Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Why should we care about the Supreme Court killing the Chevron doctrine?

When the next pandemic comes, and the FDA approves a lifesaving vaccine — ANTI-VAXX MAGA JUDGES will be able to overrule the FDA’s doctors and scientists.

That’s why.

The only thing negative I'm going to say about Biden in the debate is to ask why none of the people prepping him didn't think to have him plan to say, in his first answer, "I have a cold, by the way, which is why my voice sounds like this -- but I'm here and I'm doing this debate anyway."

"This is the American story of the past 4 decades: accumulate tech debt, merge to monopoly, exponentially compound your tech debt by combining barely functional IT systems. Every corporate behemoth is locked in a race between the eventual discovery of its irreparable structural defects and its ability to become so enmeshed in our lives that we have to assume the costs of fixing those defects. It's a contest between 'too rotten to stand' and 'too big to care'" @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/#antonin-scalia-stole-your-car

Subway train, light and dark. West 116th St/Columbia University station on the 1 train. The station is fully underground, but there are some ventilation grates on the sidewalk at street level. When I took this photo, around midday, sunlight was shining almost directly on the part of the train under the grates. Photo taken with an iPhone using raw mode. (1/60, f/1.8, ISO 320)

Texas Supreme Court Says Parental Rights Don’t Extend to Gender-Affirming Care https://truthout.org/articles/texas-supreme-court-says-parental-rights-dont-extend-to-gender-affirming-care/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Closing the Stanford Internet Observatory will edge the US towards the end of democracy | John Naughton https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/29/closing-the-stanford-internet-observatory-will-edge-the-us-towards-the-end-of-democracy?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

There's a famous quote attributed to Mark Twain: "In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards."
https://mastodon.social/@crlamke/112700391964463694

The reality is that the goal is keeping Donald Trump out of the White House. In furtherance to that goal, loyalty to any individual candidate, no matter how noble, must be abandoned if necessary, irrespective of the candidate.

The Nearly $1 Trillion US Military Budget Doesn’t Provide Safety, Only Profit https://truthout.org/articles/the-nearly-1-trillion-us-military-budget-doesnt-provide-safety-only-profit/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

It's extremely important that logs never be written to a plaintext file--instead, they should go to a special format that requires a custom binary to read because the systemd author hates everything about Unix.

The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

⚠"iPhones and iPads are not computers," Apple has publicly stated. ⚠

🔔 We should not allow gatekeepers like Apple to threaten our rights and freedoms!

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240627-01.html

@tofugolem

not just their disposable income

we took as much of their disposable time as well

We spent 4 decades making everyone else poorer so that a small number of wealthy people could get wealthier.

Young people are affected by this more than old people.

We deliberately shrunk the disposable income of the population, then get angry when people buy less stuff.

Big chunks of Texas were under heat warnings this past week — with heat indexes hitting 115°F.

Reminder that Texas Gov. Abbott signed legislation that prohibits cities from mandating employers to provide workers with rest and water breaks.

This is the GOP's vision for America.

Pro-Palestinian protesters are still harassing Biden. Yet last night at the debate, Trump said "Let Israel finish the job" and accused Biden of being a Palestinian because he's been trying to get rabid Netanyahu on a leash. And they plan to protest the Democratic convention. Do they realize they are actually working for Trump, who has promised concentration camps for them? .

They can just go ahead and replace law school textbooks with a sheet of paper that says “The courts are just going to do what they want to do”