The Death of the Mind

On October 23, U.S. District Court Judge Maxine Chesney held a hearing in Peace & Freedom Party v Weber, n.d., 3:24cv-8308. This is the case filed by several minor parties against the California top-two system and some of its characteristics. The state wanted the lawsuit dismissed. Judge Chesney did dismiss the part of the case that challenges the essence of the top-two system. But she kept the case alive on the issue of ballot labels for candidates who are registered into unqualified parties. Current law says they must have “party preference: none” on the primary ballot. Thus, when California candidates registered into such parties as the American Solidarity Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Constitution Party,…

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The newest member of the IT help desk in North Carolina’s capital city, the product of a public-private alliance, joins a unit of just four people charged with resolving issues across roughly 13,000 devices. Oh, and despite being able to resolve problems rather than directing a staffer to an instruction article, they — Alli — are not real. They are an agentic AI bot that is stepping in to assist the four human technicians addressing problems the Raleigh Information Technology Department oversees. Technically speaking, Alli is an L1 IT Service Desk AI Specialist. Alli is a project co-developed by the city and its technology partner ServiceNow. The two worked together to build a tool designed not…

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PLAISTOW, NH—Blaming their friend’s personalized internet feed for his warped perception of the film’s impact, sources confirmed Wednesday that the algorithm presented to local man Todd Bennett had been distorting how important he thinks Gummo is to the rest of the world. “No matter which social media site he’s on, he’s being pushed Gummo content left and right, all the time,” said roommate Jordan Mintz, explaining that between the long Reddit threads arguing about the symbolism of Tummler killing stray cats and the TikTok tutorials for Bunny Boy cosplay, Bennett appeared to “live in his own little bubble” where the experimental indie film from 1997 was widely considered one of the cultural touchstones of the last…

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Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed — widely speculated to be with Valve’s involvement — that HDMI 2.1 patches began appearing for the AMDGPU driver. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle, the bulk of that work will now be in place and enabled by default…

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Last month, we reported that defense attorneys representing prominent torrent trackers told a federal judge that the case may have been filed by an impostor.
After they revealed their findings, Judge Andrea R. Wood put the case on a sanctions track and scheduled an in-person hearing. Since then, the case has taken some surprising turns yet again.
First, defense attorneys Erin Russell and Haley Finch asked the court to hold the plaintiff in contempt for misrepresenting his identity, falsely claiming copyright ownership, and filing under a mail-drop address.
The ‘Real’ Matthew Schneider Appears
Representing “John Doe” tracker operators, they submitted a declaration from Matthew A. Schneider of Ottawa, Ontario. He is the filmmaker on the IMDb credits for the three…

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New Orleans-based ID verification provider IDScan.net has acknowledged the major breach of one of its databases, that exposed more than 170 million scanned identity documents, including 153 million driver’s licenses. A statement from the company says that “on or around September 1, 2026, IDScan.net received information indicating that certain data may have been accessed without authorization.” More than that, “an unauthorized third party may have accessed and/or copied certain customer information stored within their accounts on the IDScan.net cloud. The types of information contained within the affected data may include full names and driver’s license or other government-issued identification numbers.” IDScan, widely known for its VeriScan age and identity check software, says that an investigation…

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On September 4, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court removed Andrew Tupone from the November ballot. He had enough valid signatures to be on the November ballot for U.S. House, 7th district. But he used the Green Party ballot label, even though the Green Party (which is not a qualified party) does not recognize him as a bona fide member of the party. See this story.
Here is the Opinion. In the Nomination Paper of Tupone, 366 MD 2026.
This appears to be the first time Pennsylvania state courts have recognized party name protection for an unqualified party. Nothing in the Pennsylvania election code says unqualified parties have such protection for their party name. It is not known if Tupone…

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It was back in May that the surprising event happened of AMD posting HDMI 2.1 FRL patches for their open-source AMDGPU Linux driver as part of their broader HDMI 2.1 bring-up. For years the open-source HDMI 2.1 support in AMDGPU was blocked by the HDMI Forum but whether it was due to Valve or some other event, the code was finally unblocked. While it’s been part of the kernel since Linux 7.2, it’s been disabled by default — except that is now changing…

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