Corporate America Is Getting a Bailout. Its Workers Are Getting Screwed. Jacobin

Mar 282020
 

The United States could have followed the example set by countries like Denmark, which have guaranteed workers’ wages during the crisis. Instead, America has set itself up for a devastating and unprecedented wave of layoffs. A grocery store worker recycles boxes on March 28, 2020 in Brooklyn, New York. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images) The coronavirus pandemic may be global in scale, but its material impact on ordinary workers thus far has varied widely from…

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The Limits of Liberal Urbanism Jacobin

Mar 282020
 

As housing becomes more and more unaffordable, liberal mayors have jumped to recognize the crisis. At the same time, they’re fully committed to the status quo, giving carte blanche to developers at the expense of legitimately affordable housing. Staircase for the 167th Street (Jerome Avenue Line) on the southwest corner of 167th Street and River Avenue in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. Wikimedia Commons In big cities today, the housing problem is obvious to…

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Vermont Secretary of State Wants Legislature to Eliminate Petitions for This Year’s Elections Ballot Access News

Mar 282020
 

Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos, a Democrat, wants the legislature to eliminate mandatory petitions for the 2020 elections. See this story. Thanks to Pat Quinn for this news. … Continue reading →

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After Florida Held Its Primary Amid Pandemic, Two Poll Workers Tested Positive for Coronavirus The Intercept

Mar 282020
 

Two Florida poll workers have tested positive for the novel coronavirus since the March 17 primary, which was held contrary to guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention against large gatherings to curb the spread of the coronavirus.  Both of the workers were stationed at polls in Broward County, in the southeast part of the state. A spokesperson for the Broward County Supervisor of Elections said on Thursday that all 16 poll workers…

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We’ve come full rectangle: Polaroid is reborn out of The Impossible Project TechCrunch

Mar 282020
 

More than a decade after announcing that it would keep Polaroid’s abandoned instant film alive, The Impossible Project has done the… improbable: It has officially become the brand it set out to save. And to commemorate the occasion, there’s a new camera, the Polaroid Now. The convergence of the two brands has been in the works for years, and in fact Impossible Project products were already Polaroid-branded. But this marks a final and satisfying shift…

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SF Bar Owner to Yelp: jwz

Mar 282020
 

THIS asshole. “Fuck All of These People Entirely”Like many business owners across the country, Jamie Zawinski, the owner of SoMa nightclub DNA Lounge, was less than pleased to learn that a partnership between Yelp and GoFundMe meant that the Yelp listing for his business now had a fundraising button on it that he hadn’t consented to. “What the fuck?” he said regarding the move in an email to Eater. “Seriously, what the fucking fuck?” […]As…

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Those “Free” Remote Learning Apps Have a High Cost: Your Student’s Privacy American Civil Liberties Union

Mar 282020
 

The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak that has ravaged our nation and world has had many jarring moments. For parents and their children, one of those came with the mass closing of our schools. Tens of millions of children faced having their educations grind to a halt, including 1.1 million children in New York City’s public schools alone — a number which includes two of my own.While Americans have grown understandably weary of the tech industry, which…

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EFF, ACLU & CDT Argue Five Months of Warrantless Covert 24/7 Video Surveillance Violates Fourth Amendment Deeplinks

Mar 282020
 

Should the fact that your neighbors can see the outside of your house mean the police can use a camera to record everything that happens there for more than five months? We don’t think so either. That’s why we joined ACLU, ACLU of Massachusetts, and the Center for Democracy & Technology in filing an amicus brief last week in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court arguing the Fourth Amendment and Massachusetts’s state equivalent protect us from…

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Millions of People Will Struggle to Pay Rent in April, but Few in Congress Care The Intercept

Mar 282020
 

On Wednesday, April 1, rent payments will be due for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic — yet even with unemployment at a record high, major bill payments have barely factored into U.S. politicians’ response to the crisis. On Friday, the House passed an emergency multi-trillion dollar relief package, which was approved by the Senate on Wednesday night and will now head to President Donald Trump’s desk. It’s about five…

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Yeah, that Zoom app you’re trusting with work chatter? It lives with ‘vampires feeding on the blood of human data’ The Register

Mar 282020
 

Doc Frown: Searls decries video-conferencing software’s ‘creepy’ closeness with ad tracking As the global coronavirus pandemic pushes the popularity of videoconferencing app Zoom to new heights, one web veteran has sounded the alarm over its “creepily chummy” relationship with tracking-based advertisers.…

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Members of Congress Once Again Urge ICANN to Save Dot Org Deeplinks

Mar 282020
 

As the proposed sale of the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital plays out, we see more and more why this sale was rushed through: the longer we have to look at it, the more questions we all have, and the fewer answers we get. For the second time, some of the people questioning the wisdom of this sale are members of the U.S. Congress. On March 18, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Ron…

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