Weasel

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California, Ireland, Colorado.
MS Math/CompSci UCLA.
Locus, Sun Microsystems; PDP-11, x86, C, Go.
Programming since 1973.
I wrote the program that calculated the GPA that appears on my high-school transcript.

Starting in 1984 I led the project at Locus to create the first x86 virtual machine, to run MS-DOS under Unix, on the AT&T 6300 Plus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6300_Plus).

The lines in the avatar are horizontal.
There should be no profit in human misery.

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Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable
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With the federal government refusing to identify agents or share evidence relating to the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, the dispute has become a game of constitutional chicken: states’ rights versus federal immunity.
https://www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-trump-ice-shooting-lawsuit-alex-pretti-renee-good?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Minnesota #ICE #Trump #Law #Constitution #Lawsuit #AlexPretti #ReneeGood

Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable

With the Trump administration refusing to identify agents or share evidence, the case is a game of constitutional chicken: states’ rights versus federal immunity.

ProPublica

California Democrats are proof positive that humans are not an intelligent species.

Here in Calif we have a unique primary system - a single primary for *all* parties. The top two move onto the general election, the rest are out of the game.

So here we have two R's splitting a smaller part of the electorate and a dozen D's splitting a larger part.

The result is that it is likely that the two R's will get larger vote counts than any of the dozen D's. Thus *only* those two R's will move onto the general election and *ALL* of the D's will be sent to the showers. And California will end up with a conservative R governor despite the state being overwhelmingly D.

The key is that at least ten of the D candidates need to drop out, IMMEDIATELY. But they are squabbling like D's normally do about identity politics and other stupid things.

"California governor poll raises prospect of two Republicans contesting runoff"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/24/california-governor-election-republicans

California governor poll raises prospect of two Republicans contesting runoff

Survey puts Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco ahead with Democratic vote split between large field of candidates

The Guardian

California D party governor candidates, please get a clue!!!! All but two you you need to drop out immediately else the R's will sweep the jungle primary and move to the General election and there won't be a single D candidate on the November ballot.

Pick straws, roll dice, arm wrestle, do a dance off - just do *something* to winnow you down to two.

And do it NOW - by this weekend.

@45names @davidaugust

Consider our modern Benito
Otherwise known as El Cheeto
His tariffs postpone
For TACO he's known
But more for his tiny taquito

A Mysterious Numbers Station Is Broadcasting Through the Iran War

First heard as US and Israeli strikes on Iran began, the shortwave broadcast has since been traced to a US military base in Germany—but its purpose and its operator remain unclear.

WIRED
I am 82 years old.
I have lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the JFK assassination, the Vietnam War, the Turmoil of 1968, Watergate, the Hostage Crisis, two oil crisis, disco, Reaganomics, 9/11.
The covid pandemic....
These past 11 months have been easily the most miserable era in America in my lifetime.
The hatred, the bigotry, the lies, the racketeering and pedophilia are beyond anything I have ever seen.
We are not going to hell as a nation.
We are IN hell.

Hell of a story from Julie Brown and The Miami Herald showing lots of suspicious document shredding at the prison where Epstein died in the days after.

#Epstein

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article315131144.html

#BBC Plan to scrap most short jail terms comes into effect https://w.st/Pc73p
Plan to scrap most short jail terms comes into effect

The government hopes it will ease the population crisis in prisons.

🚨Only 31% oppose the SAVE Act because most don't understand what it really means. THIS IS VOTER SUPPRESSION crafted by Project 2025 to prevent women from voting 😡 Please reshare 👇

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