Hasnain says:

“Conservatives will never stop trying to take away the right of nonwhite citizens to vote. That has been their unyielding position since the end of the Civil War. You can have a free and fair democracy, or you can have conservatives in control of the judiciary, but the history of this country says that you can’t have both. “

Hasnain says:

“The case had pitted the interest of charities to maintain the privacy of their donors against the states' interest in policing charitable fraud.”

Hasnain says:

Voting reform is desperately needed at a federal level, though I’m not sure how successful it can be if the courts strike things down like this.

“At the same time, GOP lawyers defending the laws candidly admitted during the oral argument in the case, that the Republican legislature's motive in enacting the Arizona voting restrictions was less anti-fraud and more political.

Not having such restrictions "puts us at a competitive disadvantage," said lawyer Michael Carvin, on behalf of the GOP. " Politics is a zero sum game, and every law they get through an unlawful interpretations of Section 2 hurts us."”

Hasnain says:

“Intuit is perfectly capable of making usable websites – but more importantly, they are criminally capable of making unusable websites. They are infamous for it.

If Intuit wanted to make a CTC enrolment website that ensured that the parents of children living in poverty could find and use it, they could. Moreover, when Intuit builds websites that deprives people of the service they're entitled to, it's deliberate.”

Hasnain says:

This is some pretty cool distributed systems stuff.

“If you're scaling out Postgres instead of scaling it up, there's a good chance you're doing it because you want to scale your application geographically. That's why people use Fly.io; it's our whole premise. We do some lifting to make sure that running an app close to your users on Fly.io doesn't involve a lot of code changes. This strategy, of exploiting our proxy to steer database writes, is sort of in keeping with that idea.”

Hasnain says:

Big yikes here. Looks like the police confiscated 5000lbs of fireworks and for some reason tried to safely detonate them in the same neighborhood (tv cameras recorded them on the scene saying “fire in the hole!”) and then it blew up, injuring people.

The passive voice from LATimes on Twitter is something else - as is the early reporting from Fox where they first gleefully talk about the seizure of illegal fireworks and then after it blew up called them “homemade explosives”.

“Officers found several thousand pounds of fireworks and other improvised explosive devices, Im said. The fireworks were to be put in storage, and officials had planned to explode the improvised devices at the scene because they were too unstable to move.”

Hasnain says:

This is the first I’m hearing of this story, and… wow. Interesting read on internet mobs, sci-fi, transphobia, and the human experience. And a terrible situation at heart.

“I believe the story’s detractors were hurt by the title or some of the content or the very idea of the story. I believe they truly feel that trans stories should only be written by trans people and that Fall should have had to out herself before publishing. I believe they believe — still — that they did the right thing.

They still destroyed a woman’s life.”

Hasnain says:

“Mr McCoy said: “Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? Yes. Did we hide our science? Absolutely not. Did we join some of these shadow groups to work against some of the early efforts? Yes, that’s true. But there’s nothing, there’s nothing illegal about that.

“We were looking out for our investments. We were looking out for our shareholders.””

Hasnain says:

siiiiiiigh.

The legal system works in mysterious ways. I understand he got off on a technicality here and people have a right to fair representation, but at the same time victims have a right to justice that I think should take precedent. If I am reading this right, he is immune from further prosecution here, which does not seem like justice.

"But the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said that District Attorney Kevin Steele, who made the decision to arrest Cosby, was obligated to stand by his predecessor’s promise not to charge Cosby. There was no evidence that promise was ever put in writing."

Hasnain says:

And they coerced other people to testify against him despite their pleading. I’m glad he was released but there will never be justice here - especially while the cops and prosecutors here are not charged.

“The DA’s search of the police file yielded extensive undisclosed documents, including a failed polygraph test, a statement from Everett’s wife that he had identified a different perpetrator, and an undated letter from Everett to a homicide detective, seeking help in exchange for information.”