Hundreds Of Thousands Of Jobless People Are Being Asked To Repay Benefits PopularResistance.Org

Nov 082020
 

Ahmad Ghabboun broke into a sweat. It was a late night in August and he had just discovered an unexpected $14,990 debt posted to the online portal he uses to access his account with Washington state’s unemployment agency. Since May, he had been receiving payments every week through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, newly established by Congress to support freelancers like him. The benefits replaced the paycheck he could no longer earn after the pandemic…

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The task Of ‘Sleepy Joe’ Is To Put Liberal America Right Back To Sleep PopularResistance.Org

Nov 072020
 

At birth, all of us begin a journey that offers opportunities either to grow – not just physically, but mentally, emotionally and spiritually – or to stagnate. The journey we undertake lasts a lifetime, but there are dozens of moments each day when we have a choice to make tiny incremental gains in experience, wisdom and compassion or to calcify through inertia, complacency and selfishness. No one can be engaged and receptive all the time.…

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California voters approve Prop 22, exempting gig work from labor law Boing Boing

Nov 042020
 

Voters in California have overwhelmingly approved of the gig economy, according to CNBC and other poll-watchers. Proposition 22, which allows companies such as Uber and Lyft to classify workers as contractors instead of employees—exempting them from labor laws—was tallied at 60% with many votes counted. — Read the rest

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NASA objects to new mega-constellation, citing risk of “catastrophic collision” Ars Technica

Nov 032020
 

Enlarge / Sixty Starlink Internet communication satellites from SpaceX are seen in the night sky over Vladivostok. (credit: Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images) NASA has formally commented (PDF) on a request by a US company to build a mega-constellation of satellites at an altitude of 720km above the Earth’s surface, citing concerns about collisions. This appears to be the first time that NASA has publicly commented on such an application for market access, which is pending…

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how to publish git repos that cannot be republished to github see shy jo

Nov 032020
 

So here’s an interesting thing. Certain commit hashes are rapidly heading toward being illegal on Github. So, if you clone a git repo from somewhere else, you had better be wary of pushing it to Github. Because if it happened to contain one of those hashes, that could get you banned from Github. Which, as we know, is your resume. Now here’s another interesting thing. It’s entirely possible for me to add one of those…

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Joey Hess: how to publish git repos that cannot be republished to github see shy jo

Nov 032020
 

So here’s an interesting thing. Certain commit hashes are rapidly heading toward being illegal on Github. So, if you clone a git repo from somewhere else, you had better be wary of pushing it to Github. Because if it happened to contain one of those hashes, that could get you banned from Github. Which, as we know, is your resume. Now here’s another interesting thing. It’s entirely possible for me to add one of those…

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 2020-11-03  Comments Off on Joey Hess: how to publish git repos that cannot be republished to github see shy jo

View a Maine Sample Ballot, Showing Ranked Choice Voting for President and U.S. Congress Ballot Access News

Nov 032020
 

Here is a Maine sample ballot for November 2020, showing the ranked choice voting system for both President and Congress. This is the first ballot in U.S. history to use RCV for president in a general election. … Continue reading →

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ICE Medical Misconduct Witness Slated for Deportation Is a U.S. Citizen, Says Lawyer The Intercept

Nov 032020
 

Alma Bowman, a 54-year-old woman in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, was scheduled for deportation on Monday. For over two years, Bowman has been held at Georgia’s Irwin County Detention Center, the site of growing concern about medical neglect and coerced gynecological procedures performed on nearly 60 women. She has been a key witness, for attorneys and journalists, of a doctor performing the allegedly unnecessary or overly aggressive procedures. She is also a U.S. citizen, according to…

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NASA objects to new megaconstellation, citing risk of “catastrophic collison” Ars Technica

Nov 032020
 

Enlarge / Sixty Starlink Internet communication satellites from SpaceX are seen in the night sky over Vladivostok. (credit: Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images) NASA has formally commented (PDF) on a request by a US company to build a megaconstellation of satellites at an altitude of 720km above the Earth’s surface, citing concerns about collisions. This appears to be the first time that NASA has publicly commented on such an application for market access, which is pending…

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 2020-11-03  Comments Off on NASA objects to new megaconstellation, citing risk of “catastrophic collison” Ars Technica

What to wear when you’re battling giant, venomous hornets Ars Technica

Nov 022020
 

Enlarge (credit: Washington State Department of Agriculture) By now you’ve surely seen the pictures: A dozen humanoid forms encased in full-body, white nylon suits are working on scaffolding at the base of a saran-wrapped tree by the red glow of headlamps, one of them raising a plexiglass vacuum tube between its blue-gloved hands in triumph. Inside, 85 wasps, each the size of a human thumb, are piled against one another in cold-induced slumber. No, these…

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Pseudo-left apologists for Biden and the bankruptcy of “lesser-evil” politics World Socialist Web Site (en)

Oct 312020
 

In the final days of the election, the Democratic Party and its affiliates are going all out to insist that workers and youth opposed to Trump must subordinate their struggles to electing Biden.

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The Theremin is 100 Years Old; Celebrating the Spookiest of Instruments Hackaday

Oct 312020
 

It wouldn’t be October without Halloween, and it wouldn’t be Halloween without some spooky music. There’s no instrument spookier than a Theremin, which also happens to be one of the world’s first electronic instruments. Leon Theremin plays his namesake instrument. Image via Linda Hall Library You’ve no doubt heard the eerie, otherworldly tones of the Theremin in various 1950s sci-fi films, or heard the instrument’s one-of-a-kind cousin, the Electro-Theremin in “Good Vibrations” by the Beach…

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RCV in Massachusetts: When the piper gets ignored Stories by Lessig on Medium

Oct 312020
 

On Tuesday, voters in Massachusetts will have the chance to pass Question 2, which will produce Ranked Choice Voting for most state and federal offices. That reform will give voters the chance to rank their preferences when casting their ballot for candidates — an opportunity which is especially important when more than two candidates are running. In this year’s primary in the Fourth Congressional District, for example, there were nine candidates competing to become the Democratic nominee.…

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In a first, researchers extract secret key used to encrypt Intel CPU code Ars Technica

Oct 292020
 

Enlarge (credit: Intel) Researchers have extracted the secret key that encrypts updates to an assortment of Intel CPUs, a feat that could have wide-ranging consequences for the way the chips are used and, possibly, the way they’re secured. The key makes it possible to decrypt the microcode updates Intel provides to fix security vulnerabilities and other types of bugs. Having a decrypted copy of an update may allow hackers to reverse engineer it and learn…

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Both U.S. Senators from New York Endorse Voting for Joe Biden on Working Families Party Line Ballot Access News

Oct 292020
 

On October 26, both U.S. Senators from New York, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, asked voters to vote for Joe Biden on the Working Families line, not the Democratic line. See this story. In related news, on October 27, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders both criticized the New York Democratic Party for putting out a campaign brochure that shows pictures of them. The brochure asks voters to vote for Democrats on the Democratic…

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Facebook deploying teams with advanced censorship tools in advance of the US election World Socialist Web Site (en)

Oct 272020
 

Citing concerns over election-related “chaos” and “violence,” Facebook is preparing—in collaboration with the US intelligence state—advanced software tools for implementing a censorship regime during November 3 and its aftermath.

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