NEW: Secret Handshake installed working arcade games called Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell at the DC War Memorial. The game features "furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow shower heads, and other threats to American freedom like DEI and The Pope..."

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

Although the monetary value of the deal is unknown, Instructure says the cybercriminals have returned the hacked personal data and offered assurance “that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident.” www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Gotta start somewhere. www.texasobserver.org/inside-rift-...

All they need now is a Bluesky account. www.texastribune.org/2024/01/12/t...

Soros likes it. texasmajoritypac.com/redistricting/

Yeah, like I'm going to donate to a Democratic PAC which has an account here which hasn't been updated in 11 MONTHS. Maybe a Carey committee...?

Mulling over how to contribute to the Democratic Party gaining the House in the midterms without getting a metric shit-ton of junk mail from them.

Added a save function: UDA_Splitline_Checkpoints.py Sorry if my face bothers you. github.com/kencf0618

Second time SCOTUS doesn't mention Purcell, Louisiana v. Callais being the first (to the best of my knowledge). Which state is next? www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Purcell is just a brand of shampoo.

Der Spiegel Deutsche Unternehmerfamilie bei Flugzeugabsturz in Namibia ums Leben gekommen

Le Monde EN DIRECT, guerre au Moyen-Orient : Donald Trump estime que le cessez-le-feu entre l’Iran et les Etats-Unis est « sous assistance respiratoire » ; l’Iran se dit prêt à « riposter » en cas d’agression

If we really want to destroy Iran we should parachute Trump into Tehran.

Huh. Gazing at the sunshine from the safety of my room, practicing skin care. currentuvindex.com/us/idaho/ada...

Funny. I smell cat shit, and I’ve changed the litter boxes, but there’s no cat shit to be found... 22 °C in the bedroom and a forecast of 29 in the real world (near record); UV Index is Very High... Boxed up some juvenalia...

Switched the thermostat to AC (the systems are separate) and Mother gives me a long, drawn about spiel about it all. All I did. Was. Flip. One. Switch. And having asked her, too!

OK, we are off to the races!

SaLTY.

Spot on, from what I can tell. Let's hope it holds up!

She'd have my vote. Certainly she'd be in the Cabinet.

Anti-Gerrymandering Methods Beyond Split-Line Have at it, ye political science nerds! I've already uploaded the code to GitHub, and Theseus is still running it. claude.ai/share/ff4fb8...

Good to know. I wish we didn't have to.

EN DIRECT, hantavirus : le « Hondius » partira pour les Pays-Bas lundi après-midi avec le corps de la personne morte à bord ; une Française rapatriée a été diagnostiquée positive

As we are getting more women on the bench in Idaho, it's really interesting to see how many appellate lawyers refer to the underlying court as SHE, rather than the Court. I don't see them doing that when it's a male judge.

Think you’ve had a bad day?

Still can’t wrap my head around this.

If you ever wanted to screw over the GOP, now's your chance. Sorry for the redundancy. github.com/kencf0618/UD...

Der Spiegel Dieser Uni-Lehrstuhl bildet Russlands Cyberkrieger aus

Le Monde EN DIRECT, hantavirus : après des « symptômes » de l’un des croisiéristes français rapatriés, le gouvernement veut « briser les chaînes de transmission »

Lovely walk on the Greenbelt on a balmy early evening. Saw my first floaters. The Barber Park Killer got a early start this year!

My latest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Fa...

p-Zombie Lojban Church Pancake Breakfast. Bacon does not go to waste. Mother's Day clean-up. .lentabu'e citka cerni lo balseltcu lo rectu spita cu na zavnarge'u lo mamta selpavyseldei be lo tidygau

p-Zombie Lojban Take them away and you are left with only a desiccated skeleton. ro da poi do vimcu ke'a zo'u do xabju lo bogygreku noi sudgau For every thing that you remove, you live in a skeleton that dries out.

p-Zombie Lojban Our esteemed colleague Jean Servières reported in these very pages the recent dramatic events in Concarneau. lo ni'o velski pe mi'a noi se manci cu se cmene lajan servier gi'e jai cusku fi lei papri be ti fo lo nu dansu fasnu gi'e cfari vi la konkarne

p-Zombie Lojban Different. Challenging. Wonderful. frica .i nandu .i pluka It is different. It is difficult. It is pleasant.

Back on my bullshit. www.librarything.com/work/1061957...

Theseus 5 is chomping away at UDA_Splitline.py (United Districts of America), overnight if need be. To the best of my knowledge no one has come up with this ludicrous idea before. Probably for good reason.

Church Pancake Breakfast. I ate the last three bits of bacon as an act of charity.

I fear that RFK Jr will intercept them and start licking.

I may end up in Missoula yet.

Getting Claude to gerrymander the Lower 48 with their ~3106 counties as the basic units, wiping the states and starting with a clean slate. Go for the Gusto in Python.

So good to catch up with my nephew. He has a good head on his shoulders, and has a designated driver on call whenever he needs one. My brother ate a lot of chips mechanically and our Mother did more talking than listening, which is par for course.

Grad & Grandma

@brandibuchman.bsky.social Your suggestions served him well!

Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter told reporters that he hopes the Supreme Court would "overturn Amendment 14." Seconds later he said, "All we need now is for the courts to overturn 14 and we can look at a new election." The 14th Amendment is what made Black people in America citizens.

Sadly the case.

Fortunately the Idaho Bar ran a survey; I picked the highest ranked judge of the three. This is the first time I've done psephological judicial research in my ~life!

My modest proposal to gerrymander the US hasn't gotten any traction. I tried... Graduation Mexican lunch for Nephew #2... Received my unaffiliated ballot yesterday. All judicial. ...