Bove is the guy who told his underling lawyers to tell the courts to “fuck you”* on the AEA planes and Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He made Drew Ensign and a couple of others lie to a federal judge, which is a serious problem for a lawyer and officer of the court. I suspect that Joseph Mazzara perjured himself over this stuff, which means that Bove likely suborned perjury.

Bove has absolutely no business getting a lifetime appointment to the federal bench, where he will enjoy judicial immunity.

*Those words are a direct quote from Bove.

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I don’t pretend to be any restaurant that has opened in New Orleans. However, want to share a few tips I’ve discerned over a few years:

• The holy trinity is critical to Creole cuisine, and red beans in particular. The holy trinity consists of onion, Bell pepper, celery, and garlic is “The Pope”. This is perfectly vegan.

• to a non-vegan red beans and rice, the only ingredients I would add are bacon (or another source of pork fat) and pork ham in some form. I would substitute with any reasonable vegan source of fat

• sweet potatoes are still good if you absolutely need to turn this into patties for a complete meal at the end.

Doesn’t a Google Pixel device come with its own OS image by default, independent of Graphene OS? Is there some kind of step that we’re missing here?

In the previous opinion, SCOTUS didn’t say that nationwide class actions or APA suits are legal. They just declined to rule on those, and I believe a justice said class actions might be viable substitutes in a concurring opinion.

My guess is we’re going to find out what they think about this class action pretty fast.

Encrypted data channels can still be vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. Like when you connect to an unknown host with SSH, and the client pops up a big warning.

In this case, ICE or whomever sets up a “valid” cell tower that your phone connects to, and they (law enforcement) route your packets onto the rest of the Internet. They can decrypt the 5G data, and see all of the IP headers. They can’t necessarily read the TLS traffic, such as https. But most important of all, they can log all of the IMEIs that connect, which effectively gives them a database of all of the protestors.

The use of Stingray by US law enforcement has been challenged on grounds that the law enforcement agencies have no spectrum license. Those challenges seem not to have found success.

On the other hand, prisons in the US have been stopped from operating cell phone jammers on prison grounds, on the same complaint of no spectrum license.

Exactly. This is completely insane. The DoD has the negotiating leverage to write these right to repair requirements into their RFPs, specifications, and contracts. The idea that their procurement offices simply failed to do this boggles my mind.

Back in the war, if you had a winning design, you were required to license it, full drawings included, to many different manufacturers at fair prices. The Defense Production Act is still on the books, and it contains a lot of power to control the economy. Why is DoD handcuffing themselves?

Pork is famously ‘the other white meat’ according to an old advertising campaign.

Richard Reid is serving three consecutive life sentences, plus 110 years on top, for the original shoe bombing plot. The shoes contained 10 ounces of C4. He resides at ADX Florence.

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I get that the name is alliterative, but this is more like Dachau in '33 than Auschwitz in '45.

A while back, people in Florida built an absolutely massive airport in the middle of the Everglades. They wanted to build the next big regional hub covering all of South Florida, but that never happened. So there’s a massive gigantic 12,000 ft runway, huge amounts of concrete apron, and space for a big passenger terminal that was never built. The runway remains open as a general aviation airport, and was until now mostly visited by students to practice touch and go landings.

My points:

1. The article summary saying it’s an airport used for training is true, but slightly misleading.
2. There’s a lot of things about this place that make logistical sense for the type of operation they want to do: cheap rent or land, lots of available concrete, not actually new build (easier environmental impact statement), easy on site access to a massive airport that can support jets of any size, low amounts of air traffic, and secluded from public view.
3. It’s not actually in Everglades National Park, and they aren’t filling in wetlands, like I’ve seen some say.

Those are probably not Cavendish bananas.

Several years ago at this point, Congress passed a bill, and that bill was signed into law by the President. What that law says, is that TikTok cannot continue under Chinese ownership. Byte Dance either have to sell the American video app business so that it is controlled by Americans, or they have to shutdown Tiktok.

Byte Dance did not sell the business, so under the law TikTok has to shutdown. This law was lawyered all the way to the supreme court, and the court said it’s a valid law, and must be followed.

Despite all of these facts, the law is not actually being followed. And Tiktok is still operating in the United States. There is no legally valid reason for it to do so. President Trump has issued extension after extension, even though he has no legal authority to do so.

The latest here is the top law enforcement officer in the US telling the app stores, “yes we know it’s illegal to keep Tiktok in your app store, but I am pinky promising we won’t go after you.”

Sadly most of the great maritime powers have signed onto the 1856 Declaration of Paris where they agreed to give up privateering as a weapon of war. The United States has not signed on, but has also not issued a letter of marque since that period. During the civil war, the confederates experimented briefly with privateering, but the Union declared that it would not.

In 2025, The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act of 2025 was introduced in Congress. This bill would authorize privateering against “cartels” (apparently any cartel, like OPEC or the American Medical Association).

I’ve done some work with near infrared spectroscopy on a similar problem to the tricorder “molecular scan.”. There are two-three main problems as I see it.

1. A typical lab spectrometer might collect on 3,000 different frequencies to cover the spectrum. Meanwhile the sensor that is cheap enough to put in a tricorder has around 10 channels.
2. The lab instrument probably has expensive and fragile optics. You can’t do the same thing on the tricorder because the optics will break when you drop it.
3. Lab procedures rely on carefully controlling the illumination so it’s the same every time. Hard to do in the field, even in relatively benign field environments. This even comes down to using sample cuvettes that are precision machined to have two sides extremely parallel. You can’t make a tricorder that dispenses precision cuvettes for sample collection. If you can’t control the illumination, you have to measure it and calibrate.

But on the plus side, it’s a kind of actually readable font.

A meltdown is when the reactor overheats, and the uranium fuel pellets melt. Then the molten uranium metal falls down to the bottom of the reactor vessel, where it eventually after a long time cools down into a solid chunk of slag metal. That’s a meltdown in my book.

If LLMs train on text output from LLMs, the results will degenerate into total garbage over time. The people that buy reddit data for LLM training know this. They will stop buying if they think there’s a lot of LLM text on Reddit.