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Trump Taps Amy Coney Barrett — Memo Lays Out Tactics for Opposition The Intercept

Sep 262020

President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, setting up a ferocious confirmation battle as votes are already being cast for the November 3 election. Barrett, who was previously named to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals by Trump, is an outspoken social conservative, broadly hostile to abortion rights, and a strong supporter of corporate rights. Her confirmation would give conservatives a 6-3 majority…

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2020-09-26 Comments Off

Not Particularly Mortifying: IEEE eggheads probe npm registry, say JavaScript libs not as insecure as feared The Register

Sep 262020

Oh sure, there are plenty of flaws in those packages though not even one in ten are anything to worry about For the past few years, the security of JavaScript software packages available through the Node Package Manager, or npm, has been the subject of skepticism as a result of blunders, brouhahas, and tepid countermeasures.…

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2020-09-26 Comments Off

Rare case of black licorice poisoning kills man in Massachusetts Ars Technica

Sep 262020

Enlarge / Bulk black licorice candy. (credit: Getty | Andia) Because 2020 hasn’t provided enough extraordinary ways to die, the universe offers a grim reminder that eating too much licorice candy can be deadly. A 54-year-old construction worker died in Massachusetts recently after eating an excessive amount of black licorice—which naturally contains a toxin called glycyrrhizin, aka glycyrrhizic acid. Doctors published a case study of his poisoning in the New England Journal of Medicine this…

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2020-09-26 Comments Off

Memo Laying Out Supreme Court Delay Tactics Circulates Among Senate Democrats The Intercept

Sep 252020

As Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faces increasing pressure from Democrats around the country to use every tool at his disposal to oppose the Republican effort to push through a Supreme Court nominee before the election, one question has bedeviled activists: What exactly is possible? A memo circulating on Capitol Hill, put together by several people with knowledge of congressional procedure and obtained by The Intercept, lays out some of the options that could be…

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2020-09-25 Comments Off

‘Ready to Deliver:’ Read the Post Office’s Mandatory Pep Talk About Election Mail Motherboard

Sep 252020

The United States Postal Service will be telling all of its employees that it is undoing virtually all of the policies Postmaster General Louis DeJoy initiated more than two months ago that delayed mail across the country, according to a memo obtained by Motherboard. The memo, titled “Ready to deliver Election Mail for the nation,” comes after the USPS’s hand was forced. As the memo itself acknowledges, two separate federal judges issued injunctions requiring the…

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2020-09-25 Comments Off

Amazon’s Ring Announces an Entire Line of Dystopian Surveillance Devices Motherboard

Sep 252020

On Thursday, Amazon’s Ring surveillance platform announced a new line of products, including a drone with a camera designed to fly around your home, that would expand its surveillance network beyond the Ring doorbell camera.. The Always Home Cam and a new line of Ring security cameras for cars are set to launch next year: the Car Cam, Car Alarm, and Car Connect platform. Amazon says that much like the Ring doorbell surveillance cameras, it’ll…

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2020-09-25 Comments Off

News Roundup: Ranked choice voting comes to presidential elections What’s New – Fairvote

Sep 252020

Have you been following the debate about ranked choice voting (RCV) in Maine? This week, RCV took a major step forward when the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that it can be used in the state’s presidential elections. Here are some of the best articles that have come out about the ruling in the last few days. The Fulcrum reported on the historic nature of the ruling and how RCV can encourage more positive campaigning. “The…

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2020-09-25 Comments Off

Legal Marijuana Now Party Nominee for U.S. House Dies, so Minnesota Can’t Fill That Seat Until February 9, 2021 Ballot Access News

Sep 252020

Adam Charles Weeks, the Legal Marijuana Now Party nominee for U.S. House in Minnesota’s 2nd district, died recently. Under a unique Minnesota law passed in 2013, the death of the nominee of a qualified party in a partisan race closer than 79 days before an election means the seat can’t be filled until the following February. See this story. Although voters will see the race on their November ballots, the votes in that race will…

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2020-09-25 Comments Off

This is a pretty dire assessment of Mozilla jwz

Sep 242020

Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400%Mozilla recently announced that they would be dismissing 250 people. That’s a quarter of their workforce so there are some deep cuts to their work too. The victims include: the MDN docs (those are the web standards docs everyone likes better than w3schools), the Rust compiler and even some cuts to Firefox development. Like most people I want to see Mozilla do well…

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2020-09-24 Comments Off

New Patriotic 1776 Commission Struggling To Find Ways To Improve Upon Education System’s Existing Propaganda The Onion

Sep 242020

WASHINGTON—Frantically scouring textbooks to find sections in need of revision, members of President Donald Trump’s new patriotic 1776 Commission struggled Wednesday to find ways to improve upon the education system’s existing propaganda. “We cut out every mention of Native Americans, but I’m not sure how else we…Read more…

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2020-09-24 Comments Off

Teleconferencing Like It’s 1988: Connecting Vintage Hardware to Zoom Hackaday

Sep 232020

Hang up your car phone and toss that fax machine in the garbage. Even back in the late 80s it was possible to do away with these primitive technologies in favor of video conferencing, even though this technology didn’t catch on en masse until recently. In fact, Mitsubishi released a piece of video conferencing equipment called the VisiTel that can be put to use today, provided you can do a bit of work to get…

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2020-09-23 Comments Off

New York Times Article on Green Party Ballot Access News

Sep 232020

The New York Times has published a long article about the Green Party. The theme is that the Republican Party in the past and currently has helped in a few states to get the Green Party on the ballot. The story is myopic. The authors take it for granted that it is difficult for a party like the Green Party to get on the ballot. The authors should ask the big question: why should be…

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2020-09-23 Comments Off

Facebook vows to restrict users if US election descends into chaos Ars Technica

Sep 232020

Enlarge / United States Map – State with glow with malicious code background in a 1970 dot matrix font on a computer screen. 8K Resolution ready. (credit: Matt Anderson Photography | Getty Images) Facebook has said it will take aggressive and exceptional measures to “restrict the circulation of content” on its platform if November’s presidential election descends into chaos or violent civic unrest. In an interview with the Financial Times, Nick Clegg, the company’s head…

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2020-09-23 Comments Off

Meet the doomers Richard Stallman’s Political Notes

Sep 232020

*Meet the doomers: why some young US voters have given up hope on climate.* I agree with their estimation of our future. But they are wrong to give up the fight because of the situation. They are right that avoiding disaster calls for big national efforts which current governments refuse to do. (I call them “planet roasters” because of that refusal.) And it is too late to fully avoid the disaster. But it is not…

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2020-09-23 Comments Off

Watch a Fast Sand Plotter Plow Patterns at Speed Hackaday

Sep 232020

[Mark]’s sand table wisely has a glass top.Most of us have probably seen a video of a sand drawing table at work, in which a steel ball — magnetically-coupled to a gantry under a layer of sand — lazily draws geometric patterns with utter precision and zen-like calmness. That’s all well and good, but [Mark Rehorst] thinks it can also be interesting to crank up the speed and watch the ball plow through sand just…

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2020-09-23 Comments Off

A city in Brazil where covid-19 ran amok may be a ‘sentinel’ for the rest of the world New on MIT Technology Review

Sep 232020

What happens when a major city allows the coronavirus to rage unchecked? If the Brazilian city of Manaus is any answer, it means about two-thirds of the population could get infected and one person in 500 could die before the epidemic winds down. During May, as the virus spread rapidly in Manaus, the equatorial capital of the state of Amazonas, dire reports described overwhelmed hospitals and freshly dug graves. Demand for coffins ran at four…

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2020-09-23 Comments Off

How should socialists approach the 2020 elections? International Socialism Project

Sep 222020

A number of recent articles on this web site have spelled out an overall assessment of the 2020 elections and explained why we consider opposition to the Democratic Party to […] The post How should socialists approach the 2020 elections? first appeared on International Socialism Project.

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2020-09-22 Comments Off

Joe Biden Is Wrong. Believing in Science Means Banning Fracking. Jacobin

Sep 222020

Joe Biden wants to have it both ways, issuing bold rhetoric about the climate emergency while refusing to adopt a policy agenda to match. But taking the science of climate change seriously means banning practices like fracking — something Biden has so far refused to do. Cuadrilla fracking site, UK. (@tacac0 / flickr) Last week, the popular science journal Scientific American issued its first presidential endorsement in its 175-year history. Much of the editorial, which…

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2020-09-22 Comments Off

Here’s What Democrats Can Actually Do To Stop Trump’s SCOTUS Pick Jacobin

Sep 222020

The Democratic Party has long made a habit of preemptively surrendering major fights with Republicans before they even begin. They’ll have to change that right now if Democrats want to block a Supreme Court replacement of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have been signaling that they may not use every last bit of power at their disposal to try to block a Trump SCOTUS appointment that could permanently alter American…

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2020-09-22 Comments Off

Arduino-powered solenoid carriage for computer typists who want to feel alive again Boing Boing

Sep 222020

“This is the most useless thing I have ever made”, writes Teenenggr, the creator of this Arduino-powered typewriter carriage for computer keyboards. The carriage uses solenoids to create the physical sensation of typing on a typewriter, and is extremely loud. There is even a bell. The code and parts list is here. We make Arduino/Raspberry…

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2020-09-22 Comments Off

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