The Trump regime wants to start making a list of Jews (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/eeoc-university-pennsylvania-antisemitism-jewish.html). Now where have I heard that one before?
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@SteveBellovin the peope who think swastikas aren’t hate symbols want a list of Jews, in order to protect Jews. Naturally.
@mattblaze @SteveBellovin Anything else would be, um, antisemitic
@mattblaze @SteveBellovin Straightforwardly illegal in some European countries, I believe.
@negative12dollarbill @SteveBellovin This ain't Europe. There's an absolute confidence in the US that nothing like that could possibly happen here.
@mattblaze @SteveBellovin
I was thinking of this story from a while back. Some guy made a funny "is my favourite celebrity Jewish?" app and was liable for five years in jail.
Oh, I am absolutely sure.. I would not be surprised if Stephen Miller is personally collecting it all.
And I love it how everyone from Steven Miller to centrists say calling the right wing Nazis causes left-wing violence..
Except everywhere they are calling themselves Nazis or fascist or don’t mind being called fascist (see Donald Trump) and they don’t mind people using Nazi symbols or having Nazi tattoos.
Next week they will be goose stepping and just claiming they’re breaking in their shoes
the classic 
Cue SCOTUS ruling that the US Government collecting a list of all Jews is good actually, which is supposed to be an unsigned opinion to shield themselves from shame except that Brett Kavanaugh parachutes in at the last minute to write an opinion that no one asked for explicitly calling for all the Jews to be rounded up into camps.
John Roberts will then hit the speaker's circuit lamenting the lack of respect for SCOTUS.
@SteveBellovin maybe they can encode them on IBM punch cards.
@mattblaze @SteveBellovin these are levels of dark humor I wasn't prepared to see from you specifically, although I understand and it makes sense, it really doesn't sound like the kind of thing that'll go well
Let my class know a snippet of this history the other day. Every generation of engineers and technologists needs to learn it.
Dude that’s so 80s.. it all be collated either in Palantir then spread across multiple cloud services from AWS to Google to Microsoft. Or it’s all cashed away in Memphis someplace ™️
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @SteveBellovin oh, IBM cards do the job just fine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Sure, but we are so far beyond that. If the day does fall into the hands of Elon Musk, we can only take small comfort that he spends most of his time trying to tweak the algorithm of Mecha Hitler because it keeps on saying woke stuff.
@mattblaze @GhostOnTheHalfShell @SteveBellovin If we're updating things, we can laser print QRCodes on their wrists too!
@mattblaze @SteveBellovin oh, they're definitely going to be identified by AI. For their own safety of course.
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