Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

The existence of Norway implies...

When I was an editor at the Chicago Tribune, I would’ve been in trouble if I’d let my wife put a political bumper sticker on our car. But a Supreme Court justice’s home can fly a flag of insurrection and he’s still allowed to rule on whether the head insurrectionist has immunity.” https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-17-2024?r=13f3k3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Biden Admin's rule limiting credit card late fees was set to begin this past week.

But a Trump-appointed judge blocked it at the request of the Chamber of Commerce — costing families an estimated $27 million a day.

MAGA and corporate interests want to keep ripping you off.

Trump gives isolated Americans the chance to hate alone together https://www.alternet.org/trump-isolated-americans/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

What happens when you mandate masks at a conference now that most people no longer wear them but medically vulnerable people are still at risk because #CovidIsNotOver? In the case of #PyConUS, the conference sells out.

Why a masking policy? “Many of us and our fellow community members can’t attend without health and safety guidelines in place. We want PyCon US to be an event that everyone feels safe attending,” organizers explained.

Well done @pycon https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/112445571644276379

The Telegraph headline on Palestinian refugees is in essence identical to how rightwing British tabloids wrote about Jewish refugees when Britain denied them safe refuge during the Holocaust.

These institutions are dedicated to White supremacy at all costs. They view us as disposable nonhumans.

Any PoC and/or Jew who thinks these people are on their side is wrong. They may temporarily pretend to not hate Jews or Ukrainians or whoever but that’s all it is: temporary.

Capitalism is the state enclosing a common resource, water, so private owners can serve the public literal shit water and still collect rents from the public like feudal lords while we grovel and say thanks for the sewage.

I fucking hate hate hate hate capitalism.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/27970119/devon-water-bug-symptoms-spread-lates-news/amp/

The “Good Deal” Trump Allegedly Offered Oil Execs Might Be Worth $110 Billion https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/corruption-deal-donald-trump-offered-oil-executives-mar-lago-billion/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Don't say 'climate': Ron DeSantis signs bill removing references from state law https://www.alternet.org/desantis-climate-change/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

[Man] is right. I have been diabolically lied to. I have been told that:
❌ If I have a family, I am not committed to my career
❌ If I have a career, I am not committed to my family
❌ Motherhood=100% fulfilling
❌ My ideas actually originated w/the man who said them after I did

Opinion: SCOTUS Silently Grinds Democracy Into Powder as Trump Distracts America https://www.thedailybeast.com/scotus-silently-grinds-democracy-into-powder-as-trump-distracts-america?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Heads up for people compiling #OpenBSD -current (as opposed to snapshots), remember to restart sshd after installing, or risk locking yourself out.

#OpenSSH sshd(8) has now been split up into two separate binaries, sshd and sshd-session, with more changes pending.

djm@ modified src/usr.bin/ssh/*: Start the process of splitting sshd into separate binaries. This step splits sshd into a listener and a session binary. More splits are planned.

After this changes, the listener binary will validate the configuration, load the hostkeys, listen on port 22 and manage MaxStartups only. All session handling will be performed by a new sshd session binary that the listener fork+execs.

This reduces the listener process to the minimum necessary and sets us up for future work on the sshd-session binary.

feedback/ok markus@ deraadt@

Also only on #OpenBSD, this new sshd-session binary gets relinked on boot, as with sshd.

deraadt@ modified src/usr.bin/ssh/sshd-session/Makefile: construct and install a relink-kit for sshd-session
ok djm

deraadt@ modified src/etc/rc: run the sshd-session link kit also

I’m pretty sure we should blanket repeal the pardon power at every level.

It doesn’t even make sense in a rule of law system.

Democrats ask America's most corrupt Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas, if he would be kind enough, pretty please, to explain more about his corruption...

He is, of course, not explaining anything -- and daring anyone to do something about it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/181627/clarence-thomas-rv-loan-democrats-letter

The great thing about file formats is that there are so many to choose from.

Black Lives Matter protests often pitted demonstrators against police in 2020 − but not in every city.

Protests in cities with police departments led by Black women tended to be peaceful.

https://theconversation.com/cities-with-black-women-police-chiefs-had-less-street-violence-during-2020s-black-lives-matter-protests-227440
#BLM #Protests @blackmastodon

@WolfIsMe I have an Ubuntu server running comfortably in 4 GB. In fact, it's my #Mastodon instance, among other things.

The “free but has ads” fallacy: if I can’t afford your paid tier I certainly can’t afford to buy anything from the ads you’re blasting at me. The only ones who actually benefit from this model are ad companies themselves, not the advertisers and certainly not the end user. #enshittification #youtube

4 years ago, an exec for a top PPE producer testified to Congress that in Jan 2020 (as fear of covid began to spread) his firm offered to ramp up production to make 1.7 million N95 masks available to the public per week.

The Trump admin said no.