Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

If Kamala Harris taps Tim Walz for VP and they win, then Peggy Flanagan becomes Minnesota's Governor, and would be the first Native American governor in US history.

In U.S. HISTORY.

In 248 years we've never had a Native American governor. This would be a critical step forward.

New, by me: A federal district court in New York ruled that U.S. border agents must obtain a warrant before searching the electronic devices of Americans and international travelers crossing the U.S. border.

The judge warned that had they ruled in the government's favor, this ruling could have be used to target political opponents, who "would only need to travel once through an international airport for the government to gain unfettered access" to their devices.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/29/us-border-agents-must-get-warrant-before-cell-phone-searches-federal-court-rules/

Democrats in Array. Here's Why That's Bad News for Democrats

(Apologies to NYTimes Pitchbot)

I would like to confidently announce that I have no idea what will happen and no idea whether the result of today's news will be good or bad. Follow me for more.

Fact check: #Trump makes more than 20 false claims [#lies] in #RNC acceptance speech

#unfit #Republicans #cult #idiocracy #autocracy #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/18/politics/fact-checking-night-4-republican-national-convention-trump/index.html

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- Drivers for sound cards, video cards, storage, networking, game controllers, and more!

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Tell your friends! :)

Bathrooms should be fully enclosed, lockable, individual rooms, with sinks and sanitary bins in every room. Everything less than that is a loss of dignity, and "only people of your own approximate gender presentation can see or hear you" is not a meaningful mitigation. We all deserve real privacy in the bathroom.

And when you "Remember the Alamo," remember that the US side died defending their right to enslave people. They were killed by Mexican abolitionists. Basically, this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cze5A4iyQGk

And stop saying that the Mexicans killed every US man at the Alamo. That's a lie. Because one of the men that the Mexicans captured was a Black dude. The Mexican soldiers were like, "Bro, we're here to liberate Black people, and he's shooting at us?! This brother is confused!" and they just... let him go

Clarence Thomas- expert on guns, if not murder.
https://boingboing.net/2024/06/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-its-the-justice-conservatives-of-america-to-the-rescue.html
#SCOTUS #BumpStocks #ClarenceThomas #JohnRoberts #Guns #Murder #MassShooting

John Oliver: Project 2025 Makes Trump More Dangerous

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/john-oliver-project-2025-makes-trump-more?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=89891

Still looking hard for any place that supplies a Sony Vaio N505X restore CD image (or any way to hack the N505VX one that's on internet archive). This is a 20+yrs old subnotebook supposed to run 98/ME/XP - and its insanely beautiful. I am restoring a full set at the moment and need a way to install the original Windows image on it. Boosts welcome #retrocomputing

@RickiTarr Hmmm, wonder how the public schools fare in Massachusetts versus, I dunno, somewhere like, Mississippi?

@GovTrack Yes, I'm sure trump and putin barely spoke in 2016 🙄

At this point in time, “Blacks for Trump” makes as much sense as “Jews for Hitler”.

@Aviva_Gary @StillIRise1963

@Extra_Special_Carbon @DemocracyMattersALot I truly believe the gloves will be off in a second Trump presidency. The courts aren't going to save us. They've spent the past four years testing how far they could go — and as it turns out, they can go pretty darn far! Especially with liberals and centrists putting their faith in "norms and traditions." I expect Trump II to use the full power of militarized police (and the actual military) to crush dissent and the courts will allow it.

The real base of the Democratic Party is Black people, which is why we are being targeted by extremists.

There are 2 cults who want us to stay home and let Trump win and neither cult cares about the rights or safety of Black people at all, no matter how many hashtags they throw around.

Israeli forces have destroyed all the water wells in northern Gaza.

The lack of water is making the near-famine conditions across the Strip worse, and most children and adults there don’t have access to clean drinking water

"If water is life, then it's denial is a certain slow death."

Video shows children drinking water from puddles & collecting seawater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ALG-rlI4lM

@palestine
#Gaza
#water

The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. Here are some common considerations to help guide campus activists. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/surveillance-defense-campus-protests

Keep an eye on Nvidia stock.
When it dips one iota … get the fuck out of the market because tech bubble 2.0 is going to burst along with the rest of the pumped up U.S. economy.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-great-ai-retrenchment-has-begun

#AIhype #AI #nvidia #openai