Streetsblog.org – Reality check: You can’t solve congestion by widening roads – invest in transit instead

Dec 102021
 

On Monday the Chicago Tribune looked at the plight of local drivers stuck in some of the nation’s worst commute traffic, based on the latest congestion study by the transportation analytics firm Inrix.
Streetsblog USA has noted in the past that these annual Inrix traffic reports have been marred by multiple flaws. Issue have included an unrealistic definition of congestion that implies that roads aren’t functioning properly unless its easy for motorists to drive at illegal speeds; exaggerated estimates of the “cost” of congestion to travelers; and a bias against against compact cities with short average travel distances.
But there’s no question that Chicagoland has nightmarish traffic, and choosing to drive to work here when you don’t have…

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Ballot Access News – North Carolina Supreme Court Moves 2022 Primary from March 8 to May 17

Dec 092021
 

On December 8, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued an order in Harper v Hall, 413P21, moving the 2022 primary from March 8 to May 17. The Court also closed candidate filing for the district offices. The Supreme Court also instructed the lower state court to rule on the constitutionality of the new U.S. House and legislative districts by January 11, 2022.
As a result of this order, the only 2022 state primary earlier than May is the Texas March primary. There is a fair chance that primary will be postponed as well.
An indirect consequence of the North Carolina order is that independent candidates now have until May 17 to submit their petitions, for 2022. Thanks to…

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Ballot Access News – Jill Stein Files “Statement of Issues” in U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C., Over 2016 Primary Season Matching Funds Repayment Order

Dec 072021
 

On December 1, 2021, Jill Stein, Green Party presidential nominee in 2016, filed a Statement of Issues in the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. She is asking the Court to amend or reverse the Federal Election Commission decision earlier … Continue reading →

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The Register – MySQL a ‘pretty poor database’ says departing Oracle engineer

Dec 072021
 

PostgreSQL a better option for open source RDBMS, he claims

You’ve collected your leaving card, novelty presents, and perhaps a bottle of wine – what’s next on the list for the departing developer? For one, it’s a blog rubbishing the technology he’s been working on for five years.…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – Washington D.C. transit system recalls over 60 percent of rail fleet after derailment exposes critical flaws

Nov 092021
 

The recall of nearly the entire metro rail fleet has left commuters stranded on overcrowded metro lines with 40-minute wait times between trains.

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jwz – Chucky

Nov 052021
 

I have been loving the new Chucky TV series, so that inspired me to rewatch all 7 movies. In a row. Yeah I white-knuckled the whole thing in one night and I have no regrets. Ok, here we go:Child’s Play (1988): This is extremely 80s, but holds up pretty well. The end of the first act drags a bit but nobody wastes any time in denial. Once someone sees him walking around they’re all, “Yup, that’s a talking doll. Kill it with fire.” B+.Child’s Play 2 (1990): I like that it just picks right up a couple of weeks after the first movie ends. Mom is in an asylum and the kid is in…

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The Register – Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers amid budget freeze

Nov 052021
 

Email tells bosses to down-level open positions to control costs

Exclusive  Next year, IBM’s Red Hat plans to cut back on hiring senior engineers in an effort aimed largely at controlling costs.…

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PopularResistance.Org – The Green New Deal–From Below

Oct 312021
 

This is the first in a series of commentaries on “The Green New Deal–From Below.” This commentary explains the idea of a Green New Deal from Below and provides an overview of the series. Subsequent commentaries in this series will address dimensions of the Green New Deal from below ranging from energy production to the role of unions to microgrids, coops, anchor institutions, and many others.

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – Oklahoma death row prisoner John Grant vomits, convulses in death chamber as state resumes executions

Oct 302021
 

Grant’s execution was the first in Oklahoma since 2015 after a series of them went horribly wrong. It proceeded after the US Supreme Court lifted his stay of execution.

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Boing Boing – 97-year-old billionaire and amateur-architect designs a nearly windowless mega-dormitory for 4500 students

Oct 302021
 

“The dormitory’s nine identical residential floors would be organized into eight “houses” with eight “suites” (shown here) with eight bedrooms. | Credit: Courtesy” — The Independent

Charles Munger, a “97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect” gave $200 million to the University of California Santa Barbara on one condition: that no one could change his blueprints for a “11-story, 1.68-million-square-foot structure that would house up to 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom would not have windows in their small, single-occupancy bedrooms,” reports The Independent. — Read the rest

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Ars Technica – Juno reveals deep 3D structure of Jupiter’s massive storms

Oct 302021
 

Enlarge / This view of Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere from NASA’s Juno spacecraft includes several of the planet’s southern jet streams. (credit: NASA)
Nasa’s Juno mission, the solar-powered robotic explorer of Jupiter, has completed its five-year prime mission to reveal the inner workings of the Solar System’s biggest planet. Since 2016, the spacecraft has flown within a few thousand kilometers of Jupiter’s colorful cloud tops every 53 days, using a carefully selected array of instruments to peer deeper into the planet than ever before.
The most recent findings from these measurements have now been published in a series of papers, revealing the three-dimensional structure of Jupiter’s weather systems—including of its famous Great Red Spot, a…

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Howie Hawkins for President | Angela Walker for Vice President – RELEASE: Hawkins on Build Back Better: We Need an Ecosocialist Green New Deal, Not Another Biden Capitulation

Oct 292021
 

Contact: Howie Hawkins, howie@howiehawkins.us, 315-200-6046
Virginia Rodino, virginia@howiehawkins.us, 202-465-0918
For Immediate Release

Hawkins on Build Back Better: We Need an Ecosocialist Green New Deal, Not Another Biden Capitulation
The Build Back Better Framework released this morning by President Biden is a total capitulation to conservative Democratic Senators Manchin and Sinema.
The $6.1 trillion program Biden announced in his American Jobs and American Families plan has been cut to less than a third of what he proposed. Proposals that are overwhelmingly popular with the public like repealing the Trump tax cuts, paid leave, and Medicare negotiating lower drug prices with Big Pharma have been eliminated. What remains are social programs with lower benefits, privatized administration, and means testing that complicates administration and adds administrative costs. The…

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PopularResistance.Org – Biden Threatens To Deploy National Guard To Move Cargo

Oct 242021
 

Baltimore, MD – At a CNN town hall event Thursday evening, President Joe Biden revealed that he is considering using National Guard troops to ease the bottleneck at Southern California ports. In response to questioning from moderator Anderson Cooper, Biden said the plans potentially include having soldiers drive trucks from the ports to warehouses and distribution centers.
This would mean the militarization of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which handle 40 percent of US imports. It would be a direct state attack on longshoremen, truck drivers and warehouse workers, with soldiers serving essentially as scabs operating in behalf of the private owners of the ports, trucking firms, shipping companies and major retailers such as…

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Phoronix – Raspberry Pi Sees Their First Price Increase Due To Supply Chain issues

Oct 212021
 

The ongoing supply chain issues across the semiconductor industry (and more broadly) are now impacting the Raspberry Pi operations for end-users/customers when it comes to pricing…

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PopularResistance.Org – Digital Vaccine Passports Pave Way For Surveillance Capitalism

Oct 212021
 

The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend.
Like 1.3 billion of her fellow Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system called Aadhaar in order to access public services, including her monthly allotment of 25kg of rice. When her fingerprint failed to register with the shoddy system, Devi was denied her food ration. Throughout the course of the following three months in 2017, she was repeatedly refused food until she succumbed to hunger, alone in her home.
Premani Kumar, a 64-year-old woman also from Jharkhand, met the same demise as…

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The Intercept – A Florida Anarchist Will Spend Years in Prison for Online Posts Prompted by Jan. 6 Riot

Oct 162021
 

With the U.S. Capitol building seen in the background, a sign on a bus shelter asks the public for information about people involved in the Capitol insurrection, January 19, 2021.

Photo: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
On Tuesday, a Florida judge sentenced Daniel Baker, an anti-fascist activist, to 44 months in federal prison for social media posts that called for armed defense against possible far-right attacks on the state’s Capitol in the wake of the January 6 riots. Baker, a 34-year-old yoga teacher and emergency medical technician trainee, had no previous criminal convictions and has already been held for 10 months of harsh pretrial detention, including seven months in solitary confinement. He never brought a weapon near…

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Deeplinks – Come Back with a Warrant: Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act

Oct 162021
 

We do not lose our constitutional rights at the border. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), however, believes you do. In fiscal year 2019 alone (before the pandemic curbed international travel), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers conducted nearly 41,000 electronic device searches without seeking a warrant supported by probable cause of wrongdoing from a judge. Unfettered border searches of electronic devices pose a significant threat to personal privacy. That’s why we urge Congress to pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act, a bill recently re-introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) that would create a warrant requirement for these types of searches, thereby protecting our constitutional rights at…

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