Notices by Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 (blaise@hachyderm.io)

While performing official oversight duties, a Democratic senator was violently tackled and handcuffed by federal agents because he dared to ask a question.

This isn’t law enforcement. This is occupation. Sec. Noem made it crystal clear in her own words: She sees her mission as "liberating" Los Angeles from its own elected leaders and residents. That’s the language of an invader, not a public servant.

Sen. Padilla was doing his job by defending our democracy. (video via Bill Melugin/Fox News)

Today Sen Duckworth unleashed a butt wrecking for the ages upon Kegsbreath.
It was ruthless, systematic, teardown, delivered with all the authority and passion we expect from a seasoned officer upon a feckless subordinate.
I saw it on Forbes and I refuse to pollute this community with links to their site.

#Art seems to be poison for #fascism .
July #nokings theme ought to be a celebration of art (because #maga want to eliminate art).
Let's fill the parks and #libraries with #storytelling , #music , #theatre , #dance , #calligraphy .
#painting faces, sidewalks, signs.
The weather should be quite good in most of the #USA

I don't have contacts inside @IndivisibleSF , so
boost if you agree and comment if you don't.

Led astray (well, from drink to dope) by a dude, and convicted by the feds, it is interesting how Billie Holiday was depicted in news coverage entirely as a victim (of drugs, and dealers) -- and not a criminal. Didn't even mention the specific charge.

That was surprising to see, considering the otherwise paternalistic and dramatizing tone of the article. (1947)

Lawyers for the government have said they intend to #deport #KseniiaPetrova to #Russia, a country she fled for political reasons in 2022. She has said that if she returns, she fears arrest or even death because of her #activism.

#Trump #immigration #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom

"Immigrants, including families with small children, have been held in a cramped office basement for days without enough food and water after being detained by authorities in raids in Los Angeles, lawyers have said.

"One family with three children was kept in a Los Angeles-area administrative building for 48 hours, said lawyers from the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef)."

~ Clea Skopeliti

#solidarity #Trump #immigrrants #deportations #LosAngeles
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/12/first-thing-families-arrested-in-la-ice-raids-held-in-basements-with-little-food-or-water-lawyers-say

For the first talk of this 54th #ParisWiMLDS meetup, Irina Nikulina, a senior computer vision engineer, is introducing OpenCV, a major open source library for computer vision that interfaces C, C++, Python and Java.

I spent an hour yesterday working with one student. She was scared of the soldering iron. "Do your parents let you use the stove at home? It could burn you too, right? But we understand how to be safe and it's not a problem."

She did a beautiful job on her project and learned the names of many parts and learned that she can be scared to do something but still be extremely successful.

This is only really possible because my classes are small. If I need to work with a student I can do it.

@SrRochardBunson
We need somebody to print up something like “red cards”

But for law enforcement/military people.

One side should be the oath with “support and defend the constitution of the United States” in BOLD.

Then on the reverse side?
Something like:
You do not have to carry out illegal orders (or orders that contradict your oath -whatever) and then have the support and assistance number/url that’s been floating around on the internet the past few days.

Print them on business cards - something small so they can be discreetly passed around or placed on vehicles.

However, I have also learned something significant from this discussion. Subjectively, I would consider the productivity impact of other computer automation tools, particularly computer networks, to be obvious. Like, obviously, an email system can send messages faster and cheaper than any paper mail system by orders of magnitude, right?

12 de junio de 1912: en Tegucigalpa (Honduras) se funda el Club Olimpia Deportivo. #Efemérides

This may be the Onion's Mona Lisa:
https://theonion.com/amazon-teases-next-james-bond-will-face-off-against-threat-of-collective-bargaining/
An understated masterpiece.

So there are 300 #california national guard in #losangeles without much to do and #LAPD is spending resources protecting the guard.
This is the same local crew that was so helpful a few months ago in #altadena and #malibu
They don't have a place to stay because the whole operation is ass backwards.

I'm thinking that we should blow up the false narrative and roll out the red carpet.
Set up some red cross relief centers, make sure they have a place to sleep and shower.
At the same time, withdraw support from ice (like #glendale ) and slow walk their requests.

Double down on the taco Tuesday mockery and create lots of photo ops of people chilling with the guard while wearing TACO T-shirts and punch-a-nazi signs, generally poke fun at Conald and illustrate the sham.

No war but class war.

No war but class war.

I can guarantee that a student who is…I don’t know, say, a devoted communist…feels •far• more uncomfortable expressing their full views on campus at a college in the US than a student who believes in Milton-Friedman-style economics as a force for good.

Complaints about whose political views need special protection are less rooted in who’s actually oppressed than in who thinks they’re entitled to never being questioned.

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"The Cyber Resilience Act and Open Source: What Maintainers Really Need to Know"

I'll be there.

Live-streams today, starts 16:00 UTC

https://maintainermonth.github.com/schedule/2025-05-27-CRA

@Heidiknits
#sourdough starters behave differently throughout their lifecycle and your media may favor some organisms more than others.
If you want more bubbles, raise the temperature and feed more frequently.
I have friends with celiac and would be interested in your results.

@knizer I bet this is hot as hell. I'd go.

@david_chisnall agreed, and it's infuriating. I wrote a translator script many years ago,, when sysD was officially in RHEL, to handle most of the generic commands that systemctl requires, simply to avoid the nonsense. I work with the init system of servers hundreds of times per day during dev/eng/test.. so those little "death by a thousand cuts" become apparent very quickly.

the same applies to so many package managers, I ended up writing a translator so that I could reduce context switching when moving from FreeBSD to Debian/clones to RH/clones.

I'll post the package manager and service unification translator one of these days, it's probably the type of thing which would save a lot of people a lot of otherwise wasted/inefficient brain cycles.

the comedy of sysD never ends, and if one looks for it, the regular "service" command and regular "rc.local" and init.d stack still persists despite all of their attempts to own the system from the ground up M$FT style. I wrote a couple of ttyS getty service handlers back in.. a few months ago.. easier and faster and more reliabkle than the sysD unit file interpreted garbage.

@winterschon One of the things that makes me believe the systemd people are not serious is that they decided to turn the noun-verb interface of service into a verb-noun interface in systemctl, in spite of decades of HCI research telling them to do the opposite.

🤦♀️ Kernel Ops or Kernel Oops 🤦♀️

- Which group makes more sense?
- Which group tab-completes to show you all of the associated commands within the same sub-class of purpose?
- Which group is backwards and tragic and requires rote memorization over associative structs?

The following example is one of the many reasons why engineers prefer FreeBSD over Linux. It's the simple usability on a day to day basis.

Cognitive load matters, and efficiency of memory matters, effeciency of keystrokes matters, and it's present everywhere. Backwards thinking is wasteful.

kldstat
kldconfig
kldload
kldunload

~ or ~

lsmod
modprobe
insmod
rmmod

#freebsd #linux #kernel #engineering