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As the 2024 election approached,
advertisements began popping up in key swing states suggesting local officials had discretion not to certify elections.
The advertisements were misleading.
Certification is not optional,
and officials are required to certify the vote once the proper process for any election challenges are complete and an official challenge is complete.
The warnings, nonetheless, arrived at a moment when Donald Trump and allies seemed to be geari…

Updates:
• Two more environmental impact bullets: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
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What You Can Do as a Web Builder on Earth Day
One easy thing you can do for the earth is not use “AI” tools. Consider this as a programmer, web developer, web designer, copywriter, webmaster, etc. The tools include anything branded as generative AI, LLMs, computer vision tools, Copilot, ChatGPT, Bard, Grok, Dall-e, Midjourney, and so on. If you are…

Wow, das überrascht mich wirklich positiv. (Das Buch von Gareth Gore ist sehr gut.)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/06/opus-dei-gareth-gore-pope-leo

He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then Pope Leo asked to meet
Gareth Gore’s 2024 book Opus alleges decades of manipulation, which the group has denied. He believes the pope wanted to send a clear message

Catching up with The Ultimates (2024) comics, and issue 21 really is subtext-as-text.
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Ultimates_Vol_3_21

Ultimates Vol 3 21
Featured Characters: Avengers Luke Cage Wingspan Singularity (First appearance) Nameless Penance Supporting Characters: Ultimates Network Antagonists: Maker's Council (Mentioned) Black King (Emmanuel Da Costa) (Death) Defenders (Defunct) Ballistic (Sam Guthrie) (Death) Thora (Death) Marvel Boy (Death) Proctor (Dane Whitman) (Death) Decay's Beautiful Daughter (Li Hua) Other Characters: Taskmasters (First full appearance) Hellfire Club (Mentioned) White Queen (Emma Frost) Exterminatrix...

from my link log —
TCP is an underspecified two-node consensus algorithm and what that means for your proxies.
https://morsmachine.dk/tcp-consensus
saved 2024-03-28 http…

Got my power bill for May. Net consumption was 2.73 MWh, an all-time low by a signficant margin (3.3 MWh in April 2026, and 3.77 MWh in July 2024, are the previous records).
The final bill after taxes and fees was $595, not *quite* an all time low (I paid $582 in July 2024) but that was for 3.7 MWh and I'm now paying almost as much for 2.7 - yay rate increases. If I can generate a touch more solar in June I might break the all-time low though.
Now if only I could generate thi…

AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Nia Archives:
🎵 Crowded Roomz
#NiaArchives
https://futurerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/lalkara-crowded-roomz-diljit-dosanjh-nia-archives-welcome-to-future-2-drum-bass-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JH3rxj9e7cY8T1QFgr5mQ

Obviously, deporting this dangerously dead person must be a priority for ICE.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/north-carolina-judge-deport-teen-murder-victim?CMP=share_btn_url

POL-GÖ: (129/2026) Ermittlungen nach Überfall auf Schnellrestaurant in Göttingen-Grone im September 2024 gehen weiter - Polizei geht inzwischen von örtlichen Tätern aus Göttingen (ots) - Göttingen, Stadtteil Grone, Siekweg Donnerstag, 12. September 2024, gegen 02.35 Uhr GÖTTINGEN (jk) - Die Tat liegt schon länger zurück, die Ermittlungen zur Aufklärung aber gehen ohne Unterlass weiter. Im September 2024 ...

Gee, I guess to this judge, being dead is not a valid excuse to not appear at a hearing.
This judge is a Obama appointee - but she worked a Peoplesoft, a company that in my opinion seemed to follow a silicon valley tradition of management-by-brutality. (Peoplesoft was acquired by Oracle, a company run by Larry Ellison - an organization and person with an "interesting" way of dealing with the world and people.)
This reminds me of the Richard Farina tune "House Un-Am…

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine

Steckersolaranlagen für Deinen Balkon: Sparen mit der Energiewende
Spare Stromkosten mit einem Balkonkraftwerk! Finde heraus, was die neuen Regelungen 2024 für Dich bedeuten. Einfach installieren und profitieren.

Obviously, deporting this dangerously dead person must be a priority for ICE.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/north-carolina-judge-deport-teen-murder-victim?CMP=share_btn_url

Here's my blog post on how to make a mosquito bucket. Has a dozen or so tips, plus a video of mosquito larvae in a jar that looks like a lava lamp. https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/

🐴 Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-firehorse-superstition-uncover-women-japan.html

Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline
The rapidly declining marriage and fertility rates across developed East Asian societies strain pension and health care systems, threaten economic growth, and reshape entire societies. To tackle this issue, governments in Japan and across East Asia have invested heavily in pronatalist measures, but often with limited success. For instance, Japan's government has repeatedly expanded childcare subsidies and parental leave provisions, yet the total fertility rate hit a record low of 1.20 in 2024.

“Overview of Digital Accessibility Technologies”
https://vale.rocks/posts/digital-accessibility-technologies
Which I now link to from my post “AT Is More Than Screen Readers”:

Overview of Digital Accessibility Technologies
No bodging here. None at all. Nope.

In 2024, #Finland made some changes to financial support for students (mostly at #university level). Newspapers report on some financial outcomes:
https://yle.fi/a/74…

3 Points: DeMarvion Overshown has breakout potential in Year 4 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/3-points-demarvion-overshown-has-breakout-potential-in-year-4

Got the official power numbers from my utility for the April billing cycle.
3572 kWh imported from grid, 200 kWh overproduction exported, for net 3372 kWh consumed/billed.
That is an all-time record for lowest power consumption (at least back to January 2024 which is the oldest bill I have easy access to).
Too bad it's also an all-time *high* for price per kWh - the effective price per kWh after taxes and fees hit 21.7 cents, a 15.4% increase since the start of the year…

Irgendwann mal schreibe ich selbst AGB, welche auf private Regelwerke verweisen, die nur kostenpflichtig verfügbar sind 🤬
So was wie "Für die Gültigkeit dieses Vertrags und der daraus entstehenden Pflichten gelten, sofern nicht schriftlich anders vereinbart, ausschliesslich die Regeln des Handbuchs DMG D&D 5e 2024 in der deutschen Fassung."
#Recht

(YouTube, 2024) Towards a smart bionic eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhEEEyYAegA on the Orion I brain implant and AI, with Jason Esterhuizen; "It's sort of like learning a new language. And the closest I could explain what I see is like looking up at the stars at night."

After reading about today's #Github #security incident, exposing thousands of internal repositories, I'd like to remind you of:
Read That Before You Trust Anything by #Microsoft Once Again

Da sage eins, die Politik der BRD-Sozialdemokratie habe keine nachhaltige Wirkung: Der Schriftsteller Ken Merten, dessen in Rojava spielenden Roman "Ich glaube jetzt, dass das die Lösung ist" (XS-Verlag 2024, ISBN 978-3-944503-21-9) ich letztes Jahr sehr gerne gelesen habe, soll auf Grundlage des "Radikalenerlass" von 1972 an der Ausübung seines Brotberufs (Nachwächter in sozialen Einrichtungen) gehindert werden; Grund: Mitgliedschaft in der "DKB" {sic!}:

Das neueste Berufsverbot
Der Antikommunismus bleibt die bundesdeutsche Staatsräson. Obwohl schon in den 80ern offiziell abgeschafft, werden weiterhin Berufsverbote verhängt. Jetzt trifft es den Leipziger Schriftsteller Ken Merten.

Das mit dem Kühlen kann man nicht genug betonen. Ein kühler Fussboden ist im Sommer sowas von geil!
https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/116624135838946337

"‘You Can’t Live Without Us’: How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels "
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

'You Can’t Live Without Us': How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels  
Four of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have spent the last four years systematically shifting away from climate-friendly advertising to push a new message: fossil fuels are here to stay, a report has found.  Campaign group Clean Creatives analysed 1,859 communications from BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron published between 2020 and 2024, spanning paid advertisements on Facebook, YouTube, […]

3 Points: DeMarvion Overshown has breakout potential in Year 4 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/3-points-demarvion-overshown-has-breakout-potential-in-year-4

Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8410967c-c713-46d1-a5e6-42cfc3b6528c

#Elektroauto RANT über führenden Mineralölkonzern in D:
ARAL bzw die Europazentrale des Weltkonzerns BP ist nicht in der Lage eine funktionierende App herzustellen, die man zum Laden benötigt. Ich konnte mich tagelang nicht anmelden, jedes Mal brach der Vorgang nach erfolgreichem Einloggen mit Fehlermeldung ab und man wird vertröstet: "Versuche es noch einmal"
Aufgrund de…

The Republican former lieutenant governor of North Carolina,
Mark Robinson,
has admitted he "misled" voters during his unsuccessful 2024 gubernatorial campaign
when he denied posting racist and offensive comments on a pornography website
– suggesting he did so to protect Donald Trump’s successful presidential run.
Robinson, who worked in furniture manufacturing before entering politics in 2020, told the "After the Call" podcast on Thursday:

Announcement: New Issue of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal
https://ift.tt/zvk4NLK
CALL FOR PAPERS: Modernizing Winter Sam White 05/20/2026 - 9:31pm Announcement Type …
via Input 4 RELCFP

“Apple Vision Accessibility: The 2025 AppleVis Report Card”
https://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-vision-accessibility-2025-applevis-report-card
“Overall satisfaction with VoiceOver accessibility on Apple products decreased compared to 2024.”

Lesenswerter Artikel über die Frankfurterin Fotografin Inge Werth. Sie wurde am 21. Mai 95 Jahre alt.
#Foto #Photo #Frau #Geschichte

Mit 95 Jahren arbeitet sie noch immer – und lebt in einer Altenwohnanlage
Die Fotografin Inge Werth wird am 21. Mai 95 Jahre alt. 2024 entstand ihr bisher letztes Buch mit Aufnahmen aus der Frankfurter Altenwohnanlage, in der sie selbst lebt.

Le monde Š l’envers: la droite tessinoise est fâchée parce que l’Italie veut inciter les frontaliers de travailler de nouveau en Italie, donc réduire l’immigration du travail vers la Suisse.
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2024/article/remous-autour-d-une-taxe-sur-la-sante-pour-les-frontaliers-italiens-28385749.html