https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2024/09/11/harris-alpha-female-debate-00178598
«“[W]hen there is asymmetrical lying, there will be asymmetrical fact checking.”»
Love it.
Next debate should NOT include an audience. Especially if it’s at Fox.
Interesting opinion piece in The Hill:
«Programs not directly affected by the global gag rule still experience a chilling effect due to confusion about what it does and doesn’t permit, research finds. If it were expanded as Project 2025 proposes, marginalized people — families living in poverty, racial and ethnic minorities, the LGBTQ community — would suffer disproportionately.
Such unjust measures should have no place in U.S. policy. That’s why Congress should pass the Global HER Act, which would permanently repeal the global gag rule. In countries where abortion is legal, it would permit non-U.S. NGOs to use their own funds to provide safe and legal abortions, without losing U.S. funding for other programs.
Relying on temporary pauses of the global gag rule under Democratic administrations is not enough. The on-again, off-again nature of the current policy creates a convoluted environment for U.S. grantees that bedevils their programs even when the global gag rule is not in effect. Repealing the rule through legislative action is the only way to undo the far-reaching, long-lasting damage the rule has wrought over 40 years.
Beyond that, passing the Global HER Act would be a positive affirmation that the U.S. truly supports full realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights for everyone around the world. With the threat of an expanded global gag rule looming on the horizon, the time to affirm that is now.»
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4866475-project-2025-global-gag-rule/
«In a small percentage of cases, measles can lead to severe complications, including pneumonia, encephalitis, and a progressive neurological disorder (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis), which develops five to 10 years after an initial infection. Additionally, measles is known to cause “immune amnesia.” That is, being infected with measles virus wipes out existing antibodies and immune responses to other germs, leaving people more vulnerable to other diseases.»
Oh, sure, let’s roll the dice with our kids. The entire medical community is lying to us, anyway. They just want to make money, along with big pharma, selling us vaccines we don’t need.
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/02/rust_for_linux_maintainer_steps_down/
Seems like Foreign Function Interfaces are always a challenge. I wonder if a purely-Rust kernel would be hospitable to C/C++ as a foreign language.
Found on Mastodon:
It’s never going to stop. There is never a single victory, only “eternal vigilance”.
As in: “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”
We don’t get to win one election and then go back to sleep.
How Republicans win:
https://www.vox.com/scotus/367701/supreme-court-arizona-rnc-republicans-mi-familia-vota
«According to an expert who testified in the RNC case, “approximately one-third of a [percent] of non-Hispanic White voters [in Arizona] are Federal-Only Voters, while a little more than two-thirds of a percent of minority voters are Federal-Only Voters.”
This racial disparity likely explains why the Republican Party is now asking the Supreme Court to further restrict this small percentage of Arizona voters. 2020 exit polls showed Republican Donald Trump winning white voters in Arizona, but losing the state as a whole due to President Joe Biden’s strong performance with Latinos. Biden’s margin of victory in Arizona in 2020 was about three-tenths of a percent, and even a tiny shift in the state’s population of eligible voters could tip the balance.»
Honestly, it feels like we’re living in the end times.
Wow, that was fast.
«The secretary of state’s office estimates that 577,971 valid signatures were turned in by Arizona for Abortion Access, a coalition of reproductive rights organizations that includes the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona. The signature haul far surpassed the 383,923 signatures required to make it onto the ballot. The Arizona for Abortion Access Act will go before voters under the title “Proposition 139.”»
Here, Read This 