David

@davids7
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Gazing into cyberspace.

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春節來了!Spring is here!

(photo taken a month ago)

#Taiwan

End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.

The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.

This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.

Source
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446

Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it

@rysiek This always rubbed me the wrong way. The audacity of some random company to co-opt the term "server" for their own marketing.
Stay safe in the heat wave, y'all

Afghan man gets a VISA to the US after assisting the US army in Afghanistan as an interpreter.

Now, without a warrant, Trump's ICE goons have arrested him and put him in detention to get him deported to meet their deportation quotas.

That is your reward for being an ally of the US.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/afghan-ally-detained-by-ice-immigration-court/

Afghan ally detained by ICE after attending immigration court hearing

An Afghan man who worked alongside U.S. troops against the Taliban was detained by ICE officers after he attended a mandatory immigration hearing in San Diego.

WHAT? They really do want to kill us.
E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/epa-trump-asbestos-ban-delay.html?smid=tw-share
E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos

The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries.

The New York Times
Hey now NYT - have all your mathematicians fled?! Your headline states "Thousands Mobilize..." and your call out says, "Some 2,000 planned events." If only one person showed up for each event - that would be thousands. If 500 folks showed at each event - that's 1 Million. I was in Trenton, NJ where there were at least 1500 - the big cities had thousands. That puts us at at least a few Mil. Do Better!!
@jeffjarvis #NoKings #NYT

For No Kings Day, I've chosen to walk with the military burial flag of my father-in-law, who was a WWII veteran. I was there as upon this flag, William Edward Stiles Jr. received his final salute: three volleys from the rifles of the honor guard before it was folded and presented to my mother-in-law by two Navy men. Later, at his memorial, I was astonished to discover that a white man of his era had so many Black friends.

You see my father-in-law's fight against injustice did not end when he returned from the second World War. His fight continued in the civil rights movement negotiating for teachers unions in the shadow of Brown v. Board of Education America. Out of prejudice or fear of the Klu Klux Klan, few white people were willing to do what he did because it meant also representing Black teachers unions.

#NoKingsDay

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"We witnessed something today only seen in dictatorial regimes. California Democratic Senator Alex Padilla exercised his First Amendment rights and fulfilled his constitutional obligations to ask a question of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem while in his home state. He was viciously manhandled, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed. This is fascism."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla #California
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/evening-roundup-june-12th

Evening Roundup, June 12th

Featuring Jen Rubin, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Josh Levs, "The Tea" with April Ryan, Rep. Al Green, Kitty Eisele, Jean Kilbourne, Meredith Blake, and Carron J. Phillips

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