WTF, #Sisi pardoned #Alaa Ahmed Seif El-Islam Abd el-Fattah‽ And now he’s free! #news #politics #Egypt
#news that 13 people, including 8 children, killed by unattributed explosive #drones at a birthday party in #Haiti. “The explosions happened Saturday night in Cité Soleil, which is controlled by Viv Ansanm, a powerful gang coalition that the U.S. has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
One of its leaders, Jimmy Chérizier, best known as Barbecue, vowed to avenge the attacks, with a total of at least 13 people killed, according to residents.
“This is my daughter,” said Claudia Bobrun, 30, as she showed the AP a video of her 8-year-old girl lying in a pool of blood. (...) Meanwhile, Nanouse Mertelia, 37, said she was inside her house on Saturday night and ran out to see what happened after hearing an explosion. Her son had left their home several minutes earlier to get something to eat.
She found him on the ground, his leg and arm blown off.
“Come get me, come get me, please mama,” she said he told her, but he had lost too much blood. “By the time we got to the hospital, he died.”
Haiti’s National Human Rights Defense Network accused police of launching two exploding drones in the Simon Pelé community of Cité Soleil as suspected gang leader Albert Steevenson, known as Djouma, prepared to celebrate his birthday. (...) “It has now been 48 hours since the incident, and the authorities have yet to issue any official communication or assume public responsibility. Who, ultimately, will assume responsibility for this attack: The prime minister? The transitional presidential council? Private security companies? The leadership of Haiti National Police?” he asked. (...) Activists noted that a similar operation involving explosive drones in downtown Port-au-Prince killed at least eleven civilians earlier this month.
The human rights group said several gang members have been killed in drone attacks since March.
A new task force created earlier this year has operated outside the oversight of Haiti’s National Police and employed the use of explosive drones. The task force was made up of certain police units and private contractors.” I don’t know why it couldn’t be a non-Viv-Ansanm gang?
#EU signs a free-trade agreement with #Indonesia. #politics #news
”NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a “Who’s Who” where a noted person’s curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such as date of birth, a biography, and other essential facts.)
But it mostly exists to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious. A person’s otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by examining the crowd that person has been associating with.” Covers about 40,000 people; seems to be abandoned since 02021.
#Haiti gang alliance Viv Ansanm
#Veritasium #video about rubber #materials and their #history, and the risk of the South American Leaf Blight
IEEE Spectrum’s list of top programming languages: Python (100%), Java (50%), C++ (37%), SQL (33%), C# (29%), JS (29%), TypeScript (28%), C (28%), shell (21%), Golang (19%), R (18%), PHP (16%), Kotlin (13%), Rust (13%), Dart (13%), Swift (12%), Ruby (12%), HTML (11%), Objective-C (10%), Matlab (10%), Lua, Perl, assembly, CUDA, Solidity, SAS, Apex (?), Scala, Arduino, Haskell, Julia, Fortran, LabView, Visual Basic, ABAP, Groovy, Verilog, Prolog, WebAssembly, OCaml, Mathematica, COBOL, Elixir, Tcl, Ada, VHDL, D, Lisp, Pascal, Raku, Clojure, Erlang. Pretty clueless; they got the capitalization wrong on a lot of them, and they listed HTML as a programming language.
#video about #SLS #3D-printing: apparently Formlabs bought Micronics, so their US$4000 printer may never see the light of day.
Formlabs bought the Micronics #3D-printing startup “to Develop the Next Generation of Accessible #SLS”
#AvE BOLTR #video about Milwaukee Fuel fencing stapler #hardware #mechanisms, including planetary gear sets, roller clutches, etc.
#video #toread about “pretendgineers” and odometer counter #mechanisms.
#video #toread by Zack Freedman about FDM #3D-printing weird filament #materials like sinterable zirconia
#video by #Tom-Scott on personal Japanese hovercrafts made with simple tools
#video on #Maslow-CNC making a #flat-cut sauna from plywood. He seems to be using four ropes to move the router horizontally on the garage floor now. #manufacturing #toread
Joe O’Brien (#objo), the Ruby programmer who was ostracized from the Ruby community after he fired his employee after she rejected him after he sexually assaulted her in a bar, died in his sleep this week or last week.
analysis of Alizée’s pop song “J’en ai marre”, which the author argues is about masturbation
More #medicine #humor #video with #Mikhail-Varshavski but this time not totally vapid