NEW: #Georgia judge rejects the RNC's request to require Fulton County to hire additional Republican poll workers for Election Day. democracydocket.com/news-alert…
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Update on the train station accident in Serbia, from civil engineer and decentralization activist Danijel Dašić. It seems that they added large steel panels and glass onto an existing construction anchored into a reinforced concrete awning. Which ultimately gave way. If this is true, it would be a huge problem for anyone who signed off on it.
warning: X/twitter link
The company which reconstructed the awning appears to be Energoprojekt. Once a well respected Yugoslav company, it has since been privatized and owned by controversial businessman Dobroslav Bojović.
A little more about him:
serbia-business.eu/new-owner-o…
Lisbeth, from Sweden, writes that most of her #nonfiction reading involves historical topics.
#nonficnov24 #Bookstodon #nonfiction #reading #BookBlogger
Nonfiction November 2024 - week one
thecontentreader.com/post/nonf…
The initial batches will be shipped in late November at the earliest.
arstechnica.com/health/2024/11…
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Susanna Clarke's new story is very good, with gorgeous illustrations by Victoria Sawdon. A bit pricey for such a small book, but would make a great gift for the right person.
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Will people stop preemptively giving in to fascism???
The head archivist at the National Archives reportedly ordered the removal of references to Martin Luther King Jr., the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, the government’s displacement of Indigenous tribes, union organizers, birth control, and more, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Shogan and her advisors have reportedly raised concerns that upcoming exhibits and educational displays might anger Republican lawmakers who control the agency's budget or a potential Donald Trump administration.
#USPol #History #Fascism
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Episodio 35: Salix
In Elon Musk's "election integrity" community on X, false claims proliferate (Julia Ingram/CBS News)
cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-ele…
memeorandum.com/241101/p92#a24…
White House altered Biden transcript (Eli Stokols/Politico)
politico.com/news/2024/11/01/w…
memeorandum.com/241101/p91#a24…
How “truly random” is `set.pop()` in #Python. The docs say: »Remove […] an arbitrary element from the set.«
How arbitrary is arbitrary? I guess the elements are arranged in the set’s tree structure by their hash(), so it all depends on that hash function, right?
I want to randomly remove half of the entries of a set.
```python
# This seems more correct 🧑🏫
s = {el for el in s if getrandbits(1)}
# But this is a mu faster 🥺
for _ in range(s // 2):
s.pop()
```
MOLDAVIE, GÉORGIE, BRICS : L'EUROPE NE FAIT PLUS RECETTE
#géopolitique #propagande #désinformation
Quand l'UE promet 1,8 milliards 10 jours avant les élections en Moldavie, ce n'est pas de "l'ingérence" ou une tentative d'influencer le vote. Quand les partisans de l'UE contestent le résultat des élections en Géorgie, ce ne sont pas des "putschistes" comme le 6 janvier 2021 à Washington...
The Arizona Attorney General is investigating whether Donald Trump violated Arizona State law by making a "death threat" against former Congresswoman Liz Cheney.
Donald Trump said that Liz Cheney "is a very dumb individual, very dumb. She's a radical war hawk. Let's put her… t.co/xQbpX0fJP6
oh no 😬
too many people are resetting their password, I can't deliver more welcome emails.
I'll just wait a bit 😅
FBI says Georgia voter fraud video is Russian disinformation.
The video, which was shared on X, showed someone claiming to be from Haiti with several IDs that they were purportedly going to use to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in multiple Georgia counties.
The FBI says this video was created by “Russian influence actors” to “undermine trust in the integrity of the election and divide Americans.”
SaanichGuy 🇨🇦🇨🇦
in reply to Laffy • • •what kind of crazy laws & process are these?
In Canada, Federal poll workers are non partisan. All take training And get paid.
Observers from the political parties are volunteers! Up to the parties to get the poll watchers there. Can only watch and cannot take part in polling process.
David Penington
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