Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

@rberger @pluralistic For those who don’t want to pay for seat selection, the latest seems to be purposely putting passengers “randomly” into the middle. 9/10 times that’s my default seat even if I’m registering way in advance and there are dozens of empty aisle and window seats.

In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas received $20,000 from a wealthy “friend” — and was forced to resign.

Today, Justice Clarence Thomas just admitted to receiving $4,000,000 from a wealthy “friend” — and nothing is happening to him at all.

Congress MUST investigate Thomas NOW.

* $20,000 in 1969 is worth about $170,000 today

"The pandemic ends when infections end, not when your attention span ends."

- Arturo Portnoy, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

#COVID19

@mattblaze

Must be nice to get confirmed to the Supreme Court and realize not that you have been accorded the highest office of trust that the nation can bestow upon an attorney, but rather, you have just been given the biggest goddam cash cow of your entire career!

TotalRecall has been updated to exfiltrate Recall database and screenshots without needing admin rights: https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall

In the third level of purgatory, you are in an airport lounge surrounded by loud talkers yelling at their phones.

GOP sheriff candidates in Trump’s state reject his mass deportation plan: 'We’re not going to help' https://www.alternet.org/trump-deportation-plan/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Of course Biden won’t pardon his son. It would be scandalously corrupt for the president to use his pardon power in behalf of a family member.

The only reason anyone even asks is that Trump used his pardon power corruptly, in behalf of cronies, donors, and—literally—his own criminal co-conspirators. By and large the news media gave him a pass. Just Trump being Trump.

https://wapo.st/3yQWQZy

Clarence Thomas accepted millions in gifts – far more than all other justices combined https://www.alternet.org/clarence-thomas-gifts/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Publicly available container images are very similar to USB drives you find in the parking lot. They are meant to be downloaded and run in production.

Hey @verge and @rollingstone: Please stop this bullshit of having light gray text on a white background, it doesn't make your site look cool, it just makes it hard to read.

Love,

A person who loves contrast

“Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is a federal crime.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/politics/trump-gun-nypd-revoke/index.html

Rich donors are paying as much as $300,000 per person to attend a Trump fundraiser in San Francisco today. What do they expect in return for their money?

It's good to see people finally being concerned with journal Board members forcibly pulling articles the journal published.

A friend just pointed out:

"ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes advantage of a disability.  Ergo, ad blockers are assistive devices and interfering with their operation for commercial gain constitutes a willful violation of the ADA."

Let’s do this.

Mike Karels died on the way home from #BSDCan, at the age of 67.

https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karels

This man spent 40 years working on BSD. His code appears in #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, and everywhere.

If you have used the Internet, you have used code he wrote.

RIP, sir. You changed the world for the better.

What's probably his last talk: "I don't have much to say," followed by a spellbinding eighty minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws

[edited to remove echovita obit; apparently that's an AI scam site ]

Some of y'all are still confused as to why it seems that Silicon Valley billionaires are "turning to Trump." That's because you don't listen to Black people, you disrespect poor white people, and you ignore obvious statistics that have been staring you in the face for decades.

Silicon. Valley. Billionaires. Have. Always. Supported. Trump.

Not because they like the tax breaks. Because they are more likely to be racist, and racism is the greatest predictor of Trump support.

1/N

1. The most accurate indicator of Trump support, is racism. The 2nd most accurate, is sexism. Not "economic anxiety." The only anxiety that they have, is that Black people might have some money.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112509146141942999

2. Most Trump voters, were not working class.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109876824739991841

3. Most Jan 6 participants, were rich.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109880485930219870

4. Venture Capital, is the most racist part of the US financial/capital allocation system, by far.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109982115166606787

3/N

@jvagle True fact: the Privacy Act of 1974 was passed partially in reaction to Nixon's abuses—but commercial data collection and national security rationales have both grown tremendously in the last 50 years.