Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

Looking forward to #TeamTrump bringing up a last surprise witness tomorrow who's just some Proud Boy goon specifically there to tell Merchan "it'd be a shame if something happened" to his daughter.

More detail from the International Criminal Court re. arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas and Israel. Among the war crimes categorized & defined for Netanyahu & Gallant of Israel are:

"cutting off supplies of electricity and water" and "attacks on facilities that produce food and clean #water".

The explicit war crime is "intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare."

This conclusion comes from the unanimous report from the Panel of Experts to the ICC Prosecutor.

Because there are never enough Green Herons on Mastodon, here's one.

#birds

Alito flies an upside down flag. Thomas's wife openly supports the insurrection. My latest OpEd details the scary truth that this corruption is who SCOTUS has mostly always been—the greatest obstacle to justice in America.

Let me know what you think: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/what-if-the-greatest-obstacle-to

I must say, these new extra-strength placebos are doing wonders for my hypochondria!

I have 38,000 followers on Mastodon. If only 1% of my followers gave me one dollar a month on Patreon, I would be making 38 million dollars every single month. The power of the generosity of strangers blows my mind.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Justice Sam Alito sold at least some of his stock in Anheuser-Busch and bought stock in Molson Coors on Monday, August 14, 2023, amidst an anti-trans boycott.

What happened and what’s it mean? At Law Dork, I explain: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alito-bud-light-stock-sale-anti-trans-boycott

If you use Slack for work, your messages and DMs to friends and colleagues are now being used to train the company’s machine learning features — and everyone is opted in by default.

A quiet update to the company’s policy suggests messages, data and files sent by users are helping Slack to improve its in-app features like channel recommendations, search results and emoji suggestions, reports @PCMag. Individual users can’t opt out either, something critics have called a “privacy mess.”

https://flip.it/Tb1gRM

#Slack #AI #MachineLearning #Tech

New Report! "Two-Thirds of Court Asylum Applicants Found Legally Entitled to Remain."

Out of 1M+ asylum cases decided by immigration judges over the past decade, 685,956 (66%) were legally entitled to remain in the United States due to asylum or other relief.

https://trac.syr.edu/reports/742/

If you aren’t happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship.

Happiness comes from video games, not relationships.

Via Kyle Griffin:

New: Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin is calling on Alito to recuse himself from all cases involving the 2020 election.

"The Court is in an ethical crisis of its own making, and Justice Alito and the rest of the Court should be doing everything in their power to regain public trust."

A "Stop the Steal" flag reportedly flew at the home of Justice Samuel Alito, just days after Jan 6.

Alito not being forced to recuse from Trump's immunity case and upcoming Jan 6 cases tells you everything you need to know about the new SCOTUS code of "ethics."

It's a sham.

When questioned why a Confederate battle flag flew over his house for a week in 2023, Justice Alito said, “That was my son.”

And the flag of Nazi Germany that was up for a day at the start of 2024? “The dog.”

“And the Pepe flag that is going up for a couple of weeks in September is an innocent mistake,” he added.

Steely Dan implies Woody Bob.

Hello #Mastodon friends

Are you still on #Twitter?

GET THE FUCK OFF IT:

"X now treats the term cisgender as a slur"

https://www.engadget.com/x-now-treats-the-term-cisgender-as-a-slur-211117779.html

Everybody disliked this #peloton #privacy

Told my wife I'm attending a mens mental health group, but I'm actually visiting museums and going on walks in other towns, the solitude is amazing, wife is happy and I'm happy.

Trees and water!