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alpena has a great used record store, noise & toys, and i usually come home with an inch or two of LPs, but not this year bc they’re in the middle of moving to a new space #alas
they don’t sort by categories, just alphabetically. i usually spend hours rummaging for vintage jazz among all the rest, picking up where i left off the following year.
i have found so many gems there
any…

Trump’s fragile agreement with Iran has introduced a new variable into this year’s midterm elections.
Democratic candidates have assailed the agreement,
arguing that the president accepted unfavorable terms to try to end an unnecessary war that hurt the economy.
Republicans have been more divided.
Some, eager to turn the page on the unpopular war, are hailing falling gas prices and praising Trump for weakening Iran’s military capabilities,
while others are expr…

How Trump’s Fragile Agreement With Iran Is Shaping the Midterms
Democrats say the president started an economically painful war that resulted in nothing positive. Republicans are more divided, even as they show some signs of relief at falling gas prices.

"Swinney said Burnham's stated desire to devolve further powers around the UK was something he welcomed."
A major failing of the Scottish Government has been its failure to devolve more powers to local authorities. There could have been massive reform of local taxation if Holyrood hadn't refused to devolve that power.
Hopefully there will be more subsidiarity arising from Burnham's devolution agenda and engagement with the Scottish Government.

Burnham tells Swinney independence is 'off limits' at Glasgow Commonwealth Games meeting
The heads of the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments came together ahead of the opening of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

I have basically mildly positive feelings about Gemini Nano being available in Chrome. I don't use Chrome, but lots of stuff should be done on-device, not off. That's a win.
If "software shouldn't have features i don't like" is the argument you're actually making, that's not really a good argument. Even when the feature is an LLM model.
"Chrome is getting big and bloated and we can do better” is absolutely a good argument you can make.
And then the real kicker: Google pushing the web platform around through dominance is just the real ick here. It's the same sort of thing monopoly power enables. Companies that own verticals in the economy or a product market can dictate rather than negotiate. This is, in general, bad. Google does this, not because the ideas its employees put forward are good, but because they work out to be in Google's interests. And those interests can run counter to the rest of the world.
That's what we have to push back on.

old and busted: delete failing tests
new and hotness: delete CI configuration
this is FOSS DoS; I have no other term for it
https://github.com/python-attrs/attrs/pull/1585/changes#diff-2e34befd0a8baf062…

and_ and or_: reject non-callable arguments at the call site by HrachShah · Pull Request #1585 · python-attrs/attrs
Summary and_ and or_ now raise NotCallableError at the call site when given a non-callable argument, instead of silently deferring the failure to the wrapped validator's __call__ site. Motivati...

Absent Brissett knows expectations, coach says https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48714491/cards-not-falling-jacoby-brissett-absent-coach-says

Super Bowl champion pass rusher unhappy in Arizona, and Jerry Jones should be paying close attention https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-trade-rumors-cardinals-josh-sweat-je…

Water levels in Lake Powell,
the second-biggest reservoir on the beleaguered Colorado River,
are in danger of falling so low that its dam can no longer generate hydropower,
according to a federal analysis released Wednesday.

The new “most probable” forecast from the Bureau of Reclamation projects that
the height of water in Lake Powell,
which sits on the border of Utah and Arizona,
will fall to 3,491 feet by March.
That’s just one foot above

A major Colorado River reservoir is getting ‘perilously’ low
A new federal analysis predicts that water levels in Lake Powell will fall almost to the point that its dam can no longer produce power.

We need an agenda that working-class people and everyday Americans can rally behind.
Without one, far-right, fascist politicians are filling that void.
This fascist agenda redirects people’s rightful anger at our system’s failures to unjustly place blame on immigrants, low-income people, and people of color.
It’s time to acknowledge that failing to provide transformational policies and hope to the working class has allowed fascism to rise and hold on to power.
It’…

'Now Is the Time to Organize,' Says Medicare for All Coalition | Common Dreams
As Americans struggle with high prices and corporate greed under Trump and Republicans in Congress, a major coalition is arguing that now is the time to organize for Medicare for All.

This week, Reform UK leader Nigel Forage set out his plans
to resign as the MP for Clacton and stand again for his seat,
following a scandal over undeclared gifts, including £5m from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne,
which is being investigated by the parliamentary standards commissioner.
His intention, he has said, is to be judged by his constituents rather than “the establishment”,
arguing that he has done no wrong and that the probe is a “p…

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