Mathematician. Applying semigroup theory to distributed computing, convergent replication.
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Shared by a colleague: info to help people change immigration hearings to online modality so they're not in danger appearing at courthouse in person ♨️🧊
Edit: there's a Spanish-language one downthread now! Feel free to post on social media or print out and stick up outside
"This image of masked men ready to do violence is everywhere now, just as the administration wants. The practical purpose is to remove the possibility of accountability, but there’s another message it sends: Unlike even previous iterations of state violence, this is a form of power with which there is no negotiating."
This one goes out to the “Democrats don’t do anything” crowd.
Republicans are trying to get the Big Ugly Bill passed with a simple majority through budget reconciliation but they have a load of stuff in there that doesn’t follow the rules and Democrats are knocking it out.
This includes the REINS Act, which is awful, a ban on courts punishing Trump officials, and a few more things and they’re not done yet.
Press | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget:
https://www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-member/newsroom/press/one-big-beautiful-bill-has-more-provisions-that-violate-the-byrd-rule-according-to-senate-parliamentarian
"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)
Steve Herman
inquiline
Best of MLTSHP
William Lindsey 
Laffy
b-rain
Tony, Pretty Much
tante
janhoglund