Thanks for the link - it was indeed an interesting read!

From, the article, it looks like the prosecutors did argue that the defendants’ lawyers were deliberately striking black jurors, which would be illegal. This is known as a “Batson Challenge”: https://definitions.uslegal.com/b/batson-challenge/

Traditionally, when a large law firm such as Covington & Burling or Jones Walker works with a non-profit organization such as The Innocence Project, they perform the work “pro bono publico” (i.e., they do not charge for attorney time). It’s a way to burnish the firm’s image.

The most obvious explanation, to me, is a fear that right-wing organizations will seize upon any gap in presidential immunity to wage unrelenting war on Democratic presidents through the court system. (For an example of how this might play out, take a look at “Judicial Watch” and their decades-long campaign against…

Especially since a lot of copies have probably been bought as Christmas presents, and so the intended recipients won’t even receive them by the day the window closes...

I often find myself overwhelmed with the number of challenges we are facing as a society and how hard it is to make progress on them. We vote, we march, we make cogent, good faith arguments, and it just doesn’t seem to work.

I hear you. Every time I see a picture of Mr. Boseman, my first reaction is to click on it to find out what he’s working on currently, and then a split-second later my mind catches up and reminds me that he’s no longer with us.

Unfortunately, “this asshole is lying and I have the receipts to prove it” is generally one of the more expensive ways to defend a lawsuit, even if you have conclusive video evidence at hand. There’s a good chance this will end in a confidential settlement to save on legal fees.

True, in the absence of firearms. Give this type of man a gun, however, and he’ll happily seek out a confrontation with teenagers of color because they’re thumping hip-hop.

I saw On the Record recently, and found it extremely compelling and well-crafted. I highly recommend it.

Why has California cherry picked Lyft & Uber to force them to include their gig workers as employees and not gone after the other Silicon Valley Mega Corporations?

What am I missing here?

It’s like a Rorschach test for racial consciousness.

Records show he beat his enslaved workers, including doling out a brutal public whipping to a woman he felt had been “putting on airs.” And when any of them ran away, he pursued them and put them in chains when they were recovered. In an 1804 newspaper advertisement for a 30-year-old runaway named Tom, he offered an…

Such chunky bezels! What is this, a 2008 MacBook Air?

I hear your concerns, but I don’t share them. For whatever reason, Firaxis has been running very short marketing campaigns for XCOM products for quite some time.

It certainly does. A good reminder that clicking through from the news report to the original post is often worth the trouble.

Very interesting. I never would have thought that an item-deleting bug could be caused by tampering with code governing the time stamps of quests. I wonder if it’s related to the curious UI for quests in Destiny 2, where quests are displayed as “items” in a “quest inventory,” rather than entries on a to-do list. I’ve…

CPS schools are in fact open; they’re offering free childcare during regular school hours. They’re also offering breakfast and lunch, as per the usual for CPS. There’s no teaching going on, obviously, and I can’t speak to the quality of the activities on offer at every school, but my eight year old is enjoying…

Of course, in Vanilla WoW, there was no sharding. When the server filled up, you had to queue to log in, and if excessive numbers of people tried to congregate in one place, the lag became brutal. I suspect every Vanilla Alliance player remembers entering Ironforge, hitting a lag spike, and falling into a trench.

As Dragonfliet said, you can probably jump in right now and have fun with the campaign and leveling to 30. The game is gorgeous, the combat punchy, and the flying very satisfying. There are definitely some quality-of-life issues left, such as bugged missions and excessive loading screens, but the overall experience is…