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Mar 052025
2025-03-05
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Mar 042025
On December 16, 2024, the Georgia Libertarian and Green Parties filed a new lawsuit against the Georgia campaign finance law that lets individuals give more contributions to Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, than those individuals may give to other candidates for those two offices. Libertarian Party of Georgia v Carr, n.d., 1:24cv-05763. Here is the Complaint.
An earlier case filed by the Libertarian Party was dismissed on standing grounds. The new case shores up defenses against that happening again. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Mark H. Cohen, who also handled the last case.
2025-03-04
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Mar 032025
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (March 3, 2025) — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today it has submitted an amicus brief in the case entitled Neo4j, Inc., et al. v. Suhy, et al., Case No. 24-5538 in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The amicus brief addresses various misstatements and baseless assertions regarding the FSF and the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPLv3) — the license at issue in the case — found in a pleading filed by Neo4j.
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2025-03-03
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Mar 022025
Many programming fonts allow customization through OpenType features. For people who are picky about certain properties, like easily distinguishable l and I (lowercase L and uppercase i), a single toggle can make a difference between rejecting a font and starting to use it. Unfortunately, choosing the perfect font with the perfect setup is way harder than it should be. This post describes the tools that may help, including the one that I wrote recently.
Whenever I stumble upon a new font, I want to know:how does the font generally look?
does the font allow customization of specific glyphs that bother me?
when set up properly, how does the font fare against my current setup?But first, how do you even learn about a new font?…
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2025-03-02
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Feb 282025
As I approached the customs line at Dulles International Airport early on the morning of Feb. 24, a man called out to me, “Mr. Blumenthal?” He identified himself as an officer with Customs and Border Protection, and led me into a cavernous secondary screening room, where he treated me to a strange and disconcerting questioning session.
I had just returned from a leisurely trip to Nicaragua with my family during which I participated in no political activities. But the agent’s line of questioning suggested federal authorities had little interest in my visit to Nicaragua, a country that happens to be controlled by a socialist-oriented government on Washington’s hit list.
The post Max Blumenthal: Why Did The Feds Question…
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2025-02-28
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Feb 262025
Flock Safety loves to crow about the thousands of local law enforcement agencies around the United States that have adopted its avian-themed automated license plate readers (ALPRs). But when a privacy activist launched a website to map out the exact locations of these pole-mounted devices, the company tried to clip his wings.
The company sent DeFlock.me and its creator Will Freeman a cease-and-desist letter, claiming that the project dilutes its trademark. Suffice it to say, and to lean into ornithological wordplay, the letter is birdcage liner.
Representing Freeman, EFF sent Flock Safety a letter rejecting the demand, pointing out that the grassroots project is well within its First Amendment rights.
Flock Safety’s car-tracking cameras have been spreading across the…
2025-02-26
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Feb 262025
There is truly a scarcity of books on incense in the English language, even more so if you narrow it down to incenses originating from a specific country. The majority of incense books in English are aimed at the Wiccan market, perhaps the most pivotal book on that account was Scott Cunningham’s The Complete Book of Incense, Oils and Brews. This was a book I bought fairly early in my incense explorations, and after a few goes with recipes, it led to an impression that I wouldn’t be any good at handcrafting incense. I also had Wylundt’s Book of Incense which covered similar territory, although with very different recipes, and then there’s Carl F. Neal’s more…
2025-02-26
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Feb 252025
Earlier today Framework Computer held a virtual and in-person event to announce their 2nd gen offerings in the form of a mini-ITX desktop powered by the new Ryzen AI Max SoCs, a 2-in-1 convertible laptop with the Framework Laptop 12, and Ryzen AI 300 series SoC/motherboard options for the Framework Laptop 13…
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2025-02-25
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Feb 252025
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2025-02-25
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Feb 252025
The tiny beads added to some cleansers and cosmetics are one source of the long-lasting microplastics that threaten the environment. But MIT researchers have found a way to address the problem at its source: replacing them with polymers that break down into harmless sugars and amino acids. Particles of this polymer could also be used to encapsulate nutrients such as vitamin A to fortify foods, which could help some of the 2 billion people around the world who suffer from nutrient deficiencies. To develop the material, graduate student Linzixuan (Rhoda) Zhang and her colleagues turned to poly-beta-amino esters, a class of polymers previously developed in the lab of Institute Professor Robert Langer, ScD ’74, which have…
2025-02-25
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Feb 252025
Amid mounting opposition from workers and young people to the fascistic policies of the Trump administration, including mass roundups of immigrants and the illegal Elon Musk-led assault on federal workers and social programs, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has launched a speaking tour aimed at diverting rising anger and militancy behind attempts to lobby moderate Republicans to oppose Trump’s budget reconciliation bill, while averting a government shutdown on March 14.
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2025-02-25
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Feb 252025
In Poland, postwar Communist rule has few defenders. But state-subsidized eateries known as milk bars, designed under state socialism to free people from “kitchen slavery,” continue to thrive today.
A milk bar in Krakow, Poland, photographed on May 24, 2022. (Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images) In the center of the Polish capital, Warsaw, is a street called Nowy Swiat — New World Street. Built in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in a neoclassical style and reconstructed very meticulously to something like its original appearance after Warsaw’s near-total destruction by Nazi Germany in 1944, it is the very heart of bourgeois Poland, the place where those who won out…
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2025-02-25
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Feb 252025
Extensions are like apps for your browser, letting you customize and enhance your online experience. Nearly half of all Firefox users have installed at least one extension, from privacy tools to productivity boosters. To build these extensions, developers rely on a platform called WebExtensions, which provides APIs — the tools that allow extensions to interact with web pages and browser features. Right now, all major browsers — including Firefox, Chrome and Safari — are implementing the latest version of this platform, Manifest V3. But different browsers are taking different approaches, and those differences affect which extensions you can use. Firefox’s approach to Manifest V3 is shaped by our mission Principle 5 of the Mozilla Manifesto…
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2025-02-25
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Feb 242025
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American people wouldn’t notice them. “Don’t make any sudden movements, or they’ll spot us,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said out of the corner of his mouth, tightly squeezing his eyes shut as he reminded Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to hold their breath anytime a member of the voting public walked by. “Did it work? I think we’re in the clear for now, but that was a close one. They could have talked to us, for crying out loud, or worse—demanded that we…
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2025-02-24
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Feb 242025
Last weekend we had that great thing happen again where suddenly there was sewage all over the floor of the main bar and the bathrooms. We snaked it and sand came out, which is a very bad sign! The last time this happened it meant that our lateral (the connection to the sewer main) had turned to dust, which cost use $25,000. But that was less than three years ago, so what the hell? We had like 700 people in the room and we had to close the main bathrooms and direct everyone to the Pizza bathrooms (which are thankfully on a separate system) and to upstairs to the balcony bar. It was Not Good. …
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2025-02-24
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Feb 242025
The IWA-RFC calls for mass action to stop the Trump administration’s purge of federal workers by Elon Musk’s DOGE, an unprecedented attack on the working class that, if unchecked, will have catastrophic consequences for all workers.
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2025-02-24
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Feb 162025
Arizona State Senator Eva Diaz (D-Tolleson) has introduced HB 2844. It says that if two or more independent candidates file for the same office, they must face each other in a non-partisan primary, and whichever of them wins is the only independent candidate who can run in November.
The concept behind the bill seems to be a belief that all independent voters are associated together with each other, but this is false. Independent voters, collectively, have nothing in common with each other in the sense that members of a party have some beliefs in common.
The bill would not apply to presidential independent candidates.
2025-02-16
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Feb 162025
Any statement regarding the potential benefits and/or hazards of AI tends to be automatically very divisive and controversial as the world tries to figure out what the technology means to them, and how to make the most money off it in the process. Either meaning Artificial Inference or Artificial Intelligence depending on who you ask, AI has seen itself used mostly as a way to ‘assist’ people. Whether in the form of a chat client to answer casual questions, or to generate articles, images and code, its proponents claim that it’ll make workers more efficient and remove tedium.
In a recent paper published by researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) the findings from a survey…
2025-02-16
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Feb 122025
Billionaires are already deleting parts of our government, as well as various safety mechanisms on the internet that sought to minimize hate and abuse. Do we also want them to be able to rewrite our understanding of the First Amendment?
Steve Wynn’s latest Supreme Court petition represents a dangerous escalation in the ongoing assault on press freedom and the First Amendment. While self-proclaimed free speech warriors claim to champion unfettered expression, their actions reveal a different agenda: securing immunity from criticism while maintaining the power to silence their critics through legal intimidation.
The weapon of choice? Dismantling New York Times v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court decision that has protected robust public debate for sixty years.
This attack on Sullivan…
2025-02-12
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Feb 122025
Late last fall, a number of Norfolk, Virginia residents — with the assistance of the Institute for Justice (IJ) — sued the city for blanketing Norfolk with nearly 200 automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) provided by Flock Safety.
Flock Safety made its first inroads with the private market, selling plate readers to gated communities and HOAs so busybodies could keep track of everyone driving in and out of their cul-de-sacs. Having captured that market, Flock moved on, targeting US law enforcement agencies with the promise of cheap ALPRs that could be tied into existing ALPR cameras deployed by private citizens.
It’s pretty much the Ring playbook — aggressive market growth that gives cops cheap buy-in so long…
2025-02-12
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