"Happy Weiner Wednesday!" - St Paul Mayor Her

AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 16 hours

TLDR: St Paul Minnesota mayor Kaohly Her sent that meme to her chief of police and is facing other sexual harassment allegations from other city employees. The redaction is the face of an officer that’s part of her security detail.

St Paul appears to have elected a female Michael Scott from The Office, and the local subreddit is having a lot of fun making memes about this (but also agrees this is totally inappropriate).

Mods: I can mark this NSFW if you want, in context it’s definitely NSFW and that’s the problem here lol.

AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 5 days

Quite a few banking apps work on Graphene OS. My bank isn’t listed and it works on Graphene too (I really should contribute to that list). The big downside is probably having to buy a new phone for it but if you need to upgrade anyway it might be worth considering. The only app I’ve run into so far that didn’t just work was the Target app but it works with a bit of tinkering. I’ve only been using Graphene on my phone for two weeks now but all of the apps I used on my old phone are on here and working.

AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 9 days

He also kept digging when the backlash hit. It wasn’t a great look, and the initial take was, at best, deeply naive.

That said, I’m actually considering switching to Proton over this. I think his statements are nowhere as bad as this Mullvad donation and I’m in the slow process of de-Googling and Proton’s other offerings would be a huge step towards that. It probably isn’t great to have email and calender and passwords and cloud storage and VPN all through one company, but it’s better than two with one being Google.

AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 11 days

There’s a lot of “but why don’t they stop if that they’re doing is so unpopular?” comments and I’ve got one more explanation (on top of the obvious money and technofaschism points).

A bunch of these tech CEOs are part of the “Rationalist community” and possibly believe in Roko’s Basilisk which is a thought experiment that an otherwise benevolent AGI would punish anyone who didn’t actively work to bring it about. Someone want to link the BtB episodes about them? I know the Zizian episodes go into it but iirc they’ve got a dedicated series about these weirdos.