To save everyone else the effort:

Because there were not enough justices for a quorum—the court needs at least six and only Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson remained—the court affirmed the judgment of a lower court to dismiss the lawsuit.

Clever. Appearing to do the right thing at face value coincides nicely with getting the case against you dropped. It's likely impossible to sue a majority of the Supreme Court if they don't care to be sued.

This is interesting, but the post is very inaccurate. The first picture is Portrait of a Moor by Jan Mostaert, and there's no indication that it's a portrait of Reasonable Blackman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_an_African_Man

The second picture was drawn by a modern person, and isn't even supposed to be Blackman, that's what the artist thinks Edward Swarthye might've looked like:

https://www.historyextra.com/membership/black-faces-of-tudor-england/

All that aside, here's what the book Black Tudors has to say about him:

A surname alone cannot confirm a person’s ethnicity. Although Reasonable’s surname would seem to indicate the colour of his skin, it is in fact an old English surname, derived from the Old English Blaec mann, as are ‘Black’, ‘Blackmore’, ‘Moor/More’ and ‘Morris’. It could also be spelt Blakeman, Blakman, Blackmon or Blackmun. A John Blakman was living in England in 1206 and the name was fairly common until the thirteenth century. By the Tudor period, the name was found in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, Fowey, Cornwall, and Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire. Henry VI had a chaplain named John Blacman, a fellow of Merton College, Oxford. A different John Blackeman was buried at Grey Friars Church, London, in July 1511. A third man of the same name was a benefactor of St John’s Hospital, Coventry. None of these men was African.

‘Blackman’ may have originated in reference to a dark complexion, but by the sixteenth century it cannot be assumed to signify African ethnicity. As William Camden noted in 1586, ‘surnames began to be taken up ... in England about the time of the Conquest, or else a very little before’. Theoretically, a man called More in 1566 could have had a Moorish ancestor from five hundred years before, but it is a rather remote possibility. We cannot even assume that ‘Blackman’, or names like ‘Moor’ or ‘Niger’, were originally assigned to men of African origin. Wilfred Niger was nicknamed Niger or ‘the Black’ in around 1080, after he painted his face with charcoal to go unrecognised amongst his enemies at night. The names could also refer to dark hair (Black), or to someone who came from a place called Moore (in Cheshire), More (in Shropshire), Blackmore (Essex), Blackmoor (Hampshire, Somerset) or Blakemere (Herefordshire), or even to someone who lived on or near a moor. In Scotland, the surnames ‘Muir, Mure, Moor, Moore, More’ referred to ancient ‘residence beside a moor or heath’.

It is only because Reasonable Blackman was also described as ‘blackmor’ and ‘a blackmore’ that we know he was African. ‘Blackamoor’ or its variants was the most popular term Englishmen used to describe Africans, appearing in some 40% of references to individuals in the archives, and in literature from at least 1525.

The cool kids are forcing people to read this at gunpoint nowadays

Some background on this comic:

To join in the obligatory reminders:

Somebody isn't sanitizing their inputs properly. Like putting a bandaid on a heart attack

Some good discussion about this trend on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32040506

There's a joke I've heard, "In middle school, you learn the Civil War was about slavery. In high school, you learn it was about states rights. In college, you learn it was really about slavery".

Alternative form:

Before and after:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241125095752/https://www.cvshealth.com/about/leadership.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20241206083643/https://www.cvshealth.com/about/leadership.html

Good thing nobody's archiving sites like this, and the pictures are gone from the internet forever.

A family member had a deposit down on a Cybertruck and was ready to buy one. They canceled their deposit and bought a different EV because of how much they despise Elon now, so it's not just sour grapes from people that couldn't/wouldn't buy one anyways.

Pretty sure any decent model could easily solve that anyways. To borrow a quote about bears from the National Park Service, there's now significant overlap between your dumbest users and the smartest AI.

The best description I've seen of hotel art is what happens when you go to the store and say "One Art, please"

The URL for that image is... something. rape.pet looks very pedo adjacent:

also, as long as it's illegal, we dont allow any CSAM on this instance

That's 👏 what 👏 CI 👏 is 👏 for

Warn in dev, enforce stuff like this in CI and block PRs that don't pass. Go is just being silly here, which is not surprising given that Rob Pike said

Syntax highlighting is juvenile. When I was a child, I was taught arithmetic using colored rods. I grew up and today I use monochromatic numerals.

The Go developers need to get over themselves.

Thanks for posting! Here's a transcript of both parts:

It only takes one spark to light a fire, but here are 10 sparks that terrify the 1% because they actually work

1. Ditch your bank for a local credit union. Banks exist to make profits for their shareholders. Local credit unions do not. They are non-profit. They have lower rates and lower fees, too.
2. Join your local mutual aid network, or start one if there isn't one where you live. Real change starts with neighbors, plus building your local network is gonna be crucial over these next few years.
3. Use your library like it's a second home. It's a building full of literally free resources that they want us to pay for elsewhere, plus librarians are low key revolutionaries, talk to them.
4. If applicable, join your local tenants' union. Nothing scares landlords more than organized renters. When we know our rights and stand together, the power dynamic shifts fast.
5. Join a bulk buying group. Cut out the middle man and watch your grocery bill drop.
6. Join your local buy nothing group. Watch things magically appear when you need them. Also, get rid of the scarcity mindset that capitalism thrives on.
7. I'm biased in this one, but buy local whenever possible. 68¢ of every dollar that you spend locally stays in your community compared to 43¢ when you don't shop locally.
8. Support citizen journalists and independent media. Somebody else is not paying the bills for these people.
9. Start a freedom school. Weekend education programs teach financial literacy, labor history, community organizing. Informed communities are dangerous communities for the 1%.
10. Boycott the big guys. Boycott Amazon and Walmart. These places do nothing for your local economy.

FYI if anybody is uploading stuff to loops, it says there's a 1 minute max length, but I've seen longer videos, like 3 minutes on there, so a video like this wouldn't have to be split when uploading.

They weren't going to vote for Harris anyways. If she magically brought peace to the middle east tomorrow, they'd find some other reason to not vote for her.

Focus on actually helping out the working class and you'll get all the votes you need. Until then, throwing out a few progressive scraps has stopped working because people are sick of the bullshit rainbow capitalism.

This podcast is very relevant:

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-elite-media-dems-blame-woke-headwindseveryone-but-themselvesfor-trump-win

I shut my mouth during the election and hoped for Harris to win. Fuck it though, the DNC has utterly failed us. From now on, I'm voting for someone that can offer real change. If the DNC tries to ratfuck another candidate like Sanders I'll write their name in and not give a fuck because the DNC gave us Trump, twice.

Now is the time to organize and drag the DNC off the corporate dick they're sucking.