[#]Libraries #Librarians #Rwsist #Politics #Anarchist
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"We added a Patriot Act compliance officer to our org chart. This person was a real employee."
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"Well, WAS. The office of Patriot Act compliance would be assigned to whichever employee had just left our library. And gosh, it's just such a mess around here, you know."
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Unfortunately nobody can remember the password to the system that has those records. So we have to get IT involved, which means running through more detailed security resets to make sure other systems aren't compromised. It should take a couple weeks.
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"The library where I worked at the time did not successfully fulfill a single Patriot Act request.
Not that this is relevant to the current situation. I assure you this is a random memory that popped into my head with zero prompting. "
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@indubitablyodin ::stands up::
::applauds::
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@indubitablyodin this is why I’m proud to be a librarian.
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A lot of people forget how Republicans used the hysteria of 9/11 to gain powers that they later used against domestic political opponents, dissidents, advocates, & journalists
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/
https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238
https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/oracle-s-coziness-with-government-goes-back-to-2820370.php
https://www.nyclu.org/commentary/ubiquitous-surveillance-and-civil-rights-infringements-tragic-legacy-911
Ubiquitous surveillance being its most enduring legacy
https://www.newsweek.com/death-western-valuessurveillance-conformity-post-9-11-state-opinion-1906892
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/09/02/two-decades-later-the-enduring-legacy-of-9-11/
https://www.nyclu.org/report/repression-surveillance-and-resistance-20-years-after-911
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_War_Home
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiding_in_Plain_Sight_(Kendzior_book)
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@Npars01 @indubitablyodin Yup #RepublicansHateTheUSA
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@Npars01 Absolutely. And it's terrifying to think about how (relatively) easily they did it. And how impotent all efforts to remove those powers proved to be. Powers that hook-line-and sinkered us right into the current climate. Wheeeee.
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Dear Larry:
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@indubitablyodin I am taping a torn page in a library book in her honor
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@indubitablyodin This is all cool and dandy but you've never met Nazis willing to burn down the library.
These stories were cool to deal with something that resembled a government.
That world is gone, the US as a democratic state with a stable system of governance is dead.
The US is being managed by Nazis now.
If the library doesn't comply, the Nazis will burn it down, this is the new reality.
Wake up.
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@vruz @indubitablyodin But they still won’t have anybody’s browsing history.
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Oh great. That's so bright, isn't it.
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@vruz @indubitablyodin @elaine1helen it prevents them from using that to go after people, which is really important. I don’t get why you’re so cynical about this (assuming the comment I replied to was sarcasm)
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https://catvalente.substack.com/p/keep-calm-and-fing-stop-this-s
It was about the election, but it's still relevant now.
Stop dumping your hopelessness on the people who are working to fix this.
Will what they're doing here be enough? No, but no one thing will solve this and incremental progress is a win. Others will do things on other fronts.
There will be no hero, because no one fixes this alone - it'll be the sum total of a LOT of little things that makes the difference.
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@vruz @elaine1helen @indubitablyodin Also worth reading - https://www.joanwestenberg.com/we-dont-need-more-cynics-we-need-more-builders/
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@vruz @indubitablyodin Nothing is helped by dumping your failure to cope on others.
Maybe some things they do won't be enough, but better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Meanwhile, I suggest you stop giving up before you start.
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@vruz @indubitablyodin that was a response for the situation at the time, not a tutorial for how to survive a totalitarian state, take the same thinking, and apply it to the current situation.
The general idea, is that sabotage can take many forms, some extremely effective, despite a high degree of plausible deniability, and relatively low risk for the people committing it.
I saw a post sometime ago about a guy painting small rocks in pink and dropping them randomly to keep the stasis on edge.
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@vruz @indubitablyodin “Wake up” meaning what exactly? That the library should comply out of fear? Do you have any idea how many people owe their lives to small acts of resistance like these during WWII? What is your goal in replying with this smug defeatism?
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@indubitablyodin That's how you do it.
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