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Detainee at "Camp East Montana" says guards bet on suicide
Like other detainees, Ramsingh said that between cleanings the rooms, restrooms and showers were often filthy and infested with insects.
He said detainees stole others’ food because everyone was hungry due to the small and sometimes inedible meals,
-- which led to fights, and the conditions took a toll on his mental health.
🔥At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made am…

911 calls reveal pain, despair at ICE'S largest detention camp
The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas. The emergencies included repeated suicide attempts by detainees, seizures, injuries from fights and a pregnant woman in pain. Data from more than a hundred 911 calls obtained by The Associated Press, interviews with detainees and court filings offer a portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutriti…

"One proves political maturity by not banging on about injustice, by not troubling too much the rich and powerful. To try it out, simply stand in front of a mirror and slowly declare yourself to be “pro-business and pro-worker”. If you can do that without flinching at the obvious contradiction, then congratulations! You too can be prime minister"
This isn't my analysis of why #Starmer

I had a medium distance/degree cousin who wrote two - yes two! - episodes for this TV series...
And if you listen closely to various episodes you will recognize the voice of the Billionaire John Berrisford Tipton as someone who moonlights for narration jobs on old Disney films or was Orson Wells.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

BlueSky seems to be having connectivity issues for me this afternoon... people there are blaming it on the use of AI in their codebase, so I think now would be a good time for someone to review my PR I have open against it, to tell Claude to ensure it's following the proper licensing requirements: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/pull/9709

Catching up on a few stray pods this morning:
🎧Career in Ruins - archaeology with Derek Pitman and Lawrence Shaw. I like the practical and career-focussed slant to this.
🎧Tides of History - er, history. I like the way Patrick Wyman weaves it into a personal story.
🎧Front Row - general cultural stuff that I can feel remote from in my day to day.
🎧Film Stories - Simon Brew is a great presenter and really draws you in to what went on behind the scenes of the films we all kn…

#SehEmpfehlung
https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/sternstunde-religion/video/jesus-goes-to-hollywood?urn=…

Jesus goes to Hollywood - Sternstunde Religion - Play SRF
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mel Gibson, Martin Scorsese. Sie alle haben das Leben Jesu auf die Leinwand gebracht. Volksfrömmigkeit, Sozialkritik, aramäischen Text zum Aufsagen: Dem Sohn Gottes wurde fast alles in den Mund gelegt, was der Zeitgeist erforderte. Eine Reise durch die Jahrzehnte der Filmkunst. Von der Volksfrömmigkeit zum Blockbuster, vom Musical zur Sozialkritik – Jesus Christus hat in der Filmgeschichte viele Gesichter. Und oft diente die italienische Stadt Matera als Kulisse für …

Entering the wild canyon...
(May 2024, IIRC it was the same day @… happened to be there too [unknowingly to us]...)
#FootpathFriday #NaturePhotography

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116171339797022986
I don’t care if someone calls stuff “spaceflight” (though that usually includes portions of actual flight through air).
But if it’s for a scientific or technology discussion it’s hugely inaccurate and misleading.
In space, things always move in orbits, which is essentially more or less perpetually falling.
To make things go places (e.g. make a thing go to Mars), you change how it’s falling.
Play some Kerbal Space Program some time!

Das Fediverse hat mit dem #2MR heute so ein richtiges live Feeling, wie Twitter zu seinen besseren Zeiten.

Two days ago, I had eight (out of one hundred and forty) unit tests failing, and I wasn't happy with my code. Last night, I had forty failing, and I thought things were improving. This morning I have one hundred and twenty four failing, so I *know* I'm on the right path!
#Software
#Lisp