Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans to El Salvador sparks legal questions likely to reach the Supreme Court
A scholar explains why the Trump administration’s actions may violate the constitution.The Conversation
REACTION: Bolsonaro Will Stand Trial
#politics #brazil #democracy
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REACTION: Bolsonaro Will Stand Trial
Brazil's Supreme Court has ruled that former President Jair Bolsonaro will stand trial for attempting a coup. What happens next?Americas Quarterly
I'm very angry at Unity again after reading this:
theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w…
The most I got out of it is that Unity "talked to their customers and explained why they raised license fees so much."
Go look up their quarterly public financial disclosures. They are losing _so_ much money, and their only option is to make it your problem. They've made so many non-gaming acquisitions that haven't worked out and need someone to pay for them.
CEO Matt Bromberg on ending Unity’s ‘war’ against its customers
After the runtime fee debacle and former CEO John Riccitiello’s resignation, Bromberg had to make big changes and get them right fast.Nilay Patel (The Verge)
And to be extra clear, I'm currently unemployed because they decided the tiny startup I was working was an industry customer because they got to decide that we had rich "clients" even if we don't get money from them. -_-
"Please pay us tens of thousands extra now or we shut down your business." Now we don't have enough to pay everyone AND Unity. Fuck off!
Chuck Schumer Is Pushing Young People Away From the Democratic Party With His Toothless Leadership
Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer are clinging to the political center, failing to meet the urgency of the Trump administration and its policies.Leah Juliett (Teen Vogue)
How to Save a Democracy: Americans Can Learn From Opponents of Authoritarianism Elsewhere
Americans can learn from opponents of authoritarianism elsewhere.Laura Gamboa (Foreign Affairs Magazine)
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Friends, we all know that Agile™ is junk and Scrum and Sprints as practices by certified™ masters™ of same are managerial control tools, not helpful processes for getting work done.
Agile Manifesto good.
Agile as currently inflicted on teams bad.
We all know this through lived experience, but saying that to manglement isn't enough. What research and or books exist on this topic?
I've read at least one study about this, which got the No True Scotsman fallacy directed right at it when I posted it in our work Slack channel for discussing programming-relevant white papers. The No True Scotsman fallacy is super-popular when you try to talk about this. Sigh.
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Analysis of project management principles with the Scrum framework in systems development
Objetivo: Demonstrar como a gestão ágil de projetos com o uso do framework Scrum contribui na melhoria do gerenciamento de projetos de sistemas para uma Organização Pública.bjopm.org.br
Signal sees its downloads double after scandal | TechCrunch
Encrypted messaging app Signal continues to see spiking downloads in the wake of the messaging scandal that saw The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief JeffreySarah Perez (TechCrunch)
California Has 48% More EV Chargers Than Gas Nozzles - Slashdot
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#news #tech #technology #california #electricvehicles #evchargers
California Has 48% More EV Chargers Than Gas Nozzles - Slashdot
California has 11.3% of America's population — but bought 30% of America's new zero-emission vehicles.hardware.slashdot.org
Lula vows WTO appeal, threatens US with tariff retaliation
#politics #brazil #UnitedStates #economy #geopolitics
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Lula vows WTO appeal, threatens tariff retaliation
Brazilian president notes $7bn US surplus in $87bn bilateral trade: “We can’t stay silent”Valor international
"Guess who showed up to defend #Tesla? The Proud Boys, armed militias, and at one event in Idaho, and a guy dressed as Hitler.
As #Musk continues to tear through the federal government, and Tesla’s stock price continues to plummet, the organizers of the Tesla Takedown movement have pledged to continue to protest, with the movement now reaching other parts of the world as well." #TeslaTakedown
I think this is the neatest this bookshelf is ever gonna be! I haven't attached the cabinet to the wall yet (needs different fittings) but the record player is all hooked up!
The pre-amp and power socket are hidden in the bottom half of the skinny bookshelf, and the amplified signal goes behind the bookshelves to the main amp under the TV
Presidents can be elected twice. Trump could try end runs around that, experts say
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5191889/is-trump-running-for-a-third-term?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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White House says it's 'case closed' on the Signal group chat review
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5345865/white-house-signal-group-chat-review?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Why would a musician join OnlyFans? Because making a living is only getting harder
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/g-s1-57321/only-fans-musicians-kate-nash-lizzie-no?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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KGEI Transmitter Building, Redwood City, CA, 2024.
All the pixels, none of the RF radiation, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54…
KGEI Transmitter Building
Redwood City, CA 10 November 2024 Rodenstock 50mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back, Cambo 1250 camera (vertically shifted -5mm). KGEI was a 250KW commercial shortwave international radio broadcast station.Flickr
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#england #sunderland #sculpture #photography
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This die photo shows the parts of the Pentium. Let's take a quick look at the microcode ROM...1/N
Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry
Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer performs. However, many processors have another layer of ...www.righto.com
Court win for investors may sway SEC’s probe of Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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The image features a detailed black and white illustration of a crab. The crab is depicted in a realistic style, with a textured shell and prominent claws. It is carrying a large, sack-like bag on its back, secured with a rope tied in a bow. The bag appears to be made of a coarse material, possibly burlap, and is open at the top, suggesting it might be used for holding items. The crab's eyes are visible, giving it a lifelike appearance. The background is a plain, beige color, which contrasts with the detailed drawing of the crab and the bag. Below the illustration, the text "CRAB OF HOLDING" is written in a serif font within a rectangular border, indicating the title or theme of the image.
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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian officeLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
"The claim could not be independently confirmed." ← how can this happen? Don’t they take photos as evidence when they dig out corpses?
This is the one piece of evidence that would not rely on "someone said", and it can’t be independently confirmed? It was repeated multiple times in the article, but not confirmed?
ABOUT MARINE LE PEN’S CONVICTION
it’s interesting to see the hand-wringing over barring Le Pen from electoral politics for 5 years, not the 4 years of prison (2 of them commuted) that she needs to serve.
but am not going to spend time on what’s a rather pedestrian case of corruption by embezzlement.
no.
am going to bring attention to the case France needed; to smack awake it’s judicial & legal system: the Pelicot #Rape Trial
Dominique Pelicot jailed for 20 years
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51 MEN WHERE CONVICTED IN THE #PELICOT #RAPE TRIAL
been avoiding CNN recently ―for obvious fascist reasons― but this is one helluva headline y’all need to sit with:
Gisèle Pelicot: France mass rape trial ends with 51 guilty verdicts - and fears justice hasn’t been served | CNN
cnn.com/2024/12/19/europe/peli…
51 men were convicted because those are the ones Pelicot’s lawyers had enough evidence to prosecute. there were many more men who participated in raping her for 20 years.
let that sink in…
why refusing to address rape is one of the symptoms of a culture and a political system going down the rabbit hole of #fascism?
because it engenders #corruption at all levels of society.
consider the fact that Dominique Pelicot recruited fellow rapists from a social media site that was finally closed down even though there are 23,000 oustanding criminal cases related to it:
France Indicts Founder of Notorious Website Used in Pelicot Rape Case - The New York Times - nytimes.com/2025/01/09/world/e…
France Indicts Founder of Notorious Website Used in Pelicot Rape Case
The site, coco.fr, was shut down in June after being linked to more than 23,000 sexual abuse and other cases in France alone, including the rape trial that shocked the country last year.Catherine Porter (The New York Times)
ignoring rape cases, assuming that all men rape or that women ―especially white, cisgender women― do not rape, THAT IS PART OF THE BANALITY OF EVIL.
once you believe humans’ nature is to be predators, and can’t do anything about it, then all social contracts are null & void. THAT’S how #fascism flourishes, by rejecting any and all sociality, especially “do unto others”.
France is in an #antifa revival & the Pelicot case is its point of inflection. taking out Le Pen, is the cherry on top.
PS: because People Mag won’t fluff celebrities nuts without fact-checking:
❝ In a deposition during the divorce proceedings, Ivana was under oath when she accused her estranged husband of rape.
[…]
"I referred to this as a 'rape,' but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense," Ivana said in a statement.❞
people.com/politics/ivana-trum…
the POTUS is a rapist because American culture is fundamentally fascist. the worse parts of USA culture inspired Mussolini & Hitler.
Inside Ivana and Donald Trump's Explosive — and Expensive — 1990s Divorce, Dubbed the 'Billion Dollar Blowup'
'Don't get mad, get everything,' Ivana, playing herself, says in her iconic cameo in the 1996 divorce caper 'The First Wives Club'Aaron Parsley (PEOPLE)
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Building a Sliding Tile Clock
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Building A Sliding Tile Clock
Hackers like making clocks, and we like reporting on them around these parts. Particularly if they’ve got a creative mechanism that we haven’t seen before. This fine timepiece from [goo…Hackaday
Happy #transdayofvisibility , everyone!
We are here. We will always be here. We're not going away.
I'm Nikki. I'm a college professor here in Upstate NY. I started transitioning in 2019, and publicly came out in 2022. Right now life is interesting, but the last couple of years I wouldn't trade for anything.
I'm me. I'm finally me.
Is this related at all to the new album by Clipping., "Dead Channel Sky"? Or maybe a short sci-fi story I wrote a few years ago featuring information bounties and nanobots? The main character wears reflective sunglasses to dissuade the nanobot swarms.
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Mirrorshades pt. 2 (feat. Cartel Madras)
Provided to YouTube by Sub Pop RecordsMirrorshades pt. 2 (feat. Cartel Madras) · clipping.Dead Channel Sky℗ 2025 Sub Pop RecordsReleased on: 2025-03-14Produc...YouTube
*Yeah, I've also been thinking along this line of historical analogy
*John Ruskin used to complain that molten cast iron was a formless slop devoid of honest human endeavour
Russia trying to bypass Ukraine's positions in Toretsk by going underground, military says
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#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini
Russia trying to bypass Ukraine's positions in Toretsk by going underground, military says
"Since this is also a priority sector, the Russians are trying to use every chance to bypass Ukrainian troops," said Victor Tregubov, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Khortytsia group of forces.Kateryna Denisova (The Kyiv Independent)
I have had the pleasure of meeting Hoshina Seki a couple of times while visiting the New York Buddhist Church in Manhattan and the American Buddhist Study Center located therein (of which Hoshina is president).
Here is an article written last year where Hoshina describes her path as a trans woman with the backdrops of life in America as a Buddhist woman and as a Japanese American.
I find it very pertinent today, especially as she describes attacks against Japanese immigrants and US citizens of Japanese descent by the US govt that mirror the ICE raids that we're seeing today.
#TransDayOfVisibility #ICE #Buddhism
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Hoshina Seki Describes Path as a Trans Woman
It was always meant to be. That’s what my life is all about. But let me unravel how this Japanese American was asked to write this article. First, I do not know why.Hoshina Seki (BCA)
![Like other Symbian-based mobile phone of its time, but unlike Ericsson R380, the P900 is an open phone. This means that it is possible to develop and install third party applications without restrictions. A UIQ 2.1 SDK based upon Symbian C++ is freely available from the Sony Ericsson developer website.[2] Additionally, the P900 supports applications written in Java. Because of this openness, many third-party applications exist that can be used on the P900 and other UIQ phones (such as the Motorola A1000 and BenQ P30). Many are shareware and freeware.](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/431748 "Like other Symbian-based mobile phone of its time, but unlike Ericsson R380, the P900 is an open phone. This means that it is possible to develop and install third party applications without restrictions. A UIQ 2.1 SDK based upon Symbian C++ is freely available from the Sony Ericsson developer website.[2] Additionally, the P900 supports applications written in Java. Because of this openness, many third-party applications exist that can be used on the P900 and other UIQ phones (such as the Motorola A1000 and BenQ P30). Many are shareware and freeware.")
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#Linux #kernel #Akamai #hosting #infrastructure #CNCF #AlpineLinux #containers #cloud #cybersecurity
Akamai Will Host kernel.org » Linux Magazine
The organization dedicated to cloud-based solutions has agreed to host kernel.org to deliver long-term stability for the development team.Linux Magazine
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