Here’s Western District commander Bunny Colvin on the importance of the brown paper bag to civilization.

In case you really were hit by a brick somewhere, this post is about Donald Trump. And I’m not afraid to say that

I have never seen Uno played that way. If a player plays “reverse”, then the order of play switches from counterclockwise to clockwise or vice versa. The effects of the previous player’s card still land on their usual targets.

I am required to note that this article concerns the site of Hitler’s birth, not of his death.

I don’t think Hitler has a single place that is a permanent grave.

After he shot himself, his Nazi friends buried him and his wife in about 1 foot of dirt in the garden outside the bunker. (This is the place that is today a parking lot for an apartment block). The Soviet Red Army exhumed that grave within a few days and cremated the bodies and scattered them so as to not create any single place that could become a focal point for future neo-nazi movements.

The site of Adolf Hitler’s death, and of his first grave, is now a non-descript parking lot for a non-descript apartment block. This was done for exactly the opposite reason: To prevent any site from becoming a locus of commemoration.

But I certainly see your reasoning for Mr. Trump. I wonder how many people are actually there for Trump himself? How many would stick with him when he doesn’t have the power to get them something?

Congrats!

C’mon guys. They’re supposed to wait till after the markets open to say that. Sheesh.

I agree that the facts in this article are not excessively interesting. It’s just garden variety racism.

The real audience for this prelim injunction is not the public, however. It’s the 9 justices of the supreme court. In particular, there are 2-3 justices who appear to get all their facts from Fox News. And the evidence introduced for this prelim injunction is the ACLU’s primary opportunity to challenge the Fox News “facts” with “alternative” facts, when this case goes back up to the supreme court.

The case is Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem. Previously in this same case, the Supreme Court seemed to indicate that it was legal for ICE to stop and question people based on their skin color. (They thereby created a new category of stop called the Kavanaugh Stop).

Quoting Justice Kavanaugh:

Here, those circumstances include: that there is an extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work; that those individuals often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction, that do not require paperwork and are therefore especially attractive to illegal immigrants; and that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English. To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court’s case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a “relevant factor” when considered along with other salient factors. … Importantly, reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status. If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter. Only if the person is illegally in the United States may the stop lead to further immigration proceedings.

As a legal position, this shit is antithetical to the American way of life, and it’s also deeply unrealistic. These things are not “brief encounters”. This opinion would legalize “papers please” style enforcement for brown people.

Now, the Kavanaugh Stop is not currently the law of the land, because Kavanaugh was writing in a concurrence only. He didn’t have a full five vote majority behind these abhorrent statements.

So this is the news: Everyone knows that ICE are racist cunts. The ACLU is doing the work to prove it in court. And hopefully it will lead to something that doesn’t cement the Kavanaugh Stop as case law.

Most of those “permissive” licenses require redistributors to redistribute copies of the license texts in derivative works.

But I bet these AI models aren’t doing that. And it’s a damn neat certainty that the vibe coders who use the AI model are not attaching a license disclosure containing every permissive licenses in GitHub. Even if their vibe coded app is arguably a derivative work.

Really, as a convicted criminal, Donald Trump should be spending more time practicing the fine art of shutting the fuck up.

Let’s all just take a moment to appreciate that 5:45 pm on Friday is apparently the best time for news like this to drop.

The DOJ lawyers could be liable personally for sanctions if it turns out they already “knew” this information at the time they were presenting the case to the grand jury. Therefore the official story has to be that they didn’t “know.”

Sanctions could include things like monetary fines, referral to bar association discipline, and so forth. In the Chicago 6 case, the defendants were awarded their attorneys’ fees as a sanction after grand jury misconduct.

If an American moves to Europe and doesn’t attempt to learn the local language, then by a few months to a year in with zero effort people will say they’re in the wrong for not making an effort to integrate and expecting everyone to speak English for them.

My American cousin lived and worked in France as an engineer for several years. This is absolutely not true. He did make an effort to learn some French, but it wasn’t because of any pressure. He just wanted to.

Windows, on the other hand, is a hybrid kernel, which means some functions are managed in user space so that a program has more control over the hardware.

Windows and Linux are both monolithic kernels, in the sense that most device drivers run in kernel mode with kernel privilege. They’re not like Mach or Hurd.

Windows outsourced their device driver development early on to the hardware manufacturers, and they encouraged closed-source drivers with separate source trees and builds. To facilitate this, Windows NT developed a system called plug-n-play (PnP) which searches for and loads driver modules (.sys files) from disk into the kernel.

Linux developed a similar system of loadable kernel modules (.ko files), but their system arrived much later. One reason is that Linux’s GPLv2 license mandates that driver source code be licensed under compatible terms. That and Linux has always been pretty open about accepting driver code into their main source tree. Finally, manufacturers were never interested early on in writing Linux drivers, so the driver development was being done by the community, which was already using the Linux source tree.

So Linux didn’t have as much pressure to develop a loadable module system. So they did it later.

To the present day, the majority of Linux device drivers are submitted to mainline Linux and go through the Linux review process. Windows drivers are mainly developed by third parties, but they do have to go through the Windows Hardware Quality Labs review and testing process.

Apple writes all their MacOS drivers internally, because they are also the hardware OEM.

So basically, Elon Musk was never the official Administrator of DOGE. It was this different woman that no one has heard of or seen.

On paper Elon Musk was only ever a “Special Government Employee”. This is an advisory or consultant type position that normally comes with no salary. It allows the politicians and political appointees to bring in their old friends from outside government, so they can talk to them. And meanwhile the friends get badges and credentials and email accounts so they can function in the office. But the bottom line is that SGE only ever has advisory power; no real power.

So that’s why Musk is not named on a lot of these suits. Anna Bower spent a lot of time trying to figure it out.

A 2.5 million private jet is, uh, probably not new.

The smallest Very Light Jets, like the Cessna Mustang or HondaJet, start around $5 million new.

So you’re probably looking at a decades old plane, almost certainly not enough room to fully stand up, and possibly no lavatory.

I haven’t looked at this in depth, but some of the scholars I follow have suggested that this law is legally problematic, and there are good arguments to strike it down under the first amendment and section 230.

Section 230 is the federal safe harbor law that shields social media from liability for their users content, provided they take certain reasonable steps to moderate the user content. The federal law will preempt this Minnesota state law if they conflict.

Okay. But then the thumbnail is clearly showing some power transmission lines? Too many insulators for low power data, and data typically doesn’t come in 3-phase.