Richard Stallman’s Political Notes – Claims the wrecker has sent prisoners to Guantanamo

Feb 072025
 

The wrecker’s
press secretary claims that he has
already sent
prisoners to Guantanamo, unauthorized immigrants who were in the US.

The wrecker,
or someone working for him, has a cunning awareness of
the US’s sores, and picks at them to exacerbate the soreness.
This spreads the feeling that the US will be so massively cruel and evil
that it threatens to demoralize Americans who want their country to be good
rather than cruel.

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Techdirt. – Democrats Should Be Stopping A Lawless President, Not Helping Censor The Internet, Honestly WTF Are They Thinking

Feb 052025
 

It has long been clear that the GOP, as it is today, has a death wish for our Constitutional order, but that’s a subject for another post. What’s more relevant is that, at this point, one could easily construe that Democrats would like our Constitution to die too. In part because of how enfeebled they have so far been in resisting the lawlessness exhibited by the Article II branch of our government—although that, too, is a subject for another post.  (Standing against the Vought OMB nomination, and slowing his appointment process, is good. But it’s not enough, and even though it’s a good start, it doesn’t forgive all the missed opportunities to slow the damage everyone…

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Ballot Access News – Tennessee Bill Passes Legislature, Making it a Felony for a City Councilmember to Vote in Favor of Creating a Sanctuary

Feb 012025
 

Tennessee bills to make it a felony for a local government official to cast a vote in favor of creating a sanctuary passed the legislature on January 30. The identical bills are SB 6002 and HB 6001. … Continue reading →

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Techdirt. – The Faux Free Speech Warriors Attacking Free Speech

Feb 012025
 

There’s a particularly insidious and cynical form of censorship gaining prominence in America: the weaponization of “free speech” rhetoric, combined with abuses of the judicial system and executive power, to actually suppress speech. It’s a strategy that turns the First Amendment’s principles inside out, using the language of liberty to justify silencing critics and opponents.
Consider Brendan Carr pretending to be a free speech warrior while demanding censorship and seeking to punish those who speak against Trump. Or Jim Jordan, who was supposedly tasked with investigating the “weaponization” of the government against speech, but used that position to weaponize his government committee to suppress speech.
Perhaps the most brazen practitioners of this strategy are those with the resources…

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Planet Debian – Daniel Lange: Seagate old hard disks sold as new, smartmontools v7.4 for Debian Bullseye and Bookworm

Feb 012025
 

Apparently somebody managed to resell Seagate hard disks that have 2-5 years of operations on them as brand new. They did this by using some new shrink wrap bags and resetting the used hard disk SMART attributes to factory-new values. Luckily Seagate has a proprietary extension “Seagate FARM (Field Access Reliability Metrics)” implemented in their disks that … the crooks did not reset. Luckily … because other manufacturers do not have that extension. And you think the crooks only re-sell used Seagate disks? Lol. The get access to the Seagate FARM extension, you need smartctl from smartmontools v7.4 or later. For Debian 12 (Bookworm) you can add the backports archive and then install with
apt…

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