It's heartwarming to see that even loyalists in our electorate know when they are betrayed. "Mr. President, don't mess with your own voters!"
https://newrepublic.com/post/208293/cpac-attendees-confused-cheer-trump-impeachment
#CPAC #buyersRemorse #DonaldTrump #immigration #impeachment #TrumpAdministration #Trumpism #USPolitics
This week, 3 court cases to keep me happy:
1. In defunding #NPR and #PBS on an ideological basis, a judge rules, the Trump administration had engaged in viewpoint discrimination.
2. Progressives may learn to embrace Chiles v. Salazar as the SCOTUS's 8–1 decision would also preclude right-wing censorship of gender-affirming talk therapy.
3. In Trump v. Barbara, #SCOTUS conservatives apparently rediscover originalism as they seem skeptical a president can nullify birthright citizenship by fiat.
Mamma mia, MeTV has begun airing old episodes of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, and it appears to have been "improved" with an AI upscaler, amid the screening of that new movie. How does one take what is already a piece of trash from the 1980s and degrade it further?
Also, "Suele Mario". Super job, guys. Super job.
My first thoughts on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie are as before: nothing but Super Mario. Grade-A visuals, yes, but also the same ole Hollywood creep meddling in an overseas franchise, albeit slightly tamer here. And yet, like it or not, #Nintendo still knows how to keep us hooked throughout. It could just be sentimentalism, but as far as the game giant and its fans are concerned, who cares.
In short, it's a level-up from mediocre to passable, but the rating is essentially unchanged: mixed.
I am familiar with inequality in the United States and arguments that the government's policies are skewed toward the rich and against the poor. This is one of the few things I (at least in theory) would agree with progressives on, and one I—a Gen Zer—can relate to: that Social Security is deliberately designed to make young adults pay for their retired grandparents' luxuries.
https://reason.com/video/2026/03/30/you-are-paying-for-retirees-lavish-lifestyles/
#SocialSecurity #entitlement #inequality #Medicare #poverty #regressiveTaxation #wealthGap
Two things can be true at once:
1: The Trump gov't's embrace of Afrikaners reveals blatant hypocrisy over its otherwise anti-immigration policy.
2: Welcoming Afrikaners into the US as #refugees is ethical because it is one step in loosening our nightmarishly strict #immigration laws. In fact, were an immigrant-friendly administration to apply that loose definition of refugee, millions of (far more oppressed) people would stand to gain!
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/18/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees/
Early this morning, I had minor success in making one of my Internet Archive uploads more complete. My dump of InsaneHeat.com, a former fan site for the Invictus racing game Insane, has 11 more vehicle files for a total of 462, with some 137 to go. It also now has Utilities and imap folders, along with more skins and maps. This goes on to show that I don't just dump stuff on the Archive; I make them whole when possible.
Does anyone else remember Tux Racer, the old #Linux racing game from way back? Does anyone else also remember tuxracer.fubaby.com, where people would share their courses? Any way to download all the courses again? Sorry, but I want to upload all of them on the Internet Archive. I could only retrieve some of them from the Wayback Machine.
Latest archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20121011021336/http://tuxracer.fubaby.com/
#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gamePreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #LinuxGaming #TuxRacer
I assume this post is true. That's a relief. I am still saving whatever pages there are on the Wayback Machine.
Guys, get out your Internet Archive accounts. A video game repository called Myrient is closing down tomorrow, and a staggering 390+ terabytes of data will disappear with it. I am currently saving webpages at /Eggman's Arcade Repository/!EXTRAS/. Unfortunately, nearly all the saves are 404 errors, even though the files can still be downloaded directly from the site, so we may need to upload them.
#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gamePreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #Myrient
