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Last week, I wrote an analysis of the #ITEF #Idempotency-Key specification. The specification aims to avoid duplicated requests. In short, the idea is for the client to send a unique key along with the request:
* If the server doesn’t know the key, it proceeds as usual and then stores the respons…

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

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has joined the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and Fight for the Future calling on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to oppose
H.R. 7521, the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act”.
This bill would functionally ban the distribution of TikTok in the United States, and would grant the President broad new powers to ban other social media platforms based on t…

CDT Joins Others in Letter Opposing the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has joined the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and Fight for the Future calling on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to oppose H.R. 7521, the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” because it would violate the First Amendment rights of Americans across […]

Reprinted my Deadpool fridge magnet. The original model has holes in the back where one can glue in the magnets. I only got rather strong neodymium magnets which don't stick very long to the glue I have available.
What I did now was to place a thin box in #PrusaSlicer right at the holes on the bed. Just two or three layers of filament. Then added a pause (filament change) at t…

"But RDBMS require more than just a query language; C. J. Date introduced the concept of referential integrity in 1981, and Jim Gray the idea of transactions and ACID in 1983–no, not the acid that Steve Jobs was recommending to Bill Gates to drop, but the one you read about in database books, about atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability."

The presence of an aggressor in the one statement and the total absence of an aggressor in the other is indeed notable.
https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/112397954667657673

Zecharias Zelalem (@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social)
Attached: 2 images Utterly ridiculous from the Pulitzer Prize committee today. This Pulitzer citation supposedly honoring 🇵🇸 journos doesn't actually do so. "Journalists & media workers covering the war in Gaza" includes everyone, Palestinian or otherwise. The citation fails to mention the nationality of the journalists who "died" (euphemism which downplays the worst recorded journo slaughter), or the identity of their killers, the Israeli army. Please compare with the 2022 citation…

OK, here's what I'm not getting about the budget debate. The richest decile is enormously richer than anyone else, AND there's been a substantial transfer of wealth from the middle to the richest quintile since 2008. But no one is talking about using redistributive taxes to rebalance either of these issues.
Why the hell not?
(graphs from

The Supreme Court (majority of 5) is wrong. The Court has no authority to erase the plain meaning of the Constitution. But there is no institution to appeal to - other than the voters. Voters can choose to follow the plain meaning of the 14th Amendment and determine for themselves that someone is not qualified to hold office. And then vote for the other guy.
It’s suboptimal. It’s messy. Blame the radical right wing 5 for screwing up. And vote accordingly.

Opinion | The Supreme Court Just Erased Part of the Constitution
Its ruling on Trump’s eligibility for the presidency contradicts the clear language of the 14th Amendment.

My weekly photo-essay at the blog Balloon Juice
https://balloon-juice.com/2024/05/06/on-the-road-albatrossity-spring-in-the-heartland-2/

Balloon Juice - On The Road - Albatrossity - Spring in the Heartland - 2
Happy Monday! Rumination from Albatrossity, and Mayan Ruins from lashonharangue! (click on the schedule for a bigger, non-blurry version) Albatrossity The pace of migration quickens in April here, and although the crescendo is not reached until May, there are plenty of species coming and going every week in April. And the local non-avian fellow-travelers start …

Reprinted my Deadpool fridge magnet. The original model has holes in the back where one can glue in the magnets. I only got rather strong neodymium magnets which don't stick very long to the glue I have available.
What I did now was to place a thin box in #PrusaSlicer right at the holes on the bed. Just two or three layers of filament. Then added a pause (filament change) at t…