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JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's attempt to strip security clearance from #whistleblower lawyer
#Mark #Zaid.
Judge Amir Ali (Biden) says the move may violate Constitution's ban on bills of attainder.

Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social)
JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's attempt to strip security clearance from whistleblower lawyer Mark Zaid. Judge Amir Ali (Biden) says the move may violate Constitution's ban on bills of attainder. Doc: https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv1365-52

"Largely unreported is the extent to which the NHS is bled white by a private sector enjoying the benefits of state sector staff education and training, charging NHS trusts £80bn in PFI payments for buildings that cost £13bn to construct, and reaping at least £10bn a year in “excess profits” from supplying drugs costing the NHS £23bn (five times their cost of production)."
What place does Britain occupy in the general crisis of capitalism? | Morning Star

Here you go again....
Malaysia may implement age verification..
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/malaysia-may-ban-users-under-16-from-social-media-starting-next-year

The construction of a £1 billion datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, have been put on hold after the government admitted it had made a critical error in granting planning permission.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/data

£1bn datacentre plans on hold after government admits legal blunder
The construction of a £1 billion datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, have been put on hold after the government admitted it had made a critical error ...

How Toy Story, released 30 years ago, changed animation, relying on 117 computers running rendering software 24/7, as modern animation now appears artificial (Maya Phillips/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/movies/toy-story-anniversary-animatio…

‘Toy Story’ at 30: Animation Has Never Been the Same
The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost.

Hey everyone,
@…’s mom needs your help:
“My mother has been suffering from chronic diabetes, and some time ago, one of her toes had to be amputated. During the war, her condition has worsened, and she now relies on a walker to move. 💔
Today, she fell inside our tent, and her foot got injured again – it’s swollen and bruised badly…

Help Bara'a and her elderly parents in Gaza
My name is Bara'a El-Mughraby. Me and my older brother are the sole breadwinners for my family of five in Al-Shati refugee camp in North Gaza. Me, my elderly parents, my sister and my brother. For months, we have endured the unimaginable and did everything we can to survive, but now our situation worsened a lot and has become a matter of life or death. The constant bombardment and the recent evacuation orders from the IDF mean we have to leave our home—but we don't have the capabilities nor t…

Day 29: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
I've been sitting on Simpson for a while because there's some overlap in her writing with Robin Wall Kimmerer, and I've had a lot of different genres/styles/subjects/media I've wanted to post at least one author from. But I've now hit repeats on at least YA romance and manga, and Simpson's writing is actually quite different from Kimmerer's in a lot of ways. While Kimmerer is a biologist by training and literally braids that knowledge together with her knowledge of Potawatomi cosmology and ethics, Simpson is an Anishinaabe philosopher and anarchist, and her position as a scholar of Indigenous philosophy adds a different depth to her work: she talks in more depth about knowledge relationships and her connections with specific elders, and she has more citations to other Indigenous theorists, which is the one criticism I've ever seen of Kimmerer's work. Rather than being Indigenous and a scientist, she's Indigenous and a scholar of indigenous studies.
I've only read "Theory of Water" by Simpson, but it was excellent, and especially inspiring to read as an anarchist. Simpson's explicit politics are another difference from Kimmerer's work, which is more implicitly than explicitly political. This allows Simpson to draw extremely interesting connections to other anarchist theorists and movements. "Theory of Water" is probably a bit less accessible than "Braiding Sweetgrass," but it's richer from a theory perspective as a result.
In any case, Simpson is a magnificent writer, sharing personal insights and stories along with (and inseparable from) her theoretical ideas.
#30AuthorsNoMen

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Since the so-called ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on October 10,
Israel has been consolidating its control of over 50% of Gaza and
—according to new research by Forensic Architecture
—physically altering the geography of the land.
Through a combination of the construction of military infrastructure alongside the destruction of existing buildings,
Israel appears to be laying the groundwork to establish a permanent presence in the majority of the Gaza Strip.

Folks who have successfully bootstrapped a complex open source project from a solo endeavor with occasional third part PRs up to something with multiple core developers and lots of more casual contributors: how do you handle the balancing act between conflicting responsibilities?
I'm sitting on top of 250K lines of complex multi threaded C and GLSL HPC code in ngscopeclient and it's been a constant struggle to clean up decade old technical debt to make it easier for new devs …