Richard Stallman’s Political Notes – Ukraine call for privatization and flexibility of work

Oct 082022
 

Ukraine’s economic advisor calls for privatization and flexibility of work.
(I presume that last would include making it easier to fire employees.)
Also, more borrowing.

It may be that Ukraine’s system is too inflexible, but any steps in
that direction must be taken with great care, because there are plenty
of advisors who serve the banks that want to lend you more than you
can pay and denominate the loans in a foreign currency. This path has
led many countries into a debt trap.

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Internet Archive Blogs – Internet Archive Files Final Reply Brief in Lawsuit Defending Controlled Digital Lending

Oct 082022
 

On Friday, October 7, the Internet Archive filed a reply brief against the four publishers that sued Internet Archive in June 2020: Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House. This is the final brief in support of our motion for summary judgment (our previous motions can be found here and here) where we have asked the Court to dismiss the lawsuit because our lending program is a fair use. The lawsuit was filed against Internet Archive in 2020 because of “anger among publishers” about digital lending by libraries. The publishers are urging the court to declare that “controlled digital lending is not a defense to copyright infringement” and…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – The lies, distortions and half-truths in rail unions’ joint video statement against “misinformation”

Oct 082022
 

The video by BLET President Dennis Pierce and SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson was the latest of attempts by the unions to try to recapture control of the narrative over the contract in the face of massive opposition.

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Streetsblog.org – Traffic Violence Is Creating a Silent Mental Health Crisis

Oct 072022
 

The global traffic violence pandemic that claims over a million lives every year is also spawning a devastating global mental health crisis that could itself be making traffic violence trends worse — and researchers say policymakers must do more to prevent car crashes and the psychological impacts that often follow them.
As part of a comprehensive literature review of 20 years’ worth of peer-reviewed studies from around the world, a team of Brazilian researchers found that road users are at significantly increased risk of post traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety after surviving motor vehicle collisions — and those who experience more serious crashes experience more serious psychological impacts as well.
That might not seem surprising, given that researchers have…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – Congressional leaders of both parties welcome members of neo-Nazi Azov Battalion to Washington

Oct 072022
 

The embrace of neo-Nazi’s by both big business parties obliterates any notions that the US government is fighting for “democracy” or “human rights” in Ukraine, or anywhere else.

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – US Congressional leaders of both parties welcome members of neo-Nazi Azov Battalion to Washington

Oct 072022
 

The embrace of neo-Nazi’s by both big business parties obliterates any notions that the US government is fighting for “democracy” or “human rights” in Ukraine, or anywhere else.

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Phoronix – AMD Continues Working Toward HDR Display Support For The Linux Desktop

Oct 062022
 

One of the rather elusive items on the Linux desktop is High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support… There’s been code in the works for years but across desktops and drivers, it’s still a long-term effort getting HDR support on the Linux desktop. Even going back to 2016, with NVIDIA’s cross-platform driver code the Linux desktop remained the bottleneck. There is at least some ongoing work to address this long-term issue with AMD this week presenting on the topic…

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Ars Technica – Adafruit’s Cheekmate gets to the bottom (ahem) of chess cheating controversy

Oct 062022
 

The clever folks at Adafruit tested their Cheekmate chess-cheating prototype by embedding it in a slab of pork butt.
The Internet has been abuzz for weeks about a particularly juicy chess cheating controversy that erupted last month. The reigning chess world champion, Magnus Carlsen, lost in the third round to a 19-year-old upstart, Hans Niemann, in what was widely considered to be a shocking upset. Carlsen withdrew from the tournament the next day, and his cryptic comments on Twitter fueled rampant speculation that Niemann had cheated. The fact that Niemann admitted to cheating in online chess matches didn’t help his case, but he steadfastly insisted he never cheated in over-the-board games.
The fierce debate eventually produced…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – IBEW acknowledges problems with ballots for rail contract but refuses to conduct re-vote

Oct 062022
 

According to multiple workers who belong to the IBEW and who personally spoke to IBEW Railroad Department head Al Russo via telephone in recent days, the IBEW has acknowledged that a significant number of ballots were not properly sent to workers.

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – New York Times acknowledges Ukraine behind assassination of Darya Dugina

Oct 062022
 

Can it be that the Times report indicates US concern over the political fallout from a more recent operation that is of far greater international consequence than the Moscow assassination? The unexplained bombing of the Nordstream pipeline comes to mind.

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Streetsblog.org – How The Traffic Violence Pandemic Is Creating A Silent Mental Health Crisis

Oct 062022
 

The global traffic violence pandemic that claims over a million lives every year is also spawning a devastating global mental health crisis that could itself be making traffic violence trends worse — and researchers say policymakers must do more to prevent car crashes and the psychological impacts that often follow them.
As part of a comprehensive literature review of 20 years’ worth of peer-reviewed studies from around the world, a team of Brazilian researchers found that road users are at significantly increased risk of post traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety after surviving motor vehicle collisions — and those who experience more serious crashes experience more serious psychological impacts as well.
That might not seem surprising, given that researchers have…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – IBEW acknowledges problems with ballots for rail contact but refuses to conduct re-vote

Oct 062022
 

According to multiple workers who belong to the IBEW and who personally spoke to IBEW Railroad Department head Al Russo via telephone in recent days, the IBEW has acknowledged that a significant number of ballots were not properly sent to workers.

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Techdirt. – Court Strips Immunity From Cop Who Shot A Dog Within Seconds Of Arriving On The Scene Of A Non-Crime

Oct 062022
 

Cops kill dogs literally all the time. It happens so often even the DOJ has taken notice.

Laurel Matthews, a supervisory program specialist with the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (DOJ COPS) office, says it’s an awful lot. She calls fatal police vs. dogs encounters an “epidemic” and estimates that 25 to 30 pet dogs are killed each day by law enforcement officers.

So, when Loveland (CO) police officer Matthew Grashorn arrived on the scene of a non-crime, he did what cops do: he killed someone’s dog. This killing happened only 13 seconds after Officer Grashorn arrived, something confirmed by his own body camera recording.
Colorado residents Wendy Love and Jay Hamm had done nothing more…

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Motherboard – Banished for an Unleashed Dog: Airbnb Bans Bewilder Guests and Hosts

Oct 032022
 

Ashley couldn’t believe what she was reading. After she’d booked an Airbnb for a forthcoming trip to Ohio to visit family, the company had emailed her in September to tell her she was no longer eligible to use the platform as either a host or a guest. The decision, the company said, was due to a third-party evaluation that had detected a criminal record. The email confused Ashley. “I was like, wait, I don’t have a criminal background,” she said. But when she received and reviewed the evaluation, she realized what had caused the ban. In 2013, Ashley, who is Black, had been reprimanded by a police officer after her dog escaped her house. The local…

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jwz – Autonomous Murderbots are Going Great

Sep 302022
 

Cruise’s driverless cars continue to stop in the middle of SF’s streets for extended periods of time, often in groups, blocking traffic until they can be remotely restarted or manually retrieved by Cruise staff. Over the past week, there were at least four such incidents.The City’s letter to NHTSA provides specific data on these incidents. Between May 29 and Sept. 5 of this year, 28 incidents of stopped Cruise cars blocking traffic were reported to 911. The City identified an additional 20 such incidents reported on social media over that time period, which does not include the events of the past week. The City estimates that these figures represent “a fraction of actual travel lane road…

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Techdirt. – Defense Department Latest To Be Caught Hoovering Up Internet Data Via Private Contractors

Sep 302022
 

Everyone’s got a hunger for data. Constitutional rights sometimes prevent those with a hunger from serving themselves. But when they’ve got third parties on top of third parties, all Fourth Amendment bets are off. Data brokers are getting rich selling government agencies the data they want at low, low prices, repackaging information gathered from other third parties into tasty packages that give US government agencies the data they want with the plausible deniability they need.
Relying on the third-party doctrine that mostly ignores the Fourth Amendment and the public claims of data brokers that the massive amount of data being hawked to willing buyers cannot, in and of itself, positively ID anyone, federal agencies are amassing haystacks…

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The Register – UN’s ITU election may spell the end of our open internet

Sep 292022
 

Russia, China believe in more national control, maybe baked into standards. Resistance is fierce

Every four years, the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU) stages a Plenipotentiary Conference at which member states decide how the organization will steer the development of communications technologies.…

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The Register – UN’s ITU election may spell the end to our open internet

Sep 292022
 

Russia, China believe in more national control, maybe baked into standards. Resistance is fierce

Every four years, the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union (ITU) stages a Plenipotentiary Conference at which member states decide how the organization will steer the development of communications technologies.…

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Deeplinks – Automated License Plate Readers Threaten Abortion Access. Here’s How Policymakers Can Mitigate the Risk

Sep 282022
 

Over the last decade, a vast number of law enforcement agencies around the country have adopted a mass surveillance technology that uses cameras to track the vehicles of every driver on the road, with little thought or respect given to the ways this technology might be abused. Now, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, that technology may soon be turned against people seeking abortions, the people who support them, and the workers who provide reproductive healthcare.
We’re talking about automated license plate readers (ALPRs). These are camera systems that capture license plate numbers and upload the times, dates, and locations where the plates were seen to massive searchable databases. Sometimes these scans…

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Ars Technica – DART goes silent after hitting an asteroid [Update]

Sep 272022
 
One of the last images from DART. Enlarge / One of the last images from DART. (credit: NASA/APL)

Update, 10:30: If this is an indication of the quality of the images we should expect over the next several days, we’re in for a treat.

ATLAS observations of the DART spacecraft impact at Didymos! pic.twitter.com/26IKwB9VSo

— ATLAS Project (@fallingstarIfA) September 27, 2022

Original article follows.

About 24 hours prior to its collision, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) probe performed its last course correction based on commands sent by ground controllers. “It’s pointed to within a football field of the central body,” said Bobby Braun of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL). “That last maneuver was spot-on.”

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