Josh Watson

@joshwatson.bsky.social

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Bleeding heart leftist security researcher (he/him), trying to be less of a garbage human everyday. Abolish the Police, Black Lives Matter, Trans Rights are Human Rights

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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't. www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

This state is introducing digital driver's licenses. Here's what you need to knowwww.zdnet.com Your physical wallet is being replaced piece by piece. Here's what you need to know about using digital IDs.

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what if - instead of attempting to ban porn and end internet anonymity in the name of “protecting children” - we actually protected them by making sure they have enough to eat

Meanwhile eight states, seven Democratic trifectas (CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM) and Vermont, took a lesson from the pandemic and made universal free school meals permanent.

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Boomers see the tiny house trend as cute and neat but don't realize that we're normalizing poverty and an inability to provide ourselves with adequate shelter. But sheds are cute 🙄

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ah yes that familiar sticking point in a cease fire deal, asking your opponents to “cease firing”

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a probably unpopular opinion is that the escalating culture of leveraging bullying and victim-blaming to coerce people into voting for democrats has actually been an acceleration mechanism for fascist creep, and bears significant blame for where we are today.

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Prison rape jokes are a part of rape culture. Making “don’t drop the soap” and “become someone’s bitch” jokes means you think rape is okay if it happens to certain people.

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the world in which the president is throwing his opponents in jail is not a world where you can just ask a judge to let you out

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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

Inspired by an article pushed to me by Apple News yesterday

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Almost everyone in Gaza is being told move again I swear this is so cruel

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claiming hypocrisy in cases like this is missing the point. they have completely consistent beliefs: they and their friends should be able to do whatever they want without consequence, and everyone else should be subservient to them.

The hypocrisy, it burns.

Justice John Roberts Saying The President Is 'Bound By The Law' During Confirmation Hearing Resurfaces After Immunity Rulingbit.ly John Roberts previously said presidents are "bound by the law" during his confirmation hearing.

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the President's powers to help people's pocketbooks through, say, student loan forgiveness? overreach, tyrannical the President's powers to help his own pocketbook by selling pardons or using the awesome powers of his office to commit bald-faced fraud? approved, good, immune from prosecution

Wanna use it to do good? Too bad. It’s only if the President specifically wants to do some crimes, the only benefit of which would be personal enrichment.

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Like there's a lot they were not especially clear about, and all sorts of reasons where we shouldn't tie our own future to their past. But "Kings are bad; the President is not a King; he must be constrained by law" is one of the few things they were, to their credit, very clear about

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Voting is not a remedy to the party that you vote for being rendered illegitimate by their opposition

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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

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we don’t think it’s constitutional for a special prosecutor & all the trappings of a proper court system to look at very obvious crimes the former president committed but we do think it’s fine if you just had jsoc rendition him to gitmo

to put a sharper point on this, the President’s power to pass an executive order regulating emissions is severely hampered. his power to use the DOJ or the military to regulate emissions is nearly unlimited

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“democrats have to win every election forever” is not a sustainable solution and it is quite literally the one we are facing unless we break the power of this court

The electoral problem has become, as the IRA gloated to Thatcher, that the GOP only needs to get lucky once and the Democrats need to be lucky forever. Either they’re going to do something about the court - now, not eventually - or we will simply play iterations of this game until the GOP wins.

Had a great idea for a tv show. A serial killer, but she’s gotten so good at it that she doesn’t even have to think about it anymore I call it: Murder She Rote

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I don’t think it’s a coincidence that GOP SCOTUS ruled that bribery is legal the same week that they ruled that they alone have jurisdiction over environmental cases involving extremely deep-pocketed corporations

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The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.

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first of all, go fuck yourself. second, debates are intended to help undecided voters make up their minds. third, watching a debate is not “participating in democracy,” it is observing a spectator event. fourth, again: go fuck yourself.

Yes, but you probably should. This shade of political jade might be related to how women Federally lost the right to abortion. Want self-autonomy and government out of the doctor’s office? Participate in the democracy, please.

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LLMs are useless for lawyering and other tasks involving actual analysis and understanding not because the technology hasn't gotten there yet, but because that's fundamentally not what statistical word association is capable of doing. Not only can't it understand, it's not even trying to understand.

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There are two kinds of people in the world: the people who think a mask ban at protests will only be used against people at a protest, and the people who know the LAPD will suddenly start calling two Black people hanging out outside “a protest.”

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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.www.yahoo.com Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.

I don’t know when the + on the profile pic for people you don’t follow got added but it’s great. I would love to see the option to block/mute someone in that menu, not just follow though (nudge nudge @pfrazee.com)

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If you want to understand the origins and solutions of the American homelessness problem, a really important starting point is to understand that the problem mostly exists in places where *there are lots of jobs and the labor market is really strong,* not in economically depressed areas.

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The absolutely wild thing is: This goes for ALL social aid. Just *giving people some fucking money,* literally going "OK, how much did you need?", cutting checks, and waving them out the door? COSTS LESS and HAS BETTER OUTCOMES than the current system's bureaucracy and means testing, EVERY TIME.

With alt-text because THIS IS LITERALLY EVERYONE’S EXPERIENCE & I FUCKING HATE IT. Being disabled is a godsdamn full time job battling different agencies all damn day. #NEISvoid

A gen z guy told me “hey I fuck with your shirt” when I was wearing a Bluey shirt, and I think it wasn’t sarcastic? At least that’s my best guess, because why would you use gen z terminology with an elder millennial if you didn’t mean it?