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Beer company in trouble for “reindeer orgy” beer cans Boing Boing

Dec 082019
 

Sycamore Brewing received a spanking from North Carolina’s Alcohol Law Enforcement (ALE), which will punish the brewery for making a beer can with cartoon reindeer having sex.  From Vice: [T]he label likely violated the agency’s rules prohibiting obscene material, and the brewery didn’t submit it for approval before producing the cans either. As a result, Sycamore will most likely face a fine of between $500 and $1,000. “We’re in a moment in our country where…

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We Need To Save .ORG From Arbitrary Censorship By Halting the Private Equity Buy-Out Deeplinks

Dec 062019
 

The .ORG top-level domain and all of the nonprofit organizations that depend on it are at risk if a private equity firm is allowed to buy control of it. EFF has joined with over 250 respected nonprofits to oppose the sale of Public Interest Registry, the (currently) nonprofit entity that operates the .ORG domain, to Ethos Capital. Internet pioneers including Esther Dyson and Tim Berners-Lee have spoken out against this secretive deal. And 12,000 Internet…

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Oral Argument Held in Montana Ballot Access Case Ballot Access News

Dec 062019
 

On December 5, U.S. District Court Magistrate John T. Johnston heard oral argument in Montana Green Party v Stapleton, 6:18cv-87. The chief issue in the case is the unequal distribution requirement for the party petition. The Green Party successfully gathered 5,000 valid signatures, which is required. But the law also requires that the petition contain the valid signatures of between 55 and 150 signatures in each of thirty-four state house districts. Montana is the only…

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Here’s how much global carbon emission increased this year Ars Technica

Dec 062019
 

Enlarge / Bar graph of climate data. (credit: Global Carbon Project) Large oceangoing ships turn very slowly, which can be frustrating to someone accustomed to speeding around on nimble watercraft. Those eagerly watching for progress on climate change can relate. Every year, another batch of stats on greenhouse gas emissions comes in, and we’re left to wonder whether we’re turning things around yet. This year’s update was just published as part of the Global Carbon…

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Online freedom of expression hits a ten-year low Boing Boing

Dec 062019
 

Pam Cowburn from Article 19 writes, “Our new report shows that digital freedom of expression – defined as our ability to speak freely online – is at a ten year low. The report states that this decline is due to a rise in digital authoritarianism with governments taking control of internet infrastructure, increasing online surveillance and controlling content.” The core threats that are contributing to the decline in digital freedom of expression are: * Internet…

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Edward Snowden: If I Came Back to the U.S., I Would Likely Die in Prison for Telling the Truth Democracy Now!

Dec 062019
 

The Right Livelihood Awards celebrated their 40th anniversary Wednesday at the historic Cirkus Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, where more than a thousand people gathered to celebrate this year’s four laureates: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg; Chinese women’s rights lawyer Guo Jianmei, Brazilian indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa and the organization he co-founded, the Yanomami Hutukara Association; and Sahrawi human rights leader Aminatou Haidar, who has challenged the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara for decades. The Right…

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What the Gentrification of Baltimore’s Chinatown Means CityLab | All Articles

Dec 062019
 

The remains of Baltimore’s once-thriving Chinatown are now so sparse that most who venture into the city might not realize it’s there. All but one Chinese restaurant along Park Avenue, the historic core of Chinatown, have closed, leaving behind deteriorating facades with the Eastern-architectural touches that have become synonymous with Chinatowns worldwide.Yet after several decades of neglect, a renewed vibrancy has emerged: Many of the ornate facades have been supplemented with Ethiopian flags and Amharic…

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A Border Officer Told Me I Couldn’t Opt Out of the Face Recognition Scan. They Were Wrong. American Civil Liberties Union

Dec 062019
 

“Look at the camera,” a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer told me as I approached the primary inspection point at the Paso del Norte port of entry. “Is that the face recognition technology?” I asked. “If so, I want to opt-out.” “Look at the camera.” “I want to opt-out.” “Look at the camera.” On the evening of November 25, 2019, I crossed from Mexico into the United States. Signs in the port noted the…

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Cops Are Running Ring Camera Footage Through Their Own Facial Recognition Software Because Who’s Going To Stop Them Techdirt.

Dec 042019
 

Ring may be holding off on adding facial recognition tech to its already-problematic security cameras, but that’s not stopping any of its not-exactly-end-users from doing it for themselves. Ring is swallowing up the doorbell camera market with aggressive marketing that includes the free use of taxpayer-funded services. It calls over 600 law enforcement agencies “partners.” In exchange for agency autonomy and free cameras, police departments all over the nation are pushing cameras on citizens and…

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McKinsey designed ICE’s gulags, recommending minimal food, medical care and supervision Boing Boing

Dec 042019
 

Obama brought McKinsey and Co, the giant management consulting firm, into ICE to effect an “organizational transformation,” so they were already in place when Trump took office, and as Trump pivoted to concentration camps, McKinsey had some suggestions to save money: cut back on food, medicine and supervision. Propublica sued the US government and obtained 1,500 pages’ worth of McKinsey/ICE memos thanks to the Freedom of Information Act. They document how McKinsey’s sole focus was…

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Trump Administration fast-tracks compulsory border facial recognition scans for all US citizens The Register

Dec 042019
 

Homeland Security also clamping down on H1-B visas The Trump Administration is planning to fast-track a new policy of compulsory facial recognition at the border, and including US citizens and permanent residents in its plans for the first time.…

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EFF Releases Certbot 1.0 to Help More Websites Encrypt Their Traffic Deeplinks

Dec 042019
 

Two Million Users Already Actively Using Certbot to Keep Sites SecureSan Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Certbot 1.0: a free, open source software tool to help websites encrypt their traffic and keep their sites secure. Certbot was first released in 2015, and since then it has helped more than two million website administrators enable HTTPS by automatically deploying Let’s Encrypt certificates. Let’s Encrypt is a free certificate authority that EFF helped…

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The Quest To Save .Org From Being Ruined By Private Equity Motherboard

Dec 042019
 

Experts, consumer groups, registrars and activists are working overtime to prevent the .org domain system—and the internet at large—from being undermined by greed. Last month the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the agency that manages the .org domain, announced it would be selling itself to Ethos Capital, a private equity fund with links to Republican billionaire families like the Perots and Romneys. And last June ICANN—the organization tasked with managing all internet domains—voted to eliminate all…

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The Supreme Court just heard the State of Georgia’s argument for copyrighting the law and charging for access to it Boing Boing

Dec 042019
 

For years, rogue archivist Carl Malamud (previously) has been scanning and posting proprietary elements of the law, such as standard annotations or building and safety codes developed by outside parties and then incorporated into legislation, on the theory that if you are expected to follow the law, you must be able to read, write and share that law. Along the way, Malamud has attracted numerous lawsuits from standards development organizations, publishers, national governments and state…

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Top 10 Reasons to Support the Internet Archive Internet Archive Blogs

Nov 262019
 

DONATE NOW TO SUPPORT THIS NON-PROFIT LIBRARY FOR ALLToday, the Internet Archive launches is End of Year Fundraising Campaign. We’re lucky to have a 2-to-1 Matching Grant for the next few weeks, so your impact will be tripled if you give today. Of the 1.1 million people who use the Internet Archive each day, only a tiny percentage donate. Why give? Here are ten great reasons to support the Internet’s non-profit library for all: #1. The…

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‘Royalty-Free’ Music Supplied By YouTube Results in Mass Video Demonetization (Updated) TorrentFreak

Nov 192019
 

Matt Lowne is a very popular YouTuber with a passion for the simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Since 2013 he’s amassed close to 56 million views but late last week, his video world was turned upside down. In common with many YouTubers, Matt didn’t want any copyright issues on his channel. So, to play things safely, he obtained the track ‘Dreams‘ by Joakim Karud from YouTube’s very own audio library for use in his intro.…

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How Go-Go Music Became Kryptonite for Gentrification in D.C. CityLab | All Articles

Nov 182019
 

On June 5, Washington, D.C. council member Kenyan McDuffie introduced the Go-Go Official Music of the District of Columbia Designation Act of 2019. Go-go is the heavily percussive music-culture begun by the inimitable musician Chuck Brown in the 1970s that quickly became the quintessential element of D.C.’s Chocolate City era, right alongside Ben’s Chili Bowl, mambo sauce, and Madness shirts. Why the district is just now officially recognizing it has everything to do with how…

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‘Royalty-Free’ Music Supplied By YouTube Results in Mass Video Demonetization TorrentFreak

Nov 182019
 

Matt Lowne is a very popular YouTuber with a passion for the simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Since 2013 he’s amassed close to 56 million views but late last week, his video world was turned upside down. In common with many YouTubers, Matt didn’t want any copyright issues on his channel. So, to play things safely, he obtained the track ‘Dreams‘ by Joakim Karud from YouTube’s very own audio library for use in his intro.…

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San Diego’s wonderful Mysterious Galaxy Books has lost its lease, needs a buyer ASAP to stay afloat Boing Boing

Nov 182019
 

Mysterious Galaxy is a wonderful, longstanding science fiction bookstore, host to readings for the Clarion Workshop, designated bookseller for Comic-Con signings, and much more. And while the 27-year-old bookstore is profitable, with 5-10% year-on-year sales growth and mounting profits, it is still operating on thin enough margins that it is vulnerable to shocks, and now the store has lost its lease, a shock that has endangered the store’s future. In an email to customers and…

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A Week After the Coup in Bolivia, There’s Still No Proof of Electoral Fraud Jacobin

Nov 172019
 

Mainstream commentators continue to assert that Evo Morales oversaw a fraudulent election in Bolivia that led to his resignation. But the “resignation” was a coup — and there’s still no proof the election was even fraudulent. Former president of Bolivia Evo Morales speaks during a press conference at Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico on November 13, 2019 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Hector Vivas / Getty Images) On November 10, Bolivian president Evo Morales was…

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