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Da Cap’n@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin

www.theverge.com

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This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin

www.theverge.com

Da Cap’n@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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    this is the most dystopian title I have read in a while

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      I keep thinking back to this article:

      I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

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    Coffee didn’t hit my brain before reading the headline; I thought this was an app to report ICE sightings lol

    (Maybe someone on F-droid could get on that?)

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      Thats what I thought too. The reality is still fucked up, but I don’t feel one iota of bad for people getting scammed for using an app to snitch to ICE.

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      We’ve got a hotline in Colorado! (844) 864-8341 They verify reports and share info with the community, and dispatch volunteer legal observers and immigration attorneys. Not sure if orgs in any other states have stood up something similar.

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        Does anyone know if Arizona has a hotline for this?

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          It looks like Puente Arizona and the Phoenix Legal Action Network have one, but it might just be in the Phoenix area. 480-506-7437, more info here.

          • CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world
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            Thank you🙏

    • Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      (Maybe someone on F-droid could get on that?)

      Seconded! I read and thought the same things, something like that would be huge right now. Hell of a time crunch and hostile work environment, but it could save a lot of lives.

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    It’s a grift, inside a con, wrapped up in a scam!

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      Or since 1/5, an average Tuesday in America.

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    So let’s spin up some AI generated “photos” and flood their servers with fake reports!

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      The only legitimate use of genAI…

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    And there you have it folks. The big reveal. Trump, with help from who else, Elon, is taking all the dumbshits that follow him for a ride with crypto. Why crypto? Because it’s essentially trillions of dollars of unregulated, untraceable, revenue stream without legal scrutiny. No pump and dump has been successfully challenged and nearly every “influencer” (which let’s face it, that’s what Trump is) at one point has cashed in.

    Yeah. It’s not very clever. But it’s Trump and Elon. Two people not know for their brains.

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    How’s it feel to live in the cyberpunk prequel?

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    Anything being promoted by the likes of Loomer, Engels, and (most punchable face) Gaetz should be a top-level red flag to run away screaming into the night away from that thing…

    🤡 🖕 🖕

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      Am I supposed to know who any of those people are?

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        Reading the article would tell you exactly who they are… 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️

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          Fuck I’m stupid

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        Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz are United States fascist politicians. I assume so is the other person named, but the only Engels I’m familiar with is Friedrich.

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    Could this be reverse engineered?

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    Wanted to take a look at it but it’s not even in play store.

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