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Concerns Rise Among Ghana's LGBTQI+ Community Over Potential Revival of Repressive Legislation
In Ghana, the contentious anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, formally known as the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, has resurfaced with renewed vigor. Originally passed by Parliament in February 2024, the bill has yet to be enacted, but its implicatNewsroom (Axadle | Stay Informed with Horn of Africa Headlines)
ClojureScript forks Google Closure Library for backward compatibility: clojurescript.org/news/2025-05…
"ClojureScript is and never was only just for rich web applications. Even in the post React-world, a large portion of the web is (sensibly) still using jQuery." 🔥
Mexico accuses Youtuber MrBeast of exploiting Mayan pyramids permit
Authorities say they never allowed Mr Beast to film at their pyramid heritage sites for profit.
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Convert from Webpack to Vite by ChaosExAnima · Pull Request #34450 · mastodon/mastodon
This is a PR based on #24981 that will merge into #34454. It also contains #34469 and #34485.GitHub
America’s Cities Are Finally Growing Again—but There’s a Big Catch
Doomers thought cities would collapse post-pandemic. The numbers tell a much different story.Henry Grabar (Slate)
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oowaaah, an affordable fretless that seems decent
im tempted
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Ein neues Thema bringt die #CryptoParty im Mai: Der Umzug in die private Cloud. Wie immer am 4ten Donnerstag im Monat, 22.05.2025, 19 Uhr, im #OpenLab, Bäckergasse 32, #Augsburg.
Bringt bitte eure Freundinnen/Freunde mit. Eintritt frei. Keine Vorkenntnisse erforderlich.
#Medienkompetenz
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Moody's downgrades US credit rating citing rising debt
Moody's said successive US administrations had failed to reverse ballooning deficits and interest costs.
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Here you go, for anyone still confused. All the stuff in one place.
Feel free to share it with the people still spreading disinformation.
David Hogg's White Tears, Explained - by Michael Harriot:
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David Hogg's White Tears, Explained
The controversy over the DNC election is a perfect example of media bias, the Democratic Party's white problem and why everyone hates DEIMichael Harriot (ContrabandCamp)
MAGA is irate when a justice calls for following precedent and the rule of law, even when she agrees with them ideologically on the issues they purport to care about.
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Amy Coney Barrett enrages MAGA for skewering Trump lawyer during birthright SCOTUS arguments
Justice Amy Coney Barrett challenges Donald Trump's administration over nationwide injunctions in birthright citizenship case at Supreme Court.Law & Crime
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Guyana's ‘Ol’ Higue’ meets her match in tale that is the regional winner of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
The author says the piece is “authentically Caribbean” – essentially “a story about family [and] its role in creating spaces of safety and sustenance in times of great adversity.”Global Voices
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When one group is denied civil rights, it affects everyone else. Immigration lawyer Andrea Flores points out that if the Trump administration prevails in denying birthright citizenship, parents of citizen children will have to prove that their children are in the USA legally too. All the time. Your child's and even your own birth certificate won't mean you have the right to live in the USA.
China has dropped to the third-largest holder of US Treasuries, behind the UK.
I like the way Buffy the Psych Prof thinks! 🧐
Any more bible quotes and excepts we should be using against them? 🤨
I assume the Trump administration will say this horrible ruling rolling back LGBTQ+ civil rights should only apply to the Northern District of Texas, right? Federal judges aren't supposed to make rulings that apply to the whole country any more, if we are to believe the argument Solicitor General D. John Sauer made yesterday (quite poorly).
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Far Right Federal Judge Rules Gay And Trans People Can Be Discriminated Against In Workplaces
Judge Kacsmaryk, a federal judge in the Northern District of Texas, ruled on the EEOC's treatment of Title VIII employment discrimination claims on gay and trans people.Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
This guy has time for doing everything EXCEPT banning taxes on tips.
Trump says Taylor Swift's popularity has dropped:
thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/…
He talks about Taylor Swift as much as my nieces, who are huge fans.
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The State of Georgia is keeping a deceased pregnant woman on life support against her family’s wishes.
The reason? She was 9 weeks pregnant at the time of her death and the State has a strict abortion ban.
They’ve turned her into a vessel for a fetus who has low odds of survival anyways (brain death drastically impairs the hormones necessary to grow a healthy baby)
This is torture. The family don’t want this, they don’t believe their daughter would have wanted this, and if the fetus survives it won’t have a mother.
It’s likely to be severely disabled, and the same government forcing this birth are trying to cut Medicaid for disabled children.
Forced birth is unimaginably cruel.
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World Bank says Saudi Arabia and Qatar have paid off Syria's outstanding debt
The World Bank says that the $15.5 million Syria owed it has been paid off by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, enabling Damascus to take out new loans.
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This is just excellent news
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EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis - Irish Council for Civil Liberties
Landmark court decision against “TCF” consent pop ups on 80% of the internetJohnny Ryan (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)
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The US has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks
The U.S. surpassed 1,000 measles cases Friday.Associated Press (TULSA)
NEW YORK TIMES: New York Helped Thousands of Migrants With Legal Issues. That’s Ending
nytimes.com/2025/05/16/nyregio…
GitHub - tuist/awesome-swift-mcp: ⚡️ Community resources to bridge Swift development with LLM-based tools
⚡️ Community resources to bridge Swift development with LLM-based tools - tuist/awesome-swift-mcpGitHub
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US | Supreme Court Again Halts Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Deportations
"A powerful rebuke to the government's attempt to hurry people away to a Gulag-type prison."
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LIVE: Israel kills 115 people in ‘opening moves’ of Gaza war expansion
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/17/live-israel-kills-95-in-gaza-as-it-launches-new-ground-invasion?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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LIVE: Israel kills 115 people in ‘opening moves’ of Gaza war expansion
Israel says it carried out ‘extensive attacks’ as operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ launched to seize more land in the Gaza.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
Anthropic’s lawyers blamed its AI chatbot, Claude, for including erroneous citations in their legal defense against a copyright lawsuit from Universal Music.
I can’t imagine how bad this will get when a generation of college students who never learned the material due to AI use enter the workforce.
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Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation | TechCrunch
A lawyer representing Anthropic used Claude to generate citations in a court filing, then it hallucinated.Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)
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Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026
Let’s Encrypt will no longer include the “TLS Client Authentication” Extended Key Usage (EKU) in our certificates beginning in 2026. Most users who use Let’s Encrypt to secure websites won’t be affected and won’t need to take any action.letsencrypt.org
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A rainy day, but the herbaceous peonies are in bloom☔
📸 05/17/2025
#flowers #peony #photography #landscape
Moody’s finally noticed that US national debt isn’t just a vibes-based issue. The US Debt-to-GDP is on track to hit 134% by 2035.
Federal interest payments are set to hit 30% of revenue by 2035, up from 18% in 2024 and 9% in 2021.
Meanwhile deficit spending is creeping up on WWII levels as a percentage of GDP.
reuters.com/business/view-with…
#usa #economy #ThisIsFine
The image depicts a scene in an urban environment with a large, weathered aircraft fuselage prominently positioned in the foreground. The fuselage, marked with the number "28" in red, is painted in a faded blue and orange, with visible signs of rust and wear. It is situated on a street lined with tall, dilapidated buildings, suggesting a post-apocalyptic or dystopian setting. The ground is littered with debris, and a motorcycle is parked nearby. Two individuals, one wearing an orange jacket and the other in a yellow top, are walking away from the viewer towards a covered area, possibly a bus stop. The atmosphere is hazy, with birds flying in the background, adding to the sense of abandonment. The overall color palette is muted, with a predominance of blues, grays, and greens, contributing to the desolate mood of the scene.
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Linux Swap Table Code Shows The Potential For Huge Performance Gains
Following recent discussions by Linux kernel developers around integrating swap cache and swap maps functionality with the swap allocator, Swap Table was born. With Swap Tables the hope is for lower memory use, higher performance, dynamic swap allocation and growth, greater extensibility, and other improvements over the existing swap code within the Linux kernel.
Seen outside Leadville, Colorado
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Textual Analysis for Attack Recognition — Textual Analysis Tools
Textual analysis tools — Some tools for analyzing similarity of written text can help, but what are they and how do they work?Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
Entre a pressão imobiliária e a violência: como é viver na última favela do centro de SP
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Ukraine submitting data on forced mobilization of Ukrainians in occupied territories to ICC – PM Shmyhal
Ukraine is documenting all Russian crimes related to the forced mobilization of Ukrainians in temporarily occupied territories (TOT). As of now, several hundred thousand war crimes have been recorded, including cases of forced mobilization.Ukrinform
The Diverging Values of Law Firms: Tech Advancement vs. Back to Office - Smokeball - LexBlog
As legal technology evolves to support work flexibility, why are so many law firms digging in their (arguably antiquated) heels?Publisher (LexBlog)
Woman visits quiet wine shop in Greece and changes owner's life - Dining and Cooking
A Greek business owner was astounded when an unexpected turn of events unfolded at his wine shop. One of the greatest joys of travel is stumbling upon hiddenDining And Cooking (Dining and Cooking)
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
As recently as 1985, a Louisiana court ruled that a woman with a black great-great-great-great-grandmother could not identify herself as “white” on her passport.
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‘One-drop rule’ persists — Harvard Gazette
Harvard psychologists have found that the centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.Steve Bradt (The Harvard Gazette)
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
As Russia sticks to hardline demands during peace talks, Europe frustrated with Trump’s swerves, Bloomberg reports
European officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they remain unsure of U.S. President Donald Trump's next move and fear that his unpredictable stance could undercut momentum toward a unified Western response.Olena Goncharova (The Kyiv Independent)
Getting AI to write good SQL
Link: cloud.google.com/blog/products…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Techniques for improving text-to-SQL
Learn about text-to-SQL techniques like context building and table retrieval, LLM-as-a-judge, and LLM prompting and post-processing.Per Jacobsson (Google Cloud)
#palestine ##Libya #Gaza
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Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya
Details are murky, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.Courtney Kube (NBC News)
articles such as this always get me thinking about why SF politics is so much worse and I think part of it is that progressives are disunited and can't hold accountable our politicians who get elected and pivot right (Mandelman), focus on the wrong issues (Chan, reopening a highway) or think they're above us.
but also money. we have a real bad infestation of the parasites called billionaires
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Pittsburgh Offers Housing When Closing Encampments. Will That Last? - Bolts
Advocates pushed the city to prioritize longer-term housing during sweeps, but the policyCamille Squires (Bolts)
I keep coming back to the idea that there are kids for whom this is what a president sounds like. This is just normal for what a president says every day. Open mic night at the Chuckle Hut.
"Poppy Field (Giverny)," Claude Monet, 1890/91.
Y'all know Monet by now.
This is one of four poppy-field paintings he did in the area around his home in Giverny. While not really a "series" per se, and they all had different poppy fields, they are now a treasured sight.
Here we have an almost-perfect summer scene...the blooming flowers, the trees in full leaf, the blue sky, and even the forested hill in the background all give a feeling of a lovely summer day.
Happy Flower Friday!
From the Art Institute of Chicago.
#Art #Impressionism #ClaudeMonet #FlowerFriday #Poppies #Landscape
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Regarding the European Union petition to ban conversion practices: Hovering over the countries in the map brings up info on each country.
France is notable. As of the time I'm typing this:
Statements of support collected online: 625,810
Threshold: 55,695
Percentage: 1123.64%
OPEC: Venezuela’s Oil Production Continues Growth in April
Venezuela’s oil production has shown stability over the month of April, averaging an output of 1,051,000 barrels per day (bpd). The figures—reported by OPEC in its latest monthly report—consolidate a growth trend this year.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to resume deporting Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-resume-deporting-venezuelans-under-alien-enemies-act?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to resume deporting Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act
The high court action is the latest in a string of judicial setbacks for the Trump administration’s effort to speed deportations of people in the country illegally.PBS News
CDC and FDA: Deaths in listeria outbreak linked to frozen supplement shakes rise to 14
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/05/16/listeria-outbreak-frozen-shake-recall-deaths/83678965007/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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CDC and FDA: Deaths in listeria outbreak linked to frozen supplement shakes rise to 14
The CDC and FDA say frozen supplement shakes made at Prairie Farms Dairy in Indiana led to the death of 14 people from listeria poisoning., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
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in reply to Clare Harris 🍁 • • •No barbecue, no shrimp, no poly-cotton shirts or pants, Trisha Yearwood an' Dolly have gotta stop singing - they're married women - Oh, and football goes out the window - it's played between sundown on Friday and nightfall on Saturday, and while "play" is fine, no coaches, no making food, no ushers, and sure as heck no million-dollar sponsorships.
(don't EVEN get this Shobbos goy started. I will RUIN THEM.)