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"Just following orders" is not a defense for war crimes (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/just-following-orders-is-not-a-defense
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p40#a260408p40

The question of colleges and universities building their own LMSes in house is something I’ve thought a lot about over the years while seething at both Moodle and Canvas.
In this and the following post, @… hits on several reasons why that doesn’t happen.
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https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/116539107390472410

Managers have one job: articulating coherent intent on which their teams can execute. Unfortunately, they have been failing at this job for decades.
AI gave them a timely out. Now anyone can ship code without knowing what they're doing, why they are doing it, or how it makes money.
But it turns out that shipping code is not the end of the work...

Product teams struggled to create intent. AI let them think they could skip it.
Teams struggled to produce intent. AI let them think they could skip it.

The sharply conservative Supreme Court that Donald Trump’s three appointees remade
is the first since at least the 1950s to
reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities
“There is no center now,” said political science professor Lee Epstein,
who performed the analysis with her Washington University colleague Andrew D. Martin and Michael J. Nelson of Penn State.

A yawning gulf has opened between the left and right flanks of the …

Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights
The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis conducted for The Post shows.

AMC Networks rebrands as AMC Global Media, filing new articles of incorporation in Nevada; CEO Kristin Dolan says streaming is its top domestic revenue source (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

AMC Networks Rebranding as AMC Global Media
The media company behind 'The Walking Dead' and Anne Rice universes is rebranding itself ahead of what it hopes will be its next genre-defining hit, 'The Audacity.

Pride parade in #Buffalo yesterday.
Awesome performances in floats. Great community support. It’s nice when people aren’t bigots.
Lots of corporate, political involvement. Branded rainbow swag nobody needed.
This gamelan float is how I discovered there’s an org in Buffalo:

Russia and China Dominate African Airwaves Following the Shutdown of Voice of America (Streamline Feed)
https://streamlinefeed.co.ke/news/russia-and-china-dominate-african-airwaves-following-the-shutdown-of-voice-of-america
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p26#a260509p26

IDF Strikes Kill 8 in Lebanon After Netanyahu Says Deal Excludes Hezbollah (Zen Reading/Reuters)
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-04-08/ty-article-live/mda-three-children-lightly-injured-in-negev-following-iranian-rocket-fire/0000019d-6ad1-d940-a5bd-fedf1e030000
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p7#a260408p7

Foreign Businesses Are Fleeing Cuba as Its Economy Collapses (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/foreign-businesses-are-fleeing-cuba-as-its-economy-collapses-f9b369bf?st=F9XCPf
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p12#a260607p12

Five Iranian women's soccer players apply for asylum in Australia after fleeing team as supporters plead for action (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/03/09/sport/australia-iran-women-soccer-asian-cup-intl-hnk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p65#a260309p65