New in PN: States can step into the breach
"Given that Trump administration officials are giving license to mass criminality among federal law enforcement officers, there may be only one remaining avenue for bringing such criminal cops to justice: State prosecutions." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/state-prosecutions-of-federal-officials-trump
A reminder that it was never about following the law and being documented—it was always about banning non-white immigration, period.
Elon Musk, an white undocumented immigrant, can destroy the Govt & he's praised. A brown immigrant and US citizen can get elected to NYC Mayor & he's a danger. smh
Wait, what? 1/ Read the 2nd post
Via Sherrilyn Ifill:
This is actually huge.
Seth Masket:
Trump says he gave #Iran permission to bomb US airbase. Any other president would have been impeached before sunset
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/25/trump-says-iranians-asked-us-time-could-bomb-american-military-base/
New instance, new #introduction !
Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.
One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!
We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy
And many thanks to @sebinthestars for running our former instance!
📷 ESO/G. Vecchia
Synchronization in Vulkan has long been one of its most notorious challenges. The Vulkan Working Group has been steadily working to simplifying the synchronization model. One of the most frequent developer frustrations has been the complexity of managing image layouts, a pain point we’re tackling head-on with the new VK_KHR_unified_image_layouts extension, which aims to eliminate the need for most layout transitions entirely.
Learn more: https://khr.io/1ky
#Vulkan #API #Synchronization
Via Mark Joseph Stern:
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court ALLOWS states to defund Planned Parenthood, holding that Medicaid does not give patients a right to obtain care from its providers. All three liberals dissent. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1275_e2pg.pdf
Gorsuch's opinion for the court holds that Medicaid does not confer a right to patients to choose their health care provider, meaning states can "defund" a provider—PP—by refusing to cover care there under Medicaid. This will be devastating to PP
I'd like more attention to this post. It isn't really about a16z or Marc's stupendously high-IQ bonce. It's my theory of the entire AI bubble in all its cheque-kiting not-technically-a-Ponzi glory.
This scam will go much longer than it shuold, because it *has to*.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/10/a16z-raising-fresh-20b-for-ai-bubble-investments/
Need one addition - before the "You bomb people"....
Are you out of bombs?
--- then "You bomb people"...
=====
Need one addition - before the "People bomb you"....
Are people out of bombs?
--- then "People bomb you"...
......
🤔
Unfortunately, that has been the middle east, before most of us on the Fedi were born, and it does not seem to want to stop (ever).
I have thought for a long time now, we should have nothing to do with that part of the world. If they want to wipe each other out, in their own endless stupidity, we should just sit back and watch.
yeah seriously@bontchev Translation: Humans are stupid. They are too lazy to master their basest instincts and too stupid to learn from history's ruins. But Mark Twain said it best: "Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction."
There's more to this quote that applies to another scenario we are witnessing today: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/860634
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.
@bontchev Yeah, yeah...nobody likes getting hit back. In the end everyone's friends though, just like high school.
/s
I wanted to gently suggest adding alt text to your image to ensure it's accessible to everyone, including those who are visually impaired.
Here's a description you might find helpful:
'The image features a circular diagram with a red center and arrows pointing clockwise. The title "BOMB SCIENCE 101" is displayed at the top, with a subtitle below it that reads, "APPARENTLY THE ONLY THING THAT'S HARDER TO UNDERSTAND THAN ROCKET SCIENCE." The diagram illustrates a cycle with four steps, each labeled with text in red. Starting from the top, the steps are: "YOU BOMB PEOPLE," "PEOPLE GET ANGRY," "PEOPLE BOMB YOU," and "YOU GET ANGRY." The arrows indicate the flow from one step to the next, creating a continuous loop. The background is a textured, off-white color, giving the image a vintage appearance.'
Thanks for considering accessibility in your posts!
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