How did they even get this information? Shouldn’t this be pretty closely guarded? I assume there are maybe a few dozen people with their hands on it…

For those that can’t see the article:

The sheriff of Fulton County, Ga., said on Tuesday that if former President Donald J. Trump were to be indicted in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the state, he would not receive special treatment, and would be booked and photographed like any other defendant.

The Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis, has signaled that she will bring indictments in the matter by the middle of the month.

“Unless someone tells me differently,” the sheriff, Patrick Labat, said on Tuesday, his office would follow “normal practices, and so it doesn’t matter your status. We’ll have mug shots ready for you.”

Sheriff Labat’s remarks raised the prospect that a former president could be booked at the county jail near downtown Atlanta. But it remains to be seen whether the Secret Service would weigh in and alter the sheriff’s plans, should an indictment of Mr. Trump come to pass. The sheriff of Fulton County, Ga., said on Tuesday that if former President Donald J. Trump were to be indicted in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the state, he would not receive special treatment, and would be booked and photographed like any other defendant.

The Fulton County district attorney, Fani T. Willis, has signaled that she will bring indictments in the matter by the middle of the month.

“Unless someone tells me differently,” the sheriff, Patrick Labat, said on Tuesday, his office would follow “normal practices, and so it doesn’t matter your status. We’ll have mug shots ready for you.”

Sheriff Labat’s remarks raised the prospect that a former president could be booked at the county jail near downtown Atlanta. But it remains to be seen whether the Secret Service would weigh in and alter the sheriff’s plans, should an indictment of Mr. Trump come to pass.

When Mr. Trump was booked in New York this year on charges related to what prosecutors called a hush-money scheme to cover up a potential sex scandal, the authorities there did not end up taking his mug shot. Mr. Trump’s campaign designed a fake mug shot anyway, printed it on T-shirts and offered them for sale at $36 each.

Sheriff Labat spoke at an afternoon news conference across the street from the Fulton County Courthouse, where orange security barricades were erected last week. He said that for months, he and other law enforcement agencies have been preparing for possible trouble in Atlanta surrounding the sprawling state investigation of election interference by Mr. Trump and his allies.

Mr. Labat said that “dozens” of threats had emerged in recent months, directed at him, the district attorney and local judges. He said that one person was arrested several months ago based on a threat investigation, and that the authorities were looking into other threats.

“The threats have been many,” he said. “And so they started via email, via text message, via personal phone calls. And just as we had threats before, both Madam D.A. and I, we ran those to ground.”

He added: “When you make a threat — when you become a keyboard bully — it’s our goal to come and really hold you accountable.”

A fresh batch of subpoenas have been sent out to witnesses in the election interference investigation, instructing them to appear before one of the two grand juries that are now meeting behind closed doors at the courthouse, where many employees of the prosecutor’s office have been told to work from home as a safety precaution.

The new subpoenas offer hints to some aspects of the matter that prosecutors may want to highlight for grand jurors.

One of the people commanded to testify is a former state senator, Jen Jordan — a Democrat who served on a subcommittee that heard a presentation from Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s former lawyer, in December 2020. In that presentation, Mr. Giuliani laid out a number of baseless allegations of electoral fraud. Ms. Jordan confirmed on Tuesday that she had received a subpoena.

Prosectors told Mr. Giuliani last year that he was one of about 20 targets of their investigation, and legal experts have said he might be charged with making false statements to state officials, as well as violations of the state’s racketeering laws. Mr. Giuliani’s lawyers have defended his conduct.

Now setting up separate user accounts isn’t a terrible idea…

Dude probably didn’t want a Forbes headline at all. I don’t think his personality holds up well to basic scrutiny for the public at large. If my dad for instance asks me about him he’s already lost.

More:

Another subpoena went to George Chidi, an Atlanta-area journalist who discovered a meeting in the State Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, of 16 Republicans who tried to cast bogus Electoral College votes for Mr. Trump, even though his defeat in Georgia had already been recertified. Mr. Chidi says that he was falsely told by someone at the meeting that it concerned “education,” and that he was kicked out.

Because he was “lied to and thrown out,” Mr. Chidi wrote this week in The Intercept, “it confirmed that the legislators were acting in secret, that they didn’t want the press or public to know what they were doing.”

The 16 Republicans were also named as targets; as of May, more than half of them had taken immunity deals. Their meeting is likely to be an element of an alleged corrupt scheme that prosecutors will describe for grand jurors if they seek racketeering charges.

Both Ms. Jordan and Mr. Chidi have already appeared before a separate “special purpose” grand jury that investigated the election meddling efforts in Georgia but lacked indictment power. That panel’s recommendations have largely been kept secret, although the forewoman strongly hinted in an interview that the recommendations included indicting Mr. Trump, among others.

Mr. Chidi, in an interview, said he was concerned about prosecutors making “a habit” of subpoenaing reporters. In his article for The Intercept, he said he would probably testify, because he was given assurances that he would be asked only questions relating to what he saw that day.

As indictments have drawn closer in recent weeks, lawyers for Mr. Trump, along with the state’s Republican Party, have become more aggressive in pushing back against the investigation. A state party-created website likens news coverage of the bogus Trump electors to stories about Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster.

Last month, the State Supreme Court unanimously rejected a long-shot attempt by the Trump legal team to scuttle the investigation ahead of indictments. And on Monday, the presiding judge in Superior Court, Robert C.I. McBurney, suggested that Mr. Trump’s lawyers were gumming up the legal process with frivolous filings, and encouraged them to follow professional standards “before burdening other courts with unnecessary and unfounded legal filings.”

Mr. Trump has taken personal shots at Ms. Willis, saying she was a “racist” and calling for street demonstrations if he is indicted.

Over the weekend, Ms. Willis, who is Black, forwarded an offensive email she recently received to a number of local officials. She called the email, which referred to her with an inflammatory and racist epithet, as “pretty typical and what I have come to expect,” adding, “I am sending to you in case you are unclear on what I and my staff have come accustomed to over the last two and a half years. I guess I am sending this as a reminder that you should stay alert over the month of August and stay safe.”

In a reply, the county’s solicitor general, Keith E. Gammage, wrote that he was “deeply offended” and that the email was “meant to threaten, harass and intimidate, not just you, but all of us.”

Portland is The Matrix confirmed

Yeah you’re pretty much dead on. If they were doing something even remotely interesting they would say that without being vague.

“I run an Amazon dropship reseller service for cheap pots and planters” is kinda dumb but you are running an actual business. the only way saying you’re an entrepreneur is cool is if you are selling something so sophisticated no one will have any clue what the fuck it is… and even then you’d elaborate a little.

The silence on the matter speaks volumes.

Lemmy celebrate!

I’m starting to see car abusers as a serious fucking problem. Burning dinosaur juice just for going somewhere for your own aims? I have never seen so many selfish people that don’t give a fuck. You’re going to kill us all.

It’s not full ecosystem collapse that’s going to kill us. I bet about 20% of the way there life will become untenable. There is no way that it’s not exponential progress. It will hit us like lightning.

This was either kept in a display case or it had crusty magazines rolled in it under a pile of mail.

I’m starting to see cat pictures, I think we’re finally getting there.

Spiders georg at it again

Well thanks for the information. I would have guessed at least in a case like this it would be semi-private at least.

I understand the need for transparency, but I guess the people abusing that are typically breaking the law anyway.

For memory Samsung all day. Micro/SD cards etc the big camera manufacturers source solid stuff if you aren’t a fan of Samsung.

If you’re talking about readers I don’t think anyone does anything particularly well. Anker might be my preferred brand though. Lots of companies rip them off.

I'd love to see some sort of local star universe map that shows what everything is looking at!

Honestly it’s pretty thought to make the food super neutral and still really good. You can follow all religious restrictions and still have trouble with what they actually like haha.

Mr Bean’s “time to get serious” car.

I think this might be the year that the void is going to win.

Worth it

I don’t think the tribal instinct is particularly wrong here though. I think it will be a natural part of this place to some extent. I know that certain communities have decided to close off a bit more. For even personal or safety reasons I think this is a good idea.

At a larger scale I think it will make this a very very interesting part of the internet. The entire ActivityPub/Fediverse is actually the most viable replacement for all of these social media websites collapsing at the same time.

Allowing all sorts of different types of communities to talk to each other is amazing. Allowing them their own democratic agency in who they associate with is going to be even better!

I’m really excited where this tech is headed. I think “the killer app” here is that everything melds together. Eventually a news company will publish directly here and the reporters/opinion writers will comment here too.

It’s Twitter/Web 1.0/Reddit wrapped into one. Maybe more.

It doesn’t “know” anything. It can’t solve that problem. It’s trained on humans so it’s limited to what we have written down.

I love ChatGPT but if it’s creative it’s because you asked it the right questions and found an oblique answer yourself.

I asked for help with a budget and it came up with $1000 extra out of thin air, cleverly spaced. I almost didn’t even notice!

I’d say I trust it with language and literary ventures. I’ve heard it can be solid for slapping down code…

But yeah the second day it came out I tried to get it to write spec sheets and it was always critically wrong somewhere. The gist was there but it couldn’t reference anything tangible.

It’s a “first draft” engine. It’s fantastic for that, but anyone making claims or looking for anything else out of it is just looking in the mirror.

I used to go to bed after 3am sometimes reading that damned site. I think I did 1:30 last night. I really desperately needed to get away from there. Nothing about it was healthy. I can get my stupid depthhub and TIL style information from Wikipedia. I will miss the professionals chiming in until that starts to happen around here.

I definitely welcome the detox. I think I might have even felt it for real the first couple of days.

That thing looks like it has multi-axis bale positioning. You better get on that before you lose your chance.

No, but you’re defending them. What makes them different really than any mass killers trying to get what they want through violence?

You’ve gotta be one of those people that are just mad at society and want to lash out, seeing that anyone that doesn’t agree with you must be punished.

There’s no way you would go out of your way for any other reason. You need therapy.

Generally the rule of thumb is that if you can see their mirrors they can see you.

I feel like it’s missing more irreverence. Like maybe the categories are more defined. Stocking store shelves as social media is pretty funny… also generally good job.

This is one of the dumbest takes I’ve ever seen if you’ve read anything about how American politics works. It may sound smart on Reddit but you are speaking like a 15 year old Swedish kid. I’m banning you from politics for a week so you can go read some books.

This is a very unique take and I’m here for it.

I mean we could, but we’d secretly have to get four battery modules each the size of the international space station into orbit.

This should be the default response to this asshole.

Reductivist, boring, and accurate. I’m impressed

He has to do a physical side-quest every time anything breaks.

That sucks. /r/homeimprovement was starting to get really good too.

Finding the root cause is always good. Other than that lifestyle choices are a big factor

I’ve noticed this as well. It unfortunately tends to sway the masses. If they can pick out one thing or can say an individual reason it’s better than something else it immediately has 100x credibility in my eyes.

“Wow great product and service! The seller shipped on time and delivered promptly”

VS

“I got this because it’s red and I like that more than the green option from OtherSeller. Still kinda ok but I got what I want.”

Especially on Amazon the first one is just insane. It has no identifying details and could relate to anything.

Bruh I have gotten far worse than that posting just basic information on Reddit… what is this world even?

It’s also 1000x better for the environment. I don’t give a fuck if my brand tastes 87% like milk at that point. I still and will use creams for cooking, but milk and cereal is such a weird industry now that it’s all really expensive.

People are insane to not want tech like the Fediverse to grow. I guess people have their hang ups though.

One quick rebuttal. I personally as a nobody think that carbs are generally important as a food source for humans.