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Doing further research into the origins of the Abrahamic religions following my essay on The Claimants to the Tortured Land, I learn that by a supreme irony, #Israel itself is named after...
Drumroll....
A CANAANITE DEITY.
Yes, that's right. The name 'Israel' honours not יהוה‎, but El.

El (deity) - Wikipedia

U.S. immigration officials do not plan to detain #Kilmar #Abrego #Garcia again -- as long as a judge’s order banning it stands, according to a Tuesday court filing.
❌Immigration and Customs Enforcement did make clear they would detai…

ICE doesn't plan to detain Abrego Garcia again as long as judge's order banning it stands
Immigration officials do not plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as a judge’s order banning it stands That's according to a Tuesday court filing from the U.S. government. The Salvadoran citizen’s case has become a lightning rod for both sides of the immigration debate as he fights to remain in the U.S. after a mistaken deportation to his home country, where he was imprisoned. The government court filing comes after U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis earlier this month questioned …

Opinion: Texas is losing the reading battle while leaders fight a culture war over books - El Paso Matters https://elpasomatters.org/2026/02/03/opinion-texas-reading-crisis-culture-war-literacy-reform/

Opinion: A politicized reading list won’t fix Texas’ reading crisis — investing in teachers will
Instead of investing in teachers, funding and evidence-based literacy instruction, Texas is fueling culture-war debates that do nothing to reverse its worsening reading crisis.

On Friday, Judge Boasberg ordered the administration to submit declarations by December 5
from all officials involved in the decision not to return the flights to the U.S.
He said he will then decide whether to seek testimony from witnesses.
The declarations should detail the officials’ roles in the decision, the judge said in the brief order.
Justice Department attorneys had urged him to abandon the probe,
but Boasberg said he must determine whether Homeland S…

Trump officials face contempt probe over migrant flights
A federal judge in Washington has relaunched his contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around two planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Friday ordered the administration to submit written statements by December 5 from all officials involved in the decision not to return the planes to the U.S. Boasberg wants to determine whether the Republican administration flouted his order to turn the flights around. The sta…

What technique / tools are you using in CI to make sure that tests actually ran?
Misconfigurations can often result in huge swaths of test discovery failing silently, leaving a test run in CI including zero (or a very small number of) tests.
Are you relying on code coverage stats collected during test runs, and comparing that to some static fail_under percentage? If source discovery breaks, can 1 passing test be 100% coverage? Do you trust it?
#askfedi #sdlc #cicd #continuousintegration

‘Get that electric feeling’: new 🇬🇧 campaign to show savings and benefits of electric driving
https://cleanenergy.campaign.gov.uk/electric-vehicle/ (more background:

Wafer-Scale Integration of Piezo- and Ferroelectric Al0.64Sc0.36N Thin Films by Reactive Sputtering
Sanjay Nayak, Venkata Raveendra Nallagatla, Ravindra Singh Bisht, Dmytro Solonenko, Demian Henzen, Washim Reza Ali, Carla Maria Lazzari, Robert JW Frost, Andrea Serafini, Davide Codegoni, Amalia Balsamo, Rossana Scaldaferri, Elaheh Allahyari, Anirban Ghosh, Martin Kratzer, Andrea Picco, Sonia Costantini, Andrea Rusconi, Mohssen Moridi, Humberto Campanella, Marco Deluca, Annalisa De Pasti…