Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 3d

I am just the messenger! The community is the gift.

9

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 3d

appreciate you

3

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 3d

appreciate you, i will let u know! this request does come up from time to time

8

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 3d

Hell yes thank you! That's perfect. DM on its way

14

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 3d

LA. She's a single mom and she's writing her papers on her old Android phone right now 🫠

1 7

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 3d

Southern California peeps: Looking for a spare laptop donation for a 45-year old Black woman comrade who is going back to school.

Laptop just needs to work reliably and run Microsoft Office and connect to her school's Google workspace stuff. Thank u!

16 120 290

Reposted by Chad Loder

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

85 1.3K 3.6K

Reposted by Chad Loder

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 5d

i really don't know how much more vocally anti-israel and anti-genocide i have to be before goyim actually care about what i have to say about their antisemitism

13 46 410

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 5d

Telegram is still on the App Store after being linked to multiple mass shootings.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5d

Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE official sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal (Ashley Oliver/Fox Business)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

40 530 1.6K

Reposted by Chad Loder

ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

660 16K 32K

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 5d

A one-panel cartoon of a dog sitting in a chair at a doctor's office

My dog talking to his therapist:
"And then she told me to stop following her to the bathroom, which is weird because she follows ME to the bathroom"

3 29 240

Reposted by Chad Loder

ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 7d

The border must go. We cannot do this to people over lines on a map. We CANNOT

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

This passage nearly broke me.

3 180 670

Reposted by Chad Loder

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a house painter and father of four from Mexico who was critically injured by a sniper at an ICE facility in Dallas, has died, the second fatality of the shooting, according to Latino civil rights leaders representing his family.

Second Victim of Dallas ICE Shooting Dies

A house painter who had been in the United States for two decades had been critically injured in Dallas by a gunman who the government said was aiming at federal law enforcement officers.

nyti.ms

56 400 910

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, although ready access to guns is the main predictor of gun violence

1 11

Reposted by Chad Loder

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 8d

DAILY MEMO: At Least 18 People Kidnapped In Another Day of Heavy Raids and More

If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a monthly or yearly member of L.A. TACO so we can continue to bring you this vital information.

@eltragon.bsky.social

8 240 550

Reposted by Chad Loder

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

www.cbsnews.com

100 2.3K 5.2K

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 8d

So a Trumper with an assault rifle massacred people in a church and burned it down because he hated Mormons. But we're so used to seeing THAT, it'll be out of the news by the end of the week.

No flags at half staff for the slain worshippers I guess.

Jason Allen, a Burton resident, told CNN that even locals who didn't personally know Sanford recognized his truck.
With flags flying from the back as Sanford drove it through town, "you couldn't miss the truck," Allen said. Sometimes, he said, Sanford would
"switch one of his flags out for a 'F*** Biden' flag."
Sanford, who went by "Jake," was an Iraq War veteran and outdoorsman, according to military records and social media posts. He grew up in the Flint area and had lived for years in the suburb of Burton, public records show.

26 430 1.6K

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 9d

Was just about to roll my own yaml config loader (again)

1 3

Reposted by Chad Loder

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 10d

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

South Bay Queer Solidarity @sbqsolidarity.bsky.social · 11d

A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights!

Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede...

#TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia

Action Needed: Urge Governor Newsom to Sign Five Critical Trans Rights Bills

TransFamily Support Services is proud to co-sponsor five critical trans rights bills that have officially passed the California Legislature. This is a major victory—one made possible through a powerfu...

transfamilysos.org

11 3.6K 5.5K

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 10d

shatterproof goggles are for little things like chips of wood or metal, not for large heavy projectiles llke beanbag rounds or foam baton rounds

your typical shatterproof goggles will do very little to protect you, they'll just mash into your eye with everything else

2

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 10d

sometimes it feels like it would be more efficient to let the OS do I/O scheduling work for my taskgroup in an optimal way

Like "I need to process 100 files fully, I don't care what order I do them in, send me chunks in whatever order takes advantage of disk block overreads or page locality"

1 2

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 10d

I am an experienced developer but I'm far from being an experienced Swift developer -- so I may be missing something

In certain situations, one wants select() style I/O on multiple input channels ("whichever's got some data next, give it to an actor")

vs, "multiple actors working concurrently"

1 3

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 10d

I am really enjoying Swift's concurrency model myself. I am quite familiar with different concurrency models in various different languages and frameworks and for 90% of the things I do on a day-to-day basis, Swift makes it really fucking easy and makes certain bugs hard to even express.

1 6

Reposted by Chad Loder

Matt Massicotte @massicotte.org · 10d

The million dollar questions. I should probably think harder about this but I'm not going to.

Swift has formalized concurrency (lower-case c), and has facilities to model a substantial portion of all possible concurrency mechanisms. It's honestly stunning.

1/N

2 2 18

Reposted by Chad Loder

Torch Antifa Network @torchantifa.bsky.social · 11d

Today's statement about "Fighting Back Against Antifa Violence" from the DHS contains a false conspiracy theory about our member crew Rose City Antifa.

RCA has not doxed any ICE agents, a fact confirmed by going to the URL DHS conveniently censored from their photo.

RCA did not put up this flyer.

Screenshot of a DHS report with the following text, followed by a censored photo of a flyer soliciting tips about ICE agents with Rose City Antifa's email listed.
"Rose City Antifa also illegally doxed ICE officers, publishing their private information and home address online and on public flyers. Individuals associated with Antifa also sent death threats to ICE agents and DHS personnel."

8 100 280