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rbreich, 4 days ago to random

59 years ago today, Griswold v. Connecticut guaranteed the right to birth control.

Justice Thomas says the Supreme Court should "reconsider" that ruling.

And this week, 38 GOP senators voted against the Right to Contraception Act.

Republicans are coming for birth control.

bitprophet, 4 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

Technical blog post.

First sentence: "At time of writing, $technology is the new kid on the block."

There are no dates anywhere on the page. Not just hidden somewhere, or on hover, or in the URL. I checked the source. They do not exist.

TABLE. FLIP!!!!

gvwilson, 4 days ago to random

"Thomas received 103 gifts totaling $2.4m, according to an analysis by Fix the Court, a watchdog group. The total dollar amount he received is 10 times what his fellow justices combined received over the same period." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/07/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-trips

frank, 4 days ago to random

It may be the fact that I am tired, but I think we should all start pronouncing GenAI as "Jenn-aye" like Forrest Gump.

augieray, 6 days ago to random

80 years ago today, 2,501 Americans died at Normandy to protect lives and democracy.

Some were black, knowing they would return to a racist US.

Some were gay, knowing they could be court-martialed for who they were.

They fought anyway for what was best and right.

I don't care what you think of Biden. A world with Trump in the White House will be a disaster. In 151 days, you can do what is best and right without risking your life.

Every election. Every race. Every Democrat. #VoteBlue #DDay

mekkaokereke, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

99.7% of Venture Capital money goes to people that are not Black women.

0.3% of Venture Capital goes to Black women.

The 11th circuit court cited civil rights law when it said that it is racist to stop anyone from having access to VC based on their race, and that setting aside VC for people of a given race is racist.

So they ruled against a group of Black women looking to give their own money to Black founders. For violating the civil rights. Of white men that want that 0.3% too.🙂🙃

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nedbat, 6 days ago to python

Mostly you shouldn't subclass #Python built-in types. But if you do, dict subclasses can define missing: it's called when a key is missing. Instead of hiding a dict in a function as a cache, how about hiding a function in a dict!? A Fibonacci dictionary:

raiderrobert, 9 days ago to random

Discovering that you're wrong & then changing is an underrated superpower. 💪

jalcine, 12 days ago to random

I got let go from my current role. To say I saw it coming would be half true, but I was not expecting to be out in the blinds this soon. Open to a lot right now, more info at https://jacky.wtf/work. (https://jacky.wtf/2024/5/20Fw)

luckytran, 12 days ago to random

Hospitals in South Australia have paused elective surgery and declared an internal emergency due to staff being sick with COVID. The pandemic is not over. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-30/sa-public-hospitals-in-internal-emergency/103915690

TheConversationUS, 12 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to history

Today is the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history – and one that continues to haunt Americans.

One of them is Gregory Fairchild, whose grandfather was caught up in it, and whose family history personally inspires his work.

(From 2021): https://theconversation.com/100-years-after-the-tulsa-race-massacre-lessons-from-my-grandfather-161391

#BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #Histodons @histodons

rbreich, 12 days ago to random

34 felony convictions
54 pending criminal charges
2 impeachments
2 popular vote losses
$88M owed to E Jean Carroll
$450M owed for civil fraud
$8T added to nat'l debt
2.9M net loss of jobs

Is this what Trump meant when he promised "numbers like we've never seen"?

18+ mcc, 11 days ago to random

This is kind of building on something Adam Serwer was saying but—

There's this snap poll showing 50% of the US "agrees" with the Trump verdict, 30% disagrees, and 20% is unsure.

https://bsky.app/profile/johnpfaff.bsky.social/post/3ktr6cgwxel2z

That 20% unsure should be treated as "20% reachable". This suggests someone needs to be reaching them! Republicans, even supposed moderates like Susan Collins, are swarming to spin this as meaning something it doesn't. I don't see evidence Democrats are pushing back

peterbutler, 12 days ago to random

We don’t know yet how Trump’s conviction will impact the November election

We can be pretty sure of 2 things, though

1. Tomorrow, the RNC will report Trump’s biggest fundraising day ever, the media will run with that story, and no one will follow up if/when official election filings contradict it

2. A GOP-sponsored poll will show that Trump's conviction will not lose him any votes, and the media will run with that too

trabern, 12 days ago to random

I just want us all to take a moment and reflect that it has been a couple of women that brought you this at great personal cost.

Of all the things that could bring down Trump, it has been a couple of stubborn women he felt entitled to that did it.

juglugs, 12 days ago to random

Jury braver than 98% of elected Republicans.

vwbusguy, 11 days ago to google

Because of #Google #Android apps like News now opening in #Chrome instead of the default browser and no longer making that optional, I've disabled Chrome on both of my phones. This means that if your website doesn't work with #Firefox on Android, then I won't be making a purchase on your website.

genehack, 12 days ago to random

happy "first US president to be convicted of a felony" day to all who are celebrating

glennf, 12 days ago to random

Imagine if Twitter still existed right now

QasimRashid, 12 days ago to random

'We Did the Same Thing,' US Official Says After Israel's Rafah Massacre

The White House appears to be arguing, “George Bush should be prosecuted for committing war crimes in Iraq,” and for the record, I think that’s a great idea.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/john-kirby-press-conference

MissingThePt, 12 days ago to random

I got 34 problems, but a criminal conviction ain’t one.

rfk.jr.brain.worm, 12 days ago to random

today a pornstar was crucial in making a former president a felon. i don’t ever want to hear sex work isn’t real work ever again.

zzzeek, 12 days ago to random

the orange tech bro site taking it pretty well regarding their most favorite orange bro

rickderuiter, 12 days ago to random Dutch

GossiTheDog, 22 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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