The Death of the Mind

A growing movement wants to amend the US Constitution and weaken its due process protections in its ill-advised pursuit of victims’ rights.  Alongside the major criminal justice reform headlines that came out of the midterm elections, a quieter trend also gained momentum through the ballot box: a budding, national threat to due process and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. On Nov. 6, six states adopted, through ballot initiatives, what is known as “Marsy’s…

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If you’re building a computer, your options are nearly limitless. You can get a motherboard with red LEDs, with blue LEDs, green LEDs, or if you’re feeling spendy, RGB LEDs. You can get custom-milled heat spreaders in any shape you want, as long as it’s angular and screams ‘gamer’. If you want a motherboard that doesn’t use x86 — either AMD or Intel — you’re kind of out of luck. Either it doesn’t exist, or it’s…

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DNA Lounge update, wherein it’s our birthday, and SF is losing another venue.

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Regular readers know that I’m fascinated with how non-coders use Emacs and especially how (prose) writers leverage it to remove friction from the writing process. Phil Daniels over at The Copytist is a professional writer who’s working on a longish book of about 400 pages. His writing environment was centered on Microsoft Windows running Google Docs. It had, apparently, been working well for shorter projects but Google Docs just couldn’t handle the larger manuscript. Daniels…

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3D models drawn in Blender work great in a computer animated virtual world but don’t always when brought into a slicer for 3D printing. Slicers require something which makes sense in the real world. And the real world is far less forgiving, as I’ve found out with my own projects which use 3D printed parts. Our [Brian Benchoff] already talked about making parts in Blender with his two-part series (here and here) so consider this…

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Thousands of Google staff demand the company respect the rights of employees that make accusations of sexual harassment. I support this cause, but since the victims of this particular wrong are limited to Google’s workers, I think that Google’s injustices to its users (nonfree software, surveillance and tracking, soon perhaps censorship in China) are overridingly bigger wrongs. The “solutions” Google promotes for surveillance and tracking, which include “transparency” (“We tell you roughly how much we…

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