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Pretty petty: Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association
https://bookriot.com/louisiana-hb-777/

Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association
Louisiana Library workers or libraries who seek membership in the largest professional organization would be criminalized for doing so.

Donald Trump’s attacks on the judges and court staff overseeing his criminal trials have much deeper legal implications than petty fines. Instead, the attacks
—and the responding “passivity, acquiescence, and submissiveness by the nation”
—are actively undermining the entire judicial system, prominent conservative judges are warning.
In a CNN interview Thursday evening, Republican-appointed federal District Judge Reggie B. Walton felt compelled to announce that Trump’s contin…

Conservative Judges Sound Alarm: Trump Will Shred Our Justice System
Prominent conservative judges are warning that Trump is posing a threat that’s like “nothing in American history.”

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #VernonKay
Tom Petty:
🎵 I Won't Back Down
#TomPetty
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gSQv1OHpkIoAdUiRLdmI6
https://djchrisdiablo.bandcamp.com/album/tom-petty-i-wont-back-down-the-mash-ups-and-remixes

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:
🎵 I won't back down
#NowPlaying #TomPetty #TheHeartbreakers
https://open.spotify.com/track/6VI1XxF61Ny1Gb2m27XnaR
https://djchrisdiablo.bandcamp.com/track/tom-petty-the-heartbreakers-i-wont-back-down-instrumental-2

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Tom Petty:
🎵 I Won’t Back Down
#TomPetty
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gSQv1OHpkIoAdUiRLdmI6
https://djchrisdiablo.bandcamp.com/album/tom-petty-i-wont-back-down-the-mash-ups-and-remixes

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #GoodMorningSunday
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers:
🎵 Learning To Fly
#TomPettyandtheHeartbreakers
https://open.spotify.com/track/17S4XrLvF5jlGvGCJHgF51
https://djeddyredrums.bandcamp.com/track/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-learning-to-fly-dj-eddy-rockdrum

Sometimes I get ground down by the various forms of petty fraud companies foist on Americans. Here Hertz has charged me a $20 convenience fee to pay $2.62 worth of highway tolls. That's a 763% fee.

That is assuming you can get Ozempic. If the doctor recommends it and they are a diabetic and they miss one little checkbox some petty drone can deny coverage? Wouldn't they send a short note to the doctor with the question? Also, why do they have to fill it in yearly?
Then the fact that it won't be covered in pharamcare program? Really? How much will it cost society if a diabetic has preventable complications.

The “Not Now” replacing “No” as an option is infuriating. “We’ll wear you down,” they’re saying. “We know you don’t want this, but we’re going to nag you like a whiny child until you accede to our petty demands.”

Some people seem to be into petty wars between fediverse services.
Tribalism much?
Smh 🙄

January 4, 2024 NYT crossword puzzle spoiler and petty gripe
NYT crosswords are usually so precise, but this one has a mistake, which I think is the first one I ever found after doing thousands of them over the years.
The clue is "36:1, for snake-eyes" and the correct answer is "ODDS". But the odds for snake-eyes are 1:35. Argh!
#NYTCrossword #Math #Probability

Ok, I know this is petty... but I'm a bit pissed about this new "Effect" #TypeScript library.
It brings interesting stuff, but on the other hand it is easy to see how it has "adapted" code from other libraries without even mentioning them, or making any effort to be compatible with them.
Example, my nominal/brand types lib:
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@coderspirit/nominal
Powerful nominal types for your project. Latest version: 4.0.3, last published: 20 days ago. Start using @coderspirit/nominal in your project by running `npm i @coderspirit/nominal`. There are 6 other projects in the npm registry using @coderspirit/nominal.

Maxx Crosby says Jon Gruden threatened to cut him for unbelievably petty reason https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/maxx_crosby_says_jon_gruden_threatened_to_cut_him_for_unbelievably_petty_reas…

Maxx Crosby says Jon Gruden threatened to cut him for unbelievably petty reason
Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby is one of the premier pass-rushers in the NFL. However, he recently admitted during an appearance on Barstool Sports’ “Pardon My Take” podcast that his eagerness to prove himself as a rookie fourth-round pick during his first training camp in 2019 nearly cost him his job when Jon Gruden was coaching the team. “He literally threatened to cut me on the middle of the field my first training camp,” Crosby said. “…It was like the second week …

Writing a song that namechecks your ex's favorite bar to ensure that he'll never be able to go there again is next level petty. I love it.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-the-black-dog-pu…

Pathetic, petty little man...
Sen. Cruz Introduces Bill Blocking the Federal Government from Compelling Pronoun Use that Contradicts Biology | Senator Ted Cruz
https://www.cruz.senate.gov/news…

Sen. Cruz Introduces Bill Blocking the Federal Government from Compelling Pronoun Use that Contradicts Biology | U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05630 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Busemann-Petty type problems on complex vector spaces
Busemann-Petty type problems for the recently introduced complex projection, centroid and $L_p$-intersection body operators are examined. Moreover, it is shown that, as their real counterparts, they can be linked to the spherical Fourier transform.

A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts (Brian Hiatt/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udi…

AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music
A new Suno rival, Udio, is here, backed by tech and music heavyweights. It has powerful capabilities —  and a whabit of generating Tom Petty's voice

Watched “Palermo, Hollywood” (2004), an Argentinian movie about two rather naive yet inseparable twenty-something petty criminals who get in over their heads when a kidnapping job goes horribly wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bByzL3EDIb0

A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts (Brian Hiatt/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udi…

AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music
A new Suno rival, Udio, is here, backed by tech and music heavyweights. It has powerful capabilities —  and a whabit of generating Tom Petty's voice

Some #AI vendors try to sell #LLMs that lock-in the customer, so it becomes very #expensive for the customers to switch to another provider. This affects even large

Writing a song that namechecks your ex's favorite bar to ensure that he'll never be able to go there again is next level petty. I love it.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-the-black-dog-pu…

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:
🎵 Shadow people
#TomPetty #TheHeartbreakers
https://open.spotify.com/track/61yxDjvjwWEcZ47o9DJckg

Forced labor was the foundation of an economic system that knew no color boundaries; like an open sore the plantations grew upon the Caribbean, and when the Indians died, and the supply of white trash failed to meet demand, the merchants tapped deeper into Africa, drawing away men and women not because they were black, but because they were cheap, limitless in number, and better. European class societies whose elite thought nothing of hanging an English child for petty theft, or packing indentured workers, white or black, like herring into the festering holds of ships, cared less about the origins of their laborers than the production of their labor. Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery. In the first days of colonialism, when the merchants sailed away from the insular world of Europe, the color of the worker’s skin meant no more to them than it did to the kings of Africa, rulers who lorded over thousands of their own slaves, and who for a suitable profit were more than willing to pass them along. Of course, all of this mattered little to the men and women unloaded into bondage in Saint Domingue. For them the enemy had a face, and there was no doubt as to its color.
Wade Davis -- The Serpent and the Rainbow
#Slavery #Racism #Abolition #Haiti #Capitalism

A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts (Brian Hiatt/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udi…

AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music
A new Suno rival, Udio, is here, backed by tech and music heavyweights. It has powerful capabilities —  and a whabit of generating Tom Petty's voice

Busemann-Petty type problems on complex vector spaces
Simon Ellmeyer, Georg C. Hofst\"atter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05630 https://

Busemann-Petty type problems on complex vector spaces
Busemann-Petty type problems for the recently introduced complex projection, centroid and $L_p$-intersection body operators are examined. Moreover, it is shown that, as their real counterparts, they can be linked to the spherical Fourier transform.

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:
🎵 Shadow people
#TomPetty #TheHeartbreakers
https://open.spotify.com/track/61yxDjvjwWEcZ47o9DJckg

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05630 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Busemann-Petty type problems on complex vector spaces
Busemann-Petty type problems for the recently introduced complex projection, centroid and $L_p$-intersection body operators are examined. Moreover, it is shown that, as their real counterparts, they can be linked to the spherical Fourier transform.

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:
🎵 Shadow people
#TomPetty #TheHeartbreakers
https://open.spotify.com/track/61yxDjvjwWEcZ47o9DJckg