Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

Judge juggles competing motions in Arizona voting rights lawsuit https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/072623_voter_citizenship_lawsuit/judge-juggles-competing-motions-arizona-voting-rights-lawsuit/
A judge heard arguments on nearly a dozen motions for summary judgment in a lawsuit aimed at a 2022 Arizona voting law that requires already-registered voters to provide proof of citizenship to remain registered to vote, a law plaintiffs say will lead to mass voter disenfranchisement.
#Tucson #Arizona

#Heirloom #Corn #Mexico #MexicanFood

Mexico's heirloom corn strains are resurging amid more demand
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/heirloom-corn-organic-mexico-resurging-industrial-white-corn-rcna96412

US President Joe Biden's son was expected to plead guilty as part of deal, but judge asks lawyers to talk about it more.
Hunter Biden plea deal on tax charges falls apart as US judge raises doubts

Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make - Screws > glue. ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1956718 #repairability #airpods #apple #audio #tech

OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy” - Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a slot machine in a desert. (credit:... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1956764 #machinelearning #danieljeffries #aiclassifier #aidetectors #watermarks #aiethics #chatgpt #gptzero #biz⁢ #openai #tech #ai

Time is long since overdue for being uncompromising concerning radical political views. You don't compromise with or appease tyranny.

Source: CrowdStrike is close to acquiring Bionic.AI for between $200M and $300M
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/26/crowdstrike-bionic-ai/?mid=1#cid=980459

Ukrainian forces edge closer to Bakhmut as Russia’s hold on city weakens | Ukraine | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/26/ukrainian-forces-appear-to-advance-closer-to-bakhmut

> Ukrainian official says every type of weapon in use, including US cluster munitions, as troops push forward

The Assam Rifles are India's oldest paramilitary force and are well-respected . Rn, they are the only body preventing an all-out bloodshed, Politicians from the state government and a vocal Meitei group, COCOMI, have been trying to make them leave, so the ethnic & communal cleansing can escalate.

As for Manipur's police,

Citing an example, another official referred to an incident at Sugnu, a small town at the southern tip of Kakching, where an officer of the rank of a Colonel of the Indian Army was roughed up by Manipur Police personnel.

The entire incident was caught on camera in which a junior police officer, wearing an undershirt, cocked his rifle in anger at the Army officer, who had come to complain about digging of an entire road in front his camp by miscreants.

The digging of roads was done to ensure that vehicles of Assam Rifles could be prevented from moving out in case an armed clash takes place in the vicinity which houses both sides of warring communities.

Reading that last line

The digging of roads was done to ensure that vehicles of Assam Rifles could be prevented from moving out in case an armed clash takes place in the vicinity which houses both sides of warring communities.

and learning that Manipur Police supported those who dug up the roads is enough to understand that the entire state machinery, police & administration & politicians, want & support the violence on their own citizens,

Ars Technica: OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy” https://arstechnica.com/?p=1956764 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #machinelearning #DanielJeffries #AIClassifier #AIdetectors #watermarks #AIethics #ChatGPT #GPTZero #Biz&IT #openai #Tech #AI

https://www.businessinsider.com/chien-shiung-wu-manhattan-project-asian-american-aapi-history-oppenheimer-2023-7

102°F. Feels like 108°F, as our humidity is surprisingly only 33% atm.

Brought the babies indoors for a cool watermelon break. While their portion of the run is covered in shade cloth, it is still really hot in there.

The older chooks got a fan blowing over an ice bottle in the coop and will get the cold rind of half this watermelon in just a bit.

If you squint, the melon juice on the white towel looks like these babies have been up to something velociraptor-y.

#ChickensOfMastodon

not a lot of people know this but the default slack notification sound was engineered in a mad scientist’s lab to be as jarring as possible to me, personally

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The Moon Tonight 
#moon

My cat’s reaction to the veterinarian’s hold music, which is some sort of weak imitation of Enya. #catsofmastodon #holdmusic

Report: 41 million Americans are simmering on urban heat islands https://grist.org/buildings/report-41-million-americans-are-simmering-on-urban-heat-islands/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"This atomisation, and the reliance on tech for our most basic human needs, unnerved me. It became a leitmotif during my trip..." https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/26/america-roadtrip-greyhound-bus

Lol, to protest, this group is biking around the city, putting orange traffic cones in front of self-driving cars, which disables them until someone from the company comes out to fix them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/26/san-francisco-stop-self-driving-cars-traffic-cone-safe-street-rebel

https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/musica/muere-cantante-sinead-connor-56-anos_1_10410863.html

I think Mitch McConnell experienced a health episode today. He's had several this year and I can't imagine him continuing in his role. He's had several falls and was out of commission for quite a while earlier this year.