frankly, that seems like a subdued reaction.

An elected official's duty is to increase the public good for their constituents. And an elected AG's duty is to "DO JUSTICE". Not win cases for clients. DO JUSTICE. Despite that duty, Becerra shilled for law enforcement unions, spending taxpayer dollars fighting media orgs seeking police records.2/

What the founding generation understood as an establishment of religion is a legal question to be decided by a court, not a “fact” question to be decided by experts, no matter how credentialed. To be sure, courts must make a determined effort to grasp the relevant history bearing on that legal question. Hilsenrath, 136 F.4th at 491 (“This kind of historical inquiry requires serious work.” (citation omitted)); McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742, 803 (2010) (Thomas, J., concurring) (noting “[h]istorical analysis can be difficult”). See generally Heller, 554 U.S. at 592–95, 600–03, 605–19. They do so by consulting articles, books, and historical sources and bringing their own independent judgment to bear on them—not by appointing an “expert,” whose “findings” are insulated by clear-error review on appeal.57 _________________

And then, in one last bizarre twist, the Court says that judges aren't allowed to ask experts in history about questions of history, because experts impact "independent judgment."

Brb going to scream.

Thanks. I've read the book, but it really felt like a bunch of disconnected concepts. And as I start to try to use libcosmic, and rodio, and the like, there's a lot of...

Well, current project is partially a "Qt is getting sucky, let me get away from that", but I'm really appreciating Qt's docs.

Can you believe it's basically three days until #NBPy 2026? Have you got your tickets to the best barn-based tech conference in northern California?

No?

You should fix that: northbaypython.org

Okay, but for intermediate values and calculations in straight-up CPU code the assumption should almost always be doubles, I'd think. Most of it will never leave the floating point side of the processor unless it's forced to truncation, in which case (my history suggests) it's way slowed.

Pondering Rust's fascination with f32 types. I remember being concerned about memory usage and floats vs doubles in the late '90s, but in the intervening decades I thought we'd kinda agreed that unless there's lots of them, doubles were faster. Am I just the wrong level of old?

So I tried this with a chunk of text from one of my unpublished stories and Claude said, "This is either CJ Cherryh or Iain M. Banks."

I can live with that.

I'm learning Rust, and wow am I feeling the "docs are not written for humans" thing right now. And nor are forum responses. A lot of "I'm so smart, mark that particular example up this way", not a lot of "here's how to structure your code out of this mess".

Walking to work a little early this morning. Tons of kids biking on the sidewalk. Paint bike lanes really don't protect anyone, do they?

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

*ahem*
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I used to think I was neurodivergent. I'm starting to think that my being a Waldorf school survivor has more impact on many of the challenges I've overcome...

I mean, great, but I low-key wanted to see Kash Patel have to try to prove in court that he spent more time sober in the office than in nightclubs.

Update from "nobody thinks they're the villain in their own story" to "anybody who thinks they're the hero in their own story is probably the villain."

I feel like not enough reviewers know they had to remake the entire final third of the Michael Jackson movie because it falsely exonerated him, and it turned out the kid’s lawyer foresaw that shit in the 1990s and made sure to include a clause that the estate could never ever do that on film.

This crash is obviously a tragedy, but the vehicle ridden by the teen is already illegal to ride on public streets and paths!

New page! howtobeawerewolf.com Tim is just here to party, and Marcus is just along for the ride #howtobeawerewolf

I have been working on web content management & administration in government for twenty five years.

It ASTONISHES me that our content managers STILL don't understand and adhere to WCAG 2.1 AA

Like how many times do I have to tell you "YOU CAN'T HAVE TEXT DEFINING YOUR EVENT IN YOUR PROMO IMAGE"?

Berkeley traffic diverter at Grant St/Berkeley Way

To everyone saying, "How oh how do we stop Google Maps cut-through traffic??"

...I present to you the solution, which we've had for 50 years in Berkeley.

Yeah. I confess that I'm the sort of person who runs XFCE on Linux, and occasionally considers going back to FVWM2, because ugh, but...

Mac seems so much "because we could" and "maybe you'll subscribe to iCloud to get past this annoyance? How about now?"

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Yeah. The fun bit was they mucked up "reduced transparency" for the first few releases of Tahoe; so many system dialogs and controls (like the switches pulldown from the right side of the menu bar) had transparent backgrounds and were completely unusable. Despite my settings.

Eco-Tourism idea:

Travel to other cities and collect valve stems of vehicles parked in the bike lane.

Is anybody else having kerning problems reading "Ternus" as "Temus", and thinking about the future of Apple?

(Not a dig at the guy, the MacBook Pro has definitely been rescued from the Ives era. Even if it's hobbled by Liquid Glass )

I’m no business genius, but if I were in my final year running one of the most successful brands on earth, knowing I could coast and my legacy would be assured, I probably wouldn’t fuck it up by gifting a solid gold brick to a fascist pedo wannabe dictator. #apple

wtf am i witnessing here, it's like a prop plane skee shoot, how can that POSSIBLY be an effective AA defense, the future is unserious

Rode legally through a roundabout today. An SUV had to yield. Because her time is clearly worth more than mine, she laid on the horn, sped past, and flipped me the bird while yelling. The entitlement of motoring culture is exhausting.

Oooooooh... I mean, still soft, but that deserves to be in furniture or something that shows off the wood.