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Connect with Event Organizers at DrupalCon Portland '24

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Mon, 06/05/2024 - 08:31

There are many opportunities to connect with fellow event organizers throughout the week at DrupalCon Portland 2024.

All Week

Community Events Booth
Expo Hall - #106
Visit with the EOWG board and other event organizers in the Expo Hall. Be sure to bring some of your stickers and swag to share with the community!

Monday, May 6 - 2:00 - 3:00pm

Event Organizers Roundtable BOF
Room G132, Table 1
Open discussion time for Drupal Event Organizers to gather and for others who are interested in organizing their own events or learning more about the Event Organizers Working Group.

De-jargoning Drupal – working with the community to open up Drupal’s terminology

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Mon, 06/05/2024 - 08:18

This blog post was written by Promote Drupal committee member Emma Horrell.

If you’re familiar with Drupal, you will have learned its language. You will be familiar with words like Views, Blocks and Paragraphs, and you will appreciate their respective features and functions. But for those new to Drupal, getting to grips with what words mean can mean a steep learning curve. 

The start of the Drupalisms issue

User research to improve the Drupal admin UI raised an interesting finding. When the Drupal community was asked to complete an exercise where they grouped terms from the UI into categories that made sense to them, the results showed people were unable to place some of the terms. Further investigation indicated that people weren’t sure what these outlier terms meant (and therefore they had struggled to sort them).

That 3AM Panic Attack

https://digbysblog.net/2024/05/05/that-3am-panic-attack/
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Mon, 06/05/2024 - 08:00
(Note the time he posted that. ) Trump did say it, of course: Do you think states should monitor women’s pregnancies so they can know if they’ve gotten an abortion after the ban? Trump: I think they might do that. Again, you’ll have to speak to the individual states. Look, Roe v. Wade was all about bringing it back to the states. And that was a legal, as well as possibly in the hearts of some, in the minds of some, a moral decision. But it was largely a legal decision. Every legal scholar, Democrat, Republican, and other wanted that issue back at the states. You know, Roe v. Wade was always considered very bad law. Very bad. It was a very bad issue from a legal standpoint. People were amazed it lasted as long as it did. And what I was able to do is through the choice of some very good people who frankly were very courageous, the justices it turned out to be you know, the Republican— States will decide if they’re comfortable or not—  Trump: Yeah the states—  Prosecuting women for getting abortions after the ban. But are you comfortable with it?  Trump: The states are going to say.

Drupal 7 End-of-Life is coming Jan 5, 2025

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Mon, 06/05/2024 - 07:31

On January 5th, 2025, Drupal 7 will reach its end of life at 14 years old. But don't worry! The Drupal Association and the Drupal community are here to support you in getting ready for the upgrade to Drupal 10.

What does end-of-life mean for you? 

Drupal 7 end-of-life means that the community will no longer be providing new features, bug-fixes, or security updates for Drupal 7. If you do not update before January 5th, 2025, security issues may be publicly disclosed without fixes or other support.  

A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won’t)

https://tomdispatch.com/a-middle-east-peace-that-could-happen-but-wont/
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Mon, 06/05/2024 - 07:24

The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange.  For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.  In this case, it is not only possible, but there is near universal agreement on its basic contours: a two-state settlement along the internationally recognized (pre-June 1967) borders — with “minor and mutual modifications,” to adopt official U.S. terminology before Washington departed from the international community in the mid-1970s.  The basic principles have been accepted by virtually the entire world, including the Arab states (who go on to call for full normalization of relations), the Organization of Islamic States (including Iran), and relevant non-state actors (including Hamas).  A... Read more

Hopey, Changey

https://digbysblog.net/2024/05/05/hopey-changey/
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Mon, 06/05/2024 - 06:30
Legal beagle Ryan Goodman points out that the actual trial transcript shows Hope Hicks’ final testimony is actually worse than was reported. He wrote on twitter: Trump not only communicates “it would have been bad to have that story come out before the election.” Trump also links it to Cohen hush money: “had Michael not made that payment.” I think you can see why she burst into tears a minute later. This revelation is damaging to Trump’s defense and she knew it. Hicks admits that Trump was worried about the election and backs up Cohen’s contention that Trump knew what the money was for before he reimbursed him. What’s the significance of that? Trump’s defense lawyer’s opening statement featured this: Apparently he didn’t know about this civil case (Daniels was trying to get released from her non-disclosure agreement) in which Trump and Cohen both admitted that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the hush money. I guess they might try to blame the lawyer in that case but he’s not the kind of guy you want to mess with.* Andrew Weissman writes on twitter: Why Hicks is such a devastating witness against Trump: 1.

Nothing To See Here Folks

https://digbysblog.net/2024/05/05/nothing-to-see-here-folks-6/
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Mon, 06/05/2024 - 05:00
Yes, we know to take polling with a grain of salt right now. But the media went nuts over that outlier CNN poll showing Trump ahead six points. Crickets for these two legit polls in the past week. ABC/Ipsos today: Old vs young, rural vs urban, college vs non-college, Democrat vs Republican the usual (although the inverted old vs young is a little weird but I’d guess it’s Gaza.) However, there are some interesting observations. RFK pulls more from Trump which is the second poll that shows that. Self-identified moderates are for Biden, which is good, and the battleground is definitely still in the suburbs. About those swing states? It’s a tie: And it’s a 46-45% race in the seven expected swing states, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Some other issues: Support for abortion rights remains widespread: Americans by 66-32% oppose the U.S. Supreme Court decision that did away with the constitutional right to abortion and by essentially the same margin say their own state should allow access to abortion in all or most cases.

How Israel relies on up to 1,000 Australians and other foreign fighters to carry out its war crimes

https://johnmenadue.com/war-on-gaza-how-israel-relies-on-foreign-fighters-to-ca…
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Mon, 06/05/2024 - 04:59
Thousands of people from countries around the world have joined the war against Palestinians. The US recently threatened to impose sanctions on Netzah Yehuda, an Israeli army unit established around 25 years ago to integrate ultra-Orthodox men into the military. While the prospect of sanctions against this unit might appear to be a positive development, there are concerns that the Continue reading »

Is environmental disaster inevitable? A reflection on economics and society

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Mon, 06/05/2024 - 04:58
Is capitalism capable of long term meaningful reform? This is perhaps the most import of issues to address, given that environmental disaster is becoming an inevitability under the present watch of capitalism. When reading the recent articles in P&I by Michaël Keating on the need for a different approach to understand the impact of technology Continue reading »

The food industry can’t be trusted to make the rules

https://johnmenadue.com/the-food-industry-cant-be-trusted-to-make-the-rules/
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Mon, 06/05/2024 - 04:56
In 1964, the first US Surgeon-General’s report on smoking and health was published. The tobacco industry could veto the proposed members of the committee set up to write it. Today, the idea of giving the tobacco industry power over government processes would cause outrage. Likewise, the idea of big businesses or unions setting tax policy Continue reading »

The ‘Future Made in Australia’ plan for solar panels relies on a crucial ingredient: Help from China

https://johnmenadue.com/the-future-made-in-australia-plan-for-solar-panels-reli…
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Mon, 06/05/2024 - 04:50
Twenty-three years ago, a Chinese-Australian solar scientist moved from Sydney to Wuxi to build China’s solar panel manufacturing industry from scratch, using technology developed in Australian universities. Shi Zhengrong became the world’s first clean energy billionaire, nicknamed “The Sun King”. China went on to dominate global solar panel manufacturing and, thanks to a mix of Continue reading »

He’s Not Wrong

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Mon, 06/05/2024 - 02:00
Hakeem Jeffries on the stakes This is correct. And it happens slowly at first and then all at once. If Trump wins, he will not care about getting re-elected because he will ensure that there is an “emergency” that requires the suspension of elections and his high court will back him up. He will die in office one way or another. But the far right agenda that underlies the right wing legal agenda will remain in place and they have shown that they’re willing to radically disassemble all 20th century progress (actually 19th century progress too) in pursuit of their revolutionary desire to ensure that wealth and white, male privilege remain the dominant force in American culture and politics. If Trump wins another term there is no doubt that Thomas and Alito will retire and will be replaced with the likes of Josh Hawley and JD Vance and will secure the thousand year reich.

Own Freedom, Democrats

https://digbysblog.net/2024/05/05/own-freedom-democrats/
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Mon, 06/05/2024 - 00:30
The right doesn’t “When the state says to a woman that you cannot have an abortion after six weeks, what the state is doing is seizing that woman’s womb for its own purposes,” said Carlos Lacasa. “That’s scary to me.” Lacasa is a Cuban American from South Florida, and a former Republican state representative. “Freedom-loving” Cuban Americans are keenly aware of Fidel Castro’s curtailing of freedom for Cubans and remain on high alert for state encroachments on it. That includes the freedom “to possess a firearm, even with a high-capacity magazine, or … to choose whether or not to be vaccinated in the case of a pandemic.” And to restrict a woman’s access to abortion. Lacasa backs the referendum on Florida’s November ballot to reverse the state’s ban on abortion after six weeks. It went into effect May 1 (Politico): The fate of a November referendum to reverse the six-week ban now rests largely on how many other Republicans feel abortion should be legal, even if they wouldn’t choose it for themselves.

Locking And Loading

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Sun, 05/05/2024 - 23:00
They’re ba-ack Militia groups went quiet after Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 insurrection. But not for long, Tess Owen writes at Wired: “JOIN YOUR LOCAL Militia or III% Patriot Group,” a post urged the more than 650 members of a Facebook group called the Free American Army. Accompanied by the logo for the Three Percenters militia network and an image of a man in tactical gear holding a long rifle, the post continues: “Now more than ever. Support the American militia page.” Other content and messaging in the group is similar. And despite the fact that Facebook bans paramilitary organizing and deemed the Three Percenters an “armed militia group” on its 2021 Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List, the post and group remained up until WIRED contacted Meta for comment about its existence. Free American Army is just one of around 200 similar Facebook groups and profiles, most of which are still live, that anti-government and far-right extremists are using to coordinate local militia activity around the country.