Chad Loder

Community activist, cybersecurity expert, citizen journalist based in Los Angeles. 🌴☀️ they/them
Joined April 2023
  • The richest man in human history is losing his mind because his AI chatbot isn't racist enough and he doesn't understand enough about the technology to fix it
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    I have to chuckle because the most energy the Democratic Party in Florida had in recent memory is when they were working on ending felony disenfranchisement and running prosecutors promising to enact less carceral policies.
    • I really feel like more people need to constructively engage with this! You can think the moderation/centrism discourse is often braindead (as I do!) but the center left really needs a pretty robust convo about what winning, say, an Iowa or Kansas or Texas or Ohio senate seat would look like.
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  • Heard someone complain that "fascists have invaded Brazilian jiu-jitsu" and boy, we really gotta talk about the history of the Gracie family
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    I cannot express how much I want for us all to learn from the very experienced people who are telling us all to just invoke the 5th and shut up. I *truly* understand the desire to talk back! (As a moral weakling, I might succumb!) But please *listen to people*!
    • I've got an amazing story about this one. Let me tell you all about how "If you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to worry about" almost got me charged with unlawful possession of a minigun. 1/?
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    Serious answer: cops don't only arrest guilty people. If they did, my job would be a lot easier. It doesn't matter why the cops are questioning you. If they're questioning you, they're planning to charge you with something. Don't help them. ALWAYS shut up and demand a lawyer. ALWAYS.
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  • The year is 1925. Coal miners in West Virginia have organized against the federal government over workplace safety. A prominent antisemitic billionaire automaker has thrown his support behind the German far right, aiding their rise to power. The year is 2025...
    • NEWS: Thanks to courageous West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley and his brilliant attorney, Sam Petsonk, over 100 NIOSH workers in Morgantown, WV just got their jobs back and the crucial Coal Workers Surveillance Program will be restored. They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.
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  • No. A US citizen is not, by definition, an "applicant for admission". That statute does not apply.
    • Replying to Chad Loder
      Let's get this EXTREMELY clear because you clearly didnt bother with the link. Why avoid it? I already kno you're wrong. If nothing else, educate yourself so bluesky attorneys don't get you hemmed up at customs...
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  • Another Republican who ran an explicitly transphobic "bathroom panic" campaign is about to lose her re-election bid
    • EARLY RETURNS: Omaha's Republican mayor Jean Stothert *trails* her Democratic challenger John Ewing 54% to 46% in the early vote. That's with 47K ballots already counted. (There were 68K ballots total in the April first round.)
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  • More people need to constructively engage with the fact that many "red" states remain red because of deliberate, systematic, and violent suppression of Black people's voting rights.
    • I really feel like more people need to constructively engage with this! You can think the moderation/centrism discourse is often braindead (as I do!) but the center left really needs a pretty robust convo about what winning, say, an Iowa or Kansas or Texas or Ohio senate seat would look like.
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  • Banging pots and pans from my balcony to support the librarians
    • If watching library workers resist leads you to expect us to save you, you're taking away the wrong message. You should be viewing this as a clear indicator that YOU can and should stand up and push back, too. We need help, not acclaim.
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