cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/9006187

Over the past week or so there has been a serious spam problem hitting mastodon and rest of the fediverse especially misskey over on the japanese side of things and the story behind it is absolutely wild.

Over the past week or so there has been a serious spam problem hitting mastodon and rest of the fediverse especially misskey over on the japanese side of things and the story behind it is absolutely wild.

• kitten @ load-config: Allow (re)loading kitty.conf via remote control
• Remote control: Allow running mappable actions via remote control (kitten @ action)
• kitten @ send-text: Add a new option to automatically wrap the sent text in bracketed paste escape codes if the program in the destination window has turned on bracketed paste.
• Fix a single key mapping not overriding a previously defined multi-key mapping
• macOS: Fix kitten @ select-window leaving the keyboard in a partially functional state (#7074)
• Graphics protocol: Improve display of images using Unicode placeholders or row/column boxes by resizing them using linear instead of nearest neighbor interpolation on the GPU (#7070)
• When matching URLs use the definition of legal characters in URLs from the WHATWG spec rather than older standards (#7095)
• hints kitten: Respect the kitty url_excluded_characters option (#7075)
• macOS: Fix an abort when changing OS window chrome for a full screen window via remote control or the themes kitten (#7106)
• Special case rendering of some more box drawing characters using shades from the block of symbols for legacy computing (#7110)
• A new close_other_os_windows to close non active OS windows (#7113)

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/8157909

Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240201053834/https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/31/california-black-reparations-bills-00138854

SACRAMENTO, California — California state lawmakers introduced a slate of reparations bills on Wednesday, including a proposal to restore property taken by “race-based” cases of eminent domain and a potentially unconstitutional measure to provide state funding for “specific groups.”

The package marks a first-in-the-nation effort to give restitution to Black Americans who have been harmed by centuries of racist policies and practices. California’s legislative push is the culmination of years of research and debate, including 111-pages of recommendations issued last year by a task force.

Other states like Colorado, New York, and Massachusetts have commissioned reparations studies or task forces, but California is the first to attempt to turn those ideas into law.

The 14 measures introduced by the Legislative Black Caucus touch on education, civil rights and criminal justice, including reviving a years-old effort to restrict solitary confinement that failed to make it out of the statehouse as recently as last year.

Not included is any type of financial compensation to descendants of Black slaves, a polarizing proposal that has received a cool response from many state Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240201053834/https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/31/california-black-reparations-bills-00138854

SACRAMENTO, California — California state lawmakers introduced a slate of reparations bills on Wednesday, including a proposal to restore property taken by “race-based” cases of eminent domain and a potentially unconstitutional measure to provide state funding for “specific groups.”

The package marks a first-in-the-nation effort to give restitution to Black Americans who have been harmed by centuries of racist policies and practices. California’s legislative push is the culmination of years of research and debate, including 111-pages of recommendations issued last year by a task force.

Other states like Colorado, New York, and Massachusetts have commissioned reparations studies or task forces, but California is the first to attempt to turn those ideas into law.

The 14 measures introduced by the Legislative Black Caucus touch on education, civil rights and criminal justice, including reviving a years-old effort to restrict solitary confinement that failed to make it out of the statehouse as recently as last year.

Not included is any type of financial compensation to descendants of Black slaves, a polarizing proposal that has received a cool response from many state Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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• macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke overriding keyboard shortcuts for actions present in the global menu bar (#7016)
• Fix a regression in the previous release that caused multi-key sequences to not abort when pressing an unknown key (#7022)
• Fix a regression in the previous release that caused kitten @ launch --cwd=current to fail over SSH (#7028)
• Fix a regression in the previous release that caused kitten @ send-text with a match tab parameter to send text twice to the active window (#7027)
• Fix a regression in the previous release that caused overriding of existing multi-key mappings to fail (#7044, #7058)
• Wayland+NVIDIA: Do not request an sRGB output buffer as a bug in Wayland causes kitty to not start (#7021)

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/7729763

ST. JAMES, La. — For a little while, it seemed like Cancer Alley would finally get justice.

The infamous 85-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is one of the nation’s most polluted corners; residents here have spent decades fighting for clean air and water. That fight escalated in 2022, when local environmental justice groups filed complaints with the Environmental Protection Agency, alleging that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality had engaged in racial discrimination under the Civil Rights Act. In a watershed moment, the EPA opened a civil rights investigation into Louisiana’s permitting practices.

But just when the EPA appeared poised to force the LDEQ to make meaningful changesOpens in a new tab, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry — now the state’s governor — sued. Landry’s suit challenges a key piece of the agency’s regulatory authority: the disparate impact standard, which says that policies that cause disproportionate harm to people of color are in violation of the Civil Rights Act. This enables the EPA to argue that it’s discriminatory for state agencies to keep greenlighting contaminating facilities in communities of color already overburdened by pollution — such as in Cancer Alley — even if official policies do not announce discrimination as their intent.

Five weeks after Landry filed his suit, the EPA dropped its investigation, effectively leaving Cancer Alley residents to continue the struggle on their own.

“It was devastating,” recalled Sharon Lavigne, founder of the grassroots organization Rise St. James. For her work spearheading the fight to stop polluters in Cancer Alley, Lavigne is regarded as a figureheadOpens in a new tab of the environmental justice movement. Now, it appears that Landry’s suit could have a reverberating impactOpens in a new tab far from her hometown, as the EPA backs down from environmental justice cases across the country.

In Flint, Michigan, advocates say that Landry’s suit has already led to the collapse of their own chance at justice. This month, the EPA dropped a Houston case in the same way, without mandating any sweeping reforms. Attorneys told The Intercept they are concerned about the possibility of similarly disappointing outcomes in Detroit, St. Louis, eastern North Carolina, and elsewhere.

Experts say that the EPA appears to be shying away from certain Civil Rights Act investigations in states that are hostile to environmental justice, due to fears that Landry’s suit or similar efforts could make their way to the conservative Supreme Court. If that happened, the court appears ready to rule against the EPA — a verdict that could not only undermine the agency’s authority, but also significantly limit the ability of all federal agencies to enforce civil rights law.

“The lawsuit does not just challenge the EPA’s investigation and potential result of our complaint,” said Lisa Jordan, an attorney who helped file the Cancer Alley complaint. “It challenges the entire regulatory program.”

. . .

ST. JAMES, La. — For a little while, it seemed like Cancer Alley would finally get justice.

The infamous 85-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is one of the nation’s most polluted corners; residents here have spent decades fighting for clean air and water. That fight escalated in 2022, when local environmental justice groups filed complaints with the Environmental Protection Agency, alleging that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality had engaged in racial discrimination under the Civil Rights Act. In a watershed moment, the EPA opened a civil rights investigation into Louisiana’s permitting practices.

But just when the EPA appeared poised to force the LDEQ to make meaningful changesOpens in a new tab, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry — now the state’s governor — sued. Landry’s suit challenges a key piece of the agency’s regulatory authority: the disparate impact standard, which says that policies that cause disproportionate harm to people of color are in violation of the Civil Rights Act. This enables the EPA to argue that it’s discriminatory for state agencies to keep greenlighting contaminating facilities in communities of color already overburdened by pollution — such as in Cancer Alley — even if official policies do not announce discrimination as their intent.

Five weeks after Landry filed his suit, the EPA dropped its investigation, effectively leaving Cancer Alley residents to continue the struggle on their own.

“It was devastating,” recalled Sharon Lavigne, founder of the grassroots organization Rise St. James. For her work spearheading the fight to stop polluters in Cancer Alley, Lavigne is regarded as a figureheadOpens in a new tab of the environmental justice movement. Now, it appears that Landry’s suit could have a reverberating impactOpens in a new tab far from her hometown, as the EPA backs down from environmental justice cases across the country.

In Flint, Michigan, advocates say that Landry’s suit has already led to the collapse of their own chance at justice. This month, the EPA dropped a Houston case in the same way, without mandating any sweeping reforms. Attorneys told The Intercept they are concerned about the possibility of similarly disappointing outcomes in Detroit, St. Louis, eastern North Carolina, and elsewhere.

Experts say that the EPA appears to be shying away from certain Civil Rights Act investigations in states that are hostile to environmental justice, due to fears that Landry’s suit or similar efforts could make their way to the conservative Supreme Court. If that happened, the court appears ready to rule against the EPA — a verdict that could not only undermine the agency’s authority, but also significantly limit the ability of all federal agencies to enforce civil rights law.

“The lawsuit does not just challenge the EPA’s investigation and potential result of our complaint,” said Lisa Jordan, an attorney who helped file the Cancer Alley complaint. “It challenges the entire regulatory program.”

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Japan's space agency said early Saturday that its spacecraft is on the moon, but is still "checking its status." More details will be given at a news conference, officials said.

The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, came down onto the lunar surface at around 12:20 a.m. Tokyo time Saturday (1520 GMT Friday). No astronauts were onboard the spacecraft.

If SLIM landed successfully, Japan would become the fifth country to accomplish the feat after the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India.

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• Conditional mappings depending on the state of the focused window

• Support for Modal mappings such as in modal editors like vim

• A new option notify_on_cmd_finish to show a desktop notification when a long running command finishes (#6817)

• A new action send_key to simplify mapping key presses to other keys without needing send_text

• Allow focusing previously active OS windows via nth_os_window (#7009)

• Wayland: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke copying to clipboard under wl-roots based compositors in some circumstances (#6890)

• macOS: Fix some combining characters not being rendered (#6898)

• macOS: Fix returning from full screen via the button when the titlebar is hidden not hiding the buttons (#6883)

• macOS: Fix newly created OS windows not always appearing on the “active” monitor (#6932)

• Font fallback: Fix the font used to render a character sometimes dependent on the order in which characters appear on screen (#6865)

• panel kitten: Fix rendering with non-zero margin/padding in kitty.conf (#6923)

• kitty keyboard protocol: Specify the behavior of the modifier bits during modifier key events (#6913)

• Wayland: Enable support for the new cursor-shape protocol so that the mouse cursor is always rendered at the correct size in compositors that support this protocol (#6914)

• GNOME Wayland: Fix remembered window size smaller than actual size (#6946)

• Mouse reporting: Fix incorrect position reported for windows with padding (#6950)

• Fix focus_visible_window not switching to other window in stack layout when only two windows are present (#6970)