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Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

About morbid thriftiness (Autism Spectrum Condition)
As you may have noticed, I am morbidly thrifty. Usually I don't buy stuff that I don't need — and if I decide that I actually need something, I am going to ponder about it for a while, look for value products, and for the best price. And with some luck, I'm going to decide I don't need it that bad after all.
One reason for that is probably how I was raised. My parents taught me to be thrifty, so I have to be. It doesn't matter that, from retrospective, I see that their thriftiness was applied rather arbitrarily to some spendings and not others, or that perhaps they were greedy — spending less on individual things so that they could buy more. Well, I can't delude myself like that, so I have to be thrifty for real. And when I fail, when I pay too much, when I get cheated — I feel quite bad about it.
The other reason is that I keep worrying about my future. It doesn't matter how rich I may end up — I'll keep worrying that I'll run out of money in the future. Perhaps I'll lose a job and won't be able to find anything for a long time, Perhaps something terrible will happen and I'm going to need to pay a lot suddenly.
Another thing is that I easily get attached to objects. Well, it's easier to be thrifty when you really don't want to replace stuff. Over time you also learn to avoid getting new stuff at all, since the more stuff you have, the more stuff may break and need to be thrown away.
Finally, there's my environmental responsibility. I admit that I don't do enough — but at least the things I can do, I do.
[EDIT: and yes, I feel bad about how expensive my new phone was, even though it's of much higher quality than the last one. Also, I got a worse deal because I waited too long.]
#ActuallyAutistic

Beste Google,
Gewoon niets van die AI fratsen graag.
M. vr.gr.,
G.E. Bruiker
Toch maar even gezocht op 'temporary chat Google'. Naast wat (ongetwijfeld gesponsorde) juich berichten ook het volgende:
Google Gemini is getting creepier | #PCWorld

“We are now in the heart of danger.”
Just had a message from Yousef, Nouran’s brother, on Signal.
Please help @… and her family is you can.
https://…

heise | Wie man Kali Linux unter Apple Silicon virtualisiert
Das Hacker-Linux Kali kann man auf Macs mit M-CPUs komfortabel in einer virtuellen Maschine installieren. Wir zeigen, wie es mit UTM und VirtualBox geht.

der wikipedia artikel zum thema wurstbrot ist nicht ausreichend belegt
genau mein humor
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurstbrot

Starting to think about GPU acceleration of protocol decodes (rather than just basic math blocks) in ngscopeclient.
Here's the filter graph I'm thinking of using as a benchmark: dual lane QSGMII, 20M points per channel.
The filter graph takes 944 ms end to end to run on my box (2x Xeon 6144 2080 Ti).
Major time consumers:
* Eye pattern (~345 ms)
* QSGMII (~337 ms)
* CDR PLL (~310 ms)
* 8B10B (~160 ms)
* SGMII (~120 ms)
Note that the …

I expect I'm late to the party as usual and everyone's already seen this - but yeah, for once the description of this video is not hyperbole.
The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob you will ever see!
Not sure about insane but it's very, very impressive. Worth a few minutes of your time and it'll cheer up your day.
#queen #BohemianRhapsody #flashmob

"designed with non-integrated computer systems to avoid the Cylons' demonstrated ability to override or subvert networked command and control systems"
I'm starting to feel this way about the internet and AI.
Galactica had the right idea.
#BSG #BattlestarGalactica

I'm back! This morning was fun, I did a 7.6 mile ride on the borrowed ebike, and almost the entire ride was without pedal assist. I kicked it in for the hills (about 6 in total) but the majority of the ride was pedal powered.
Using the assist just for hills is doable. It's a bit more work but that's okay. It's probably the same amount of work I would do on my lighter Trek.
Average speed was pretty close to what I would get on the non-powered Trek.

On most platforms hashtags are not helpful. Facebook might be the worst that I've seen but I don't do Tik Tok and I'm told that is similar.
I went through a few "reels" and noted common hashtags.
* viralreels
* fbreels
* reels
* videoviral
* reelsfb
* viralreelsfacebook
Non of those anything of value for a user trying to navigate through the the mountain of trash.

Hypothesis: Fediverse users have more capital/financial privileges than on other social media platforms. Let's test it!
How much cash (€) could you realistically make liquid within 1 year? Including selling car, flat, stocks etc. (excluding debts).
Anonymous & honest! (I'm having a discussion with a person from a marketing department...)
After voting, please boost/share to help get more responses! 😊

LOL mais vraiment, ils n'ont rien de mieux Š faire ?
#lol #mdr
La « comtesse rouge » et le tombeau interdit : les cendres d’une descendante du dernier roi de France au cœur d’une bataille judiciaire

La « comtesse rouge » et le tombeau interdit : les cendres d’une descendante du dernier roi de France au cœur d’une bataille judiciaire
Henryane de Chaponay a vécu une vie d’engagements, notamment dans la lutte anticoloniale et pour les droits humains. A sa mort, en 2019, cette descendante du dernier roi de France, Louis-Philippe, souhaitait que ses cendres reposent auprès de ses grands-parents, dans la chapelle royale de Dreux. Mais l’actuel prétendant au trône, Jean d’Orléans, s’y oppose.

»Troy Hunt: That 16 Billion Password Story (AKA "Data Troll")«
🧟 #password

That 16 Billion Password Story (AKA "Data Troll")
Spoiler: I have data from the story in the title of this post, it's mostly what I expected it to be, I've just added it to HIBP where I've called it "Data Troll", and I'm going to give everyone a lot more context below. Here goes: Headlines one-upping each other

https://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/
This needs a version for the computational linguistics/machine-learning quartier of arXiv
I'm guessing at about 60% accurate in the string theory/supercollider / early time physics papers there, "better than a monkey" as the robot tells me
Via/blame

Now personally, I'm not invested in the law and I reject the logical underpinnings of the whole thing. The US is founded on land that already had people on it, that already had multiple systems of authority, so there can be no claim that it has any legal authority to exist at all.
But it's hard to ignore the inconsistency here. Accepting the logic from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, there is no way in which the current state can be legitimate and which Trump has the authority to do anything. The last legal president, again, following the logic that assumes such a thing even possible, was Barak Obama. Since the transfer of power, the country has failed to enforce the law.
If the executive cannot complete their oath, then they are considered vacant under the 25th amendment. If the cabinet fails to invoke article 4, then they too are involved in the insurrection (again, simply following the logic outlined pretty clearly here) as are any who would fail to support the invocation.
Since a full takeover of the federal government by insurrectionists wasn't really planned for, I'm guessing that it would necessarily go to the states, being the only remaining legal authority.

Let me tell you what I learned from putting a KKK leader behind bars.
I'm Shannon Taylor. I've been a prosecutor for over 30 years, and I'm running for Congress in one of the most competitive seats in the country. 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗻.
Republican Congressman
Rob Wittman seems to think he can take away our healthcare,
give a massive tax cut to his billionaire donors, and then lie straight to our face away to it. …

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Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
SHRINKER: Good, good.
AVON: I'm glad you're pleased.
SHRINKER: I hate to waste my time.
AVON: Don't let me detain you.
SHRINKER: I'm a specialist, you see.
AVON: Oh, it's written all over you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/5…

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Duplicati is in the process of saving my ass again, but their backup restores are extremely slow.
Their web interface is neat and the handling is more or less intuitive, but I think I'm going back to the rsync & cron script formula.
It's what I've done on my server all my life until I installed Docker, but in this case I'm going back to my simple origins.
#docker

Bock auf Teamleitung für Bereich Planung für Telekommunikation/Übertragungstechnik u. ETCS (TK) für Eisenbahn- Infrastrukturprojekte?
Wir stellen ein und haben einige der spannendsten Schienenverkehrsprojekte in Deutschland und Europa. Dafür brauchen wir starke Teams mit fähiger Leitung. #Ramboll

Teamleiter (m/w/d) im Bereich Planung für Telekommunikation/Übertragungstechnik u. ETCS (TK) für Eisenbahn- Infrastrukturprojekte
Stellenbeschreibung: Möglich an unseren Standorten Berlin, Hamburg, München, Frankfurt a. M., Düsseldorf oder Karlsruhe Hast du ein abgeschlossenes Studium der Fachrichtungen Elektro-, Nachrichten- oder Informationstechnik und darüber hinaus gute Kenntnisse und Erfahrung im Bereich von Telekommunikationsanlagen (TK) im Bereich des Systems Eisenbahn?Möchtest du dich beruflich weiterentwickeln und deine Fähigkeiten und Führungsqualitäten in einer offenen und modernen Arbeitsatmosphä…

I'm reading a piece of code which is certainly BASED ON code I wrote in 1986, which is so terrible, that, even though I know exactly what it does, I cannot understand it.
And although I know this is not exactly my code, I'm pretty certain that my code must have been pretty much as bad as this!
#Lisp #Shamed

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kassa Overall:
🎵 C.R.E.A.M. (CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME)
#KassaOverall
https://kassaoverall.bandcamp.com/track/c-r-e-a-m-cash-rules-everything-around-me

OpenAI's failed Windsurf deal signals broader M&A challenges for OpenAI until it renegotiates its deal with Microsoft (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/openai-windsurf-google/

An OpenAI Acquisition Turns Into a Google 'Hackqusition'...
A rough few weeks may signal some real talent trouble for OpenAI – at the worst possible time

Really BlueSky? Are you really going to make we look up what a "groyper" is? I'm not sure that's a good idea. I'm not going to enjoy finding out, am I?
Tell you what, I'll go and have a cup of tea and discuss cats and cybersecurity and climate change and hiking with good views and great book recommendations over on mastodon this evening.
You can tell me when it's safe to come back in....

The BORED Net's second μExpo is in the books now...holy Moses I'm tired but it was a great day.
I think this concept is ready to happen-hams getting together and just enjoying being hams. No manufacturers, no vendors, no overhead, no debt for the organizers, just hanging out with other hams.
It's fun. 2026 is already being planned...TWICE. Next Septemeber at CSUCI, and possibly a springtime event at Cal Poly SLO. Watch this space.

Por estos días sumé a mis servicios selfhosteados wallabag, una aplicación para guardar pšginas web estilo pocket. También probé linkwarden, que si bien es mšs bonita y tiene mšs funciones, consume considerablemente mšs recursos, especialmente RAM.
#Wallabag #Linkwarden

Anybody remember this?
This was the Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 that enabled wireless dial-up remote access connectivity over CDPD networking on laptops at roughly 9600bps. Great for Outlook email or accessing small files over SMB.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
SONS:
🎵 I'm Tired
#NowPlaying #SONS
https://reubensaccomplice.bandcamp.com/track/i-love-you-but-im-tired
https://open.spotify.com/track/05ix9xZFyreXSfwUdX7A3g

Some music for today's protests in the US. Stay safe everyone. Don't forget to dance as needed.
Laura Jane Grace, "Baby, I'm an Anarchist" (live, 2021)
https://youtu.be/7-nj4QhjJpc

Have a last minute day trip to Goulburn tomorrow. So a very long day today to get enough work done to cover while I'm away.
Now have been booked in for a tech support call on Friday afternoon for a very non-tech friend in FNQ. Could be interesting. Life is never dull.
Oh and I have virtually no voice again - I'm not sick, just a bit drained of energy, and very very squeaky. So much so that, at times, my voice must only be audible to bats. Hopefully my prodigal voice wil…

"I'm offended"
- perpetually offended @…
https://mastodon.social/@ChrisPirillo/115192785685324813

Obesity & diet
I wouldn't normally share a positive story about the new diet drugs, because I've seen someone get obsessed with them who was at a perfectly acceptable weight *by majority standards* (surprise: every weight is in fact perfectly acceptable by *objective* standards, because every "weight-associated" health risk is its own danger that should be assessed *in individuals*). I think two almost-contradictory things:
1. In a society shuddering under the burden of metastasized fatmisia, there's a very real danger in promoting the new diet drugs because lots of people who really don't need them will be psychologically bullied into using them and suffer from the cost and/or side effects.
2. For many individuals under the assault of our society's fatmisia, "just ignore it" is not a sufficient response, and also for specific people for whom decreasing their weight can address *specific* health risks/conditions that they *want* to address that way, these drugs can be a useful tool.
I know @… to be a trustworthy & considerate person, so I think it's responsible to share this:
#Fat #Diet #Obesity

i'm embracing my jet lag by scouring flights to europe for an extended (six week!) trip next spring, starting in stockholm to visit my daughter and her kids / my grandchildren
man i don't like connecting after an overnight flight i'm always exhausted and i get cranky but there are NO nonstops from detroit to anywhere in scandinavia #alas
i s'pose i could take a 4½ hour train…

with the bar for safe bike infrastructure as low as it is, it's hard to strike the right balance after a project between "hooray! it's so much better!" and "this, that, and the other thing still suck."
Streetsblog SF often errs on the latter side... I'm happier than ever with #ValenciaStreet, but their critiques are not wrong.

SFMTA Leaves Valencia Bike Lanes Unfinished - Streetsblog San Francisco
The center-running lane is long gone and some finishing touches are coming to the parking-protected section from 15th to 23rd, but the lack of concrete infrastructure remains problematic. And then there's the last four blocks from 23rd to Cesar Chavez, which is still just a striped lane wedged between parked cars and moving traffic.

When I'm on the road and set up Airplay from my Mac on the random “smart” TV in the hotel/Airbnb/etc, about half the time my browsers lose the ability to play video. Searching the Internet turns up many similar problems, but not this one. Happens all the time. This just a well-known fail?
#MacOS #airplay

❓ Es gibt unter #Espressotrinkern anscheinend einen Pilz-abschneiden-Pilz-herausdrehen-Streit. Wusste ich gar nicht.
Umfrage: #Espressokocher für den #Herd...

I'm frequently despondent when I see organizations remove or hide once public Internet operational status and trending data.
At one time, lots of networks used to publish a variety of status and traffic summaries. The non-profit Internet2 for example was exemplary in this regard. Cloudflare, a commercial organization, now provides far more public benefit data than they do.
A big loss earlier this year was the once public Equinix network status page -

Introducing Equinix Status | Equinix Community - 519
Starting today you can check the status of your network products on the new Equinix Status page.  - 519

I was trying to package #FlexiBLAS for #Gentoo, and to be honest, it doesn't look that good.
The first red flag is lack of an open bug tracker. Apparently, there is the tracker on GitLab that's limited to "members of their group and selected external contributors", but it doesn't seem to be used much. So it's "send us an email", and wonder how many people sent us the same bug report before.
The git repository is currently at something tagged 3.4.80 that seems to be prerelease, and its build system is quite broken. Not exactly the best path to verify that the bugs you are hitting are still there.
Now, upstream seems to insist on either using vendored netlib #LAPACK, or statically linking to the system library (we don't install the static libraries). Apparently I can specify the shared libraries instead, but it doesn't work — and it's unclear to me whether it doesn't work because I'm using the shared libraries, or because it doesn't support my LAPACK version. If I build LAPACK without deprecated symbols, it refuses to load it at runtime because of missing symbols. And if I build it with deprecated symbols, it fails to find some symbols at CMake time.
Honestly, I feel like I've spent too much time on this project already, especially given that its future is entirely unclear to me — the current git is quite broken, I have no clue how many issues were reported already and whether my bug reports will receive any reply. It definitely doesn't fare well for a package that we might start to rely heavily on. We don't want a cathedral there.
https://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/projects/flexiblas
https://gitlab.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/software/flexiblas-release

Materials folks: I'm looking for a removable sacrificial masking material that:
* Can be applied as a thixotropic gel and cures quickly, preferably under UV
* Sticks reasonably well to silicon, tin plated copper and epoxy-glass composites
* Can be removed with no residue
* Will survive repeated brief exposure to concentrated or fuming nitric and sulfuric acids at ~80C followed by washing in cold acetone
I'm currently using a Dymax peelable UV polyurethane…

TL;DR: what if instead of denying the harms of fascism, we denied its suppressive threats of punishment
Many of us have really sharpened our denial skills since the advent of the ongoing pandemic (perhaps you even hesitated at the word "ongoing" there and thought "maybe I won't read this one, it seems like it'll be tiresome"). I don't say this as a preface to a fiery condemnation or a plea to "sanity" or a bunch of evidence of how bad things are, because I too have honed my denial skills in these recent years, and I feel like talking about that development.
Denial comes in many forms, including strategic information avoidance ("I don't have time to look that up right now", "I keep forgetting to look into that", "well this author made a tiny mistake, so I'll click away and read something else", "I'm so tired of hearing about this, let me scroll farther", etc.) strategic dismissal ("look, there's a bit of uncertainty here, I should ignore this", "this doesn't line up perfectly with my anecdotal experience, it must be completely wrong", etc.) and strategic forgetting ("I don't remember what that one study said exactly; it was painful to think about", "I forgot exactly what my friend was saying when we got into that argument", etc.). It's in fact a kind of skill that you can get better at, along with the complementary skill of compartmentalization. It can of course be incredibly harmful, and a huge genre of fables exists precisely to highlight its harms, but it also has some short-term psychological benefits, chiefly in the form of muting anxiety. This is not an endorsement of denial (the harms can be catastrophic), but I want to acknowledge that there *are* short-term benefits. Via compartmentalization, it's even possible to be honest with ourselves about some of our own denials without giving them up immediately.
But as I said earlier, I'm not here to talk you out of your denials. Instead, given that we are so good at denial now, I'm here to ask you to be strategic about it. In particular, we live in a world awash with propaganda/advertising that serves both political and commercial ends. Why not use some of our denial skills to counteract that?
For example, I know quite a few people in complete denial of our current political situation, but those who aren't (including myself) often express consternation about just how many people in the country are supporting literal fascism. Of course, logically that appearance of widespread support is going to be partly a lie, given how much our public media is beholden to the fascists or outright in their side. Finding better facts on the true level of support is hard, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about the "fact" that Trump has widespread popular support?
To give another example: advertisers constantly barrage us with messages about our bodies and weight, trying to keep us insecure (and thus in the mood to spend money to "fix" the problem). For sure cutting through that bullshit by reading about body positivity etc. is a better solution, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about there being anything wrong with your body?
This kind of intentional denial certainly has its own risks (our bodies do actually need regular maintenance, for example, so complete denial on that front is risky) but there's definitely a whole lot of misinformation out there that it would be better to ignore. To the extent such denial expands to a more general denial of underlying problems, this idea of intentional denial is probably just bad. But I sure wish that in a world where people (including myself) routinely deny significant widespread dangers like COVID-19's long-term risks or the ongoing harms of escalating fascism, they'd at least also deny some of the propaganda keeping them unhappy and passive. Instead of being in denial about US-run concentration camps, why not be in denial that the state will be able to punish you for resisting them?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Nation of Language:
🎵 I'm Not Ready for the Change
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-ready-for-the-change
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ORQX1wOPqCP031V1CxjUq

ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens
Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own -- even if officials have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said in a memo this week.

Todd M. Lyons, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, wrote in a memo to the ICE workforce We…

ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens
The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Spoon:
🎵 Guess I'm Fallin In Love
#NowPlaying #Spoon
https://spoontheband.bandcamp.com/track/guess-im-fallin-in-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/6NkeAbY0dQThFJ1SV3RoOZ

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
TARRANT: Why should Egrorian want to see Avon?
DAYNA: You mean there could be a connection?
TARRANT: When Servalan does anyone a favour, she wants repaying with interest. I'm just wondering if Avon's the interest.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/97

Woohoo. It's my lucky day!
Although I have to say, Elon, if you're splurging out over half a billion between just 5 lucky winners, what on earth have I said to offend you that I'm only being offered $2 million?
#spam

"If you're Pro-Life, you pretty much gotta be Pro-Gay."
Brilliant. 🤣
▶️ Out-Dumbing Ignorant Bigots, and My Sister's Coming Out Story - Cliff Cash
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cygv52I0XIM&si=BDlC9TzUvRBEeIzZ

TL;DR: what if nationalism, not anarchy, is futile?
Since I had the pleasure of seeing the "what would anarchists do against a warlord?" argument again in my timeline, I'll present again my extremely simple proposed solution:
Convince the followers of the warlord that they're better off joining you in freedom, then kill or exile the warlord once they're alone or vastly outnumbered.
Remember that even in our own historical moment where nothing close to large-scale free society has existed in living memory, the warlord's promise of "help me oppress others and you'll be richly rewarded" is a lie that many understand is historically a bad bet. Many, many people currently take that bet, for a variety of reasons, and they're enough to coerce through fear an even larger number of others. But although we imagine, just as the medieval peasants might have imagined of monarchy, that such a structure is both the natural order of things and much too strong to possibly fail, in reality it takes an enormous amount of energy, coordination, and luck for these structures to persist! Nations crumble every day, and none has survived more than a couple *hundred* years, compared to pre-nation societies which persisted for *tends of thousands of years* if not more. I'm this bubbling froth of hierarchies, the notion that hierarchy is inevitable is certainly popular, but since there's clearly a bit of an ulterior motive to make (and teach) that claim, I'm not sure we should trust it.
So what I believe could form the preconditions for future anarchist societies to avoid the "warlord problem" is merely: a widespread common sense belief that letting anyone else have authority over you is morally suspect. Given such a belief, a warlord will have a hard time building any following at all, and their opponents will have an easy time getting their supporters to defect. In fact, we're already partway there, relative to the situation a couple hundred years ago. At that time, someone could claim "you need to obey my orders and fight and die for me because the Queen was my mother" and that was actually a quite successful strategy. Nowadays, this strategy is only still working in a few isolated places, and the idea that one could *start a new monarchy* or even resurrect a defunct one seems absurd. So why can't that same transformation from "this is just how the world works" to "haha, how did anyone ever believe *that*? also happen to nationalism in general? I don't see an obvious reason why not.
Now I think one popular counterargument to this is: if you think non-state societies can win out with these tactics, why didn't they work for American tribes in the face of the European colonizers? (Or insert your favorite example of colonialism here.) I think I can imagine a variety of reasons, from the fact that many of those societies didn't try this tactic (and/or were hierarchical themselves), to the impacts of disease weakening those societies pre-contact, to the fact that with much-greater communication and education possibilities it might work better now, to the fact that most of those tribes are *still* around, and a future in which they persist longer than the colonist ideologies actually seems likely to me, despite the fact that so much cultural destruction has taken place. In fact, if the modern day descendants of the colonized tribes sow the seeds of a future society free of colonialism, that's the ultimate demonstration of the futility of hierarchical domination (I just read "Theory of Water" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson).
I guess the TL;DR on this is: what if nationalism is actually as futile as monarchy, and we're just unfortunately living in the brief period during which it is ascendant?

So #Zope released new versions of their packages, with pkg-resources style namespace removal.
Totally normal way to do the bumps:
1. At first, keep the existing testing hack (writing `__init__.py`).
2. Notice that the next package fails because it expects test paths relative to `zope` subdirectory. Skip it for now.
3. While doing the next package, realize you could remove that hack and simply run tests within the `zope` subdirectory! Go back and update all the previous packages, including the one that failed before.
4. Back to bumping. Notice that in the very next package you've had an even better solution: instead of `cd`, you just called `python -m unittest -s …`. Go back and update all the previous packages.
5. Back to bumping. The very next package turns out to actually expects test paths relative to the top-level site-packages directory. Well, you can use a hybrid of the `__init__.py` hack with `python -m unittest -s …`.
#Gentoo #Python

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
rRoxymore:
🎵 Am I Human?
#rRoxymore
https://rroxymore.bandcamp.com/track/am-i-human
https://open.spotify.com/track/6i0Dqt3YJu8XWJuQxHs80v

Is anyone aware of a Cortex-M based microcontroller with a PCIe root complex IP?
Not an apps processor, I'm specifically asking about a M (probably M7 or M85 based).

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Getdown Services:
🎵 I'm Not Feeling It
#NowPlaying #GetdownServices
https://getdownservices.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-feeling-it
https://open.spotify.com/track/7xvlfxgCGYonQklS547AgR

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
TARRANT: [O.O.V.] Go where?
VILA: [O.O.V.] Somewhere a long way away.
TARRANT: [O.O.V.] Why do you say that?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/83

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Today thanks to a defect of another train combined with complete incompetence of Polish railway traffic controllers, I've spend almost 3 hours in a train, stopped halfway between Złotniki Grzybowe and #Poznań Strzeszyn train stops (1.5 km from either). I would lose perhaps half of this time if they instead stopped us at the previous stop, and told us what's up, so we could just go catch the urban bus. But that's not my biggest problem.
These 3 lost hours means I'm behind with work. So I'm hurrying to catch up. Except I'm so completely messed up because of all this, I can't really focus on work, so I had to stop. So I'm going to be even more behind.
#rail #ActuallyAutistic

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nation of Language:
🎵 I'm Not Ready for the Change
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-ready-for-the-change
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ORQX1wOPqCP031V1CxjUq

Just updated the trigger crossbar to the latest versions of all of my various RTL and firmware libraries.
Still have to convert the Ethernet subsystem on the FPGA over from the legacy EthernetBus interface over to my new AXI4-Stream based IP.
And replace the 7 series transceivers wizard on the 10Gbase-R uplink with a raw GTYXE2_CHANNEL (I'm already using raw channel primitives on the other ports)

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Fat Dog:
🎵 Peace Song
#NowPlaying #FatDog
https://fatdogfatdogfatdog.bandcamp.com/album/peace-song
https://open.spotify.com/track/2FPcTfECQrZviBAarAHv1f

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JARRIERE: Even if he cannot be trusted?
SERVALAN: Oh, he can be trusted to do anything for money. He'll deliver Travis.
JARRIERE: And Docholli?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/155 B7B4

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Sally Shapiro:
🎵 Rent
#SallyShapiro
https://sallyshapiro.bandcamp.com/album/rent
https://open.spotify.com/track/2HqX91uTKBEFggPeW7Ccdd

The ngscopeclient about dialog now has a (hopefully) full list of all 77 authors credited! Very manual generation process for now, but I'm going to try and automate the list generation for the future.
One less thing to do before we ship the v0.1 release.
We now have only six release blocking tickets and then we can ship it:
* Fix some shaders assuming unlimited X axis thread block size is possible
* Binary packaging for MacOS
* Window resize events not handled …

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
[Space Command]
SERVALAN: How did that happen?
JARVIK: They fired through their own force shield.
SERVALAN: Don't be absurd.
JARVIK: You asked, I told you.
[Liberator flight deck]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/294

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Stereolab:
🎵 Miss Modular
#Stereolab
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/miss-modular-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/0rjmjw66MN5qDr8jAEOi5k

Test fitting boards in a STEP export of the current rack chassis using Dune3D for the first time.
It's definitely got some rough edges but I think it has potential. Doesn't feel as polished as SolveSpace but the STEP import is a key feature I've found missing in other tools.
But I can't figure out how to do boolean operations on imported step geometry, even if I say it's part of a solid body I'm not able to e.g. do an extrusion to cut off the lid of the ch…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Nation of Language:
🎵 I'm Not Ready for the Change
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-ready-for-the-change
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ORQX1wOPqCP031V1CxjUq

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
VILA: [V.O.] Belkov's living quarters.
TARRANT: We'll be right there.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/409 B7B2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Moderat:
🎵 Bad Kingdom
#Moderat
https://anthony-h.bandcamp.com/track/moderat-bad-kingdom-anthony-h-rework-free-download
https://open.spotify.com/track/52XjrfqvrxaMtjCDYEKkXN

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
AVON: The explosion in the planet's atmosphere would have provided the rest.
BLAKE: Yes, I hadn't thought of that.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/602 B7B5

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Cure:
🎵 Endsong (Orbital remix)
#TheCure
https://orchestra-tuppence.bandcamp.com/track/endsong-the-cure-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0gHvrWN5ZQPDqn3QnpI5DD

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
TARRANT: Yeah, very interesting. After he vanished, they started finding the bodies. He was never a simple scientist, Avon.
VILA: What was he?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/245 B7B3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Stereolab:
🎵 Melodie Is a Wound
#Stereolab
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/melodie-is-a-wound
https://open.spotify.com/track/1qCOC3y2zuswTq6PZoL2ID

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mariah Carey:
🎵 Fantasy (Def Club mix)
#MariahCarey
https://subtraxdj.bandcamp.com/track/mariah-carey-fantasy-subtrax-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6xkryXuiZU360Lngd4sx13

Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
AVON: No, you're not. [Avon turns off his comm-link. Louder, to the others on the planet surface: ] They're on their way.
[A group of black clad people arrive.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/389 B7B4

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Saint Etienne:
🎵 Take Me to the Pilot
#SaintEtienne
https://heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/take-me-to-the-pilot
https://open.spotify.com/track/2FsJ6jZiqgbORPeIW06i1j

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
GINKA: It's a pathogen introduced by the aliens during the War. Treatment is linked to the patient's individual tissue pattern.
FRANTON: Individual?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/278 B7B3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
William Bell:
🎵 I Forgot to Be Your Lover
#WilliamBell
https://wtcf.bandcamp.com/track/william-bell-i-forgot-to-be-your-lover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3a19dv4IRhGjkyvgdUxEDu

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
ZEN: Fourteen minutes. Attack run will commence in nine minutes and thirty seconds.
BLAKE: How long before they see us?
AVON: Nine minutes and twenty-five seconds.
[Hearing room]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/490 B7B5

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Wanda Jackson:
🎵 Funnel Of Love
#WandaJackson
https://wandajackson.bandcamp.com/album/funnel-of-love-whirlpool
https://open.spotify.com/track/6uJXOi796U1D8iW9fj2ZGn

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Social Lovers:
🎵 Feel My Love
#SocialLovers
https://sociallovers-uncut.bandcamp.com/album/feel-my-love-time-warp
https://open.spotify.com/track/1XOuETN0BT0qGDJcoPFcoO

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
ORAC: The difference is barely measurable.
AVON: But it is greater.
ORAC: By a marginal degree, yes.
AVON: There. [Smiles] Now isn't that something?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/149 B7B2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
The Rolling Stones:
🎵 Dead Flowers
#TheRollingStones
https://thereeveshouseband.bandcamp.com/track/dead-flowers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3oJtUnnt5uYPtzulIbLw3D

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
TARRANT: It was outside the ship.
DORIAN: Slave.
SLAVE: Yes, Master.
DORIAN: Analyze exterior disturbance.
SLAVE: It is an earthquake, Master.
AVON: Cause?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/173 B7B2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
HALFSLEEPER:
🎵 Cast Away
#HALFSLEEPER
https://therealhalfsleeper.bandcamp.com/track/cast-away-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/4me1utxAGlHLsl0EbC3Q5C

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
ZEN: Confirmed, battle computers are online.
JENNA: Give me maximum available range on the detectors.
[Scene - inside Star One]
CALLY: What do you think is going on?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/357 B7B4

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Toro y Moi:
🎵 So Many Details (Instrumental)
#ToroyMoi
https://thedecayingprocess.bandcamp.com/track/toro-y-moi-so-many-details-mirrormirror-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1YpRBLuUWsdahTFhZr9pwK

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
TARRANT: Well, let's go, while we can.
AVON: Execute preprogrammed course.
ZEN: Confirmed.
DAYNA: I didn't believe they'd do it.
TARRANT: Neither did Servalan.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/650 B7B5

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Blood Incantation:
🎵 Chaoplasm
#BloodIncantation
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/track/blood-incantation-chaoplasm
https://open.spotify.com/track/27ruSppMAmqJfjQXA2Cbp3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Executive Suite:
🎵 When It Comes To Loving Me
#ExecutiveSuite
https://favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com/track/when-it-comes-to-loving-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/3bggO6Go7PwQIft1DuDShH

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
KAYN: That's where the fault was, in the limiter, there. And there it is repaired. If you survive, so should he.
BLAKE: Is there any way we can thank you?
KAYN: You could try getting caught.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/552 B7B2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Full Flower Moon Band ft.Gustaf:
🎵 Scene
#FullFlowerMoonBandftGustaf
https://fullflowermoonband.bandcamp.com/track/scene-ft-gustaf
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Yt5ZJVP0q4haEzcmVdGfM

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: No; she doesn't know we're here. No probe activity at all.
DAYNA: Why don't we just blast her out of existence once and for all?
AVON: Well, then, we would never know, would we?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/18 B7B3

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: [V.O.]Have you done it, Avon?
AVON: Soon.
BLAKE: [V.O.]How soon?
AVON: I can talk or I can work, but I can't do both.
BLAKE: [V.O.]We're running out of time, Avon.
[Flight deck]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/225…

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
AVON: Open the main locks.
[Exterior. View of Liberator hold opening]
AVON: Visual. [A view of space from the interior of the hold is displayed on the main viewscreen.]
VILA: Ramp fully open.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/162 B7B6

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
AVON: Dayna told me you had enemies.
MELLANBY: I've been hiding here for a long time.
AVON: What was your crime?
MELLANBY: It wasn't a crime. But there's still a price on my head: three million credits.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/198…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Marvin Gaye:
🎵 I'm Going Home
#MarvinGaye
https://open.spotify.com/track/6evscJwZInclwUOhJSq7lr

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: Then stay with us.
CALLY: Thank you.
JENNA: What are we going to do about the projectile.
BLAKE: Dump it in deep space.
JENNA: Thanks a lot.
GAN: I don't like the sound of that. It's murder.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/490

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Built to Spill:
🎵 When I'm Blind
#BuilttoSpill
https://open.spotify.com/track/1BYxXcVnvvNWx8FaoGqjzh

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Broadcast:
🎵 Michael A Grammar
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/michael-a-grammar

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Transport:
🎵 Disco Fantasy Land
#Transport
https://transportpdx.bandcamp.com/album/disco-fantasy-land

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Elliott Smith:
🎵 Roman Candle
#ElliottSmith
https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/album/roman-candle

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Piteyo Ukah:
🎵 Uyas Gerakun (Small Island mix)
#PiteyoUkah
https://smallislandbigsong.bandcamp.com/track/uyas-gerakun-small-island-mix