Super-urgent: Remove CASE Act from Covid-19 relief bill Richard Stallman’s Political Notes

Dec 262020
 

US citizens: call your congresscritter and your senators to tell them to remove the copyright and trademark changes from the Covid-19 relief bill. The wrecker’s veto, while surely intended for manipulation, offers the chance to fix this. Let’s seize the opportunity. Why the copyright repression of the CASE Act is so bad. Increasing the relief payments would also be a good thing, but if the wrecker were sincere about wanting that, he could have said…

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Control Theory Spellcasting Banishes the 3D Printing Ghosts Hackaday

Dec 252020
 

It seems as though we still can’t hit the ceiling on better control schemes for 3D Printers. Input Shaping is the latest technique to land on our radar, a form of resonance compensation that all but eliminates the ghosting (aka: vertical ringing) artifacts we see on the walls of printed parts. While the technique has been around for decades, only recently did [Dmitry Butyugin] both apply it to 3D printer control and merge their hard…

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Maine Green Party Showing for U.S. Senate Was the Best in Maine History for Any Third Party Ballot Access News

Dec 252020
 

Last month, the Maine Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, Lisa Savage, polled 4.95%.  That was the highest showing for U.S. Senate in Maine for any party, other than the Republican and Democratic Parties, in history.  U.S. Senate elections have … Continue reading →

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It’s 2020: Linux Kernel Sees New Port To The Nintendo 64 Phoronix

Dec 252020
 

It’s been a turbulent year and 2020 is certainly ending interesting in the Linux/open-source space… If it wasn’t odd enough seeing Sony providing a new official Linux driver for their PlayStation 5 DualSense controller for ending out the year, there is also a new Linux port to the Nintendo 64 game console… Yes, a brand new port to the game console that launched more than two decades ago…

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Yukon gold miner unearths a mummified Ice Age wolf pup Ars Technica

Dec 242020
 

Enlarge / The puppy’s remains are dried out but mostly intact thanks to being buried in permafrost. (credit: Government of Yukon) This Ice Age wolf puppy doesn’t look much like a fearsome predator, what with her tiny puppy teeth and soft little ears. According to her DNA, however, the mummified puppy, named Zhùr, came from a population that’s among the ancestors of all modern wolves. Canada’s permafrost freeze-dried her remains shortly after her death around…

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The World is Your Green Screen Hackaday

Dec 242020
 

This year has been the year of home video conferencing. If you are really on the ball, you’ve managed to put some kind of green screen up so you can hide your mess and look as though you are in your posh upper east side office space. However, most of the consumer video conferencing now has some way to try to guess what your background is and replace it even without a green screen. The…

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A Tale of Two Body Camera Videos American Civil Liberties Union

Dec 242020
 

Over the past month, two high-profile incidents reaffirmed why police body cameras cannot serve as a police transparency and accountability tool as long as state law empowers the police to determine what footage the public gets to see. As we have said time and time again, when the police are given the discretion to publicly release favorable body camera footage but withhold negative footage, police body cameras become nothing more than a police propaganda tool.The…

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Joe Biden’s Love of Austerity Cut the Stimulus Bill in Half Jacobin

Dec 222020
 

We’re in the middle of a brutal pandemic during which millions are suffering. Yet according to the New York Times, Joe Biden actually moved to undercut progressives demanding greater economic aid in the stimulus negotiations, giving “Democrats confidence to pull back on their demands” — and surrender to Mitch McConnell. President-elect Joe Biden has endorsed an initiative to slash the stimulus bill in half. (@jlhervàs / Flickr) If there is any consistent through line in…

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Senator Tillis Releases Massive Unconstitutional Plan To Reshape The Internet In Hollywood’s Image Techdirt.

Dec 222020
 

Yesterday, Senator Thom Tillis helped ram through a gift for Hollywood: getting the felony streaming copyright bill that he’d only released a week earlier included in the must-pass omnibus funding bill despite literally no discussion or debate about the problems with the bill. This morning, he really doubled down. As announced last month, Tillis has now released a draft of his DMCA overhaul, which appears to be exactly what he had hinted at last month…

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This Disastrous Copyright Proposal Goes Straight to Our Naughty List Deeplinks

Dec 222020
 

Just yesterday we saw two wretched copyright bills-the CASE Act and a felony streaming bill — slipped into law via a must-pass spending bill. But it seems some people in Congress were just getting started. Today, Senator Thom Tillis launched a “discussion draft” of the so-called Digital Copyright Act. But there’s nothing to discuss: the bill, if passed, would absolutely devastate the Internet. We’ll have a more in-depth analysis of this draft bill later, but…

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Humane Trap-And-Removal Program Sedates Tenants So They Unconscious During Eviction The Onion

Dec 222020
 

ORLANDO, FL—Aiming to make the process of forcible displacement easier for all involved, a new humane trap-and-removal program being piloted by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office sedates apartment tenants so they are unconscious during an eviction, sources confirmed Friday. “Residents often become frightened and act…Read more…

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The Cosmologist Working to Preserve the Night Sky for the Future Motherboard

Dec 222020
 

As 2020 draws to a close, Dr. Aparna Venkatesan is struck by how her personal experience of grief—set against a year of collective mourning—has changed something fundamental in her life: the way she looks at the Moon. Venkatesan, a cosmologist at the University of San Francisco, lost her father in March; a man she described as “my lifelong best friend” and “one of my greatest allies” in a call. “I think all girls should have…

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Did ET Finally Call Us? Hackaday

Dec 222020
 

An Australian radio telescope picked up unusual signals back in 2019 and thinks they originated from Proxima Centauri, a scant 4.3 light years from our blue marble. Researchers caution that it almost certainly is a signal of human or natural origin and that more analysis will probably show it didn’t come from Proxima Centauri. But they can’t yet explain it. The research is from the Breakthrough Listen project, a decade-long SETI project. The 980 MHz…

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Congress (Once Again) Sells Out To Hollywood: Sneaks CASE Act And Felony Streaming Bill Into Government Funding Omnibus Techdirt.

Dec 222020
 

As we warned about earlier this month, it appears that Congress has in fact put two very controversial copyright provisions into the government funding “omnibus” bill that will be voted on later today. As you may have heard, last night Congress worked out a “deal” on both a $900 billion Covid relief/stimulus package and the giant $1.4 trillion omnibus government funding bill, which is being voted on today. There had been concerns raised all month…

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CBP’s Plan to Expand Face Surveillance at Airports is a Civil Liberties Disaster in the Making American Civil Liberties Union

Dec 222020
 

Over the last couple years, it’s become increasingly clear that facial recognition technology doesn’t work well, and would be a civil liberties and privacy nightmare even if it did. But that’s not stopping the Trump administration from moving forward with its dangerous plans to expand the technology’s use at U.S. airports and other ports of entry.U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has proposed a new rule that would massively expand the use of face surveillance…

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal – Bored Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (updated daily)

Dec 212020
 

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext:We’re all laughing at stupid stuff AI does, but humans will sit at a video game they don’t even like and play till they’re starving.Today’s News:

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Zoom Executive Allegedly Doctored Child Porn to Smear Tiananmen Square Memorial Activists Motherboard

Dec 212020
 

American prosecutors have charged a Zoom executive in an elaborate scheme to disrupt video meetings of activists who planned to commemorate the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China. The complaint and arrest warrant for Xinjiang Jin, a Zoom employee and the company’s liaison to Chinese law enforcement, were unsealed by the Department of Justice.  “As detailed in the complaint, Jin’s co-conspirators created fake email accounts and [Zoom] accounts in the names of…

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A New Congressional Budget Office Study Shows That Medicare for All Would Save Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Annually Jacobin

Dec 202020
 

The most exhaustive study on Medicare for All just came out. Its conclusion: a single-payer system would guarantee health insurance to all people while reducing overall health spending by hundreds of billions of dollars every year. Supporters hold signs as US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a health care rally at the 2017 Convention of the California Nurses Association / National Nurses Organizing Committee on September 22, 2017 in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan…

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Socialist Workers Party Came Fairly Close to Polling Enough Votes in District of Columbia to Be Ballot-Qualified Ballot Access News

Dec 192020
 

The Socialist Workers Party candidate for Delegate to U.S. House from the District of Columbia, Omari Musa, polled 6,702 votes last month.  If he had polled as much as 7,500 votes, the SWP would now be ballot-qualified in D.C. Only once has the SWP been a qualified party in D.C.,  That was immediately after the 1976 election, when the SWP polled 11,237 votes for Dorothy Hawkinson, its nominee for City-Council-at-Large. Musa polled almost as many…

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