Primary Polling Places Are Full Of Older People … And The Coronavirus Features – FiveThirtyEight

Mar 172020
 

On Friday, an exhausted-looking election official in Arizona was speaking at a press conference about the state’s upcoming primary when he gave up, mid-speech. “I’m sorry, I can’t do this,” said Maricopa County election day director Scott Jarrett, before he left the platform, and the room. It had been a difficult week. Arizona election officials were organizing a vote while also figuring out how to protect voters from the novel coronavirus. State officials fought in…

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California governor issues order allowing state to commandeer hotels for coronavirus patients Boing Boing

Mar 132020
 

California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that will allow the state to take over hotels to house coronavirus patients in case hospitals are overloaded. From The Los Angeles Times: Under the order, the California Health and Human Services Agency and the Office of Emergency Services will be able to execute agreements to commandeer hotels, or medical facilities that are not in use, to quarantine, isolate and treat COVID-19 patients or those with a…

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Chelsea Manning Ordered Free From Prison — but Will Still Have to Pay Massive Fines The Intercept

Mar 132020
 

Chelsea Manning, photographed in Washington, D.C., in January 2018. Photo: Jesse Dittmar/ReduxOn Thursday afternoon, a District Court judge in Virginia ordered that Chelsea Manning be released from jail, where she has been held since last May for refusing to testify before a grand jury. The ruling itself is striking in what it fails to recognize. “The court finds Ms. Manning’s appearance before the Grand Jury is no longer needed, in light of which her detention…

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Uncle Sam stonewalls probe into its secretive airport facial-recognition technology. Now the ACLU is suing The Register

Mar 132020
 

All your face are belong to US The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing Uncle Sam’s Homeland Security, and multiple government agencies, claiming the g-men stonewalled on what they are doing with people’s faces scanned at US airports. The civil-rights warriors hope to extract information from the organizations via the courts.…

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DNA Lounge: Wherein we’re on lockdown. jwz

Mar 132020
 

Per recommendations of city and state authorities, all DNA Lounge events have be cancelled for at least the next three weeks. This is a huge disappointment to all of us but the health and safety of our community must take priority. We will be making announcements about rescheduled dates and/or ticket refunds as information becomes available.Stay safe, and wash your damned hands!Now would be a great time for you to contribute to our Patreon or…

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Libertarian and Green Parties of Maryland Say Petitioning is Becoming Difficult Ballot Access News

Mar 132020
 

The Green Party of Maryland, and the Libertarian Party of Maryland, have issued this press release. Both parties are engaged in petitioning to get back on the ballot. They say the corona virus problem has made petitioning much more difficult, … Continue reading →

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The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online Deeplinks

Mar 132020
 

Imagine an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software. Companies that handle such messages wouldn’t be allowed to securely encrypt them, or they’d lose legal protections that allow them to operate. Take Action Stop the Graham-Blumenthal Attack on Encryption That’s what the Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed and hopes to pass into law. The so-called EARN IT bill, sponsored by Senators Lindsay Graham (R-GA) and Richard Blumenthal…

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Coronavirus Calls for an Emergency Rent Freeze and Eviction Moratorium Jacobin

Mar 132020
 

It is indefensible that people should have to fear eviction during a health crisis. Coronavirus calls for emergency controls on the housing market now. Hospital staff at the Norwood Hospital work to set up a tent from a trailer in Norwood, MA on March 11, 2020. David L. Ryan / Boston Globe via Getty As the reality of the coronavirus takes hold globally, our capacity — or lack thereof — to deal with the crisis…

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Post-apocalypse game show: “Hello, good evening, and remain indoors!” Boing Boing

Mar 132020
 

British comedy duo Mitchell and Webb created their “The Quiz” sketch format years ago, depicting a dilapidated and miserable TV game show broadcast in the wake of an apocalyptic “event” that means you really should stay indoors. Prophetic!

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New York State Court Invalidates Hostile Ballot Access Changes Made by Public Campaign Finance Commission Ballot Access News

Mar 132020
 

On May 12, the New York Supreme Court, Niagara County, invalidated the hostile ballot access changes made by the Public Campaign Finance Commission late last year. Hurley v Public Campaign Finance & Election Commission, E169547/2019. The order says, “The line between administrative rule-making (which can be delegated) and legislative action (which cannot be delegated) has clearly been transgessed. Here is the eleven-page order. Last year, the legislature gave the Commission the authority to re-write the…

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Tech Lobbyists Are Pushing Bad Privacy Bills. Washington State Can, and Must, Do Better. Deeplinks

Mar 092020
 

A data privacy bill in Washington State has gained momentum. The bill, 2SSB 6281 (also known as the Washington Privacy Act, or WPA), has received widespread support from big tech companies. It’s no wonder they like it because, as currently written, the WPA would be a weak, token effort at reining in corporations’ rampant misuse of personal data. The WPA didn’t come from nowhere, and it didn’t come alone. A number of industry-friendly groups have…

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Intel promises Full Memory Encryption in upcoming CPUs Ars Technica

Feb 272020
 

This looks like an advertisement for AMD Epyc processors until you get to that bright yellow “solutions available today” box and realize we’re talking about Intel. [credit: Intel Corporation ] At Intel’s Security Day event on Tuesday, the company laid down its present and future vision for security-focused features in its hardware. Intel’s Anil Rao and Scott Woodgate opened their presentation with a present-and-future discussion of Intel’s SGX (Software Guard Extensions), but their coverage of…

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Our Revolution, Accused of Dark-Money Spending for Sanders, Took Only Six Donations Over $5,000 in 2019, None Larger than $25,000 The Intercept

Feb 272020
 

Rival presidential candidates have been attacking Sen. Bernie Sanders over the advocacy groups boosting his campaign, accusing the Democratic frontrunner of taking untraceable dark money and contributions from super PACs and from the nonprofit he founded in 2016, Our Revolution. The problem with the charge: It’s not dark money, and it’s not big, either. The issue arose most recently during the Nevada debate, when Sen. Elizabeth Warren said that everyone onstage besides her and Sen.…

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Fourth Circuit Wants Oral Argument in North Carolina Ballot Access Case Ballot Access News

Feb 232020
 

The Fourth Circuit wants oral argument in Kopitke v Bell, 19-2355. This is the lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s March petition deadline for independent candidates, and the requirement that they collect approximately 70,000 valid signatures if they are running for statewide … Continue reading →

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Introducing The XFM2: A New FM Synthesizer Board Hackaday

Feb 232020
 

[René Ceballos] contacted us about the new XFM2 FM synthesizer board, successor to the XFM that we covered on Hackaday last year. In addition to changing FPGAs from a Spartan 6 to an Artix-7 35, the DAC was also upgraded from 16 to 24 bits. Since the project is based around two easily available boards for the FPGA and DAC functionality, it is something that should be easy for anyone to recreate. The project consists…

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Chance to kill “unitary patent” agreement Richard Stallman’s Political Notes

Feb 232020
 

FFII contends that the departure of Britain from the EU has invalidated the “unitary patent” agreement, and this offers a chance to kill it permanently. This is important because that deal would make the European Patent Office effectively autonomous regarding the question of which ideas are patentable — and it would certainly take advantage of that to rule that computational ideas are patentable. This offers one more chance to try to save software from patents…

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EFF Calls For Disclosure of Secret Financing Details Behind $1.1 Billion .ORG Sale, Asks FTC To Scrutinize Deal Deeplinks

Feb 232020
 

San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) Education Fund today called on ICANN and private equity firm Ethos Capital to make public secret details—hidden costs, loan servicing fees, and inducements to insiders—about financing the $1.1 billion sale of the .ORG domain registry.EFF and AFR today also urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to review the leveraged buyout, which will have profound effects on millions of charities, public interest organizations,…

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Airbnb Is Pushing Surveillance Devices as ‘Party Prevention’ Motherboard

Feb 232020
 

This article originally appeared on VICE Canada.Airbnb is encouraging its hosts to purchase noise surveillance devices in an effort to crack down on parties. As part of its “party prevention” campaign, the home-sharing service is offering discounts on devices designed to alert hosts when there’s an irregular level of noise in their homes. An email I received on Thursday from Airbnb (I’ve occasionally rented out my apartment) told me to “plan ahead to protect your…

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