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Chasing a bug; fixed the original first case and discovered a second. Wrote some test cases for that, which I've now fixed. Now found a corner case of the second one. Hmph.

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

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But there is no certainty that madness was content to sit locked up in its immutable identity, waiting for psychiatry to perfect its art, before it emerged blinking from the shadows into the blinding light of truth. Nor is it clear that confinement was above all, or even implicitly, a series of measures put in place to deal with madness. It is not even certain that in this repetition of the ancient gesture of segregation at the threshold of the classical age, the modern world was aiming to wipe out all those who, either as a species apart or a spontaneous mutation, appeared as 'asocial'. The fact that the internees of the eighteenth century bear a resemblance to our modern vision of the asocial is undeniable, but it is above all a question of results, as the character of the marginal was produced by the gesture of segregation itself. For the day came when this man, banished in the same exile all over Europe in the mid-seventeenth century, suddenly became an outsider, expelled by a society to whose norms he could not be seen to conform; and for our own intellectual comfort, he then became a candidate for prisons, asylums and punishment. In reality, this character is merely the result of superimposed grids of exclusion.
The gesture that proscribed was as abrupt as the one that had isolated the lepers, and in both cases, the meaning of the gesture should not be mistaken for its effect. Lepers were not excluded to prevent contagion, any more than in 1657, 1 per cent of the population of Paris was confined merely to deliver the city from the 'asocial'. The gesture had a different dimension: it did not isolate strangers who had previously remained invisible, who until then had been ignored by force of habit. It altered the familiar cityscape by giving them new faces, strange, bizarre silhouettes that nobody recognised. Strangers were found in places where their presence had never previously been suspected: the process punctured the fabric of society, and undid the familiar. Through this gesture, something inside man was placed outside of himself, and pushed over the edge of our horizon. It is the gesture of confinement, in short, which created alienation.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

"Let me say this clearly: nobody in this country is safe.
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But proximity to suspected criminals now means everyone loses their Fourth Amendment rights.
This is collective punishment—the logic of occupation, not policing in a constitutional republic."
https://mastodon.opencloud.l…

Is anyone involved in 'Glycin' - the new GTK/image loader thing? It generally looks a good safe idea; but there are some weird cases where it seems OTT. As far as I can tell, gtk forks off a 'bwrap' namespace wrapper, then runs the image parsing in a glycin process; and that process gets cleaned up when you don't do any more image loads for a while. But that means that opening a new terminal ends up doing all that just (?) to read the icon which is a secure system fi…

NFL Announces Punishment for Bears Player in Win Over Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/nfl-bears-player-fined-helmet/?adt_ei=[email]

I fully believe that El Naranja will be creating firing squads (actually, death squads) after he imposes, which he will, martial law on DC, LA, Chicago, NYC, etc.
Yeah, it will be unconstitutional and unlawful as all hell, but we now know that El Naranja cares nothing about that stuff.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articl…

Trump calls for death penalty for Washington DC murder cases
The US president re-instated federal capital punishment in January, calling it 'the ultimate deterrent'

Here’s the key point: Trump’s corruption of justice isn’t just individual; it’s categorical. We have grown accustomed to him rewarding his loyalists and punishing his critics. That he fired the prosecutors who worked on his federal criminal cases while pardoning the Jan. 6 rioters represents a textbook case of individual favoritism.
The Trump administration’s abuse of the civil rights division is something else entirely. It had already initiated a “litigation freeze” on filing new civil rights cases, and it had indicated that it was even going to reconsider previous settlements and consent decrees intended to address police misconduct.
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Civil rights laws are designed in part to protect innocent citizens — including, of course, innocent citizens from minority communities — from unjust government officials. Here, the legal world is turned upside down. The Justice Department is using its civil rights division to protect an unjust government official who violated the civil rights of an innocent individual.
#USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/dillon-taylor-justice-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.0DWy.hF58YNdciy3A&smid=url-share

As a Black, Christian former Democrat with little previous engagement with Jewish causes, Leo Terrell, now 70, seemed an improbable pick to lead the effort to
“root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses,”
as the task force announcement put it.
But his zealous conversion and penchant for media bombast made him a perfect bullhorn for the task force’s actual mission:
to strong-arm colleges into stripping away any vestige of “wokeness” in their …

The Leader of Trump’s Assault on Higher Education Has a Troubled Legal and Financial History
Leo Terrell’s past is at odds with Trump’s description of an “incredibly successful” attorney. Documents obtained by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveal a trail of legal disputes and unpaid debts.

I've just complained to UCLAN for spraying our pavements with adverts for themselves back in June before the concert season that are in a lot of cases still there. Pah!