WASHINGTON—Admitting he was blindsided by the hysterical reaction to a pretty normal transaction, North Carolina Senator Richard Burr wondered Friday when profiting off mass suffering had suddenly become a crime in this country. “Jesus Christ, when did everyone get so uptight about this? I remember when we used to…Read more…
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A reader suggested I not discard any excess sourdough starter I didn’t have plans to bake and make fry bread instead. So I did. You are looking at ½ cup of sourdough starter fried in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. I started this starter on Monday. I am pretty sure after today’s feeding it’ll be ready to bake a loaf of bread. Previously: Pandemic Starter Day 1 Pandemic Starter Day 2 Pandemic Starter Day 3…
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The following are excerpts from the sermons of evangelical leaders in the weeks leading up to an outbreak of Covid-19 in the U.S. The post What Evangelical Leaders Told Their Congregations About Coronavirus appeared first on The Intercept.
Last summer, we wrote about yet another post-Blurred Lines decision, showing that any two random songs that sounded kinda a little similar, might be ripe for a court to find infringing. In this case, it was a Katy Perry song, Dark Horse, that was found to infringe on a little known artist named “Flame,” who had a song called “Joyful Noise.” As we noted at the time, the similarities between the song were simply basic…
In recent weeks, investment bankers have pressed health care companies on the front lines of fighting the novel coronavirus, including drug firms developing experimental treatments and medical supply firms, to consider ways that they can profit from the crisis. The media has mostly focused on individuals who have taken advantage of the market for now-scarce medical and hygiene supplies to hoard masks and hand sanitizer and resell them at higher prices. But the largest voices…
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Author Nick Black has written an extensive book on the creation of textual user interfaces using the notcurses library; it’s available under the Apache license [PDF]. “Many people asked how such a thing was useful. My usual response was that numerous devices don’t present a bitmap interface, that X11 GUIs run remotely over SSH are effectively unusable, that plenty of machines don’t have a GUI environment installed, that there are obvious applications for large outdoor…
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The Democrats have an opportunity to push for desperately needed, sweeping economic change in response to coronavirus. Instead, they’re letting themselves be outflanked by Republicans. US Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks to members of the media as Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) listen at the US Capitol March 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong / Getty There’s nothing better to shift our…
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Last year, several major music companies sued Charter Communications, one of the largest Internet providers in the US with 22 million subscribers. Helped by the RIAA, Capitol Records, Warner Bros, Sony Music, and others accused Charter of deliberately turning a blind eye to its pirating subscribers. Under US law, providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances” and Charter failed to do so, according to the music labels. Specifically, the ISP is…
Appreciate the game that inspired the genre and its name: Rogue. Roguelike games have grown in popularity over the 40 years the genre has existed, even though they implement ideas that might seem anathema to popular gaming: extreme randomness, ASCII graphics, permadeath, enormous complexity, and more. Yet these days, you can just about sneeze and hit something that has at least been influenced by roguelikes. And so, in the spirit of game genre histories past—we’ve…
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Growing trees does little lasting good against global heating if the wood is used in ways that will quickly decay and release the carbon again.
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Israel is up for it. America, Iran, Thailand may be, too. China is there already, natch Pervasive surveillance through digital technologies is the business model of Facebook and Google. And now governments are considering the web giants’ tools to track COVID-19 carriers for the public good.…
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The Democratic Party elite insists nothing can be done to mobilize working-class nonvoters. By challenging their cynicism, Bernie Sanders is rendering a profound service to American democracy. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders participates in a coronavirus public health roundtable with healthcare professionals on March 09, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. Scott Olson / Getty Let it be said at once: the treatment received by Bernie Sanders in the leading media in the United States and…
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A few days ago I started a sourdough starter because baking chills me out and provides stuff to eat. I took a look at the old French Press carafe I am using as a container a few hours after the 3rd time I fed said starter. The starter looked like it was READY TO GO but I figured I should probably feed it a few more times just to be sure. I did not, however,…
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Government CIO promises they don’t record location, just change of location Hong Kong has made it mandatory for all new arrivals to wear an “electronic wristband” that links to a smartphone to provide location-tracking services, so that authorities can be sure they’re observing COVID-19 quarantine requirements. And the city-state insists its privacy commissioner has signed off on the idea because it “does not pose privacy concerns.”…
We can have beautiful cities without turning our cities into surveillance cities. Cities across the U.S. are forcing operators of shared bikes and scooters to use dangerous and privacy invasive APIs developed by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. These APIs—collectively called the “mobility data specification,” or MDS—require that operators share granular location data on every trip taken. The location data that cities are demanding is incredibly sensitive and relates to the movements of real…
Smartphones haven’t really needed a full computer keyboard, until now. We are turning the Linux desktop ecosystem into a convergent one. In order to access desktop applications, our keyboard has to feel good on the small screen, as well as expose common desktop keystrokes. Terminal use While you can comfortably use the GUI in PureOS, the terminal is fully empowered. Giving you all your favorite GNU commands, anything missing is likely an install command away.…
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Alaskan voters will get the chance to adopt statewide ranked choice voting (RCV) after the state’s Division of Elections certified a three-pronged ballot measure submitted by Alaskans for Better Elections, a bipartisan advocacy group. The ballot measure, officially certified on March 9, was filed with 41,068 signatures (36,006 deemed valid)—far more than the 28,501 valid signatures required by state law. The measure would replace partisan primaries with open top-four primaries for statewide and congressional offices and establish…
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On Tuesday, despite urgent pleas from public health experts for postponement of the balloting, voters reported being forced into unsanitary environments and jumping through arduous hoops to vote. The culprit was the party that believes in science and voting rights. Poll worker Jeremy Block, center, directs 88-year-old Mort Winsberg to a voting booth in Leon County, Florida, precinct 5105, during the Florida primary on March 17, 2020 in Tallahassee. Mark Wallheiser / Getty Joe Biden’s…
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NEW HAVEN, CT—Speaking out against proposals to provide federal assistance to Americans hardest hit by the pandemic-fueled economic downturn, local conservative Mark Garrett expressed worry Wednesday that relief checks would discourage citizens from learning to provide for themselves by killing him and taking his…Read more…
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Owners and workers at bars and restaurants say help with unemployment benefits isn’t enough.