Bruce Cooke, 48, died at the aquarium Thursday after his WaveRunner collided with the wall of the dolphin tank.
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One can watch the presidential debate of October 23 at this link. It included Jill Stein, Chase Oliver, and Randall Terry, and is slightly over two hours. It was sponsored by Free & Equal. … Continue reading →
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My “we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience through tokens, crypto trading or NFTs” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt. No not that crypto-grifter. These are different crypto-grifters: We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital […] This does not change the fact that the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.). To ensure we and our users benefit fully from this expertise, partner Kinjal Shah will join our board. If you are hitching your wagon to Blew Sky, you are…
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SPOKANE, WA—Stressing that the best move would be to just shave the whole thing off, sources confirmed Thursday that area man Stephen Blanchet’s shitty beard had barely any frolicsome woodland creatures living in it. “You can tell Stephen’s proud of his so-called beard, but there are hardly any chickadees popping out to chirp a happy tune or chipmunks scurrying through in a mirthful game of chase,” said coworker Sarah Tillotson, adding that while a cheeky screech owl would occasionally pop out when Blanchet was eating to playfully nab a bite for itself, one jovial bird of prey simply wasn’t enough to make the beard work. “Some days there’s a vole in there, but it’s depressing and…
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This summer’s Paris Olympics saw an experiment in AI-assisted algorithmic video surveillance. Now French officials say they want to make it permanent, in what experts call a worrying use of invasive and even racially discriminatory technology.
A surveillance camera with a statue of the Grand Palais Olympic site in the background in Paris on July 22, 2024. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP via Getty Images) This month, when Emmanuel Macron’s newly chosen prime minister, Michel Barnier, laid out his first government agenda to the National Assembly, much attention was naturally focused on the budget and immigration. But a seemingly throwaway line pointed to another aspect of security and policing. “We will generalize…
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Blinken’s visit carries with it enormous political, legal and historical significance. A top representative of the American government was briefed on the plan of mass extermination and proceeded to give what amounted to an unconditional and blanket endorsement of Israeli policy.
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Perhaps one of the more surprising changes in the 6.12-rc4 development
kernel was the removal
of several entries from the kernel’s MAINTAINERS file. The patch
performing the removal was sent (by Greg Kroah-Hartman) only to the
patches@lists.linux.dev mailing list; the change was included in a char-misc drivers
pull request with no particular mention.The explanation for the removal is simply “
various compliance“. Given that the developers involved all appear to be of
requirements
Russian origin, it is not too hard to imagine what sort of compliance is
involved here. There has, however, been no public posting of the policy
that required the removal of these entries.
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On October 19, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Watson held a hearing in Stein v LaRose. At the conclusion, he stated from the bench that he believes the issue belongs in state court, and said Stein should have gone to the State Supreme Court. The issue is whether votes for Stein should be counted. She is on the ballot but the Secretary of State says her votes won’t be counted because someone not officially part of the Stein campaign filed a withdrawal of the vice-presidential nominee.
Police use of automated license-plate reader cameras is being challenged in a lawsuit alleging that the cameras enable warrantless surveillance in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The city of Norfolk, Virginia, was sued yesterday by plaintiffs represented by the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public-interest law firm.
Norfolk, a city with about 238,000 residents, “has installed a network of cameras that make it functionally impossible for people to drive anywhere without having their movements tracked, photographed, and stored in an AI-assisted database that enables the warrantless surveillance of their every move. This civil rights lawsuit seeks to end this dragnet surveillance program,” said the complaint filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Like many…
The Supreme Court’s Carpenter decision created a warrant requirement for obtaining location data from service providers. It was a limited ruling, albeit one that has had far-ranging implications.
Thanks to this ruling, law enforcement agencies have started buying location data from third-party brokers, rather than suffer the apparent indignity of having to ask a judge to approve a warrant. The underlying theme of the ruling — that the Fourth Amendment ain’t what it used to be now that everyone’s online all the time — has seen it applied to cases where location data isn’t the underlying concern. Anything law enforcement might use to engage in tracking of individuals is now under additional scrutiny.
And while this is…
A security issue has been identified in
guix-daemon
which allows for a local user to gain the privileges of any of the build users
and subsequently use this to manipulate the output of any build. Your
are strongly advised to upgrade your daemon now (see instructions
below), especially on multi-user systems.This exploit requires the ability to start a derivation build and the ability to
run arbitrary code with access to the store in the root PID namespace on the
machine the build occurs on. As such, this represents an increased risk
primarily to multi-user systems and systems using dedicated privilege-separation
users for various daemons: without special sandboxing measures, any process of
theirs can take advantage of this vulnerability.VulnerabilityFor a very long time, guix-daemon has helpfully made…
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In recovering from recent cyberattacks on October 8, the Internet Archive has resumed the Wayback Machine (starting October 13) and Archive-It (October 17), and as of today (October 21), has begun offering provisional availability of archive.org in a read-only manner. Features like uploading, borrowing, reviewing items, interlibrary loan, and other services are not yet available. Please note that these services will have limited availability as we continue maintenance. Hackers disclosed archive.org email and encrypted passwords to a transparency website, and also sent emails to patrons by exploiting a 3rd party helpdesk system. The safety and integrity of the Internet Archive’s data and patrons remain our top priorities. As the security incident is analyzed and contained by…
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Between 1400 and 1775, a significant upsurge in witch trials swept across early modern Europe, resulting in the execution of an estimated 40,000–60,000 accused witches. Historians and social scientists have long studied this period in hopes of learning more about how large-scale social changes occur. Some have pointed to the invention of the printing press and the publication of witch-hunting manuals—most notably the highly influential Malleus Maleficarum—as a major factor, making it easier for the witch-hunting hysteria to spread across the continent.
The abrupt emergence of the craze and its rapid spread, resulting in a pronounced shift in social behaviors—namely, the often brutal persecution of suspected witches—is consistent with a theory of social change dubbed “ideational diffusion,”…
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Last week, along with a DDOS attack and exposure of patron email addresses and encrypted passwords, the Internet Archive’s website javascript was defaced, leading us to bring the site down to access and improve our security. The stored data of the Internet Archive is safe and we are working on resuming services safely. This new reality requires heightened attention to cyber security and we are responding. We apologize for the impact of these library services being unavailable. The Wayback Machine, Archive-It, scanning, and national library crawls have resumed, as well as email, blog, helpdesk, and social media communications. Our team is working around the clock across time zones to bring other services back online. In coming…
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Name as it appears on the ballot: Joshua Bradley Age: 50 Party affiliation: NC Green Party & Socialist Party USA Campaign website: https://bradleyforraleighworkers.com Occupation & employer: Hotel Accountant-Summit Hospitality Group Years lived in Raleigh: 32 1. Given the direction of Raleigh government, would you say things are on the right course? If not, what specific changes will you advocate for if elected? No. 1. Gentrification is still accelerating. I would work to ensure that housing for the workers, the poor, and the unhoused is the number 1 priority of the city. 2. There have been at least 5 unarmed people killed by police in the last few years. I will work to get the alternative crisis response unit fully funded, as people in…
A U.S. District Court will hear Stein v LaRose, s.d., 2:24cv-04042, on Tuesday, October 22. This is the case over whether Jill Stein’s votes should be counted. She is on the ballot in Ohio, but after the ballots were printed, the Secretary of State said he would not count her votes, because he perceived that her vice-presidential candidate had withdrawn, even though the vice-presidential candidate had not withdrawn.
Some evidence was taken on Wednesday, October 16, at the status conference.
According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for each different platform that was downloaded. At some point late that night I wandered off and wrote the first version of the page that loaded when you pressed the “What’s Cool” button in the toolbar. (A couple days later, Jim Clark would go ballistic in a company-wide email because I had included a link to Bianca’s Smut Shack.) For those of you who are unaware of these finer details, 0.9 was the first release of the Netscape browser (which begat Firefox) available to the…
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Jones, one of the greatest American actors, also had a life story that is not well enough known.
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