Australia’s Steady March Towards Space https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/australias-steady-march-towards-space/ #CurrentEvents #gilmourspace #hybridrocket #spaceprogram #OriginalArt #Australia #Featured #Interest #rocket #Space #orbit

Have you ever tried the distro called CachyOS?
#linux #distro #linuxgaming #cachyos #experience #interest

Software in the Public Interest, Inc.: Empowering Open Source Projects Through Legal and Financial Support

Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to support the development and distribution of free and open-source software (FOSS) and hardware.

Read More: https://machaddr.substack.com/p/software-in-the-public-interest-inc

Looking for a #Home Abroad? The Top 10 #Cities for #American #Expats.

#Interest in #Americans #moving #abroad surged in the two days after #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump won this year's #presidential #election.

— Please note: Several of these locations would not be considered LGBTQ Friendly

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Immigration #PoliticalAsylum #Travel #Tourism #PinkTourism

https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/looking-for-a-home-abroad-the-top-10-cities-for-19908947.php

Is there some FRED-type tool that can give me a time series graph of historical value of (poverty threshold divided by risk free rate) or by some reasonable proxy for risk free rate, such as whichever US bond rate is supposed to be a proxy for that.

#FRED #interest #finance #perpetuity #retirement

Another Good Inflation Report:

Inflation Has Been Beaten,
A Soft Landing Achieved

- The main gauge of inflation, the #Consumer #Price #Index,
came in at 0.2% for July and 2.9% over the past 12 months.

Food prices have only increased 1.1% over the past year
-- far below the wage gains of workers.

Over the past six months inflation has averaged 2.0% -- ️which is the target rate the Fed has been shooting for.

As we’ve been saying here these last few weeks inflation, a global phenomenon, has been tamed here in the US and a #soft #landing achieved.

It is time for the Fed to #cut #interest #rates and start easing up on consumers.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/inflation-has-been-tamed-and-we-need

Elon #Musk’s #judge-#shopping attempt to get back at advertisers has #failed.

The CEO of X (formerly Twitter) is trying to sue a coalition of advertisers who he claims conspired against the social networking site by refusing to buy advertisements.

Reed #OConnor, a federal judge in the northern district of Texas, #recused himself from the lawsuit Tuesday after NPR reported that he owns stock in #Tesla, another one of Musk’s companies.

Musk appears to have chosen the northern district because it is a favorite of conservatives,
as almost all of its judges have been appointed by Republicans,
even though the case has little, if anything, to do with #Texas.

O’Connor has a reputation for giving the right the rulings they are looking for.

For example, he has repeatedly tried to gut or eliminate the #Affordable #Care #Act,
popularly known as Obamacare,
even going after HIV drugs and cancer screenings.

NPR’s report found that O’Connor owns between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of Tesla stock,
which gives the appearance of a #conflict #of #interest and ultimately seems to have led to O’Connor’s recusal.

But while that will delay the advertiser lawsuit, O’Connor is still presiding over a different Musk lawsuit against #Media #Matters, filed in November,
accusing the liberal media watchdog of defaming X by pointing out the rise in #hate #speech on the site.

https://newrepublic.com/post/184851/elon-musk-loses-judge-lawsuit-x-twitter-advertisers

When a New York judge appointed Yvonne Murphy to take over the care of Martin Chorost in late 2011,

the 63-year-old had diabetes, dementia and a constellation of other maladies.

️He also had #assets worth more than $800,000, which were put at his #guardian’s disposal.

Murphy immediately tapped them
to hire Beacon Eldercare,
which billed itself as “the leading health care assistance firm in Queens,” to provide him with round-the-clock aides.

As it turned out, it was also Murphy’s own private business.

Over the ensuing years, Murphy transferred between $80,000 and $100,000 annually
from Chorost’s accounts to Beacon while, separately,
she collected tens of thousands of dollars from him in guardianship fees.

Before long, the arrangement sparked a complaint from the court examiner charged with reviewing Murphy’s work.

“I believe that the dual roles of guardian and CEO of the agency creates the possibility and potential for a #conflict #of #interest to exist,”
the court examiner wrote in June 2015.

A court clerk underlined the words “conflict of interest” and drew a star in the margin next to them.

https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-guardian-yvonne-murphy-beacon-eldercare-judges

#Reenactment of 1st #gay #rights #picket at #WhiteHouse drew #interest of #tourists

The #men were dressed in #suits and #ties and the #women in #dresses in keeping with a 1960s era #dresscode #policy for #protests of the #MattachineSociety of #WashingtonDC., the city’s first #gay #rights #group that #organized the 1965 #event

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #WashingtonDC #Activism #History #RainbowHistoryProject #Representation #Culture

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/04/18/picket-reenactment-white-house/

Inflation down to 3.4%.... now we can look forward to BoE/MPC saying:

we need to wait until the dip in inflation is confirmed;

Its not inflation we're *really* worried about its... [insert issue of their choice];

Its still not down to target so reducing interest rates would be premature & not prudent;

or, of course, all three...

But if you think interest rates are going down any time soon, you haven't got the measure of the Sado-monetarists of Threadneedle St.

#inflation #interest rates

#Transgender #Kansans #appeal #courtorder #blocking #changes to #DriversLicense #gendermarkers.

“The #court has decided that the #state’s #administrative #interest #outweighs the #threat of #harassment, #discrimination and #violence to individual #Kansans,”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Kansas #Transitioning #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://kansasreflector.com/briefs/transgender-kansans-appeal-court-order-blocking-changes-to-drivers-license-gender-markers/

#Partisan #disagreements imperil efforts to #redress #harms of ‘#DontAskDontTell’

#Challenges come despite #bipartisan #interest in addressing the #problem

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #MilitaryService #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/02/28/partisan-disagreements-imperil-efforts-to-redress-harms-of-dont-ask-dont-tell/