
2025-06-30 20:10:43
President Trump drops his lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register; Selzer's attorney told NPR that there has been no settlement (Sarah Rumpf/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump/br…
President Trump drops his lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register; Selzer's attorney told NPR that there has been no settlement (Sarah Rumpf/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump/br…
#forgejoAneksajo v12.0.1-git-annex0 just dropped! 🥳
Smooth update, even with my own patches 👍
Thank you @… for maintaining this amazing @…
Docs: xAI terminated its status as a public benefit corporation as of May 9, 2024; XAI Holdings, which houses xAI and X, also doesn't have a PBC designation (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/elon-musk-xai-dropp…
US citizen arrested during Ice raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’;
Andrea Velez, 32, a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, had just been dropped off at work by her mother and sister
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/immigration-ice-raid…
Acid-busting diet triggers 13-pound weight loss in just 16 weeks #nutrition
Imagine if a candidate for US President had a workable program to ban sludge, that bureaucratic hell companies and the government put us through on support lines, in endless phone menus, and online to make us give up. They'd win 50 states!
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
Yikes, there is always so much infosec news but Metacurity helps a lot with the overload.
Check out today's issue for the cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Cyber insurance premiums dropped for the first time in 2024,
--CyberAv3ngers shift to psychological manipulation,
--Another hacker hits Paraguay,
--50% of ransomware payments are less than expected,
--Pro-Russian group was reportedly behind Norwegian dam hack,
--UK 2025 …
So #Gentoo #Python eclasses are pretty modern, in the sense that they tend to follow the best practices and standards, and eventually deal with deprecations. Nevertheless, they have a long history and carry quite some historical burden, particularly regarding to naming.
The key point is that the eclasses were conceived as a replacement for the old eclasses: "distutils" and "python". Hence, much like we revision ebuilds, I've named the matching eclasses "distutils-r1" and "python-r1". For consistency, I've also used the "-r1" suffix for the remaining eclasses introduced at the time: "python-any-r1", "python-single-r1" and "python-utils-r1" — even though there were never "r0"s.
It didn't take long to realize my first mistake. I've made the multi-impl eclass effectively the "main" eclass, probably largely inspired by the previous Gentoo recommendations. However, in the end I've found out that for the most use cases (i.e. where "distutils-r1" is not involved), there is no real need for multi-impl, and it makes things much harder. So if I were naming them today, I would have named it "python-multi", to indicate the specific use case — and either avoid designating a default at all, or made "python-single" the default.
What aged even worse is the "distutils-r1" eclass. Admittedly, back when it was conceived, distutils was still largely a thing — and there were people (like me) who avoided unnecessary dependency on setuptools. Of course, nowadays it has been entirely devoured by setuptools, and with #PEP517 even "setuptools" wouldn't be a good name anymore. Nowadays, people are getting confused why they are supposed to use "distutils-r1" for, say, Hatchling.
Admittedly, this is something I could have done differently — PEP517 support was a major migration, and involved an explicit switch. Instead of adding DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517 (what a self-contradictory name) variable, I could have forked the eclass. Why didn't I do that? Because there used to be a lot of code shared between the two paths. Of course, over time they diverged more, and eventually I've dropped the legacy support — but the opportunity to rename was lost.
In fact, as a semi-related fact, I've recognized another design problem with the eclass earlier — I should have gone for two eclasses rather than one: a "python-phase" eclass with generic sub-phase support, and a "distutils" (or later "python-pep517") implementing default sub-phases for the common backends. And again, this is precisely how I could have solved the code reuse problem when I introduced PEP517 support.
But then, I didn't anticipate how the eclasses would end up looking like in the end — and I can't really predict what new challenges the Python ecosystem is going to bring us. And I think it's too late to rename or split stuff — too much busywork on everyone.
Dropped a friend of near the big university here today to catch her bus ride and I’m always astounded how little clothing American students wear.
They basically looked liked they’re coming from a pool party. (They did not, just normal classes.)
You've dropped a tasty piece of popcorn on the floor that you really want to eat. Do you eat it? Or throw it away?
There is a piano in there.*
#train life of a #commuter
#photography
*Ok, that’s from a line a podcast just dropped while I listened and typed. 99÷ Invisible
US immigration officers made false and misleading statements
in their reports about several Los Angeles protesters they arrested during the massive demonstrations that rocked the city in June,
according to federal law enforcement files obtained by the Guardian.
The officers’ testimony was cited in at least five cases filed by the US Department of Justice amid the unrest.
The justice department has charged at least 26 people with “assaulting” and “impeding” federal off…
I dropped off one one my illustrations at the Free Little Art Gallery near my house (yes, there's another one besides mine!) and there was already a matching keychain so that's pretty cool...
#art #free #illustration
New #RFKJr #healthcare plan just dropped
I dropped my phone as I tried to put it in my pocket and to prevent it hitting the floor too hard I instinctively stuck my foot out. It kinda bounced off my foot and went too high so I put my foot under it again. This time I managed to just slow the fall. However for a moment there it looked like I was playing keepy-uppy/hacky-sack with my phone. 🤣
Dropped cases against LA protesters reveal false claims from federal agents (Sam Levin/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/doj-la-protesters-false-claims
http://www.memeorandum.com/250728/p53#a250728p53
YouTube has dropped its "Trending" pages, in favour of AI recommendations. So now, if YouTube pushes far-right incitement, it's a side-effect of a non-deterministic process and not software humans designed.
DA dropped charges against woman he arrested for having an abortion after public outcry | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-abortion-lizelle-gonzalez-lawsuit-dropped-b2812627.html
Didn't I hear the phrase #testilying in reference to police testimony some years back? So I guess this isn't surprising. Disappointing, yes. Surprising, no.
https://www.…
Didn't I hear the phrase #testilying in reference to police testimony some years back? So I guess this isn't surprising. Disappointing, yes. Surprising, no.
https://www.…
Dallas Cowboys' unofficial depth chart for Week 1 of 2025 NFL season vs Eagles https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-unofficial-depth-chart-week-1-2025-nfl-season-eagles
The guy who can hold his papers is apparently threatening Iran, as if he's Israel... Grumpy old men...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/17/keir-starmer-picked-up-papers-dropped-by-donald-trump
wake up babe, new biological side channel dropped https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Q40vd8oRCO8
Court filing: the UK sought broad access to Apple user data, including bulk iCloud interception beyond ADP, and hasn't dropped the mandate as the US claimed (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fe2c9ae1-d175-4eb9-909e-0b171f6d097c
"by April of 2024 Gaza had already suffered more than 70,000 tonnes of bombing. To put that in perspective, that is more than the combined bomb tonnage dropped on Dresden, Hamburg, and London in World War II. Now more than a year later, that bombing has only increased. It is no surprise, therefore, that UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths declared Gaza “uninhabitable” due to the bombing, destruction, blockades, and subsequent famines"
The latest #qemu just dropped. The biggest #emulation feature #Linaro worked on was the next iteration of the Scalable Matrix Extensions (FEAT_SME2) which you can currently only see in the wild on
“Bray Air Display has dropped US defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin as a sponsor for this year’s event over the company’s supply of arms support to Israel in the Gaza war.”
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/…
Who dropped out of the top 10? Players eyeing a bounce-back at 11 positions https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45621153/top-10-nfl-players-dropped-every-position-2025-jeremy-fowler-…
Imagine being so sick, or so wounded that you have to be in a hospital for care, and then a bomb gets dropped on the building.
https://pubeurope.com/@byteseu/114914812498388084
This is exactly the kind of history Trump wants to whitewash.
Thousands of pages dropped on how the DOJ, FBI, and Civil Rights Commission handled Emmett Till’s murder.
REMINDER: It all began with a lie from a white woman that became a death sentence for a Black kid.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbon…
English-language trailer for "Quartet" just dropped!
https://chaos.social/@theateru34/114742812225916947
Truly miffed at Amazon MGM for axing Wheel of Time after the utterly excellent season 3. A shame that many dropped off during the first season, and it was admittedly quite uneven at times, but season 2 was better and season 3 was fantastic.
@… New PNG revision dropped
https://social.linux.pizza/@knurd42/114743763415059021
Realized this morning that one of the greatest currently active rock bands in the world dropped a new single
#music #hardrock #Spidergawd
still think about the fact that Linus from Linus Tech Tips once said “i dropped my fair share of hard r's back then”. he meant the r-slur, and thought “saying it with the hard r” meant saying the r-slur. the entire staff was shocked.
YouTube strikes a deal to carry Herring Networks' One America News on YouTube TV's base package in Q4 2025; in 2022, DirecTV and Verizon Fios dropped OANN (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world
#readThisBook #bookstodon
I’ve been reading since 1955. Countless times I’ve dropped a book for various reasons. But this is the first book I’ve wanted to not read. It’s painful af. It’s Alan Davies’ autobiography, Just Ignore Him. He’s a British actor & comedian. His writing is phenomena…
Het werden geen twee weken.
Trump heeft daadwerkelijk de lont in het kruitvat aangestoken.
#WWIII?
Observation of Enhanced Core Impurity Transport in a Turbulence-Reduced Stellarator Plasma
Daniel Medina-Roque, Isabel Garc\'ia-Cort\'es, Naoki Tamura, Kieran J. McCarthy, Federico Nespoli, Kenji Tanaka, Mamoru Shoji, Suguru Masuzaki, Hisamichi Funaba, Chihiro Suzuki, Albert Mollen, Robert Lunsford, Katsumi Ida, Mikiro Yoshinuma, Motoshi Goto, Yasuko Kawamoto, Tomoko Kawate, Tokihiko Tokuzawa, Ichihiro Yamada
#Canadian lawyer Eva Chipiuk, who represented Tamara Lich, one of the #CanadianFreedomConvoy organizers is #debanked by #RBC for…
Stanford researchers: over the past three years, employment has dropped 13% for entry-level workers starting out in fields that are the most exposed to AI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…
Truly a make or break moment for the franchise: if they have another launch a la V/2042 EA will put the franchise to sleep like they did with Medal of Honor.
@… https://meta.masto…
N.B.: the conventional bomb model in question has never been dropped in a war. If the military doesn’t have doubts, they’re dumber than they seem… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3lry…
FWIW, dropped my #Mastodon #postGreSQL #database from 19.5GB down to 5.3GB
"Pediatric asthma ER visits dropped 40 percent after a coal processing plant near Pittsburgh closed down, researchers found."
Kids in Pennsylvania Are Breathing (Much) Easier After a Coal Plant Shuttered https://insideclimatenews.org/news/050
Vermont plastic bag use dropped 91% following ban, researchers find #Vermont
Russia drops 500-kg bomb on shopping center in Donetsk Oblast — killing 2, injuring 27: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/russia-drops-kg-bomb-on.html
Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses (Mark Thiessen/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/utah-doctor-covid-fraud-charges-dropped-41927573624f0e8e2ee08822633ca5de
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p59#a250712p59
Raiders beat writer names former $118M QB as 'a possibility' to replace Aidan O'Connell https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-beat-writer-former-118m-q…
Theory of superconductivity and mass enhancement near CDW critical point based on Bethe-Salpeter equation method: application to cuprates
Youichi Yamakawa, Hiroshi Kontani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19536
Another shoe has dropped in the Michael Tait story.
There's always another shoe.
https://julieroys.com/woman-accuses-michael-tait-drugging-her-watching-newsboys-tour-manager-covered-up/
OMG I never knew you could dislocate a finger fielding in the slips. New horror dropped. #cricket
New podcast just dropped.
Well, it dropped in June, but I just found out about it. I've listened to the first episode and I hope it's successful because it's doing such important work.
This podcast is about child sexual abuse in the LDS church. The information is presented in a clear way with empathy towards survivors and with the legal details that show just how liable the LDS church is and how its influence on
Funny the people who have their airdrop open to anyone - I just almost dropped my annotated version of my student's PhD thesis into a random stranger's device 😅 #academicChatter
Getty Images drops its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI in UK court but continues to pursue other claims and a separate US lawsuit (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/gett
Europe’s Leaders Avoided A Giveaway to Putin, but Emerged Without a Clear Path
The leaders dropped everything to travel to Washington
to ensure President Trump didn’t force a bad deal on Ukraine.
A road map for peace remains elusive.
The seven European leaders put forward a show of support for Mr. Zelensky and unity with each other.
They won a potentially vital, if vague, expression of support from Trump for postwar security guarantees for Ukraine
and sid…
Has #mobilizon dropped support for ARM64?
https://packages.mobilizon.org/5.1.4/
Planet-warming emissions dropped when companies had to report them. EPA wants to end that – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/planet-warming-emissions-dropped-when-companies-had-to-report-them-epa-wants-to-end-that/3717592/
I just dropped in on my BlueSty account for a visit, and discovered that those bastard online hooker accounts that "like" your posts for attention have now migrated there from Elonland. It's soooo tedious.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition:
🎵 Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
#KennyRogers #TheFirstEdition
https://namaray.bandcamp.com/track/just-dropped-in-kenny-rogers-the-first-edition
🌡️ Mexico’s rising mercury trade fuels toxic gold mining in Latin America: Report
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report/
Apple just dropped Embedding Atlas
https://apple.github.io/embedding-atlas/demo/
👀 looking for a open source alternative tho
Hey @… did you guys ever poke at pcie drive strength / emphasis config on the pi4 soc to usb link?
Last time I dropped probes down on the pcie the TX equalizers were waaaay excessive, like set for a PC motherboard sized route. I think I had to remove like 6 dB of emphasis in DSP before the eye looked sane.
High-Speed Thermal Imaging of Disk-shaped Firebrands in a Wind Tunnel
Charles Callahan, Erick Gatica, Sean Coburn, Sam Simons-Wellin, Luke Heinzen, Laura Shannon, John Farnsworth, Peter E. Hamlington, Gregory B. Rieker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15891
ho-ly-fu-ck-ing-shit 🤯 #justmustard dropped a new single today and it blows my mind!!
https://justmustard.bandcamp.com/album/pollyanna
Chargers' Denzel Perryman released from custody with weapons charges dropped, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chargers-denzel…
Bondi says all charges against doctor who allegedly destroyed COVID vaccines have been dropped (Brie Stimson/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bondi-says-all-charges-against-doctor-who-allegedly-destroyed-covid-vaccines-have-been-dropped
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p57#a250712p57
Deuces I have dropped dot com
#CursedWebsites #HashTagGames
Forget America First
—Under Trump,
It's Corporations First
Big corporations donated heavily
to Trump’s inaugural fund.
Just a few months later,
federal cases against them are being dropped
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump
Starlink says it's experiencing a network outage and is "implementing a solution"; NetBlocks reports that connectivity dropped to "16% of ordinary levels" (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/713359/starlink-down-ou…
Ukrainian Forces drop 500-pound bombs on Russian command center in Kursk region: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/ukrainian-forces-drop-pound-bombs.html
Anti-trans provisions dropped from Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/04/anti-trans-provisions-dropped-from-trumps-big-beautiful-bill/
Finally took the time VACUUM FULL all my #PostgreSQL #databases and empty a runaway table. Dropped from ~90% diskusage to ~25% and a hell of a lot less CPU
Has Dak Prescott dropped to the bottom of the 2025 NFC East QB rankings? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/10/nfc-east-qb-rankings-2025-eagles-cowboys-commanders-…
Trump Announces U.S. Dropped 'Payload of Bombs' on Iran via Truth Social (Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-us-bombs-iran-1235369580/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p67#a250621p67
Interior of the fourth floor of the new CS building
#cornell #photo #photography #buildings
Betting buzz: Cowboys' season win total lowest since 2003 https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/40159558/betting-buzz-latest-sports-betting-odds-updates-changes-line-moves-industry-intel…
Google says it has stopped charging Canadian advertisers a 2.5% surcharge after Canada rescinded the DST following President Trump's threats (Pippa Norman/Globe and Mail)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/arti…
No ceasefire, possible land swaps, vague security guarantees: Everything we know following Trump’s meeting with Putin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/no-ceasefire-possible-land-swaps.html
Felony charges dropped in Ontario surgery center ICE raid altercation – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/ontario-medical-center-ice-raid/3766578/
Cowboys Headline Fantasy Football Defenses (DST) That Might Not Need to Be Dropped in 2025 https://www.si.com/onsi/fantasy/nfl/fantasy-football-defenses-cowboys-broncos-ravens-offseason-news
Atlanta journalist fights deportation from Ice jail despite dropped charges: 'I'm seeing what absolute power can do' (George Chidi/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/20/mario-guevara-journalist-ice-georgia-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p36#a250720p36
MAGNA: Asia Pacific ad revenue grew 7.9% in 2024 to $288B led by digital advertising; TV budgets declined by 1.9%, print dropped by 3%, and radio fell by 4.2% (Alisha Buaya/Mediaweek)
https://www.mediaweek.com.au/magna-forecast-apac-ad-revenue-gr…
Shares of SoftBank plunged as much as 9.17% on Wednesday, as tech stocks in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong fall after US tech stocks dropped overnight (Amala Balakrishner/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/softbank-gr…
Los Angeles police officers arrested journalist
💥Anthony Orendorff
-- while he was documenting a federal immigration raid in Pacoima on June 19.
❌He spent four days behind bars without bail on charges of battery of an officer
before the case was dropped and he was released.
“It’s bittersweet because I’m out, but there’s a lot of people still in,” Orendorff said.
“There’s a lot of people we still got to fight for.
But this is a win for us … this is…
The family who made Kennedy Center medals at their kitchen countertop have been dropped by Trump as he eyes new Tiffany design | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-kennedy-center-medal-tiffanys-b2809286.html
Netflix's share of most-watched shows has dropped from 80% in 2021 to ~50%; Amazon, Apple, HBO Max, Hulu, and Paramount have shows in 2025's Top 10 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-1…
everyonehateselon_ '**@Sabra hummus is distributed by @osem_nestle, who donate to and publicly support the Israeli military (IDF) that are trying to wipe out Palestinians in Gaza.**
Just a few days ago the IDF dropped a huge bomb on a cafe where people were simply eating lunch. Israel has killed more than 50,000 people since they began attacking Gaza.
So don’t buy Israeli goods or products supporting Israel.
Link to download the stickers in our bio.'
https://www.instagram.com/everyonehateselon_/reel/DLponCko4VM/
Nielsen: Netflix's share of most-watched shows has dropped from 80% in 2021 to ~50%; Amazon, Apple, HBO Max, Hulu, and Paramount have shows in 2025's Top 10 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/…
New York sues Zelle, claiming that security lapses led to $1B in consumer fraud losses; the US CFPB dropped a similar case in March (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
The White House has seized on two unrelated incidents of street crime
as a pretext for a federal government power grab
at a time when violent crime has in fact dropped across the country.
The attempted carjacking of Edward “Big Balls” Coristine in Washington DC
and a street brawl in Cincinnati
are the latest cause célebrè on the American right,
which has long supported Donald Trump’s plans for military and law enforcement crackdowns in largely Democratic c…
OpenAI's o3-pro is much smarter than o3 and amazing at using tools, but the model requires extensive context to perform optimally and may overthink without it (Ben Hylak/Latent.Space)
https://www.latent.space/p/o3-pro
Winklevoss twins' crypto exchange Gemini says it has confidentially filed for an IPO in the US, after SEC dropped its probe and Gemini settled with CFTC for $5M (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/winklevoss
Sensor Tower: Temu's US DAUs fell 52% in May compared to March, while Shein's dropped 25%, amid the US' China tariffs and the closure of "de minimis" loophole (Karen Gilchrist/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/shein-temu
Epic reaches a settlement with Samsung, which it sued over allegedly conspiring with Google to undermine third party app stores (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/analysis/699541/epic-games-settle-samsung-auto-blocker-lawsui…
Figma's stock dropped 27.4% to $88.60 on Monday after last week's IPO pop; its fully diluted valuation now sits at ~$56B, still almost triple Adobe's 2022 offer (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/figmas-stock-sinks-after-la…