US citizens: call on Congress to Abolish Super PACs.
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US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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US citizens: call on Congress to block the saboteur in chief from wrecking Social Security.
US citizens: call on Congress to require deportation thugs to continue reporting cases where someone dies within 30 days after release from deportation prison.
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US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to fully fund public TV and radio.
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US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Find Our Families Act, which would require the deportation thugs to give their prisoners' relatives accurate information about where the prisoners are, and about their medical emergencies.
It would also ban torturing the prisoners and their relatives by keeping the one from communicating with the other.
US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.
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US citizens: More than 4 million people have lost SNAP (food benefits) since last summer. Call on Congress to reject farm legislation that leaves families behind.
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US citizens: call for the release of whistleblower Courtney Williams, charged with "espionage" for disclosing discrimination and harassment she experienced as a contractor at Fort Bragg.
Don't forget that that military base is named after a traitor, Braxton Bragg.
US citizens: call on Congress to stop Education Sec. Linda McMahon from transferring special education and student civil rights out of the Education Department.
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And you can get a discounted seated "Season Pass" ticket that gets you a seat at all five events through the end of the year!
As just a few examples of "great movie, but bad fit": Aliens, Strange Days, The Thing. They're great movies! But they aren't party movies. They're too good.
On the other end of the scale is the obscurity problem: I'd love to do Barbarella, Danger Diabolik, Dr. Phibes, but nobody's heard of them. The 6 people who would show up (8, counting me and Kingfish) would love it, but it would be a flop.
Anyway, we've got a list, and if these next five movies go well and we start getting some regulars, maybe we'll be able to dip into the backstock as well. So if you want us to keep doing this kind of thing... vote by showing up.
Happy July 4th! For those of us around the world contemplating independence, it's a good day to think about how we came to rely on expensive cloud infrastructure for our fundamental computing needs.
With that in mind, here is my latest toy project: an open source tool that makes replicating, forking, sharing, and running container snapshots fast and easy across cloud and personal devices.
It's fun to play with, especially on bare metal hardware you run at home, or rent from a provider like Hetzner or OVH. Or, because it uses Tailscale, why not all of them in a single mesh?
There's a lot more to say but I don't have time right now. Details are in the README.
I will say this: humans and AI agents both want the same things when they're trying to get work done. Ephemeral containers aren't really it. But how about unlimited disk space, fast CPUs, an undo button, and the ability to move to whatever provider offers the best hardware at the best price? That's more like it.
Go visit thundersnap on github and tell me what you think!
Please be aware that I have the most comprehensive collection of jokes of this formation, so you cannot stump me, that's not what I'm asking. I have 100% heard your joke before. I just want to hear your best formation. Bring it.
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A British appeals court sustained the arbitrary criminalization of stating support for Palestine Action.
A few more levels of appeal are possible, but Stormer's government is dead set on repression of criticism where it counts.
The muskrat's fabulous cars-in-tunnels "mass transit" seems to be unable to serve many people, but it is an opportunity to disregard environmental planning regulations with impunity and serve real estate owners rather than the public.
The 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) -- which is slated to take place in Sydney, Australia, in December 2026 -- bans peer reviewers from uploading papers they referee to AI chatbots, as the practice breaches confidentiality. [...] To enforce the policy and catch illicit AI use in peer review, the event's organizers have included deliberately concealed instructions for large language models (LLMs) in papers sent out for peer review.
The instructions tell an LLM to use telltale phrases -- such as "This work addresses the central challenge" and "The claims of the paper" -- in a peer-review report. [...]
"Designing a trap that presumes bad faith corrodes the relationship the whole system depends on," Sören Auer, a computer scientist at Leibniz University Hannover, wrote on LinkedIn. "You do not build a healthy reviewing culture by treating your reviewers as suspects."
But others see merits in the approach. A similar prompt-injection effort has caught hundreds of reviewers misusing LLMs in submissions for next week's 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026) in Seoul, South Korea, according to Nihar Shah, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and scientific integrity chair of that conference.
Culture of trust, uh huh.
In 1929, Secretary of State Henry Stimson closed down the "black chamber" -- the State Department's code‐breaking office -- on the principle that the way to make men and nations trustworthy was to trust them. As he later told aide McGeorge Bundy, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."
Two ICE agents harassed a poll worker on Election Day, demanding she remove social media posts they claimed threatened federal agents.
Paigelynne Gonyea, a poll worker in Syracuse, New York, said she received a phone call Tuesday from two ICE agents asking to meet with her. Not wanting to meet with them alone, she invited them into her workplace. "I've seen the news, especially in Minnesota," she said. "And I didn't want anything to happen to me at all."
The ICE agents arrived with copies of her social media posts and driver's license, and handed her a warning notice alerting her that they were investigating her for allegedly threatening ICE personnel. "They tried to scare me into signing it while I was working," she said. The agents told her to "remove and/or discontinue" the behavior, according to the notice, which Gonyea shared on Instagram. [...]
Ross, who was only placed on three days of administrative leave for shooting Good in the head, chest, and arm, faced virtually no consequences for killing an innocent woman in broad daylight. It appears that federal law enforcement now view pleas for actual justice as some kind of threat. [...]
Gonyea's experience is just the latest example of how far federal law enforcement is willing to go to silence critics of President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts. Earlier this week in Texas, a man received a 30-year prison sentence for transporting left-wing zines linked to a protest at ICE's Prairieland Detention Facility. Others involved in the protest received sentences of up to 50 years.
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