Hard Pass

A picture of a car with a license plate that reads LUAAAAA.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/microblogmemes/p/1088121/when-inaction-is-rebranded

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/twitterblueskymastodon/p/1087934/when-inaction-is-rebranded

When everybody else runs fast to the far-right, but you don't move, they will claim you are now radical left. The current public discourse in a nutshell.

Mastodon.

I bought a ticket for Monday’s Alberta Christian Leadership Summit in Red Deer, keen to report on the event that promised a chance for religious leaders to talk about “faith, leadership and public policy in Alberta” with Premier Danielle Smith and other politicians.

But the night before, organizers called and told me, without providing a reason, that I was being deregistered and they were refunding my $200 fee. I wasn’t alone. A journalist from a major news outlet also got the call.

The summit’s website promises a “direct dialogue between Christian leadership and Alberta’s government [to help] shape the policies affecting our families, churches, and communities.”

The General Assembly is expected to quickly approve the map, which slices up Memphis, a majority-Black city that makes up most of the state’s lone Democratic district.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46512248

Even when AI has not generated code. This is a major risk for companies where IP ownership is critical.

GitHub has also seen major outages, further eroding trust in their tools.

Hopefully this motivates companies to finally make the switch away from Microsoft.

GitHub 👇

• Codeberg (open-source repos)
• Gitea Cloud (private repos)
• Forgejo (self-hosted)

VS Code 👇

• ZED
• VSCodium

A Canadian is fighting back in U.S. federal court over what he says is an attempt by the Department of Homeland Security, through Google, to seek "vast swaths of information" about his personal life following social media posts critical of Donald Trump's administration.

The Canadian John Doe plaintiff on Monday sued Markwayne Mullin, the current DHS secretary, in a lawsuit that contends DHS is engaged in "a transparent gambit to chill speech the government doesn't like." The suit was brought by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) offices in D.C., where DHS is located, and in northern California, the jurisdiction where Google has its headquarters.

When millions of tonnes of rock fell one kilometre into an Alaskan fiord last year, it set off one of the largest tsunamis ever recorded, a monstrous 481-metre wave higher than the tallest viewing platform of the CN Tower, a new study shows.

Dan Shugar, an associate professor at the University of Calgary and the corresponding author of the study, says the scale of the Tracy Arm Fjord tsunami shows the catastrophic potential of such waves and why their risk needs to be a stronger focus for policymakers, particularly in British Columbia.

Federal authorities executed a search warrant on Wednesday morning at the offices of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas (D), a close ally of Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to The Associated Press.

Federal law enforcement sources told Fox News the raid was in connection with a “major corruption probe.”

As early as this fall, people in Saskatchewan with severe addictions may be forced into treatment at Saskatchewan Hospital, a psychiatric facility in North Battleford.

The Sask. Party on Tuesday passed the Compassionate Intervention Act into law.

The Opposition NDP, the Saskatchewan Medical Association (SMA) and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan (CPSS) have become vocal about their opposition to the law's implementation.