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Benchtop organizational idea - has anyone done this before?
Little 3D printed plastic feet with a threaded hex standoff press-fit into it. Attach the foot to your bench with command strips or double sided tape, then screw DUT into it.
When you need to move the board to solder to it etc, just remove the screws, lift it off, then put it back in when you're done.
Board is held firmly in place without needing to tape it down by the corners like I do now.
Good idea? Ba…

Judge Cannon shoots down Trump’s presidential records act claim
U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to have his charges of mishandling classified documents dismissed on the grounds that a federal records law protected him from prosecution.

The judge also defended her handling of the issue, which had surprised legal experts and rankled prosecutors.

Trump’s defense team argued that the Presidential Records Act (PRA) took priority ove…

Judge Cannon shoots down Trump’s presidential records act claim
The ruling in Donald Trump’s classified documents trial could cool a looming standoff between special counsel Jack Smith and Judge Aileen M. Cannon.

Judge Cannon rejects Trump’s bid to dismiss classified documents case - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/04/cannon-trump-jack-smith-preside…

Judge Cannon shoots down Trump’s presidential records act claim
The ruling in Donald Trump’s classified documents trial could cool a looming standoff between special counsel Jack Smith and Judge Aileen M. Cannon.

#Racism is what it is.
Opinion | The Ugly History at the Root of the Border Standoff - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/opinion/border…

Opinion | The Ugly History at the Root of the Border Standoff
Republicans are using an old battle cry to defend razor wire.

NYPD is right now about to storm Columbia University in NYC after protesters against genocide occupied a university building.
Here’s something interesting from the Uhiversity website.

This shit is crazy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13214651/nyc-homeowner-arrested-squatters-standoff-home.html

Shocking moment NYC homeowner is put in handcuffs and shameless SQUATTERS are allowed to stay after...
Adele Andaloro, 47, inherited property in Flushing, Queens, and planned to sell it but then noticed that someone had changed the locks. When she went inside, it led to an explosive confrontation,

"My next tour, Stewart Lee vs the Man-Wulf, will be a satirical response to the monetisation of the supposedly unsayable by fake-ass Netflix standups, and will include unsavoury terms"
Now I'm glad we got tickets for this in january. 😀
https://www.theguardian…

Starbucks resumes contract negotiations with its union, in a climate that points to a successful result. Five days after the union victory at Volkswagen. These stories have much greater consequences than student demonstrations over Gaza, but where are the news media???

Starbucks and Union Set to Restart Contract Talks After Bitter Standoff
The company and Workers United, which represents more than 10,000 of the chain’s employees, broke off negotiation nearly a year ago.

Extreeem rechts heeft banden met #BigOil, wat een verrassing. En maar zeuren over hoe het bedrijfsleven de overheid overneemt. Weet u gelijk dat dat enkel voor de bühne is (al is dat voor wie het stemgedrag van PVV en FvD volgt geen verrassing)

‘Hard-Right’ NatCon Event Was Organised by Oil Funded Group
A gathering of “Europe’s hard-right elite” held in Brussels today was organised by a fossil fuel funded think tank, DeSmog can reveal.  The National Conservatism (NatCon) conference was mired in controversy after the mayor of Brussels ordered police to shut down the event, leading to a standoff with its organisers.  The conference was due to […]

In a letter to members, the National Music Publishers Association says it doesn't expect to renew its TikTok license when the deal expires on April 30 (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/nmpa-does-no…

NMPA Does Not Plan to Renew TikTok License — Will Publishers Follow?
The standoff between TikTok and Universal took a turn when the National Music Publishers Assn., which reps many indies, said it does not plan to renew.

Five months before Congress faced a near-catastrophic 2022 standoff over the debt ceiling,
with Republicans demanding restrictions to food and Medicaid programs to rein in spending,
a bill that raised the cost of private retirement savings accounts to $282 billion per year was quietly signed into law.
In this era of deeply divided politics, the 2022 bill known as "#Secure 2.0" wa…

Directional intense terahertz radiation driven by abruptly autofocusing lasers in air
Xiao-Ran Zheng, Nan Li, Wei-Min Wang, Rui Zhang, Cun-Lin Zhang, Liang-Liang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11846

Directional intense terahertz radiation driven by abruptly autofocusing lasers in air
Two-color laser induced plasma filamentation in air could serve as tabletop sources of broadband terahertz (THz) pulses. Ubiquitous air in the earth facilitates its widespread utilities, particularly, in wireless communication and remote sensing, exploiting the unique advantage of the air-based scheme that the THz sources can be delivered over standoff distances via the pump laser propagation in air. However, the THz emission pattern inevitably has a conical angular profile with a dip in the pr…