The Death of the Mind

North Carolina law says a party gains or retains qualified status if its presidential nominee was on the ballot in at least 35 states. The party label doesn’t matter. Jill Stein will be on the ballot in 36 states in November 2024, so the party is now on the ballot for 2026 and 2028.
Parties also retain if they poll 2% for either President or Governor. Both offices are up in presidential years.
If Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. had not withdrawn, his party, the We the People Party, would also have qualified. However, he withdrew his name from North Carolina and eighteen other states, so he is only on in 31 states (plus D.C., but D.C. doesn’t count…

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In my last blog post, Evolution of Logical Replication, I mentioned the future development of a feature to allow “upgrades of logical replication nodes.” The upcoming release of PostgreSQL 17 includes this feature. Previously, after major version upgrades (via pg_upgrade), users couldn’t immediately connect and write data to logical replication nodes. This was because the slots were lost during upgrades, preventing replication from continuing. As a result, new writes wouldn’t get replicated, causing data on both nodes to become out of sync. As explained in this blog post, users had to block applications from writing until the replication setup was re-enabled after the upgrade.With PostgreSQL 17, logical replication nodes can be upgraded without blocking writes or…

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That escalated quickly

WordPress on Wednesday escalated its conflict with WP Engine, a hosting provider, by blocking the latter’s servers from accessing WordPress.org resources – and therefore from potentially vital software updates.…

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On September 25, the Ohio Secretary of State said he won’t count votes for Jill Stein, even though she is on the ballot as an independent presidential candidate. This is because the Ohio Greens sent in paperwork to swap out the stand-in vice-presidential nominee, Anita Rios, with the actual vice-presidential nominee, Butch Ware. The paperwork caused the problem. The due date for withdrawal is later than the due date for a new nominee. Therefore, the Ohio Secretary of State deemed the withdrawal of the stand-in to be timely, and he interpreted it as a withdrawal of Jill Stein herself and the stand-in vice-presidential candidate. But he deemed the new vice-presidential name to be too late.
There are…

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In a troubling blow to public access, a US appeals court sided with big publishers, erasing half a million books from the Internet Archive’s lending library. This case isn’t just about books; it’s also about who controls the digital commons.
A staff member wears a “Universal Access to All Knowledge” shirt during a twentieth-anniversary celebration of the Internet Archive in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, October 26, 2016. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) They’re burning the modern Library of Alexandria. That’s one way to describe the recent ruling of the Second Circuit US Court of Appeals against the Internet Archive (IA). The court sided with big-name…

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Israel blew up thousands of two-way personal radios used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon, the second wave of an intelligence operation that started with the explosions of pager devices the day before. What do you think?

“Israel can’t risk survivors being radicalized by Israel’s actions.”
Marcos Pantoja, Necktie Steamer

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“We can’t negotiate with innocent bystanders.”
Shari Kurz, Rhetoric Analyst

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“I don’t see why every device has to have so many different functions these days.”
Cody Hudd, Part-Time Laborer

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A bill to require ranked choice voting for all congressional primary and general elections has been introduced in both houses of Congress. The U.S. Senate sponsor is Peter Welch (D-Vermont). The two chief sponsors in the House are Jaime Raskin (D-Maryland) and Don Beyer (D-Virginia).
It would require ranked choice voting in both primaries and general elections, so that the current top-two systems in California and Washington would need to be revised. Furthermore, it says that if a state uses systems without party nominees, at least three candidates must be allowed to advance to the general election.
The bill says that if a state defines a qualified party in terms of how many votes it received in the…

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On September 13, the Nevada Green Party asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the ruling of the State Supreme Court that had removed it from the ballot. Nevada Green Party v Aguilar, 24A262. Here is the filing.

The application was submitted to Justice Elena Kagan, who asked the Democratic Party to respond by Tuesday, September 17.

UPDATE: here is a news story from The Hill.

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The degraded spectacle of Tuesday’s debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris held a mirror to a political system in extraordinary crisis. Between the mad ravings of the fascist Trump and the empty-headed platitudes of the warmonger Harris, the debate presented the vicious face of American capitalism.

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