Hard Pass

Abdul El-Sayed has won the Democratic primary in Michigan

This is so true tho

“This is the last of the prosecutions seeking to hold accountable those responsible for the events of January 6,” Judge Amit Mehta wrote in his order dismissing cases against nine people in which he recounted the events of that day. “That book is now closed.”

“Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of presidential power – to buckle,” Mehta wrote. “The court cannot write a different ending.”

“The government thus asks to absolve these Defendants of crimes against the United States itself,” Mehta wrote. “In this court’s view, that is not in the public interest.”

“But that alone is not a valid basis to deny the motion,” he wrote, adding that “the court must give way to the primacy of the Executive Branch in making charging decisions.”

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/8644067

For more information, either visit the article directly or view the post with quotes in !crimes_of_ice@lemmy.4d2.org

https://lemmy.4d2.org/post/4583426

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/57823568

Crossposted from https://fedia.io/m/wikipedia@lemmy.world/t/4218790

TL;DR: In the last year, the Wikimedia Foundation has fired several union organizers, including those that worked on the Community Tech team - a team dedicated to building features for the volunteer community that edits Wikipedia.

As the Wiki Workers Union tries to get the Wikimedia Foundation to recognize their union, it is worth remembering that this is not the first time that the Foundation has worked against the community.

Wikimedia Enterprise is a betrayal of the volunteer movement community of Wikipedia editors, as the Wikimedia Foundation is providing privileged access to big tech AI companies to the Wikipedia corpus - a body of work that the Foundation does not own.

Movement volunteer communities contributed to Wikipedia under copyleft licenses - licenses that work to ensure that the work remains free (as in speech). The big tech AI companies do not license derivative works under copyleft licenses and often do not even attribute where the works came from.

This means that volunteers are working for big tech for free, and the Wikimedia Foundation is selling privileged access to that free labor.

It is against that backdrop that the current unionization struggle unfolds.

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/animemes/p/1076883/porco-rosso

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/46299656

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/41106910

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/34822755

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/147673792

Based truck driver.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world/p/1702667/proof-of-life-for-the-recently-deceased

Lilac is finally here. finally, FINALLY they will meet their White. nothing bad happened, even if they are drenched like crazy.

alt image (blahaj zone, worse quality)

a saga is coming to an end. how will they meet? Lilac has been so absolutely furiously wanting to meet White even in the most aggressive of storms, but was this really worth it? they could have just waited a couple of days, maybe weeks, and the storm™ would have dissolved itself... probably.

btw: i got good news for the "post viewer" im trynna make. i tasked a.... probabilistic and unverified software manipulator to separate the krita file layers and present them as a cool parallax effect and that does look really cool. have a look:

3D view of some of my posts (CW: it's LM-slop)

video link (in case it doesn't preview correctly)

you can even see outside of the bounds which is suuuuch a cool effect. when i make mine, i'm obviuosly gonna make that togglable and such. i want this to... actually be good so ye

in my onion, this looks preeeetty cool. so now i know this is a doable task for myself to implement in Godot. horray! like - this is actually achievable. godot also has plenty plugins to directly import krita files so... yes, this is very doable. which is good! like - the conversion will probably be one of the smaller hurdles in the project. this feels very doable now.

i wish you a wonderful and exciting day (in the good way) ~

Critics warn of fossil gas reliance, power price hikes and wasted water as officials approve massive Meta facility with scant public debate.