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B.Blalock

Wait. Did the Federal Government just announce they are closing HHS regional offices serving predominately Democratic states? AZ, ID, and OH catching strays but otherwise administrative secession?
 
·    Region 1 - Boston Office: Serving CN, Maine, MA, NH, RI, and VT
·    Region 2 - New York City: Serving NY, NJ, Puerto Rico
·    Region 5 - Chicago: Serving IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI
·    Region 9 - SF: Serving AZ, CA, HI, NV
·    Region 10 - Seattle: Serving AK, ID, OR, and WA

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David

@sheddi @pluralistic I think there'd be quite a market for retrofits of this sort: open hardware appliance controllers running open-source software, to rip and replace the stock controllers. Ask #lawfedi to be sure, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't count as DRM circumvention to remove and discard the DRM-containing electronics and install de novo replacements.

I imagine the retrofit kits could be sold either as boxed kits or pre-assembled, like @frameworkcomputer products.

I imagine there'd also be a significant secondary market for installation services, and perhaps also for retrofit design: reverse engineering non-computerized wiring; scanning and quantitatively modelling appliance cavity geometries; designing compatible adapter circuits between a PLC, programmable microcontroller, or SBC and the operational hardware (e.g., motors, fans, and heaters or compressors).

And I imagine there'd be a need for an (ideally federated) community repository of retrofit spec files: detailed internal physical dimensions of cavities in appliances with their stock controllers removed; wiring diagrams and documentation of residual non-computerized electronics; connector specifications (e.g. which type of wire end to use); instructions like on @iFixit for opening, removing stock controllers, installing replacements, and closing; and #3Dprinting files for controller mounting brackets and the like. This would best be community funded like most of the rest of the #fediverse.

I imagine there'd also be room to community fund development of firmware or software for the replacement controllers.

There could also be a tertiary service market in safety testing and re-certification of retrofit appliances, in case anyone wants to resell their retrofits with insurance and all.

And I second favouring "Unauthorized Bread." Unlike the poor migrants in the book, though, enough of us can currently afford to hack the hardware rather than the firmware, by removing and replacing all but the passive and operational components, discarding and replacing every programmable but not (intentionally) owner-reprogrammable component. Indeed, I'm sure it's best those who can, start working on this immediately, before #GreatDepression2 kicks in.

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Heidi Li Feldman

Georgetown University Law Center students are working to heighten their peers’ awareness of which firms have caved to Trump and which have stood firm. Upper level students are creating a resource for 1Ls interviewing for jobs. They sent me this ask for help⬇️. #LawFedi

Hi professor Feldman! I hope you're doing well. Some other students and l are compiling a list for 1L's to reference during OCl to try to inform and discourage them from summering/working at firms that have capitulated to the Trump administration. I've noticed that you have been posting about law firms on here (both good and bad); I wanted to reach out and request that if you hear of any news related to this, please feel free to pass it along to me and I will update our spreadsheet!
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USAJusticeWatch

Bar Organizations Support the Rule of Law. “Across the #UnitedStates and around the world, bar associations have issued statements defending the principles of the #ruleoflaw and responding to recent executive orders and related actions.” | ABA americanbar.org/groups/bar-lea #lawyers #legalprofession #law #lawfedi

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Heidi Li Feldman

I could not be prouder of this Georgetown University Law Center student group. They were invited to an exclusive recruiting event with Skadden and withdrew because of Skadden’s preemptive capitulation to the Trump regime. Alanna, Caleb, and Carly were all students of mine.@ #LawFedi

Letter from the Georgetown Energy Law Group withdrawing from a Skadden recruiting event, and explaining the reason for the cancellation: Skadden promising the Trump regime to end its DEI programming and give $100 million in free legal services to Trump-approved causes.
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Thomas

Comprensive RT @cmorris: My new column:

The US as an Authoritarian State: Danger to the Global Rule of Law

“Checks & balances among the three US branches of government are in tatters… It is unclear whether the #US legal system can withstand the Trump administration’s increasingly brazen threats against #judges & #lawyers.” | SLaw: Canada’s Online Legal Magazine slaw.ca/2025/03/25/the-us-as-a #Trump #internationallaw #humanrights #ruleoflaw #DEI #immigration #law #lawfedi /1

Slaw · The US as an Authoritarian State: Danger to the Global Rule of Law - SlawDonald J. Trump’s second term as President of the United States has stunned the world. Commentators increasingly say the US has now crossed the Rubicon into authoritarian territory. While some say Trump’s actions are erratic, a closer look reveals a methodical attempt by his administration to dismantle a broad range of US institutions and agencies […]
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Catherine Morris

My new column:

The US as an Authoritarian State: Danger to the Global Rule of Law

“Checks & balances among the three US branches of government are in tatters… It is unclear whether the #US legal system can withstand the Trump administration’s increasingly brazen threats against #judges & #lawyers.” | SLaw: Canada’s Online Legal Magazine slaw.ca/2025/03/25/the-us-as-a #Trump #internationallaw #humanrights #ruleoflaw #DEI #immigration #law #lawfedi /1

Slaw · The US as an Authoritarian State: Danger to the Global Rule of Law - SlawDonald J. Trump’s second term as President of the United States has stunned the world. Commentators increasingly say the US has now crossed the Rubicon into authoritarian territory. While some say Trump’s actions are erratic, a closer look reveals a methodical attempt by his administration to dismantle a broad range of US institutions and agencies […]
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