Hard Pass

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1855263/don-t-be-a-loser

ICE never needed officers to disguise themselves with masks and strip themselves of identification before Trump took office for the second time. What ICE is doing now isn’t what ICE was doing during Trump’s first term, even though it’s the same hateful bigot sitting behind the Resolute Desk he thinks should be covered in gold leaf.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/onion/p/1175927/whistleblower-trump-administration-weaponized-social-security-records-tried-to-falsely-d

The agency is facing pressure to improve medical care in its facilities after reporting the deaths of 18 detainees in the first five months of this year.

And by "pressure to improve medical care" they mean "ICE hasn't paid for medical care since last fall"

ICE also killed people by doing things like leaving a blind man who didn't speak English or Spanish in the parking lot of closed restaurant in the middle of a winter storm in Buffalo

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• archive.is — sometimes modifies archived pages

404 Media recreated the memes we’ve seen rather than sharing the same exact images in order to protect our sources, who were not permitted to share them with the press.

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Jetski is Google’s internal AI coding tool.

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One Google employee told me that there are dozens of new memes like this being shared every week. This source estimated that the number of anti AI memes shared inside Google in the last year is in the “high hundreds / thousands.”

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"We’re finding that AIs have relieved the pressure and bottleneck of code generation, but that everything else has become the bottleneck, Google-wide testing and build times, human review delays, comparatively slow infra and VCS,” one Google employee told me. “The conclusion many colleagues are arriving at is that Google’s infra [infrastructure] and eng [engineering] culture was built to be stable and intentionally slow, and that pressures to accelerate using AI are bumping into that.”

Experts say an independent Albertan wouldn’t be entitled to Canadian citizenship

The Linux Association of Canada announces the official launch of the Canadian Open Source Library, a national platform dedicated to preserving, promoting, and sharing Canadian open source projects and knowledge.

For years, developers, educators, students, researchers, and organizations across Canada have contributed valuable software and resources to the global open source ecosystem. The Canadian Open Source Library provides a central place where these contributions can be discovered, shared, and preserved for future generations.

Here we go: https://www.linuxassociation.ca/library.php

The Canadian Open Source Library serves as a central hub for Canadian open source projects, documentation, educational resources, and community initiatives.