Last Friday was the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, in which roughly 3000 people were brutally murdered by the totalitarian government of Communist China. Of course, the exact number will never be known, because the tyrants memory-holed the truth and have over the past generation methodically buried any and all references to the massacre accessible to their subjects, to the point that few young Chinese today can even recognize the iconic “tank man” photo. But if it were only their own subject population the Chinese were trying to bury in suffocating ignorance of their rulers’ atrocities, there would be no point in writing about it because that has been the playbook used by every oppressive government since the invention of mass media. However, while past regimes were mostly limited to spewing propaganda via press releases and useful idiots (just as all governments do), the Chinese have taken their misinformation campaign into the 21st century by sending out swarms of social media “bots” to interject themselves into conversations featuring certain keywords, no matter which language those conversations occur in or what the nationality of the participants; after I retweeted a tweet about the “tank man” on May 28th, a short thread formed which has been repeatedly interrupted by tankies and bots, mostly during business hours in Beijing, and despite the thread having little engagement from real people. I’ve also seen similar harassment of threads about the genocide against the Uighurs, the suppression of Hong Kong, and the mere mention of Taiwan; furthermore, the Chinese are using their economic power to force Hollywood to make its spineless denizens dance like marionettes to whatever tune Beijing calls, no matter how transparently stupid, even to the point of publicly humiliating themselves by “apologizing” for merely stating plain facts. We’re not yet to the point of watching the same crowd of celebrity halfwits who have proven so useful to “sex trafficking” fetishists singing “re-educational” songs about how much they love Xi Jinping, but what we are seeing, especially in light of Western governments’ concurrent crusade to destroy the open internet, is more than horrifying enough, and does not bode at all well for the future.
Archive for the ‘History’ Category
Virtual Imperialism
Posted in Current Events, History, Tyranny, tagged censorship, China, Hollywood, internet, propaganda, Quiet Genocide, Taiwan, Twitter, You Were Warned on June 7, 2021| 1 Comment »
Links #564
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Australia, Colorado, cops, Egypt, imaginative fiction, Oregon, racism, United Kingdom, video, Virginia, Washington DC on April 25, 2021| 1 Comment »
You’re fixin’ to ride the lightning. – “Officer” Joe Gutierrez
If Western culture emphasized composer over performer in popular music as it does with orchestral music, Jim Steinman would be recognized as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. In honor of his passing, here’s a video of the one hit he had as a performer; compare and contrast with Meat Loaf performing the same song a little over a decade later. The links above the video were provided by Lucy Steigerwald, Franklin Harris, Tim Cushing, Jesse Walker, Cop Crisis, Radley Balko, and Nun Ya, in that order.
- The Crate Escape.
- R.I.P. Jim Steinman and Felix Silla.
- As an OCD person, I totallly get this.
- Lost cities appeal to my adolescent self.
- Cop beats up old woman for being demented.
- Cops repeatedly show you what they are. Believe them.
- Cop rewarded with paid vacation for murdering innocent couple.
From the Archives
- Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to facilitate rape.
- Sex work businesses are ineligible for loans; individuals still get the check.
- “With faggots out of the way…we can focus on helping their child victims”.
- Declaring things “non-essential” is a versatile excuse for authoritarianism.
- “A brief period of time”, when DHS is building a giant biometric database.
- As long as our work is marginalized, whores will be targeted for violence.
- Do I really have to add, “Not because you saw your neighbors outdoors”?
- Puritanical language is an intrinsic part of any massage parlor raid story.
- The state cages women to force their participation in its morality plays.
- Irish prohibitionists celebrated this increase in violence vs sex workers.
- Notice how fanatics like to focus on demonizing one website at a time?
- Could this racist attempt to deter black migrants be more transparent?
- At last, the psychiatric community takes aim at “porn addiction” myth.
- Massage parlors are now taking the brunt of “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Americans will believe basically any scaremongering about teenagers.
- UK cops keep pretending they want to “help” the women they harass.
- Tyranny starts with despised minorities, but never stops with them.
- Sometimes they don’t even hide the hysteria’s religious foundation.
- Another complete shitshow involving a sleazy review board owner.
- Abrogating freedom of religion and freedom of assembly at once.
- Sex workers are always among the first targeted for deportation.
- “Sex trafficking” means whatever “authorities” want it to mean.
- Cops, pets, bullshit, Mr. Electrico, song covers and much more.
- I’m pleased so many reporters recognized Harris’ sociopathy.
- It’s good to see the “sex addiction” myth slowly falling apart.
- Cam work isn’t just a stopgap measure; it’s a specialization.
- Wealth and power do not create evil; they merely enable it.
- Because they care so very much about “trafficking victims”.
- And guess who gets to declare that an “emergency” exists?
- The right way to cancel an appointment with a sex worker.
- Maya Morena on yet another gang of prohibitionist nitwits.
- Kaytlin Bailey presents a “whore’s eye view” of US history.
- Documenting my progress toward crazy cat lady status.
- Prohibitionists just can’t stop beating this dead horse.
- Cops, politicians, millipedes, Nilsson and much more.
- Indian sex workers are tired of politicians’ bullshit.
- Compare to the ugly behavior of France & the US.
- People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
- No, this sociopath isn’t pro-decriminalization.
- Dealing with an overstimulated pineal gland.
- Another example of sex worker ingenuity.
- It’s just going to keep getting worse.
- The “Swedish model” helps women!
- Far beyond mere spooge-throwing.
- April 2016 and 2017 in retrospect.
- All prohibitionism is the same.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- A classic case of NHI.
Could It Be…Satan?
Posted in Current Events, History, Music, Philosophy, tagged homosexuality, hysteria, imaginative fiction, psychology, video, witchcraft on April 8, 2021| 4 Comments »
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. Usually the strength of a mass movement is proportionate to the vividness and tangibility of its devil. – Eric Hoffer
To paraphrase Baudelaire, the loveliest trick of religion is to convince people that the Devil exists. Humans have never been fond of admitting blame for anything, but when someone is caught red-handed committing some evil and therefore cannot blame any other human, the truly devout buck-passer blames an invisible, intangible, supernatural force. Authoritarians, too, love their devils; what better way to convince the Great Unwashed to render their obedience and surrender their liberty than to convince them of the existence of super-powerful evil spirits who cannot be stopped except by whatever snake oil those authoritarians are selling? Over the past couple of centuries, belief in actual anthropomorphic deities of evil has slowly been replaced by belief in more tangible devils such as “criminals”, “terrorists”, “pimps”, and “people who vote differently than I do”, but as we head into a new dark age belief in a literal red guy with horns, hooves, a tail and a pitchfork has once again become popular in the Underdeveloped States of America. The occult boom of the early ’70s (heralded by movies like The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby) paved the way for the Satanic panic of the ’80s and early ’90s, which after an implosion around 1994 soon returned as the “sex trafficking” hysteria; its roots in the older, more openly-religious hysteria are clearly visible in its QAnon branch and in persistent nonsense about the supposed magical powers of “pimps”. And every so often, people whose entire understanding of how the universe works could be crammed into a chicken’s brain pan and still leave room for a politician’s moral compass, shit all over themselves because some musician employs “Satanic” imagery comparable in sophistication to that in a US television show from the 1950s. Every society has throwbacks like this; the difference is that in America, we pretend they’re adults and let them decide who’s going to run things.
In the News (#1121)
Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, Alabama, All-Purpose Excuse, Backpage, censorship, consensual crime, cops, Creating a Monster, dirty, drugs, False Witness, fantasy, Florida, France, hysteria, illegal aliens, internet, Japan, Japanese Prostitution, language, law, Louisiana, Mexico, New Orleans, Paint By Numbers, politicians, porn, psychology, Russia, Safe Position, sex work is work, shame, Shame Shame, Soap Opera, sporting events, Texas, The Scarlet Letter, Torture Chamber, Twitter, Winding Down, You Were Warned on March 21, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The younger generation…don’t understand at all how the government could ever enter your bedroom and tell you what to do. – Mandie Landry
There really is nothing new under the sun:
Neither Craigslist’s personals nor…US [censorship of] the sexual commerce they make possible are uncharted territory. Reading…coverage of…FOSTA–SESTA, gives me a sense of déjà vu. I have spent the last several years researching how, more than one hundred years before Backpage opened its online classifieds—well before the rise of the internet…lonely hearts [and] sex workers…had access to Parisian “back-page” classifieds. Then as now, [politicians] scrambled for ways to stop them from using this new, democratizing print technology to “immoral” ends. The largely unsuccessful, often counter-productive, and oppressive solutions they came up with during the French Third Republic (1870–1940) look strikingly similar to those the US legislature is testing out now…
This article is three years old, but it’s about century-old events anyhow.
This might fly in New Orleans, but it’ll definitely be uphill in the rest of the state:
Sexual acts between consenting adults should remain just that, state Rep. Mandie Landry said, regardless of whether they involve a financial transaction. She said she will author a bill in the Louisiana Legislature that would do away with the state’s existing laws that outlaw prostitution….“If two people engage in a relationship in their own home, whether they exchange money or not, it’s between them”…Prostitution involving minors will remain illegal because minors cannot give consent, she added…
Texas cops routinely destroy lives with the same method used to create the Satanic panic:
…a vast body of research shows hypnosis does not increase the chance of retrieving accurate memories. In fact, it may implant imaginary ideas or distort recollections. At least 21 states ban evidence in court that was gleaned solely through hypnosis. Yet a Dallas Morning News analysis found Texas law enforcement has used the dubious method nearly 1,800 times over 40 years, sending dozens of people to prison — and some to their deaths. After one week of training, any Texas [cop]…who passes an exam can attempt to use hypnosis in a criminal investigation. Hundreds…have been certified to practice it in Texas since 1988…
The Alabama House of Representatives…approved legislation that would post pictures of men a[ccus]ed [o]f…solicitation…to shame them…f[or having]…sex[ual needs. Bill sponsor] Merika Coleman…[bloviated a lot of disgusting sexual fantasies about] human trafficking…an[d]…argued that the state needs to attack the de[sire] for sex…Coleman said [she doesn’t care that]…posting the picture of a person who was arrested…harms those individuals who are not found guilty for the rest of their lives. [She said it’s OK that] they are not able to get jobs…
Social pressure surrounding the upcoming Tokyo Olympics has resulted in distribution troubles for traditional Japanese adult magazines, which have drastically harmed the already dwindling sector…[using the excuse] “that the magazine covers were offensive to women and inappropriate in front of children”…In the years leading up to the games’ original date of Summer 2020, “some of the country’s biggest convenience store chains…said they would stop selling the publications altogether”…Akira Ikoma, editor-in-chief of the porn magazine My Journey…said Japan is “hiding this part of the culture because they’re embarrassed”…
“Packed” = “concentrated”. And the concise word for “tent facility” is “camp”:
Hundreds of immigrant children and teenagers have been [imprisoned] at a Border Patrol tent facility in packed conditions, with some sleeping on the floor because there aren’t enough mats…Some [are locked up]…for a week or longer, despite the agency’s three-day limit for detaining [minors]…they…a[r]en’t…allowed to phone their parents or other relatives who may be wondering where they are. Despite…coronavirus, the[y]…are kept so closely together that they can touch the person next to them…Some have to wait five days or more to shower, and there isn’t always soap available, just shampoo…Biden’s administration denied the lawyers access to the [camp because]…attorney visits to Border Patrol [camp]s [have] revealed severe problems, including dozens of children held at one [camp] without adequate food, water, or soap…
I love that Trumpists are holding onto the “sex trafficking” narrative like grim death:
On March 8th, the Lifeboat Project had the opportunity to host [politicians] and [profiteers trying] to stop [sex work using propaganda about] human trafficking…it was also a…[photo] opportunity for Ivanka Trump and [a payday for professional]…trafficking survivors…the…Founder of The Lifeboat Project, Jill Bolander Cohen…[introduc]ed the [fantas]y of having a universal signal that could be used world-wide…[instead of other folk magic] such as [wa]ving [red paper birds around like a semaphore flag]…or [activa]ting…[a super-duper anti-pimp tampon found in a public] bathroom…Jill be[lieves the stupid trope that]…victims [are literally “voiceless”]…so…[she proposed] flashing the letters “H” and “T” in American Sign Language…
A long-overdue move by Mexico to throw off US domination:
…Mexic[an politicians]…approved a bill…to legalize recreational marijuana…The 316-to-129 vote in Mexico’s lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, came more than two years after the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that the country’s ban on recreational marijuana was unconstitutional and more than three years after the country legalized medicinal cannabis…the measure is widely expected to sail through the Senate before being sent to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has signaled support for legalization. The measure…would allow adults to [us]e…and, with a permit, grow a small number of cannabis plants at home. It would also grant licenses for producers — from small farmers to commercial growers — to cultivate and sell the crop…
Unless some country makes a policy of providing a safe haven, the open internet is doomed:
The Russian government’s internet regulatory agency, Roskomnadzor, has announced it will be slowing down Twitter…in the country, alleging that the platform has “ignored requests to take down material harmful to children,” including adult content. Regional experts [say]…“that the Twitter slowdown was just the start of a large-scale offensive by authorities to assert control over — and ultimately block — social media”…Like many American crusaders against Section 230…Roskomnadzor claims this attack on free expression [i]s…to “save the children”…
Sex Worker Rights Day 2021
Posted in History, Perception, Tyranny, tagged activism, holidays, hysteria, politicians, psychology, yellow journalism on March 3, 2021| 1 Comment »
Our cause…isn’t just ours after all, but rather a vital part of the rights of all individuals to control their own voices, bodies, and lives without the interference of violent busybodies. – “Sex Worker Rights Day 2020”
The landscape of sex worker rights activism looks very different from the way it did when I wrote my first essay for this occasion ten years ago; then almost nobody outside of Asia celebrated the day, and now it’s observed worldwide. Sex worker activism in the US is no longer the domain of a small number of activists; vast numbers of sex workers now speak out online, belong to various activist groups, and politically mobilize to oppose prohibitionists, who not so long ago could count on their lies going unchallenged by any but a vocal minority. The War on Whores has alienated enough people that a majority now support decriminalization, and support for sex worker rights is no longer the kiss of death for politicians. The evolution of “sex trafficking” hysteria into a new Satanic Panic has many of the hacks who once eagerly spread prohibitionist wanking fantasies distancing themselves from the mythology and even debunking the tales they until-recently represented as facts. As I wrote last year, “The younger activists, those in their twenties and thirties, have got this, and they are more than capable of carrying it; it’s time for older activists like me to move into a more advisory role…” As part of that shift, I think it’s time for me to stop writing new essays on this topic, lest I grow irrelevant due to repetition. Besides, I’ve already written plenty:
2011: “International Sex Workers’ Rights Day”
2012: “Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs”
2013: “International Sex Worker Rights Day”
2014: “Sex Worker Rights Day”
2015: “Hands On”
2016: “The ‘Active’ in ‘Activism’”
2017: “Out and Proud”
2018: “365 Days of Activism”
2019: “More Than Ever”
2020: “Sex Worker Rights Day 2020”
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, or fear that our cause is hopeless, I suggest you read all of those in order; you may be surprised just how much things have changed for the better over that short span, and just imagine what the political landscape will look like in 2031 if things keep developing at the same rate as they have for the last three years. We still have a very long way to go, and the fight will never be completely over until we as a species discard the wicked dogma that consensual behavior can somehow be a “crime”, and the pretense that inflicting violence on people is somehow “helping” them. But it’s important to recognize the progress we’ve already made, and to draw from it hope for a better future.
What They Are
Posted in History, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged consensual crime, Enabling Oppression, language, Prohibition (alcohol), prohibitionist myths on January 29, 2021| 6 Comments »
Anti-sex, pro-censorship gangs want to be called “abolitionist” because it lets them pretend their racist schemes are a continuation of the 19th-century campaign against chattel slavery. But in actuality, they are a continuation of the 19th-century campaign to harass, spy upon, inflict state violence upon, and generally destroy the lives of people who did things the prohibitionists (whose movement was rooted in US evangelical Protestantism) disapproved of, such as alcohol, extramarital sex of any kind (including masturbation, homosexuality, and sexual imagery), abortion, interracial fraternization, etc, etc. Only the most deranged of this warped cult of busybodies actually believe they can “abolish” human nature; what most of them really want is a permanent government-backed war on human nature, AKA Prohibition. Prohibitionists not only live in a fantasy world, but demand that the rest of us live in it with them. And they want the state to restrict the liberties of those they fantasize about, and enact violence on those who refuse to pretend their fantasies are real. Supporters of Prohibition are properly called Prohibitionists, not “abolitionists”. Words mean things; call prohibitionists what they are, not what they pretend to be.
In the News (#1107)
Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, News, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged activism, Arkansas, brothels, censorship, China, Disqualified, internet, Islam, left-right myth, New Orleans, Permanent Record, politicians, propaganda, Quiet Genocide, racism, restaurants, RIP Margo St. James, sex rays, Storyville, surveillance, TikTok, Traffic Jam, Twitter, Welcome to the Future, You Were Warned on January 27, 2021| Leave a Comment »
“Approved” voices rise to the top of [a social media] feed as if by magic. – Josephine Livingstone
Half a year old, but since the events were over a century ago anyhow:
Willie V. Piazza, known as “The Countess,” was a successful Storyville madam who reigned relatively serenely over her mansion at 317 N. Basin Street. Hers was one of several so-called octoroon houses in the district which featured light-skinned women of color for white clients…The literature about her depicts a regal woman who lived up to her nickname: sophisticated, intelligent, elegant, and always fashionably dressed, she sported a monocle, smoked Russian cigarettes held in a diamond-studded ivory-and-gold holder, wore a diamond choker, and spoke four languages fluently…Piazza’s legacy grew further when she took a stand against racial segregation in the waning months of the district’s legal existence…Ordinance 4118, proposed in early 1917…decreed that Storyville would be entirely racially segregated…Piazza was disturbed by the prospect of being forced from her Basin Street property, which had been a considerable investment…the Louisiana Supreme Court, in City of New Orleans v. Willie V. Piazza (1917)…ruled in her favor, finding that Ordinance 4118 overstepped the original intent of the 1897 act regulating where prostitutes could live. The Countess and her ladies stayed put…
Lonna Wells was [fired from an Arkansas Taco Bell because]…a customer had lodged a formal complaint that there was a woman working the drive-thru who was doing internet porn, and as a [hypocritical] Christian they didn’t feel comfortable [see]ing the [performers from the porn they watch in real life]…
Everything I read about modern corporate work makes me happier I became a whore:
A…silicone wristband…called a Moodbeam…allows your employer to track your emotional state. The gadget…[currently requires the wearer to] press the yellow [button] if [they] are feeling happy, and the blue one if [they] are sad…employees…can [currently] say no…[but obviously that will change]…Managers can then [snoop into the private feelings of their]…workers…[since they are] no longer able to [spy on them] in p[erson]…
The US finally decides to call a spade a spade:
With just one day left in President Trump’s term, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…officially de[clar]ed that China’s campaign of [genocide]…in Xinjiang constitutes “genocide”…The U.S. has become the first country to…describe the Chinese Communist Party’s gross human rights abuses [as what they are]…The Biden campaign has previously [recognized] China’s…genocide….[as a genocide but] it had been unclear whether the Trump administration would make this formal determination before Biden assumed office…
The bipartisan war on the internet continues without even a pause:
Section 230′s untouched days may be numbered [now that] Joe Biden will be president. [He has repeatedly stated that he]…think[s] the law should be [repealed]…that…is an extreme — and unlikely — option, but many [politicians]…on both sides of the aisle have introduced bills and pushed for change to the legislation…
From the subtitle link: “Biden doesn’t like Section 230 and…doesn’t understand what it does…his…top tech policy advisor…published a bizarre and misleading “but think of the children!” attack on [it] that…suggests incredibly dangerous changes…citing FOSTA as a ‘good example’…”
What do you do when you’re a prohibitionist rag which pretends to quasi-official status when the most famous sex worker activist in the world dies? You do a proper, detailed obituary which nonetheless subtly dismisses her achievements and intentionally confuses decriminalization with legalization. Hey New York Times, would it have really hurt you to have actually consulted any of the people you quoted from other sources instead?
Rashida Jones’ sleazy prohibitionism ties into a much bigger picture:
…Rashida Jones, Meryl Streep, and Laverne Cox had all signed on to produce a “documentary adaptation” of Sell/Buy/Date, a one-woman [prohibitionist] play…A few days later, Cox…quit because of pressure from her core fanbase, who took up and amplified the performers’ concerns on Twitter. If they hadn’t, the complaints would probably have sunk without a trace. It’s harder now than ever for sex workers to be heard on social media, but even easier for producers like Rashida Jones to tell their stories on mega-streaming platforms like Netflix…Big platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok use proprietary algorithms and shadow banning…to minimize a user’s reach to the community without alerting them…“Rashida Jones can post to her two million followers without worrying about her posts being invisibilized by a platform,” Danielle Blunt, dominatrix and Hacking//Hustling member explained. “Sex workers can’t. Jones can buy ads to promote her movie. Sex workers can’t”…
In the News (#1104)
Posted in Current Events, Harlotography, History, Miscellaneous, News, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged activism, agency denial, Between the Ears, bogus studies, California, censorship, cops, dirty, Facebook, fantasy, Hollywood, hysteria, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, internet, language, left-right myth, politicians, propaganda, Pyrrhic Victory, RIP Margo St. James, sex toys, Social Distancing, streetwalkers, surveillance, The Prudish Giant, Traffic Jam, United Kingdom, Washington (state) on January 16, 2021| 2 Comments »
Margo might be the single most important sexual liberationist and feminist revolutionary who ever slapped society upside its head.
– Susie Bright
The founder of the US sex worker rights movement, Margo St.James, died Tuesday at the age of 83; she had been in an assisted living facility in Bellingham, WA (her home town) for several years now due to dementia, but from the ’70s to the ’90s she was involved to one degree or another in practically every major national and international push for sex worker rights. It’s impossible to overstate her importance to sex workers all over the world; you may get some idea of why by reading this essay I published on her almost eight years ago, and more in the linked obituary from the San Francisco Chronicle. But so many 20th-century activists knew and loved her, there will no doubt be many articles and memories; I’m going to link every single one that comes to my attention over the next several weeks. Farewell, Margo; not a one of us could have done it without your amazing example.
“The pimps who sell sex” may be one of the most clueless headlines ever:
Two…Southend [politicians bloviated about]…street prostitution…[with a plethora of ridiculous terms and phrases] in[cluding]…notorious hotspot…emotional effects of prostitution…“sexual harm”…urgent action to finally get street prostitution under control…“The psychological impacts of [consensual adult] sex are immense”…[they also bloviated about “the dangerous cycle of prostitution”]…high levels of anti-social behaviour…pimping…drug-dealing, hazardous litter and noise nuisance….end the harms caused by…sex…sexual exploitation and a form of violence against women and girls…trauma-informed support…and holding organisations [who actually assist sex workers] to account…
I can’t help imagining these politicians wanking furiously while vomiting out these sexual fantasies.
Sarah Jones is about to [present her ugly fantasies about] the sex industry…[in what she claims is a] documentary [even though it’s merely an expanded adaptation of her one-prohibitionist propaganda vehicle] Sell/Buy/Date…[s]he [dazzled a Deadline reporter with meaningless wokespeak about “]how the sex industry sits at the intersection of race, feminism, power and economics in our current cultural climate[” and dropped three big Hollywood names as executive producers:] Rashida Jones, Meryl Streep and Laverne Cox…[other idiotic belching included] “Is sex work exploitative or empowering?” [and “]The sex industry is hiding everywhere in plain sight during the pandemic[“]…
To her credit, Cox listened to sex workers’ complaints about this revolting propaganda (click on the subtitle link for a description) and has already withdrawn her support. The same cannot be said for the clueless Streep, and Rashida Jones is prohibitionist trash with a long history of endangering marginalized women with her videotaped hatespew.
It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us:
When [Facebook-owned] Instagram introduced [censorship] guidelines aimed at stopping “sexual solicitation” in December, sex workers were the first to raise the alarm…But [of course they] aren’t the only ones with cause for anxiety. A whole swathe of sex-related accounts, including those of certified sex educators and sexual wellness brands, are now being [censored]…sex educators [who couldn’t be bothered to stand with sex worksers now realize] censorship on Instagram has gone too far, with some calling it an all-out ban on sex…
Useful idiots destroying any possibility that the facial recognition djinni can ever be rebottled:
After the Capitol riot, Clearview AI…has seen a spike in use…The F.B.I. has posted the faces of dozens of [rioters] and has requested assistance identifying them…Clearview, which is used by over 2,400 [cop shops to violate citizens’ privacy]…relies…on a database of more than 3 billion photos [stolen] from social media networks and other public websites…
…a…woman [was brutalized and abducted] by four [costumed thugs for] sitting on a bench. [Video shows] the woman…protesting…”I was sitting on a bench” as she is surrounded by [pigs]…in Bournemouth, Dorset…A furious woman filming the…disgrace…shout[ed] at [pigs]: “What side are you on?”…
“Smart” devices are not, part umpteen:
A hacker took control of people’s internet-connected chastity cages and demanded a ransom to be paid in Bitcoin to unlock it…a security researcher [who] goes by the name Smelly…obtained screenshots of conversations between the hacker and several victims…he…demand[ed] a payment of 0.02 Bitcoin (around $750 today) to unlock the device…These hacks show once again that just because you can connect something to the internet, it doesn’t mean you have to…It’s incidents like these that make some people think the Internet of Things is just a marketing term for the Internet of Hackable Things, as we call it, or even the Internet of Shit, as others call it. Qiui, the Chin[ese] manufacturer of the device…did not respond to a request for comment…
Links #546
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged cops, drugs, games, imaginative fiction, Korea, marriage, Never Call the Cops, New York, Oklahoma, psychology, Taiwan, video on December 20, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Why are you in my home? – Kawaski Trawick, last words
Though there are rarely any decent holiday videos on YouTube any more (and when there are, they appear only a few days in advance), Christmas has long been a time for celebrating via mind-altering substances. I therefore present this video, provided by Jesse Walker, who also supplied “corpse” and both obits. The other links above the video are from Mike Siegel, Walter Olson, Mistress Matisse, Phoenix Calida, and Radley Balko, in that order.
- The Pooh pathology test.
- The resurrection of lost odors.
- Monogamy is a kind of mental illness.
- R.I.P. Charley Pride and John le Carré.
- A successor to Mr. Rogers, Korean style.
- Not because you’re locked out of your flat, either.
- A corpse pretending to be a mannequin pretending to be a corpse.
From the Archives
- Prohibitionist forced to admit prohibition is intended to harm sex workers.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- One of the smelliest turds from the collective Seattle anti-whore arsehole.
- DAs refusing to prosecute consensual acts are jury nullification writ large.
- Some rescue profiteers pretend to be ex-pimps; this guy really was one.
- PREA does nothing while screws have absolute power over their victims.
- Why whore licensing never works is obvious to everyone but politicians.
- Sometimes the pigs make an example of an unusually-awful rapist cop.
- “Signs of sex trafficking” have continued to proliferate to absurd levels.
- NSWP on state surveillance and harassment of sex workers who travel.
- Another rescue industry scam to exploit sex workers captured by cops.
- When South Korea provided “comfort women” to occupying US troops.
- When you give something to strangers, don’t be shocked if they sell it.
- The hotel industry is going to regret having collaborated with fanatics.
- Psychopathic sheriff loves staging entrapment schemes near holidays.
- Veteran activist Norma Jean Almodovar on leaving LAPD for sex work.
- Strippers are spearheading the movement for sex worker labor rights.
- The inane “wing” model leads its devotees down the road to Moronia.
- I’m glad people are beginning to realize how dangerous Facebook is.
- Here’s more detail on Philadelphia’s scam to steal citizens’ property.
- Academics keep “discovering” what we’ve been saying for decades.
- TSA’s specific plan is to help DHS build a giant biometric database.
- Louisiana somehow got a federal court to reverse its own decision.
- Florida lets screws deport people after beating and raping them.
- The government’s latest sleazy trick: attacking with civil suits.
- Cops are deeply twisted and in dire need of professional help.
- Cops ineptly try to regain control of a runaway moral panic.
- This is a type of surveillance the Stasi would recognize.
- Cops, D&D, relationships, Tom Lehrer and much more.
- They were “safeguarded”, no doubt at a “safe house”.
- The best news we’ve had yet about Amazon’s Ring.
- Shysters chasing the “sex trafficking” bandwagon.
- Feds arrest doctors for trying to heal people.
- Cops, farts, Caroll Spinney, and much more.
- Spending the holidays with my best friend.
- My previous columns for December 17th.
- I don’t know which is more exploitative.
- “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
- Cane is “contaminated” with sugar!
- I believe in Father Christmas.
- Rivers & McNeill ride again.
- Rapist cops of the week.
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