Doug Holland @lemmy.world Old, large, cranky. Gotta go to the bathroom. Also, that picture isn't me. www.itsdougholland.com
Leonard Peltier is denied parole again, will die in prison.
40+ years ago, the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier was literally all the rage. On my side of the political spectrum, people protested and wrote letters to their Congress-critters. Being young and skeptical, I did some research, which back then meant an afternoon with microfiche news archives at the library, and I walked away certain that there was AT LEAST reasonable doubt of his guilt.
Which makes his conviction false, his imprisonment unjust.
These days nobody much talks about Peltier, and he's just had parole denied again. The feds are still adamant that he's guilty, overjoyed that he remains in prison. I remain unconvinced that he's guilty, and if he is, 48 years in prison seems ample punishment, but he'll doubtless die there.
The climate changes, storms get stronger
"It's hard to communicate how unbelievable this is."
"Terrifying and dystopian": the dark realities of the Supreme Court's homelessness decision
Sara Rankin, a law professor cited in Sotomayor’s dissent in the Oregon case, warns more cities will seek to banish the unhoused
> ... "The idea of rounding up unhoused folks and forcing them into camps or out of the jurisdiction entirely is obviously very concerning. And it should be of grave concern, because once something is invisible, you don’t know what’s happening to the already really vulnerable people living there." ...
Do you think a dog, trained to detect humans, can sniff the diff between American humans and foreign humans? The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals says … YES!
Law enforcement will always get more than a fair shake from the Fifth Circuit. No circuit is more apt to award immunity or otherwise refuse to punish officers for coloring outside of the constituti…
Sorry, there's no profit to be made, so fuck it.
The ordinary rules don't apply to corporations, and we're suckers if we play by ordinary rules.
That's why 'shoplifting' from Kroger, 'robbing' a Bank of America branch, 'stealing' cable TV from Xfinity, or 'pirating' movies or music from Columbia or Universal is not morally wrong. Quite the opposite, it's the right thing to do.
And it takes some serious mental gymnastics to try shifting the blame to the innocent dead woman, driving at the legal speed limit and in the correct direction.
When Biden announced this a few years ago, I remember Googling around trying to find an application, before remembering that I'm old.
Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off forever, as Paul Allen estate auctions vintage items
Living Computers Museum + Labs on First Avenue South in Seattle. The nonprofit closed in 2020 just before the pandemic and never reopened. (GeekWire Photo
The American Climate Corps is finally under way — a mere whisper of what's needed, but it's serious, un-fake good news against climate change, and that's mighty rare.
This month, 9,000 people will be deployed to restore landscapes and erect solar panels, helping guide the country toward a greener future.
Dead people
Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).
There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.
Bruce Bastian WordPerfect
John Everett Benson tomb carver
Rick Bevel forgotten man
Johnny Boone Cornbread Mafia
Mike Brumley baseballer, Seattle Mariners
Buzz Cason songwriter, "Everlasting Love"
James Chance saxman
Ed Denson good guy
Evans Evans actress, Bonnie and Clyde
Maya Pines Froomkin journalist & mom
Willie Mays said 'hey'
Tamayo Perry surfer
Paul Pressler Christian child rapist
Donald Sutherland actor, Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Anthea Sylbert costume designer, Carnal Knowledge
T, a/k/a Vega good guy
unnamed forgotten man
Ben Vautier artist who loved his wife
Previously dead
Never heard of it but it sounds intriguing.
7th Circuit Appeals Court says it's OK for feds to demand your password and search your phone, so long as you're within 100 miles of the border or an airport (which is most of America)
We didn’t really need more precedent assuring us our rights don’t mean anything at the borders, but we got it anyway. Within 100 miles of any US border (and that includes international …
Here's a sneak preview of the ugliness and cruelty of President Trump's second term
A comprehensive catalog of the autocratic threat to democracy based on former President Donald Trump and his associates’ autocratic plans and promises.
Washington State University has developed a new variety of wheat, which is part of what an ag college like WSU does, and named it after George Bush. Not one of the monstrous ex-presidents, though...
New spring wheat from Washington State University yields roughly 7% more than the best varieties in the state, scientists say
I'm canceling my plans to vacation in Pakistan. Also, the Koran is horseshit.
The man - who was visiting the Swat Valley - was pulled from a police station and beaten to death.
The penalty? Apparently, you get banned from speaking on the record for the rest of the day, and what you said is deleted from the Congressional Record. Small price to pay, seems to me. I'd speak the truth.
Maybe not enough people around the city know about Scarecrow, and what an amazing archive it is. Scarecrow is where you can go when the movie you're looking for isn't streaming, isn't available anywhere else. Access to the history of the movies is what they offer, with maybe more movies in their collection than not.
It's not frickin' Blockbuster, it's important. Anyone who loves movies and has some money should pitch in. SIFF should pitch in; they'd be a good match.
The end of YouTube would not be a terrible outcome. Instead of a worldwide monopoly on DIY video, new and perhaps less evil options would have a chance.
'Qualified immunity' is a genuine piece of judicial activism, a doctrine created from thin air by the Supreme Court, granting almost limitless immunity for almost anything police officers do. It's why lawsuits over most of the worst atrocities by American police get tossed from court.
So it's news when a court notices that a cop's done something so outrageous that a lawsuit will be allowed.
The Pentagon lied and people died — an ordinary day, in other words.
Instead of taking constant screenshots by default, it'll take constant screenshots only for used dumb enough to opt-in, and instead of storing everything in a plain text user-accessible and easily-hackable database, it'll have some level of encryption, probably making it accessible only to Microsoft, cops, and better hackers.
For me, the issue isn't even in the tech; it's in the company. Microsoft produces usually-functional but frustrating software, and has a long track record of tactics that prove it's not trustworthy. The only people who'd opt-in to this software from this company are people who don't know much about this company.
That's what we've been saying for 30+ years, so why stop now?
Looks like the link is formatted correctly, but The Times is demanding a password.
And as always always always happens in cases like this, there's no indication that the officers involved were disciplined in any way.
And they'll win if there's any justice, but we all know that's a huge 'if'.
Biden then said, “And what happened was, Barack said to me, ‘Go to Detroit, and help fix it.’" This is way too deep in the nettles for me to remember or even google; do you have any idea whether that trip to Detroit was about the pandemic, or (like TBD seems to think) about the recession?