you have become the mirror image of that which you despise
Wednesday, 18 December 2024

LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

quote [ The act is too broad, and it doesn't matter that there's never been an instance of any of the proclaimed things that this act protects adults, children and vulnerable people from... the very broad language and the fact that I'm based in the UK means we're covered. ]

From a bike forum: looks like new UK digital law in effect next spring seems to have been set up too vague, damn.

thumb via Clawmarks
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Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Can a stuffed bird solve a 150-year-old Arctic murder mystery?

quote [ The Polaris explorer Charles Francis Hall has long been rumoured to have been poisoned in 1872. A preserved snow bunting might be crucial evidence for the theory ]

The birds are stuffed with poison
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Friday, 22 November 2024

How Google Spent 15 Years Concealing Its Internal Conversations

quote [ ?The court is taken aback by the lengths to which Google goes to avoid creating a paper trail for regulators and litigants,? Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote. Google, he noted, had clearly learned Microsoft?s lesson: It had effectively trained its employees not to create ?bad? evidence. ]

Was a bit taken aback when the top comment of the hacker news ref defends them with something like: ?under legal assumptions, no company is able to have honest communication?, but maybe that's US laws for me.

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Wednesday, 9 October 2024

He handles custody disputes, death row cases, and biters. He?s Salem?s dog lawyer.

quote [ Once a reluctant law student, Jeremy Cohen is now one of the country?s fiercest advocates for canine clients and their owners. ]

Can't win on the streets dog you need a lawyer

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Friday, 13 September 2024

Google loses appeal against EU?s $2.7B Shopping antitrust case, as bloc also wins $15B Apple state aid appeal

quote [ [The] shopping comparison service had broken competition rules ? hitting Alphabet, Google?s parent, with an at-the-time record-breaking [?] penalty [?].
[?]
By September 2018, [Apple] had had to wire $15 billion in back taxes and penalties to the EU [?]. However, in July 2020 Apple (and Ireland) won an appeal when the General Court annulled the EU?s decision. [?] The Commission appealed that reversal and on Tuesday the CJEU set aside the General Court?s judgment ]

And then there was the U.S. Google ruling on Monday.

also, thumb
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Wednesday, 21 August 2024

Her Dad Was the BTK Killer. Their Daughter Was Gabby Petito. Why Would They Ever Agree to This?

quote [ It's one of the strangest?and fastest-growing?gatherings in America. I went to see it for myself. ]

True crime, true crime True, true, true crime
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Thursday, 30 May 2024

Former President Trump is found guilty in historic New York criminal case

quote [ Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to influence the outcome of the 2016 election, a historic verdict as Trump campaigns again for the White House. ]

How many ways can you say Fuck Donald Trump
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Wednesday, 29 May 2024

??Psychologically tortured??: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation

quote [ Officers threatened to kill the dog of Thomas Perez Jr as they pressured him to falsely confess to killing his father, who was alive ]

Held down and forced to make a false confession
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Saturday, 18 May 2024

Copyleft licenses are not ??restrictive?

quote [ Permissive licenses do not provide any checks on this power; generally they preserve moral rights and little else. ]

Interesting opinion piece from the Sourcehut head. thumb via Clawmarks
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Saturday, 27 April 2024

Gym teacher accused of using AI voice clone to try to get a high school principal fired

quote [ Well, that??s not good. ]

Is an AI generated voice that is here to bring you
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