AI-generated slop books are now in public libraries and librarians who are already stretched very thin, underfunded, and are under attack are struggling to deal with the onslaught
AI-generated slop books are now in public libraries and librarians who are already stretched very thin, underfunded, and are under attack are struggling to deal with the onslaught
Another instance of X as a Service making everything worse by refusing to do their damned jobs and vet the content they're putting on offer.
Nobody needs AI crap and the nazi/agitprop shit mentioned later in the article needs proper contextualization to be useful as anything besides agitprop.
This is one of the critical problems with permitting a third party (e.g. Hoopla or Overdrive) to control the digital systems that enable access to books. An important tenet in librarianship, archives, etc. is intellectual control of the holdings. When third parties acting on problematic copyright and other legislation strip libraries of their duty for intellectual control, we see exactly this kind of thing result.
Horrifying and sad... There needs to be some solis education about this sort of thing, and if your library uses "Hoopla" like this, maybe tell the library, show them what racistband AI slop books are on there, and beware of cheap paperback too..... Don't just accept it if you are interested in hearing real human perspectives.
After “How do we stop Trump?” the second most common question I’ve received this week is “How do we stop Musk?”
Musk's access to our private data is blatant corruption. It is a coup. And while we continue to wait for Democratic leadership to act—what can we as ordinary citizens and residents of this nation do? Enter the Privacy Act of 1974 and a clear call to action each person can and should take.
Take 30 seconds to demand the Treasury Department comply with the Privacy Act of 1974, and spread the word
After “How do we stop Trump?” the second most common question I’ve received this week is “How do we stop Musk?” As you may know, Trump’s Treas…
The best possible outcome on this would be a class action lawsuit. Penalty of $1000/individual per the Privacy Act of 1974 amounts to over $330B. This is the only thing that would actually hurt Musk.
@coffeetime I think that's the best solution ... But ,it's probably going to take a remake of what just occurred in Syria to change anything. We have no rule of law left . SCOTUS is mostly corrupt and until we actually remove these people from society , we have no power.
@palin US citizens are confused about their enemies is my concern. Millions of morons thought a billionaire con-man was going to improve their material condition.
Done and going to share on my other social media presences. Hopefully this spreads around and the Treasury gets the message and takes action. Like it or not there needs to be war in the halls of Congress and the federal government.
I was a bit nervous that my email and contact info could be used for retaliation. But then I decided that if I'm not on a Nazi enemies list I'm not working had enough to stop them.
how to stop someone who spends $200.000000 For just to feel how powerful it is. In US corruption has been around like a disease and nobody cares. Democrats or republican are babysit by IPAC and some oligarchy to get power. The problem is not Musk is the opposite. There's not integrity into US politics
He's lucky he has all the money 💰 in the world. In the early days of this country, the government would have hanged him up in a tree from the back of a horse for stealing.
if you ask me the most powerful tool musk has against the population is ex twitter, because he can control people’s views through it If you ask me, decentralized unownable social media should be popularized by people who seek to weaken him
I'm not going to Substack, the Nazis-are-cool place, to read about stopping Nazis. If this is actually well-intended, I invite you to move to any of the many other non-Nazi options for newsletters.
If you don't want Elon Musk to continue the blatant corruption and illegal activity he is doing in the name of Donald Trump, here's something you can do that will take no more than a minute of your time. Please do it and ask your friends to do it too. Thanks
Take 30 seconds to demand the Treasury Department comply with the Privacy Act of 1974, and spread the word
After “How do we stop Trump?” the second most common question I’ve received this week is “How do we stop Musk?” As you may know, Trump’s Treas…
If you're interested, you could create a mailto link with a tool like mailtolinkgenerator.com and add it to your article to make it even easier for people to draft the email with just one click.
One way to handle it would be for our state attorneys general to file class action suits, particularly if private information is actually divulged. Then we, as members of the public, need only one point of contact.
Otherwise thanks for the letter template. A lot of us are really, really mad about all the "we take your privacy seriously" privacy violations.
They don't care about your data. They care about withholding salaries to starve non compliant civil servants so that that have easier time installing loyalists.
Musk’s private jet frequently takes off from and lands in several states that have each gone out of their way to make sure their citizens have unlimited access to all kinds of firearms capable of downing private jets. Just throwing that little factoid out there.
Thanks for this. Do I have the right also to find what of my information was accessed and by whom? Thinking of adding such a request to my e-mail. I suspect, though, they will make me jump through all kinds of hoops to prove I am me, and audit all my tax returns.
Happy to send yet another useless message into the maw of the unfeeling, unseeing bureaucratic machine. But won’t kid myself it will do anything other than draw down all available ordinance on my current position.
This whole thing needs to get a lot more attention fast, because "flooding the zone with shit" is working (latest shit: "How about we own Gaza?"). I watched two monologues from late night shows yesterday and no word of it. Resistance is not there, because not nearly enough people know about it. Most of the media is failing to report on the important stuff.
I just sent my #CivilLibertiesComplaint to Treasury. It feels like a very small thing but, perhaps, if enough folks make enough noise it will get attention.
the Founders were quite clear when they wrote the Constitution. When the people lose their power and the government becomes tyrannical, the people fall back on the 2nd Amendment and regain control.
This is all true and good to hear but we need to hear 1) how is this going to be stopped ? 2) how is it going to be fixed? 3)how will the folks doing it be held accountable ? 4) how do we prevent it from happen again?
I’ve been trying to call my senators but the calls are not going through. Is this because the switchboard is overloaded? Or has this function been somehow sabotaged by the administration?
@PamelaBarroway @jawarajabbi @indivisibleteam I would add to that to download the 5 calls app. It has the phone numbers of all your reps and has scripts for what to say if you are at a loss for words. All you have to do is put in your zip code.
@DebR Can you call their state or local offices? I've often had better luck than if I called their DC offices. Would also recommend sending a letter. Good luck!💙
@Barbramon1 Also heard that@letters could go in the trash. My senators and congresswoman are democrats, so I’m sure they wouldn’t be discarded, but for gop reps and senators?🤷🏻♀️
@DebR With the gop anything could go in the trash including emails, and phone records. Down the memory hole. I am thankful that every one of my reps, from city council to Congress to governor is a Democrat, but it's still important for us to remind them who hired them and why. Red state citizens need to try EVERYTHING to be heard. Even small things like letters to the editor can help. Make your voices heard.
@FallsMom She's one of my faves. I'm a little pissed at these replies that assume everyone knows WTF is going on. What happened to meet people where they are? I think most of the country, due to our failed media, has no idea how bad this is. I don't see anything on Greg Landsman's website. Deeply disappointed. This is a hair on fire moment.
@FallsMom Last night I read that Dems were holding a public meeting today. I see it's scheduled for 1p from the USAID offices. I hope they bring Dragons cuz this can't stand.
no disrespect ma’am but you’re in a better position than most people are to make this happen. People will take your calls and meetings while we’re getting auto responses and voice mail. As enjoyable as howling into the void is it doesn’t seem to be working that well for us.
All correct. Just ONE question: If all of this is correct and therefore illegal - Why is nobody showing up arresting them? No police, no homeland security, no secret service, no FBI no NSA ... NO ONE ? WHY ?
It's the f**g TREASURY DEPARTMENT ! The Fort Knox of data! FFS
Has America already turned into a banana republic? Democrats and sane republicans must stop this man, otherwise somebody else will stop him and Trump in an violent way. We seen more of that. #savedemocracy #fighttrump
@knordstrom @kataclyst The fact that so few people have faith in the system is what is leading to our downfall. And we have lost faith because of empty platitudes like what @RepShontelBrown is doing here.
Don't tell us stuff we already know. Tell us what you're going to do about it.
HOW do we work together and resist? What is the plan??
So go down to where he is with a camera crew, film what he's doing and demand that he leaves! And when he doesn't, call the police! You are an elected official, he is a private citizen. DOGE is not a legal entity! YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY, NOT HIM!!!
Could you share what Democrats are doing as a unified party to fight for us? I know the media will not report so we are counting on you and other Reps to keep us informed.
@knordstrom @kataclyst I’ve given up on the federal government and I’m paying very close attention to the house bills that are introduced in my state because there has been an avalanche of them.
It’s not all bad, there’s some stuff to raise minimum wage and get rid of sub minimum wage, and to increase unemployment and workers comp.
But then there’s stuff to change access to special ed, to give doctors the right to arbitrarily decide who can have birth control or to not give it at all based only on their conscience, there’s a whole bunch of new restrictions they want to do regarding absentee voting, there’s just so much .
But I’m trying to pay attention to that because it’s easier to stop these things from becoming laws than it is to change them once they are.
The ratio of public comment against an aborti
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@knordstrom @kataclyst I’ve given up on the federal government and I’m paying very close attention to the house bills that are introduced in my state because there has been an avalanche of them.
It’s not all bad, there’s some stuff to raise minimum wage and get rid of sub minimum wage, and to increase unemployment and workers comp.
But then there’s stuff to change access to special ed, to give doctors the right to arbitrarily decide who can have birth control or to not give it at all based only on their conscience, there’s a whole bunch of new restrictions they want to do regarding absentee voting, there’s just so much .
But I’m trying to pay attention to that because it’s easier to stop these things from becoming laws than it is to change them once they are.
The ratio of public comment against an abortion ban caused them to withdraw it (I think) It really helps to pay attention and to take two minutes to click “support” or “oppose” when they are taking public comments on these things.
So that’s what I’m doing, and I’m trying to spread the word so other people in New Hampshire know what’s happening so they can take two minutes and go online and with a couple clicks have their voice is heard.
Establishment Democrats don’t care what we think, but when we push back with 10,000 people making public comments against a ban and only 800 in support, it goes away.
I think I speak for a lot of people on here when I say I agree. But I’m pretty sure that, like me, many also wonder what our elected democratic representatives are doing to actually stop him?
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, he’s placing a “blanket hold” on President Donald Trump’s nominees for the State Department after Elon Musk's attacks on USAID.
Congress needs to tell the public what they want us to do to stop this. If there is no plan then you're wishing into the ether that this problem is solved in the passive voice without an actual actor. If you don't know what you're asking the public for, what infrastructure and organization exactly are THEY supposed to use to react to this? #USCongress is the infrastructure and organization! So ORGANIZE! Then tell us the official plan so we're not guessing independently!
Are we supposed to call ghostbusters or something? Because I all see is your party's leadership using Mr. "not an elected official"'s platform to say shit we already know.
That last sentence is passive voice, and vague AF. If you intend to make a call for action, maybe announce where Musk and his little whiz kids are working, and when everyone should show up to make them extremely worried about what they're up to.
please prioritize this and stop his team before he hacks into another gov agency! He will plow forward until he’s stoped, while the Senate is distracted with confirmation hearings. Dems need to put the brakes on everything in Congress until this is resolved! It is essentially an internal cyberattack, or worse!
Every Dem in Congress should go on strike!
Demand that Elon and his entire team be dealt with!
People sometimes think that cybersecurity is just about defending computer systems from remote adversaries. But it’s broader than that; cybersecurity has always been about protecting computer syste…
I do not know the details of us politics and i would like to ask a basic question. How can the Democratic party mount successful opposition against trump when it is not incentivised to do so by a political system with two-party dominance? From the outside perspective it looks like it does not need to do much apart from token resistance and virtue signaling to still be considered the only viable alternative for the republican party. This is not a personal attack on you at all I would just like to know what point do you see in participating in a game which (again to the outside observer) looks like rotten to the core. Maybe the answer to this question belongs in a FAQ somewhere
I am officially now on your ballot Toronto Centre! Thank you to the staff at the Returning Office and all the people working so hard to orchestrate a snap winter election.
Communities across Canada need health workers. The health field is one of several key sectors of Canada’s labour force which is facing unprecedented shortages.
It took a week since Musk's 'gestures' and speech at the German AfD/neo-nazi party rally, but CBC has an excellent article here about Musk's foray into International Political influence and details instances in multiple countries.
i think Freeland has the right idea - we should target Musk and other right wing US oligarchs the way many western countries have targeted Russian ones
especially the otherwise useless #NYT ... These guys just got kicked out of the #Pentagon and apparently decided just to take it. Passion seems to be in short supply these days. cnn.com/2025/01/31/media/penta…
Only One Thing really matters to Trump Tax Cuts for his donors Then a reduction or destruction of social programs meant to benefit the Middle Class & Poor He will scoop up some cash from Tariffs temporarily Then lower the boom and pass tax relief for the rich This will crush the economy, cause CHAOS, and then Marshall Law If you are a protestor and have assets ? Kiss them goodbye !! This is about Control Capitalism for the Rich Fuckism for Everybody else NOT VOTING ? CAUSED THIS !
#China said it will file a complaint with the World Trade Organization and "take corresponding countermeasures" over #Trump’s decision to impose new #tariffs against it -CNN
If the reports are correct, Trump has ordered 32,000 acre-ft (~10 billion gals) of #water released from these reservoirs. That water will, mostly, be lost. Some will evaporate, some will seep into groundwater. Farmers who had rights to that water in the reservoir are now unlikely to have physical or legal access to it. Anticipate legal chaos over water allocations in the summer. #cawater
The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes
@CptSuperlative another simply solution taken without knowledge but über confident self believes , and that decision will have probably really bad final results in the long time... But hey, this is were the right want to rule the world : instant benefit whatever the price to pay for the citizens afterwards, only the immediate praise of the leaders for his "power" is what really count. And make his courtisans rich whereas they are already far too wealthy by criminal acts !
Khmer rouge emptied the cities, executed civil servants and intellectuals, replaced them with loyalists who's only qualification was brutality, & fealty to the party. People starved to death, or were murdered by the thousands. Cambodia was sent back to the stone age. About 25% of the population died. Took 4 years. The Khmer support base was in the rural areas who mistrusted the educated elites living in the cities. Pol Pot was never tried for his crimes.
@CatDragon He may be, but he doesn't wield anywhere near the influence or publicly/propaganda chops as djt ...he'll basically be a lame duck for 3+ yrs. Congress will end up doing most of the governing
@lin11c Engineers who almost certainly knew that the water was not being directed where anyone might want it. So I guess we can assume they'll be willing to inflict flood or drought on any region Trump is displeased with.
@CptSuperlative "I never thought they would release MY allocation of water in winter, when it isn't needed, with out notice ,flooding my farm and distroying my equipment, say farmer who voted for the Clowns who release more water party.
This is SO MUCH BULLSHIT. Utilities should NEVER have anything but public ownership. The shareholders should be paying for everything out of their earnings. #Edison #SCEflipboard.com/@calmatters/calm…
Here in the UK several water companies are increasing prices because they need infrastructure upgrades that have been ignored for 30 years, while paying out to their shareholders.
Effective immediately: CDC can't talk to WHO. What will that mean for world health? : Goats and Soda https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5276340/trump-centers-for-disease-control-cdc-world-health-organization
@PatrickoftheG I know nothing about what chiropractors do in your country. But at least in Denmark where I live, chiropractors are real, examined practitioners with a state license to diagnose and carry out treatment with state subsidies.
@PatrickoftheG @bougiewonderland @loran_hayden My cousin is a chiropractor and he went to medical school in Trois-Rivières where he got his degree. There's a medical order of practitioners as well that's recognized by the government. My cousin is very good and after getting treatment from him a few times I can attest that he knows that he's doing and he's helped me on several occasions with some muscular skeletal problems. Don't be too quick to judge that practice.
@stephanetremblay @PatrickoftheG @loran_hayden I didn’t say it’s all woo, I said there’s a lot of woo! I dropped my last chiropractor (who did solve a back problem I had) because he started pushing vaccine conspiracy theories and saying neck manipulations could solve various issues that had nothing to do with the back. I noped right out of there!
Chiropractors do not go to medical school. If your back doctor went to a medical school they would be a doctor, like an orthopedic specialist.
Your body did all the real healing after a nice massage with someone who was likely a really friendly person, it wasn't the made up ghost knowledge that did it for you. I love the testimonials, you do you, but I can go find testimonials about radium suppositories too.
@bougiewonderland @stephanetremblay @loran_hayden Also, just for the record, being a professional order does not make someone an actual doctor - Ontario has a professional order of Naturopaths too, equally snakeoil woo from a class of predators. And every pharmacy will sell you homeopathy, and pharmacists have *real* degrees.
@PatrickoftheG @stephanetremblay @loran_hayden In pharmacists’ defence, they often have no choice on that front, as it’s the brand owner who decides what they are required to sell. You’re a pharmacist and Shoppers’ tells you to carry woo? You have to carry woo.
But in my experience, if people ask, they will direct them towards actual medicine instead.
@bougiewonderland @stephanetremblay @loran_hayden At my local, they keep the homeopathic nonsense in a little section that's under lock and key and they make people ask about what's in it.
Reminds me of the French king who posted guards around potato fields to build interest. Could just be that the kooks are willing to steal the water the city gives them for free.
"This is a no-brainer: a Granny who wants to volunteer at a school lunch program has to get a security clearance. And yet Pierre Poilievre who lives in a 19-room mansion funded by the taxpayer refuses or can't get a security clearance. Something stinks here." - Charlie Angus
Correct, and I feel the OP could have made the same point while still making that distinction, but I didn't write it.
It still doesn't add up that common people are required to pass stricter security protocols than somebody in such a high office as opposition leader, who is seeking to take the highest office in the country.
Although these two checks themselves are not equivalent.
@CTHW thank you, i came here to say the same. Add some unnecesary shit stirring to an otherwise reasonable argument and we've lost another prospective voice of reason to the populist side.
Since its inception, Let’s Encrypt has been sending expiration notification emails to subscribers that have provided an email address to us. We will be ending this service on June 4, 2025.
> Economists often say the government should not be run like a business, but in this case the comparison is useful. A businessman that shows himself to be an untrustworthy partner soon finds that no one wants to do business with him. If Donald Trump shows that the United States can’t be trusted to abide by its deals and conduct normal trading relations, our trading partners will look elsewhere. cepr.net/publications/trump_tr… #DeanBaker #uspol #DonaldTrump #BusinessTrump #TrumpBusiness 🧵
@TheJen he’s a fascist of the bootlicking kind. don’t have to share in all their ideology; just enough to empower them ―which he always did. for him less than 1000 capitalists come before the humanity of billions. and that’s what makes him a fascist.
#RAGE (Retire All Government Employees) in action. When I'd bring it up in the space between the election & the inauguration, people'd scoff & say things like 'good luck firing civil servants.' I was pretty sure it was the one thing they could definitely do - they almost did it right before Trump left, & would have done if people hadn't put wrenches in the works. But they've had 4 years since to get their lackeys into positions of leverage on the inside.
So I've been a #Protonmail user for like 6 years & honestly it's annoying how the bandwagon is super anti-protonmail right now bc the CEO tweeted a thing, while almost everyone I have to email uses Gmail.
The CEO of Alphabet was front & center at Knockoff Mussolini's inauguration, Google openly scans emails, always shares info with law enforcement, & regularly settles in court bc of privacy violations.
It's not like we have great choices under techno feudalism, but this all seems like an excuse to just keep doing what y'all were always doing.
The whole outrage seems to miss the point that the architecture of something like Gmail *is* surveillance of the user, while Protonmail and things like it are designed to be less susceptible to if the CEO is a fascist, as many CEOs are.
it's always about tradeoffs, and inaction or sticking with your status quo has plenty of tradeoffs that those who benefit from those tradeoffs would like you to go on not thinking about
Google releases several new features for its Gmail update, including scans through your emails to help with convenience and security. Some are there for good.
This week's news: - @pixelfed continues to grow, adding 100k active users in a week. The platform now has grown from 20k active users a month ago to almost 300k active accounts currently - The Pixelfed Kickstarter smashed its goals, raising over 100k CAD in funding - Tumblr recommits to connecting to the #fediverse in the future, using the WordPress #ActivityPub plugin
Its another massive week for Pixelfed, growing by another 100k active users and doubling their Kickstarter goal, raising over 100k CAD. Tumblr confirms they still intend to join the fediverse.
A practical note: the RSS feed is currently offline while I'm working on some new stuff for Fediverse Report, and should be back soon. Thanks to everyone who flagged it, and I appreciate you using RSS!
"using random servers to register on is very dangerous, because not all of them are as dedicated to this as I am, some of them don’t update frequently or handle mod reports as fast as we do.”
oh I didn’t know about tumblr doing that. Thank god. I’ve been thinking about what to do for my blog since Wordpress publicly announced their support for DT. I really liked using the ActivityPub plugin for Wordpress.
@rra Aww thanks, appreciate you asking this! The simple answer is: by waiting a few weeks, some upgrades are in the pipeline, will be ready to announce more pretty soon
U.S-funded aid programs around the world have begun firing staff and preparing to shut down their operations as an unprecedented Trump administration freeze on foreign assistance brings their work to a sudden halt.
Activist, writer, mischief- and media-maker, and self-described “cyborg oracle” Alice Wong to share five episodes from her Disability Visibility podcast that bring listeners to the intersection of art and disability.
Airlines like Air Canada have refunded millions of dollars to passengers for tickets cancelled due to COVID-19. However, some travellers are still waiting for what they're owed.
There's some misinformation floating around on Canadian vs US health expenditures.
The US is already spending more on healthcare per capita in public funds alone, almost double our spend. You could have the best healthcare system in the world with your current funding and then some. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…
@davevolek Yes, exactly. There was a UN sponsored study about 20 years ago of private versus public health systems in Africa, where the mix made it easier to compare with fewer variables.
The public systems were cheaper to operate and had better outcomes.
‘According to shipment data from the industry trade group Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute, Americans bought 37% more air-source heat pumps than the next-most-popular heating appliance, gas furnaces, during the first 11 months of the year. That smashes 2023’s record-setting lead of 21%.’
Clearly a large number of Americans don’t agree with #Trump’s #DrillBabyDrill
the price of gas needs to increase and the price of electricity needs to decrease to make it become more attractive. Currently gas prices are so low and electricity prices are artificially high so heat pumps are not nearly as attractive.
In theory if you run your heat pump at around 18C consistently and have good insulation, you should at least break even compared to running a gas boiler to heat your home. But there is an ideal sweet spot for the unit price of electricity to be…can’t recall what it currently is.
It’s amusing and heartening to see that folk’s in Maine really buy into air source heat pumps when i’m routinely told that the climate of #Norfolk UK is too cold for them to work efficiently! We just need decent insulation.
@arrrg TBH what we need in Britain is market intervention to make electricity (much of which is already from renewable sources) cheaper with respect to gas or at least in line with elsewhere in Europe, on top of investment in training for general electricians and heat pump installers (so those who can't immediately have a heat pump could at least switch from gas to electric heating)
Anything that gives people a soft-landing in times of trouble are on the republicans hit list, because they need workers to be scared and desperate enough that they'll jerk off with sandpaper if their employers tell them to.
I just finished Endgame/Resistance by Derek Jensen & the irony of this bunch of fascists doing the 'work' of completely crashing civilization is not lost on me
God's sense of humor is necessarily ironic, n'est pas? #KyrieEleison
Didn't the FDIC bail out the depositors of that that billionaire bank in California a couple of years ago despite it not being really covered by it? And this is how the FDIC gets repaid for its generosity?
For Release WASHINGTON – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today transferred all deposits—both insured and uninsured—and substantially all assets of the former Silicon Valley Bank of Santa Clara, California, to a newly created, full-se…
Presumably all the public servants losing their jobs are going to go and pick fruit and vegetables so the country can eat, now the farm workers are being deported?
the crypto bros are big mad about the collapse of #Silvergate and Signature banks (AKA "the big crypto banks"). the conspiracy theory they have about the #FDIC is called "Operation Chokepoint 2.0" if you want to look into it.
(the reality is that Silvergate and Signature banks were massive money laundering hubs, moving literally trillions of dollars a year in untracked funds outside of all money laundering regulations. they were both intimately connected to #FTX)
@oblongs_appeal_0l I had exactly the same thought as I was taking a whizz this morning. (Really. Scatological detail left in to express my feelings about them doing that.)
They want to operate fraudulent ‘banking’ systems so they can rob people of their savings. Say “Oopsie! I’m rich because I accidentally lost alllll your money…”
Trump has dismantled the bipartisan Federal School Safety Clearinghouse’s advisory board, established in his own first term no less, & designed to help build policy to prevent school shootings.
Meanwhile his ICE thugs are raiding schools to kidnap kids.
Newspapers such as the dailyfail in the UK are loving all this, rounding up people in the country and deporting them, what they are not reporting is things like this, who else is imacted by the raids. Surely having a group of ICE agents raid a school must be terrifiying for the other children.
The Alberta government has quietly released the report of a government-appointed task force reviewing the province's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
![Under his name, they've sent numerous reguests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn't even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as [illegible]](https://friendica.world/photo/preview/640/8289982 "Under his name, they've sent numerous reguests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn't even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as [illegible]")
Bee O'Problem
in reply to 404 Media • • •Another instance of X as a Service making everything worse by refusing to do their damned jobs and vet the content they're putting on offer.
Nobody needs AI crap and the nazi/agitprop shit mentioned later in the article needs proper contextualization to be useful as anything besides agitprop.
Joshua Chalifour
in reply to 404 Media • • •Silvia Noctua (She/her)
in reply to 404 Media • • •There needs to be some solis education about this sort of thing, and if your library uses "Hoopla" like this, maybe tell the library, show them what racistband AI slop books are on there, and beware of cheap paperback too..... Don't just accept it if you are interested in hearing real human perspectives.