Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Donald Trump talks about "abortion up to and even beyond the ninth month."

Yes, America does indeed have abortion beyond the ninth month.

It's called a school shooting.

So are giant container ships losing propulsion/power near bridges a normal everyday thing we never knew we needed to be terrified about, like things falling off passenger planes?

The way a bank refuses to let you put a comma in a value, subverting an an attempt to cut-and-paste the correct amount, yet in the confirmation screen for the transfer formats the value with the comma reinstated.

Most software is just so shitty now. Was it ever better? I dunno, but I blame the vast open source packaging ecosystem for outsourcing quality.

If you're a psychologist and you work for insurance companies reviewing claims for "medical necessity," I'm going to ask you for two favors:

1. Re-think your life choices.
2. Make sure you're actually qualified to speak to the population you're assessing. If you deny autism testing as unnecessary, I'm going to google you, and if you have no training in autistic adults I am going to tell my client how they can contact your licensing board and report you for practicing outside your scope.

Colorado follows California's lead and becomes the 2nd state to ban the corrupt terminology #exciteddelirium as a cause of death. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-becomes-second-state-ban-excited-delirium/

10 years of Digital Rights Ireland decision and the invalidation of the #DataRetention directive, “the most privacy invasive instrument ever adopted by the EU” (EDPS)
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A62012CJ0293

"Three times since December, a white city-owned Toyota sedan affixed with a half-dozen small cameras has cruised through South San Jose to collect footage of parked cars and RVs. The images were then fed into different #AI systems developed by four private companies to determine whether people were living inside the vehicles". https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/04/07/san-jose-ai-homeless-camps-rvs/?

"The Energy and Policy Institute’s request for calendars “is sufficiently specific, focused, and limited, and the public interest in disclosure sufficiently compelling when measured against the minimal impact on government decisionmaking,” #PublicRecords https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/cpuc-calendar-meetings-19388316.php?

NYPD beating up workers in city-sponsored #violence interruption program. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/nyregion/nypd-violence-interrupters-sos.html?

TODAY: Biden announces major action on student debt relief.

What's in the news?

Trump's shifting abortion stance, Trump suing his judge, Trump's fundraising claims.

TOMORROW: Look for another story about how voters don't feel like Biden's done anything.

See how this works?

CA Lawmaker Proposes Bill Forbidding Employers From Calling Workers After Hours https://truthout.org/articles/ca-lawmaker-proposes-bill-forbidding-employers-from-calling-workers-after-hours/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If you've got money, you can see lots of total solar eclipses -- just fly to them. The next one will be in a bit more than two years, visible in part of Greenland, northern Spain, and Iceland. Get in line now!

1 in 50 Children in Gaza Have Been Killed or Injured by Israel in Just 6 Months https://truthout.org/articles/1-in-50-children-in-gaza-have-been-killed-or-injured-by-israel-in-just-6-months/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"It was during the peak of the solar eclipse totality that the ship invisibly landed on Earth, unbeknownst to any of its primitive inhabitants, ready to activate its payload that would destroy all human life on the planet within seconds. Unfortunately for its crew and the plan, a small dog crushed the ship accidentally while running to catch a Frisbee."

Kudos to the staff at DFW airport, which handed out free eclipse glasses and Moon Pies at the plane nerd observation area.