At midnight on election day last Tuesday, vote tallies showed Republican candidates ahead in key races in Florida, Georgia and Arizona. However, many votes remained to be counted in all three states. The stakes are high: two Senate seats (Florida and Arizona) and two governorships (Florida and Georgia), plus some lower offices. And as the count has proceeded, the Democratic candidate in each case has gained more votes than the Republican, narrowing the margin or…
Sessions’ Justice Department systematically undermined civil liberties and civil rights. Under almost any other circumstances, the firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions would be a moment for dancing in the streets. Sessions oversaw a Justice Department that systematically undermined civil liberties and civil rights. But his departure portends no improvement on these fronts. And the fact that President Trump fired him, notwithstanding his faithful advancement of the president’s agenda, should raise alarm bells. Sessions leaves the…
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The 25-day cutoff is an unnecessary and outdated burden on New Yorkers’ right to vote. Imagine a national department store chain holding a “Back to School” sale in late July instead of in August. People who show up close to when school actually starts are told, “You’re too late.” That’s what voting in New York is like. Each election cycle, thousands of New Yorkers are prevented from casting a ballot because of the state’s registration…
From ride-hailing platforms like Lyft and Uber, to sites like Airbnb, FlipKey, or VRBO that enable occupants to rent properties, the so-called sharing or gig economy is expanding and disrupting industries from hotels to taxis. Cities across the U.S.—and the rest of the world—are facing a daunting array of regulatory challenges in responding to their growth. The ongoing saga of scooter-sharing services suggests a foreseeable pattern…. Earlier this year, a new class of companies prompted…
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In a night of several electoral firsts, Maine made history Tuesday by becoming the first state to elect a U.S. Senator and two members of the U.S. House of Representatives using ranked choice voting. According to news reports, election officials throughout the state were reporting the RCV election went smoothly, and Secretary of State Matt Dunlap told FairVote that “overall, voters were pleased with it” and that he expects RCV to become a “fixture” of…
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The case could drastically alter longstanding precedent protecting the separation of church and state and send a devastating message to non-Christians Last Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it will decide whether a state government’s display of a gigantic, 40-foot Latin cross as a war memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland, violates the separation of church and state. On the surface, the case appears to be about one religious monument located at one busy intersection in one…
For roughly two decades, copyright holders have been sending ISPs takedown notices to alert account holders that their connections are being used to share copyrighted material. These notices are traditionally nothing more than a warning, hoping to scare file-sharers into giving up their habit. In recent years, this has slowly changed. In the past, AT&T and other ISPs said that they would never terminate accounts of customers without a court order, arguing that only a…
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All around updates in the TeX Live on Debian world: Besides the usual shipment of macro and font packages, we have uploaded a new set of binaries checked out from current svn, as well as the latest and shiniest version of biber to complement the macro update of biblatex. The version for the binary packages is 2018.20181104.49075 and is based on svn revision 49075. That means we get: new dvisvgm version 2.6.1 several bugfixes in…
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As you already know if you read my introductory blog post, over the summer, I interned with the Free Software Foundation tech team. A free software enthusiast, I joined the FSF in order to grow my appreciation, to work on interesting free software projects for which I normally would not have the opportunity, and to meet other free software supporters. My dreams were exceeded! For my first project of the internship, I researched single-board computers…
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As you already know if you read my introductory blog post, over the summer, I interned with the Free Software Foundation tech team. A free software enthusiast, I joined the FSF in order to grow my appreciation, to work on interesting free software projects for which I normally would not have the opportunity, and to meet other free software supporters. My dreams were exceeded! For my first project of the internship, I researched single-board computers…
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Across the country, here are seven opportunities to transform the criminal justice system. So much hangs in the balance in this year’s midterm elections. Control of Congress, governorships, state houses, and district attorney and sheriff’s offices across the country are up for grabs. Many candidates up and down the ballot are debating criminal justice issues, and in many places, this election could be a turning point in the fight to end mass incarceration. Here are seven…
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Open-source kernel release candidate adds support for two Chinese processor families… will this be the last CPU archs? The new, improved, and chilled-out Linus Torvalds emitted the first release candidate for Linux kernel 4.20 over the weekend.…
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San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched a virtual reality (VR) experience on its website today that teaches people how to spot and understand the surveillance technologies police are increasingly using to spy on communities.“We are living in an age of surveillance, where hard-to-spot cameras capture our faces and our license plates, drones in the sky videotape our streets, and police carry mobile biometric devices to scan people’s fingerprints,” said EFF Senior Investigative Researcher Dave…
Why can’t we all go back to being nice to each other, like in the Usenet and IRC days, er, wait… Comment The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is warning about the death of the web again, and urging people to come together to make the internet all nice and lovely.…
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Calling all internet hactivists! The Internet Archive is hosting a two day celebration of Aaron Swartz to provide a yearly showcase of the many projects started by Aaron before his death. Aaron Swartz’s work focused on civic awareness and activism and we will spend the weekend together keeping his prescient vision alive. Come join us for the international hackathon and programming on Saturday November 10th through Sunday November 11th, 2018. Doors are open for the hackathon and the…
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[Robson Couto] recently found himself in need of MIDI interface for a project he was working on, but didn’t want to buy one just to use it once; we’ve all been there. Being the creative fellow that he is, he decided to come up with something that not only used the parts he had on-hand but could be completed in one afternoon. Truly a hacker after our own hearts. Searching around online, he found documentation…
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By Ryan Westdock Green Party of Virginia It is easy to pick through Democratic propaganda, a process which has happened time and time again to sadly little avail. What is a bit harder, and vastly more important, is to state strong reasons for voting Green when that choice is available. There are many such reasons, some practical and some ethical, for doing so. Perhaps the strongest reason is that our platform is the only one that…
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China is ‘remaking the world in its techno-dystopian image’ Internet freedoms have taken a nose dive for the eighth year running, according to a report warning that authoritarian countries and populist leaders are exporting harmful attitudes and ideas around the world.…
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As a staunch defender of an open Internet, ISP Bahnhof has repeatedly spoken out against pirate site blocking efforts. The company has also argued the matter in court recently, after academic publisher Elsevier applied for an order to ban a series of domain names, including Sci-Hub. Today, Bahnhof announced that it has been ordered to block the sites in question. This is the worst possible outcome for Bahnhof. TorrentFreak spoke to CEO Jon Karlung who…
The SpamAssassin 3.4.2 release was the first from that project in well over three years. At the 2018 Open Source Summit Europe, Giovanni Bechis talked about that release and those that will be coming in the near future. It would seem that, after an extended period of quiet, the SpamAssassin project is back and has rededicated itself to the task of keeping junk out of our inboxes.
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