The national conventions are a key turning point in our hypothetical calendar. Before them, primary voters, or delegates selected through the primary process, would still have the ability to choose their party’s nominee. After the conventions, though, the Democratic and Republican national committees would inherit that power.
Both the DNC and the RNC have enshrined in their rules a process for how to fill a vacancy on the party’s ticket after the formal nomination has already taken place. For Democrats, there is only one option: Chairman Jamie Harrison would confer with Democratic leadership in Congress and the Democratic Governors Association and would then take the decision to the DNC, according to the party’s call to convention.
The 483 members of the DNC — who comprise the chairs and vice chairs of each state Democratic Party committee as well as members elected from all 56 states and territories, plus Democrats Abroad — would vote on a new nominee. There are no rules governing who the nominee has to be; the nomination would not, for instance, just go to the former nominee’s running mate or the person who won the second-most delegates in the primaries. They just need to get a majority of party members to vote for them.
Experts say that could be a political mess, with various factions of the party pressuring members to choose one nominee or another. “They would have all sorts of internal politicking. There would be competition between various factions within the party,” Richard Pildes, a professor of constitutional law at New York University Law School, told 538.
For their part, Republicans have two options for filling a vacancy, according to the party’s rules. Like the Democrats, they could choose to have their committee members vote. There are three RNC members per state and territory, but they get to cast the same number of votes their state or territory’s delegation was entitled to cast during the Republican National Convention. If members of a delegation aren’t in agreement on who to support, their state or territory’s votes would be divided equally among them. In order to become the nominee, a candidate must secure a majority of votes.
But the RNC is also “authorized and empowered to fill any and all vacancies” by reconvening the national convention.
In either case, the results of all of the primaries and caucuses would no longer formally matter. While the primary results would be one source of information for the members (if they vote) or delegates (if they reconvene the convention), they wouldn’t be bound to choose the person who came in second in the primaries. They don’t even have to choose somebody who ran in the primary.
Beyond their distinct rules, Pildes did not think there would be much difference between how Democrats and Republicans would deal with a candidate’s death. The RNC is much smaller than the DNC, which could have an impact. “It’s always easier to reach decisions in a smaller body than a larger body, and so that might be a significant difference in the way the two parties are governed,” Pildes said. “But other than that, I don’t think there’s a dramatic difference.”
However, if either party nominee dropped out or passed away after ballots were printed, then it would be too late to officially replace them on the ballot. In that scenario, millions of Americans would cast ballots for the inactive candidate with the understanding that their Electoral College votes would really go to someone else — probably someone designated by the DNC or RNC.
“The reality is, when you vote for president, you’re never voting for that person. You’re voting for the elector to cast a ballot for that person at the Electoral College meeting in December,” Brown said. “I would imagine what would happen is that parties would indicate to the electors who they should vote for.”
From Election Day to Dec. 17
Next, let’s say we make it to Election Day without incident and voters choose a new president — but then the president-elect passes away or becomes incapacitated before the Electoral College votes on Dec. 17 to make their win official. This could be a messy political situation as well.
According to the National Archives, there is no prescribed process for what to do if the president-elect dies between Election Day and the meeting of the Electoral College. (It would not automatically be the vice president-elect, as, legally, the presidential line of succession would not have kicked in yet.) So the (ex-)president-elect’s electors would essentially get to pick the president. “A whole bunch of Americans don’t realize that the electors are actual, real live people,” Kamarck said, who could theoretically choose for themselves whom to vote for.
There is historical precedent for this: After the 1872 election, which was won by Republican Ulysses S. Grant, Democratic nominee Horace Greeley died on Nov. 29, and his electors’ votes went to various other people. According to Pildes, whether this could happen again depends on the state, as some state laws address this possibility while others do not.
There have also historically been “faithless electors” who have not voted for the candidate who won their state. Some states have laws prohibiting this, but in an emergency situation, state legislatures could change the rules to allow them to do so.
It’s possible that the party would coalesce around a new candidate (for example, the vice president-elect would be a logical choice) and its electors would vote en masse for that person. Brown said the DNC or RNC would likely signal to electors whom they should vote for. That could be Harris on the Democratic side or Trump’s still-unannounced running mate on the Republican side. But Brown emphasized that some states would need to adjust their faithless electors laws to allow for this.
If the electors cannot agree on a single alternative and no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes, the election would fall to the House of Representatives — a procedure known as a contingent election. The Constitution stipulates that each state’s House delegation would cast a single vote for president, with a majority of states required for a candidate to win, and the Senate would elect a vice president based on a majority vote of its members individually. But Brown said that this is a highly unlikely scenario, as the electors would most likely listen to guidance from their party.
From Dec. 17 to Jan. 20
If the president-elect dies or is incapacitated after the Electoral College votes but before Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, 2025, the law is clear: the vice president-elect would be inaugurated instead. The 20th Amendment to the Constitution says, in part, “If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President.”
I mean, it doesn’t look that great, but honestly, the bigger issue is that they’re trying to shoot down The Witcher III.
Like, okay. Everyone would like to make The Witcher III, and if game studios could consistently churn them out, they would. That’s not an implementation problem, but a project proposal issue.
I think it’d be easier to find some kind of existing successful game made in Russia and then go create new content for that with whatever political message the Kremlin wants to push, and provide free copies of that.
you have to start by creating a witcher 1 before you can dream
I mean, there are good Russian games out there (at least in my opinion).
Off-the-cuff, Il-2 Sturmovik is one of the better flight sims, though the 1946 game, while greatly-extended and possessing a real dynamic campaign, is elderly. I brought it up a while back, because I was concerned about the fact that if someone has the game installed and Steam can push out updates to the thing, then it’s basically a non-isolated binary blob that can execute with user permission on many people’s computers; if the Russian government requires the publisher to push out updates to people in the West, that’s a computer security hole via which one can get access to people’s computers.
Digression:
I remember, at one point, playing through a bunch of good war sims, and realizing that almost all of them were out of the Warsaw Pact, and being a little discouraged by that, like…can’t we create any solid war sims in the US?
I didn’t understand why until I watched a video by the Military History Visualized guy, an Austrian guy who does military history content. He went and interviewed some people…I think it was mostly talking about the Ukrainian defense industry. It was actually kinda sad, I guess. Turns out that what happened is that after the Soviet Union broke up, a lot of people in the defense industry were out of a job. What do you do if you have a background in military industry and suddenly demand falls off a cliff? Well, not a lot of options out there…but one thing that did exist was being a consultant on military sim video games. That meant that for a window in time, it was possible for video game developers to get really knowledgeable people to consult with them on military simulations, so they had the best military sims.
checks YouTube
Yeah, here’s the bit I was thinking of. It’s even specifically talking about Il-2 Sturmovik having a bunch of high-level engineers from aircraft design firms in their credits.
But, getting back to the discussion here, normally if you’re creating a game, you’re trying to make a lot of money. The Russian government doesn’t care about that on subsidized cultural works. They’re trying to exert soft power, to insert desired narratives into cultural content that people are consuming. I’m not sure that the most-effective-way to do that is to try to make a new game in the AAA class. They don’t need to make money on the vehicle; they want to get content in front of people’s eyeballs. If I were in the Kremlin and assigned to do that, I’d take popular stuff, buy the rights, make it free, and then stick free DLC with the political narratives that they want to promote on the game.
It sounds like this thing is aimed at domestic audiences, but especially if they wanted to aim at foreign audiences, hell, doesn’t even need to be a Russian-developed game. It’s not illegal for a game publisher in the US to accept subsidized content from the Russian government. I’m sure that some publisher would accept.
Yeah, I gotta say that I read the article and it seemed pretty reasonable in terms of content. The fake-Q-and-A thing wasn’t quite my cup of tea either, but eh, I don’t think it was all that problematic.
It’s encrypted; the author is pointing out that it has to be decrypted to be used, and then the data can be obtained.
Security and privacy concerns aside, I saw someone commenting on the use case, asking who would ever want something like this.
One problem I hadn’t appreciated for a long time was that some people apparently have real problems with dealing with the Windows UI in terms of file access. They don’t know where their data is being saved. This, in my opinion, is in significant part a Microsoft UI problem induced by various virtual interfaces being slapped on top of the filesystem (“Desktop”, “My Documents”, application save directories, etc) to try to patch over the issue that the filesystem layout was kinda organically-designed in a kind of cryptic way back in the day.
But if you can remember a snippet of text in what you were working on, you can find that thing again even if you have no idea where you stored it. Like, it’s content-keyed file access.
That’s not very useful to a techie. They know how to navigate their system’s filesystem, and even if they lose track of a particular thing, they know how to use the system’s filesystem search tools to search for filenames or content. They can search for recently-modified files. They know how to generally get ahold of stuff.
But for the people who can’t do that, reducing their interface to a single search box might make file access more approachable.
Now, let me reiterate that I think that a whole lot of this is Microsoft repeatedly patching over UI problems they created in the past rather than fixing them. And they’ve done this before over the decades with stuff other than document access. It’s hard to navigate the filesystem to find an installed program a la the MS-DOS era, so they stick stuff in a Start Menu to make it more accessible. That gets too crowded, installers start slapping shortcuts on the desktop. That gets too crowded, installers start adding system tray icons. That gets too crowded, the Start Menu becomes searchable. Each interface just becomes progressively less-usable and the solution each time is to stick a new interface in on top of the old one, which in turn contributes to the complexity of the system as a whole.
But that doesn’t mean that they aren’t trying to address a real problem.
I think that they’d do better with something like having a rapidly-accessible log of recently-accessed files (like, maybe have the filesystem maintain a time-based doubly-linked list of those) and be able to rapidly search the content of documents based on mod time so that recent stuff gets hit quickly, then trying to make their existing search tools more accessible. That doesn’t replicate data across the system and produce some of the problems here. It also permits for fully-searching content, rather than just the stuff that was on a screen when the Recall system grabbed a screenshot and OCRed it. Maybe they’ve done something like that in recent years; I’m many years out-of-date on Windows.
I’d also add that I think that personal computer systems in general would benefit from giving users better control over where their data is replicated to. It’s kind of confusing…you’ve got swap (well, encrypted swap probably helps somewhat with this). Browser history. Any clipboard manager’s retention. Credentials stores. Application-saved copies of in-progress files. Various caches. If you use some kind of cloud-based storage, you’re pushing data out to other computers. Backups. Just a lot of state that can be replicated all over the place and is hard to go back and track down and remove. That’s even before stuff like issues with doing secure deletion on existing filesystems (which we had a conversation about the other day, everything from log-structured filesystems to wear-leveling on SSDs inducing data replication). If you want something definitely gone, be able to manage your data’s lifetime, something that I think that a lot of people – even non-techies – would like, you really have to have a lot of technical knowledge of the system’s internals as things stand today. This Recall thing is egregious, but it’s far from the first feature that makes it harder for people to understand and control the lifetime of data on their computer.
I don’t think that the software world has done a great job of letting people control that data lifetime. And I think that it’s something that a user should reasonably be able to expect out of their computer.
Soviet Computer Technology: Little Prospect for Catching Up
We believe that there are many reasons why the Soviets trail the United States in computer technology:
The Soviets’ centrally-planned economy does not permit adequate flexibility to design or manufacturing changes frequently encountered in computer production; this situation has often resulted in a shortage of critical components — especially for new products.
To put it bluntly, a single credential resulted in the exfiltration of potentially hundreds of companies that stored their data using Snowflake, with the threat actor himself suggesting 400 companies are impacted. The goal of the threat actor, as in most cases, was to blackmail Snowflake into buying their own data back for $20,000,000.
Santander, a major financial organization, had been breached, and all customer data was offered for sale: the price was $2 million.
Uh huh. A bank. So probably a lot of companies with important stuff.
goes to Snowflake website
Ah, they have a “customer” section that lists some customers with 202 entries.
Pfizer. Sainsbury’s. PlayStation. AT&T. Euintelsat OneWeb (that’s the sorta-kinda Starlink competitor). NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership. Freddie Mac (large US government-backed mortgage lender). Capital One, a bank. Anthem, a major health insurer. A bunch of California government institutions. NatWest, a bank. Western Union. Vimeo. Siemens. Comcast. Cedar Health, a company that provides healthcare billing services. Aflac, an insurance company.
Yup, sounds like this isn’t good.
Well, I’ve said before that it’d probably take some kind of really catastrophic computer security event for things to change.
l’d be kind of curious if the people protesting are specifically of the opinion that he’s innocent of the fraud charges, are protesting some kind of other charges against him, or think that he’s guilty but don’t care about that and are just objecting to selective enforcement of the law or something.
Or if they don’t really have a very clear picture of what the legal situation with him is.
I mean, this didn’t have anything to do with the election, which I would think is what most people would care about. This is out of his private life.
So, first, that’s just a reduction. But set that aside, and let’s talk big picture here.
My GPU can use something like 400 watts.
A human is about 100 watts constant power consumption.
So even setting aside all other costs of a human and only paying attention to direct energy costs, if an LLM running on my GPU can do something in under a quarter the time I can, then it’s more energy-efficient.
I won’t say that that’s true for all things, but there are definitely things that Stable Diffusion or the like can do today in a whole lot less than a quarter the time it would take me.
From his birth in 1946 until 2019, Trump listed his primary state of residence as New York; in September 2019, Donald and Melania moved their primary residence to Mar-a-Lago in Florida.[2][3] On January 20, 2021, Trump moved out of the White House preceding the inauguration of Joe Biden.[4]
Florida is listed as temporarily disenfranchising felons:
Felons are enfranchised immediately following the full completion of sentences – involving imprisonment and/or parole or probation.
I don’t know when that starts, but I assume not until sentencing.
So, in theory, I guess if he’s sentenced to any of those things and the sentence extends across the election, then no, he can’t vote. If he gets probation in New York, then it sounds like he can’t vote.
But after any sentence is done, he can vote.
I don’t know for sure whether, if someone is serving time in prison in New York, whether their state of residence is changed to New York, though, or whether it just is treated as their last state of residence (which is what happens if you leave the US and vote from abroad – you vote as if a resident of the state that you last resided in). If he winds up serving time in a New York prison, which I would not expect, and if that changes his state of residence to New York, then New York law would potentially apply.
I don’t know about Australia, but before Australia was the destination for penal transportation from the UK, the American colonies were.
I recall reading that one of the factors that contributed to the American Revolution was that a lot of Americans wanted to be able to have some say in selecting immigrants, and didn’t really want the UK dumping criminals there.
I’d imagine that Australia might have some similar ideas.
With increasing numbers of free settlers entering New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) by the mid-1830s, opposition to the transportation of felons into the colonies grew. The most influential spokesmen were newspaper proprietors who were also members of the Independent Congregational Church such as John Fairfax in Sydney and the Reverend John West in Launceston, who argued against convicts both as competition to honest free labourers and as the source of crime and vice within the colony. Bishop Bernard Ullathorne, a Catholic prelate who had been in Australia since 1832 returned for a visit to England in 1835. While there he was called upon by the government to give evidence before a Parliamentary Commission on the evils of transportation, and at their request wrote and submitted a tract on the subject. His views in conjunction with others in the end prevailed. The anti-transportation movement was seldom concerned with the inhumanity of the system, but rather the “hated stain” it was believed to inflict on the free (non-emancipist) middle classes.
Transportation to New South Wales temporarily ended 1840 under the Order-in-Council of 22 May 1840,[28] by which time some 150,000 convicts had been sent to the colonies. The sending of convicts to Brisbane in its Moreton Bay district had ceased the previous year, and administration of Norfolk Island was later transferred to Van Diemen’s Land.
Opposition to transportation was not unanimous; wealthy landowner, Benjamin Boyd, for reasons of economic self-interest, wanted to use transported convicts from Van Diemen’s Land as a source of free or low-cost labour in New South Wales, particularly as shepherds.[29][30] The final transport of convicts to New South Wales occurred in 1850, with some 1,400 convicts transported between the Order-in-Council and that date.[28]
The continuation of transportation to Van Diemen’s Land saw the rise of a well-coordinated anti-transportation movement, especially following a severe economic depression in the early 1840s. Transportation was temporarily suspended in 1846 but soon revived with overcrowding of British gaols and clamour for the availability of transportation as a deterrent. By the late 1840s most convicts being sent to Van Diemen’s Land (plus those to Victoria) were designated as “exiles” and were free to work for pay while under sentence. In 1850 the Australasian Anti-Transportation League was formed to lobby for the permanent cessation of transportation, its aims being furthered by the commencement of the Australian gold rushes the following year. The last convict ship to be sent from England, the St. Vincent, arrived in 1853, and on 10 August Jubilee festivals in Hobart and Launceston celebrated 50 years of European settlement with the official end of transportation.
why we aren’t attacking marketers and salespeople more often. I swear if we all focused on a week or a month by breaking the kneecaps of any salesperson or marketing agent while tormenting their families
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on Friday (31 May) for NATO members to spend together ‘equitably’, €40 billion a year for Ukraine, giving up on his original multi-year plan, nevertheless assuring this will provide a long-term perspective for Ukraine....
Yeah, that’s a legitimate ask. Ukraine needs some kind of stability and confidence as to what funding they’re getting in the near term, since they have to plan around that.
Kercheval, the prominent West Virginia radio host, said on his Friday radio show as the news broke that the development was a big blow for Democrats in the state, but one that isn’t necessarily a big surprise. “Manchin has been toying with this independence for a long time. Even though he’s a Democrat, he’s been operating in Washington like an independent for a while,” Kercheval said.
I mean, it’s a symptom, not a cause. West Virginia went from being very Democratic to very Republican. Coal is very important to West Virginia’s economy. It wasn’t wealthy to begin with, and killing coal has made West Virginia even worse off. And it was never very socially-liberal.
Just 14 years ago, Democrats held a legislative supermajority. Today, Republicans hold the governor’s seat and a state legislative supermajority. Twenty-one state legislative races fielded no Democratic challengers.
The state’s congressional delegation is almost entirely Republican. Its one Democratic senator, Joe Manchin, is an outlier in his party – on Saturday he publicly slammed Biden for highlighting the push to retire coal-fired power plants.
Power had been shifting to the right as the strength of unions waned. Then national Democratic efforts to cut carbon emissions fueled support for Donald Trump.
He won every single county in West Virginia in 2016 and 2020.
So a sense of dread may be particularly acute here for Democrats.
“It is easy for the Democrats to be discouraged,” said Marybeth Beller, a political science professor at Marshall University. The few remaining precincts that lean heavily Democratic are concentrated in a few larger cities, in the capital, Charleston, and around Marshall, in Huntington.
“West Virginia has a lot of very socially conservative people who have felt threatened as the nation has adopted more progressive policies,” Beller said.
She cited gay marriage as one such shift. West Virginia had passed a ban on gay marriage in 2000, but it was overturned in the courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court later affirmed a right to gay marriage nationwide.
Surber said Democrats have been “too concerned about what pronouns you use” instead of focusing on economic issues. Though the midterms are “incredibly crucial,” he said, “I don’t feel that hopeful, honestly.”
But most cited the need for more economic growth in Huntington, a city that has seen its share of economic struggles since the 1980s and has faced fallout from a state coal industry that has declined by 50% in the past decade, a West Virginia University study found last year.
In Huntington, that has left 32% of residents living in poverty, creating an outsized impact from inflation that a congressional report found cost households nearly $500 more a month compared with January of 2021.
Andy Fugeman, 62, sitting outside an apartment in Marcum Terrace, a subsidized apartment complex, said he hopes the election will bring more higher-paying jobs, help with child care and drug treatment in a state where overdose death rates have ranked among the nation’s highest.
Why? Because then they can’t charge you for the new “CarThing” two years later, when they try again with a different product.
Like, your concern is that someone has monopoly access and is trying to limit supply for a control pad on the dash? Can’t agree. There’s not a lot of ability to limit access to that.
If you want to, you can rig up some kind of dash-mounted control pad for your smartphone. Like, get old Android phone, put mpd client on it, connect to mpd server running on your regular phone, stick old Android phone to dash.
Russia has accused Nato and the US of “provoking a new level of tension” after the US and Germany became the latest allies to let Ukraine’s military to use Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia....
I mean, it is an escalation. But on the other hand, there’s not a whole lot by way of other reasonable response to Russia using the previous policy for tactical benefit, being able to attack without being attacked.
I think that there are basically two options that don’t involve Ukraine being disadvantaged:
What was done here, permit limited cross-border use.
Maybe try to work out some kind of terms on which Russia agrees not to do cross-border attacks. But the problem there is enforcement. For Ukraine to be able to pull people away from a border, they have to be very sure that Russia will not attack across that border. If Russia leverages this and builds up to a major attack across the border and breaking that agreement, in order to make it clearly not worthwhile, we’d have to have serious consequences for Russia. I don’t know what would be sufficiently-dissuasive short of attacking Russian forces ourselves.
And if Russia had refrained from exploiting that policy, they also wouldn’t be facing the current change.
I also feel like the broader goal of avoiding Russian cities being attacked is still generally intact, and it’s not as if Russia has extended a comparable policy of trying to limit damage to Ukrainian cities. Quite the opposite, really. And given that Russia is trying to conquer Ukraine and take those cities for themselves, if anyone’s got incentive to try to cut some kind of agreement to not damage Ukrainian cities, aside from Ukraine, you’d think that it’d be Russia.
Styles with shaved portions of the scalp (other than the neckline), those with designs cut, braided, or parted into the hair, as well as dyed using unnatural colors are not authorized.
So only if you can find someone in the wild with naturally-pink hair.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in a pair of congressional hearings this week told lawmakers that Russia has been using semiconductors from dishwashers and refrigerators for its military equipment.
“Our approach was to deny Russia technology, technology that would cripple their ability to continue a military operation. And that is exactly what we are doing,” Raimondi said on Wednesday.
She said she has heard anecdotes from the Ukrainian prime minister that some of the Russian equipment left behind contains semiconductors from kitchen appliances because the defense industrial base is having a hard time producing more chips on its own and is facing export controls that limit its ability to import the technology from other countries.
It’s also apparently not just Russia that was doing this during the COVID-19 chip shortages:
However, ASML CEO Peter Wennink described on an earning’s call how some companies take desperate measures to get their hands on highly sought-after and mature microprocessors.
According to Wennink, several large industrial companies have resorted to ripping chips out of consumer washing machines for industrial use. Typical household washing machines can range from $400 to thousands of dollars each, so that is a relatively expensive way to obtain chips manufactured on a mature process node. However, it’s more likely that these companies are buying used machines or devices earmarked to head to a recycling center. Companies could get the washing machines at a significant discount and still grab the chips in this scenario.
“Technology-wise, market-wise, geography-wise, it’s so widespread that we have significantly underestimated, let’s say, the width of the demand,” said Wennink yesterday during ASML’s Q1 2022 earnings call. “And [I don’t] think it is going to go away.”
Wennink referenced a “very large industrial company, [conglomerate]” when talking about washing machine chip raiding. “Now, you could say, that’s an anecdote. But, to be honest, it happens everywhere,” Wennink continued. “It is — like I said, it is 15, 20, 25-year old semiconductor technology that is now being used everywhere. It’s got — it’s all driven by IoT type applications.”
My guess is that this probably isn’t a case where companies are producing high-volume things. They’re making some very expensive, low-volume things, and they’re bottlenecked by one part that they can’t get.
(degree, figuratively, proscribed, contranym) Used non-literally as an intensifier for figurative statements: virtually, so to speak (often considered incorrect; see usage notes)
Synonym: virtually
He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air.
I agree that it’s a goddamn obnoxious use of the word that is a recipe for ambiguity, but I think that the battle over this has been lost.
When Wyoming sought statehood two decades after its historic vote, the territory’s citizens approved a constitution that maintained the right of women to vote. When Congress threatened to keep Wyoming out of the Union if it didn’t rescind the provision, the territory refused to budge. “We will remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women,” the territorial legislature declared in a telegram to congressional leaders. Congress relented, and Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote when it became the country’s 44th state in 1890.
The West continued to be the country’s most progressive region on full women’s suffrage. Colorado approved it in 1893, and Idaho did the same three years later. Congress had disenfranchised women along with outlawing polygamy in Utah in 1887, but women regained the right to vote when the territory became a state in 1896. After 1910, they were joined by Washington, California, Arizona, Kansas, Oregon, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota and the territory of Alaska. (Even before the passage of the 19th Amendment, Montana elected a woman, Jeannette Rankin, to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916.) According to the National Constitution Center, by 1919 there were 15 states in which women had full voting rights, and only two of them were east of the Mississippi River. The dozen states that restricted women from casting ballots in any election were primarily in the South and the East.
49% of independents, 15% of Republicans think Trump should end campaign: poll (www.independent.co.uk)
[Warlockracy] The Russian state spends $10,000,000 to make the worst RPG of 2024 (www.youtube.com)
Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. (doublepulsar.com)
Q. Is this really as harmful as you think?...
Intel’s Anti-Upgrade Tricks Defeated With Kapton Tape (hackaday.com)
Ticketmaster confirms data breach with a SEC filing (stackdiary.com)
Access was gained through a third-party cloud database provider, which we know to be Snowflake.
A bare breast and ‘civil war’: MAGA diehards showed up at Trump Tower - and it got weird (www.independent.co.uk)
1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI’s Energy Demands (spectrum.ieee.org)
Damage to Ferries Avanguard and Conro Trader After ATACMS Strike: Holes in Hull and Hole in Side! - YouTube (www.youtube.com)
Donald Trump faces travel ban to 37 countries (www.newsweek.com)
Why do we hate commercials and advertisements?
This is a very softball question, it is not being asked for some legitimate purpose....
NATO chief Stoltenberg proposes revised €100 billion weapons fund for Ukraine (www.euractiv.com)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on Friday (31 May) for NATO members to spend together ‘equitably’, €40 billion a year for Ukraine, giving up on his original multi-year plan, nevertheless assuring this will provide a long-term perspective for Ukraine....
Sen. Joe Manchin leaves the Democratic Party and registers as independent (www.nbcnews.com)
Spotify won’t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process (arstechnica.com)
Moscow warns West of escalation after Ukraine told it can hit Russia (www.bbc.com)
Russia has accused Nato and the US of “provoking a new level of tension” after the US and Germany became the latest allies to let Ukraine’s military to use Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia....
Is this actually credible?? (lemm.ee)
Russia Says It's Assembled a Lithography Machine, Will Make 350nm Chips Soon (www.extremetech.com)
As ‘Fallout 76′ Crosses 20 Million Players Amid Success of Amazon TV Series, Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard Talks Franchise’s Future (variety.com)
New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
LIVE UPDATES: TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS IN HUSH-MONEY CASE (www.nytimes.com)
edit: I have changed my title to match the new NYTimes headline. Sorry about the all caps, I guess they are really excited about this lol...