The ACLU asked the Supreme Court to rule that laws prohibiting specific kinds of boycotts are unconstitutional,
after one federal appeals court ruled to the contrary.The authoritarian campaign to prohibit boycotting Israel has put the
US in danger of broad-spectrum plutocratist authoritarianism.
Fair Use says it is OK to use this image because this is a commentary on it. Right? U.S. Supreme CourtThe internet has opened access to culture. Billions of webpages build on the art, images, music, film, television and writing of the past. This explosion of content leads to tough questions over ownership of creative work and exclusivity of use. The highest court in the land may soon try to better define the limits of free use, or the right to remix previously published work. On Oct. 12, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith. The case addresses when artists or writers may…
More than two dozen tenants have lived for years in dilapidated dwellings leased by the Eno River Association. Now their absentee landlord wants to sell the land, and their homes, to the state.
External feed Read More at the Source: https://indyweek.com/news/durham/eno-river-slumlords/
On Monday, 30 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus sent a letter to President Joe Biden suggesting the US negotiate with Russia to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. On Tuesday, they withdrew their letter, repudiated calls for negotiation and pledged their full support for the war.
External feed Read More at the Source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/10/26/pers-o26.html
Israel has announced new apartheid rules that would greatly interfere
with anything but a short visit to Palestinian territory.
People born in the few countries where most Palestinian refugees live
would be banned entirely from entering Palestinian territory.
External feed Read More at the Source: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Israel_apartheid_rules)
Former staff describe threat as a ‘heist’ and ‘outright attack’ on pension scheme
IBM intends to withhold tens of thousands of dollars each from certain retired staff unless they agree to the IT giant’s demands.…
PostgreSQL 15 has now the capability to output logs in JSON format! PostgreSQL 15: logging in JSON The freshly released PostgreSQL 15 introduces a lot of new features and improvements, but one, according to me, is going to change the way our favourite database is monitored: the capability to log daemon status in JSON.
Essentially, the log_destination configuration parameter now has another enumerated value: jsonlog. When this value is added to log_destination, PostgreSQL will start to emit JSON structured logs.
Here it is a simple configuration example:% grep log_destination /postgres/15/data/postgresql.conf
log_destination = ‘stderr,jsonlog’and this is how the log directory appears right after the configuration has been reloaded:
% sudo -u postgres ls /postgres/15/data/log -1
postgresql-Fri.json
postgresql-Fri.logClearly the…
External feed Read More at the Source: https://postgr.es/p/5r9
Early Saturday morning, a Florida man and his teenage son were arrested after allegedly shooting at and nearly killing a woman sitting in her car after receiving a Ring doorbell camera alert. After a neighbor stopped by Gino (73) and Rocky (15) Colonacosta’s front door to drop off prescription medication accidentally delivered to the wrong address, the Ring surveillance camera began bombarding their phones with alerts. The pair grabbed .45-caliber handguns, went outside looking for a burglar, and found a woman sitting in her car on her phone. Gino pointed the gun at her and ordered her out of her car, but she escaped in her car believing she was being carjacked. The pair allegedly shot…
External feed Read More at the Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3adj59/ring-cameras-are-going-to-get-more-people-killed
Today’s links
An hour of interwar Halloween music: Spooky season listening from Centuries of Sound.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
An hour of interwar Halloween music (permalink)
Through his delightful Centuries of Sound project, JM Errington is producing an hour-long mix of music for every year since 1853 – the dawn of music recording itself. Interspersed with these “annual” mixes are some thematic ones. His latest, “Halloween Between the Wars,” is an hour of spooky interwar music and radio/film horror excerpts:
The track-list for this is full of hot jazz, broad comedy, and spooktacular greats that are a refreshing break from “The…
External feed Read More at the Source: https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/24/spooky-season/
A developer came to me a week ago with a project they’d been working on for over a year. The proposition of what they offered and the importance of what it would mean to historical software at Internet Archive was so compelling that within 48 hours, we’d announced it to the world. The site is DISCMASTER.TEXTFILES.COM, and within its stacks lie multitudes of previously hidden software treasure, and a directed search engine that makes it a top-notch research tool. More than a fascinating site, though, it represents some philosophies regarding the Archive’s stacks that are worth exploring as well. The first thing that strikes a visitor to the site is either how strange, or…
External feed Read More at the Source: https://blog.archive.org/2022/10/24/the-rise-of-discmaster/
Anyone got the technical reference manual for this simulation we’re living in?
Physicists in America have confirmed a strange measurement that was first discovered by scientists probing the internal structure of protons two decades ago. …
External feed Read More at the Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2022/10/23/physicists_proton_structure/
On October 21, the Alaska Supreme Court issued its opinion in Kohlhaas v state. The opinion is unanimous and is 57 pages. It explains why it had ruled on January 19, 2022, that the top-four initiative is constitutional. The oral argument had been on January 18, and the next day the court had said the initiative is constitutional and that it would explain later. Now it has issued its explanation.
The most interesting part of the decision is the Court’s criticism of the Maine Supreme Court’s 2017 decision that had held that ranked choice voting violates the Maine Constitution, as applied to state office. Maine still lacks ranked choice voting for state office, in general elections (but…
The U-Boot list carries
the sad news that Wolfgang Denk, the founder of the U-Boot project, has
passed away.Wolfgang was a pioneer and strong supporter of Open Source, in the time when Linux for Embedded System started its first steps. In many occasions he had strong discussions with customers to explain the advantages of Open Source, and he rejected business contracts if customer was going against his principles. We will miss him.
External feed Read More at the Source: https://lwn.net/Articles/912052/
In 1938 a farmer grew pumpkins with realistic human faces. The pumpkins of John M. Czeski beat any Jack-O-Lantern I’ve seen. He created these fabulous pumpkin heads by placing an aluminum mold around a growing pumpkin. The pumpkin would take the shape of the mold until it grew into a human-like face. — Read the rest
External feed Read More at the Source: https://boingboing.net/2022/10/23/in-1938-a-farmer-grew-pumpkins-with-realistic-human-faces.html
On October 23, the New York Daily News carried an editorial, criticizing the Second Circuit for refusing to give any ballot access relief to the Libertarian and Green Parties, and for not even explaining its reasoning. As the editorial notes, the opinion is one sentence long, saying there is nothing wrong with the U.S. District Court opinion earlier that upheld the 2020 ballot access rules.
There is much wrong with the U.S. District Court decision. It said that New York is justified in keeping minor parties off the ballot because otherwise the state would need to waste money on public funding for minor party candidates. This was fallacious because the Second Circuit had already ruled in a…
One of my favorite layers to route with pgRouting is the water layer. I am interested
in where water comes from, where it goes, where runoff happens,
and how urban development interacts with this powerful force
of nature. The OpenStreetMap water layer, however,
presents a challenge when routing with PostGIS and pgRouting: Polygons.
Why are polygons a challenge? A routing network using pgRouting is built
from lines (edges).
Now, to state the obvious: polygons are not lines.
Real world waterway networks are made up of both lines and polygons.
Rivers, streams, and drainage routes are predominately (but not exclusively!)
mapped using lines. These lines feed into and out of ponds, lakes, and reservoirs. The following animation shows how much impact the water polygons
can have on a…
External feed Read More at the Source: https://postgr.es/p/5rb
As landlords continue their relentless pursuit of profits, and politicians allow pandemic-era eviction moratoriums to expire, the human toll of a fundamentally brutal housing system is arguably more visible than ever—particularly in America’s largest cities.
Much of corporate media’s coverage of the deepening housing crisis, however, focuses on what are presented as three great evils: that landlords of supposedly modest means are being squeezed; that individuals and families living without homes destroy the aesthetics of cities; and that, in line with the most recent manufactured panic over violent crime, people without homes pose a threat to the lives and property of law-abiding citizens.
By pushing these narratives, corporate media are engaging in a strategy of misdirection. This shields…
External feed Read More at the Source: https://fair.org/home/media-narratives-shield-landlords-from-a-crisis-of-their-own-making/
The display featured a scarecrow wearing a “Can I speak to the manager?” t-shirt and a “Karen” nametag.
Further, the city says the display was not a political statement, nor was it targeted at a specific individual or group, and that they have investigated the issue internally and did not find anyone who participated in the display intended malice.
Moving forward, the city says there will be staff trainings as to why this was “insensitive and offensive to their community.”
(Time to bring back the “we’re a culture not a costume” memes.)
Enlarge / Search through millions of vintage files with Discmaster. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)
Today, tech archivist Jason Scott announced a new website called Discmaster that lets anyone search through 91.7 million vintage computer files pulled from CD-ROM releases and floppy disks. The files include images, text documents, music, games, shareware, videos, and much more. Discmaster opens a window into digital media culture around the turn of the millennium, turning anyone into a would-be digital archeologist. It’s a rare look into a slice of cultural history that is often obscured by the challenges of obsolete media and file format incompatibilities.
The files on Discmaster come from the Internet Archive, uploaded by thousands…
External feed Read More at the Source: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1890903
Some folks complained that the display was “offensive to certain type of women,” and city hall was forced to take it down.