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First-rate analysis of what the Supreme Court just did:
“A five-man majority has effectively nullified a critical provision of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. The ‘oathbreaking insurrectionist’ Trump—a designation unchallenged by the Supreme Court majority or even his attorneys—will never be disqualified from the presidency.”
“The Court severely weakened an essential barrier to violent despotism that had been erected in the aftermath of the Civil War.”

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The Constitution Turned Upside Down | Sean Wilentz
In one of the Supreme Court’s most sweeping rulings in modern times, a five-man majority has effectively nullified a critical provision of the Fourteenth

Open faculty position:
W3 Substitute Professorship for Data Science
at the School of Business Informatics and Mathematics at the University of Mannheim,
(8/9 W3 professorship, limited for three years, no tenure track)
more info: https://www.uni-mannhei…

TIL #GitHub is limiting statistics/graphs for repos with more than 10,000 commits... Considering ~99% of those in https://thi.ng/umbrella are my own, it seems I've been rather busy... 😇

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In that light, the Taoiseach’s statement that it should be families and not the state with the duty of caring for those who need care appears much more strategic than previously
A statement like that by the Taoiseach would be a weighty piece of evidence for the State to resist any litigation efforts the AG predicts to force it to assume new duties.

Interesting article here talking about, in a sideways kinda way, how the (#Mastodon based) truthsocial dot com server was having trouble keeping up with Trump and/or his followers last night. Was there perhaps a small attack on the address? Or maybe it was suffering from its own success and couldn't handle the traffic generated from its own high post count. (The known self-DDOS probl…

This is a great article on sports betting, but this particular paragraph deserves special mention, just a perfect description of self cannibalizing capitalism 🤌
https://defector.com/sports-is-betting-it-all-on-gambling

Data modeling is hard!
The first photo, uploaded to #WikimediaCommons, is of a painting depicting a Philippines Historical Committee marker (shown in the second photo) that commemorates a public square that is named after a doctor.
The doctor, the plaza, and the marker all have #Wikidata

Daily Inspiration: "Don't judge your success by what you did before. Judge it by what you will do next!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
If your life is to be a play, always be prepared for a second act! Or perhaps, get into a mindset where you will always have even more complex performances with many different scenes and many different roles!
Have you seen the Schwarzenegger documentary on Netflix? It's an interesting journey - he became one of the biggest action movie …

Daily Inspiration: Reinvention and Moving Forward – “Don’t judge your success by what you did before. Judge it by what you will do next!”

I don’t know what’s worse, that a worm ate part of R.F.K. Jr.’s brain or that it died after eating it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html

RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain
The presidential candidate has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ate part of his brain.

There is a dude on the bus rn with the most massive, fully teased, half metre in diameter 'fro hair. As a mostly bald guy, not entirely by choice, I am perhaps naturally interested in people with a full head of hair but I don't wish for hair..I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I think in this case though, I may be fascinated out of semi-subconcious envy. 😆
#buslife