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Let's be controversial: In modern #PHP, you should never type-hint an array.
https://peakd.com/php/@crell/php-never-type-hint-on-arrays

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TL;DR: The DNC/RNC “pipe bombs” were not actually bombs in any operational sense.
They were symbolic bombs.
Also: I was a better explosives chemist at 9yo than Brian Cole. My powder actually exploded. If he really thought his casually mixed ingredients would do anything, he is an imbecile. @…

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
The expert witness for accused pipe bomber Brian Cole says they weren't viable pipe bombs: He didn't mix his black powder ingredients sufficiently. https://legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26490848-260116-cole-expert-report

I made a utility to bulk-upload calendar entries to a #CalDAV server from a JSON file:
https://pypi.org/project/caldav-event-pusher/

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it.
NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.

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Since Ghislaine Maxwell’scontroversial transfer to a low-security prison camp this summer,
her time at Texas’s FPC Bryan has prompted uproar over alleged favorable treatment
– including claims this week that she was provided custom-made meals and access to a puppy
Some of the recent accusations were in a 9 November letter that Jamie Raskin sent to Donald Trump.
The Democratic representative’s letter, which cited whistleblower information, demanded answers about Maxwel…

Steve Bannon, one of the leading figures behind President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement discussed opposition strategies against Pope Francis with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Bannon, a former White House adviser to Trump, told Epstein that he wished to “take down” the leader of the Catholic Church.
In June 2019, Bannon wrote to Epstein: “Will take down Francis. The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU
– come on brother.”
This exchange came years after Epstein served a lig…

Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics
Letters from Leo is a chronicle of how Pope Leo XIV’s papacy intersects with American politics, faith, and the digital age during the presidency of Donald Trump. Click to read Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics, by Christopher Hale, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.