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CW: Bird site owner calls to prosecute Fauci #USpol
@JenniferMorency It’s #StochasticTerrorism to use a bully pulpit that big to paint a bullseye on #DrFauci. It’s beyond sick & evil as is so much of what #elonmusk does.
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CW: FSC sues to overturn Cox's block of adult websites #uspol #NSFW
#FSC Files Legal Challenge to Utah's Anti-Porn Law
https://www.xbiz.com/news/273472/fsc-files-legal-challenge-to-utahs-anti-porn-law "Utah's SB 287 requires that visitors to adult sites prove that they are over 18 years of age, such as by providing digitized government identification to a service that interacts with a state database. However, the state of #Utah does not currently have the capability to verify digital IDs online." #SpencerCox #privacy #1A -
@cathyginter They want every broadly defined "able" bodied but unemployed #Medicaid recipient between 19-56 in #Workfare, which would cause coverage losses of ~10 million per Vox. Here's what workfare is like: https://web.archive.org/web/20230208181401/http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/workfare.html
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CW: GOP plan would cause millions to lose health coverage #uspol
Analysis: #McCarthy #Medicaid Proposal Puts Millions of People in Expansion States at Risk of Losing Health Coverage https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/mccarthy-medicaid-proposal-puts-millions-of-people-in-expansion-states-at-risk-of "The McCarthy proposal could [also] jeopardize coverage for millions more, by prompting some states to drop the #ACA Medicaid expansion or dissuading states that have not yet taken the expansion from adopting it." #Healthcare #poverty #workfare
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CW: Ro Khanna, Silicon Valley Democrat with mainstream appeal #USpol
Analysis: #Progressive #Democrat brings pitch to rural America https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3963448-progressive-ro-khanna-brings-pitch-to-rural-america/
"Khanna’s alignment with the tech sector distinguishes him from progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who has been critical of the industry’s influence. While #Khanna is clear-eyed about areas for improvement, such as #privacy and #dataprotection, he believes it offers the party opportunities as well." -
How to see peak of the #Lyrid #meteor shower this weekend https://www.axios.com/2023/04/21/meteor-shower-2023-april-lyrid "Why it matters: It's one of the oldest known meteor showers, with the first recorded sighting going back to 687 B.C. in China, according to NASA."
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CW: Chaos ensues as bird site pulls checkmarks
Confusion as Musk’s #Twitter yanks #bluechecks from agencies https://apnews.com/article/twitter-elon-musk-blue-checkmark-celebrities-544cfd66ed3a62f51a8a80c20e11ac5b? "[W]hen the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification check marks this week from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee, it left public agencies and other organizations around the world scrambling to figure out a way to show they’re trustworthy and avoid impersonators." #Musk #chaos
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10-year-old #Windows bug with 'opt-in' fix exploited in 3CX attack https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/10-year-old-windows-bug-with-opt-in-fix-exploited-in-3cx-attack/ Users have to manually activate the 2013 fix by creating a registry key! (The article shows how.) I did it 2 yr. ago and haven't had any problems on Windows 10 Home. #authenticode #DigitalSignature #security
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CW: Trump worries about legal cases #USPol
Column: The law is on Trump’s tail, and he sounds pretty worried https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-03-26/the-law-is-finally-on-trump-trail-and-he-sounds-pretty-worried "There’s a baroque theory that #Trump welcomes criminal #prosecutions because every battle makes him a hero in the eyes of his followers. But he didn’t sound heroic last week. He sounded frightened and whiny." #martyr
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#Microsoft pushes #security #updates for #Windows #Snipping tool flaw https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-pushes-oob-security-updates-for-windows-snipping-tool-flaw/ The Windows snipping tool doesn't properly remove data from images, allowing sensitive data to be re-created. This one has to updated manually from Windows Store > Library > Get Updates.
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CW: Welfare, workfare, forced labor #USPol
Expanding Work Requirements Would Make It Harder for People to Meet Basic Needs https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/expanding-work-requirements-would-make-it-harder-for-people-to-meet Arguments for work requirements "ignore the realities of the low-paid labor market, the lack of child care and paid sick and family leave, how health and disability issues and the need to care for family members affect people’s lives, and ongoing labor market discrimination." #welfare #workfare #poverty #ForcedLabor
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CW: Permalinks: US poverty and class warfare
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#Medicaid and #Workfare
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/an-overview-of-medicaid-work-requirements-what-happened-under-the-trump-and-biden-administrations/Workfare in New York
https://web.archive.org/web/20230208181401/http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/workfare.htmlThe Suburban Century Begins (July 1992)
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/ecbig/schnsub.htm How neoliberalism pits the working poor against the welfare poor. Three decades later and nothing has changed. -
CW: FCC nominee drops out #uspol
#GigiSohn withdraws her nomination for FCC https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/7/23629307/gigi-sohn-withdraws-fcc-commissioner-nomination "[O]ver the last 16 months, a brutal and oftentimes bad-faith lobbying campaign has continued to block her nomination. That’s left the FCC with a 2–2 partisan split that has blocked many of Biden’s goals for the agency, including reinstating #netneutrality rules." The lack of a functioning #FCC is also endangering services like the Affordable Connectivity Program, with which I've had a lot of trouble.
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CW: GOP aims to cut health coverage #uspol
Analysis: Congressional Republicans’ Budget Plans Are Likely to Cut Health Coverage
https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/congressional-republicans-budget-plans-are-likely-to-cut-health-coverage "Justifications for work requirements rest on false assumptions about people who participate in #Medicaid and about why people are out of work or are paid low wages. They ignore the realities for people in the low-paid labor market ..." #healthcare #GOP #workfare #pandemic #disabled -
@protecttruth In the abstract I agree, and I support some kind of #CommonCarrier status for pervasive #SocialMedia . Some things to think about: #FCC Title II regulation; #Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins; #Section230 ; #NetNeutrality ; and the former #FairnessDoctrine
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CW: Internet as a utility #uspol
The Argument For The Internet As A Utility: Is It Time To Change How It's Delivered? (2020) https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/06/17/the-argument-for-the-internet-as-a-utility-is-it-time-to-change-how-its-delivered/?sh=918915772958 The article is still relevant as the #Senate struggles to confirm consumer advocate Gigi #Sohn as #FCC chair. The pandemic has made obvious what disabled people already knew: #Internet service is as crucial now as wired telephony was in the 20th c. and should be regulated as a utility, not a luxury. #NetNeutrality #utility #CommonCarrier
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CW: Americans don't understand prohibition #uspol
Most Americans don't understand how #prohibition works https://www.axios.com/2023/02/03/most-americans-tobacco-ban "The majority of Americans (57%) support a ban on the sale of all #tobacco products and even more support blocking sales of #menthol #cigarettes [favored by Black people] (62%), a CDC study ... found." Not mentioned: how much more policing and jail capacity would be needed to enforce it. Americans have forgotten how cops killed #EricGarner for selling loose cigarettes.
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CW: Americans don't understand prohibition #uspol
Most Americans don't understand how #prohibition works https://www.axios.com/2023/02/03/most-americans-tobacco-ban "The majority of Americans (57%) support a ban on the sale of all #tobacco products and even more support blocking sales of #menthol #cigarettes [favored by Black people] (62%), a CDC study ... found." Not mentioned: how much more policing and jail capacity would be needed to enforce it. Americans have forgotten how cops killed #EricGarner for selling loose cigarettes.
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CW: Americans don't understand prohibition #uspol
Most Americans don't understand how #prohibition works https://www.axios.com/2023/02/03/most-americans-tobacco-ban "The majority of Americans (57%) support a ban on the sale of all #tobacco products and even more support blocking sales of #menthol #cigarettes [favored by Black people] (62%), a CDC study ... found." Not mentioned: how much more policing and jail capacity would be needed to enforce it. Americans have forgotten how cops killed #EricGarner for selling loose cigarettes.
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CW: Americans don't understand prohibition #uspol
Most Americans don't understand how #prohibition works https://www.axios.com/2023/02/03/most-americans-tobacco-ban "The majority of Americans (57%) support a ban on the sale of all #tobacco products and even more support blocking sales of #menthol #cigarettes [favored by Black people] (62%), a CDC study ... found." Not mentioned: how much more policing and jail capacity would be needed to enforce it. Americans have forgotten how cops killed #EricGarner for selling loose cigarettes.
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CW: Humor: My Landlord Drinks Starbucks (may be offensive to non-poor people)
My Landlord Drinks Starbucks https://paper.wf/jennifer/my-landlord-drinks-starbucks #humor #comedy #coffee #TeddyBear #InsideJoke #offensive #Starbucks #ClassWar
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CW: Strange coincidences: do they mean anything? (mentions death, sui)
Strange coincidences: fluke events or acts of God? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-01/how-coincidences-help-us-make-sense-of-the-world "Researchers who study #coincidences are divided over their significance. Some ... believe they suggest a deeper connection between our minds and the material world than modern science can explain. Others see coincidences as pure mathematical probabilities ..." I had an interesting one today with someone I know well but only online.
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What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32 https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/loss32_crazy_or_inspired/ "The gist of the idea is to run the whole user environment, desktop and all, inside WINE, ... with just enough plumbing to connect them up. This is significantly different from the current way, which is to run a completely Linux-based stack – the kernel, an init, a userland, a Linux display system, and a Linux desktop, and then run Windows programs inside that." #Windows11 #Linux #Loss32
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#Instacart wrongly signed me up for a paid subscription, which took me 2 hr. of phone calls to undo. They also try to trick users into subscribing at checkout time with a preselected opt-in that isn't visually obvious. 2/2
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U.S. Regulator: Instacart to refund $60M over deceptive subscription tactics https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/instacart-to-refund-60m-over-deceptive-subscription-tactics/ 'In a complaint filed on Thursday, the FTC claimed Instacart engaged in multiple deceptive tactics that raised costs for customers, including failing to provide advertised refunds and falsely advertising "free delivery" while still charging mandatory service fees that added up to 15% to order costs.' #Instacart #scam
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#Malware infiltrates #Pidgin messenger’s official plugin repository https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-infiltrates-pidgin-messengers-official-plugin-repository/ I used to use Pidgin to communicate with friends on AIM and similar messenger apps. The malicious plugin was offered only as a binary, not open source code. Worryingly, it had valid signatures, and so did the malware it downloaded. #DarkGate #Jabber #messenger
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CW: US judge allows #abortion travel lawsuit #uspol
Federal judge allows #Alabama lawsuit over out-of-state #abortion to proceed https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/05/07/Alabama-out-of-state-abortion-lawsuit/1071715062625/ "Alabama can no more restrict people from going to, say, Calif. to engage in what is lawful there than Calif. can restrict people from coming to Alabama to do what is lawful here," [Judge Myron] Thompson wrote. This has major implications for the right to travel between US states for other activities besides abortion. #privacy #MannAct ?
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Bloomberg: #OpenAI interim CEO plans to rehire #Altman, #Brockman https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/openai-interim-ceo-plans-to-rehire-altman-brockman-bloomberg-3238509 'OpenAI’s board [previously] said that Altman had not been “candid” in his communication with the board, which was one of the reasons behind his ouster.' My guess from the beginning: a personal scandal was about to become public.
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As if I needed any more reasons not to use #Brave, "The Hateful Browser": https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser #privacy #shovelware #bloatware