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Well everyone, the day is finally upon us! I know it's only April, and I'm only a couple listens in, but Inferi's already gonna be pretty hard to unseat for AOTY for me.

• Archspire - Too Fast to Die (CAN-BC)
• Inferi - Heaven Wept (USA-TN)
• Oppressor God - Veil of Shadows [EP] (USA-AZ)
• Tethys - The Antikytherium (USA-CO) (NB: Inferi's vocalist, Stevie Boiser <3)

With all these pics from the Artemis, including ones from the earth; why don't we see any satellites and other stuff that circles the earth? Are they too small to see at these distances? Still, i would expect some of them to at least glint in the sunlight.

Update; thanks for confirming it's indeed that they are too small to see. Also, i didn't think of the pixels, good point.

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking Massachusetts’ state voter rolls, marking the latest setback in a wide-ranging effort by the Trump administration to collect detailed data on the nation’s voters.

The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Leo Sorokin marks at least the fifth time a judge has rejected similar attempts by the Justice Department. Sorokin, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said the U.S. attorney general’s office did not take the necessary steps required to access voter rolls, as outlined in federal law.

“Put simply, the statute requires a statement of why the Attorney General demands production of the requested records,” Sorokin wrote. That statement has to be factual, “not just a conceivable or possible basis.”

Great Lakes region, USA. April 2026.

Finally a decent day in the 50°F range. A ton of birds are back and the insects are out. My first butterfly of the year is a beautiful Compton Tortoiseshell perfectly matching its environment. I'm so stoked for spring!

So we met on VampireFreaks back when it was a social media site back in 2012? 2013? We were both in high school and I was a massive webcam he at the time. He had competition however he was the only one that pursued me on other platforms like Facebook. We've been in and out of each other's inboxes ever since. We only met IRL three times because distance but at least it was never 3000 miles. Unfortunately I think most of the time he was high and/or drunk but that's on him for hitting on a fat! js I just wish things could have been different because on paper, we 're really compatible but I chose to stay with the crappy dudes I was with at the time. I kinda regret it but maybe it isn't meant to be but that's the thing, if he keeps shutting me out neither one of us will ever know! Regardless of how things turn.out, I'll still have him in my thoughts and prayers. Unfortunately I give a s**!

The Famitsu data includes several days before the unwelcome announcement. Even so, buyers are already shying away from PlayStation consoles that are straining wallets . The PS5 with optical drive moved 558 units, down from 2,801 sold the week before. Not faring any better, adoption of the Pro went from 4,662 to 840.

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota are being forced to turn over critical information on the shooting of Renee Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross in relation to a separate case involving Ross.

Prosecutors have until May 1 to provide a slew of records, including Ross’s personnel file, to a magistrate judge to review and determine which files should be released. The materials could shine light on the killing of Good, an observer who died after Ross shot her during a January 7 confrontation amid a monthslong immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.

The order came in response to a motion from the defense attorneys for Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala, a man who Ross attempted to apprehend in a separate confrontation in June. After Ross broke a window in Muñoz-Guatemala’s car and fired his Taser, Muñoz-Guatemala drove away and was later convicted of dragging Ross with his car.

Muñoz-Guatemala’s defense attorney Eric Newmark praised the ruling as key to defending the rights of his client, but also important for public understanding of what transpired in the shooting of Good.

“My client is entitled to a full hearing and to review these documents to determine whether there’s any basis for a new trial,” Newmark told The Intercept. “Ultimately, we’re seeking dismissal of the charges against my client. This information is important because it will help me provide a full and complete defense.”

Beyond mounting an argument for a new trial or a reduced sentence, Newmark said the information could provide crucial information on Good’s death to Minnesotans hungry for answers.

“As Minnesotans, we’re frustrated with the apparent lack of a full investigation, the lack of prosecution, and the lack of federal cooperation with local authorities,” Newmark said.

In addition to Ross’s personnel and training file, the order issued Thursday in Minnesota federal court by Judge Jeffrey M. Bryan commands prosecutors to turn over records of statements Ross made in the 60 minutes before and during his shooting of Good; records of statements by Ross and other federal officials; witness statements regarding the Good killing; medical records pertaining to Ross’s fitness for duty; cell data that might have been extracted from Ross’s phone; body-worn camera footage of the incident; and more.

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Muñoz-Guatemala’s case rose to prominence in January when Ross’s identity as the shooter of Renee Good came to light, in part because both incidents involved Ross confronting a civilian in a car. Ross, a deportation officer based in the ICE field office in St. Paul, was attempting to detain Muñoz-Guatemala during a traffic stop on June 17, when Muñoz-Guatemala attempted to drive away. In the process, he dragged Ross, who had his arm thrust into the window, according to court records.

On December 12, a jury found Muñoz-Guatemala guilty of one count of assault on a federal officer. After Ross’s killing of Good was revealed, Newmark, Muñoz-Guatemala’s attorney, submitted a request for post-conviction discovery, arguing that the facts of the Good case could be grounds for a new trial or support a lesser sentence for his client.

“Even if this Court ultimately determines that Defendant is not entitled to a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, he must still be sentenced,” Newmark wrote. “Given the recklessness of Ross’ decision to step in front of Good’s vehicle, the violence he showed by continuing to shoot at a vehicle that was passing harmlessly by, and the extreme callousness he displayed after it should have been clear that he either killed Good or injured her terribly, it would be reasonable to assume he presented similar danger to Defendant in June of 2025. However, without the full investigative file, Defendant cannot make that conclusion.”

If prosecutors comply with the order, the materials will not immediately be made public. The materials will go first to a magistrate judge who will determine their relevance to the defense team’s case and perform any necessary redactions before handing it over to the defense. At that point, Muñoz-Guatemala’s team would be able to review the material and use it as needed to mount a bid for a new trial or to present as mitigating factors warranting a reduced sentence. Barring a protective order sealing the information, whatever materials submitted as mitigation by the defense could then become a matter of public record.

“This judge is effectively doing the investigation that the United States has turned its back on.”

“This judge is effectively doing the investigation that the United States has turned its back on,” said Shauna Kieffer, a defense attorney in Minneapolis.

But Kieffer, who is not party to the case, expressed reservations about premature celebration of the transparency the order could provide.

“I think because this order is so thoughtful and it’s legally sound, that I think there’s a strong chance that the government will dismiss this case if they’re forced to go forward with complying with the order,” she said.

In a statement to The Intercept, Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., joined the calls for transparency.

“I am glad to see this case finally moving into discovery, but let’s be honest — it should never have taken this long to get here,” said Balint. “Renee Good’s family has been forced to wait for answers while DHS and ICE closed ranks. That’s not how justice works in a healthy democracy. Her family deserves full transparency and accountability, and Americans need to see our government protect them and not just those in power.”

Spokespersons for the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s office and the Hennepin County District Attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This is a developing story.

The post Government Ordered to Turn Over Files on ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good appeared first on The Intercept.

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TLDR; If you're looking for great engineering and best-practices... you should move away now. I'm creating a solution to a problem that nobody (including myself) has. I'm working with module federation between multiple cloud-providers to create an app that can use interoperable modules from multiple sources.

I have a webapp that I deploy with aws-cdk. It's a static webapp that I have on on S3.

AWS-cdk works as expected, but now id would like to investigate a multicloud deployment. Using something like pulumi or terraform (but not limited to those)

Most vendors have something like S3 and so I would like to have something that can deploy to multiple cloud vendors simultaneously.

In that approach, I would like an exhaustive number of vendor providers. I don't just want the top vendors like aws, gcloud, azure... But I'm looking for something that can also handle providers over seas like Alibaba cloud, Kamatera and I'm sure many I haven't heard of.

My project only needs something like S3 (static server) so I don't expect that being exhaustive in providers would be too expensive.

Im looking for something like terraform or pulumi, but I haven't user either enough to settle on one. When deploying to the S3 equivilent, i dont want it to deploy to either GCloud or Azure... i want it to be able to deploy to both.

(aws-cdk is handling things like the TLD so i think i'll have to stick with that setup.)

To provide more context about what I'm trying to do, I created a webapp that uses webpack module federation. (see my profile for more details)

The aim is for a resilient infrastructure. S3 is not expected to fail, but in a multicloud approach, if any cloud provider has issues, i want there to already be multiple redundancies in place.

I deploy the same app on gh-pages and aws-s3. Its set it up in a way that it can interoperate with statics from aws-s3 or gh-pages. It works as expected.

https://positive-intentions.com/blog/statics-as-a-chat-app-infrastructure#module-federation-in-action

I'd like to scale that up further, so the next level after that is to have something that can deploy to multiple cloud providers.

(Unrelated but worth mentioning: i will also be adding SRI on those imported static files to make sure they have a content-hash that matches expectations. I wont have to "trust" that the providers are serving the correct statics.)

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/50263861

Taiwanese officials are tracking what they view as a worrying rise in Chinese naval activity and military pressure against the island, even as ​Beijing presses a message of peace and cooperation in meetings with Taiwan's opposition leader.

"China is continuously and persistently expanding its military capabilities, and the military threat it poses to us is becoming increasingly severe," Taiwan Defence Minister Wellington Koo told lawmakers on Thursday amid ​anger among the ruling party over the decision by members of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) to skip talks on stalled defence-spending.

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Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun said on April 9 in Shanghai in a plea for peace, as government lawmakers in Taipei expressed anger at her party for skipping crucial defence budget talks.

Ms Cheng, chairwoman of Taiwan’s largest opposition party Kuomintang (KMT), is in China on what she has called a “peace” mission to lessen tensions at a time when Beijing has stepped up military pressure against the island it calls its own.

China refuses to talk to Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, saying he is a “separatist”. Mr Lai’s administration has called on Ms Cheng to tell China to stop its threats, and says Beijing should engage with the democratically elected government in Taipei.

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In Taipei, lawmakers from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) condemned the KMT for skipping talks in Parliament on how to progress with stalled plans to spend an extra US$40 billion (S$51 billion) on defence.

“Don’t intentionally put this off because of the meeting with Xi Jinping tomorrow. Don’t link this to the Chinese communists,” said the DPP’s Mr Chen Kuan-ting, who is joint head of the defence and foreign affairs committee.

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Panel 1. While walking on a path in nature, a young fantasy adventurer with a fairy with pink hair, suddenly looks at the floor at a golden shiny detail crossing their way:

Pink-fairy: "Stop! A Golden Twenty Dice!"
Adventurer: "A what?..."

Panel 2. Shot on the fairy landing on the grass near to a golden scarab pushing a d20 golden dice.

Pink-fairy: "A scarab rolling fate! We could take his dice and roll our own fortune. Last time a twenty turned a farmer into a lord!"

Panel 3. The adventurer kneels down near the fairy and scarab, really curious now. The fairy is super happy and exited.

Pink-fairy: "A moment like this comes only once in a lifetime! Please, please, please, let me try!"
Adventurer: "Mmm.. Ok. Why not."

Panel 4. The adventurer runs for his life while the pink fairy is grabbing him to follow his motion. She is very embarassed, and him feels anger and frustration in this emergency run. A lightning strike near them and burns the floor, a crack on the floor appears, a furious dragon runs after them and try to bite them, and a meteor is about to fall on them.

Adventurer: "Of course you rolled a one!"
Pink-fairy: (in small) "Sorry..."

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