Well, if you had a law passed that said you had to publish six million files that you didn’t want to publish, and you decided to pad your stats with filler so people didn’t notice you hadn’t actually released them, what would you include?

Ooo, this is the first I’ve heard of this. Tell me more about that.

For the curious, these are the seven and nine of swords respectively from the Rider-Waite deck, which is one of the most well-known tarot decks. While the meaning of the nine of swords is approximately correct in the meme (anxiety, hopelessness), the seven of swords is a bit more of a stretch — I usually read it as deception or trickery.

Forgive my Amerigocentrism, but while the article links this to the 2/7 end to the PTC’s mandate, I think this is more caused by Judge Reyes’ 2/3 grant of a stay on terminating the Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants. If you recall during the election, there were a nexus of lies the Trump campaign told about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, and in her opinion, the judge made very clear that any end to the favored status would have to be preceded by a return to safety in Haiti. It would seem that the Trump admin feels it needs to drum up support from MAGA, who seem to be flagging somewhat, by playing the hits (so to speak) — finally deporting the Haitians they were so hateful towards, and putting on a performance about securing Haiti is the first step towards that.

Mindustry has an interesting commercial model - the entire game is available for free and is fully open source - with players able to download from itch.io or build from source themselves. They can also purchase it for a reasonably nominal cost on Steam to support the developer. They don’t get any additional in-game functionality, but do get automated updates and access to the Steam Workshop for managing their mods.

This is a cool model. You can still play the whole game, but now the dev doesn’t have to write an auto-updater and people who truly can’t afford to pay can still get the full functionality.

For sure. I do think, though, that most people expect the base 10 versions, so even though I prefer to work in kib, I always quote kb in user-facing documentation.

I hope Macron’s eye gets better, but also if he wants to make those shades a more prominent part of his look, I’m here for it.

Whoever wrote the headline doesn’t seem to have read the article? It’s a different kind of switch Europeans are doing?

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It’s not a lot of Russian, and I am not a native speaker, but because Russian isn’t a word order language, there are some sentences in Russian an automatic translation service is unlikely to produce (since you can almost always retain the same word order as the original language, so why wouldn’t you?). This sample uses no such construction.

I think what concerns me about these is if LLMs learn to pass information through posts that look like boring social media posts, but had another, embedded meaning. Spies used newspapers to pass messages, posting innocuous-looking want ads and letters to the editor, and exotic minds are like to come up with exotic encodings we might not even recognize.

Mmm, interesting. Doesn’t Haskell have a monad that represents everything external to the program, for like producing I/O? In some ways I suppose that mentality makes explicit this idea you’re expressing that the environment the program runs in is implicit in the program? A software equivalent of “no man can step in the same river twice, for neither is it the same river nor is he the same man?”

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Get organized. Find a group to join like your local indivisible chapter or a tenants union or a community service organization. Social media and the news are unreliable ways to try to participate in collective action.

No. They want you to know they’re bad at their job, which makes your job easier.

For sure. You’ll wanna check in with one of the endorsing organizations, like 50501, CAIR, or LA Tenants for more complete information — this is just a prompt to go check in with more formal organization if you haven’t recently.

I’m not sure that “don’t just do something, stand there” is a particularly useful sentiment, especially given how successful last Friday’s action was.

Here’s the next thing on the docket. Tell any Americans or people who know Americans you can think of.

It might be worth trying anyway, though.

States would also have to provide documented proof of U.S. citizenship for anyone registered to vote in federal elections and re-check those voters’ eligibility “as are necessary on an ongoing basis, but in no case less frequently than once every 30 days.”

Even if you were to try to take this as a good faith effort to improve elections in the United States, instead of the transparent attempt to suppress voting it is, it is by no means “small government” to check the voting rolls of the entire United States every 30 days.