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Tommy Carcetti (44,747 posts)

So, wait, the Fort Hood shooter is *paralyzed*?

And they want execution by a) a firing squad and b) publicly broadcast?

Oof.

I mean, my own personal unconditional objection to the death penalty aside, it was certainly a horrific crime and I get that many people would be clamoring to have this guy executed.

But my God, the optics of this, if this his what they want.

Publicly broadcasting the shooting of a paralyzed person? I don't care what you think about the perpetrator...that is just dark no matter what way you try to cut it.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221552739

San Francisco’s board of supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to impose a 45-day moratorium on new data centers, a pause that can be extended up to 22 months. Despite San Francisco being the home of AI development in the United States, one city official said of data centers, “We need to know what these impacts are. Until we know what that is, it needs to stop.”

Bloomberg reports that the measure halts new projects while city planning officials study their effects on energy, water, air quality, land use and surrounding communities. A hearing on those findings is due by November, according to Mission Local, which reported on the vote.

“We need to know what these impacts are. Until we know what that is, it needs to stop,” Supervisor Shamann Walton said.

San Francisco is home to AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic, but the city doesn’t actually know how many data centers it already hosts. Bloomberg found no comprehensive tally. The San Francisco Standard counts six sites.

WASHINGTON — The State Department will impose “further sanctions” on the International Criminal Court in response to its attempts to charge American service members, according to a US official and an internal memo reviewed by The Post.

The official said that diplomatic posts were receiving warnings Thursday that “further ICC action” was imminent, while the memo cited longstanding grievances with the global organization established in 2002.

“The ICC seeks to become the unaccountable global arbiter – positioning itself above and beyond the nation state as a supranational judicial arm of a globalist bureaucracy empowered to persecute American servicemen and officials at will without authority and as an affront to our sovereignty,” the memo stated.

“It must be clear, once and for all, that the ICC can pose no threat to those who did not accept its authority,” the memo added.

“Building on the U.S. campaign to assemble a coalition of countries willing to reject the Court’s assault on State sovereignty, the United States has no choice but to impose further sanctions.”

The sanctions are expected to take effect soon, though the memo did not disclose in what form.