, he couldn’t just leave the city law enforcement alone, bc he couldn’t stand not having full control.

Idk why I’m asking this, but I’m genuinely curious why you think reservations exist?

I’ve made the Kent state comparison before

https://bsky.app/profile/pimentomori123.bsky.social/post/3lldidjovok24

I think most of the boomer age range Trump supporters (at least the ones in my family) are aware of Kent state and don’t have a favorable view towards what happened there. That’s why it’s important that they know this is happening, but for some reason it’s barely gotten any coverage

Those are owned by Native Americans… Not white billionaires

I’m not surprised by more of this sovereign state nonsense, I’m just disgusted that they’re proposing building it on a reservation.

I know, I didn’t mean people weren’t paying attention to the news. It kinda seems like it’s intentionally not being mentioned. It happened yesterday.

Well then, I guess it must have been some other Pudutr0n. You’re off the hook, for now…

That’s what the article is about.

This is the only news coverage I’ve seen of it, and most of America doesn’t even seem to know about it

Yeah I posted here a few days ago about trying to find a good alternative. I’m very sad to see lemme.ee go

Sorry if this is a dumb question, still figuring things our.

How else would you use the platform without joining an instance? Just have a private server?

I’m not 100% sure about actually preventing states from creating laws, but given what’s happening in my city rn I would imagine, if this passes, it gives federal agencies and private companies the ability to legally ignore any city and state regulations that might be passed.

My city used to have a complete ban on facial recognition and predictive policing tech after they were caught secretly working with Palantir. In 2022, the mayor requested the ban be lifted and replaced with an ordinance.

Police in my city got caught violating the very weak ordinance that regulates how facial recognition is supposed to be used.

Since WaPo exposed them, they’ve allegedly paused using the tech. However, the tech is provided by a private company, and the city can’t enforce their regulations on the state police and ICE agents that are still using the tech with zero oversight.

Given how we know states like TX have already signed up to have their national guard invade other states in order to enforce Trump’s immigration policy, this could provide legal protection for the Texas national guard to come into a state like California and use it however they deem necessary.

They could start out by saying it’s necessary to enforce immigration (which would be fucked up enough). Very quickly it becomes necessary to protect ICE agents from protestors, and they begin using facial recognition to track protestors and anyone loosely associated with protestors.

There’s no way for the city or state laws to do anything about this bc the Texas National Guard have essentially been given blanket protection by a federal law to use AI to enforce federal immigration policy. Essentially, instead of the national guard being sent to southern states to enforce civil rights like what happened in the 1960s, the national guard from a red state would be sent into a blue state to enforce a dystopian cyber-surveillance nightmare created by the federal government.

Keep in mind this is just one possibility. Even without all that happening, the best case scenario of allowing a ban on state regulations, is you’re providing legal protection for private corporations to collect data however they want and do whatever they want with it once it’s collected.

Par for the course though. Orwell called it.

Federal intervention in states to enforce civil rights= unjust burden on states

Federal intervention in states to enforce immigration policy= send in the national guard to “liberate LA”

State regulations on AI= patchwork regulations won’t benefit corporations the country

Federal regulations on AI= these regulations are underpinned by the values we believe are important. Surely we’ve already proven over and over again you can trust us to do what’s right for corporations the country.

Never forget, corporations are people.

Exactly, they created this nightmare dystopia, sunk all their money into AI and if we don’t allow them to just invade our privacy like it’s their personal kingdom, and we exist to feed their data centers, they’re fucked.

The entire economy is fucked, but that’s 100% on them.

They wanted to just dive in head first, cut a bunch of jobs and replace everyone with AI. Who in their right mind would think that we should allow these people fewer regulations now, so they can make more money via exploitation of humans?

Exactly!

Oh regulations would cut into your profits? Boo fucking hoo

Lemmygrad.ml seems kinda obvious, but I have a completely naive question about lemmy.ml. Is it essentially the same? Why is it a controversial instance.

Based on just the sidebar description it sounds like a cool instance: A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers

But I also see a lot of people saying they have it blocked

Do you have any chest, arm or back pain? Do you have a pulse oximeter?

Can you go to a minor ER? If you hadn’t said your heartbeat was off, I would say not necessarily a big concern at this point, but this also sounds similar to what happened to a friend of mine with an aortic dissection.

She thought it was food poisoning at first, finally went to a minor med, they refused to treat her bc her and sent her to the ER ASAP. She ended up in the hospital for several weeks.

More scientists and data, but research quality in China has been very poor for quite some time, hence a lot of questions and concerns regarding methods, data collection, and number of retracted articles.

The entire idea of the “China virus” and the Trump/Republicans lab leak/attack on NIH funding to EcoHealth, and their collaboration with Wuhan Institute of Virology, hinged on pointing out the lack of lab safety standards in China that wouldn’t have allowed the research to occur here.

On the flip side, now that Trump is in power, OSTP is focused on removing regulations to science and tech bc they argue they are slowing us down in the AI race against China.

Kinda seems like a load of BS especially considering AI data in China is very poor likely bc of the lack of regulations

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/9/china-wrestles-with-quantity-over-quality-in-generative-ai-patents

Right, but it seems like they’re getting nervous people might actually be allowed to vote in the midterms

I feel like we’re going to end up with more laws protecting robots and surveillance cameras than our own civil liberties.

Wonder where all those angry white guys with tiki torches and khaki shorts are now? The ones that thought the Jews were trying to replace them? 🤔

"This could be a game-changer for a time when many in the research community are feeling all sticks and no carrots,” said National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt at the kickoff meeting. “This is a chance to actually deliver a win for them.”

🤣 I’m sorry, do y’all think she actually believes this? Or just hoping a good plug might keep her from being replaced?