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Virginia voters on Tuesday will decide whether to ratify an unusual mid-decade redrawing of U.S. House districts that could boost Democrats’ chances of flipping control of the closely divided chamber, as the state becomes the latest front in a national redistricting battle.

A proposed constitutional amendment backed by Democratic officials would bypass the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission to allow use of new congressional districts approved by state lawmakers in this year’s midterm elections.

The referendum tests Democrats’ ability to push back against Donald Trump, who started the gerrymandering competition between states after successfully urging Texas Republicans to redraw congressional districts in their favor last year. Virginia would be the second state, after California last fall, to put the question to voters.

Several moves suggest Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could revive his campaign to question the safety and effectiveness of the shots after the midterm elections.

Over two dizzying days in Washington this week, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared to change his tune on vaccines. The nation’s loudest vaccine skeptic conceded that the measles vaccine was safe and effective for “most people” and put forth a slate of doctors who support vaccines to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But whether those shifts are merely cosmetic, or will produce real policy change, is an open question.

Mr. Kennedy is still surrounded by allies, notably the lawyer Aaron Siri, who are pushing him to roll back existing vaccine policy. Last week, apparently in response to a petition by Mr. Siri, the C.D.C. published a new charter for a vaccine advisory committee that enables Mr. Kennedy to sidestep a federal court ruling barring changes to the panel.

Not so long ago, I came across the PSDevWiki when I was after a little information on the PSP

After spending way too much time diving deep on there, I realized I haven't seen this resource brought up much along my gaming travels, and thought that should change! I reached out to to 'Derf' who along with one other member, maintains the information and resource, and asked if he might be open to me interviewing him about how this kind of site operates, the information it preserves, and how important it is to keep this kind of information accessible to the public.

If you're at all interested in the history of Sony's console software, or about hearing what is behind the site, then by all means check my interview with Derf out. I was not expecting it to be as interesting as it was (which sounds click-baity, but considering we have zero ads, that doesn't really hold true!)

I hope you enjoy this one, for something a bit different. Link as always is here!

https://gardinerbryant.com/documenting-the-unknown-inside-the-playstation-dev-wiki/

Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs

The Trump administration has begun accepting applications from businesses seeking refunds for more than $166bn in tariffs, months after the supreme court ruled that the president had no legal authority to impose them.

The administration launched on Monday the digital claims system, named Cape, which they said in court filings could handle about 63% of affected import filings, with the remainder to follow.

Writing for the majority in February, Chief Justice John Roberts said the 1977 emergency statute Trump had invoked provided no such sweeping authority to implement the tariffs. Two of the president’s own appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, joined the majority. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh were the dissenters.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/47842441

Celebrated musicians including Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Sigur Rós, Nadine Shah, and many more have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in protest of Israel’s participation.

Campaign groups No Music For Genocide and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel are calling for a boycott of this year’s highly divisive Eurovision Song Contest.

More than 1,000 artists, including Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Sigur Rós, Nadine Shah, Mogwai and Hot Chip, have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of Eurovision 2026 in protest of Israel’s participation.

The letter calls upon the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to ban KAN – the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation – from the upcoming contest.

“For the third consecutive year,” the letter states, Israel will be “celebrated onstage despite its ongoing genocide in Gaza, while Russia remains banned for its illegal invasion of Ukraine.”

“We refuse to be silent when Israel’s genocidal violence soundtracks and silences Palestinian lives,” the letter reads. “When children in Israeli prisons endure beatings for humming a tune. When all that’s left of nearly every stage, studio, bookshop and university in Gaza is piles of rubble, under which slaughtered bodies still await recovery and proper burial.”

In a statement, a spokesperson for No Music For Genocide said: “People of conscience around the globe are fighting complicity in every industry for a free Palestine and a freer world. While many of us in the industry make light of Eurovision or doubt our own power as cultural producers, genocidal Israel’s leaders speak openly about the contest’s geopolitical value.”

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Sanan Optoelectronics, China's largest LED chipmaker, has abandoned its $239 million bid to acquire Dutch lighting firm Lumileds after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) ruled the deal posed "irresolvable U.S. national security risks," the South China Morning Post reported.

This marks the second time in 10 years that CFIUS has torpedoed a Chinese attempt to buy Lumileds, and it comes amid a deepening governance crisis at Sanan itself.

The issue CFIUS seems to have is that Lumileds’ product portfolio relies on compound semiconductor material gallium nitride (GaN) chips, which have significant military applications, including for radar systems for antiballistic missiles and in the U.S. Air Force's Space Fence orbital debris tracking system.

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Hey zusammen, heute vor genau 37 Jahren (am 21. April 1989) kam in Japan der allererste Game Boy auf den Markt. Ein absoluter Feiertag! 👾

Ich habe dazu gerade auf Mastodon ein bisschen in Nostalgie geschwelgt, weil ich als 3-fach-Dad heute sehe, wie meine Kids bei jedem kleinsten Ruckler meckern – während wir früher auf dem Rücksitz im Auto krampfhaft auf die nächste Straßenlaterne gewartet haben, um bei Tetris oder Super Mario Land überhaupt was zu erkennen. 😂

Mich würde mal interessieren: Hattet ihr damals auch diesen völlig absurden Lupen-Aufsatz mit Licht? Und was war euer allererstes Spiel (außer Tetris)? Lasst uns mal ein bisschen in Erinnerungen schwelgen!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1061363

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