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PA judge rules that Elon Musk CAN CONTINUE his $1M/day giveaway, denies emergency injunction sought by Philly DA Larry Krasner. Full opinion with reasoning to come. (via Teddy Schleifer) (Deleted and reposted to change "dismisses lawsuit" to "denies emergency injunction"—apologies!)

👉 Keep an eye on this page: the new UNEP Gap Report will be released later today. It describes the huge gap between where we need to be for climate stabilisation and where we actually are (not close).

Last year's report was entitled "Broken Record". Because #climate extremes broke records and the message we climate scientists send out year after year also sounds like a broken record: time is running out - and we have to finally start being honest to ourselves.

https://www.unep.org/emissions-gap-report-2024

I still think the absolute funniest tax policy was what Ireland did. They basically became a tax haven for foreign corporations to attract all the rich multinational tech companies and generate a ton of tax revenue in the process. The EU wasn't happy about it, so they sued Ireland and won. The outcome of the lawsuit was that Ireland had to charge back taxes + interest to the companies it gave tax breaks to, making the country even more money in the process. Probably the most "don't hate the player hate the game" economic policy I've seen in a while.

Today is the 50th anniversary of women gaining the right to have mortgages, business loans and credit cards in their own names.

I am 47 years old. My mom did not have access to her own credit card without her husband or father's approval. People like to think that this stuff happened in the ancient past. It didn't. People you know were directly affected by anti-women systemic oppression.

The only thing Jeff Bezos‘ editorial in the Washington Post convinced me is that we need a steep wealth tax and that the existence of billionaires is a public policy failure.

@AngryBlackLady IIRC @404mediaco contacted all of the period apps, and only one of them said they wouldn't provide client periods information to the police if asked.

I know l've mentioned this before, but during my trial i was found not guilty on the use of mace charge after I was able to prove I deployed my mace against the proud boys in self defense and defense of property, and that I was assaulted first. When I was first assaulted by PBs, I was filming a flag burning and it was entirely unprovoked. I did however get found guilty on felony riot just for being there, despite all the evidence showing why I was there and what I was doing. The prosecutor still painted
me to be the ring leader of antifa and "leading chargers" that day against PBs. The trial itself was absolute hell. The time leading up to it was hell. They sent me to jail where I spent two weeks in maximum security and I now am on 2.5 years of probation.

Earlier this week, local Proud Boy Berry Johnson plead guilty to his charges stemming from that same day before his trial was set to begin. Although during my trial the prosecutor argued that the definition of someone "participating" in a riot included just simply speaking to people who may have different intentions, Berry did not receive this charge. By that definition, anyone present would have been a "participant." The fact that a few dozen publicly identified proud boys who were there and brutally assaulting people who received no charges aside, Berry Johnson was only charged with a misdemeanor. Not only was he acting violently throughout the day and instigating violence, but the situation he caught charges on he assaulted an older gentleman and pulled a knife on him along with tearing up his banner.

Mind you after I had my lawyer tell them I would *only* possibly entertain noncooperative plea deals, in the three years of dealing with this case before it went to trial I was only ever offered one plea deal- which was to plead guilty to all my chargers and do a month in jail lol.

Fully fascist state, full stop, masks off. They’re saying the quiet part out loud. I’m not surprised by this, but going through it is beyond dystopian.

"Harvard Libraries suspended roughly 25 faculty members from entering Widener Library for two weeks after they conducted a silent 'study-in' protest in the library’s main reading room last week, an extraordinary disciplinary action taken by the University against its own faculty."
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/25/faculty-members-suspended-harvard-library/

@mathowie I’ve really gotta stop being surprised by “older white man is actually a dipshit” news

Bluesky now owned by crypto-grifters.

My "we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience through tokens, crypto trading or NFTs" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt.

https://jwz.org/b/ykbY

Judge Aileen Cannon is on Trump's shortlist for attorney general, per ABC

Judge who tossed Trump's class...

Amazon argues that it has a First Amendment right to union bust, and claims requiring it to post NLRB posters about workers' rights & host trainings about workers rights in response to labor law violations violates its free speech rights

https://www.404media.co/amazon-says-it-has-a-first-amendment-right-to-union-bust/

by @julesaroscoe

Naming cardiovascular and auto-immune diseases "lifestyle diseases" when often they might better be understood and treated as diseases of stress, trauma, and living in a poisoned environment, is a very peculiar framing. Making it sound as if we have choices and individual control about exactly those factors that we in fact have the least control over.

Almost every thread about Rust for Linux ends up with someone saying "why not Zig instead"? And usually the answer is just "it's less mature" or "nobody pushed it".

I didn't know anything about Zig, so I decided to take a look today... and I'm not very impressed ^^;;

I learned that Zig does not have:

- Destructors
- Macros
- Lifetimes
- Operator overloading

Those are major reasons why I chose Rust for the drm/asahi driver...

It sounds like Zig is trying to be "modern C"... but the whole point of R4L is to not get stuck with C!

All those things Rust has that Zig doesn't are important for the things I'm doing.

Destructors/RAII are fundamental to how the driver tracks and cleans up firmware structures safely and reliably when needed. If I had to write "defer" everywhere it would be a bug-prone mess...

Rust's amazing macros are how I deal with the firmware versioning differences while keeping the driver maintainable. In C you can sort of do that (poorly) with the preprocessor... but Zig doesn't have that either, so that's actually a step back from C, as far as I can tell...!

I don't think I really need to explain lifetimes/memory safety, that's the one thing everyone knows is different between the languages... I'll just say, I am certain I wouldn't have gone from "first render" to "stable accelerated Linux desktop" in 2 days without memory safety.

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It's amazing how many people on Twitter can't seem to tell that those Tesla bots are just being remotely controlled by dudes with microphones wearing VR headsets and motion capture sensors. I hate that I have too much integrity to be a grifter. It just looks so easy 😭

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:9cdc863a-3188-4f13-8857-25970c7628ed

Heritage Foundation Makes Plans to Staff Next G.O.P. Administration

No matter the Republican, the effort has set a goal of up to 20,000 potential officials in a database akin to a right-wing LinkedIn.

By Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
April 20, 2023

VCs endorsing Trump when he looked like a sure thing then pivoting to supporting Kamala when she started polling well is a testament to their herd mentality.

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/04/ben-horowitz-endorse-kamala-harris

I've haven't heard a ton of people talking about this, so I wanted to spread it. The state of California has removed 4 outdated hydroelectric dams that were blocking the breeding ground for Chinook salmon. This removal unflooded 2200 acres of land, and in preparation for this removal Native American tribes have been collecting and breeding seeds of native plants. They took these seeds and planted them along the restored river bank, taking the first steps to restoring the area. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/before-and-after-photos-show-californias-unprecedented-dam-removal/ar-AA1rMwPg

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