Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

"In the attorney general’s office’s response to the litigation, a timeline is laid out. In its second document production, Washington University gave the attorney general a list of patients in a spreadsheet. “The supplemental production included a spreadsheet titled ‘Transgender Patient data,’” the attorney general’s office wrote. “Which included various workbooks chronicling patient names, encounters and medications, among other information.” https://missouriindependent.com/2024/05/24/therapists-social-workers-face-scrutiny-in-missouri-ag-investigation-of-transgender-care/

According to Defending Rights and Dissent, @rightsdissent over 3,000 people have received over $150 million in total settlements for injuries caused by police during the George Floyd protests in 2020. https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/the-cost-of-police-violence-and-mayhem-a-report-on-police-misconduct-during-the-george-floyd-protests/

If you live in the UK or USA, you need to understand one thing about the coming election:

You need to vote *defensively*.

Neither of the main parties are appealing. But if you don't vote for the lesser evil you may end up helping a totalitarian horror get elected.

Hold your nose and goddamn vote, dammit. THEN go on protests. Because if you don't vote for the lesser evil, the victor will welcome your protests with bullets.

The prize for political purity this time round is a shallow grave.

With Trump slurring his words again at his speech in the Bronx last week, and more unhinged rants on Truth Social over Memorial Day after standing there cluelessly saluting during “Amazing Grace,” it feels more essential than ever that we get the word out about the danger that Trump’s mental decline poses. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline

Opinion: John Roberts May Be the Worst Chief Justice in Supreme Court History https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-roberts-may-be-the-worst-chief-justice-in-supreme-court-history?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Hoping for a Mad Max movie where they run out of fuel and vehicles and they're forced to chase each other on bicycles.

I guess I'm a robot.

@SteveBellovin Keep it. The way things are going, after The Fall RS-232 is all we'll have left. If we're lucky.

@ricmac @pluralistic @judell the entire Ziff-Davis downloads archive of DOS shareware/freeware software is unavailable forever because of legacy DRM

NYT: Have E-Bikes made New York streets a nightmare?
Not mentioned until end of article: The automobiles that make New York streets a nightmare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/nyregion/street-wars-e-bikes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE0.x-6m.qS78uuD5VSwU&smid=url-share

There is an absolute collapse of the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. Representative Jamie Raskin

My comments: Theocratic fascist judges make rulings with no basis in law. #Alito must be removed.

Absolute Collapse of the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

#scotus

@SteveBellovin @mattblaze He's running out of live friends.

Cities across the US have settled more than 130 police misconduct lawsuits from the George Floyd protests and paid nearly $150m to protesters. "The basic function of protest policing remains abusive, politically motivated, and immune from accountability." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/25/police-misconduct-payment-2020-protest

Releasing products that you know are creating fakes is deeply irresponsible. 3 lies from Google’s GenAI: Barack Obama is a muslim. Put glue in your pizza to avoid the cheese from sliding. Eat rocks for your health. Google, OpenAI and Microsoft all warn that their products are ‘hallucinating’, and thus try to avoid responsibility and put it on the user, while knowing that most humans will eat all the lies they cannot detect immediately. GenAI is the epitome of Trump.

https://on.ft.com/3wMGD79

I cannot get over how many times in recent years the Washington Post had to decide *not* to share that they knew the Alito household flew an upside-down flag in the immediate aftermath of Jan 6 before reporting it today. https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington