This Supreme Court has already shown extraordinary deference to Trump over the last few years—but there doesn't seem to be much appetite for his latest scheme.
Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Case Has the Supreme Court Baffled
The Trump administration’s brief against the Fourteenth Amendment is a bad one, and it naturally led to some tortured legal reasoning from his solicitor general.The New Republic
The only antebellum plantations I want are those run primarily by Black people as museums of how awful slavery was. And people who try to book weddings there get told to leave.
Domattina alle 9,30 però devo essere operativo in zai a Verona allo studio per i due giorni di porte aperte.
Porte aperte, ma visitatori ignoti.
Vediamo chi arriva.
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#AfD-#Verbotsverfahren würde Stand heute im Verbot enden.
Eine Pflicht zur Antragsstellung ist denkbar.
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The latest legal developments in Trump's effort to use the Alien Enemies Act to disappear Venezuelans
In the past week or so, more precise contours have emerged in the legal contests over the lawfulness of the Trump regime's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act and the mechanics of the regime's deportation Venezuelans to CECOT, a prison camp…Heidi Li Feldman (Heidi Says)
Attorney General Bonta to Congress: California Must Retain its Ability to Protect Californians, Respond to Emerging AI Technology
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 40 attorneys general in sending a letter to Congressional leaders opposing a proposed 10-year ban on states enforcing any state law or regulation addressing artificial intell…State of California - Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General
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#science #tech #Trump #destructive #PutinsPuppet #politics
Watching my daughter with her grandfather brings age into sharp focus.
More from @mkondrich: wapo.st/4dkUp1v
Stop PIP and Benefits Cuts
March and Rally
Saturday 17th March 2025
Assemble at City Hall, #Norwich - 12 noon
Just found out my disabled friend on PIP is too ill to attend…but I’ll be marching with his spirit beside me.
#PIP
#DisabilityBenefitsCuts
#Disability
#Starmer
#Labour
My placard hastily painted this morning for the Stop PIP and Benefits Cuts Rally in #Norwich.
Turnout was good. The most I’ve seen at a #protest in the city since the #Tory crime and punishment legislation kicked in.
Hearing #disabled testimonies about the pain this is causing every day was just as important as the political speeches.
We also gave the Saturday shoppers something to gawp and think about…there was resistance to our message:
“no ifs, no buts, no to disability benefit cuts”
We assembled on #Norwich City Hall steps in time honoured tradition.
Good to hear Clive Lewis #Labour MP for Norwich South say he won’t support his party on these #Disability cuts. He promised not to vote for them…we must hold him to this and encourage other Labour MPs to take his principled stance.
Mit Verlaub, die Dame hat nicht mehr alle Tassen im Schrank
#Klimakatastrophe
Etwa 600 Menschen kamen heute zur Demonstration der Schüler*innen der Johanna-Tesch-Schule in #Frankfurt #Bockenheim gegen die plötzliche #Abschiebung von ihren Mitschülern und Freunden Angad und Gunit mit ihrer Familie nach #Indien und forderten, sie zurück zu holen.
#StopDeportation #EndDeportations
Regenbogenflagge am Bundestag: Klöckner schränkt Nutzung ein
Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner hat entschieden: Am 17. Mai wird die Regenbogenflagge wieder auf dem Reichstagsgebäude gehisst, zum CSD aber nicht mehr. (Politik - Deutschland)queer.de
Trying to live my #blogosphere ideals and reach out to folks via their contact page over comments (esp if they don't have comments enabled but that contact page).
words.presgas.name/blogosphere…
It definitely encourages thought and pause. I like this slow internet.
Blogosphere Reaching Out
I finally started practicing what my ideals are and reaching out to another blog after reading it. They don’t have comments enabled either and had…Robert Freeman-Day (PresGas)
I had never seen your blog before, but I just wrote something very similar and just as short haha
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Reaching out
I've spent my free time sending emails today, after receiving quite a few these past few days!joelchrono.xyz
@joel woo hooo! Reaching out solidarity!!
I am enjoying this aspect quite a lot more than standard comments and whatnot. So happy to see folks discovering the blog! This means so much more than looking at your hit count or anything like that.
I will definitely be adding your blog to my RSS reader!! 🤓
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Russia preparing orphaned children from occupied Donetsk region for war against Ukraine – CCD
In the temporarily occupied cities of Donetsk and Amvrosiivka, Russian forces are training orphaned children in military skills — effectively preparing them to take part in the war against Ukraine. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
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I read a blogpost, I wrote a blogpost about it, and now there's a blogpost inspired by my blogpost!
Long live the #blogosphere
What if we let ourselves be bored again by @noisydeadlines
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What If We Let Ourselves Get Bored Again?
I am still thinking about focus and attention spans and boredom. I read Joel’s post: The constant need for a source of entertainment and that got me thinking even more. I loved that he starts talking about this time in his childhood with no technology around, and he wandered around the fields, playing with bottle caps and imagining they were spaceships (I also loved The Jetsons! 🙌).He asks himself these questions:
Why would I wash the dishes without watching a video at the same time? Why would I fold my clothes without listening to a podcast too? Why would I have lunch without scrolling away on social media? Why would I go outside without carrying my phone at all times?
And then he asks:Why would I not try, though?
To me, there are different layers to these questions:
- True multitasking (doing two cognitively demanding tasks at once) isn’t something we can actually do. We can’t read a text and listen to a podcast at the same time, these are conflicting cognitive efforts. Even when we think we are multitasking, we are not effectively processing information.
- Multitasking without cognitive conflicts: we can, however, combine two tasks that use different cognitive resources and don’t compete for the same type of attention. For example: listening to a podcast (passive audio input) while folding laundry or doing dishes.
This reminds me of the book “Deep Work” by Cal Newport, where he argues that the ability to focus intensely is a skill that must be trained. His advocates on training ourselves to be able to focus so we can better perform cognitively demanding tasks. But even if we start having distraction-free “focus” sessions every day to train ourselves, we will struggle if we can’t free our minds from a dependence on distractions.
Cal recommends training our brains to tolerate boredom. Habits like constantly checking our phones or jumping between tabs, condition us to avoid boredom and seek novelty. This damages our capacity for deep, focused work.
My concern when I see younger people constantly seeking distractions is that they completely lost their ability to have one moment, any moment in a quiet state without looking at a screen or having something in their ears. And I guess I wouldn’t be too surprised if all this multitasking were done exclusively in their leisure times. But seeing them doing that while they work, for 8 hours a day, that’s concerning.
I listen to podcasts while doing the dishes and cleaning the house. I listen to podcasts when I go to the gym (I actually use it as my incentive to go to the gym. I leave some of favorite episodes to listen while I work out). But I don’t listen to 8 hours of podcasts or watching videos on the background while I’m at work, doing cognitive efforts.
So, it’s NOT about ALWAYS doing ONE thing at a time. If we avoid pairing tasks that interfere with each other, like reading emails (language processing) with listening to a podcast (also language-heavy), we should be okay.
But also, I think Cal Newport has a point: if we are constantly in this distracted fully excited state all the time, we can’t slow down anymore, even if we want to.
I think that with the amount of instant stimulation we carry in our pockets today, it’s way harder to even realize that we are in that state. And maybe some people don’t even know how it feels like to be calm and quiet, just observing the world around them and listening to their thoughts.
And it’s a challenge for all of us; we are all being bombarded with an excess of information and entertainment. I noticed a shift in my ability to sit down and focus on reading a book a couple of years ago when I was still using the main social media apps (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). I believe that **deleting all those accounts **four years ago helped me get back to enjoy reading again and embracing boredom sometimes.
I have been curating my online consumption patterns for quite a while now, and this post summarizes a bit my feelings about feeling hacked by the online world.
Anyway, thanks Joel for sharing your thoughts!
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The constant need for a source of entertainment
Some thoughts about how I always want to keep my mind engaged and curious—or to keep it distracted from the real world?joelchrono.xyz
School newspapers thousands of miles apart team up to heal from wildfires
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Batista Brothers to Back Out of Talks for Banco Master Assets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/batistas-are-said-to-back-out-of-talks-for-banco-master-assets?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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On the latest What Next TBD: American air traffic control badly needs an overhaul. Will Newark be the reason we finally get it?
slate.com/podcasts/what-next-t…
The Newarkification of Flying
Can Sean Duffy get an air traffic control overhaul off the ground?Slate
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
War update: 115 clashes on frontline, fiercest fighting in Pokrovsk sector
On May 16, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 115 combat clashes with Russian forces, with 49 of them taking place in the Pokrovsk sector alone. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
Labour groups warn: without taxing the rich, Carney’s tax cut could gut public services. CUPE also slams the demotion of labour from cabinet. #canpoli
Middle class tax cuts without plans to make up revenue could harm public services - rabble.ca
After appointing his new cabinet, a middle-class tax cut was Prime Minister Mark Carney's first order of business.Gabriela Calugay-Casuga (rabble)
The 🔵 UN humanitarian office on Friday sharply criticized a proposed Israeli-backed aid delivery mechanism for #gaza, warning it would deepen suffering and set a dangerous global precedent by making humanitarian access conditional on political and military objectives.
#palestine #warcrimes #ihl #un
#icj #CrimesAgainstHumanity
#genocide
Report: MEMO/Anadolu MAY-16
Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16
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Posted into Google I/O 2023 News and Updates @google-i-o-2023-news-and-updates-Techcrunch
Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16 | TechCrunch
Google I/O, Google's biggest developer conference of the year, is nearly upon us. Here's what to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Presidents of Ukraine, Montenegro discuss bilateral cooperation, European integration
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and President of Montenegro Jakov Milatović met to discuss prospects for cooperation between their countries across various sectors and agreed to continue exchanging experience in the European integration proce…Ukrinform
Bloomberg Hot Pursuit!: INEOS CEO Lynn Calder, Mercedes EQS 450
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-05-16/bloomberg-hot-pursuit-ineos-ceo-lynn-calder-podcast?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Podcasts @podcasts-bloomberg
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Civilians injured as Russians shell Kharkiv region
Throughout the day, Russian forces shelled the town of Kupiansk and surrounding areas in Kharkiv region, injuring four civilians and damaging residential buildings. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
What If We Let Ourselves Get Bored Again?
I am still thinking about focus and attention spans and boredom. I read Joel’s post: The constant need for a source of entertainment and that got me thinking even more. I loved that he starts talking about this time in his childhood with no technology around, and he wandered around the fields, playing with bottle caps and imagining they were spaceships (I also loved The Jetsons! 🙌).
He asks himself these questions:
Why would I wash the dishes without watching a video at the same time? Why would I fold my clothes without listening to a podcast too? Why would I have lunch without scrolling away on social media? Why would I go outside without carrying my phone at all times?
And then he asks:
Why would I not try, though?
To me, there are different layers to these questions:
- True multitasking (doing two cognitively demanding tasks at once) isn’t something we can actually do. We can’t read a text and listen to a podcast at the same time, these are conflicting cognitive efforts. Even when we think we are multitasking, we are not effectively processing information.
- Multitasking without cognitive conflicts: we can, however, combine two tasks that use different cognitive resources and don’t compete for the same type of attention. For example: listening to a podcast (passive audio input) while folding laundry or doing dishes.
This reminds me of the book “Deep Work” by Cal Newport, where he argues that the ability to focus intensely is a skill that must be trained. His advocates on training ourselves to be able to focus so we can better perform cognitively demanding tasks. But even if we start having distraction-free “focus” sessions every day to train ourselves, we will struggle if we can’t free our minds from a dependence on distractions.
Cal recommends training our brains to tolerate boredom. Habits like constantly checking our phones or jumping between tabs, condition us to avoid boredom and seek novelty. This damages our capacity for deep, focused work.
My concern when I see younger people constantly seeking distractions is that they completely lost their ability to have one moment, any moment in a quiet state without looking at a screen or having something in their ears. And I guess I wouldn’t be too surprised if all this multitasking were done exclusively in their leisure times. But seeing them doing that while they work, for 8 hours a day, that’s concerning.
I listen to podcasts while doing the dishes and cleaning the house. I listen to podcasts when I go to the gym (I actually use it as my incentive to go to the gym. I leave some of favorite episodes to listen while I work out). But I don’t listen to 8 hours of podcasts or watching videos on the background while I’m at work, doing cognitive efforts.
So, it’s NOT about ALWAYS doing ONE thing at a time. If we avoid pairing tasks that interfere with each other, like reading emails (language processing) with listening to a podcast (also language-heavy), we should be okay.
But also, I think Cal Newport has a point: if we are constantly in this distracted fully excited state all the time, we can’t slow down anymore, even if we want to.
I think that with the amount of instant stimulation we carry in our pockets today, it’s way harder to even realize that we are in that state. And maybe some people don’t even know how it feels like to be calm and quiet, just observing the world around them and listening to their thoughts.
And it’s a challenge for all of us; we are all being bombarded with an excess of information and entertainment. I noticed a shift in my ability to sit down and focus on reading a book a couple of years ago when I was still using the main social media apps (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). I believe that **deleting all those accounts **four years ago helped me get back to enjoy reading again and embracing boredom sometimes.
I have been curating my online consumption patterns for quite a while now, and this post summarizes a bit my feelings about feeling hacked by the online world.
Anyway, thanks Joel for sharing your thoughts!
—-
Post 86/100 of 100DaysToOffload challenge (Round 2)!
#100DaysToOffload #100Days #NoisyMusings #internet #attentionresistance
Thoughts? Discuss... if you have a Write.as account or Reply by email
By Noisy DeadlinesMinimalist in progress, nerdy, introvert, skeptic. I don't leave without my e-reader.
The constant need for a source of entertainment
Some thoughts about how I always want to keep my mind engaged and curious—or to keep it distracted from the real world?joelchrono.xyz
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Zelensky discusses Istanbul talks, strengthening air defense with Netherlands’ PM
President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed strengthening Ukraine’s air defense and investments in defense production with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Dick Schoof. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
What are the benefits of Zoho for businesses?
Discover the benefits of Zoho for businesses, from streamlined operations and enhanced collaboration to robust CRM capabilities and cost efficiency.Jonathan Dough (EMPRO)
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