So the TIL here seems to be that there are relatively few restrictions on FOIA requests in municipalities across the US, not that it’s an effective tool to combat fascism. You are still gathering that information and won’t know the efficacy of your tactic until after you’ve released it.

Lol isn’t this article written by the same idiot who wrote that one the other day about how ICE vehicles are better than EVs because they’re more complicated? I find myself unable to care about or believe what analysis this guy claims to have done, given how obviously bad at it he was in the other article.

Also, crazy how he mentions the supposed study once but never links to it or provides any other citations. Hardly a credible piece of writing.

Edit: turns out there was a link at the bottom of the article.

I explicitly mentioned making it illegal to give food and water to people waiting in line and included a link to a news article about the Georgia law that outlawed doing so.

That first point is a good one though, I’m not familiar with it but am totally unsurprised it’s happening.

Yeah… But it’s the shithole I grew up in, and I can’t imagine leaving my grandparents behind who are too old to move.

That’s why I volunteer as an election inspector and with some local voter registration groups- we won’t see things change until people feel empowered to make a difference and put someone other than a fascist, spineless fuck, or corporate-owned bastard in office.

Blue shift occurs because young voters, low-income voters, and voters who relocate often are likely both to vote provisionally and to lean Democratic.

It also happens because Republicans like to make it difficult for people who are not cisgender wealthy white conservative christian men to vote.

Many states have little to no protections for workers to take time off to vote (most states provide 1-2 hours off), select polling locations that are difficult to walk or ride public transit to, and understaff workers in polling locations to ensure long wait times in non-white neighborhoods.

Then, when volunteer programs spring up to do things like drive people to the polls or distribute water and snacks to people in line, they outlaw those actions.

This is why they’re also against absentee and provisional ballots, since they enable working-class, disabled, and other ‘undesirable’ people to vote.

That’s true of all printers even today

Honestly could care less.

So you do care?

Not little Bobby Tables :(

Is it epic systems? I hear some crazy shit about the corporate culture there

Wisconsin State Fair has something similar, but with donuts instead of the uncrustable

This is the thing I really don’t understand about the AI crowd. I would be so much more supportive of companies like openai if they they were pursuing the automation of the dull tasks nobody wants to do, rather than flagrantly breaking copyright laws (the same ones that have been weaponised against normal folks) to create a pale imitation of human creativity.

Like, shit. I want a machine that will do my taxes and fold my laundry so that I have more time to pursue artistic endeavors.