Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

i’d pay good money for a browser that refuses to let any site block copy-and-pasting

I’d pay even more money for a service that hunts down whatever web designer or project manager or VP that decides their site should do this, then names and shames them on a website

Its so-called user-friendly interface was designed by people with no friends.

peer-to-peer Cat6 cabling

#Caturday

I hate it how transit apps will have a mode that lets you say you're about to get on a bus and then tracks your trip but if you're *already on* the bus and you just want it to estimate when you'll get there this is always awkward or impossible in the UI

Portland police chief Bob Day said in a press conference today that their goal is to detain and arrests people on the spot just to identify them and get rid of their anonymity, so that they can surveil them and keeps tabs on them and be more likely to ID them at future events / see who their social circles are. He said taking people into custody is “a tool to leverage more information, and to learn about other people.” I know we know this, but it’s harrowing to hear.

Fascism and a police state are already here, and things are only getting worse. Police across the board are more funded than ever, and in many cities their funding has increased substantially since 2020. Let’s also not forget that Biden expressed his desire to see cop cities everywhere.

Dictators — even those who start out as a 'Dictator for a Day” — play for keeps https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/dictators-even-those-who-start-out-as-a-dictator-for-a-day-play-for-keeps/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Donald Trump to Attend Fundraiser on Day of Barron's Graduation https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-attend-fundraiser-day-barrons-graduation-1897759?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

This special citation by the Pulitzer Prize committee is an insult.

To refuse to even mention that these are Palestinian media workers...and then to intentionally avoid distinguishing between those living and working in Gaza in extremely dangerous conditions and at risk of death at any moment...and everyone else covering the conflict remotely from North America or Europe, belittles the sacrifices of Palestinian journalists.

It's an attempt at sugarcoating Israel's direct role in their murders.

How media companies and content creators keep getting caught not disclosing their use of generative AI as there are no laws in the US https://www.axios.com/2024/05/06/hollywood-generative-ai-disclosure-labeling #genai #ai

Interesting how “accepted the deal” and “proposed an entirely new deal” apparently means the same thing to news reporters.

“The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future income.” 😬

Trump claims the payments to Michael Cohen was for legal fees

But Cohen was IN-HOUSE! He was the general counsel of the Trump Organization. He had a salary.

You don’t pay “fees” to your salaried in-house counsel.

One more reason Trump’s excuse is garbage.

You know something has gone terribly wrong when 94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies while the average Wall Street employee gets a bonus of $176,500. Hello?

Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers.

It started with politicians dividing the people with “us vs. them”.

It started with intolerance and hate speech.

It started when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye.

Remember.

Trump by the numbers:

2 divorces
6 bankruptcies
2 impeachments
4 major legal losses in NY
26 sexual assault accusers
88 criminal counts in 4 cases
10 findings of criminal contempt of court

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

The WORDS Israel used... “Targeted strikes” are for Biden administration’s ears…

1,000,000 refugees were forced into Rafah by the IDF.

When the Hell will this stop!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas #BreakingNews #Breaking

Rafah Tonight!

9/ The Judicial Conference, led by the SCOTUS chief justice, is tasked with policing federal jurists' ethics issues, but as Kirsten Berg & Brett Murphy showed, it has spent decades preserving perks, defending judges and thwarting outside oversight.

https://www.propublica.org/article/judicial-conference-scotus-federal-judges-ethics-rules

On the bros trying to build cities in Solano and elsewhere:

“What seems to be happening is people really want to ‘stay in San Francisco,’ but they want to exit society. … They don’t want to have to deal with the complexity, the differences, the poverty, the needs, the caring for others that was always part of urban culture. They want to escape. They want their own currency, their own culture, their own people. And they wanted it to look like Disneyland.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/city-campus-san-francisco-tech-diversity-19435406.php

#SanFrancisco