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robsonfletcher, 16 days ago to Law

Holy shit this story.

Police tried to extract a confession from this guy, and told him his father was dead when he actually wasn't.

Then they said they'd kill his dog:

"At one point during the interrogation, the investigators even threatened to have his pet Labrador Retriever, Margosha, euthanized as a stray, and brought the dog into the room so he could say goodbye. 'OK? Your dog’s now gone, forget about it,' said an investigator."

https://www.sbsun.com/2024/05/23/fontana-pays-nearly-900000-for-psychological-torture-inflicted-by-police-to-get-false-confession/

#police #law

kentparkstreet1, 15 days ago to random

Typing a toot here makes me feel seasick, on large text the screen jumps up and down a lot. Typing a skeet on Bluesky right now is too hard because on large text there’s a ‘who can reply’ banner in the way.

It’s almost as if large text users aren’t welcome.

I guess I can I can type posts in notes then copy and post. Seems like work.

Or I can go back to a commercial site owned by a fascist. Or give up social media.

clive, 17 days ago to random

Know any NYC students, or their parents?

The mayor closed the libraries on Sundays, and is set to close them Saturdays too -- citing budget constraints 📚

The budget's being debated right now!

So, if you live in NYC?

Here's a form that'll auto-send a letter to your city councillor telling them to vote to "keep the libraries open sundays": https://actionnetwork.org/letters/open-the-libraries-nyc/

Forward it to any students in NYC 🤘

Parents can use it too -- just rewrite the opening salutation to say "I'm a parent"

chiraag, 18 days ago to random

How 3M Execs Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe — @ProPublica :
https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

timnitGebru, 20 days ago to random

❗️Urgent Call to Rebuild Healthcare in War-Torn Tigray.❗️

I'll be matching up to $15k of your donations.

GoFundMe is unreliable for the horn of Africa atm, so I am using TipHub for this campaign.

Please let me know if you have any issues donating.
https://tiphub.co/urgent-call-to-rebuild-healthcare-in-war-torn-tigray/644

pawsplay, 22 days ago to random

MadeyeTheCarnaptious, 22 days ago to random

Not only is Al Jazeera shut down in Israel but its journalists have also been refused visas to cover the general elections in India.

So much for democracy and freedom of the press.

stux, 25 days ago to random

I need your help ❤️

Over 4-5 days new server- and media storage bills are coming in for this month

Currently I am still over €428 short this month😿😟

For upcoming weekend I have a server migration planned to scale down the costs by another €200 on the main servers but that will only take effect next month

If you can, please help out 🙏

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://liberapay.com/mstdn
https://opencollective.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost

Thank you ❤️

jcponcemath, 25 days ago to opensource

¿Buscando notas de Geometría Hiperbólica?

Aquí les comparto un proyecto en colaboración con Camilo Ramírez Maluendas.

https://geometria-hiperbolica.github.io/

#opensource #matematicas

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inthehands, 26 days ago to random

So…there is a concerted campaign, with Musk as its mouthpiece, to discredit Signal and get people to switch to Telegram. It’s disinformation, but there’s also useful information in it. The useful information is that a hideous, powerful, right-wing crank — or whoever’s yanking his chain — really, really wants people to use Telegram.

We’ve long known Telegram’s security is weak. But now, in light of this new information, we should move forward assuming that Telegram is actively compromised.

sanguish, 26 days ago to random

I’m still on the hunt for a full time iOS or macOS position.

Much more than a decade of experience on both platforms.

Resume is available here

Https://Attributedstrings.framer.website/resume

baldur, 28 days ago to random

One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

skry, 28 days ago to random

No-fault divorce saves lives, lots of them. In the US, women’s suicide rates went way down after it became possible to leave their abusers.

"states that adopted no-fault divorce experienced a decrease of 8 to 16 percent in wives' suicide rates and a 30 percent decline in domestic violence."

In the bad old days, you had to prove infidelity or sometimes lack of sexual ability in order to get a divorce. Being abused wasn’t sufficient unless some judge decided it was. (1/2)

gentrifiedrose, 28 days ago to random

Conservative women aren't dumb or narcissistic for wanting men to lead them and hating feminism. They know in their minds that once they no longer have the money and protection of men, their lives become exactly what they fear most, isolating, impoverished, their children have no hope of college and violence becomes even worse. We all live in the prison we choose based on what options we have.

davidrevoy, 30 days ago to random

Celebrating today the 10th anniversary of the Pepper&Carrot webcomic series!
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1026/10th-anniversary-of-the-peppercarrot-webcomic-series

#krita #peppercarrot #webcomic

jackofalltrades, 30 days ago to random

Digging into this paper by Sullivan and Hickel, and I am a bit distressed by the way authors misrepresent and distort their sources to fit their political narrative.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169

1/8

dos, 1 month ago to linuxphones

It seems to have happened without much fanfare, but about a month ago @purism has released the Librem 5 hardware layouts under GPLv3 (as original PADS and converted KiCad projects), joining the schematics that were already available from the start.

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/l5-schematic

#librem5 #linuxmobile #kicad #openhardware

JoshuaHolland, 1 month ago to journalism

This is a well reported piece but the framing is bizarre.

When a mob attacks a group of protesters under cover of darkness, they are not counter-protesting.

And as the reporting makes clear, they didn’t “provoke” violence, they perpetrated it as the cops and campus security stood by. #media #fascism #gazaprotests

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk0.8a5s.Gbpmtf9KMaWY&smid=url-share

ashleygjovik, 1 month ago to random

The United States has invaded the United States in order to bring freedom and democracy to the United States.

dillo, 1 month ago to random

Dillo 3.1.0 finally released after 9 years!

https://dillo-browser.github.io/latest.html

#Dillo #release

davidho, 1 month ago to random

I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being “pro-Palestinian” as opposed to anti whatever you call this.

alexwild, 1 month ago to Texas

UT Austin, my employer, beats and jails students engaged in peaceful protest, then manufactures propaganda that deeply misrepresents what the students were doing and had planned to do.

How am I supposed to work at an institution willing to hurt any students I recruit to come here? This is untenable.

#UTAustin #Texas

https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-05-03/uts-war-on-students/

dkiesow, 1 month ago to random

Gallup, May 1961:

https://news.gallup.com/vault/246167/protests-seen-harming-civil-rights-movement-60s.aspx

KarenKasparArt, 1 month ago to art

Fresh from the easel - my new hand-painted cat painting ...

On the catwalk - https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/on-the-catwalk-karen-kaspar.html

#MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #cats #CatsOfMastodon #caturday #cat #CatLovers #pets #cute #animals #catstodon #WhiskersWednesday #kitten #kitty #kittens #katze #meow #CatsOfFediverse #AnimalArt #PetPortrait #BuyIntoArt #BlackCats #ArtForSale #giftideas #handmade

davidho, 1 month ago to Columbia

When I was an undergraduate at #Columbia, students also occupied Hamilton Hall. The administration didn’t call in NYPD and we didn’t have the shitshow that’s playing out on campus now. Hard to imagine giving money to Columbia after this.