true crime (murder of a trans woman)
The murderer of Sabrina Houston, a trans woman from Jamaica, has just been convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison, the full amount requested by prosecutor, by a court in Tallinn.
TDOR's page on Sabrina: https://tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/2022/07/09/sabrina-houston_talinn-harju-estonia_96b64fb8
News report on the verdict: https://www.postimees.ee/7814607/kohus-moistis-transsoolise-naise-tapja-12-aastaks-vangi
Reportedly, the perpetrator didn't deny having stabbed Sabria to death, but argued that he did it because she tried to prevent him from leaving a room that they had entered for purpose of sex when he decided to not have sex, but the court ruled that it wasn't plausible, and it was more consistent with the available evidence that he got murderously enraged and stabby upon discovering Sabrina's genital configuration instead, and on that basis, levied the full punishment as requested.
Looks like "trans panic" is an aggravating factor in Estonia, not a get-out-of-jail-free card.
The murder happened on July 9th last year, so it took just over a year to prosecute. The perpetrator has been in jail since July 12th, three days after the murder, though, albeit until now only as a suspect.
Honestly this is still making me smile, it's such a change from the usual SUPER ANGRY TERMINATOR 8000 messaging I'm used to in gaming hardware, nicely done MSI
Oh hey, this is cool, let's check this out (Credit to @drewtoothpaste for the original place).
EDIT: Everyone wanting to be pedantic, please shut up.
if you're thinking about showing solidarity with striking creatives by canceling subscriptions or not watching stuff, there's two problems with that
1. The strikers haven't asked for that, and
2. They are still getting residual pay for that stuff
there's not a whole lot you can do here, except be vocal about supporting striking workers. That's always a good idea.
Turns out that yeah, there *are* actually legitimate reasons for object creation to be async sometimes
"But in case that wasn’t enough of an iPhone vibe for you, the other big update that comes with this public beta is that you can now put widgets on your desktop. Widgets! They intelligently tint based on the color of your desktop, and they’re available for various Apple apps, including Safari, Contacts, and Podcasts."
lol, Apple reinvented desktop widgets on macOS
fedi tip about following people and boundaries
#FediTip for new folks: You can make private posts on unlocked accounts and public posts on locked accounts.
Because of this, there is no guarantee that seeing someone's post means you can follow them - check out their bio and see if they have a lock icon next to their username (genuinely no clue if and how it's conveyed to screen readers, and I can't check right now), and if they have any specific boundaries - things like "Don't follow unless I know you", "DM if you want to follow", or "follow requests welcome" are common, and give you an idea of how to interact.
Also, at any given time, about 90% of the functionality works, but it's a different 90% every time
Like, this thing will automatically open a browser for you and click a CAPTCHA and capture the resulting key and use it to automatically resolve a listing of download links and then grab all the different download sources and check each of them and fetch all their metadata and load-balance requests between them
And then for some inexplicable reason there's no "just download the thing from my clipboard" button, and it explicitly asks you to confirm that you want to continue downloading the file even though one of the many mirrors is unreachable (which doesn't matter)
Just... what
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