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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),
India’s largest Hindu far-right organization,
initiated a well-funded lobbying effort in the U.S. earlier this year
Squire Patton Boggs,
one of the top lobbying firms in the U.S.,
registered as a lobbyist on Jan. 16 for the RSS, according to lobbying disclosures

Exclusive: India’s largest far-right Hindu organization hires U.S. lobbyists for congressional influence campaign
Squire Patton Boggs lobbied U.S. lawmakers on behalf of the RSS, a Hindu nationalist group linked to discrimination and violence against Muslims

Judge burns Russ Vought with his own words, sees right through DOJ effort to 'starve' Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 'with the stroke of pen' | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judge-burns-russ-vought-with-his-own-words-sees-right-through-doj-effort-to-starve-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-with-the-stroke-of-pen/

Inside the downfall of the BBC's top bosses: many see their departure as part of a wider political effort to shift BBC reporting to the right on key issues (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-i…

kickstarter to launch a satellite that could be used as a sovereign ground for the principality of sealand
if you have, like, $150m or so you could just do this, right? it's effectively exterritorial unless somebody spends the effort to bomb it out of the sky (which isn't going to happen). you can just stream pirated content from it, run a casino, whatever

The hard turn of the liberal established media (NYT, Guardian) against trans existence is puzzling.
The whole anti-trans obsession that has bubbled up in recent years is weird. It almost feels like a concerted project but it’s too big, right?
I mean, there just aren’t that many trans people to be upset about. It’s easy to go for years without knowing that you’ve interacted with a trans person, mostly because it’s a non-issue for most folks. @…

Today was one of those 100-watt days (as in: that's all the solar panels are putting out from their 4kW theoretical peak, but it also sounds about right for how much effort I'm able to muster).
Don't take an Illinois boy and put him in miserable, dim, drippy north-western Europe and expect peak performance from October through March!

As fun as the previous face was, I decided I wanted a bit more information displayed.
So I switched to this alternate ternary dial (also made by my friend).
The colours are all customisable. I have the minutes in a different colour to the hour so that I can locate them quickly at a glance, as I tend to decode them first (given I usually know the hour already).
This face can also show a step count but that is way too much effort to decode right now! 🤣

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…

As beautiful as a sailboat looks. In my eyes it's totally not worth the effort to own one (on lakes in Germany). While I enjoy helping my friends with their boats occasionally ... the amount of maintenance just confirms my bias every time :D