Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

I have no words. A police officer drove at 74 MPH in a 25 MPH zone without sirens, struck and killed a person in a crosswalk, got away with a second-degree negligent driving and a $5,000 fine, failed to pay the fine, and is now contesting the citation. He didn't even have a valid driver's license when the incident occurred. And he is still employed by SPD.

#DefundThePolice #DefundSPD #SeattlePolitics

https://publicola.com/2024/08/09/kevin-dave-officer-who-struck-and-killed-23-year-old-student-is-challenging-his-traffic-ticket/

@mhd The nice thing about working with older OS's:

There are books.
Books are cheap.
After you go on a holiday, the OS is still the same

:)

Special shout-out to the design genius who decided that “clean face free of any controls or display” is an important feature for dishwashers, making it so that I have to open (and thus stop) the running dishwasher to see how much time is left.

Textbook Lawful Evil, well done, I hate it.

"July 7 to 13 was the week #Pornhub, the most popular pornography website in the U.S., restricted access to its content throughout #Kentucky in response to a new state law. Kentuckians in that July week showed more interest in the search term #VPN than in any other week over the past 17 years" https://www.bgdailynews.com/news/ky-turns-to-privacy-software-after-adult-site-restricts-access/article_e92dfdca-69de-52f4-98ea-ae2e4ee72b1d.html

"A #journalist’s right to obtain and publish stolen #documents is meaningless if they can’t “possess” them. It’s not the first time the government has come up with nonsensical ways to circumvent #Bartnicki" https://freedom.press/news/journalists-source-material-isnt-stolen-goods/

"Evidently, one out of every two Americans wishes they had fewer civil liberties,” said FIRE’s Chief Research Advisor Sean Stevens. “Many of them reject the right to assemble, to have a free press, and to petition the government". #FirstAmendment https://www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania/article_1cd1e21c-54c8-11ef-9cf2-17f71ad65d17.html

"Evidently, one out of every two Americans wishes they had fewer civil liberties,” said FIRE’s Chief Research Advisor Sean Stevens. “Many of them reject the right to assemble, to have a free press, and to petition the government". #FirstAmendment https://www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania/article_1cd1e21c-54c8-11ef-9cf2-17f71ad65d17.html

“It’s a blank check for abuse because it has a very broad scope for domestic and cross-border spying and surveillance and a lack of robust checks and balances,” EFF’s Katitza Rodriguez told @AP of the disastrous #UNCybercrimeTreaty. https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-cybercrime-computer-technology-39fe999d78f615912d0bdb2011290665

"The city’s practice is to arrive early in the morning with a backhoe to destroy encampment residents’ possessions, without first identifying in advance who is there, whether they have alternative #shelter to go to, what property they have, and where it will be stored.” #homeless #sweeps https://www.courthousenews.com/property-seizure-in-berkeley-homeless-sweep-ruled-unconstitutional/

"The city’s practice is to arrive early in the morning with a backhoe to destroy encampment residents’ possessions, without first identifying in advance who is there, whether they have alternative #shelter to go to, what property they have, and where it will be stored.” #homeless #sweeps https://www.courthousenews.com/property-seizure-in-berkeley-homeless-sweep-ruled-unconstitutional/

"Through an executive order, Abbott directed Texas #hospitals to compile data on inpatient discharges and emergency visits by #immigrants living in the U.S. without authorization". https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-gov-abbott-hospitals-patients-immigration-status-data/

A nation governed by the rule of law should not tolerate private control of that law—no exceptions. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/eff-tells-yet-another-court-ensure-everyone-has-access-law-and-reject-private

Psychiatrist thinks Americans are being 'blocked' from info on Trump’s 'dementia' https://www.rawstory.com/news/americans-blocked-trump-dementia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"It is Kafkaesque cruelty to legally prohibit people from simply existing outside when the same government has not taken sufficient action to ensure they have somewhere to go. More practically, it’s also not going to work."

Sweeps are not just cruel, they're stupid

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/2024-08-02-gavin-newsom-homeless-sweeps/

@JamesGleick From a guy who teaches journalism at MIT:

https://balloon-juice.com/2024/08/09/the-new-york-times-is-an-arm-of-the-trump-campaign/

@pluralistic

I'm old enough to remember bitcoin's early days when there was hope it would be a non-fiat currency.

Then, I gradually saw how people wanted it less as an alternative fungible form of money, and more as a vehicle for a pyramid scheme.

I also didn't know just how much recklessness financial investors liked to get up to, that the SEC would infrequently put a stop to.

Nor did I have any idea of just how much electricity it would use up in pursuit of the scam.

Thanks to our supporters, EFF's been able to:
🦡 Update Privacy Badger to protect users from Chrome's ""Privacy Sandbox""
🚗 Expose the privacy concerns about data collected by cars
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Help us keep the momentum up by supporting our work today: https://eff.org/vv

America likes to project a badass strong man persona to the rest of the world but a solid one-third of the people living here are terrified of being in the same room as an unused, packaged tampon.

TV "news" that runs Trump press conferences live is doing pure propaganda for the liar-in-chief. The media know this, but they care much more about money than journalism, much less the democracy they are doing nothing to save.

“It would be hard to find a sentence in what Donald Trump said today that did not include AT LEAST one lie,” #LawrenceODonnell said on his show. “Some of the networks tried to play catchup w/ #FactChecking after Donald #Trump finished speaking but, that of course, is way too late & utterly useless. No network even attempted to check every lie Donald Trump told.” [I gave up after the effort induced a migraine]

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #The4thEstate #ResponsibilityInJournalism #Journalism #press