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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
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There was extensive documented debate at the time 14A was drafted as to whether it would apply to Chinese railroad workers and gold rush workers' children. The answer was unequivocally that yes, it did. (5/3)
December 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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As the last 4 years have shown, there are few things more dangerous than a technology which does not exist but is being sold on the premise that it does. Imagine how dangerous it would be to have a machine that people believe reads thoughts but does not. Imagine what law enforcement would do with it
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The LinkedIn visionaries have come up with a solution to their AI datacenter cooling problem. It involves putting them in the coldest place they know: space. Which is extremely funny if you know like any physics at all.
December 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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This is exactly, EXACTLY, what the very fine people were calling for as they tried to set us on fire on August 11, 2017. It is exactly what they were calling for when Heather Heyer was murdered on August 12, 2017.
archive.is/0QQF8
December 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I'm a little overwhelmed (positively) by their responses, fuck the organisers. It's kinda dissonant that a tournament organised for DBD, a game that wears it's inclusivity on it's shoulders, would ban trans women. Like read the fucking room, you picked the wrong game to try and elbow us out of lol
December 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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i thought it would have to be joke level to get to this but

i guess we're at joke level!!
Kudos for these women for standing up and doing the right thing but they're trying to ban trans women from e-sports now? Absolutely ridiculous.
Women gamers boycott global esports tournament over trans ban
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
www.out.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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A woman is someone who knows she needs to cover her drink if she sees you in a bar.
December 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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The changed code is a small fraction of an open source contribution. Your commitment to understand the issue, how your proposed solution fits with the project, and be ready to own and push the review process forward is the biggest chunk of the work. Your effort is the contribution, not the code.
December 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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If Treasury returns are up that means the government is paying *more* to people who lend it money

This is a *BAD* thing

For the government, it makes everything more expensive

For investors, it means they don't have confidence that US debt is a good investment
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Maybe investors are worried about a default (which used to be unthinkable but isn't anymore)

Maybe investors are worried about inflation

In any case it's BAD
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.

A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The octopus in question:
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Minneapolis stands up to ICE

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job

Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Don't fuck with Australia.
1: Trump slaps tariffs on Australia, despite U.S. having a trade surplus with the country.
2: Countries get scared away from US assets, buy gold.
3: Australia is one of the top gold exporters.
4: U.S. trade surplus with Australia sinks to lowest level in 20 years because gold sales to U.S. grow 10x
Trump has orchestrated a golden age for Australia
China’s epochal rise was the driver of Australia’s first resource boom, in 2025 President Trump has engineered something almost as astounding.
www.smh.com.au
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Very suspicious - did someone try to take out Zelenskyy in Ireland?

"Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin"

- @thejournal.ie
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.

This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.

This is almost everything the government is doing.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Back in my own bed between editions of #YOW25, skipping the customary speaker recreational weekend between Melbourne and Brisbane.

I adore everyone involved, and also I just... need some alone time in a familiar place. Being in hotels too many days in a row sucks.
December 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Not mentioned in the Guardian article, but we identified the man behind Mr Deepfakes
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcat
Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.
www.bellingcat.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
This is the sound of thousands of off-Slack incident bridges spinning up
December 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Also means you literally will make better decisions because you won't be stewing in 1500+ ppm CO2 of cognitive fog.
So, vaccines are unlikely to be available in the initial stages.

How about mitigation - clean air and masking - to slow down the rate of spread while a vaccine is developed.

Simple, cheap, and given the speed of the Covid vax development - worth a shot?

Cheaper in the long run!
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Omfg I'm dying the site calls you a "good girl" if you actually type in the "captcha" which is actually a secret code that's been overlaid on top of with instructions to retype it.

And of course it lets you change "girl" via free text edit if that's not how you identify.
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability

lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...

"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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I would frame this not as a sacrifice but as the realization that the world had changed in a way that made open source communities less worth fighting for.
cannot express enough my deep admiration for @travisbrown.dev who left behind his incredible work in scala because he refused to support a toxic, racist, and broken system. and because he elevates receipts into an art form
December 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Re: the azelastine nasal spray, it showed a 2/3 reduction in infection risk in a study back from Sept this year!
Azelastine Nasal Spray for Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 Infections
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the efficacy of azelastine as a preexposure prophylaxis against SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens.
jamanetwork.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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ICYMI: I spoke with more than a dozen people who have uploaded medical records to ChatGPT, seeking health analysis and interpretation of their labwork with mixed results, and significant inaccuracy and privacy risks.
People Are Uploading Their Medical Records to A.I. Chatbots
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM