Automattic, the company behind web content management system WordPress, told HKFP on October 7 2024 that it had received a take-down demand from Hong Kong authorities relating to the website of Flow HK. The company said it had not complied with the order and had notified the site owner.

Maybe their lunatic ceo will travel there and get arrested and end his bs battle against WP Engine. Sorry, the nerd in me latched onto this bit.

It’s really cool how countries (including China, plus my own, USA) meddle with people outside their borders. /s

Imagine the good that could be done caring for USA citizens with all the money we send to Israel to make war.

The goal is to weaken public infrastructure to the point of collapse so that fascism / christian-nationalism is (tolerated as) the only way to right the ship.

Investors jeered the design and the lack of financial detail, with Tesla stocks tumbling 9% on Wall Street on Friday.

I didn’t realize this stupid vehicle was a two-seater. What a dumbass move.

Of course they did.

Details of nearly 80 settlements provided to The Associated Press through public records requests allege brutal beatings, medical neglect and cruelty at CoreCivic’s four prisons and two jails in Tennessee.

In one case, a Trousdale inmate who feared for his life beat his cellmate, Terry Childress, to death to get transferred to a different prison, the federal lawsuit says. No guards came to Childress’ aid at the chronically understaffed facility, the suit claims. Childress’ family received a $135,000 settlement.

Holy shit. Imagine killing someone, a person who was randomly assigned to share your cell and who didn’t do anything to you (presumably), just to save yourself from a threat. I can actually understand how this might work in the mind of a killer when usually I can’t. That says a lot.

Prison workers are not immune from the violence. At Trousdale in 2019, a counselor lost an eye and suffered other permanent injuries when an inmate attacked her with a homemade knife and raped her. Officials had withheld the inmate’s antipsychotic medication as punishment for illegal drug use.

Wtf. We’re gonna punish you by withholding medical treatment, thereby making you more dangerous to everyone around you. What the hell is this?!

As I’ve said many times, were I fated to go to prison in the South, I’d kill myself. No question.

It’s a little crazy, by the way, but — especially for women who are like past 50, I’m thinking to myself, ‘I don’t think that’s an issue for you.’

You know, someone very close to me is 50 and hasn’t hit menopause. Pregnancy could be dangerous for her. She would probably care a lot about this. This man is an asshole.

Nativist assholes: “Columbus was a hero!”

Did you know he was Jewish?

Nativist assholes: “Wait what? That scumbag fuck!”

I mean, promoting violence. Yes, against women. But at all is a disgrace. And his rabid idiots eat it up. We’re five seconds away from Germany in the bad times.

Here’s the real link. please try to avoid AMP links. They only further google’s stranglehold over the web.

I hope a monsoon strikes the location where they meet with zero warning.

They have a two year window (contractually) to get this done. I expect this will be the thing that ends them.

Sounds similar to how California doesn’t allow gift cards to expire, I guess? Is that the same idea?

Israel is a terrorist state committing genocide. Iran has its own issues, but Israel is run by monsters.

Brittni and Marcus Silva divorced in February 2023, a few weeks before Silva filed his lawsuit. The defendants alleged in their countersuit that Silva was a “serial emotional abuser” in pursuit of revenge and that he illegally searched Brittni’s phone without her consent.

Sounds like a class act.

The violent arrest stems from a morning call from Circle K employees who reported that a White man was causing problems and wouldn’t leave the store, records show.

Of course you get called about a white guy and end up assaulting a Black guy. That’s pretty much the job, sadly.

Finally, some good news.

In 2001, a jury found them not guilty of murder. A judge sentenced them to life in prison anyway.

I don’t understand how this is possible. I wouldn’t believe it if you told me this happened. How?

Damn. I really wish I could go to that. If there were tickets available, I would immediately ask my partner if she was ok with us taking a trip to see it.

From a Wikipedia article on the murder of the kid that landed the dept a consent decree:

On October 5, 2018, Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder, as well as 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm.[9] Van Dyke was sentenced to prison in January 2019 and was released early for good behavior in February 2022.

Slap on the wrist.

“Transparency isn’t always comfortable,” Kersten added. “People don’t always like when you put things out into the public discourse that maybe wouldn’t have been there 10 years ago, but that’s what the job requires…. Transparency and the truth are ultimately what will contribute to all of us collectively being able to build a safer Chicago and a more reform-minded public safety system.”

I trust that this lady is doing her job effectively and the complaints from the cops are a tantrum over being held accountable.