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Trump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…

Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own
The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects

periodic reminder that Dunning-Kruger effect is mostly statistical error and if you're using it as a part of your worldview, that's maybe a problem.
Doubly so since a naive reflection of it is a belief in a fascist ubermensch who's just smarter than everyone else. You can justify deeply anti-democratic ideals with it. So consider this carefully.

Google Pixel 11 series hands-on: a $100 hike, minimal design changes, a new HiLight status light, new colors, and small camera and performance improvements (The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/google-pixel-11-pro-hands-on

The Pixel 11 costs $100 more. Did Google justify the price?
Hands-on with all four new Pixel phones, plus the Pixel Watch 5

Fascist paramilitary held an unarmed family at rifle point, claiming "officer safety" and an "imminent threat" to justify the assault. (Anthony, NM, 8/11/26)
The family included women recording on smartphones and children who had already been sprayed with chemical irritants for asking questions.
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116902171696738201
If you didn’t spend your time writing it, I can’t justify spending my time reading it.

I've never been impressed by Michael Jacobs, a fake environmentalist in my view. And this confirms my opinion.
Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael Jacobs | The Guardian https://www.

Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions
Carbon capture and storage could make the Rosebank site compatible with UK net zero commitments – if its owners are willing to pay the price, says economist Michael Jacobs

The Apple announcement today has left me extremely ambivalent. On the one hand, I can upgrade to a lease of a brand-new pro Max, and it will actually be less per month, but I don't believe I get AppleCare so I'd have to pay $15 a month for that. But they did not make a compelling case for me to do so. I don't believe the camera upgrades justify a new device, so then it's just about battery life and AI, both of which don't move the needle for me. (1/5)

K-contact manifolds admitting some geometric solitons with Semi-Symmetric Non-Metric Connection
Bidhan Mondal, Nirabhra Basu, Arindam Bhattacharyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15147 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.15147 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.15147
arXiv:2609.15147v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce some type vector fields with respect to a semi-symmetric non-metric (SSNM) connection. We investigate several geometric properties of a K-contact manifold equipped with an SSNM connection and provide a concrete example to justify the relation between the scalar curvature of the SSNM connection and Levi-Civita connection that we have obtained in this paper. Furthermore, we have found the nature of Riemann solitons, conformal Ricci solitons and conformal $\eta$-Ricci-Yamabe solitons on K-contact manifolds admitting a SSNM connection.\\ Finally, we determine the necessary and sufficient conditions for such a manifold to be $\Tilde{\tau}$-semi-symmetric, quasi-conformal-semi-symmetric and pseudo-projective-semi-symmetric.
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RE: https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/116975569764655540
Oh yay, an outlet that people trust is promoting this article through its accessibility messaging.
And I see the author has updated the original to… justify the article text (versus ragged right).
M…

Songlink have cut public access to their API.
So my link formatting script is currently broken.
They still give API key but you have to write to them and justify the usage.
I did.
Hope they reply favorably.

Lawyers for the Los Angeles Police officer charged with multiple felonies for secretly recording his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments
issued a scathing response to Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman,
-- accusing the D.A. of making
“a desperate effort to save face”
and attempting to discredit their client ahead of his arraignment Monday.
Officer Daniel Flores has said he heard co-workers refer to Black people as “monkeys” who like gra…

Lawyer for LAPD officer slams D.A.'s handling of eavesdropping case
LAPD Officer Daniel Flores pleaded not guilty Monday to 16 counts of felony eavesdropping, and his lawyer accused Dist. Attny. Nathan Hochman of making "a desperate effort to save face" with a motion last week that sought to justify the prosecution of man who documented racist remarks by his peers.

oh dammit. #Partiful's very good, but not good enough to justify using it. #palantir

This is puzzling for me..
Do you know people who frequently use genAI / LLM (maybe yourself?)
Are these people aware of the current and future environmental cost of genAI and its datacenters, when we should instead be reducing those in order to save the planet? (let's try and forget about all the other problems it has for now)
If so, how do you / they justify using genAI despite those costs? (multiple choices possible)

RE: https://glammr.us/@LibraryLoon/117191361596568805
"Even if we can come to a definition of public good, why should we assume that an AI infrastructure will produce it? And even if it can produce good, does the amount of good justify the other effects…

The Anthropic plan to justify the ridiculous valuation: they'll be the only company authorized to certify that you're, in fact, human.
Gonna cost a few thousand $, so start saving up.

RE: #Russia

It’s easy to second-guess Anthony Fauci, and others who guided policy about masks, research and closures of businesses and schools.
But surely, the 85-year-old physician and immunologist doesn’t deserve what’s happening right now,
as a highly politicized Republican-led Senate committee attempted to humiliate him,
possibly trap him into perjuring himself,
and then voted – along party lines – to hold him in contempt of Congress.
No surprise, really, that Fauci, no…

Dr Fauci made mistakes. But his persecution is a travesty
It’s easy to second-guess decisions made during the pandemic. That doesn’t justify the Republicans’ politicized response

@… if you are using an actual as opposed to metaphorical Nazi like Heidegger to justify your positions, you really should be questioning your life choices instead.

From the BBC article, quoting some random market analysts reaction to panic selling:
"'The long term investment case for AI remains compelling, but investors are becoming far more selective about which companies can justify the valuations the market has assigned to them,' Makaryan said."
"' 'The high cost of commercialising AI tools is gradually being passed on to consumers' said analyst Raymond Woo from Kyoto University Innovation Capital.

' Canada's 'powerful' dairy sector is in Trump's trade crosshairs:
Canada's dairy supply management system is in the spotlight after the US president singled it out as one of three main irritants used to justify new tariffs. '
Canada has a very safe dairy supply and we don't want American Big Agro selling into our markets to ruin our health with their "products".

Sources: OpenAI starts letting some major customers pay only when its AI completes tasks, as Salesforce and other AI providers test outcome-based pricing (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-starts-letting-customers-pay-ai-wo…

OpenAI Starts Letting Some Customers Pay Only When the AI Works
OpenAI in recent months has started giving some major customers the option of paying only when its AI completes tasks like handling customer support interactions, The Information reported Sunday . The move comes as Salesforce and a host of other AI providers are beginning to try to charge customers only when the AI works, otherwise known as outcome-based pricing, to help customers justify

Why should people in the UK suffer from heat in their own home? Because a piece of paper says so. Let's change it.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/770729

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116954673956412815
If this goes on for much longer customs will become as complicated as medical billing and we’ll end up with an entire industry lobbying to keep things complicated to justify their own existenc…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116834698065101659
Quantum mechanics: there’s ALWAYS a “but.”
I don’t expect to live to see quantum computers that are sufficiently faster than traditional computers to justify their cost for anyone but t…

Reminder that when they deserve it, it's fine to speak ill of the dead.
"Mortuis nihil nisi bonum" implies the dead can't defend or justify themselves but the Romans hadn't yet invented the replyguy.

Exponential View: global AI sales, excluding China, hit $25B in Q1, exceeding an estimated $21B in data center and chip depreciation costs; margins remain thin (Jacob Reid/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A uniformed member of the United States Air Force was arrested on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday
after demonstrating against President Donald Trump and urging Congress to impeach and remove him from office.
U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson was detained by Capitol Police for protesting in front of the Capitol in violation of rules that forbid demonstrations there unless protesters are accompanied by a member of Congress.
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was pres…

Capitol Police Arrest Air Force Major During His Pro-Impeachment Protest Against Trump
US Air Force Major Jason Watson cited “an unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s authority” to justify his protest.

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This is one of the things that I find interesting about people trying to justify staying on Twitter to promote their stuff; the game is rigged, your stuff gets tucked away and hidden.
https://mastodon.social/@randahl/117200436517938514

For years, a few economists and financial analysts have pointed to the fact that the amount of money being spent on AI continues to rise as evidence that the AI bubble is unsustainable.
The thing is, investors are fine with rising costs if there’s enough revenue coming in to justify the spending, which for AI development has already eclipsed $1.6 trillion as of 2026.
But whether we’re looking at data centers, digital ad revenue, or the cost of inference,
the kind of revenue …

Investors Laying Groundwork to Profit Massively When Economy Collapses
Economy update: the AI bubble is so big that a record amount of money is now being bet on the S&P 500 collapsing sometime in the near future.

HHS Releases Study Finding Individuals Who Associate with Left-Wing Authoritarian Beliefs and Radical Gender Ideology Are More Likely to Justify Political Violence (Health.gov)
https://health.gov/hhs-releases-study-finding-individuals-who-associate-left-wing-authoritarian-beliefs-and-radical
http://www.memeorandum.com/260827/p63#a260827p63

Build-Authorized Evidence for Opaque Calls: A Fail-Closed Rewrite-Authority Boundary
Zhonghua Yi (Toka Language Research Group)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18949 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18949 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18949
arXiv:2607.18949v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Detached semantic facts about opaque native providers do not by themselves justify compiler rewrites: rewrite authority must be confined to the accepted fact, selected provider and build, caller, callback environment, observation, and runtime target. We present a build-authorized path-effect interface that enforces this boundary through fail-closed authorization and link receipts. The design separates receipt closure, callback-environment closure, and projection identity, and passes accepted facts to LLVM through a narrow internal API. We use one-hop topology-load reuse as a minimal observable witness of authority, not as the optimization target.
A conservative LLVM consumer reuses a pointer observation only from a noalias root or one constant nonzero projection. Rocq models prove conditional refinement and authority non-amplification under explicit effect, alias, compiler/ABI, and target-resolution premises. We instantiate checked production with Toka: a source-summary gate emits exact LLVM IR, a separate IR checker accepts only a bounded topology-preserving subset, and only accepted IR is compiled into the receipt-bound provider object. A bounded static Darwin/arm64 profile also checks the final direct branch target.
Across issuer-declared readv, recvmsg, and Cairo boundaries, authorized IR retains each opaque call, reduces the relevant loads from two to one, and preserves observed results; mismatched providers, builds, callbacks, projections, and unsupported IR remain neutral. A libjpeg case is rejected because its callback environment is open, while a bound callback singleton demonstrates the supported closure rule. The contribution is a checked deployment-compiler boundary with an explicit trust and applicability frontier, not a uniquely expressive effect encoding or a new load-elimination algorithm.
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Madonna:
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Please, don't justify your texts if you don't know how to adjust the spaces, and, for the love of Satan or whatever deity you fancy, please don't print a book like this.
#GraphicDesign #Unjustified #books #layout

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Appleblim & Ramadanman:
🎵 Justify
#Appleblim #Ramadanman
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What a disgrace this man is for the whole country. Is there a bottom to his indecency and crudeness?🥹
How do his supporters and enablers justify this behavior?😠
#tantrums #Iran #war #Hormuz #threat #disgrace