Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

If a seven-year-old can’t walk to the store the fault lies not with the parents but with the community.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oo5c7ttf4pwp7p5dxpzd3bcs/post/3lqwv6uucrc2f

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lqx5b7w2wt2h

The fact that both a magistrate judge and a district judge denied the government a search warrant for an Instagram account run by student protesters at Columbia University speaks to the lack of probable cause, EFF’s Mario Trujillo told @theintercept. https://theintercept.com/2025/06/04/fbi-columbia-gaza-warrant-instagram/

The thing to remember is that it is not up to you whether or not you are criminal: it is up to those in power how they label you. So the #civilrights of criminals are the civil rights you have - or don't have. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-mass-deporation-stephen-miller-rcna210396

Sacramento County Sheriff jailing people for as long as 4 days for "illegal camping" or for sleeping outdoors because they are #homeless. https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/homeless/article307003236.html

Columbia University did the cowardly thing and caved in to the Trump regime. Now it's learning that bullies don't stop once they've found a pliant victim.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-department-says-columbia-university-violated-federal-anti-2025-06-04/

Johnson County, TX sheriff searched 680 license plate reader networks and 83,000 cameras across multiple states in search of a woman who was "having an abortion" using the Flock system. States that permit #abortion access couldn't stop it from happening. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-texas-cop-used-83000-cameras-track-her-down

Among the many dangerous things the Trump administration is doing ...

... this one's a doozy:

the executive order giving his political appointees the power to determine what are "correct" scientific findings, and "the power to 'discipline' anyone who violates the way the administration views science"

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/climate/executive-order-gold-standard-science.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MU8.OyDj.Zg9c1rftvl0c&smid=url-share

“We live in a country without a comprehensive federal privacy law, so your personal data has been freely harvested and sold for a long time,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told Norfolk's WAVY NBC10. https://www.wavy.com/news/disturbing-data-personal-information-being-bought-and-sold-how-you-can-stop-it/

So now I have:

Subversion as my RCS. Git is overwhelmingly the most popular these days, to point there's people unaware anything else exists.

I never found a compelling reason to stop using Subversion. I like it.