The Onion – The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Gavin Newsom

Sep 152025
 

Gov. Gavin Newsom has gained increasing national attention for targeting President Donald Trump in the media, reportedly boosting his national standing as the unofficial Democratic frontrunner for 2028, according to polls. The Onion sat down with the California governor to discuss his political strategy. The Onion: What are your core beliefs? Newsom: Are those a prerequisite for being president? The Onion: Where did you grow up? Newsom: I need to check some polling data before I answer that question. The Onion: ​A​re you running for president in 2028? Newsom: ​Right now, I’m purely focused on alienating the people of California. The Onion: How do you respond to accusations that you’re beholden to large donors? Newsom: I…

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Ars Technica – 60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details

Sep 132025
 

Six decades have now passed since some of the most iconic Project Gemini spaceflights. The 60th anniversary of Gemini 4, when Ed White conducted the first US spacewalk, came in June. The next mission, Gemini 5, ended just two weeks ago, in 1965. These missions are now forgotten by most Americans, as most of the people alive during that time are now deceased.
However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight firsts, flying a series of harrowing missions during which it seems a miracle that no one died.
Because the Gemini missions, as well as NASA’s first human spaceflight program Mercury, yielded such amazing stories, I was…

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The Intercept – Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

Sep 122025
 

The company behind the Proton Mail email service, Proton, describes itself as a “neutral and safe haven for your personal data, committed to defending your freedom.” But last month, Proton disabled email accounts belonging to journalists reporting on security breaches of various South Korean government computer systems following a complaint by an unspecified cybersecurity agency. After a public outcry, and multiple weeks, the journalists’ accounts were eventually reinstated — but the reporters and editors involved still want answers on how and why Proton decided to shut down the accounts in the first place. Martin Shelton, deputy director of digital security at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, highlighted that numerous newsrooms use Proton’s services as alternatives…

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Techdirt. – The Judiciary Is Breaking Down: Federal Judges Now Openly Revolt Against SCOTUS Shadow Docket During Live Court Hearing

Sep 122025
 

We’ve been tracking the growing judicial revolt against the Supreme Court’s shadow docket nonsense, from individual district judges getting snarky in footnotes to anonymous judges speaking to reporters. But what happened Thursday at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals crosses into entirely new territory: a full en banc panel of federal judges openly criticizing the Supreme Court’s approach during a live oral argument session.
This isn’t normal. Federal judges don’t usually air their grievances about the Supreme Court in open court. The fact that an entire appeals court panel—including respected conservative judges—turned their oral argument into what Politico called “a remarkable, 80-minute venting session” tells you everything about how broken the system has become.
The immediate catalyst was…

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PopularResistance.Org – Judge Finds Attorney General Can’t Bring RICO Charges In Cop City Case

Sep 102025
 

Atlanta, GA — A Fulton County judge found Tuesday that Georgia’s attorney general lacked authority to bring racketeering charges against protesters named in the sprawling Cop City RICO case, calling into question the foundation and future of the massive legal effort to criminalize a movement.
While Judge Kevin Farmer has not yet issued an official ruling cementing his decision, his finding that the attorney general’s office doesn’t have the authority to bring Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization, or RICO, charges in this case effectively derails the prosecution’s strategy of connecting protesters to a conspiracy against Cop City and the state itself.
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Deeplinks – San Francisco Gets An Invasive Billionaire-Bought Surveillance HQ

Sep 102025
 

San Francisco billionaire Chris Larsen once again has wielded his wallet to keep city residents under the eye of all-seeing police surveillance. 
The San Francisco Police Commission, the Board of Supervisors, and Mayor Daniel Lurie have signed off on Larsen’s $9.4 million gift of a new Real-Time Investigations Center. The plan involves moving the city’s existing police tech hub from the public Hall of Justice not to the city’s brand-new police headquarters but instead to a sublet in the Financial District building of Ripple Labs, Larsen’s crypto-transfer company. Although the city reportedly won’t be paying for the space, the lease reportedly cost Ripple $2.3 million and will last until December 2026. 
The deal will also include a $7.25…

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Ars Technica – GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites

Sep 072025
 

It was in 2002, during the George W. Bush administration, when NASA decided to put a satellite into orbit to track emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas pumped into the atmosphere through human activity.
After many twists and turns, NASA’s 23-year remit of charting greenhouse gas emissions could come to a close as soon as the end of this month. President Donald Trump’s budget request to Congress calls for terminating 41 of NASA’s 124 science missions in development or operations, and another 17 would see their funding zeroed out in the near future. Overall, the proposed budget slashes NASA’s spending by 25 percent and cuts NASA’s science funding in half.
This year’s federal budget runs out…

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TorrentFreak – Behind the Curtain: The Three-Year Journey to the Block BEARD Site Blocking Act

Sep 052025
 

During the first half of 2022, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis was working on a proposal to put forward in a new pirate site blocking bill.
The text of the No-Fault Copyright Remedy Act (NFCRA) was shared among stakeholders but wasn’t announced to the public.
A decade had passed since the first attempt to introduce site-blocking legislation backfired in 2012. For NFCRA, copyright holders and Internet service providers were brought on board early with the aim of negotiating a mutually agreed text.
That hoped-for agreement never came. Rightsholders and ISPs submitted proposed amendments that would take the bill in different directions, widening the gap instead of closing it.
The NFCRA draft 

After the failed attempt to make progress behind closed doors, things…

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– The Conversation – Home – Jury trials, a critical part of democracy, are disappearing

Sep 052025
 

When jurors aren’t involved, rulings are less public − and private interests have more influence over outcomes. ftwitty/E+ via Getty ImagesThe right to trial by jury in criminal and civil cases is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. It’s also a critically important way in which citizens can participate in democracy. The French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville observed early American juries at work. He noted in “Democracy in America” in 1831 that trial by jury “places the real direction of society in the hands of the governed, or of a portion of the governed, instead of leaving it under the authority of the Government.” Yet, in a change with profound implications, juries now decide only…

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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – Pluralistic: Darth Android (01 Sep 2025)

Sep 012025
 

Today’s links

Darth Android: Pray I don’t alter it further.

Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.

Object permanence: We don’t know why you don’t want to have public sex; Hard Wired; Koko Be Good.

Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.

Recent appearances: Where I’ve been.

Latest books: You keep readin’ em, I’ll keep writin’ ’em.

Upcoming books: Like I said, I’ll keep writin’ ’em.

Colophon: All the rest.

Darth Android (permalink)
William Gibson famously said that “Cyberpunk was a warning, not a suggestion.” But for every tech leader fantasizing about lobotomizing their enemies with Black Ice, there are ten who wish they could be Darth Vader, force-choking you while grating out, “I’m altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
I call this business…

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The Onion – AOL To Discontinue Dial-Up Internet

Aug 132025
 

AOL has officially announced it will discontinue its dial-up Internet service after more than three decades, ending support for the technology synonymous with the early days of the internet. What do you think?

“Hopefully it’s part of a broader plan to wind down the internet entirely.”
Michael Shim, Systems Analyst

“Of course they cancel it right when I’m 14% through downloading Titanic.”
Roger Ferlet, Frosting Colorist

“I don’t trust an internet that doesn’t screech in pain.”
Brenna Kirby, Data Memorizer

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– The Conversation – Home – 4 out of 5 US troops surveyed understand the duty to disobey illegal orders

Aug 132025
 

National Guard members arrive at the Guard’s headquarters at D.C. Armory on Aug. 12, 2025 in Washington. Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesWith his Aug. 11, 2025, announcement that he was sending the National Guard – along with federal law enforcement – into Washington, D.C. to fight crime, President Donald Trump edged U.S. troops closer to the kind of military-civilian confrontations that can cross ethical and legal lines. Indeed, since Trump returned to office, many of his actions have alarmed international human rights observers. His administration has deported immigrants without due process, held detainees in inhumane conditions, threatened the forcible removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and deployed both the National Guard and federal military troops to…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – Trump’s American-style Gleichschaltung proceeds: The closing down of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Aug 042025
 

The extremely sinister intent and thrust of the action by the Trump administration and Congress should be patently clear.

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Ars Technica – RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026

Aug 012025
 

Despite the protests of millions of Americans, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced it will be winding down its operations after the White House deemed NPR and PBS a “grift” and pushed for a Senate vote that eliminated its entire budget.
The vote rescinded $1.1 billion that Congress had allocated to CPB to fund public broadcasting for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. In a press release, CPB explained that the cuts “excluded funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades.” CPB president and CEO Patricia Harrison said the corporation had no choice but to prepare to shut down.
“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – Trump loyalist Emil Bove III confirmed by Senate to lifetime appointment on US circuit court

Jul 312025
 

Bove, a criminal credibly accused of flouting court orders to carry out Trump’s illegal mass deportation operation, was confirmed in a party-line vote by the Senate Tuesday night.

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PopularResistance.Org – NEA Leadership Rejects Member Vote To Sever Ties With ADL

Jul 232025
 

In one of the biggest displays of labor organizing against anti-Palestinian racism, the National Education Association’s (NEA) policymaking body voted on July 5 to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The vote was a product of years of grassroots organizing within the NEA. This activity within the union was bolstered by the growth of the Drop The ADL campaign, an initiative by a wide range of progressive organizations to educate communities about the ADL’s anti-Palestinian bias and opposition to free speech in schools.

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Techdirt. – Amazon Ring Cashes In On Techno-Authoritarianism And Mass Surveillance

Jul 232025
 

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices. 
This is a bad, bad step for Ring and the broader public. 
Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States. This is a grave threat to civil liberties…

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The Register – Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop

Jul 152025
 

Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots

Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, just wants the AI slop to stop.…

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