Barely an hour after Netanyahu finished speaking, his regime demonstrated the genocidal content of his war vow, as huge explosions reduced residential apartment buildings to rubble in heavily-populated southern Beirut.
Tantek Çelik suggests that Creative Commons should add a CC-NT license, like the existing Creative Commons licenses, but written to make it clear that the content is not licensed for generative AI training. Manton Reece likes the idea, and would allow training—but understands why publishers would choose not to. AI training permissions are becoming a huge deal, and there is a need for more licensing options. disclaimer: we’re taking steps in this area at work now. This is a personal blog post though, not speaking for employer or anyone else. In the 2024 AI Training Survey Results from Draft2Digital, only 5% of the authors surveyed said that scraping and training without a license is fair use….
No patches yet, can be mitigated, requires user interaction
Final update After days of anticipation, what was billed as one or more critical unauthenticated remote-code execution vulnerabilities in all Linux systems was today finally revealed.…
North Carolina law says a party gains or retains qualified status if its presidential nominee was on the ballot in at least 35 states. The party label doesn’t matter. Jill Stein will be on the ballot in 36 states in November 2024, so the party is now on the ballot for 2026 and 2028.
Parties also retain if they poll 2% for either President or Governor. Both offices are up in presidential years.
If Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. had not withdrawn, his party, the We the People Party, would also have qualified. However, he withdrew his name from North Carolina and eighteen other states, so he is only on in 31 states (plus D.C., but D.C. doesn’t count…
Resolving to continue working within, and for, the Democratic Party, in a statement issued last week, leaders of the group urged followers to “block Trump” and “avoid third-party candidates.”
2024-09-26Comments Off on World Socialist Web Site (en) – After Vice President Harris doubles down on global war and genocide in Gaza, Uncommitted Movement commits to electing Harris
In my last blog post, Evolution of Logical Replication, I mentioned the future development of a feature to allow “upgrades of logical replication nodes.” The upcoming release of PostgreSQL 17 includes this feature. Previously, after major version upgrades (via pg_upgrade), users couldn’t immediately connect and write data to logical replication nodes. This was because the slots were lost during upgrades, preventing replication from continuing. As a result, new writes wouldn’t get replicated, causing data on both nodes to become out of sync. As explained in this blog post, users had to block applications from writing until the replication setup was re-enabled after the upgrade.With PostgreSQL 17, logical replication nodes can be upgraded without blocking writes or…
In my time covering internet speech issues, I’ve seen some truly ridiculous arguments regarding Section 230. I even created my ever-handy “Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act” article four years ago, which still gets a ton of traffic to this day.
But I’m not sure I’ve come across a worse criticism of Section 230 than the one recently published by former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt and former Congressional Rep. Zach Wamp. They put together the criticism for Democracy Journal, entitled “The Urgent Task of Reforming Section 230.”
There are lots of problems with the article, which we’ll get into. But first, I want to focus on the…
WordPress on Wednesday escalated its conflict with WP Engine, a hosting provider, by blocking the latter’s servers from accessing WordPress.org resources – and therefore from potentially vital software updates.…
On September 25, the Georgia Supreme Court issued an opinion in Al-Bari v Pigg, S25A0177. It agrees with the lower court that independent presidential candidates cannot petition in Georgia. Instead, only independent presidential elector candidates may petition.
Because the ballots are already being printed, the candidates who had petitioned are on the ballot. The Court said votes for them should not be counted. The two presidential candidates who petitioned, and who were told they had enough valid signatures, are Claudia De la Cruz and Cornel West.
This is another instance at which the candidates followed the instructions of the Secretary of State, and yet were kept off the ballot even though they submitted enough signatures.
On September 25, the Ohio Secretary of State said he won’t count votes for Jill Stein, even though she is on the ballot as an independent presidential candidate. This is because the Ohio Greens sent in paperwork to swap out the stand-in vice-presidential nominee, Anita Rios, with the actual vice-presidential nominee, Butch Ware. The paperwork caused the problem. The due date for withdrawal is later than the due date for a new nominee. Therefore, the Ohio Secretary of State deemed the withdrawal of the stand-in to be timely, and he interpreted it as a withdrawal of Jill Stein herself and the stand-in vice-presidential candidate. But he deemed the new vice-presidential name to be too late.
There are…
2024-09-25Comments Off on Ballot Access News – Ohio Secretary of State Will Refuse to Count Votes for Jill Stein Because the Green Party Tried to Substitute a New Vice-Presidential Nominee
I turned THE CYBERIZER into a macOS desktop app. Please let me know how it works. THE CYBERIZER takes a bunch of videos, finds the scene breaks in them, shuffles those scenes randomly, and appends them back together with a burst of cleansing static in between. Help needed: I would be curious as to the oldest macOS / hardware combo on which this works, and if it works on x86 at all. The ffmpeg I built for x86_64 does not work on my macOS 10.13 system, which reports itself as arch = i386, config.guess = x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0. It says “load command 0x80000034 is unknown”. Any ideas? If that machine in fact…
On September 20, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to put the Nevada Green Party on the ballot. The Court has not done anything to help any minor party or independent candidate with ballot access case since 1992, when it struck … Continue reading →
In a troubling blow to public access, a US appeals court sided with big publishers, erasing half a million books from the Internet Archive’s lending library. This case isn’t just about books; it’s also about who controls the digital commons.
A staff member wears a “Universal Access to All Knowledge” shirt during a twentieth-anniversary celebration of the Internet Archive in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, October 26, 2016. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) They’re burning the modern Library of Alexandria. That’s one way to describe the recent ruling of the Second Circuit US Court of Appeals against the Internet Archive (IA). The court sided with big-name…
The United States is already a global leader in traffic-related fatalities, with a thirty-percent jump in the last decade. That’s in contrast to every other developed country, which saw a decline. 40,000 Americans die every year in traffic fatalities. And while tech advancements have made life safer for drivers and passengers, the same can’t be true for those on the outside looking in.
There are a lot of reasons why; from poorly considered urban pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure, to the overall massive (and seemingly ever-ballooning) size of SUV and truck front ends.
This week the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed new rules that would purportedly take aim at the latter. The new rule would establish…
Israel blew up thousands of two-way personal radios used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon, the second wave of an intelligence operation that started with the explosions of pager devices the day before. What do you think?
“Israel can’t risk survivors being radicalized by Israel’s actions.” Marcos Pantoja, Necktie Steamer
“We can’t negotiate with innocent bystanders.” Shari Kurz, Rhetoric Analyst
“I don’t see why every device has to have so many different functions these days.” Cody Hudd, Part-Time Laborer
Israel’s terrorist attack marks a new stage in the criminalization of imperialist foreign policy, setting a precedent for the legitimization of terrorist attacks on both political leaders and the broader civilian population.
A bill to require ranked choice voting for all congressional primary and general elections has been introduced in both houses of Congress. The U.S. Senate sponsor is Peter Welch (D-Vermont). The two chief sponsors in the House are Jaime Raskin (D-Maryland) and Don Beyer (D-Virginia).
It would require ranked choice voting in both primaries and general elections, so that the current top-two systems in California and Washington would need to be revised. Furthermore, it says that if a state uses systems without party nominees, at least three candidates must be allowed to advance to the general election.
The bill says that if a state defines a qualified party in terms of how many votes it received in the…
After being forced to acquit Omali Yeshitela, Jesse Nevel, and Penny Hess – the “Uhuru 3” – on being agents of Russia, a U.S. federal court jury resorted to the sham conviction of “conspiracy,” in what amounted to them being guilty of internationalism and the work of liberating African people. The state’s claim is that the defendants are guilty of “planning to sow discord and inflame American political tensions at the behest of Russia,” a charge carrying a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Although the conspiracy charge is being regarded as the less serious of the two changes, it presents a threat to all anti-imperialists and internationalists working in the bowels of the capitalist, U.S….
On September 13, the Nevada Green Party asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the ruling of the State Supreme Court that had removed it from the ballot. Nevada Green Party v Aguilar, 24A262. Here is the filing.
The application was submitted to Justice Elena Kagan, who asked the Democratic Party to respond by Tuesday, September 17.
