Footage shows NY officers beating prisoner before death
Newly released bodycam footage appears to show New York corrections officers fatally beating a handcuffed inmate who died the following morning. The inmate, 43-year-old Robert Brooks, was pronounced dead on 10 December, the day after the incident took place at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
Following an internal review, New York Governor Kathy Hochul ordered the firing of the 13 officers and a prison nurse who were involved in the assault. The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James has opened an investigation into Brooks' death, and the union that represents state prison workers called the video "incomprehensible".
I hang out on Mastodon quite a bit. 1 One of the most consistently engaging people in the Mastodon fediverse is @futurebird@sauropods.win. Besides pro-ant propaganda, you get thoughts about teaching and mathematics, micro-science fiction, her cat Pica (often wronged, always right), and much more. Highly recommended.
She tooted:
The scientific illustrator, Quentell came to the US after WWII ...
Who is Quentell, I wondered?
...I did enjoy this weird journey discovering a man who did not exist. It's fascinating to consider how in an information society a mythical figure such as Jung-Koch Quentell can be created by accident.
It demonstrates how easy it is to casually pollute our information landscape.
I feel like I'm an ape who is expected to be enamored with thier reflection an imperfect mirror. Interesting, but I'll play the contrarian and not look. 😀
I just spoke to the warehouse. In an effort to ship as many orders as possible before the holidays, they used all available packaging. They now have new boxes and future orders will be packaged to a better standard. I am sorry for the subpar experience. I hope the toy has arrived safely.
All good, man. Appreciate the reply. It totally made it safely and intact so that’s what matters. A small heads up in the shipping notification or something would’ve sufficed. No need to apologize and I’m glad they’re finally available here in the US!
Is there an easy way of setting it up on just a local network? The need for it to be publically accessible with a domain is a major source of friction imo.
@KAM0F Just because something is open source doesn't mean it's free, they use google adsense to generate money and be able to offer you their content for free without paying unlike many news sites that limit the amount you can read or put it behind a paywall or block those who use adblockers.
@nsoolo There are alternatives to invasive google trackers. EthicalAds & Blockchain-Ads is one example. They may not make as much money as google but it is the honest way to go for those who talk about and promote opensource software and hardware...
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I have an EOS partition on my system, and I have EOS on a notebook. It's a well-made distro, and I like it. Yet, I feel I'm not giving it the love it deserves. In 2025, I'm resolving to put it to more use. 😀
I like Ubuntu well enough, but I did not enjoy Mint at all. It was the first distro I tried, same as many other folks I'm sure, and it nearly put me off Linux altogether. I moved to Ubuntu and am happy enough there that I've yet to try anything else yet.
These articles always tempt me a little to try other distros, but I scratch the itch just by reading them 😁
There's a newer one of this of a fellow rescuing a koala who is breaking its way into a gas plant in Western Australia, but it's only up on Facebook. This video will have to do.
Desmond continues to model for my Freecycle photos! This photo actually blew up on our local Freecycle. Everyone wanted to know about Desmond! No one wanted the mugs! I even had people sending me photos of their cats! Oh well, it was worth a laugh!
What helps us to take responsibility for our mistakes? A recent study says the key might lie with your belief that people can change.
"When you believe that your behavior can change, you are more likely to be willing to admit responsibility. A big reason why you are able to admit fault is that you recognize that once you admit what you have done wrong, you can work to make it better, and so you are not threatened by admitting mistakes. People who do not believe that they can change are stressed by admitting their mistakes, because they believe that those mistakes say something fundamental about who they are as a person."
Long long ago, I was working in an office and brought a FedEx package into the mailroom. Handed it to a staffer, and left. When I got back to my desk I realized I'd made some error with the package (don't recall now what it was). So I went back to the mailroom and asked for the package back because I'd made a mistake.
The mailroom guy looked at me and said, "Will you marry me?"
Huh?
Guess he wasn't used to "higher ups" admitting they'd done something wrong.
Personal Observation: People change. When they don't usually it's considered a chronic mental illness.
And really, the idea is to not make the same mistake twice and work to help others not make the same mistake (training, documentation, velvet ropes, etc.)
This is ableist propaganda. Just because the system has been taking the taxes of disabled people and funneling them to inaccessible things, doesn't mean that LLMs trained on stolen creativity are the solution. When it's free or cheap, institutions like assistive tech. When it requires their own investment, they usually deny assistive tech. Because they're NOT about making things accessible. They could have done that ages ago.
Artificial intelligence holds the promise of helping countless other students with a range of visual, speech, language and hearing impairments to execute tasks that come easily to others. Schools everywhere
Over the festive period Valve released an update to Proton Experimental, bringing in more game fixes for the likes of Marvel Rivals and other games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.
Kenny Chaffin
in reply to Muse • • •WOW!!!! Fascinating and Fucking Terrifying!!
...boils down to this I think:
"The internet is truly in for a wild ride, and I don't think most people see this coming."
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Richard
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