A decade after it mattered, Windows XP’s activation algorithm is cracked
Please, please, please do not actually install XP and use it. But if you must…
So this is the solution to the problem created by stifling immigration, the lifeblood of the U.S.A. since the beginning.
https://apnews.com/article/child-labor-laws-alabama-ohio-c1123a80970518676be44088619c6205
Oh, no. We've lost Tina Turner. She was a tremendous performer with a huge stage presence. She was the last performer alive who was present at the birth of rock-and-roll.
https://apnews.com/article/tina-turner-dead-a04311130e67459cbade34565eb80662
E. Jean Carroll seeks new damages after CNN Trump Town Hall ( NYT)
Verified Twitter accounts share fake image of ‘explosion’ near Pentagon, causing confusion - https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/22/tech/twitter-fake-image-pentagon-explosion/index.html
Pregnant Texas woman threatened with arrest if she left hospital to seek abortion: lawsuit - https://www.rawstory.com/texas-abortion-law-2660479340/?t=5okgNlLI1jJUhKUU8o-Ydg&s=09
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Forcing the poor to have children they can't afford to feed, house, or educate, is also a technique of impoverishment.
Explore >1,000 classic sound effects rescued from crumbling magnetic tape in the Sunset Editorial Sound Effects Library from the USC Archive ▶️ https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/20/crash-bark-boom-the-usc-sound-effects-library/
Included in the collection is the full recording session of the famous 'Wilhelm scream.' The track, recorded as "Man eaten by alligator; screams," has become iconic. Take #5 was first used in 1951's "Distant Drums," before sound designer Ben Burtt incorporated it into Star Wars & Indiana Jones. https://archive.org/details/SSE_Library_VOICES/SCREAM/VOXScrm_Man+eaten+by+alligator%3B+screams+%5BWilhelm_CS_USC.wav
From the Los Angeles Times: “Indigenous tribes warned of a buried kingdom in Owens Valley. Now, Caltrans bulldozers are unearthing bones”
#OwensValley #CalTrans #Indigenous
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-22/caltrans-indigenous-burial-site
101 years ago today, the House of Representatives passed the 19th Amendment recognizing the right of (white) women to vote.
Black women finally gained the right to vote with the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
It's been a very long, recent road to emancipation, and no, women do not have Equal Rights under the U.S. Constitution.
Abortion laws across the country are designed to strip women of the right to vote. If a possibly pregnant woman seeks healthcare or has a miscarriage, she can be prosecuted as a felon and lose her right to vote forever.
That's what "pro-life" is all about.
Pass the ERA. Protect emancipation and body autonomy.
You *need* these massacre weapons without restriction, because there might be a need to massacre somebody someday for a good reason, as opposed to all those other people who massacre people for bad reasons—and you know they were bad reasons because you personally disagreed with those reasons, as is your right as one of the few who gets to decide who should live and who should die, based on who you have decided is afraid and who you have decided is a threat and who you have decided is a person.
A truly amazing and exhaustively cited act of investigative journalism by the phenomenal @zinnia
It turns out that virtually ALL of the sham "science" behind the anti-trans movement can be traced directly back to a very small number of purely ideologically driven "doctors" citing one another over and over again to try to give the impression that standard evidence based trans healthcare is controversial.
It's basically the scientific equivalent of writing a blog with nothing more than your own opinions, your friend writes an article citing your blog, another friend writes an article citing both of you, and then showing up in front of public health boards saying "see, here's 3 articles showing how I'm right!"
In any normal and reasonable political environment, these quacks would be laughed out of the room with such flimsy "evidence". Yet because the far right has captured statehouses across the country, they're laundering this junk science into "real" science.
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