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Illinois Used Nearly 50 Facilities for Low-Income Seniors in Chicago as Polling Locations on Tuesday The Intercept

Mar 192020
 

In order to push forward with in-person elections on Tuesday, local election officials across Illinois relocated hundreds of polling locations due to concerns about exposing particularly vulnerable populations to the novel coronavirus. Guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ahead of the election were particularly stark.  “If you are an older person, stay home and away from other people,” the latest guidelines read. “If you are a person with a serious underlying health condition…

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Enough is Enough—Let it Expire Deeplinks

Mar 192020
 

On March 15, 2020, Section 215—a provision of FISA with a rich history of government overreach and abuse—expired. That provision, along with two other provisions of FISA, lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of FISA reforms. Late last week, before the law expired, the House of Representatives passed the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act, which would have extended Section 215 for three more years, along with some modest reforms.  After…

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The Coronavirus Is Killing Iranians. So Are Trump’s Brutal Sanctions. The Intercept

Mar 182020
 

A woman mourns during a funeral held at Beheshte Masoumeh Cemetery for the victims of the new coronavirus in Qom, Iran, on March 17, 2020. Photo: Fatemah Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The U.S. government is run by sociopaths. How else to explain the Trump administration’s callous disregard for the lives of ordinary Iranians in the midst of this global coronavirus crisis? How else to make sense of U.S. officials doubling down in their support…

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What Cities Are Doing to Stall Evictions and Foreclosures CityLab | All Articles

Mar 182020
 

On Monday afternoon, the Bay Area became the first region in the U.S. to institute a shelter in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19, barring visits to restaurants or bars or the hair salon, having friends over, and taking unnecessary public transit trips. The restriction made another recent San Francisco measure all-the-more urgent: keeping people housed while they deal with the cascading economic toll of such an emergency.As other cities consider escalating their own…

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5 States Have Postponed Their Primaries Because Of The Coronavirus Features – FiveThirtyEight

Mar 182020
 

To slow the spread of the new coronavirus, virtually all aspects of public life are being scaled back, including the democratic process itself. In an extraordinary move, Ohio on Monday delayed its primary election, previously scheduled for today. Yesterday afternoon, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine directed the filing of a lawsuit to postpone the primary to prevent voters and poll workers from being exposed to the coronavirus. Initially, a judge ruled that it was too late…

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Congress Allocates $2 Trillion To Bail Out Struggling Bailout Industry The Onion

Mar 182020
 

WASHINGTON—In order to alleviate the heavy damage the crucial financial sector is facing in the midst of the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak, the United States Congress announced Tuesday that they would be allocating $2 trillion in order to bail out the struggling bailout industry. “The bailout industry is on the brink of…Read more…

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Amazon’s Supply Chain Is Breaking and Small Businesses Are Screwed Motherboard

Mar 182020
 

Amazon and the global supply chain are faltering under the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic. The world’s largest retailer announced Tuesday morning that it is suspending all shipments of non-essential products to its warehouses, a move that may help people ordering things like toilet paper and food but will singlehandedly destroy thousands of independent businesses that have come to rely on Amazon’s monolithic platform. “We are seeing increased online shopping, and as a result some…

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Inside the model that may be making US, UK rethink coronavirus control Ars Technica

Mar 182020
 

Enlarge / WUHAN, Feb. 5, 2020—Patients infected with the novel coronavirus are seen at a makeshift hospital converted from an exhibition center in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province. Containment methods like this can help countries get the pandemic under control. (credit: Getty | Xinhua News Agency) On Monday, the COVID-19 Response Team at Imperial College London released a report that describes its efforts to create a model of how various control efforts could alter the…

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San Francisco’s shelter-in-place order does not apply to gig workers TechCrunch

Mar 172020
 

Earlier today, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a shelter-in-place order in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. The order legally requires people to stay home as much as possible unless it’s essential that they leave to do things like go to the grocery store, buy gas or go to the pharmacy. So, no more going out to restaurants, gyms or nightclubs. Residents can, however, still order food for delivery from restaurants, as…

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CDC Tells Morticians to Livestream Funerals Motherboard

Mar 172020
 

Even in grief, the rules of hand hygiene and social isolation apply. That’s what thousands of funeral directors learned Monday when they joined a Facebook livestream to hear firsthand from the U.S. Centers for Disease, Control, and Prevention how coronavirus will change how Americans die and are buried. The new disease, which has killed more than 6,500 people worldwide since it emerged in China in late 2019, has put an end to social gatherings around…

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FSF Blogs: LibrePlanet 2020 online: Second day of the conference closes on a high note Planet GNU

Mar 172020
 

This followed on the heels of the previous day’s presentation of the Free Software Awards to Let’s Encrypt, Jim Meyering, and Clarissa Lima Borges, along with Free Software Foundation (FSF) executive director John Sullivan’s announcement of a new FSF-sponsored working group to document and address the problem of proprietary communication tools. Just like the first day, the FSF coordinated with remote speakers and viewers from around the world via a fully free streaming setup which,…

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LibrePlanet 2020 online: Second day of the conference closes on a high note Planet GNU

Mar 172020
 

This followed on the heels of the previous day’s presentation of the Free Software Awards to Let’s Encrypt, Jim Meyering, and Clarissa Lima Borges, along with Free Software Foundation (FSF) executive director John Sullivan’s announcement of a new FSF-sponsored working group to document and address the problem of proprietary communication tools. Just like the first day, the FSF coordinated with remote speakers and viewers from around the world via a fully free streaming setup which,…

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Using nonfree software or flunking out Richard Stallman’s Political Notes

Mar 172020
 

The University of Washington has cancelled all in-person classes. This is understandable, but it also makes it especially crucial that the university allow students to do this with free software. Until now, it seems that students had the option of attending classes. With that option cancelled, they may face the choice of running nonfree software, or flunking out. If I were a student, I’d drop out rather than yield to that. But schools should not…

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Coronavirus Should Be a Wake-Up Call Jacobin

Mar 172020
 

From prisoners making hand sanitizer to people forgoing testing because of cost, the coronavirus has exposed the social rot in American society. But we don’t have to live this way — we can transform society for the better. A USPS worker is seen wearing a mask while delivering mail as the coronavirus continues to spread across the United States, on March 14, 2020 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images) “The coronavirus,” Joe…

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3D Printed Parts Keep Respirators Operational During COVID-19 Epidemic Hackaday

Mar 172020
 

COVID-19 can seem like a paper tiger, when looking at bare mortality rates. The far greater problem is the increase in fatalities as health systems are stretched to the limit. With thousands of patients presenting all at once, hospitals quickly run out of beds and resources and suddenly, normally survivable conditions become life threatening. One Italian hospital found themselves in such a position, running out of valves for a critical respirator device needed to save…

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Primary Polling Places Are Full Of Older People … And The Coronavirus Features – FiveThirtyEight

Mar 172020
 

On Friday, an exhausted-looking election official in Arizona was speaking at a press conference about the state’s upcoming primary when he gave up, mid-speech. “I’m sorry, I can’t do this,” said Maricopa County election day director Scott Jarrett, before he left the platform, and the room. It had been a difficult week. Arizona election officials were organizing a vote while also figuring out how to protect voters from the novel coronavirus. State officials fought in…

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