hex @Hex@kolektiva.social

Holy fuck

"Between 2018 and 2021, more than one in 33 U.S. residents were potentially subject to police patrol decisions directed by crime-prediction software called PredPol.

The company that makes it sent more than 5.9 million of these crime predictions to law enforcement agencies across the country—from California to Florida, Texas to New Jersey—and we found those reports on an unsecured server."

https://gizmodo.com/crime-prediction-software-promised-to-be-free-of-biases-1848138977

Oddly satisfying date

Further and deeper into the "NFTs are fundamentally for grifting and money launding" well we find this dataset, showing that 10% of NFT traders have traded 97% of all NFTs, accounting for at least 85% of all trades to said NFTs.

10% of all buyer-seller groups have the same volume as the remaining 90%.

NFTs are almost entirely valued by wash trading, and they don't even try and hide it.

Data available here: https://osf.io/xnj3k/?view_only=319a53cf1bf542bbbe538aba37916537

It is upsetting we live in a world where this is a thing though:

Why the interview you did with Joe Rogan will not age well.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb89q/joe-rogan-is-everyone-elses-problem

Yes

"For the settler colony to succeed, the Natives had to be erased, assimilated or else mythologized out of existence. Thanksgiving is part of that project. It changes the narrative from one of truth and remembrance to one of a romantic point of origin, from which thanks rather than regret becomes the national feeling imputed to the aftermath of a massacre."

Thanksgiving Is Dedicated to Erasing the Ruthlessness of English Settlers
by Joseph M. Pierce

https://truthout.org/articles/thanksgiving-is-dedicated-to-erasing-the-ruthlessness-of-english-settlers/

Over the past five years, anarchists and anti-fascists have made an admirable effort to slow the escalation of violence.

Unfortunately, the Rittenhouse verdict may exacerbate matters.

Please learn about how to respond to gunshot wounds at demonstrations:

https://crimethinc.com/gunshotwounds

You can also learn about options for body armor:

https://crimethinc.com/bodyarmor

And how street medics can treat common injuries at demonstrations:

https://crimethinc.com/TreatingPoliceViolence

You really going to let them get away with this?

You really going to let that white supremacist little shit, walk around for the rest of his life. Carefree and with no repercussions.

You really going to let that smug ass judge, get away with declaring open season on protesters?

You really going to let the legal system, get away with.... That?

Well I guess we're all rioters and looters now

So let's act like it and...

BURN THE FUCKING COURTHOUSES!!!

You wouldn't download a bike https://openbike.cc/download/