Congress Is Deadlocked On COVID-19 Relief PopularResistance.Org

Dec 052020
 

The annu­al approval of the gar­gan­tu­an U.S. mil­i­tary bud­get is one of the most reli­able rit­u­als in Con­gress. It is so ordi­nary and over­whelm­ing­ly bipar­ti­san, it’s bare­ly con­sid­ered news­wor­thy, and few out­lets fol­low the details of exact­ly how much the gov­ern­ment is allo­cat­ing to a nuclear weapons buildup, or deploy­ments to the Asia Pacif­ic, or the steady creep of U.S. mil­i­tary bases across the con­ti­nent of Africa. Even under Pres­i­dent Trump, when the Demo­c­ra­t­ic lead­er­ship…

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Section 230 is Good, Actually Deeplinks

Dec 042020
 

Even though it’s only 26 words long, Section 230 doesn’t say what many think it does.  So we’ve decided to take up a few kilobytes of the Internet to explain what, exactly, people are getting wrong about the primary law that defends the Internet. Section 230 (47 U.S.C. § 230) is one of the most important laws protecting free speech online. While its wording is fairly clear—it states that “No provider or user of an…

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NSF Releases Video of Arecibo’s Final Moments Hackaday

Dec 042020
 

Today the National Science Foundation released a pair of videos that document the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory with incredible detail. A wide shot, apparently taken from the Visitors Center, shows the 900 ton instrument platform breaking free and swinging on the remaining support cables until it smashes into the edge of the dish. The second clip, recorded by an airborne drone, is focused directly on the cables as they failed. Both can be seen…

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Internet Archive Responds to Proposal for Major Copyright Reform Internet Archive Blogs

Dec 042020
 

This week, the Internet Archive submitted a letter in response to a set of questions posed by Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) regarding potential reforms to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the law that provides a safe harbor against copyright liability for Internet services who abide by notice and takedown obligations. The Senator’s questions indicate that he is interested in potentially broad changes to not only the DMCA, but to copyright law more generally. His…

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Google illegally spied on and retaliated against workers, feds say Ars Technica

Dec 042020
 

Enlarge / Sunset, by the Google empire. (credit: 400tmax | Getty Images) Google’s actions amid workplace organizing efforts, including the high-profile firings of several employees, were illegal violations of the National Labor Relations Act, federal regulators said this week. The National Labor Relations Board filed a formal complaint (PDF) against Google Wednesday, alleging that the company has been “interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees” to interfere with their protected concerted activity—workplace organization rights that are…

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The Senate Is Leaving Americans to Fend for Themselves This Winter Jacobin

Dec 042020
 

Even if the new bipartisan relief proposal does pass, it will be inadequate, forcing millions of Americans to rely on the generosity of family and strangers this winter. Millions of Americans are suffering, and our political leaders don’t care. Meals are prepared for people in need at the Thessalonica Christian Church in the Bronx, New York. (Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images) On Tuesday, after months of political paralysis, a bipartisan group of Senators…

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Mesa 20.3 Released With Big Improvements For Open-Source Graphics Drivers Phoronix

Dec 042020
 

Mesa 20.3 has been released as the Q4’2020 open-source graphics driver update, primarily around providing OpenGL and Vulkan support on the likes of Intel and AMD Radeon graphics along with the reverse-engineered Nouveau support, many smaller drivers especially in the embedded space, and the growing list of CPU-based implementations and other translation efforts…

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Law Enforcement Purchasing Commercially-Available Geolocation Data is Unconstitutional Deeplinks

Dec 042020
 

Many of the smartphone apps people use every day are collecting data on their users and, in order to make money, many of these apps sell that information. One of the customers for this data is the U.S. government, which regularly purchases commercially available geolocation data. This includes the Department of Defense, CBP, ICE, the IRS, and the Secret Service. But it violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution for the government…

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Cultured meat has been approved for consumers for the first time New on MIT Technology Review

Dec 022020
 

The first lab-grown, or cultured, meat product has been given the green light to be sold for human consumption. In the landmark approval, regulators in Singapore granted Just, a San Francisco–based startup, the right to sell cultured chicken—in the form of chicken nuggets—to the public.  Just had been working with the regulators for the past two years and was formally granted approval on November 26. Singapore’s regulatory body assembled a panel of seven experts in…

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DeepMind’s latest protein-solving AI AlphaFold pretty much cracks biology’s 50-year conundrum The Register

Dec 012020
 

Lab hopes improved tool will be used to craft new medicines faster DeepMind says its AlphaFold machine-learning software can now rapidly predict the structure of proteins with high accuracy, and could one day help us develop drugs faster.…

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Biden Insists Lack Of Cooperation From Trump Administration Won’t Interfere With 4 Years Of Total Political Inaction The Onion

Nov 182020
 

WILMINGTON, DE—Assuring supporters that the transition process would continue apace regardless of the White House’s decision making, President-Elect Joe Biden insisted Wednesday that a lack of cooperation from the Trump administration would not interfere with the upcoming four years of total political inaction.…Read more…

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Biden State Media Appointee Advocated ‘Rethinking’ First Amendment PopularResistance.Org

Nov 182020
 

Richard Stengel, the top state media appointee for US President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team, has enthusiastically defended the use of propaganda against Americans. “My old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist,” Stengel said in 2018. “I’m not against propaganda. Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population. And I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.” Richard “Rick” Stengel was the longest…

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Streetlight Spy Cameras Have Led to a Massive Privacy Backlash in San Diego Motherboard

Nov 182020
 

In 2017, the city of San Diego began installing around 3,000 sensors and hidden cameras into streetlights. The so-called “smart streetlights” were originally approved as an initiative to monitor and mitigate traffic, but quietly became a crime-solving tool for local police and faced public outcry from privacy-concerned residents.  Now, what began with local opposition to the controversial technology is driving an effort that could give the city one of the strongest sets of local privacy…

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Biden recruits unions to keep workplaces open as pandemic surges World Socialist Web Site (en)

Nov 182020
 

Biden held an online discussion Monday with top executives from GM, Microsoft and other corporations, along with the leaders of the AFL-CIO, the United Auto Workers and other unions.

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GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCA Deeplinks

Nov 182020
 

GitHub recently reinstated the repository for youtube-dl, a popular free software tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other user-uploaded video platforms. GitHub had taken down the repository last month after the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) abused the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s notice-and-takedown procedure to pressure GitHub to remove it. By shoehorning DMCA 1201 into the notice-and-takedown process, RIAA potentially sets a very dangerous precedent. The removal of youtube-dl’s source code caused an…

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Mom Completely Understands That Coming To Thanksgiving Is Risky And That You Don’t Love Her Anymore The Onion

Nov 182020
 

KANSAS CITY, MO—Acknowledging that she had seen all the warnings about holiday travel on the news, local mom Mary Simpson announced Tuesday that she completely understood that coming to Thanksgiving would be risky for all involved and that you didn’t love her anymore. “No, no, don’t apologize, honey—if it isn’t safe…Read more…

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Corporate Democrats Are to Blame for Congressional Losses, So Naturally They’re Blaming Progressives CounterPunch.org

Nov 182020
 

Photograph Source: Senate Democrats – CC BY 2.0 Corporate Democrats got the presidential nominee they wanted, along with control over huge campaign ad budgets and nationwide messaging to implement “moderate” strategies. But, as the Washington Post noted, Joe Biden’s victory “came with no coattails down ballot.” Democratic losses left just a razor-thin cushion in the House, and the party failed to win a Senate majority. Now, corporate Democrats are scapegoating progressives. The best members of Congress are pushing back — none…

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Across the World, Sports Stadiums and Arenas Are a Gigantic Swindle Jacobin

Nov 162020
 

From Calgary to Los Angeles, everyone knows that sports arenas are a bad deal for cities. But the problem isn’t just the use of public subsidies for private profit: the whole multibillion-dollar sports venue industry is built on the backs of poorly treated, underpaid workers. Scotiabank Saddledome, the home arena of the NHL team the Calgary Flames, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (Wikimedia Commons) The North American sports market, worth $71 billion, is limping forward…

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