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State police said they received a request for assistance from UVa police at approximately 9 a.m. Saturday. That was an hour after the university says UVa Police Chief Tim Longo asked the protesters to voluntarily remove the tents and after “officials began attempts to collect the tents and were met with agitation and chanting from demonstrators.”

Oh no!! Not agitation and chanting!!!! How threatening! Whatever shall we do?!

So, anyone who's not in the 1%? Because that's that it feels like.

Fucking bullshit.

the worker, a 35-year-old South African man, was caught trying to deploy a lifeboat from a Norwegian Cruise Line ship west of Vancouver Island. The ship’s security escorted Sogoni to the vessel’s medical center for an evaluation [where] he “became irrational and attempted to leave” and “physically attacked a security guard and a male nurse". [He then] ran to another exam room, where a 75-year-old patient was inside, [and] stabbed the woman in her arm, hand and face, then [stabbed] one guard in the head and stabbed the other guard’s back and shoulders.

Supposedly they still have several months worth of munitions. Which should be more than sufficient if this is (as they claim it is) the final push. The fact that they're upset at even a delay in the weapons shows where their real intentions lie.

Fuck your genocide.

Israel felt the U.S. allowed it to be blindsided by Hamas’ announcement this week that it was accepting a version of a cease-fire proposal.

Oh, you didn't have a chance to move the goalposts? Cry harder.

For years, the site had a standing policy that prevented the use of generative AI in writing or rewording any questions or answers posted. Moderators were allowed and encouraged to use AI-detection software when reviewing posts. Beginning last week, however, the company began a rapid about-face in its public policy towards AI.

I listened to an episode of The Daily on AI, and the stuff they fed into to engines included the entire Internet. They literally ran out of things to feed it. That's why YouTube created their auto-generated subtitles - literally, so that they would have more material to feed into their LLMs. I fully expect reddit to be bought out/merged within the next six months or so. They are desperate for more material to feed the machine. Everything is going to end up going to an LLM somewhere.

Serious Trouble, by the further hosts of (and essentially a continuation of) All the President's Lawyers.

Nocturne, by Vanessa Lowe. A podcast about the night, and things that happen during the night. Favorite episodes: Night ways about what ancient people use to do at night and how archeology and anthropology are changing their perceptions; Finding the Void about a guy who lived inside a mall; On the North Face about a guy who got lost while climbing Mount Shasta; What's Would You Do about the fear of night.

I usually check in on The Daily like once a week to see if anything interesting has been covered.

And This Week in Virology, which I got into during the pandemic. Usually the weekly update on Friday on what contagious diseases are currently circulating, and about half the time their Sunday episode.

A. It was a recall election (though still good).

B. Was this district affected by redistricting?

Some of the states are very logical. For example, both Florida and Texas have deliberately and determinedly become red state hellholes because they want to drive out liberals and attract conservatives - because by doing that, they ensure that they retain all of Florida and Texas' electoral college votes.

Ah, one of the things that rural areas bitch about most, all the young people leaving the region ...

Imgur?

"As you all know, we have zero tolerance for not following processes designed to ensure quality and safety."

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destroy Hamas's military and governing capabilities

"scuse us while we move some goalposts here ....

and ensure that Gaza does not pose a threat to Israel in the future

And suddenly it's not 'Hamas' that's a threat, but 'Gaza'. More moving goalposts, and revealing Israel's real aim: the elimination of Gaza itself. Except, like the Republicans, who constantly have to create a new threat to 'defend' themselves against, after Gaza it'll be the West Bank. And after that it'll be something else ...

The picture is interesting. That particular shade of green is the one that's usually worn (either in a vest or cap) by the legal observers for the protesters. So it looks like the cops may have arrested a legal observer ...

Oh no, not threatening rich people's yacht money!

Good - keep it up!

Just to put the timeline straight: Marchan issued the gag order, trump retweeted 10 things that might have violated it, Marchan said that was wrong, trump said he hadn't violated it, Marchan scheduled a hearing. Before the hearing occurred, trump again retweeted ?3? things that might have violated it. Marchan holds the hearing, finds trump in contempt on 9 of the 10 items - it's at this point that trump's retweets are established as mostly violating the gag order.

Today's hearing was in regard to the ?3? retweets made prior to the first hearing. He's getting a fine today because the [comical] argument would've been made that, at the time of those, ?3? retweets (before the first hearing), he still believed his actions weren't in contempt.

I'm not sure if he's done anything since that first hearing that might violate the gag order, but that's when the clock started ticking. And, unfortunately, it only started ticking for those kind of violations. He might decide to try smirking finger-guns next, and argue that he was only just enthusiastically greeting an old friend :/

In addition to those, consider getting a hypoallergenic mattress cover and hypoallergenic pillow covers. And wash your bed linens more frequently.

I hate to refer you back there, but there's a dumpster diving subreddit.

And I don't know what the schedule in the UK is, but here in the States, people are moving out of their dorms for the summer. If the schedule is the same and you can get over to your local university or college or whatever, you may be able to score not just food, but other things that people just don't have the energy/ability to drag home.

A friend of mine used to offer end-of-termers $10 for their mini-fridges, clean them up in his shed over the summer, then sell them to next year's freshers for $40-50. Even if you don't have a car, you might find some small stuff you can clean up and resell.