2024-05-03 05:56:02
Bears repeating (from 2022)
The Religious Right and the Abortion Myth - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/10/abortion-history-right-white-evangelical-1970s-00031480
Bears repeating (from 2022)
The Religious Right and the Abortion Myth - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/10/abortion-history-right-white-evangelical-1970s-00031480
Public has no right to swim in sea, claims firm that dumped sewage at bathing spot
https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/public-no-right-swim-sea-firm-dumped-sewage-2981778
Nex Benedict was never going to get justice. We knew that from the beginning https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/children-have-a-right-to-go-to-school/
Assemblymember Matt Haney of San Francisco introduced a bill which would allow employees to ignore after-hours calls from their employers. If passed, California would be the first state to create a “right to disconnect” for employees, applicable to both private and public employers. https://w…
My cousin, her fiance, her two girls, my wife and myself will be heading on vacation right after Memorial Day it seems.
Looks like we're going back to Myrtle Beach, SC for about 5 days to enjoy the sun and the beach and some family time together.
We'll be staying in a condo at the Grand Shores resort on the right in this picture.
Excited to get enjoy some time away for a few days.
STUDY: Tradwife influencers are quietly spreading far-right conspiracy theories (Olivia Little/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/study-tradwife-influencers-are-quietly-spreading-far-right-conspiracy-theories
http://www.memeorandum.com/240501/p71#a240501p71
Why some far-right Republicans are hell bent on ending further aid to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/02/why-some-farright.html
#Putin as a figurehead for the global far-right
https://ecfr.eu/article/conservatism-by-decree-putin-as-a-figurehead-for-the-global-far-right/…
On MSNBC, Chris Hayes debunks right-wing media's "migrant crime surge" myth | Media Matters for America
https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/msnbc-chris-hayes-debunks-right-wing-medias-migrant-crime-su…
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Happy Anniversary to Stanley Kubricks Sci-Fi masterpiece 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, which premiered in New York 56 years ago on this day.
"I’m Sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can’t do that."
#FilmAnniversary
#MovieAnniversary
The far-right plan to use civil rights law to disrupt the 2024 election
At a diner just off the freeway north of Sacramento, a mostly white crowd listened intently as it learned how to “save America” by leaning on the same laws that enshrined the rights of Black voters 60 years ago.
Over mugs of coffee and plates of pot roast smothered in gravy, attendees in MAGA and tea party gear took notes about the landmark Voting Rights Act and studied the U.S. Constitution.
They pep…
49ers get yet more evidence they made the right call with Trey Lance after Cowboys' latest decision https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/49ers_get_yet_more_evidence_they_m…
I hope the law will pass in California. When I finish work I shut down the machine until the start of the next work day. When I am on leave machine is down and cannot be contacted. There is the option to call me, but it must be an emergency and the rest of the team cannot handle the problem before the call goes out. When I do get a call there is a minimum 3 hours that I am paid for. I am on call one week out of three & get paid to be available.
The problem is not, as this story suggests, "high prices."
The problem is shamefully low pay in the United States.
Too many people are working multiple jobs at tipped-wage starvation scale ($2.13 US) while corporations reap the benefits of their labor.
https://…
🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jesus Jones:
🎵 Right Here, Right Now
#NowPlaying #JesusJones
https://open.spotify.com/track/3fcGGP62sllcNEhuFJVYeC
https://djkarper.bandcamp.com/track/jesus-jones-right-here-right-now-dj-karper-tello-remastered-107
The state of the MS 365 UI:
So, Outlook kludged in emoji "reactions" at the extreme top right.
Everyone starts doing "thumbs up" emoji instead of replying "yes".
But 99% of users use a table layout where the messages are listed on the left, and there's only a tiny bell icon extreme top right handling those, so emoji reactions are routinely overlooked.
So... they doubled down and default you into a "reaction digest" subscription …
Assemblymember Matt Haney of San Francisco introduced a bill which would allow employees to ignore after-hours calls from their employers. If passed, California would be the first state to create a “right to disconnect” for employees, applicable to both private and public employers. https://w…
Series D, Episode 08 - Games
AVON: Get on with it, Tarrant.
TARRANT: All right, all right! Taking her up. [He takes the joystick control and concentrates on the screen display.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/408/459 B7B7
You are doing #shopware? Let me invite you to our hackathon in Duisburg, right before #SCD24: https://shop.fi…
Raiders' Davante Adams: No regrets about trade from Packers, but Jordan Love is 'balling right now' https://www.nfl.com/news/davante-adams-no-regrets-trade-packers-raiders-jordan-love-balling-right-now
Daines' mild mannered image doesn't match his ultra-right policies
#MTPol #ShameOnDaines
On the rings whose injective right modules are max-projective
Yusuf Alag\"oz, Engin B\"uy\"uka\c{s}{\i}k, Baran Yurtsever
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01771
"Ancient bluebell woodland smothered in illegal waste as campaigners tell authorities to 'do the right thing'"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment
I did not need to learn today that Norman Finkelstein is anti-trans. This anti-woke screed is extremely disappointing.
Again proving my rule that famous ppl are only allowed to be right about 1 thing at a time. If they're right about more than 1 thing the CIA abducts them and throws them in a dungeon.
https://www.
Raiders add massive right tackle in latest NFL Network mock draft https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/2024/04/01/raiders-add-massive-right-tackle-in-latest-nfl-network-mock-draft/
Quite amazing how there's a full-on fascist crackdown on peaceful students protesting against genocide (of all things) and right-wing Christians in Congress passing a law to sort Jewish people into good Jews and bad Jews...
...and most people are just shrugging or cheering it on.
"From the first moments of the war, it was clear that right-wing Israeli politicians and settler leaders sensed an opportunity to radically shift the status quo in Israel-Palestine. "
https://www.972mag.com/israeli-settlers-gaza-outpost-erez-crossing/<…
I remember a more innocent time where I thought “cancel culture” was about canceling culture. Like a cultural revolution. Ending culture right here and now.
Not sure why Ivanka Trump talked about it, the article I saw then clarified a LOT of things.
@… The certified home of Right to Repair! (self proclaimed… but not like in a flashy way)
Reuters: Cameron says UK supports Ukraine's right to use British weapons to strike inside Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/03/reuters-cameron-says.html
Oh right, I wrote a new #rustlang blog post about testing.
Rust Unit and Integration Testing in #RustRover
How Can I Get It Right? Using GPT to Rephrase Incorrect Trainee Responses
Jionghao Lin, Zifei Han, Danielle R. Thomas, Ashish Gurung, Shivang Gupta, Vincent Aleven, Kenneth R. Koedinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00970
bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 402660 nodes and 69679427 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
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@… if I remember right, you modified(?) the IdeaPad Duet bootloader(?), right?
I want to take my IdeaPad on the plane with me late summer and am worried that it will do that obnoxiously loud beeping. Do you have any pointers on how I could disable that bootscreen or the beeping?
There was an American Loo-lah in College Green today with a big flag saying ‘Trump Was Right About Everything’
He was looking to have photos taken with Trinity College as the backdrop.
If you see a similar thing- do as almost all of College Green’s users were doing and ignore it.
#Photography of a landscape in #Thuringia Germany, in the front a construction fence, on a hill on the left a marble-white lion statue, in the middle further down a climbing frame as a house with a slide, in the front right a short row of dark spruces (?), in the back right sheep on the slope, behind again …
Oregon's governor signs the first US right-to-repair law that bans manufacturers from using "parts pairing" to dictate what replacement components can be used (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/27/2409704…
Barney, Miller
A historic dramedy period piece set in the Middle Ages (90 some million years ago because dinosaurs, right?) and title character, Barney, runs a mill, with madcap characters going about everyday life, in and out of the mill, and Barney helps them out. Cute af.
#MashupTVDramasAndSitcomsAsReboots
Finally got my DJ setup just right
#dj #astronaut #TwoTurntablesAndATrajectory
Finally got my DJ setup just right
#dj #astronaut #TwoTurntablesAndATrajectory
Programmers' worse problem in 2024...
He's right and you know it.
#Programming
There is a sensation half way between having your opinions confirmed and learning you're wrong that is learning that you are probably right and that it's going to be a lot of work that is maybe the single most useful thing to chase in figuring out what to work on.
Finally found some time to tidy up the other side of my lab bench. Now I'm dual tracking the 1000baseT1 testing on the right side and the trigger crossbar at left.
The potential for this sort of thing is exactly why I've got two of most pieces of gear.
It'll get even nearer when my next Koaxis order with some short SMA-SMPM cables comes in and I can get rid of the long coils going to the SDA.
The stongest case for atheism comes from observing the fruits of the American Right.
:mastodon:
It feels impossible to fight fascism right now. People are already capitulating to it. They say "We survived four years of Trump and we will survive four more". I am not sure we did survive four years of Trump
It is extremely in the spirit of Gilbert and Sullivan to introduce exactly the right ridiculous vocabulary word ("polydactyly") to make the rhyme scheme line up with the snark ("well-actually")
https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/112372315828893297
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Lord of Korykos [#Hermes], blessed, helpful and skilled in words, you assist in work,
You are a friend of mortals in need,
And you wield the dreaded and respected weapon of speech."
Orphic Hymn 28 to Herm…
Integrity is getting harder to find.
Twenty-four ways to know if you have it:
First, what integrity's not:
Doing what's popular instead of what's right
Acting differently in private than in public
Saying one thing and doing another
Letting fear dictate your decisions
Taking credit for others' work
Valuing success over ethics
Hiding your mistakes
Following the crowd
Turning a blind eye
Making excuses
Blaming ot…
Daily inspiration: "Do the wrong things for the right reasons!"- Futurist Jim Carroll
History celebrates the rule-breakers who did the wrong things for the right reasons!
Rosa Parks - she defined the push for civil rights by refusing to sit where she was told. Martin Luther King for a regular series of arrests in violation of demands that he refrain from protesting. Dick Leitsch for conducting a "sip-in" at a New York bar to challenge the prohibition against s…
Right, so I wrote about deploying Eleventy site to GitHub Pages using pathPrefix property.
But since it's nothing truly creative compared to stuff I _should_ be writing about, I followed the old stylebook of food bloggers: provide a lot of backstory everybody's going to scroll past until finally reaching the recipe.
@… yea you might be right 😅
@… Hope the eye is feeling a bit better today. Here is a joke that is right up your alley 😄
https://infosec.exchange/@nuthatch/112028698666082…
Redwood State Park near Klamath, where tree trunks are the width of the road...
#ThickTrunkThursday #NaturePhotography #Photography
'Fate worse than death': Anti-Trump conservatives will soon have no home in right-wing media - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/anti-trump-conservatives-media/?utm_medium=email
Right To Be:
Hate and Hope Tracker
Here, you can document harassment online, in the media, or in your own personal life.
You’ll also find ways to document moments of bystander intervention and support others experiencing harassment.
We collect all types of stories of harassment and hope, and as we move through the 2024 US Election, we want to shine a light on #election-related
Alabama CB Kool-Aid McKinstry dealing with Jones fracture in right foot, won't work out at combine https://www.nfl.com/news/alabama-cb-kool-aid-mckinstry-dealing-with-jones-fracture-in-right-foot-won-t-work-o…
"Ancient bluebell woodland smothered in illegal waste as campaigners tell authorities to 'do the right thing'"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment
Palestinians are not getting killed. They are being murdered. By Israel. In a genocide. With the complicity of the US, UK, Germany and others.
Use the right words.
Blame the right people.
Stop the genocide.
#ceasefireNOW
If you think it’s impossible that large, established, publicly traded companies can be massive frauds you really need to read the Wikipedia article about Enron.
The alarm signals right now from Tesla (multiple senior people stepping down, massive axing of entire departments, rumored pivot to software/AI only) are bonkers.
https://
Poll shows how RFK Jr.'s appeal to anti-vaccine right could hurt Trump (Aaron Blake/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/30/poll-shows-how-rfk-jrs-appeal-anti-vaccine-right-could-hurt-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240430/p70#a240430p70
Las Vegas Raiders re-sign offensive guard Jordan Meredith before 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_re_sign_offensive_guard_jordan_meredith_before_2024_nfl_dra…
"For people in the business of opposing vaccination or unwelcome election results, mistrust of big financial institutions and tech companies is common. Increasingly, they can find alternatives being built by a community with a head start in developing the tools of the so-called freedom economy: the far right."
Anti-vaccine activists and the far right team up on parallel economy : NPR
Découverte: ligne du temps de la pandémie au Québec: #Covid
No one ever explains how tents and signs are "disorder”.
“Order must prevail, Biden says, after police dismantle Gaza protest”
BBC has a live feed right now from Los Angeles talking to a protester.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-can
Finally found some time to tidy up the other side of my lab bench. Now I'm dual tracking the 1000baseT1 testing on the right side and the trigger crossbar at left.
The potential for this sort of thing is exactly why I've got two of most pieces of gear.
It'll get even nearer when my next Koaxis order with some short SMA-SMPM cables comes in and I can get rid of the long coils going to the SDA.
In my wife’s rabid-spring-cleaning state, she decided to hide all the lightening cables because her iPhone is only USB-C.
Bad news is my magic mouse is not USB-C, so now I am on an in-house expedition to find a cable to revive my not-so-magic-right-now mouse. 😅
Cowboys 2024 NFL Draft grades: What Dallas failed to do, and one thing it definitely got right
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys
“Senate Democratic leaders… shirking oversight obligations”
You should read this whole interview. It has a lot of very smart insights into what’s happening in our politics right now. 1/3
https://www.offmessage.net/p/aoc-oversight-senate-democrats
Marta Barandiy: Your voice matters: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/02/marta-barandiy-your.html
Flint’s Warning to America
The city’s residents did everything right, but 10 years later they still don’t have clean water.
https://capitalbnews.org/flint-water-crisis-10-years-later/
Phony outrages are being used by Republicans to justify their party's rejection of religious liberty and embrace of Christian nationalism
Bogus claims that Democrats “mock your faith” are a cynical excuse to strip Americans of religious freedom
Every single word of this, of course, is a lie. Democrats are not trying to take God away,
as evidenced by Biden going to church and sharing a statement of faith.
Nor is there a scrap of evidence that trans people ar…
They want to outlaw porn.
Heritage Foundation’s Snarky and Revealing Defense of Project 2025 | Right Wing Watch
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/heritage-foundations-snarky-and-revealing-defense-of-project-2025/
Ranking NFC teams following 2024 NFL Draft: 49ers still class of the conference; Lions, Eagles right behind
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ra…
Why are US campuses facing an orgy of state repression in the ‘land of the free’?
The right has painted nonviolent protests against the war on Gaza as hotbeds of ‘woke’ terrorism.
It’s a pretext for repression
https://www.theg…
Trump’s opponents are rushing to endorse him and show they’re on the right side.
It’s not because they love Trump; it’s because they know that loving Trump is a prerequisite for any future career in Republican politics.
Partisan incentives are powerful, and Trump has commandeered them on his own behalf.
Now and for the foreseeable future, the GOP is Trump’s to do with as he will.
Which means that no matter what horrible things Trump does to the country and the Constit…
Right-Wing Media Targets Seattle Capitol Hill Comedy/Bar - The Stranger
https://www.thestranger.com/comedy/2024/02/29/79408046/right-wing-media-targets-capitol-hill-comedybar
First, in true German fashion, the rules were outlined:
no alcohol on site, flagpoles capped at three meters, no protesting past 8 p.m.
The demonstration followed, with hundreds congregated in the town square shouting #insults at the incumbent government; cracking jokes at the expense of #refugees, the
Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7 | Religion Dispatches
https://religiondispatches.org/meet-the-bronze-age-zionists-far-right-jews-embracing-fascism-in-the-wa…
Fox's Right-Wing Crime 'Crisis' Bombs -- Because Violent Crime Is Down - National Memo
https://www.nationalmemo.com/fox-news-disinformation-2667403403