automatisms @automatisms@octodon.social

The family at the heart of my first These Are The Children post is one where a Sheriff's deputy repeatedly raped a 4 year old and kept the mother quiet by threatening deportation.

Eventually the mother had to report the rapes and the injury to her child. The sheriff's office wants her to avoid deportation until she can testify, but we don't know if she's being detained or not, nor do we know if this child rape victim is isolated in an ICE tent or cage.

Tomorrow I start a new series of posts, These Are The Children which will focus on the stories of children that come to the attention of ICE -and thus risk isolation in camps or cages.

Although I've already written the first post, it's scheduled to drop tomorrow to make sure readers have time to catch up with everything I've been writing on this topic today and yesterday.

Is the US treatment of refugee and migrant children torture not merely in the eyes of humanity and common sense, but also in the eyes of the law?

You bet'cha. Get wonky with me and examine how the UN Convention Against Torture defines torture and then look at how it might (spoiler: does) apply to the US today.

Then CALL YOUR FUCKING REP AND SENATORS: yes, wonketry is compatible with both outrage and action.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/18/yes-this-is-torture/

And I have stated before, but it still applies, going through toots (via hashtags) and then dumping your negativity or opinion on someones toot...whilst not looking at their history or work, is a sure fire way to getting blocked or ignored.

Bc you're not engaging. I know you think you are but you're not. You're like a cat out in the garden marking something and then just walking away.

Giving money to your admin to keep things running or to the Mastodon project are great ways to give back and help your community.

Giving money to support individual users on Mastodon who need money and resources is just as if not more helpful and important.

Support the poor in your community. Pay the artists. Spread the resources around. Make this place as healthy and punk rock as possible.

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Hey #FreeSotfware lovers!

We need you to help us grow #PeerTube into the YouTube alternative it can become.

Spread the word about #JoinPeertube https://joinpeertube.org, and fund the development of important features on https://frama.link/joinpeertube

Peertube, an ActivityPub based alternative to YouTube, is running a crowdfunding campaign https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform

Comes at an important time, with YouTube blocking legitimate videos on (incorrect) copyright grounds, such as MIT's OpenCourseWare videos and the Blender Foundation's videos https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-courses-blender-videos-and-more-180618/

if it tells me which movie it's from and a timestamp i'll let you scan some of my emails

Speaking truth to power comes with a cost, I guess.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/15/what-does-it-take-to-get-a-cartoonist-fired/

SPN and POR close out the day with a gem of a match that ends in a 3 to 3 draw.

It was absolutely dynamite from the beginning.

#worldcup

This game was REALLY entertaining!
Portugal vs Spain
#worldcup

This would break the internet.

Imagine YouTube Content ID, but for everything: blog comments, tweets, Github commits, Instagram photos, replies to newspaper articles, rental listings, dating profiles.

This is being proposed in the EU. #Article13
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbk47b/europe-copyright-rules-content-id source: https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1007334390479941632