cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tenforward/p/1043082/layers-of-dad-jokes

The Louisiana House Judiciary Committee April 16 passed a bill essentially eliminating New Orleans’ clerk of criminal court just weeks before Calvin Duncan, a Black man who was wrongfully imprisoned for decades before being elected to the position last year, is set to take office.

It’s finally warm enough here, so I could clean all the corpses out of the two hives that survived the winter (one got eaten by a mouse).

From Brandi Rydel

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From Andrej Tabak

The FBI director has called the allegations ‘false reporting’ and said he would sue the Atlantic reporter who published them

The US Navy has denied reports of food shortages on board two major vessels participating in the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Some comrades over at Hexbear have organized a donation drive for Palestine and, over the past few weeks, have managed to raise over $1500 for verified Palestinian fundraisers. The fediverse is a good place full of good people.

Infrastructure preparations suggest Russia is again trying to involve its ally Belarus in the war, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday. The Ukrainian president made his remarks, posted on Telegram, in response to what he said was an intelligence report issued by Ukraine’s top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi.

An age of political outrage has eroded Americans’ capacity for shock. But the response by Trump and other Republican leaders and supporters to criticism from Pope Leo XIV against the war in Iran has tested that proposition.

Sixteen bets made $100,000 accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February. Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination by Israeli forces. On 7 April, right before Donald Trump announced a temporary ceasefire with Iran, traders bet $950m that oil prices would come down. They did.

Happened to me when I saw a book on the US site, I wasn’t able to see all reviews, but there was a button to sort-of “apply” to get approved for seeing all of them.

The test is named after the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, in whose 1985 comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For the test first appeared. Bechdel credited the idea to her friend Liz Wallace and the writings of Virginia Woolf. Originally meant as “a little lesbian joke in an alternative feminist newspaper”, according to Bechdel, the test became more widely discussed in the 2000s, as a number of variants and tests inspired by it emerged.

The EU Commission’s policy on data centres keeps information on individual centres’ energy and water use under wraps. Research by Corporate Europe Observatory and AlgorithmWatch, and published by Investigate Europe and media across Europe, reveals the Commission copied and pasted an amendment suggested by Microsoft and the lobby group Digital Europe. The aim? In the face of growing resistance, to prevent NGOs from obtaining information on energy-hungry data centres.

Similar laws have passed at the state level in Utah and Tennessee

In June, a sharp-suited Austrian executive from a global surveillance company told a prospective client that he could “go to prison” for organizing the deal they were discussing. But the conversation did not end there.

This isn’t just an Ontario story. Rumors are that Yazdani was fired for her reporting. Rogers isn’t known for standing with their journalists, so a firing due to political pressure seems possible.

Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

Microsoft dangles $1 million prizes and Mercedes-AMG cars inside Edge as persistent pop-ups potentially spark fresh “bribery” backlash.

At least two merchant vessels reported they were hit by gunfire as they attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, three maritime security and shipping sources said, shortly after Iran said it was once more ‌tightening control of the waterway.

A federal judge on Friday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit demanding detailed voter data from Rhode Island, a decision that follows similar rulings in a handful of other states.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the subject of intensifying speculation about a potential retirement before the midterm elections, is not expected to leave the bench this year, sources close to the justice have told ABC News.

Today’s game is some more Minecraft (Attack of the B-Team). I’ve started moving into a larger house from my small little shack. It was chill building it. I didnt have any grand fancy plans or anything. I just spaced out and built whatever i wanted. It was nice. I think that’s the chill of older minecraft. Not too put newer minecraft down but it has a lot more going on i feel like so it’s easier to get distracted and get pulled out of a sort of “zen” moment you get going while building. Or maybe i’m thinking too much on a block game. That’s a possibility too.

In the Minneapolis neighborhood where Renee Good was killed, tensions were running high between residents and federal immigration agents. Then came what one former DOJ official later called ‘use of excessive force after use of excessive force.’

Not like that matters anyway, since no one is there to enforces them. 🙄