That Mad Scientist

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26085894-25a169-order/

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

In the composite image, the remnant resembles a wispy cloud in oranges, blues, purples, and whites, shaped like a backwards letter C. The 3D model examines this cloud of interstellar material interacting with the superheated, supernova blast wave. In the 3D model, the Cygnus Loop resembles a bowl with a thick base, and a wedge cut from the side like a slice of pie. The sides of the bowl are rendered in swirled blues and greens. However, inside the thick base, revealed by the wedge-shaped cut, are streaks of red and orange. Surrounding the shape are roughly parallel thin red strands, which extend beyond the top and bottom of the digital model.

a STUNNING composite 3d model of the cygnus loop supernova remnant using x-ray and optical data!!! 🌌

Human rights crisis as ‘Trump effect’ accelerates destructive trends Undoing decades of painstaking work and endangering billions of people.

What is the State of the World’s Human Rights today?

Our report assesses 150 countries, painting a picture of a new age of rising authoritarian practices and a disregard for international law. Read for yourself 👇

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

BREAKING NEWS: Look at this otter.

La barre n'est pas bien haute...

Capture d'écran du tweet cité, à savoir : https://twitter.com/franceinfo/status/1913486584067817832

C'est le député qui disait que les SDF dorment dans la rue par choix. Et visiblement il veut donner ce choix à encore plus de monde.

“The War on Science”

Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.

YALL, THE TITLE!!

Palestine is the litmus test of our age.

Emmanuel Macron déclare que « chaque jour devrait être un 8 mars » à l’occasion de la journée internationale des droits des femmes

T’as envoyé des flics tabasser des femmes dans leur propre manif pour protéger un défilé fasciste de quoi tu nous parles ?

The list of words the Trump administration has banned from research grants is even longer than the lists I’ve seen online. Here are screenshots of the words confirmed by the NYTimes and listed in this article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.

III. CONCLUSION For the foregoing reasons, the Court GRANTS IN PART and DENIES IN PART Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, Dkt. No. 169, and ORDERS as follows: 1. Defendants? and all their respective officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and any person in active concert or participation with them who receives actual notice of this Order (collectively, the "Enjoined Parties"), are hereby fully enjoined from enforcing or implementing Section 4 of Executive Order 14,187 within the Plaintiff States. 2. The Enjoined Parties are hereby fully enjoined from enforcing Sections 3(e) or 3(g) of Executive Order 14,168 to condition or withhold federal funding based on the fact that a health care entity or health professional provides gender-affirming care within the Plaintiff States. 3. Defendants' attorneys shall provide written notice of this Order to all Defendants and agencies and their employees, contractors, and grantees by March 6, 2025. Defendants shall file a copy of the notice on the docket at the same time. 4. This preliminary injunction remains in effect pending further orders from this Court.

BREAKING: Federal judge issues preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of parts of two of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders (orders defining “sex” and restricting gender-affirming medical care) in Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, and Oregon.

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...

The Department has long recognized that (highlighting) the biological differences between females and males require sex-specific practices (end highlighting) in medicine and research to ensure optimal health outcomes and rigorous research, including by considering sex as a biological variable.

Thus we see a statement that "biological differences" require "sex-specific practices" in medicine which will, I predict, be broadly used to enforce gendered practices of all kinds under the banner of "health".

This is the topsy-turvy place that this definition takes us to, where a hypothetical (and in practice undecideable) purpose of the body can be deemed to be "objective biology" whereas the actual physical state of a body is declared irrelevant.

The sex of a human, female or male, is determined genetically at conception (fertilization), and is observable before birth. (Highlighting) Having the biological function to produce eggs or sperm does not require that eggs or sperm are ever produced. Some females or males may not or may no longer produce eggs or sperm due to factors such as age, congenital disorders or other developmental conditions, injury, or medical conditions that cause infertility.(End highlighting)

The definition of sex put forwarded on this page, however, thinks that biological structures inherently have purposes.

Thus it stipulates that even if a body does not function to produce gametes, it *ought* to.

This is, at core, scientifically illiterate...

... which was the central insight that Darwin had.

There is no design in biology. Evolution is blind, and does not design towards goals: there is no teleology in biology.

When we say an organ has a function, what we are characterizing is simply what it *does*, not what it is *supposed* to do...

by the way, the claim that pronouns are "sex-based" and "biological" is no more credible than claiming "men prefer football and women prefer shopping" is "sex-based" and "biological." language is social: the claim about pronouns is no less a gender norm.

Violences à Bétharram : Emmanuel Macron apporte toute sa «confiance» à François Bayrou

Violences à Bétharram : Emmanuel Macron apporte toute sa «confiance» à François Bayrou

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Là ça va devenir très très très compliqué pour Bayrou. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

États-Unis : une censure conservatrice "sans précédent" prive les écoles de milliers de livres Les États-Unis subissent une vague inédite d'interdictions de livres ciblant principalement les ouvrages destinés à la jeunesse abordant les sujets de genre, racisme, ou les questions LGBTQ+. La récen...

Des milliers de livres mentionnant l'existence des LGBT+ ou sensibilisant contre le racisme sont retirés des bibliothèques des écoles aux États-Unis.
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Parce que, eux, ils ont un plan, et il va leur permettre de s'enraciner. J'apporte juste de la nuance, vu l'obsession sur les OE sur le groenland ou le golfe d'amérique etc... qui sont purement et simplement une distraction.

En d'autres termes: trump lui-même et son petit cercle (bon, peut-être vance) n'est pas ncessairement l'acteur principal, c'est juste un véhicule du fascisme. Une porte d'entrée. Mais ça veut aussi dire que, potentiellement, il y a encore de la latitude pour faire face au vrai danger.

Réponse un peu tardive, mais: je parle de la stratégie de la firehose. Les petites pièces qui arrivent du p2025 et l'érosion des institutions est un autre sujet. C'est d'ailleurs sur ça que l'on doit se concentrer. Le premier vrai gros truc est arrivé entretemps, et c'est doge+usaid.

Amazon Prime streamer screen showing description for Dog Day Afternoon “a man takes mistakes at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.”

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

Bien sûr. Mais il n'y a pas de fil conducteur. Le but est simplement la destruction aveugle.

Executive Order : "Eradicating anti-christian bias"

Le mot "chrétien" induit en erreur et doit être remplacé par "Fondamentalisme protestant et intégralisme catholique". Quand la révérende Mariann Edgar Budde s'est exprimée, Trump et sa clique n'avaient aucun mal à manifester leurs préjugés anti-chrétiens (de gauche) 🤷‍♂️

A line graph depicting the average number of days it took to install a gigawatt of solar energy capacity worldwide from 2001 to 2023. The vertical axis represents the number of days on a logarithmic scale, spanning from 1 to 1000 days. The horizontal axis indicates the years from 2001 to 2023. In 2004, the average time was about 1 year, which is marked on the graph. A downward trend shows significant decreases in installation time over the years. By 2010, it took under 30 days, and by 2015, just over 7 days. The most notable point is in 2023, where it dropped to about 1 day on average for installation. The data source is attributed to IRENA (2024), with calculation by Our World in Data, and the chart is identified as CC BY, indicating it is licensed for sharing and adaptation with appropriate credit.

In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day

La stratégie jusqu'à présent semble être de faire plein de trucs comme ça au pif pour faire effet avalanche. Mais c'est complétement bête et méchant à part ça. C'est pas non plus une excellente nouvelle, mais c'est mieux que s'ils avaient une vraie orientation executive.

Prendre le pouvoir ils savent faire. En fait c'est même à peu près LE truc qu'ils savent faire. Faire des trucs avec le pouvoir c'est autre chose. Bien sûr ils peuvent l'utiliser pour exercer la violence d'état en général, mais en termes d'organisation ça ne va pas de soi.