As Trump speaks in the language of civil war and prepares the machinery of state repression, the Democrats respond with lawsuits and platitudes.
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The peaceful character of Monday’s protest have not prevented police from instigating violence as they have in previous days.
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In 2006 alone, Russia-based AllOfMP3 reportedly banked $30 million from sales of an unauthorized music product for which the major labels received no payment.
The unlikely stage for the industry’s response to global sales of cheap, unlicensed DRM-free music, was Denmark. Under pressure from industry group IFPI, ISP Tele2 blocked AllofMP3’s domain, an event that will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary.
While never likely to threaten the site’s overall traffic, the Danish block was at once symbolic and historic. Nineteen years later, Denmark has almost 2,800 domains on its current blocklist, a figure that’s easily eclipsed by the tens of thousands of domains and subdomains blocked globally every month, largely without report or fanfare.
ICANN Publishes DNS Blocking Report
The…
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Waymo Pauses Service in Downtown LA Neighborhood Where They’re Getting Lit on Fire: The fact that Waymos need to use video cameras that are constantly recording their surroundings in order to function means that police have begun to look at them as sources of surveillance footage. […] The fact is that police have begun to look at anything with a camera as a source of surveillance that they are entitled to for whatever reasons they choose. So even though driverless cars nominally have nothing to do with law enforcement, police are treating them as though they are their own roving surveillance cameras. Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously,…
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Approaching San Diego’s first annual review of the city’s controversial Flock Safety contract, a local coalition is calling on the city council to roll back this dangerous and costly automated license plate reader (ALPR) program.
The TRUST Coalition—a grassroots alliance including Electronic Frontier Alliance members Tech Workers Coalition San Diego and techLEAD—has rallied to stop the unchecked spread of ALPRs in San Diego. We’ve previously covered the coalition’s fight for surveillance oversight, a local effort kicked off by a “smart streetlight” surveillance program five years ago.
In 2024, San Diego installed hundreds of AI-assisted ALPR cameras throughout the city to document what cars are driving where and when, then making that data accessible for 30 days.
ALPRs like Flock’s…
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Expert advisors for the Food and Drug Administration met Thursday to discuss which virus strain this year’s updated COVID-19 vaccines should target. The advisors have been meeting around this time each year for such a strain selection, a routine decision in the process of updating the life-saving vaccines.
But this year’s meeting was awkward and even a little tense. Earlier this week, new FDA leaders under health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a sweeping new framework that would restrict access to the shots, making them available only to people 65 and older and those with medical conditions that put them at risk of severe illness. For updated COVID-19 vaccines to be approved for…
Chris Hedges transfers blame for the crimes of the Israeli-Zionist state and capitalist imperialism to the entire human race. Gaza, he proclaims, proves the futility of any belief in human progress.
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Under the control of anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration is unilaterally terminating universal access to seasonal COVID-19 vaccines; instead, only people who are age 65 years and older and people with underlying conditions that put them at risk of severe COVID-19 will have access to seasonal boosters moving forward.
The move was laid out in a commentary article published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, written by Trump administration FDA Commissioner Martin Makary and the agency’s new top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad.
The article lays out a new framework for approving seasonal COVID-19 vaccines, as well as a rationale for the change—which was made without input from independent advisory committees for…
If Roko’s Basilisk is real, then wouldn’t it be a certainty that you would already be being tortured in a Hell Dimension? It would be infinitesimally unlikely that, out of the billions of copies of your mind, you’d be experiencing the one that was not.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh no.
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After multiple delays of the REAL ID Act of 2005 and its updated counterpart, the REAL ID Modernization Act, in the United States, the May 7th deadline of REAL ID enforcement has finally arrived. Does this move our security forward in the skies? The last 20 years says we got along fine without it. There were and are issues along the way that REAL ID does impose on everyday people, such as potential additional costs and rigid documentation, even if you already have a state issued ID. While TSA states this is not a national ID or a federal database, but a set of minimum standards required for federal use, we are still watchful of the…
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The arguments before the Supreme Court in Trump v. CASA underscore the administration’s efforts to eviscerate judicial oversight, clearing the path for unchecked presidential dictatorship.
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Progressive streamer Hasan Piker’s recent detention by CBP at the Chicago airport has generated widespread outrage — and rightfully so. No US citizen should be interrogated about their political beliefs when re-entering their own country. But while CBP’s behavior was egregious, Piker’s response was potentially even more dangerous: he chose to engage in a two-hour conversation with federal agents without a lawyer present, streaming about it afterward as if this were just more content for his millions of followers.
For many years, we’ve called out this kind of bullshit interrogation technique of citizens at the border (it didn’t start with Trump, though it’s almost certainly gotten worse with him in power).
Rather than following the basic rule of…
SACRAMENTO, CA—Promising his podcast listeners an engaging and enlightening conversation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly sat down Tuesday with a serial killer who targets the homeless population. “So what do you think Democrats can learn from somebody who, like you, targets the most vulnerable among us?” said Newsom, who acknowledged that while he and the murderer might not see eye to eye on the best way to eliminate the homeless, he was grateful for the opportunity to exchange ideas and perspectives. “You hate the homeless, I hate the homeless. People have been very hard on you, but I think at the end of the day, we all really just want the same thing. So, do you…
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Nextcloud provides an
open-source collaboration platform called Nextcloud Hub, which includes file-sharing and syncing
features. The company has written
a blog post explaining that Google has revoked a critical permission
from the Nextcloud Files app for Android that allows it to sync files
to Nextcloud Hub.
Google is stating security concerns as a reason for revoking the
permission. This is hard to believe for us. Nextcloud has had this
feature since its inception in 2016, and we have never heard about any
security concerns from Google about it. Moreover, several Big Tech
apps as well as Google’s own still have this. What we think: Google
owning the platform means they can and are giving themselves
preferential treatment. Despite multiple appeals since mid-2024, Google has refused to
reinstate the…
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A day after Columbia University called in the New York Police Department to arrest more than 70 pro-Palestine protesters who had occupied a library reading room, the university and its affiliate Barnard College suspended several students who had been present in the library. The suspended students included students who happened to be studying in Butler Library at the time the occupation began, as well as journalists. The suspensions came amid final exams at the university. Some of the students who were not protesting have had their suspensions rescinded. Barnard College informed suspended students that they would have to vacate their college housing within 48 hours and that their meal cards would be voided. The housing deadline…
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PostgreSQL 18 beta has been released, and it’s the perfect time to start exploring the new features we can expect in the General Availability (GA) release. One feature that particularly caught my attention relates to improvements in statistics collection and usage. Here’s an excerpt from the official PostgreSQL release notes:
Add functions to modify per-relation and per-column optimizer statistics (Corey Huinker) Add pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_restore options –statistics-only, –no-statistics, –no-data, and –no-schema (Corey Huinker, Jeff Davis)
One of the key ingredients in performance analysis is understanding the underlying statistics of tables, columns, and indexes. Often, we encounter cases where queries behave differently in production compared to Pre-Prod or UAT environments. A common reason for this discrepancy…
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Stephen Miller’s threat to suspend habeas corpus is a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s erection of a political dictatorship.
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It’s a voluntary program launched during a Republican administration, endorsed by manufacturers and well-recognized by U.S. consumers, who have saved an estimated $500 billion over the past 33 years guided by its familiar blue label.
But President Donald Trump’s administration has decided the Energy Star program has got to go.
CNN and The Washington Post first reported the plan to eliminate the program that certifies the most energy-efficient appliances and buildings with the Energy Star label. Knowledgeable sources have confirmed to Inside Climate News that Environmental Protection Agency staffers learned the details at an internal meeting earlier this week.
Demcoratic Mayor Ras J. Baraka, the mayor of Newark —New Jersey’s largest city— was arrested by federal agents during a peaceful protest at Delaney Hall.
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