Plaintiffs Continue Effort to Overturn FOSTA, One of the Broadest Internet Censorship Laws Deeplinks

Sep 182020
 

Special thanks to legal intern Ross Ufberg, who was lead author of this post. A group of organizations and individuals are continuing their fight to overturn the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, known as FOSTA, arguing that the law violates the Constitution in multiple respects. In legal briefs filed in federal court recently, plaintiffs Woodhull Freedom Foundation, Human Rights Watch, the Internet Archive, Alex Andrews, and Eric Koszyk argued that the law violates the…

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New Bill Calls For An End To PACER Fees, Complete Overhaul Of The Outdated System Techdirt.

Sep 182020
 

The perennial make-PACER-free legislation has arrived. If you’re not familiar with PACER, count yourself among the lucky ones. PACER performs an essential task: it provides electronic access to federal court dockets and documents. That’s all it does and it barely does it. PACER charges taxpayers (who’ve already paid taxes to fund the federal court system) $0.10/page for EVERYTHING. Dockets? $0.10/page. (And that “page” is very loosely defined.) Every document is $0.10/page, as though the court…

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North Carolina Is Already Rejecting Black Voters’ Mail-In Ballots More Often Than White Voters’ Features – FiveThirtyEight

Sep 182020
 

In every election, a small percentage of mail-in ballots get rejected. But this election is likely to have a whole lot of mail-in ballots. And in an election where a record number of voters are expected to cast their ballots by mail, you’re likely to hear a whole lot about ballots that don’t count, especially because voters of color have ballots rejected at a higher rate than white voters. It’s already happening. In North Carolina,…

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Twitch Experiments With Intrusive Ads That Piss Off Its Most Important Asset, Its Talent Techdirt.

Sep 182020
 

As any internet platform matures, the growth it undergoes will inevitably lead to experimenting with revenue models. For a healthy chunk of the internet, advertising plays some role in those experiments. And, like anything else, there are good experiments and bad experiments. But I am very much struggling to understand who in the hell at Twitch thought that breaking away from live streams to force viewers to watch commercials, all without the control or input…

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Autodesk Announces Major Changes to Fusion 360 Personal Use License Terms Hackaday

Sep 172020
 

Change is inevitable, and a part of life. But we’re told that nobody likes change. So logically, it seems we’ve proved nobody likes life. QED. That may be a reach, but judging by the reaction of the Fusion 360 community to the announced changes to the personal use license, they’re pretty much hating life right now. The clear message from Autodesk is that Fusion 360 — the widely used suite of CAD and CAM software…

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What the *, Nintendo? This in-game censorship is * terrible. Deeplinks

Sep 172020
 

While many are staying at home and escaping into virtual worlds, it’s natural to discuss what’s going on in the physical world. But Nintendo is shutting down those conversations with its latest Switch system update (Sep. 14, 2020) by adding new terms like COVID, coronavirus and ACAB to its censorship list for usernames, in-game messages, and search terms for in-game custom designs (but not the designs themselves). While we understand the urge to prevent abuse…

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PG&E jwz

Sep 172020
 

This electrical transmission tower has a little problem. can you spot it? Actually, it’s not a small problem — it cost us 16.65 *billion* dollars and caused the deaths of 85 people. […]Remember that worn C hook? How long was it rubbing against the hangar bracket? The answer is that we don’t know. we think it is about 97 (!) years old, but we’re not sure because PG&E didn’t keep records about it.After the fire,…

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How the Internet Archive is Ensuring Permanent Access to Open Access Journal Articles Internet Archive Blogs

Sep 152020
 

Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles– the next 5 million is getting harder Open Access journals, such as New Theology Review (ISSN: 0896-4297) and Open Journal of Hematology (ISSN: 2075-907X), made their research articles available for free online for years. With a quick click or a simple query, students anywhere in the world could access their articles, and diligent Wikipedia editors could verify facts against original articles on vitamin…

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The ‘Hackers’ Curator Is a Style Guide for Our Favorite Hacking Movie Motherboard

Sep 152020
 

Today is the 25th anniversary of the movie Hackers, a movie starring Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller about a bunch of teenage freaks and weirdos who use their skills with computers to take down a major corporate conspiracy. At the time of release people thought it was over the top and goofy, and it was maligned by hackers themselves who didn’t exactly appreciate the totally unrealistic representation of hacking in the movie. After 25…

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Greens denounce Wisconsin Supreme Court decision regarding the ballot Howie Hawkins for President | Angela Walker for Vice President

Sep 152020
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More information: Andrea Mérida, andrea@howiehawkins.us Greens Denounce Wisconsin Supreme Court Decision (Syracuse, NY – September 14, 2020) Green Party nominees for President and Vice President, Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker, rejected the decision handed down earlier today by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, to deny placing them on the November 2020 ballot.  The Green Party has been on the ballot in Wisconsin for every presidential election since 1996. Several years ago, the workers…

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Liberty Union Party Has No Candidates for Vermont State Office, for First Time Since 1970 Ballot Access News

Sep 152020
 

The Liberty Union Party, organized only in Vermont, has been running nominees for Vermont state office for 50 continuous years, starting in 1970. But in 2020, it has no nominees, other than Gloria La Riva for President. The only minor parties in any state in the U.S. which have been on the ballot continuously for a longer period are the Conservative Party of New York (which had its first nominees in 1962), and the American…

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IBM made ‘top-down’ efforts to fire older workers, says US employment discrimination watchdog The Register

Sep 152020
 

Then hired some of them back on lower wages IBM systematically sought to sack older workers, according to the United States’ Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).…

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Chemical that shouldn’t be there spotted in Venus’ atmosphere Ars Technica

Sep 152020
 

Enlarge / The spectral signature of phosphine superimposed on an image of Venus. (credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Greaves et al. & JCMT) Today, researchers are announcing that they’ve observed a chemical in the atmosphere of Venus that has no right to be there. The chemical, phosphine (a phosphorus atom hooked up to three hydrogens), would be unstable in the conditions found in Venus’ atmosphere, and there’s no obvious way for the planet’s chemistry to create much…

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ARM co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal TechCrunch

Sep 152020
 

ARM Holdings, the UK semiconductor company, made history for the second time today, becoming the country’s biggest tech exit when Nvidia announced over the weekend that it would buy it from SoftBank for $40 billion in an all-stock deal. (ARM’s first appearance in the record books? When SoftBank announced in 2016 that it would acquire the company for $32 billion.) But before you can say advanced reduced instruction set computing machine, the deal has hit a minor…

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Facebook is cracking down on livestreamed music performances, and hurting musicians in the process Boing Boing

Sep 152020
 

My rock band recently released a new EP. And since we can’t play any concerts because we’re in the middle of a global pandemic that’s been horribly mismanaged by authorities and killed hundreds of thousands of people, we decided to celebrate the album’s release by hosting a Live Listening Party on Instagram, where we’d play the songs, and then talk about the writing/recording process. I included a link there, but I’m not actually sure if…

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Things to Know Before Your Neighborhood Installs an Automated License Plate Reader Deeplinks

Sep 152020
 

Every week EFF receives emails from members of homeowner’s associations wondering if their Homeowner’s Association (HOA) or Neighborhood Association is making a smart choice by installing automated license plate readers (ALPRs). Local groups often turn to license plate readers thinking that they will protect their community from crime. But the truth is, these cameras—which record every license plate coming in and out of the neighborhood—may create more problems than they solve.  The False Promise of…

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OSHA Fines Smithfield Foods For ‘Failing To Protect Employees’ PopularResistance.Org

Sep 142020
 

The Smithfield Foods plant in Sioux Falls, which was the epicenter of one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hotspots in April, has been fined by the U.S. Department of Labor. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Thursday that it was fining the Smithfield Packaged Meats Corporation for $13,494 for “failing to protect employees from exposure to the coronavirus,” a news release states. The fine is the maximum amount allowed by law. At least 1,294 Smithfield employees contracted…

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Operation Legend Is Bringing Surveillance Tech to Cities The Intercept

Sep 142020
 

In August, 40 federal agents arrived in Memphis. Some were already on the ground by the time U.S. Attorney Michael Dunavant announced the onset of Operation Legend and the city became, along with St. Louis, the seventh to be targeted by the Justice Department’s heavy-handed initiative to reduce violent crime. Many of the agents are on temporary assignment, working in collaboration with police; nearly half will relocate by November. But they will leave behind a…

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