“B-b-but patio seating!” So fucking what. jwz

Jun 152020
 

griffincandey:So, the bar I work at opened back up last night, and I gotta say, y’all: Just fucking don’t go to restaurants right now. Just don’t do it.I understand that people want to support restaurants that they love, but there’s a level of nonchalance here that really betrays how poorly America is dealing with this pandemic.America has a considerably higher rate of COVID cases and fatalities in relation to our population than most other countries.…

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OSM Indoor Maps for KDE Itinerary Planet KDE

Jun 152020
 

In the previous post I briefly mentioned ongoing work about adding interactive train station and airport maps to KDE Itinerary. Here are some more details on what this is about. Goals Some of the public transport backend services actually provide links to images or PDF files with a map for all stops or stations involved in a journey, showing those would be fairly straightforward and would even give us the official maps of the corresponding…

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D.C. Circuit Upholds Commission on Presidential Debates Ballot Access News

Jun 152020
 

On June 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, issued a 13-page opinion in Level the Playing Field v Federal Election Commission, 19-5117. The decision says the Commission’s policy of limiting the general election debates to candidates who are at 15% at the polls in September does not violate any federal campaign laws. The ruling says, “American politics has, for most of American history, been organized around two parties.” The ruling says the 15%…

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GitHub to replace master with main across its services The Register

Jun 152020
 

Language matters – though replacing ‘blacklist’ with ‘blocklist’ is a pain when you’re listing blocks, apparently GitHub will drop the term “master” as the default branch name from its hosted repositories in response to protests about ingrained racism.…

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Quaker Oats Replaces Historically Racist Aunt Jemima Mascot With Black Female Lawyer Who Enjoys Pancakes Sometimes The Onion

Jun 152020
 

CHICAGO—In response to nationwide protests regarding police brutality and racial discrimination, food conglomerate Quaker Oats announced Friday that after 130 years, it would replace its historically racist Aunt Jemima mascot with a black female lawyer who enjoys pancakes from time to time. “The time has come to…Read more…

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Internet Backbone Provider Hurricane Electric Sues Movie Companies Over ‘Ridiculous’ Piracy Allegations TorrentFreak

Jun 142020
 

Hurricane Electric (HE) is one of the major network providers on the global Internet. The company operates the largest IPv6 backbone which facilitates Internet connectivity to people all over the world. Unlike consumer ISPs, HE mainly provides its services to large organizations – some of which are ISPs themselves – that have thousands of customers, or are customers of customers. Somewhere down this line, there may be people who abuse their Internet connections by using…

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Why Are the Police Like This? Jacobin

Jun 142020
 

The police were first created to suppress labor militancy and the Left, before becoming a tool to bludgeon the most marginalized in society, particularly poor black people. We must dismantle this brutal instrument of social control. Police officers block a road on the fourth day of protests on May 29, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Scott Olson / Getty The police are out of control. They murder unarmed, poor, disproportionately nonwhite people with near total impunity.…

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Ron Wyden Explains Why President Trump (And Many Others) Are Totally Wrong About Section 230 Techdirt.

Jun 142020
 

A few years back, at a Santa Clara University event about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, I remember (then) 9th Circuit chief judge Alex Kozinski noting with some amount of pleasure that he was relieved to hear from one of the two authors of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (former Rep. Chris Cox, who was in attendance at the event) that his opinions on 230 were exactly what Cox intended. Paraphrasing…

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RIP Danal Estes, Developer of Multitool 3D Printing Infrastructure Hackaday

Jun 142020
 

Last week, [Danal Estes] passed away. This comes as a shock to many of us who had the pleasure of interacting with him online. Not only was [Danal] an active contributor to the 3D printing community, he was simply a warm-hearted character who was just fun to get along with. I met [Danal] online less than a year ago. But I owe him a debt in helping transform a set of design files that I…

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Burn ES&S to the ground jwz

Jun 142020
 

County Election Office Denied Access to Election DatabaseThe Supervisor of Election, as defined by Florida statutes, is the custodian of all election documents and records, from voter registration to candidate filings and election results. So, you can imagine my surprise when a senior election office official acknowledged that while they maintain custody of the Microsoft SQL Server database where all votes are recorded, no one in the office can log into the database or query…

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Who Are the Biggest Corporations That Kept Their PPP Loans? jwz

Jun 102020
 

“The answer may surprise you.”Today I learned that: RealPlayer still exists; RealNetworks is valued at $70 million; They got a $2.8 million Payroll Protection Program loan that they did not give back. The worst gamers of the PPP system are companies you’ve never heard of. Something called Staffing 360 Solutions, who make $500 million a year, somehow got $19 million in PPP loans. Other $10 million loans went out to a video company called Quantum…

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Thugs pushed an elderly protester to the ground Richard Stallman’s Political Notes

Jun 082020
 

Stampeding Buffalo thugs pushed an elderly protester to the ground so hard that it wounded his head. One of the thugs tried to help him, but was directed by another thug to go attack another protester instead. Then they lied about what they had done. This calls for firing all the thugs that lied, plus the one who said not to help the fallen protester, but the one that tried to help him deserves some…

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Mass Protests Have Forced Some Cities to Repeal Anti-Protester Curfews Jacobin

Jun 082020
 

After brutal police violence failed to stop huge protests against the murder of George Floyd, governments across the country imposed curfews in an attempt to curtail dissent. But protesters have defied the restrictions in mass numbers — and in some cities, forced elected leaders to repeal the curfews. Demonstrators hold up their arms during a protest sparked by the police murder of George Floyd, on May 29, 2020 in Oakland, California. (Justin Sullivan / Getty…

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In Cities and Towns Across the US This Week, the Brutal Police Riot Has Continued Jacobin

Jun 052020
 

We’re witnessing a national police riot that hasn’t showed any signs of slowing. The instances of brutal police violence against protesters are so numerous that it’s hard to keep track of them all — but here are some of the worst abuses we’ve seen. Police confront protesters and members of the media in the rain as demonstrations continue in Manhattan over the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police officer on June 3, 2020…

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How to Identify Visible (and Invisible) Surveillance at Protests Deeplinks

Jun 052020
 

The full weight of U.S. policing has descended upon protesters across the country as people take to the streets to denounce the police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless others who have been subjected to police violence. Along with riot shields, tear gas, and other crowd control measures also comes the digital arm of modern policing: prolific surveillance technology on the street and online. For decades, EFF has been tracking police departments’ massive…

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Pennsylvania Democratic Party Wants to Intervene Against Minor Party Ballot Access Ballot Access News

Jun 052020
 

On May 27, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party asked a U.S. District Court to intervene in the minor party ballot access case, Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania v Wolf, e.d., 5:20cv-2299. The case asks for petitioning relief for the Libertarian, Green, and Constitution Parties. The Democratic Party brief opposes petitioning relief for the minor parties. It says Democrats had to petition to get on the Democratic primary ballot. But the petitioning period for members of major parties…

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US cable subscribers are still being ‘ripped off’ by creeping price increases – and this lot has had enough The Register

May 262020
 

Lawsuit claims Charter’s ‘fixed’ monthly fees are anything but Analysis  In many ways it’s a rite of passage in America: being ripped off by your cable company and trying to figure out how they did it. Now a lawsuit against Charter Communications is seeking to uncover just that.…

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