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'Make 'em famous!' MAGA border czar wants 'database' of ICE protesters to ruin their lives
Do not help them to build any more of this machine.
If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's really important to NOT do it.
"The governor is concerned about all this stuff they want us to update our record keeping so we store both gender AND biological sex."
"We need fields to store the country of origin of people's parents."
If you don't have the power to rebuff this yourself, ask for help. At minimum ask for help online anonymously.
Depending on your job you probably have in the past made compromises. Maybe to keep your job. Maybe to survive. This is a bright line. If you are asked to be the one to update the table don't let it be your fingers typing those changes.
If you can't just say "No I won't do that." Stall, run away, feign incompetence. Just don't let it happen.
I suspect this might be where the rubber hits the road first for us around here.
Nothing has changed. You do not have to do it. It is not even ordained.
I know someone who rebuffed such a request. Boss was apologetic "it's what the higher ups want, oh *I* think it's a lot of nonsense, but I don't want us to be out of step ... blah blah"
It was proposed to them in sheepish way. They said it would be a lot of work, not add anything of value, and most important they would not do it. It didn't come up again.
Fascism can be the work of zealots, but there are also many sheepish middle management helping hands who "don't even believe in this really"
There is a lively discussion of this on mastodon. (Mastodon is a very active social network where many people who left twitter have gone over the past few years to escape many problems of big centralized socail media. I like it a lot.) Posting a response to this post over there could be a way to get lots of help and ideas from tech people all over the world with similar values. If you do need help. Please say something.
Also, if you respond to this post I can pass what you say along if that would help too. People will respond and give you ideas to NOT do this should you be asked.
If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's r
From Trump campaign signs to Planned Parenthood bumper stickers, license plate readers around the US are creating searchable databases that
Do. Not. Want.
THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION -EPISODE SIX
It's here! Episode Six of The Holmwood Foundation! Catch it at the link below, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Database
Content Warning: static, swearing, themes of possession/removal of bodily autonomy and depictions of violence, including implied off-screen violence to an animal. Listener discretion is advised.
The Holmwood Foundation is a Found Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast, a modern-day sequel to the gothic novel Dracula.
We follow Maddie Townsend (Rebecca Root) and Jeremy Larkin (Seán Carlsen), two co-workers at the Holmwood Foundation: a secret organisation that has been maintaining and studying the remains of Count Dracula for the last 130 years, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a nightmare road trip, carrying Dracula's severed head across the UK, in an effort to stop him once and for all.
EPISODE CAST AND CREW: Madeline Townsend/Mina Harker: Rebecca Root Jeremy Larkin/Jonathan Harker: Seán Carlsen Thomas Van Helsing: Basil Waite Henri Martin: Michelle Kelly Magdalena Swift: Candace Mcafee Dr Lake: David Ault Dracula: Attila Puskas Arthur Jones: Samuel Clemens The Farmer: Alasdair Stuart DJ Dave: Karim Kronfli The Sister: Jackie Calistahhh The Thralls: Becky Wright Security Officer: Dan Tyrie Jonathan Harker the Third: Andrew Biss Computer Voice: Peter Wicks Phone Voice: Georgia Cook 101 Operator: Fio Trethewy The episode was produced and written by Fio Trethewey and Georgia Cook. Directing by Samuel Clemens. Script Editing by Katharine Armitage. Sound Design and Engineering by Benji Clifford The Theme music was composed and produced by Duncan Muggleton, and the episode art was produced by Georgia Cook
For more information, as well as transcripts and further Cast and Crew details, please visit our official website:
www.theholmwoodfoundation.com
New episodes bi-weekly from now until August. Episode Seven will be dropping on August 19th, and join us this time next week for a listen-along live stream! (More details to come)
Simpsons Comics #241
Trumpy donors say the pro-Kirk “exposure” project took tens of thousands before going dark.
A pro-MAGA website that urged supporters to fund a database unmasking Charlie Kirk critics took tens of thousands in crypto—then vanished, infuriating donors.
Instant karma. I hope trump and the other MAGA grifters take their last few dimes. Thinking they are funding revenge and instead getting scammed is great. I love that for them. Trying to dig a ditch for others and they end up in it. I think it was God's will.