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Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

it's that time again. i have cumin. so much cumin. and beans. and chili peppers. and alliums. and crushed tomatoes. and oregano. you know what this means

At the very least save a god damn mp4 file to a local drive.
Right now you can't do trial by jury, something mentioned in the constitution, if one private company is having a bad day.
That's a problem.
And what, do you have all your courtrooms pay for a premium account, just so you don't have ads for pewdiepie before your courthouse video?
You know what that monthly fee could have gone to?

HOSTING YOUR OWN VIDEO FILE

the new caleb gamman is SO fucking good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuIEExWzesg

Love you wonks

If you think competent development services are expensive, try using incompetent ones. 👍🏻

Really cool to see the c"" string literal feature stabilized. I wrote the RFC for c"" string literals [1], so I'm very excited to see it reach stable Rust today.

I had nothing to do with its implementation, however. The implementation was done by @beef [2] and quite a few others worked on it too [3]. Thanks all, for making this happen!

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3348
[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/108801
[3]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/105723

🦀 I'm really excited about today's #rustlang release! 🥳

- offset_of!
- stripping release binaries by default!
- IP/socket types available in no_std!
- File::create_new (won't overwrite existing files)!
- more array and slice methods (each_ref, chunk methods)!
- Mutex::clear_poison!

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/03/21/Rust-1.77.0.html

its incredibly interesting to me that the most fun part of kitsune tails development for me has been scripting the cutscenes

maybe i should revisit that "star trek like adventure game but extremely gay, no, gayer than that" idea after KT is out 🤔

Landmark Peruvian Court Ruling Says the Marañón River Has Legal Rights To Exist, Flow and Be Free From Pollution

The ruling is the first time Peru has recognized that ecosystems possess legal rights and is based on a constellation of legal precedents in international and Peruvian law.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20032024/peru-court-rules-maranon-river-legal-rights/

#environment #ecosystem

not a lot of things can get better by corporate top-down decree but "scrub every instance of master and slave in all of our documents" is one of them

i'm also partial to "scrub every instance of male and female in all of our documents", though that's probably a few years away yet

My lawsuit seeking legal recognition as nonbinary is on going, and extremely expensive. I'm trying to crowdfund as much as possible - all donations go directly to my lawyers.

https://enby.org.uk/

The UK has removed every state, territory and country that allows transgender people to correct their legal gender on a "self-id" basis from the list that they offer streamlined gender recognition to.

25 US states (+DC), 4 Australian territories, and 25 entire countries have been cut.

Nobody has even been accused of abusing the process. The changes were spearheaded by Kemi Badenoch for the sole purpose of hurting transgender people.

I appear to have been specifically targeted. In April of 2022, I was the first person to apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) as nonbinary in the UK. Though my application for was granted, my GRC was never issued. I filed a lawsuit on 15 November 2022.

Kemi Badenoch was made a defendant in her capacity as the Minister for Women and Equalities. She put out a statement on 6 January 2023 that she was going to update the list.

On 4 December 2023, details were leaked to The Daily Mail. They ran an article giving my state of birth, California, as a prominent example of places on the chopping block.

Legislation was introduced two days later, which even included a comment that in no circumstance would anyone be able to apply as nonbinary based on foreign recognition.

Of course, this is all circumstantial. 😠

Folks living in the UK who qualify under the old list have about two weeks to apply for a GRC before the change takes effect.

The UK's standard process is so burdensome that less than 5% of transgender individuals in the UK have been able to obtain a GRC.

These overly strict rules do not make anyone safer.

I have written up some more details here:

https://rya.nc/activism/uk-slashes-foreign-gender-recognition.html

(I keep forgetting hashtags)

#trans #transgender #nonbinary #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #uk