From the article …

On March 23rd, as Mr Imamoglu was being moved to a maximum-security prison on the city’s outskirts, the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) staged a primary election to confirm him as its candidate in the next presidential elections, scheduled for 2028. It was open to all voters, not just CHP members. The party said 15m Turks took part.

… and …

Meral, a housewife, joined the protests with her daughter, a university student. “This is not about Imamoglu or the CHP,” she says. “This is because our right to vote and to be elected is being taken away.”

Paywalled.

Some info about that …

https://lemmy.world/post/26711096/15639879

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Man, this current age of AI really sucks.

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From the article …

GNOME sysadmin Bart Piotrowski shared on Mastodon that only about 3.2 percent of requests (2,690 out of 84,056) passed their challenge system, suggesting the vast majority of traffic was automated.

Some info about that …

https://lemmy.world/post/26711096/15639879

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From the article …

Sgt. William Carney, a member of the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry Regiment, was the first Black American to earn the Medal of Honor.

Denzel Washington reenacted the heroics of Sgt. William Carney in the movie “Glory.” The Pentagon removed a story about him for DEI reasons.

Would love to hear what Denzel Washington would say about this.

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Allot of ‘mistakes’ are being made lately.

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From the article …

A Yale source said the US state department deleted the evidence which would have been used as part of rescue efforts to get the children home to Ukraine. It would also have been used to prosecute those behind their abductions – including Russian president Vladimir Putin.

”It is unclear whether it was by accident or intent, but it may reveal or it may cause potential criminal liability for the Trump administration, given international prohibitions against the destruction of war crimes evidence,” the Yale insider told The Independent.

Ukraine is supposed to give up control of its children.

Ukraine is supposed to give up control of its land.

Ukraine is supposed to give up control of its minerals.

Ukraine is supposed to give up control of its power plants.

Is Ukraine a nation, or not?

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Per CNN (per US Agency for Global Media), number of regular listeners, in millions, of VoA…

• Indonesia 64.8
• Nigeria 37.4
• Mexico 37.1
• India 29.1
• Iran 12.2
• Peru 11.9
• Russia 10.1
• Ukraine 9.8
• Iraq 9.3
• Egypt 9.0

https://lemmy.world/post/26747005/15669505

So if the cops then again identified themselves without screaming bloody murder, she may have dropped the knife.

She knew who they were already.

I still lay the blame for all of it at cops’ feet where it belongs. They carry guns and ‘legally’ murder far too many people, then far too often lie about it, for me to give them the benefit of doubt.

Im speaking towards this specific one event, and not all police situations in general.

Hate for hate’s sake is not beneficial to society (either side).

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when she abruptly grabbed a butcher knife from a bedside table and moved toward the officers

To be fair, she didn’t have any weapon in her hand, so the officer may have not had a higher risk estimate of her, so he/she allowed themself to get into a cornered position, while trying to figure out what she’s about.

It sounds like he/she was startled, and then when cornered, acted aggressively, out of instinct.

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As someone who used to listen to a lot of shortwave radio, this just bums me out.

I know foreign people who listened to VoA, and now it won’t be there anymore for them.

Makes me wonder who they’ll listen to, who will fill the void, with the VoA being gone.

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From the article …

U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued an order Saturday blocking the deportations but lawyers told him there were already two planes with immigrants in the air — one headed for El Salvador, the other for Honduras. Boasberg verbally ordered the planes be turned around, but they apparently were not and he did not include the directive in his written order.

Steve Vladeck, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, said that Boasberg’s verbal directive to turn around the planes was not technically part of his final order but that the Trump administration clearly violated the “spirit” of it.

“This just incentivizes future courts to be hyper specific in their orders and not give the government any wiggle room,” Vladeck said.

Honestly, not surprising.

They’re bending the system as far as they can, and sometimes even breaking it, if they can get away with it.

If you give them an out, they’ll take it.

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From the article…

Surprisingly, premium paid versions of these AI search tools fared even worse in certain respects. Perplexity Pro ($20/month) and Grok 3’s premium service ($40/month) confidently delivered incorrect responses more often than their free counterparts.

Though these premium models correctly answered a higher number of prompts, their reluctance to decline uncertain responses drove higher overall error rates.

Hearing Trump talk about how the car has ‘computer’ (during the news conference) made me think back to a news event with George H.W. Bush in a supermarket, seeing a grocery barcode scanner for the first time.

Same kind of inquisitive and excited response from both of them.

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From the article …

And, though newly retired, he knew that he had to do something. He showed up at EFF’s front door in early 2006 with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?” We did. And what Mark told us changed everything.

The article is a good read, short. Worth your time.

And Mr. Klein, if you’re out there, thank you for your service. /heart-to-chest-salute

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