This attack and murder seems like a direct result of vaccine misinformation spread by anti-vaxxers and now by RFK Jr. and his appointees who misrepresent facts about vaccine effectiveness and risks.

https://apnews.com/article/cdc-suspect-covid-vaccine-georgia-officer-dead-0c6018d2f7caf7a2702bc09f9f3568ba

Saw someone complain about children having to see a drug user on Caltrain, and that they asked Caltrain staff to enforce a fare check so as to kick them out. Later in the thread he says the person probably needed medical attention. Was mad that staff refused the fare check.

Bunch of good parents said they would be appalled for their children to see a person trying to enforce a fare check on a person who needs medical assistance, and being cruel, more than whatever else they may have been up to.

Honestly feels like living here is about living amongst actual ghouls. Make no mistake, the ghouls are the people who hate the homeless, who hate the addicts, who want to enforce ‘safety’ and ‘think of the children’ but who will never lift a finger to help a single person.

“Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.”

The thing is, there’s nothing to ruin.

They’re already not making any money and operating at a loss and investors want hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions in payback.

Also perhaps they should have thought of this before the criming.

VA Democrats are accusing VA Delegate Sam Rasoul of antisemitism because he condemns Netanyahu and zionism.

So, I took his allegedly antisemitic quote and included it amongst 4 other quotes by Israeli and Jewish scholars about Netanyahu & Zionism & asked readers to pick out Sam's.

So far 83% picked incorrectly. This isnt about antisemitism. It's about Islamophobia & whitewashing genocide.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-so-few-politicians-are-speaking

So, I want to signal flare a project @hikari is spinning up. I'd summarize this project as:

• Try ReactOS again, but with Linux+Wine instead of the ReactOS kernel.

You might have heard of ReactOS long ago— it's a project to make a Windows-API-compatible GPLed operating system. It promptly rabbitholed on writing a kernel, which was never finished (as of 2025 no SMP)

However, Wine is now sophisticated and in SteamOS can run most commercial games.

Why not replicate that for desktop apps?

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I'm updating satellite numbers for yet another talk.

There now 8,077 Starlink satellites in orbit, 1,240 have already been burned up in the atmosphere, depositing all their metal, plastic, and computer bits in the stratosphere as weird vapour (data from https://planet4589.org/space/con/conlist.html)

12,238 active satellites now catalogued. The fraction of Starlinks is actually holding pretty steady lately because so many other operators have started launching. Over 200 satellites launched this month.

How is it that within 10 minutes of the Online Safety Act, Ofcom is investigating 34 porn sites, yet in 30 years of disability legislation in the UK there hasn't been a single instance of case law for websites or apps because the EHRC has signally failed to support people with disabilities even when there is a strong case to be made? 😩

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2xx6z6eko