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/