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Sounds like a play for protectionism.

I guess taking bets on whether the US will drop a nuke on Iran is too spicy for polymarket. I wonder what the odds would be now.

I'm used to AP titles being pretty dry, but they have started putting some bite in them.

Sounds like the next year or two may be a good time to finally get a battery for my panels

I'm having a conversation with a family member. Somehow the topic of firefighters comes up. She pauses, looks very thoughtful for a moment, then asks, "Do you not like firefighters, either?"

"What? Why would I not like firefighters?"

"Like how you don't like police."

She knows me well. I boggle at how my distaste for cops could be this misunderstood.

The Trump admin have been filling US attorneys offices with temporary appointments, and attempting to leave those temporary appointments in place indefinitely. This is an attempt to avoid the constitutional requirement that US attorneys be approved by the Senate.

Courts have recently ruled that this is illegal, and that some of the people currently attempting to exercise the powers of a US attorney have no such legal authority. Ms. Habba is an example of one such person.

The law allows the courts to appoint US attorneys if the position has been vacant for some period. Some courts have chosen to do so, I believe in the case of Ms. Habba specifically, and the Trump administration have immediately fired the court appointed US attorneys. I believe after firing the court appointed US attorney, they attempted to make another temporary appointment, which the law does not allow, but were hoping to muddle the issue by appointing three people as a "triumvirate."

The courts subsequently ruled that that is also illegal, but it sounds like the ruling judged stayed their order to allow for appeals.

This judge in the transcript is attempting to discover whether the prosecutor attempting to participate in this plea deal and sentencing hearing have any legal authority to do so. It sounds like the hearing was supposed to resolve these matters of fact, but the attorney present wasn't able to say anything about who is actually running the US attorneys office.

Consequently, the judge has indicated that they will be summoning the "triumvirate" to testify in person, under oath to determine who is really running the US attorney office.

IANAL and this is all from memory of previous reporting I've read. Do fact check if you're interested.

I think it kinda doesn't matter. If they can catch 95% of all users, that's pretty close to total victory. Well more than enough to shut out access from Linux systems for most things without causing public backlash.

Apple, Microsoft, and Google account for roughly 95% of all human user systems.

Has anyone been able to find the list of persons included in the source? Vmfunc's blog says that a list was published but later taken down.

EDIT: wayback machine of course

Mitchell Hashimoto is trying to build a reputation system to combat this https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

Yes with one quirk. I don't use the right shift, just the left. Not sure why I've ended up this way, or if it's a common variation.

EDIT: looked it up. It's very common

a very small number of its actions have amounted to terrorist action

Really? Most I found on their Wiki was beating up some guards during their break-ins. Assault? Sure. But terrorism?

https://www.cps.gov.uk/types-crime/terrorism

Oh. Disrupting a computer for a political purpose is terrorism in the UK. Hacktivists and bus bombers, basically the same thing.