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Alex Jones Calls for Trump's Removal After Panicking About Failing Health (Harry Thompson/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/alex-jones-calls-for-trumps-removal-after-panicking-about-failing-health/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p95#a260407p95

H5N1 bird flu kills more than 50 skuas in first Antarctica wildlife die off #Antarctica

H5N1 bird flu kills more than 50 skuas in first Antarctica wildlife die off
For the first time, deadly H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed as the cause of a wildlife die-off in Antarctica, killing more than 50 skuas during the 2023–2024 summers. Researchers on an Antarctic expedition found the virus ravaging these powerful seabirds, with some suffering severe neurological symptoms—twisted necks, circling behavior, and even falling from the sky. While penguins and fur seals were examined, skuas emerged as the primary victims, especially on Beak Island, where a mass die…

TIL: Bud "Harold" Cort hatte auch eine kleine Rolle in einem meiner absoluten Lieblingsfilme. Er spielte in Michael Manns "Heat" von 1995 den schmierigen Pommesjongleur ('Solenko'), der den späteren Fluchtfahrer ('Donald') brutal runtermacht und dessen Lage als Häftling auf Bewährung eiskalt ausnutzen will...
#funfact

＂… something with FreeBSD in September 2012 … probably toying with 9.0 on a PowerPC iMac with failing graphics hardware. Not because I was a glutton for punishment (like, the horror of a command-line loader, and the certainty that hardware was failing) – because there was nothing good to be done with the Mac, and I was curious about non-Apple alternatives to Microsoft Windows. …＂
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Federal prosecutors can’t seek the death penalty against
Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson,
a federal judge ruled Friday,
foiling the Trump administration’s bid to see him executed
for what it called a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”
Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed a federal murder charge
that had enabled prosecutors to seek capital punishment,
finding it technically flawed.
Sh…

Federal murder charge against Luigi Mangione dismissed, death penalty off the table
A federal judge says federal prosecutors can’t seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Judge Margaret Garnett's Friday ruling foiled the Trump administration’s bid to see Mangione executed. Garnett dismissed a federal murder charge against Mangione, finding it technically flawed. She left in place stalking charges that could carry a life sentence. In a win for prosecutors, Garnett also ruled prosecutors can use evidence collected …

just fixed the OEIL scraper (again!), someone who needs to justify their EU bureaucrat salary and pension had spent the (half) effort and renamed some (not all) css classes starting with "erpl_" to "es_", which of course we use in our xpath expressions and which thusly broke.
anyway big thanks and hugs to the kind person who reported the failing scraper to us. ❤️

As a demonstration for how difficult software and service transition can be, this press release concerns switching off just two of the services replaced by Universal Credit - a programme announced in 2010.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/success

Successful DWP campaign leads to closure of historical benefits
Two benefits designed decades ago will officially close today following the successful delivery of the Move to Universal Credit campaign by the Department for Work and Pensions.