Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

WOW this is incredible & terrifying.

Israel spent over a decade spying on ICC prosecutors to "retroactively investigate incidents of interest to ICC to prove Israel’s legal system is accountable."

Meanwhile Israel has banned all journalists from Gaza and has killed 100+ journalists. This is totally what you do when you're not guilty of war crimes.

How much longer will the USA, UN, & the world enable this injustice?
https://www.972mag.com/icc-israel-surveillance-investigation/

#LinkedIn
"Learn how you can use #AI to give your projects that personal, human touch"

"My new AI meditation app does all my meditating for me, freeing me up to work as many hours as I can"

"I used AI to write my CV/resume and got the first job I applied for. And although I don't possess any of the skills/qualifications on my CV, AI has give me the confidence to believe that anything is possible if you put your mind to it."

MATH FUN!

Because there are always pregnant people, the average number of skeletons in a body is greater than one

Massive leak at #Google confirms what we have all known for years, just how much is tracked, stored, and monetized.

Even clearer now how Chrome tracks and reports EVERYTHING you do. For heavens' sake delete it now and move to Firefox

Also they've outright lied for years about their data collection and search practices.

Looks like 'Don't be evil' wasn't enough. ;)

https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo

Just, get off Google products already!

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-best-non-google-search-engine/

‘There’s a Dam Breaking’: Biden Officials Who Quit White House Over Gaza Say Dissent Over ‘Disastrous Policy’ Will Increase https://www.mediaite.com/politics/theres-a-dam-breaking-biden-officials-who-quit-white-house-over-gaza-say-dissent-over-disastrous-policy-will-increase/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Tonight's discovery: in the US, the symbol for healthcare and medicine is snakes wound around a winged staff, right? A caduceus, the symbol of Asclepius, the rod he carried as the god of healing?

Well... no. The rod of Asclepius only has one snake. The caduceus, with its two snakes, is a symbol of Hermes, the god of commerce.

This explains quite a lot.

(all credit to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medicine)

Delhi hits 50 degrees. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/severe-heatwave-sweeps-north-india-as-mercury-breaches-50-degree-mark-5767214#pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll For those of you who don't speak fluent centigrade, that's 122F. Hot. Really hot.

“…the Supreme Court has no army. You have no police; you lack all mechanisms of enforcement. Your authority depends on America’s trust in the rule of law, which you are allowing Justices Alito and Thomas to mock.”

Letter from Sabrina Haake, a 25 year litigator specializing in 1st and 14th Amendment defense, to Chief Justice Roberts.

#SCOTUS
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/28/2243237/-Letter-to-Chief-Justice-Roberts-from-a-disillusioned-trial-lawyer

"We kill people based on #metadata former National Security Agency chief Michael Hayden once infamously quipped". https://theintercept.com/2024/05/22/whatsapp-security-vulnerability-meta-israel-palestine/

"We kill people based on #metadata former National Security Agency chief Michael Hayden once infamously quipped". https://theintercept.com/2024/05/22/whatsapp-security-vulnerability-meta-israel-palestine/

"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/

"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