𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Friday, November 17, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sat 18 Nov 02:50:33 GMT 2023 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/11/17/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmbHjgPAAcGNUG9Sej4vSKhK8DfUYokfFkXLdKwr1JtGJG QmdLsuRLzrwb58dZaSmJah6oCmNNZ6cW4ick4chqJmHjmY QmTNR3uqcbMYjPAbbHjBqyNJb3ib8kytQvdFnATzkBFVvo QmfCHrqMLfMsHXYnQeAvVuNYt91Zw2AmMJ5mx4RqsrWy3b QmR2rr1yXDANjQBEz2oGtd2UMgy9U37FHdjpUhPfAk7h5z QmWE6ucdKk9Q1pi6ce3ko9xPWd9Y4BjpLij3W7tJ5TMjG3 QmaoEDiALTYYZdaq3SQ86aQpMwUji1nqCeLbXAoszFRYvJ QmSTkZUY74BcgbgqS6JKwwNbVnbzY5uqwpgWtYonGJua8s QmXZcp3rXLYa24pYd7jUu6sPDrhziRCNCok875WLJTLysP QmUE7nd24kx2soZFbSYKDsb1ik1wpirFTRTBhDTj6w9sjh QmdKeWBhfnjgQLYU48wto7DdStpXsB5mE1yEEnWcxQ53vu QmfSnnTnjcAe3YvtRsVgAwUJfpcEk1dM5J5yjJLyv7MxqM QmQ16CkpxBbMzPZ6wZcuKBUcxH1RZ8uAEhcvdBsPRpVZe9 QmT3gTQRv33wEDtJveL8DiqiacGeRaxEbRFDUyVSJEAvDL QmTs9qcwghZPs5oBh9qzsu8a11T4s6xHrJjVNyk5miFy3X Qmdqd6mb8mj27qVvQZRR7sjshrXYYirWm9vRttLkNB5rW6 QmSjY85vxbu9nNFHUMmuK7CxRame2VYuhb523CJaK5zRkj QmZwah9nZHVvSzbJWEAMxumYDpanFPqTahnqoNP83tuZbx QmQWSrGfeYwgf6HE9N3742DJrJwq8uNSCUAz469CnuUFGe QmcgTTyseF5zFd4MLquM4PtJZzkFcBEqaUbqDe4eaUx6Na QmZMEFKvpgvjxAcV9Pwu7yF74LYZwS7ktdLFdYb988Ncfu ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Techrights - Heather Meeker: Open to Microsoft Business (Proprietary and GPL-Violating) ⦿ Techrights - IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 16, 2023 ⦿ Techrights - Twisting Severe Holes in Microsoft Windows as an "Open Source" Problem (Darkening Perceptions of SSH Security) ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/17/Heather_Meeker_Open_to_Microsoft_Business_Proprietary_and_GPL_V.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/17/irc-log-161123.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/17/Twisting_Severe_Holes_in_Microsoft_Windows_as_an_Open_Source_Pr.shtml ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/17/Links_17_11_2023_Diplomacy_With_China_and_More_Fentanylware_Tik.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/17/Links_17_11_2023_Fifth_Amendment_Appeal_to_US_Supreme_Court_Fin.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/17/Links_17_11_2023_Health_and_Privacy_Issues_IBM_Pulling_Out_of_T.shtml ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 55 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/17/Heather_Meeker_Open_to_Microsoft_Business_Proprietary_and_GPL_V.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/17/Heather_Meeker_Open_to_Microsoft_Business_Proprietary_and_GPL_V.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Heather Meeker: Open to Microsoft Business (Proprietary and GPL-Violating)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 17, 2023 THIS is predictable. Microsoft shells out some money and gets to control presentations, literature etc. even outside the OSI and the Linux_Foundation. Heather Meeker is once_again boosting_Microsoft_and_proprietary_prisons_whose purpose_is_to_attack_Software_Freedom under the guise of buzzwords. Here's their "political prop" in action, captured by Microsoft in publicly- shared videos for lobbying purposes (as before, e.g. [1, 2]). Maybe she is not even fully aware of what she's doing here for Microsoft (not the first time she serves Microsoft though; maybe that just doesn't bother her at all to be exploited when it pays OK). █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GitHub Universe Panel–Getting to yes: What you need to greenlight Hey Hi (AI) tools at your company⦈ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Some_open_source_advocates_are_still_anti-Microsoft⦈_ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡟⢱⣶⢿⢸⡁⣽⠀⠛⠀⡏⣿⢹⠀⣍⢻⣿⡇⣿⡇⡏⣫⠙⡇⣏⢻⢩⠋⠝⠏⢉⡟⠭⡟⠩⠙⣿⡇⠰⠎⡟⠍⢻⠙⡍⢻⠫⠝⡇⠸⠿⢿⢡⣶⢼⠋⠝⢫⢨⡇⢨⡇⡏⢩⠙⡟⣩⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣥⣾⣼⣧⣽⣤⣿⣤⣧⣭⣼⣤⣭⣾⣿⣷⣬⣴⣧⣿⣤⣧⣿⣤⣾⣦⣭⣧⣼⣯⣥⣶⣬⣽⣿⣧⣼⣿⣧⣭⣼⣤⣧⣼⣮⣭⣧⣼⣿⣿⣦⣭⣼⣦⣭⣿⣬⣷⣬⣧⣧⣼⣤⣗⣒⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡿⠻⣿⠿⣿⣿⠿⣿⢿⠿⢿⡿⠿⡿⣿⣿⢻⡟⢻⡟⣻⠹⢿⡿⠿⣿⠟⢿⣿⢿⡿⢿⠿⢿⡿⣿⢿⣿⡿⠿⢿⡿⠿⣿⡿⢿⣿⠿⠛⣿⡟⠻⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⣇⠻⣨⣿⣧⢃⣆⡨⢤⡧⠍⡓⣻⣿⡆⢡⡆⢡⣿⢸⡆⣏⠭⢸⡇⢿⣿⣆⢣⣇⠺⢀⣇⠟⢸⣿⡇⣾⢸⣀⠥⣬⡨⢥⣇⠻⠀⣿⣇⠸⣀⠗⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡟⢩⡍⡏⢩⡏⠭⢻⠫⠍⡏⢩⡙⡇⣿⢹⢫⡍⢹⢈⡍⢯⢨⣿⣿⠃⠌⢿⢸⣿⡇⢨⠋⣭⢻⢫⡍⠃⢸⠩⢽⣿⡯⠍⢫⢨⣽⣯⠹⢋⠋⣭⢻⢹⡏⢹⢉⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GN 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GNOME_Gedit⦈_ #techrights_log #boycottnovell_log 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GN 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GNOME_Gedit⦈_ #boycottnovell-social_log #techbytes_log Enter_the_IRC_channels_now ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 190 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/17/Twisting_Severe_Holes_in_Microsoft_Windows_as_an_Open_Source_Pr.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/17/Twisting_Severe_Holes_in_Microsoft_Windows_as_an_Open_Source_Pr.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Twisting Severe Holes in Microsoft Windows as an "Open Source" Problem (Darkening Perceptions of SSH Security)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 17, 2023 During another anti-SSH FUD campaign from Microsoft-sponsored media [1, 2] while the_real_catastrophe_is_Azure THERE we go. They're at it again. They do this every few months. Connor Jones is conveniently spinning a Windows vulnerability as a bunch of FOSS ("open source", "OpenSSH") problems. █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Ransomware royale: US confirms Royal, BlackSuit are linked⦈ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠩⠍⡻⡛⡟⠟⢿⢛⢻⢟⠻⠛⠻⡛⡛⠟⡟⡟⡻⡟⢻⢛⢿⣿⠛⡟⡛⠟⠿⠻⠛⠏⠹⢛⢿⢻⣿⢹⣿⢙⠩⢙⣿⠟⡻⡟⡛⡟⠟⢟⢉⢹⠻⡛⠛⠟⢿⢛⢿⣿⠩⠍⡿⠛⢟⢻⢻⢛⢻⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣴⣦⣧⣤⣥⣼⣼⣤⣼⣬⣥⣤⣧⣧⣧⣼⣤⣤⣤⣧⣿⣤⣼⣿⣼⣧⣥⡾⢀⣧⣤⣤⣴⣤⣼⣽⣿⣬⣥⣮⣭⣤⣿⣤⣭⣧⣥⣦⣿⣼⣼⣼⣤⣧⣧⣼⣬⣤⣼⣿⣴⣦⣧⣭⣼⠄⣾⣤⣼⣼⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠛⠻⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢻⣿⠟⠿⣿⣿⣟⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣟⣿⣿⡟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠨⠅⡃⡇⢄⢁⠲⡂⢀⢒⠢⢉⡀⠇⡇⡇⢾⣟⠀⠸⢰⡁⠄⣿⡇⡇⡇⡆⠀⢀⢂⠠⣈⠰⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡛⡫⡛⡉⠉⡏⠹⡫⣫⠉⢹⠏⡫⡯⠉⠋⡫⢹⠍⠝⠟⡍⠋⢉⣿⢩⢹⠩⡏⠋⠉⣏⠛⢹⠹⢹⡏⠏⢻⢙⡛⠉⣿⡯⠉⠉⡋⣫⡟⠙⠍⠉⢩⡫⣟⢙⠉⡏⠙⢍⢽⠍⢩⣿⡍⠉⢙⡭⠉⢩⠩⣿⠍⠋⢏⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⠿⡿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⢿⠿⢿⡿⠿⢿⣿⡿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣤⣤⣾⣾⣼⣧⣤⣬⣿⣤⣴⣯⣦⣼⣵⣴⣮⣤⣯⣧⣤⣤⣦⣦⣤⣵⣧⣴⣧⣤⣤⣧⣤⣦⣤⣤⣤⣴⣤⣦⣼⣴⣴⣥⣴⣶⣾⣮⣵⣤⣤⣶⣯⣭⣤⣴⣦⣷⣤⣦⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣯⣤⣤⣥⣧⣬⣾⣤⣬⣤⣼⣀⣧⣤⣬⣮⣦⣯⣤⣼⣶⣥⣧⣬⣌⣥⣼⣦⣷⣤⣮⣤⣭⣥⣤⣽⣮⣦⣴⣬⣤⣤⣿⣧⣬⣡⣮⣺⣤⣥⣼⣥⣥⣤⣬⣮⣦⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣏⣉⡉⡉⣉⣉⣉⣏⣏⣉⣩⣽⣩⣉⣩⣹⣋⣉⣙⣉⢉⣹⣙⣉⣩⡉⣏⣉⣍⣉⣋⣉⣙⣍⣏⣉⣩⣏⣩⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣷⣤⣬⣽⣌⣩⣽⣵⣤⣧⣷⣬⣤⣵⣯⣵⣥⣽⣤⣽⣼⣭⣭⣥⣭⣬⣧⣮⣧⣬⣼⣭⣥⣵⣬⣮⣼⣮⣿⣌⣭⣮⣥⣾⣥⣽⣥⣭⣾⣷⣭⣾⣧⣴⣭⣽⣵⣬⣵⣧⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣏⣉⣉⣯⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣏⣉⣙⣉⣩⢻⣉⣯⣉⣩⢍⣏⣉⣉⣩⣍⣉⣹⣏⣏⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣽⣉⣉⣹⣉⣉⣉⣝⣉⣉⣍⣹⣉⣹⣉⣏⣉⣩⣙⣉⣉⣩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣟⠛⣛⣟⣋⣿⠹⠟⠟⠻⠿⡿⣛⢛⢿⣙⣻⢟⢻⡟⠏⣋⣉⡿⠋⠟⠏⠛⠟⠏⠛⠟⠛⠛⠻⠻⠛⠛⡏⢻⣉⡻⡻⠛⣙⢿⡛⡏⡛⣏⣛⣛⢻⣛⠋⡻⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡿⡛⠛⢻⠛⠛⡟⡻⣻⠛⢛⣛⠛⣻⠻⠛⠛⡛⠛⣻⠛⠻⠛⣿⡛⠛⢻⡻⠛⢛⢟⡟⠟⢛⡟⠛⠛⠟⠛⠟⠛⢿⠛⢛⡛⠛⠛⢟⡟⠛⣻⡟⢛⣻⡟⣟⢟⡟⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⡷⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣶⣶⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⠿⠿⡿⡿⠿⠿⢿⡿⢿⡿⡿⡿⢿⡻⠿⣻⡿⠿⠿⡿⠟⣿⠿⡟⠿⣿⠻⢿⡿⠿⡿⡟⢿⠿⠻⠿⢿⠿⡿⡟⢿⠿⢿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠟⡿⢿⠿⡿⠿⡿⡿⢿⢻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⢿⢿⠿⠿⠿⡷⠾⢿⡷⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⡿⡿⠿⡿⠿⡿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⢿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣷⣶⣶⢶⣦⣶⣾⣶⣶⠶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣷⣾⣶⣾⢧⣴⣶⢷⡷⣶⣷⡶⡿⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣷⣷⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣾⣶⣶⣶⣷⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⣿⣧⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣷⣥⣤⣦⣴⣤⣴⣵⣷⣼⣧⣼⣦⣧⣮⣾⣵⣤⣼⣭⣧⣴⣤⣤⣼⣦⣷⣵⣧⣶⣴⣿⣦⣶⣶⣯⣽⣴⣴⣴⣿⣦⣤⣤⣿⣤⣬⣦⣼⣤⣿⣦⣶⣷⣤⣴⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣧⣤⣤⣦⣤⣬⣷⣼⣤⣭⣤⣼⣡⣤⣵⣼⣤⣮⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⢿⢿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣯⣤⣤⣼⣴⣦⣼⣤⣴⣤⣼⣴⣤⣬⣤⣤⣧⣦⣬⣤⣤⣤⣷⣤⣤⣿⣤⣴⣼⣤⣼⣤⣤⣤⣧⣼⣤⣴⣽⣴⣧⣤⣴⣥⣤⣴⣬⣴⣭⣧⣤⣤⣥⣼⣥⣤⣴⣤⣬⣧⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣧⣦⣬⣥⣇⣑⣀⣘⣀⣀⣑⣃⣁⣚⣊⣊⣀⣸⣥⣬⣼⣤⣥⣤⣧⣷⣤⣬⣤⣾⣌⣠⣽⣮⣼⣼⣷⣥⣭⣇⣰⣬⣇⣼⣬⣤⣤⣥⣧⣤⣥⣥⣤⣶⣵⣴⣵⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣧⣧⣤⣰⣤⣼⣽⣤⣦⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣯⠉⠛⢻⠟⠛⡻⠋⠻⡏⡛⠟⠛⠛⡟⡟⠻⠛⣟⠛⢛⠋⠛⡛⠛⠋⡿⡟⠻⠻⠛⢟⠛⠛⢿⠙⡟⢻⢛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣻⣏⠻⣛⠛⡟⢛⠻⡏⠉⠛⠟⠋⠛⠛⡏⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡿⠛⡿⡛⠛⠻⡟⠿⡛⣟⠻⢿⠟⠛⠟⢻⠿⡻⠻⢟⢻⠻⢿⣛⠟⡟⠟⢿⡿⡟⠿⡟⠟⠻⡻⡻⢻⢻⠟⠟⠟⠻⡻⡻⣟⢟⠻⠻⠟⠛⢿⡻⢟⠟⡿⠿⠿⠛⢻⡻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⡿⢿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣿⣾⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣾⣶⣴⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡿⣛⡟⠟⡿⠿⢿⣿⠻⠿⡟⡟⣿⠻⠿⠻⠿⠿⡟⡿⢿⠿⠿⠟⠿⠟⡿⠿⢿⡿⠟⠿⠿⠿⣿⢻⠿⡟⠿⢿⡿⠿⡿⠿⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⡟⢿⣿⠻⠿⢿⠻⢿⡿⡿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠾⠷⠿⢿⠿⡷⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⡿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⡷⢿⢾⡿⠿⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⡿⠿⣿⠿⠿⢿⠿⡿⠿⠿⡿⠿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣷⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣿⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣿⣾⣶⣷⣾⣾⣶⣴⣶⣷⣶⣶⣤⣶⣶⣶⣿⣷⣷⣶⣷⣷⣶⣾⣶⣿⣴⣾⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣷⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⡉⠉⠉⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⡉⠉⡉⠉⠉⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢨⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠁⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠑⠀⠀⠀⠀⠚⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠂⠐⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠒⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠰⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠂⠀⠐⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠄⠰⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 269 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 17/11/2023: Diplomacy With China and More Fentanylware (TikTok) Bans⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 17, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Trademarks # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Politics_and_World_Events o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini # Programming * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Arne Bahlo ☛ We_Need_to_Bring_Back_Webrings⠀⇛ After contemplating to build something dynamic2 for search without JavaScript, I decided to stay with a static site. It’s faster and you don’t have to worry about security or stability. And of course I choose the best programming language on the planet, Rust (my beloved). Wait, come back, this is not a Rust post! A static site generator mostly needs to do five things: [...] o ⚓ Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ Peter_Czanik:_Music_of_the_week:_the_Cello⠀⇛ I love the melodies of Metallica songs. However, I strongly prefer instrumental music. That’s why I was very happy, when someone brought Apocalyptica to my attention: they played Metallica on four cellos. Over the years I discovered that metal or any other music sounds nice on cellos, as I learned about two more bands: 2cellos and Mozart Heroes. o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_costs_of_data_archiving⠀⇛ Shanti Mathias wrote an interesting article for the Kiwi- based Spinoff, in which she discussed the true_cost_of digital_memories: It’s easy to take hundreds of photos, or save hundreds of messages, without thinking about the cost. But the vision of unlimited digital space isn’t as breezy as the word ‘cloud’ implies. I’m sympathetic to the problem, but the leap from photos to clown storage highlights another issue. The storage capacity of our mobile devices has remained stagnant for a decade, relative to the size of images and videos these devices produce. This despite huge breakthroughs in solid-state storage density in other devices; just look at desktops and servers. Why is this? o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Ruben’s_Laws_of_Tabbed_Interfaces⠀⇛ You don’t need a tab when it’s open. You notice why you needed a tab as soon as you close it. Your chance of a tab reopening in the same state as before is inversely proportional to how important it was. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ College_students_bid_adieu_to_foreign_language classes⠀⇛ The big picture: The humanities are under attack nationally amid a push for bottom-line, return-on- investment style results in education — and a broader mistrust of institutions of higher learning. # ⚓ Chronicle Of Higher Education ☛ It’s_a_Bleak_Climate_for Foreign_Languages_as_Enrollments_Tumble⠀⇛ All but three of the 15 most commonly studied languages experienced enrollment decreases. In addition, the total number of foreign-language programs reporting enrollments fell by 961, an 8- percent dip. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Public_Schools_Were_Not_Inevitable⠀⇛ America’s public schools owe a great deal to the efforts of 19th-century abolitionists and reformers. In a new story for The Atlantic’s special issue on Reconstruction, my colleague Adam Harris wrote about how Reconstruction shaped America’s modern public-education system. Reformers in the South such as Mary Brice worked to realize the then-radical notion that free, universal schools should serve all students. I called Adam this week to discuss the backlash faced by early efforts to build public schools, and how that opposition is still embedded in discussions about public education today. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Huawei’s_5G_chip_breakthrough_needs a_reality_check⠀⇛ This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. This is going to be a BIG week for US- China relations: On Wednesday, Pooh-tin Jinping will sit down with Joe Biden in San Francisco and talk about military issues, trade, and more.… # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ China_Publishes_Its_Own_Top_100 Supercomputer_List:_No_Exaflops_Machines_Listed⠀⇛ China publishes its fifth list of top Chinese supercomputers as companies cease to submit results to the American-led Top500 list. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Yet_more_evidence_that_“died_suddenly”_is_not_a_real thing⠀⇛ If there has been one consistent narrative promoted by the antivaccine movement going back decades, it’s that vaccines are both ineffective and dangerous, which is why the “died suddenly” narrative that has arisen since the release of COVID-19 vaccines, in which the vaccines are supposedly causing healthy young people to drop dead unexpectedly, should not have surprised anyone. Consistent with the “died suddenly” conspiracy theory, historically one common claim that long predates the COVID-19 pandemic and COVID- 19 vaccines has been that vaccines kill, in particular that they kill young people, children, and, of course, babies. The first time I encountered this claim was in the context of antivaxxers making the wildly false and implausible argument that “shaken baby syndrome” (now more properly called abusive head trauma) is a “misdiagnosis” for vaccine injury, to the point that antivaxxers even rallied around Alan Yurko, who two decades ago killed his girlfriend’s baby by shaking him and then tried to get off by claiming that the baby had died of vaccine injury. After that, I soon encountered conspiracy theories blaming vaccines for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and then later blaming the HPV vaccine for the sudden deaths of teen girls and young women. Antivaxxers even made a conspiracy pseudo- documentary entitled Sacrificial Virgins: Not for the Greater Good, in case you didn’t get the message. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ California_federal_judge_rejects_social_control media_platforms’_effort_to_dismiss_lawsuit_alleging_harm_to child_users⠀⇛ A California federal judge ruled against major social control media platforms on Tuesday in their effort to dismiss a case brought by concerned parents, advocacy groups and school districts against the social control media platforms’ addictive design. The plaintiffs asserted that social control media platforms—like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube and Google—are defective by design [...] # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Pirola_subtype_of_Covid-19_found_in_Latvia⠀⇛ In three municipalities of Latvia – Saldus, Jūrmala and Madona – the monitoring of wastewater has shown the new variant of the Covid-19 Omicron type “Pirola”, said the scientific institute BIOR on November 15. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Germany_Not_to_Reallocate_COVID-19_Funds_for Climate_Actions⠀⇛ The Federal Constitutional Court's ruling "is a bitter setback for climate protection," said Greenpeace. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Texas’s_New_Ban_on_COVID_Vaccine_Mandates_May Threaten_the_Medically_Vulnerable⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ By_the_Numbers:_How_Schools_Struggled During_the_Pandemic⠀⇛ New federal data from the 2020-2021 school year shows the reach of online learning, the struggle to hire teachers and the lack of counselors. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Lead_pandemic_watchdog_urges lawmakers_to_extend_COVID_anti-fraud_tool_to_all_federal spending⠀⇛ The chairman of the PRAC argues a big-data system set up to investigate pandemic fraud could help prevent improper payments across all federal spending. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Koreans_take_first_mask-free college_exam_since_Covid-19_pandemic⠀⇛ The annual exam is widely considered one of the most important tests in the country. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_the_Railroad_Industry_Intimidates Employees_Into_Putting_Speed_Before_Safety⠀⇛ Bradley Haynes and his colleagues were the last chance Union Pacific had to stop an unsafe train from leaving one of its railyards. Skilled in spotting hidden dangers, the inspectors in Kansas City, Missouri, wrote up so-called “bad orders” to pull defective cars out of assembled trains and send them for repairs. But on Sept. 18, 2019, the area’s director of maintenance, Andrew Letcher, scolded them for hampering the yard’s ability to move trains on time. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Priority_Health_Denied_His_Last_Hope,_CAR- T_Cancer_Treatment⠀⇛ Forrest VanPatten was 50 and strong after years as a molten-iron pourer when he learned in July 2019 that a hyperaggressive form of lymphoma had invaded his body. Chemotherapy failed. Because he was not in remission, a stem cell transplant wasn’t an option. But his oncologist offered a lifeline: Don’t worry, there’s still CAR-T. The cutting-edge therapy could weaponize VanPatten’s own cells to beat back his disease. It had extended the lives of hundreds of patients who otherwise had no chance. And VanPatten was a good candidate for treatment, with a fierce drive to stay alive for his wife of 25 years and their grown kids. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ NYOB ☛ noyb_files_complaint_against_EU_Commission over_targeted_chat_control_ads⠀⇛ noyb files complaint against EU Commission over targeted chat control ads The EU Commission used micro-targeting to promote its child sexual abuse legislation. This violated european privacy law [...] o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ Scientists_warn_of_'dangerous_future'_if_global emissions_aren't_cut⠀⇛ The report, published Tuesday evening in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, projected heat-related deaths and food insecurity will skyrocket by mid-century — particularly in the developing world. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Single_Most_Dangerous_Expansion_of_Fossil Fuel_in_the_World⠀⇛ Here’s the story. Last Tuesday, a bevy of elected officials, led by Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, joined environmental activists like me for a press conference calling for a halt to LNG exports based in part on new research findings on methane. That may sound like a topic too arcane to interest politicians, but in fact it couldn’t be more crucial. Robert Howarth, a Cornell professor and the dean of methane science, last month released a new paper showing that America’s growing exports of liquefied natural gas represent a grave climate danger. Between the carbon released when the LNG is burned, the methane that leaks along the way, and the energy that it takes to ship it, he found that exported LNG is much worse for the climate even than burning coal—in many cases, twice as bad. This is huge news—and it builds on the superb work that frontline groups have been doing along the Gulf, from Port Arthur to Lake Charles, documenting the damage that these enormous export terminals are doing. # ⚓ El País ☛ UN_agency_report_says_Iran_has_further_increased its_uranium_stockpile⠀⇛ The International Atomic Energy Agency also said that Iran has pushed back against the agency’s objections to Tehran’s ban on some of its inspectors designated to monitor the country’s nuclear program. In its confidential quarterly report distributed to member states, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that according to its assessment, as of Oct. 28, Iran has an estimated 128.3 kilograms (282.9 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60% purity, which represents an increase of 6.7 kilograms since its September report. Uranium enriched at 60% purity is just a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%. # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ US_Govt_Says_Banned_Chipmaking_Equipment Still_Ends_Up_in_China⠀⇛ The China export rules imposed last year require U.S. companies and individuals to secure licenses for selling equipment and technologies used in producing non-planar transistor logic chips on 14nm/16nm nodes and smaller, 3D NAND with 128 layers or more, and DRAM memory chips with a half- pitch of 18nm or less. These regulations also extend to foreign firms exporting U.S.-originated components. # ⚓ NL Times ☛ Court_orders_Dutch_firm_to_compensate_Iranian victims_for_mustard_gas_attacks_in_1980s⠀⇛ The Dutch company Melchemie (Now Otjiaha), owned by billionaire Hans Melchers, who died early this month, is not liable for personal injury, the court ruled. The Iranians were soldiers or volunteers in the Iranian army when they suffered horrific injuries as a result of Iraqi attacks with mustard gas, their lawyer Lisebeth Zegveld said. They were fighting in the border area between Iran and Iraq at the time and were between 16 and 22 years old. According to the victims, the Dutch companies are liable because they supplied Iraq with raw materials for making mustard gas. # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ The_Doomsday_Clock_warns_the_world_about catastrophe_–_here’s_why_it_stands_at_90_seconds_to midnight⠀⇛ At the beginning of 2023, the hands of the Doomsday Clock were set at a mere 90 seconds to the hour, the closest it has ever been to midnight. There is no one overall reason for this move. Of course, with climate change now a major factor in the threat to humanity, the clock has to reflect this, and does. But it is, however, other more immediate factors that have largely caused the hands to be pushed forward. # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ AI_is_already_being_melded_with_robotics –_one_outcome_could_be_powerful_new_weapons⠀⇛ In September 2023, US Marines conducted a proof of concept test involving another four-legged utility robot. They measured its abilities to “acquire and prosecute targets with a M72 Light Anti-Tank Weapon”. The test reignited the ethics debate about the use of automated and semi-automated weapon systems in warfare. It would not be such a big step for either of these platforms to incorporate AI-driven threat detection and the capability to “lock on” to targets. In fact, sighting systems of this nature are already available on the open market. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ F.B.I._Ramps_Up_Investigations_of_Hamas⠀⇛ “We also have a large number of tips and leads related specifically to Hamas and radicalization and recruitment,” Mr. Wray said in testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security about worldwide threats to the United States. “We are urgently running down every tip and lead.” # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ March_for_Israel_Speaker_Pastor_Hagee_Once Said_God_“Sent_Hitler_to_Help_Jews_Reach_the_Promised_Land”⠀⇛ Speakers at Tuesday’s “March for Israel” on the National Mall included Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Christian fundamentalist House Speaker Mike Johnson and radical Christian Zionist pastor John Hagee, who once said God “sent Hitler to help Jews reach the Promised Land.” Sarah Posner, a reporter focused on the American Christian right, discusses Hagee and Johnson’s backgrounds and explains how Hagee and other extremist evangelical Christians and Jewish Zionists use each other to advance their own movements. Rabbis for Ceasefire’s Alissa Wise notes the “influence of Christian Zionism on U.S. foreign policy is way understated” and should be vigorously countered by white American Christians, just as white American Jews have mobilized a high-profile opposition to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Protesters_of_Israel-Hamas_war_fear_nuance_is getting_lost⠀⇛ Israel’s war against Hamas has unleashed a torrent of responses from Westerners, both positive and negative. Many are finding it a challenge to express their feelings without being co-opted by darker forces in society. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ US,_China,_South-east_Asia_defence officials_meet_amid_crises⠀⇛ Defence ministers and officials from the United States, China, Russia and Southeast Asia gathered in Indonesia on Thursday for a meeting where they are expected to discuss geopolitical crises in and outside the region. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea,_Russia_discuss expanding_economic_cooperation:_Report⠀⇛ The two countries signed a protocol of the meeting, KCNA said, without disclosing details. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Armenia_skipping_CSTO_summit_is latest_anti-Russian_move_orchestrated_by_West:_Moscow⠀⇛ November 16, 2023 12:26 AM Russia said on Wednesday that Armenian Prime Minister's Nikol Pashinyan's decision to stay away from a summit of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) was the latest anti-Russian move by Armenia orchestrated by the West. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Niinistö:_Border_arrivals_may_be_Russia's response_to_defence_agreement_with_US⠀⇛ President Sauli Niinistö says he supports government preparations that would enable further restrictions at the border. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Explosion_at_gunpowder_factory_in_central Russia,_drone_fragments_found_at_site_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_bailiffs_say_murderer_pardoned_for military_service_not_exempt_from_paying_damages_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarus_Declares_Compilation_Of_19th-Century Author's_Works_'Extremist'⠀⇛ The Belarusian authorities have declared a two-volume compilation of works by a 19th- century writer who is considered a father of Belarusian literature "extremist." # ⚓ Meduza ☛ E.U._proposal_would_reportedly_have_Denmark inspect_and_block_Russian_oil_tankers_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ A_Great_Man_in_Moscow⠀⇛ When the Trump administration obtained an indictment of Edward Snowden for violation of the Espionage Act of 1917, many of us who believe that the Fourth Amendment means what it says were deeply critical of the government, and we remain so today. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_university_buys_Canadian_drone detection_system,_likely_circumventing_sanctions_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Independent_survey_finds_record_number_of Russians_want_peace_talks_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_allocates_more_than_one-third_of_its 2024–2026_draft_federal_budget_to_defense_spending_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Finland_to_close_border_crossings_with Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Payments_to_Top_Journalist Hubert_Seipel_Jolts_Germany⠀⇛ The revelation that the broadcaster Hubert Seipel accepted payments from an oligarch is stirring worries in Germany that Russia is using an old playbook to promote its interests. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Estonian_Prime_Minister_Kaja Kallas’s_message_to_NATO:_‘Defending_freedom_has_a price_tag’⠀⇛ “Stay firmly on the course and boost our long-term support" to Ukraine, Kallas said at the EU-US Defense & Future Forum. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Mali:_How_junta_and_Wagner_forces_seized control_of_rebel_stronghold_Kidal⠀⇛ Mali's army has recaptured the strategic northern town of Kidal, a stronghold of Tuareg-dominated separatist groups that has long posed a major sovereignty issue for the ruling junta. The capture is a significant symbolic success for Mali's military leaders, who seized power in 2020. France 24's Wassim Nasr takes a look at how the army were able to take back the city, including with the help of Wagner troops. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ China’s_support_for_Russia_has been_hindering_Ukraine’s_counteroffensive⠀⇛ A deep dive into trade data reveals how materials imported from China are vital for Russia’s ability to sustain its continued stubborn efforts to hold onto Ukrainian territory. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Climate_risk_in_a_world_at_war⠀⇛ Since the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, the world has seen the unfolding of possibly the worst humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. This runs parallel to the Ukraine war and several African conflicts – all markers of a world at war. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Says_It_Shot_Down_Drones_As_Strikes Hit_Central_Ukraine⠀⇛ Russia's Defense Ministry says it shot down five Ukrainian drones early on November 16, as blasts could be heard by witnesses in Ukraine's central Khmelnitskiy region. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_'Cannot_Afford_Any_Stalemate'_In_War With_Russia,_Zelenskiy_Says⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine cannot afford a stalemate in the war against Russia, saying this would create a "volcano that is sleeping but will definitely wake up." # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Ukraine's_Zelensky_says_UK Foreign_Secretary_Cameron_in_Kyiv_for_visit⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Britain's new Foreign Secretary David Cameron had arrived in Kyiv on his first working visit abroad. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Police_seek_eyewitnesses_to_vandalism_of_Soviet war_monument_in_southwest_Finland⠀⇛ Local newspaper Salon Seudun Sanomat published a photo on Tuesday showing the small grey monument with the words “Slava Ukraini” in it in black and red spray paint. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Lull_in_Russian_Bombing_Brings_Sleep to_Kyiv_Residents⠀⇛ An unusually long lull in Russian bombing has left people in the Ukrainian capital feeling well-rested, healthier and more productive, at least for now. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Charges_3_Officials_With Treason_Over_Efforts_to_Investigate_Biden⠀⇛ Three officials were accused of operating at the behest of Russian intelligence when they aligned with efforts by Rudolph W. Giuliani to tie the Biden family to corruption in Ukraine. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_lawmaker_Oleksandr_Dubinsky arrested_for_treason_The_deputy_is_suspected_of_working for_Russia_and_interfering_in_U.S._elections_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Conflict_with_China?_Germany_is not_prepared.⠀⇛ Compared to Germany’s dependence on Russian oil and gas, its dependence on the Chinese market is many times greater. # ⚓ France24 ☛ 'A_cold_cell_for_being_a_journalist': Husband_of_US-Russian_national_Alsu_Kurmasheva_calls for_her_release⠀⇛ Alsu Kurmasheva is a dual US-Russian citizen and journalist who has been detained by Russia since October 18, charged with failing to register as a “foreign agent” despite having travelled to Russia for a family emergency. She faces up to five years in prison if convicted. Her husband has called for the State Department to designate her as "wrongfully detained". "She is a US citizen and has the same rights as any US citizen,” he says. # ⚓ RFA ☛ N_Korea,_Russia_strengthen_key_sector_ties, risk_UN_sanctions_breach⠀⇛ Moscow’s support for the North could offer a way to navigate through the complex web of international sanctions. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Czech_Republic_to_freeze_all_Russia’s_real estate_assets_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Prague_Freezes_Russian_Property_On_Czech Territory⠀⇛ The Czech government on November 15 froze property owned by Russia on Czech soil as it put a company managing Russian property abroad on its sanction list. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moscow_Court_Rejects_Appeal_Of_Former Governor_Furgal_Against_His_22-Year_Sentence⠀⇛ The Moscow regional court has rejected an appeal filed by Sergei Furgal, the former governor of the Far Eastern Khabarovsk region, against a 22-year prison term he was handed after a jury convicted him of attempted murder, a charge he has steadfastly denied. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Woman_Charged_In_Killing_Of_Pro-Kremlin Blogger_Pleads_Not_Guilty_As_Trial_Starts⠀⇛ Darya Trepova, who is suspected of involvement in the killing of prominent pro- Kremlin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, pleaded not guilty to a charge of terrorism as her trial started on November 15 in St. Petersburg. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Prosecutors_Seek_Nine_Years_In_Prison For_Navalny_Associate,_Ex-Deputy_Minister_Milov⠀⇛ The prosecution asked a Moscow court on November 14 to convict and sentence in absentia former Deputy Energy Minister Vladimir Milov, an associate of imprisoned opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, on a charge of distributing fake information about Russian armed forces. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ 15-Year-Old_Son_Of_Chechen_Leader_Kadyrov Gets_Seventh_Award⠀⇛ Adam Kadyrov, the 15-year-old son of the authoritarian ruler of the Russian region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was awarded with the Order for Serving Islam on November 15, his seventh award since he beat up Russian teenager Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested for burning a Koran in August. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Woman_Who_Fled_Ingushetia_Over_Domestic Violence_Detained_In_Armenia⠀⇛ Police in the Armenian city of Ashtarak have detained a 21-year-old woman who fled her native region of Ingushetia in Russia's North Caucasus to escape domestic violence, Russian women's rights defender Svetlana Anokhina told RFE/RL on November 15. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Blast_At_Russia's_Tambov_Gunpowder_Plant Investigated_As_'Terror'_Attack⠀⇛ An explosion that occurred on November 11 at a gunpowder factory in Russia's Tambov region is being investigated as a a terrorist attack. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Armenian_PM_says_he_will intensify_efforts_for_peace_treaty_with_Azerbaijan: TASS⠀⇛ November 16, 2023 3:46 PM Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he intended to intensify political and diplomatic efforts to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan, Russia's TASS news agency reported on Thursday. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ El País ☛ Artificial_intelligence_guzzles_billions_of liters_of_water⠀⇛ This is not an isolated case in the United States, a country that concentrates approximately 30% of all the data centers in the world. Arizona, Utah and South Carolina are well aware of the insatiable thirst of this type of infrastructure. They are also familiar with it in the Netherlands, where Microsoft was involved in a scandal last year when news broke out that one of its facilities consumed four times more water than declared in a context of drought. Or in Germany, where Brandenburg authorities denied Google permission to build a data center in the region, as a Tesla gigafactory was already consuming too much water. # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Light_pollution_found_to_have_far- reaching_effects_on_some_North_American_bats⠀⇛ A new study published in Global Ecology and Conservation shows just how far two light-averse North American bat species will go to avoid ALAN. # ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ Nebraska_plan_to_divert_water_could_put destructive_carp_in_Kansas_lakes⠀⇛ I first wrote about this issue in 2021, though the history of this permit reaches back to 2018, when entities affiliated with water and irrigation districts in Nebraska applied to the NeDNR to transfer water from the Platte River Basin to the Republican River Basin to meet the requirements of a 1934 water compact among Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. In 2018, the application was denied because of objections by opposing parties, including then-Gov. Jeff Colyer, who wrote a letter against the plan in an effort to protect Kansas’s multimillion dollar sport-fishing industry. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ More_than_Half_of_World’s_Largest_Companies’ Net_Zero_Pledges_Are_False_Promises,_Study_Finds⠀⇛ Companies’ climate commitments are largely misaligned with their lobbying activities, with more than half of the world’s largest corporations at risk of “net zero greenwashing,” according to a new report. An analysis of nearly 300 of the top companies from the Forbes 2000 list found that 58 percent  did not match their climate policy influencing actions with their public claims of being committed to the Paris Climate Accord and achieving net zero emissions. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Local_Governments_and_Grassroots_Activists Stop_Spate_of_US_Carbon_Capture_Pipelines⠀⇛ Players in the carbon dioxide pipeline industry canceled major pipeline projects in recent weeks, marking an inauspicious start to President Biden’s ambitious plans to develop carbon capture infrastructure as a key emissions mitigation tool. It is welcome news to CO2 pipeline opponents, however, which have included a wide spectrum of interest groups united in their concerns over pipeline safety. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ The_Outlaw_Ocean_Project_Exposes_China’s_Use Of_Forced_Uyghur_Labour_To_Supply_UK_Seafood_Industry⠀⇛ Britain is facing calls to impose import controls on China after an investigation revealed that supermarkets are sourcing seafood from companies exploiting forced labour by minority Uyghurs. The Outlaw Ocean Project documented the forcible transfer of more than a thousand Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities 2,000 miles from their homes in landlocked Xinjiang to 10 fish processing plants in the coastal province of Shandong since 2018. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ Coleman_Hughes:_The_End_of_Race_Politics?⠀⇛ The author of The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America says colorblindness should remain our North Star during a live conversation with Nick Gillespie. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Right-to-repair_fight_going_national_as FTC_asked_to_lay_down_the_law⠀⇛ The pair are also asking the FTC to consider a repairability scoring system that could be included in existing device labels, a la energy efficiency stickers, to show how easy (or not) it is to fix. Most crucially for electronics - especially those made by Apple - the petition asks the FTC to implement rules such that "identical components from two identical devices ought to be interchangeable without manufacturer intervention." In other words, no more parts pairing. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Official_Lets_Slip_That_Something_Is_Wrong_With Elon_Musk's_Health⠀⇛ Let's face it: Musk's behavior during COVID made him seem like the exact type of boss who would show up at work with a cold and cough on anybody, including a foreign dignitary. So the fact that he blew off a strategic international meeting is striking. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Signs_Amendments_To_Presidential_Election_Law That_Limit_Reporting_During_Vote⠀⇛ Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill on amendments to the law on presidential elections, which restrict coverage of the poll scheduled for March next year by the media. # ⚓ France24 ☛ US_Congress_passes_funding_bill_to_avoid government_shutdown⠀⇛ The US Congress passed a stop-gap funding bill Wednesday to keep federal agencies running for another two months and avert a painful holiday season government shutdown, although the deal leaves out aid to war-torn Ukraine and Israel requested by President Joe Biden. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Automatic_guns_in_Lithuanians’_hands:_more_effective defence_or_tragedy_waiting_to_happen?⠀⇛ Amid the continuing war in Ukraine, some politicians in Lithuania are calling for looser gun laws, arguing that more citizens should be able to participate in armed resistance. Others urge caution: wider accessibility of automatic firearms may lead to American-style mass shootings. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Federal_guidance_for_how_to standardize_elections⠀⇛ A new report from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) tested the durability of a new kind of way for people to vote. Electronic poll books, or e-poll books, look to replace paper records and allow access to digital voter registration records. As you can imagine though, with convenience comes the opportunity for that information to fall into the wrong hands. So have should e-poll books be secured? To dive into the topic, Federal Drive Executive Producer Eric White talked with Christy McCormick Chairwoman of the EAC. # ⚓ ACLU ☛ We_Quizzed_ACLU_Experts_on_Voting_Rights._Can_You Beat_Them?⠀⇛ Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy and the right that empowers us to enact change and hold elected officials accountable. It is also key to achieving systemic_equality, particularly given our country’s long history of limiting access to the ballot for communities of color, especially Black voters, which persists today. Discriminatory policies and legislation continue to prevent voters of color from exercising this right easily, if at all. As another presidential election year draws near, the ACLU continues to protect the right to vote and push back against attempts to suppress our voices at the ballot box. The ACLU voting rights team is working to expand and protect voting rights around the country. So we decided to put their expertise to the test with some rapid-fire voting rights questions. Watch their answers below, or take a shot at answering some of the questions yourself. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ The_Taliban_Is_Rollerblading_While_Armed In_Viral_Footage._WTF_Is_Going_On?⠀⇛ The viral video has its origins on an Afghan parkour athlete's YouTube channel. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Meta_Officially_Accepts_Blood_Money_to Promote_the_Big_Lie⠀⇛ Meta made a quiet policy update last year allowing advertisers on Facebook and Instagram to say the 2020 election was rigged. The company has made one thing clear: you can’t use their ad systems to question the legitimacy of the American election system — unless you have a credit card, in which case they’re happy to help. It’s a change that mirrors shifts across the rest of the Silicon Valley. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Americans_flock_to_TikTok_for_news_[sic]⠀⇛ What's happening: The Pew study shows that news consumers have accelerated their shift toward digital channels in the past year. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Nepal_bans_Fentanylware_(TikTok) nationwide⠀⇛ During a Cabinet meeting held Monday, the Nepalese government banned the social control media platform TikTok, according to local newspaper Kantipur. Minister for Communication Rekha Sharma announced the decision by underlining the “negative effects of [the app] on social harmony and goodwill.” She also mentioned that preparations for the implementation of the decision are already underway. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ We’ve_Been_Wrong_to_Worry_About Deepfakes_(So_Far)⠀⇛ Daniel Immerwahr, a history professor at Northwestern University, discusses why videos generated by artificial intelligence haven’t had more influence on electoral politics. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Quillette ☛ Anti-Enlightenment_Thinking,_Past_and_Present⠀⇛ COVID-19 has not been our only challenge. On 16 October 2020, Samuel Paty was beheaded by an Islamic extremist outside a suburban Paris school after he showed a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed in class during a lesson on freedom of speech. Fourteen people were charged with complicity in the murder. This was not the psychotic act of a lone madman, but a premeditated crime carried out by people who shared John Calvin’s belief that those who fail to show due deference to their religious beliefs should be killed. Four centuries ago, this attitude would have been unexceptional in much of the world, including France. Hundreds of millions of people in non-western countries are still sympathetic to that view. Blasphemy remains a capital crime in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania, and Saudi Arabia. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Estonia's_first_ever_Ukrainian- language_radio_station_launches_this_Friday⠀⇛ According to the Association of Ukrainian Organizations in Estonia, this led them to consider the necessity of introducing a mass media channel for Ukrainians. to preserve their cultural identity and language, as well as access objective and independent information. The channel also aims to help promote Ukrainian integration into Estonian society and strengthen the dialogue between Ukrainian and Estonian communities. # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Reporter_Arrested_At_East_Palestine_Train Derailment_Press_Conference_Sues_Police⠀⇛ # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Ecosystem_of_a_story:_How_to_maximise_both reach_and_engagement_using_different_entry_points⠀⇛ "This is not about creating more work but planning what you might need to capture to fill your ecosystem." o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ La Quadature Du Net ☛ New_fronts_for_2024!⠀⇛ For 15 years La Quadrature du Net has been defending everyone’s rights and fundamental freedoms in the digital age. These 15 years of struggle would not have been possible without you — thank you so much! And we need you to keep fighting in 2024! # ⚓ France24 ☛ UK's_Sunak_seeks_new_Rwanda_migrant_deportation scheme_after_Supreme_Court_strikes_down_first_plan⠀⇛ British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday he would sign a new treaty with Rwanda to resurrect his plans to send asylum seekers to the East African country after the Supreme Court rejected an original scheme as unlawful. # ⚓ RFA ☛ New_Tibetan_translation_software_harnesses_AI_to preserve_language⠀⇛ Tibetan is widely spoken in the Himalayan region, used not only in the Tibet Autonomous Region, but also in western parts of China, northern Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and parts of India. But its 30-letter syllabic alphabet, script format, lack of punctuation and several dialects can make translation difficult. Considered a breakthrough in Tibetan education software development, the software created by the Monlam Tibetan IT Research Centre uses artificial intelligence to translate written and spoken Tibetan into English, Chinese and other languages faster and more accurately than any existing translation software. # ⚓ uni Emory ☛ Tibet_Week_celebrates_25-year_partnership_with Dalai_Lama⠀⇛ Tibet Week returned to Emory University for another year of connections, ceremony and celebration. The week of events, which took place from Nov. 6 to Nov. 11, held special significance as it marked the 25-year anniversary of Emory’s partnership with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Drepung Loseling Monastery. The theme for this year’s Tibet Week celebration was “Compassion in Action.” The series of events took place in Ackerman Hall on the top floor of the Michael C. Carlos Museum. # ⚓ ACLU ☛ The_U.S._Touts_Itself_as_a_Global_Leader_in_Human Rights._A_New_U.N._Report_Says_Otherwise.⠀⇛ Earlier this month, the United Nations Human Rights Committee delivered a searing report highlighting the U.S. government’s failure to meet its human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). This international treaty, ratified by the U.S. in 1992, is one of only three key human rights treaties that the U.S. has ratified. The U.N. committee’s concluding observations echo many of the concerns and recommendations raised by civil society groups last month during the U.S. review, where they sounded the alarm on violations of various human rights issues including Indigenous rights, voting rights, freedom of expression and assembly, gender equality and reproductive rights, criminal legal reform, immigrants’ rights, and more. Here are three key takeaways from the committee’s report. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Iran_releases_prize-winning_rights_lawyer_Nasrin Sotoudeh⠀⇛ Nasrin Sotoudeh, 60, was arrested at the funeral on October 29 in Tehran of Armita Garawand, 17, who activists say was fatally beaten by the Tehran morality police. Sotoudeh, who has spent much of the past decade in and out of prison serving a myriad of sentences in cases linked to her activism, was after her arrest moved to Qarchak women's prison outside Tehran and subsequently to Evin prison in the capital. # ⚓ El País ☛ ‘Working_in_Amazon_offices_was_like_slowly killing_yourself’:_Life_in_the_tech_giant,_according_to_a former_executive⠀⇛ The work culture at some tech companies is notoriously inhumane. But the details that Coulter shares about Amazon — even without mentioning real names or business secrets — suggest that, according to her, it was one of the worst tech companies to work for. EL PAÍS asked Amazon about the claims made in Coulter’s book, but the company declined to comment. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ 'I_Won't_Be_Free':_Afghan_Women,_Girls_Face_Grim Future_After_Expulsion_From_Pakistan⠀⇛ Some escaped their homeland so that their daughters could continue their education, following the Taliban's ban on women attending university and teenage girls from going to school. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Nigeria_labor_unions_defy_court_order_and_declare nationwide_strike⠀⇛ Nigeria’s two largest labor unions launched on Tuesday a nationwide strike that is expected to continue indefinitely, until “the government at all levels wakes up to their responsibilities.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Settled_Actors’_Strike_Brings_Hollywood Back_Online⠀⇛ On November 9, after 118 days, SAG-AFTRA, the union representing actors in film, television, and radio, ended its strike on the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Taken together with the Writers Guild strike, which began May 2 and ended in late September, Hollywood-based labor actions brought the entertainment industry to a virtual standstill for six months. # ⚓ EFF_to_Supreme_Court:_Fifth_Amendment_Protects_People_from Being_Forced_to_Enter_or_Hand_Over_Cell_Phone_Passcodes_to the_Police⠀⇛ he Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling undermining Fifth Amendment protections against self- incrimination and find that constitutional safeguards prevent police from forcing people to provide or use passcodes for their cell phones so officers can access the tremendous amount of private information on phones. At stake is the fundamental principle that the government can’t force people to testify against themselves, including by revealing or using their passcodes. “When the government demands someone turn over or enter their passcode, it is forcing that person to disclose the contents of their mind and provide a link in a chain of possibly incriminating evidence,” said EFF Surveillance Litigation Director Andrew Crocker. “Whenever the government calls on someone to use memorized information to aid in their own prosecution—whether it be a cellphone passcode, a combination to a safe, or even their birthdate—the Fifth Amendment applies.” o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Does_Elon_Grok_The_Trademark_Issues_With ‘Grok’?_AI_Chip_Company_Groq_Does⠀⇛ As you likely know by now, last week, Elon Musk released the initial version of the AI chatbot he created earlier this year via “xAI” which may or may not be part of his many other companies, but definitely uses employees, technology, and resources from those other companies. He named it “Grok,” though also claimed that it was “modeled after” Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ AI_copyright_row_deepens:_Stability VP_quits_in_protest_over_'fair_use'_excuse⠀⇛ The VP of audio at Stability AI has decided his position at the content-generating startup is untenable, given his belief in protecting artists' copyrights and his now- former employer's stance that training machine-learning models on copyrighted material is legally OK. "I've resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI, because I don't agree with the company's opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is 'fair use'," former veep Ed Newton-Rex wrote on social media. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Won't_Download_a_Car?_Let's_Try: "Piracy_Turns_Teenagers_Into_Gambling_Addicts"⠀⇛ Even among those who accept piracy is illegal, there are some who still struggle to view casual streaming as a serious crime. By introducing credit card fraud, identity theft, and malware into the mix, it's hoped that piracy will absorb the juices of these 'real' crimes and be taken more seriously. In South Korea, where pirate movies and careless clicks turn innocent teenagers into crazed gambling addicts, anti-piracy messaging may have hit the jackpot. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Telegraph_journalists_told_use_of Abusive_Monopolist_Microsoft_Chaffbot_will_result_in same_sanctions_as_plagiarism⠀⇛ Staff were warned against entering sensitive or proprietary data into ChatGPT. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Freeplay_Music_Officially_Closes CNN_Copyright_Infringement_Case⠀⇛ Freeplay Music officially closes its $17 million copyright monopoly infringement case with CNN filed late last year. On November 30, 2022, production music library Freeplay Music filed a $17 million copyright monopoly infringement lawsuit against CNN, alleging the unauthorized use of around 115 works used in over 280 network segments. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ BandLab_Owner_Caldecott_Music Group_Just_Bought_Gawker⠀⇛ The internet’s twice-shuttered gossip column Gawker is coming back with a new owner—BandLab’s Caldecott Music Group. Variety has confirmed CMG CEO Meng Ru Kuok has closed a deal to obtain the Gawker trademarks and domain name, but not its article archive. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_UHIOSTF_Wordo:_TAMPS⠀⇛ # ⚓ A_wave,_a_wink,_and_a_nod⠀⇛ I used to think becoming someone was what this ("life") was all about. Yet none of the non-human animals seemed bothered by/with the like. And you *know* just how perfect the word 'bothered' is in the previous sentence. So why all the emphasis on - if not hullab # ⚓ How_much_is_too_much?⠀⇛ I'm not sure who decides these things. But it feels consensual. Feels widespread. Feels like if I didn't post at all someone would be chiding me for not participating, but posting more than once a day, well, we can't be having any of *that* you silly psychopath! Can't you see how us sane versions of individuality post no more than once a day? But, well... I post.. and suddenly more is coming to mind, combined with some ongoing fear of missing out on getting text before eyes connected to mind allegedly part of (just what *are* we, anyway?) a *person* who really gets me, who's similarly been waiting half of forever for meaningful ongoing text exchange that's Just Right: a little sarcasm here, just the right words first-letter-uppercase'd there, well-placed whitespace, impeccable ASCII emoji emphasis, etc. # ⚓ the_morning_view⠀⇛ Going on vacation once I get home. Absolutely not traveling. o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_I'm_Proud_of_My_University⠀⇛ Briar Cliff was founded by Catholic Sisters and started out as an all-women's school for women who didn't have any other access to education. Over time, it expanded to welcome everyone, and it continued to give out the most financial aid out of all the 4-year schools in my area. I had planned on going to a different University because I got a scholarship there, but I did not have the money to pay for the rest of the tuition. But at Briar Cliff, I was able to go because of how gracious they are with the Financial Aid. Once I got into the Theology classes, I also felt very welcome there, being gay and non-Christian (although I was not explicitly out at school). o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Jezebel_Cheblik⠀⇛ I suppose it was bound to happen sooner than later. Sooner is today. My companion's silicon finally gave out. He felt so very confident about my soldering skill. "It's fine, Jez, I trust you." Well, he shouldn't have. Maybe my hand slipped, maybe it was meant to be. # ⚓ A_cash-only_life?_Or,_life_without_a_debit_card?_(publ. 2023-11-16)⠀⇛ Around two months ago, I started an experiment to see how far I could go in living life without carrying around a debit card, and paying for things with cash only. # ⚓ On_Google_and_Ads_–_a_just-so_story⠀⇛ This is a small thing that I am writing just so that I can reference it later, and to remind myself that I have already made a point similar to this. It is not necessarily factually true, and I have no citation or evidence, only half-remembered from various recorded talks and random people typing words on the Internet. It is, however, a nice story, so I'm writing it. # ⚓ Install_Debian_on_Libre_Computer_"Renegade"_with_encrypted volumes⠀⇛ # ⚓ Defaults⠀⇛ # ⚓ 16_November_2023⠀⇛ Well... it has been some time since my last visit to gopherspace and even a bit more since my last post. But don't worry, 'tis gopher aint dead yet! # ⚓ I_gave_emacs_a_serious_look_back_in_the_day⠀⇛ Yep. Not unlike when, as a young lad, I decided it felt better to fold my hands "left hand higher in the finger interlock" than "right hand higher in the finger interlock", there was a time when I felt I had to settle on either vi(m) or emacs. # ⚓ "Exact_phrase",_please,_Outlook_📧⠀⇛ Few people here will need an excuse to moan about Microsoft, but just in case, here's one. Searching for "exact phrase" in my work email wasn't working. It would find messages containing either or both of the words. Lots of people on the web said "put it in quotes". Well, duh! Doesn't work. The fix is a registry tweak*. So the Outlook mail client allows for this feature, but provides no UI to switch it on. Who benefits from this feature being off by default?? # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Local_offline_mirrors_with_redbean⠀⇛ Firstly, download redbean. The "original" flavor (no ssl, lua, or sqlite) is enough for this purpose. Thenly mirror the website. For example, using GNU WGET, the following command will mirror my public wiki-like thing (but nothing up the tree, such as this post), excluding the assets directory. Some of the arguments aren't always necessary, adapt to your own needs. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Assembly⠀⇛ One debate is whether "web assembly" (WASM) is assembly at all. It strikes me more as a "web virtual machine" or webvm (VM), given there is a bytecode and implementations that apparently interpret rather than compile. WASM uses a verb (assemble) for what should be a noun (virtual machine)? Naming things is hard. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2002 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 17/11/2023: Fifth Amendment Appeal to US Supreme Court, Finland Tightens Borders, TikTok a Platform for Osama bin Laden⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 17, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Trademarks # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Technology_and_Free_Software * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Siskel,_Ebert,_and_the_Secret_of_Criticism⠀⇛ Now the two men were in direct competition: doing the same job at Chicago’s two great rival papers. But, as much as they often clashed, there was another key thing they shared: neither was a movie person. Not only was neither a cinema-studies major (such a thing barely existed in their day) but also neither fit the profile of the cinephile, hanging out at repertory theatres and taking sides in the debates then raging over the so- called auteur theory. They were just regular moviegoers who managed to find a journalistic application for their pleasure. Their paths to television were separate but symmetrical, each maintaining print journalism as the solid basis of his activity. In 1973, Ebert hosted a series of Ingmar Bergman films on television, which scored an Emmy nomination. Then Siskel started delivering brief movie reviews on a local station. Then, in late 1975, the Chicago public station WTTW paired them up for a joint movie-review program. o ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ The_“Well,_actually”–nerd_and_world_politics⠀⇛ I was put on this God’s green Earth with the instinct to criticize my own team, my own side. That’s been a problem all my life. I eat plants? My brain immediately amplifies some of the issues with animal rights. I write FOSS code? I get hyperfocused on some of the problems in the community. Same goes for all kinds of political movements. I get called unloyal, not a team player, a trouble-maker. I see the bad in the side I’ve sided with because I want it to be better. I just want it to be better. It’s as if I’m thinking “Criticizing the other side? But everyone here already knows that those guys are bad! That should go without saying! But here are some ways that we are also kinda bad…” o ⚓ Sumana Harihareswara ☛ In_Retrospect,_Surprised_We_Didn't_Notice The_Adjacent_"Mostly_Harmless"_Joke_Available⠀⇛ There's a genre of short scifi, particularly published on Tumblr, that imagines how aliens would view ordinary humans - what would they find remarkable about us? (Examples, example.) Leonard asked me the other day: don't you think this is what they'd think of us? Don't you think this is the reputation we'd get with them? Friendly con artists who drive unsafely and too fast. o ⚓ Gergely Nagy ☛ Introducing:_Chronicles⠀⇛ Just a short notice that this blog will not be updated in the future. I have moved my web presence - including my blog - to a new place. This site here will be kept in its current state indefinitely, but will not receive any more updates. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Space ☛ Dark_matter_data_salvaged_from_balloon-borne telescope_that_landed_hard_on_Earth⠀⇛ "In our case, we were getting so much data per night that it would just be incredibly slow and expensive to retrieve this data mid-flight," Sirks said. "At the moment, the most efficient way for us to download data is to copy it onto an SD drive and just drop it to Earth, which is kind of crazy, but it works well." So she and her colleagues from Australia, the U.K., the U.S., Canada, Europe and Taiwan developed "recovery packages" consisting of tiny computers with SD cards that store data, a homemade satellite link for communication with the telescope and parachutes sheathed in waterproof chicken roasting bags. # ⚓ MDPI ☛ Data_Downloaded_via_Parachute_from_a_NASA_Super- Pressure_Balloon⠀⇛ Each drs capsule comprised a Raspberry Pi 3B attached to a custom 300 mm × 125 mm printed circuit board (pcb; see Figure 1). The capsules were powered by switchable 24 V DC from the main payload while they were attached, then by two internal 9 V lithium batteries after release. These batteries were the only components of the drs that could be considered potentially hazardous. However, they were compliant with safety test criteria T1–T8 defined in Section 38.3 of [5]. The drs used a geared pincer mechanism to hold on to a loop of nylon cable tie underneath the main payload. After coordination with local air traffic control, we issued a sequence of three commands (to prevent errors and fault propagation) that used a servo inside the drs to open the pincer, allowing the drs to drop away. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ NASA_geeks_code_new_tricks_to_model rocket_plumes_and_avoid_a_lunar_dust-up⠀⇛ The Artemis program is NASA's project to return humans to the surface of Earth's natural satellite, and the landers involved will be larger and equipped with more powerful engines than those used in the Apollo program half a century ago. This means that the mission risks associated with their operation during landing and liftoff are significantly greater, according to the space agency. The rocket engines blast supersonic plumes of hot gas toward the surface and the intense forces kick up dust and may eject rocks or other debris at high speeds from the regolith – the loose, unconsolidated layer at the surface. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Extreme_Drop_in_Oxygen_Will_One_Day Suffocate_Most_Life_on_Earth⠀⇛ For now, life is flourishing on our oxygen-rich planet, but Earth wasn't always that way – and scientists have predicted that, in the future, the atmosphere will revert back to one that's rich in methane and low in oxygen. This probably won't happen for another billion years or so. But when the change comes, it's going to happen fairly rapidly, according to research published in 2021. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ This_NASA_team’s_work_means_the whole_world_can_sleep_a_little_better⠀⇛ As if pandemic, threats of nuclear war, and a lack of Tesla charging stations aren't enough to worry about, there is always the possibility that an asteroid could hit the earth and wipe-out all of us. A team at NASA discovered a way to alter the path of an asteroid, should one come too close and they garnered the distinction of being finalists in this year's Service to America Medals program, also known as the Sammies. For the details, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with two members of NASA's Planetary Missions Program Office: Program Manager Brian Key and Mission Manager Scott Bellamy. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Friends_meet_less_after_pandemic⠀⇛ Communicating is still as common as ever, though face-to-face meetings have decreased, said researchers, who also found more feelings of loneliness. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ No_TP?_No_Problem!⠀⇛ Among First World Problems, there can be few worse than running out of toilet paper. The horror! If you’re not able to do as we did yesterday and borrow a pack until more can be bought, then you’re not without options. A handy copy of the Daily Mail could be cut into squares and hung up in your Smallest Room, or you can even make your own with the help of this handy instructional video from [whoisandrewfahmy]. It appears from a casual search to be one of many such guides that appeared during the pandemic when the bog roll supply was seen as endangered, but it’s still interesting simply as a diversion into how something is made. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ The Drone Girl ☛ Vilde_Wettergreen:_how_this_entrepreneur disrupted_FPV_drones,_unintentionally⠀⇛ Vilde Wettergreen got into drones the same way her company did: by pure happenstance. But Vilde and her company, Immerse Optics, are making a strong impression on the drone industry. Vilde Wettergreen is the C.E.O. of Immerse Optics, a Norwegian company that started by making masks to create an immersive movie-watching experience from your phone. However, after receiving customer feedback and inspiration–including learning that drone pilots were using their product as an FPV tool– the company entered the drone sector. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ The_Mighty_'MOX:_50kW_AM_Tower_site_tour⠀⇛ In this blog post, I'll write a bit about KMOX's tower system (AM towers are a lot different than FM, like the FM Supertower we toured last year), the transmitter, and the some of the history found at that tower site. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Blaming_Mass_Shootings_on_Mental_Illness_Doesn’t Address_Either_Issue⠀⇛ It needs to be made clear: While Card’s mental illness might make him a “textbook example” of someone who should not have had access to a gun, it does not make him a “textbook example” of a shooter. A large majority of firearm deaths involving mental illness are suicides. These pieces did not make that distinction. (Gun suicides outnumber gun murders overall, but by a narrower margin.) # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ VA_launches_‘full_hiring_initiative’ for_mental_health_care_amid_uptick_in_veteran_suicides⠀⇛ The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to staff up on mental health professionals and launch new resources to address an uptick in veteran suicides. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Rand_Paul_on_the_Lab_Leak_'Deception'⠀⇛ Reason's Zach Weissmueller talked with the senator about his quest to uncover the origins of COVID-19 and hold Anthony Fauci accountable. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Full_Extent_of_COVID_Fraud_Will_'Never_Be_Known With_Certainty'⠀⇛ A new GAO report details federal prosecutors' attempts to put the horse back in the barn. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ The_Cost_of_Index_Everything⠀⇛ Many AI products today are focused on indexing as much as possible. Every meeting, every document, every moment of your day. Every modality — images, audio, and text. Devices that are meant to capture your every moment. Then, they run every data point through a complex pipeline of vector searches, heuristics, draft models, large models, and more to make sense of it. Models trained to take in ever-increasing context- lengths that fit in as many documents and pieces of information as possible. But more information isn’t always better. The limits of the ‘index everything approach’. # ⚓ India Times ☛ The_AI_of_war:_computers_and_autonomous killing⠀⇛ Robots, drones, torpedoes... all kinds of weapons can be transformed into autonomous systems, thanks to sophisticated sensors governed by AI algorithms that allow a computer to "see". # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ ThisIsNotRat:_Control_Your_System_Using Telegram⠀⇛ Take control of your system with the TelegramBot. o § Security⠀➾ # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Google_Adds_Passkey_Support_to_New Titan_Security_Key⠀⇛ As for passkeys, which aim to eliminate the use of passwords, the new Titan security keys allow users to store more than 250 unique passkeys. Google has been on a mission to replace passwords with passkeys, recently adding support to all Google accounts. Passkeys leverage FIDO2 credentials and cryptography, enabling users to easily and securely log in to their accounts. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ Kansas_legislators_question education_department’s_plan_for_student_data_collection system⠀⇛ Details of the project were shared with Republicans and Democrats on the Kansas Legislature’s information technology committee, some of whom expressed concern about the department’s motivation for enhancing data collection and its ability to guarantee data privacy. # ⚓ Gabriel Sieben ☛ “Parental_controls?_What_parental controls?”⠀⇛ So let’s say you want to allow your 8-year- old to work on school, on a Windows PC. What’s the point of parental controls when you can’t disable Widgets, can’t disable the tabloid content in the Search box even if you block Bing, the Bing filter can still be bypassed using Office, and your student can use AI all they want? These are “parental controls”? # ⚓ [Repeat] NYOB ☛ noyb_files_complaint_against_EU Commission_over_targeted_chat_control_ad_campaign⠀⇛ Today, noyb filed a complaint against the EU Commission’s Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs. In September 2023, the Commission used unlawful micro- targeting on Twitter (X) to promote its heavily criticized chat control regulation. It seems that the Commission was desperate to garner public support, which could be used to pressure national governments into accepting the controversial legislative proposal. This move both undermined the established democratic procedures between EU institutions and violated the EU GDPR. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Spotify_to_use_Google's_AI_to_tailor podcasts,_audiobooks_recommendations⠀⇛ Spotify has been an early adopter of AI, which it used for music recommendation algorithms a decade earlier. The Swedish company is now aiming to use LLMs to replicate that across its non-music content such as podcasts and audiobooks. The music streaming giant has been looking to boost its earnings by increasing its slate of revenue-generating formats such as podcasts and audiobooks. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ YLE ☛ APN_Podcast:_How_safe_are_Finland's_streets?⠀⇛ The show asks if Finland is really becoming less safe, after a police index revealed that incidents of violent crime are becoming more common. # ⚓ El País ☛ Only_4%_of_countries_propose_eliminating multibillion-dollar_subsidies_for_fossil_fuels_in_their climate_plans⠀⇛ Eliminating this aid is a long-standing demand in the fight against climate change. In the final declaration of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, held at the end of 2021 in the Scottish city, the nearly 200 countries that participated in the event (practically the entire world) included an explicit call to gradually eliminate inefficient public aid to the fossil fuel sector. However, that call from two years ago hasn’t been transformed into concrete commitments in national climate action plans, as revealed this week by a report from the U.N., which also warns that efforts to ensure that global warming remains within the safest limits are still insufficient. The study warns that while greenhouse gas emissions will peak before the end of the decade, they will not be reduced quickly and intensely enough. # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Rick_Santorum_Just_Came_Out_and_Said What_Conservatives_Really_Think_of_Democracy⠀⇛ What Santorum is objecting to is nothing more or less than the basic process of democracy. In this case, two issues were put to a vote, and groups of Ohio citizens that were both more motivated and more numerous than those on the other side made the majority preference clear. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Osama_bin_Laden’s_'letter_to_America' controversy:_All_you_need_to_know_about_it⠀⇛ The message includes bin Laden's assertion that the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001 due to its support of Israel. The letter also denounces what he described as Western "lies, immorality and debauchery" and argued that attacks against civilians and the United States were justified as a result. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Videos_About_Bin_Laden’s_Criticism_of_U.S. Surge_in_Popularity_on_TikTok⠀⇛ Videos on TikTok supporting a decades-old letter by Osama bin Laden criticizing the United States and its support of Israel surged in popularity this week, adding to accusations that the company is fueling the spread of antisemitic content. The White House condemned the resurfacing of the letter. # ⚓ Axios ☛ TikTok_shifts_to_aggressive_communications_strategy as_criticism_mounts⠀⇛ Elected officials have since accused TikTok of brainwashing young Americans by pushing "rampant pro-Hamas propaganda." # ⚓ India Times ☛ TikTok_to_prohibit_videos_promoting_bin Laden's_'Letter_to_America'⠀⇛ Discussions of the 20-year-old letter have spread on the platform this week in the context of debate over the Israel-Hamas war, with some users in the West praising its contents. # ⚓ India Times ☛ TikTok_joins_Meta_in_appealing_against_EU gatekeeper_status⠀⇛ The European Union in September picked 22 "gatekeeper" services, run by six tech companies - Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet's Google, Amazon, Meta and ByteDance's TikTok. While Microsoft, Google and Amazon did not challenge their designations, Apple is yet to comment on its plan. Nov. 16 is the last date to appeal. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Al-Shabaab_hopes_to_recruit_by_celebrating Hamas_attacks⠀⇛ It only took a matter of days for the Somali terror group al-Shabaab to congratulate Hamas for its deadly October 7 attack on Israel. Al-Shabaab, a branch of al-Qaida, gathered hundreds of supporters on October 15 for pro-Hamas protests in its southern Somalia strongholds, Jilib and Kunya Barrow. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ TikTok_Has_Canceled_Osama_bin_Laden⠀⇛ The virality of “Letter to America” on X comes just a day after Elon Musk shared his opinions on Jews, randomly agreeing with a tweet saying Jewish communities encourage “hatred against whites.” # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ The_Far_Right_Is_Loving_Elon_Musk's Comments_About_Jewish_Groups_Corrupting_'the_West'⠀⇛ Musk made the comments in reply to an X user who was replying to a Jewish person asking for those who think “Hitler was right” to “say it to our faces.” The user replied, “Okay,” and continued to say that “Jewish communties [sic] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them,” and that they support “hoards of minorities flooding their country.” Musk replied, “You have said the actual truth.” # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ How_to_Define_Genocide⠀⇛ A historian of the Holocaust examines Israel’s rhetoric and actions in Gaza. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Vladimir_Putin’s_anti-colonial posturing_should_not_fool_the_Global_South⠀⇛ The countries of the Global South may have many good reasons for pursuing closer ties with Putin’s Russia, but a shared opposition to imperialism is most certainly not one of them, writes Taras Kuzio. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Ukraine_vows_to_strike_back_if Russia_resumes_energy_infrastructure_attacks⠀⇛ Ukrainians are currently preparing for a repeat of Russia's winter bombing campaign targeting the country's civilian energy infrastructure, but this year Ukraine has the capacity to strike back, writes Marcel Plichta. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Thousands_of_Ukrainian_children_forcibly taken_to_Belarus,_says_Yale_research⠀⇛ More than 2,400 children from Ukraine aged between six and 17 years old have been taken to 13 facilities across Belarus since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, research published by Yale University said on Thursday. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Germany_hikes_Ukraine_military_support, but_is_its_defence-spending_tilt_tenable?⠀⇛ Germany, already Europe's biggest supporter of Ukraine, has unveiled plans to double its military aid to Kyiv for 2024, while continuing to invest in its armed forces in order to become "the backbone of European defence". It’s a strategy shift Berlin hopes to maintain over the long term, but counting on public support in a difficult economic context might make it hard to sustain. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Imposes_Sanctions_On_U.A.E.-Based Maritime_Companies,_Vessels_For_Violating_Price_Cap_On Russian_Oil⠀⇛ The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on three maritime companies based in the United Arab Emirates and vessels owned by the companies for shipping Russian oil sold above a price cap imposed to reduce the amount of oil revenue Moscow has to fund its war in Ukraine. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Artist_Gets_Seven_Years_In_Prison_For Using_Price_Tags_In_Anti-War_Protest⠀⇛ A court in Russia's second-largest city, St. Peterburg, has sentenced Aleksandra Skochilenko, a 33-year-old Russian artist, to seven years in prison for using price tags in a city store to distribute information about Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moscow_Court_Sentences_Leader_Of_Russian Volunteer_Corps_Fighting_On_Ukraine's_Side_To_Life⠀⇛ A Moscow court on November 16 sentenced in absentia Denis Kapustin (aka Nikitin), a commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) that fights along Ukrainian forces against Russian troops invading Ukraine, to life in a special-regime prison -- the toughest type of penitentiary in Russia. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ As_world_patience_thins,_Israel,_Ukraine race_against_time⠀⇛ Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Benjamin Netanyahu are fighting against not only their enemies but also the clock, on which international patience is ticking. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Amid_slog_of_Ukraine_war,_NATO_turns warier_eye_on_Russia⠀⇛ Through war games and planned exercises, NATO security efforts are being heightened, both for readiness and to deter an unpredictable Russia. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Cameron_Meets_Zelensky_on_His_First Visit_to_Ukraine_as_U.K._Secretary⠀⇛ With much global attention turned to the war in Gaza, President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that his country cannot afford a “frozen conflict” with Russia. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Finland_Will_Close_4_Border Crossings_With_Russia_to_Stem_Migrants⠀⇛ Officials accused Moscow of loosening migration controls. Relations between the countries deteriorated after Finland joined NATO following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Finland_Announces_Closure_Of_Four_Border Crossings_Citing_Surge_Of_Asylum_Seekers⠀⇛ Finland will close four crossings on its border with Russia, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said on November 16, citing an increase in the number of asylum applicants arriving at the checkpoints. Rust # ⚓ YLE ☛ Eyewitnesses:_Russia_no_longer_allowing_asylum seekers_across_border⠀⇛ According to the Finnish Border Guard, just five people crossed the border by 6am on Thursday, with no more crossings by noon. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukrainians_Fleeing_Russian Occupation_Cross_Through_Russia_Back_to_Their_Own Country⠀⇛ About 100 Ukrainians a day travel back into Ukraine at an unofficial border crossing, bringing tales of repression and fear about life in Russian-controlled territories. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_says_Ukraine_has_seized_the initiative_from_Russia_in_the_Black_Sea_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russian_War_Report:_Desperate_for recruits,_Russia_offers_one_million_rubles_to_join_its military⠀⇛ The Russian army is struggling to fund equipment and recruit as they host fundraisers and drives offering pledges of one million rubles. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Charles_de_Gaulle's_pro-Kremlin_grandson says_he_wants_Russian_citizenship⠀⇛ A grandson of French war hero and former president Charles de Gaulle said Thursday he wanted Russian citizenship, saying Russia offered “great possibilities”. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ New_U.S._Sanctions_Take_Aim_At_'Russia's Malign_Influence'_In_Balkans⠀⇛ The U.S. Treasury on November 16 imposed a broad set of sanctions on eight people and six entities across the Balkans accused of “perpetuating corruption and enabling Russian malign influence” in the region. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘She_won’t_survive_in_prison’:_A_firsthand account_of_the_conviction_of_Russian_anti-war_protester Sasha_Skochilenko_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Ministry_of_Science_and_Higher Education_collecting_data_on_students_and_teachers_who have_contact_with_people_from_foreign_countries_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Two_Baltika_beer_executives_arrested_on suspicion_of_transferring_Russian_brands_to_Carlsberg_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Speech_by_President_von_der Leyen_at_the_Kyiv_Investment_Forum,_via_video_message⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Former_Russian_Air_Force_Commander_Found_Dead At_Home⠀⇛ The former commander of Russia's 6th Air and Air Defense Forces Army, Vladimir Sviridov, and his wife, Tatyana, were found dead in their home near the southwestern city of Mineralnyye Vody, Russian media reported on November 16. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Armenian_Police_Release_Woman_Who_Fled_Native Ingushetia_Over_Domestic_Violence⠀⇛ The Marem women's rights organization told RFE/RL on November 16 that Armenian police released a 21-year-old woman who fled her native region of Ingushetia in Russia's North Caucasus to escape domestic violence. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Imprisoned_Russian_Opposition_Activist_Kara- Murza's_Wife_Concerned_For_His_Life⠀⇛ The wife of imprisoned Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza has expressed concern over his health, saying he is being kept in punitive solitary confinement in a Siberian prison despite having a serious medical condition resulting from when he was poisoned in 2015 and again in 2017. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_Says_Relations_With_US_Could_Be Severed_at_Any_Moment⠀⇛ Bilateral relations have been hampered by U.S. political elites, who consider the American hegemony to be the "basic worldview." # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Russia_Televises_New_Nuclear- Capable_Hypersonic_Missile_Being_Loaded_Into_Silo⠀⇛ Russia's much-hyped Avangard missile makes an appearance on state TV weeks after Russia de- ratified a nuclear test-ban treaty. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea’s_Premier_meets Russian_minister_visiting_Pyongyang⠀⇛ Moscow and Pyongyang have been stepping up cooperation following their leaders' summit in September. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ RFE/RL_Probe_Finds_Belarusian_Tycoon_With Links_To_Lukashenka_Built_Luxurious_'Family_Nest'⠀⇛ An investigative report by RFE/RL's Belarus Service says oligarch Alyaksey Aleksin, who is closely linked to the country’s authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has built an opulent residence named the "Family Nest" on the shores of the Zaslauskaye water reservoir near Minsk. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Doomsday_Clock_Warns_We're_Alarmingly_Close to_an_Uninhabitable_Earth⠀⇛ There is no one overall reason for this move. Of course, with climate change now a major factor in the threat to humanity, the clock has to reflect this, and does. But it is, however, other more immediate factors that have largely caused the hands to be pushed forward. # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Big_Train_managers_earn_bonuses_for greenlighting_unsafe_cars⠀⇛ Almost no one knows this, but last June, a 90-car train got away from its crew in Hernando, MO, rolling three miles through two public crossings, a ghost train that included 47 potentially explosive propane cars. The "bomb train" neither crashed nor derailed, which meant that Grenada Railroad/Gulf & Atantic didn't have to report it. This is just one of many terrifying near-misses that are increasingly common in America's hyper- concentrated, private equity-dominated rail sector, where unsafe practices dominate and whistleblowers face brutal retaliation for coming forward to regulators. # ⚓ Low Tech Mag ☛ Plastic_Waste_in_the_Fuel_Tank?⠀⇛ Nowadays, there’s much less firewood available than in the 1940s, especially in industrialized regions. So, what would be the solution to the disruption of gasoline or electricity in the Third World War? Dutch artist Gijs Schalkx found another fuel supply, which is abundant: plastic waste. The production of plastics only started in the 1950s, after the Second World War. Since then, plastic has become an increasingly popular material, growing to a global annual production of 460 million metric tons in 2019 – twice as much as in 2000 and eight times as much as in 1976. 34 # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ EU_Lawmakers_‘Do_Not_Speak_For_Us’_Say_Farmers Ahead_of_Crunch_Vote⠀⇛ Every summer, Herbert Dorfmann – one of Italy’s representatives in the European Parliament – joins politicians from across the alpine region to hike with farming groups. The one-day stroll offers a chance for powerful agricultural unions to give their thoughts on key EU farming legislation. In recent years, one topic has been front and centre: the EU’s ambitious Farm to Fork plans to reform agriculture to better protect nature and climate. In Dorfmann, the unions have found a sympathetic ear. He, along with many of the lobby groups he meets up in the Alps, has opposed proposals to slash pesticide and fertiliser use, and restore damaged ecosystems.  # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ What’s_coming_next_for_fusion research⠀⇛ But making a fusion power plant a reality will require a huge amount of science and technology progress. Though some milestones have been reached, many are yet to come. At our EmTech MIT event this week, I sat down with Kimberly Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). She was at the center of the science news world last year, when researchers from the national lab achieved what’s called net energy gain, finally demonstrating that fusion reactions can generate more energy than is used to start them up. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ White_House_hopes_to_power_up American_battery_factories_with_$3.5B_fund⠀⇛ MESC defines battery supply chains as consisting of five steps - raw material production, material processing and refinement, battery material and cell fabrication, pack assembly and recycling - all of which can apply for funding. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Everything_You_Need_to_Know_About_Saudi Aramco⠀⇛ There are a lot of major oil companies that tend to fill headlines when talking about climate change – BP, Shell, Chevron – any of the ‘big six’ public oil companies. It’s easy to forget sometimes, amid their multi-billion pound windfall profits, that some of these firms are modest players in comparison to the state-owned oil companies around the world.  Chief among all of them is one company – Aramco. Once known as the Arabian American Oil Company due to its original American owners, it is now owned by Saudi Arabia and is key to the authoritarian Gulf state’s seemingly never-ending prosperity. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ McCann_to_Make_New_Pitch_for_Aramco_Oil_and Gas_Advertising_Work⠀⇛ Global advertising firm McCann is putting itself forward to continue working for the Saudi fossil fuel giant Aramco, DeSmog understands. The US-based McCann currently works for Aramco across a number of its global agencies, under contracts that are set to expire early next year. According to industry insiders, the American-owned company has taken the decision to repitch for the work, despite Aramco’s record of pollution and greenwashing.  o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Biden_Campaign_Looking_for_CISO⠀⇛ A job listing from the Biden for President campaign said the incoming CISO will lead both IT and security teams and provide technical direction on and drive a secure architecture plan, consisting of many campaign IT & Technology systems. # ⚓ EDRI ☛ EU_AI_Act_Trilogues:_Status_of_Fundamental_Rights Recommendations⠀⇛ As the EU AI Act negotiations continue, a number of controversial issues remain open. At stake are vital issues including the extent to which general purpose/foundation models are regulated, but also crucially, how far does the AI Act effectively prevent harm from the use of AI for law enforcement, migration, and national security purposes. # ⚓ Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ ICT_ministers_promote_future- orientated,_intelligent_digital_infrastructure_for_Africa⠀⇛ Taking place alongside AfricaCom, the continent’s premier ICT conference and exhibition, the forum provided a platform for dialogue and an exchange of views on the development of a future-orientated intelligent digital infrastructure in Africa, which is essential for achieving the socioeconomic development goals of the continent. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Amazon_bankrolling_industry_lobbying against_Microsoft_Azure_should_surprise_no_one⠀⇛ These collectives argue Microsoft unfairly locks customers into Azure, or makes it difficult or too expensive to run its software in rival clouds – such as Amazon Web Services, or AWS – and thus the Windows maker should be taken to task by watchdogs and possibly even blocked from competing for government deals and other IT contracts. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ More_TikTok_users_turning_to_the_app for_news_[sic],_Pew_study_shows⠀⇛ News organizations are competing with TikTok and other social media platforms for consumers' attention and advertisers' budgets, with many seeking ways to engage TikTok's large and coveted Gen Z audience. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Jewish_Celebrities_and_Influencers Confront_Fentanylware_(TikTok)_Executives_in_Private Call⠀⇛ TikTok faces escalating accusations that it promotes pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel content. “Shame on you,” Sacha Baron Cohen said on the call. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Nobel_Laureate_Mohammadi_Again_In Hospital⠀⇛ Renowned globally as a staunch advocate for the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement, Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on October 6. For years, Mohammadi has voiced dissent against the obligatory hijab rule imposed on Iranian women, as well as restrictions on women's freedoms and rights in the country by its Islamic regime. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Chinese_police_put_Tiananmen_artist,_film_director under_travel_ban⠀⇛ Film director and dissident artist Guo Zhenming, known for his work commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, has been placed under a travel ban after being invited to a screening of his latest film in Singapore. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Russia_jails_artist_over_anti-war supermarket_protest⠀⇛ A Russian artist who replaced supermarket price tags with messages calling for an end to Moscow's war in Ukraine was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday. Critics say the case of 33-year-old Alexandra Skochilenko is part of a crackdown on anyone who speaks out against Russia's "special military operation" that has led to nearly 20,000 arrests and more than 800 criminal cases. Her supporters in the courtroom shouted "shame" after the judge Oksana Demiasheva read out the verdict. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Tatar_Journalist's_Home,_Office_Searched_In Connection_With_Case_Against_RFE/RL_Journalist⠀⇛ Police in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan have searched the home and office of noted independent journalist Iskander Siradzhi in connection with a probe launched against RFE/RL correspondent Alsu Kurmasheva, who has been in detention center in Tatarstan's capital, Kazan, since October 18. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Adds_Three_Arrested_Navalny_Lawyers_To Terrorist_List⠀⇛ Russia's financial watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, on November 16 added three of Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny's lawyers to its list of extremists and terrorists, meaning that Russian banks must freeze their accounts and stop providing them with services. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF_to_Supreme_Court:_Fifth_Amendment_Protects_People from_Being_Forced_to_Enter_or_Hand_Over_Cell_Phone_Passcodes to_the_Police⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ 'No_Contract,_No_Coffee':_Starbucks Workers_Hold_Largest_Strike_in_Company_History⠀⇛ Workers from hundreds of stores around the country refused to come in to work, instead holding picket lines outside their stores to demand that Starbucks bargain with their union, Starbucks Workers United. Since the first store successfully unionized over a year ago, the National Labor Relations Board has tallied ballots in 454 elections around the country, of which 369 were successful. # ⚓ Axios ☛ AI_helps_defense_attorneys_sift_through_police_body cam_videos⠀⇛ How it works: Defense attorneys load audio and video files into the JusticeText software and the app converts the audio into text. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Tibet_activists_and_pro-China supporters_stage_opposing_demos_in_San_Francisco_as_Xi Jinping_joins_APEC_summit⠀⇛ A protest organized by the city’s Tibetan diaspora was held outside the hotel where US business leaders attended a dinner with Xi, whom they accuse of human rights violations in Tibet. # ⚓ RFA ☛ 4_Tibetans_sentenced_to_prison_for_2nd_time_for religious_activities⠀⇛ It is not unusual for Chinese authorities in the Tibet Autonomous Region and Tibetan-populated areas of western provinces like Sichuan to arrest, detain and abuse Buddhist monks, nuns and others on account of their religious practices, without giving them trials. There also have been reports of individuals dying in custody after being beaten, according to the U.S. State Department’s 2022 Report on International Religious Freedom, issued this May. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Lithium_mining_in_Africa_reveals_dark_side of_green_energy⠀⇛ An August fact-finding mission by the Mineworkers Union of Namibia into the Uis mine — which is operated by Chinese mining company Xinfeng Investments — found that the mine's local employees live in tiny, hot shacks made of corrugated zinc and without proper ventilation. The union also faulted a lack of privacy in the sanitation blocks, where toilets and showers are lined up without partitions between them. By contrast, the mine's Chinese workers have comfortable air-conditioned rooms and decent bathrooms. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran_Releases_Rights_Lawyer_Sotoudeh_From_Prison⠀⇛ Sotoudeh has been a vocal advocate for numerous activists detained by the Islamic republic. Her career, marked by several arrests since 2010, has seen her endure periods of solitary confinement, highlighting the challenges faced by human rights defenders in Iran. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ CAFC_Affirms_TTAB:_"EVERYBODY_VS._RACISM" Fails_to_Function_as_a_Source_Indicator_for_Bags, Clothing,_and_Public_Interest_Services⠀⇛ In a non-precedential ruling, the CAFC upheld the Board's decision [TTABlogged here] affirming a refusal to register the proposed mark EVERBODY VS. RACISM for tote bags and various clothing items, and for the services of "promoting public interest and awareness of the need for racial reconciliation and encouraging people to know their neighbor and then affect change in their own sphere of influence," finding that the phrase fails to function as a source indicator. The appellate court concluded that the Board's determination was supported by substantial evidence. In_re_GO_&_Associates,_LLC, Appeal No. 2022-1961 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 14, 2023) [not precedential]. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ McDonald’s_Loses_Trademark_Suit_In Australia_Against_Hungry_Jack’s_Over_‘Big_Jack’ Burger⠀⇛ Three years ago we discussed an interesting trademark battle between McDonald’s and Hungry Jack’s in Australia. It’s interesting for a number of reasons. For starters, Hungry Jack’s is a part of Burger King, McDonald’s chief rival globally, making this something of a proxy war. Second, this suit was filed on the heels of McDonald’s losing its “Big Mac” trademark in Europe after Supermacs got it canceled in expanding into the continent. And finally, to tie those two things together, this particularly dispute was over Hungry Jack’s “Big Jack” burger, which is designed similar to the Big Mac, save some differences that Hungry Jack touted specifically in its advertising of the sandwich. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Sarah_Silverman’s_AI_Case_Isn’t_Going_Very Well_Either⠀⇛ Just a few weeks ago Judge William Orrick massively trimmed back the first big lawsuit that was filed against generative AI companies for training their works on copyright-covered materials. Most of the case was dismissed, and what bits remained may not last much longer. And now, it appears that Judge Vince Chhabria (who has been very good on past copyright cases) seems poised to do the same. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ADYSTUI_Wordo:_BOLLS⠀⇛ # ⚓ quick_calico_cushion_fix⠀⇛ when i made my first pillow-case style cushion cover i made the inner flap too long; hard to get the inner cushion in or out. it has a flimsy non- woven cover. of course i ripped the inner cushion cover when i took it out:-( o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:_Defaults⠀⇛ * Cloud File Storage: an OpenBSD virt "in the cloud", so "Berkeley Fast File System", but that's not what they meant by "cloud". so, nope. git, rsync, and sftp pretty much suffice for my remote file needs. # ⚓ Pagat_Archive⠀⇛ Sent an email asking for permission to make a mirror/archive. This time it was for Pagat, a site with tons and tons of card games. And like last time, permission was given provided that I don't make any archives/mirrors public. Fair enough! # ⚓ Nothing_works_here⠀⇛ How are you doing? I’m feeling pretty frustrated. This music program I’m in is not run very smoothly. I’ve had a hell of a time understanding my classes because they’re all in a different language (which I am learning; I won’t know enough in time.) One class is “how to cite papers using Chicago style,” and another is about old dusty-ass books that people don’t use anymore. There’s a third class that I’m in about music theory, which has been kinda cool; all of the aforementioned classes are in the other language. Δεν ξέρω, βρε. I'm not a quitter, but this is getting fucking stupid. It seems like nobody knows what the fuck is going on and I think the only other foreign student has dropped out. Oh, and getting a student ID (i.e. proof of enrollment with the uni) has taken over 2 months. # ⚓ This,_that,_and_Re:_Defaults⠀⇛ I realized while reading some gemlogs that I now want to run from women I used to think were cool. # ⚓ Is_Geek_Culture_Dead⠀⇛ Hey, new here. I'm just curious to if you think geek culture is dead. My personal thoughts is that it is not dead. Just watered down for the mainstream, I'm tired of people watering down stories to fit the current audience. Modem MCU and the Henry Cavill Witcher situation are peak examples of this, Henry genuinely wanted a faithful Witcher. Netflix did not. They knew that it wouldn't squeeze the most juice out the rag. Anyway just posting to see what you all think. This seems like a really chill place away from the chaos of social media. Hope to be seeing you more. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3479 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 17/11/2023: Health and Privacy Issues, IBM Pulling Out of Twitter/X⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 17, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Science o Education o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Patents # Software_Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Archaeologists_Unearth_a_Secret_Lost Language_From_3,000_Years_Ago⠀⇛ What does it say? # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Underwater_Labyrinth_Hidden_Beneath_Mexico Contains_a_Huge_Swathe_of_Life⠀⇛ A hidden metropolis. # § Open Access/Content⠀➾ # ⚓ Society for Scholarly Publishing ☛ Guest_Post:_Mind the_Gap_–_Understanding_China’s_Perspective_on_Research Integrity_and_Open_Access⠀⇛ Interactions and collaborations between the Chinese research community and international scholarly publishers are as numerous and wide-ranging as at any point in past 20 years, during which China has become the world’s top producer of research papers. Yet in some ways the perception gap between these two groups is widening. Some of our colleagues, peers, and partners in China view open access (OA), research integrity, and the responsibilities of authors, editors, institutions, and publishers quite differently than their counterparts in North America and Europe. Some of this stems from the unique nature of the Chinese research ecosystem, while in other cases, China’s stance points toward a likely evolution of global practices in scholarly publishing. Either way, there is an increasing need to exchange views and come to a more shared understanding of scholarly research and communication. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korea’s_high_school_dropout_vlogs gain_popularity⠀⇛ The dropout rate in the country for elementary, middle and high school students in 2022 was 1 per cent. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ Mississippi_Makes_It_a_Crime_to_Advertise_Legal Medical_Marijuana_Businesses⠀⇛ Clarence Cocroft filed a lawsuit this week challenging the state's virtual ban on advertising medical marijuana businesses, arguing the law violates his First Amendment rights. # ⚓ Reason ☛ The_'Monster'_Isn't_the_Drug,_It's_the Prohibition⠀⇛ Intoxicating drugs never do as much damage as the laws that impotently attempt to eradicate them. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Men's_Drinking_Habits_Can_Have_a_Shocking Effect_on_Their_Unborn_Child⠀⇛ We need to pay more attention to this. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Calculated_How_Much_Exercise_You Need_to_'Offset'_a_Day_of_Sitting⠀⇛ Important PSA! # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ World's_Leading_Theory_on_Alzheimer's_in Crisis_After_Major_Drug_Trials_Fail⠀⇛ Are we chasing the wrong culprit? # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Five_Times_as_Many_Human_Deaths_From Extreme_Heat_Expected_by_2050⠀⇛ We're literally cooking ourselves. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ VA_EHR_sees_no_outages_in_6_months, but_employees_still_give_system_low_marks⠀⇛ The Department of Veterans Affairs says its new Electronic Health Record (EHR) hasn't seen a total outage in more than six months. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Benin:_Chinese_Medical_Team_to_Perform_Free Cataract_Surgery⠀⇛ Beninese Health Minister Benjamin Hounkpatin said the project was in line with the development of medical and surgical centers of excellence in Benin. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ For_Health,_More_Nuts,_Beans_and_Whole Grains_In_Your_Diet⠀⇛ Plant-based foods are linked to a lower risk of heart disease and diabetes, a new study shows. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_News_removing_magazines,_including_the ones_you_paid_for,_in_December⠀⇛ A lesser known feature of the Google News app (and the website) is its ability to show digital copies of magazines, but the company is set to remove this option in a month’s time. Announced on a support page, Google has confirmed that its News app and news.google.com will remove support for paid magazines next month. The removal not only applies to new subscriptions/purchases, but also to existing libraries of magazines. That means that users who have paid for magazines to use them in the Google News app will be cut off pretty soon. # ⚓ 6000_Laid_Off_US_H-1Bs_Find_Alternative⠀⇛ Canada is increasingly becoming a sought-after destination for H-1B visa holders affected by layoffs in the US tech sector. The Canadian government launched a three-year open work permit scheme on July 16th, providing a path to employment for up to 10,000 US-based H-1B visa holders. Over 6,000 have already taken advantage of this opportunity, prompting the closure of the application process. The H-1B visa, highly sought by international students for post-education work in the US, suffered setbacks due to tech layoffs. Major companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google announced significant staff reductions, giving H-1B holders a 60-day ultimatum to leave, transfer visas, or find new sponsors. # ⚓ Tech EU ☛ London_HRtech_startup_Beamery_to_cut_25_percent of_workforce_amid_restructuring⠀⇛ London-based hrtech startup Beamery is to shed 25 percent of its workforce Tech.eu has learned. The move is part of an organisational restructuring that aims to reduce the company’s total costs by 35 percent. According to LinkedIn, 421 individuals list Beamery as their workplace, meaning 105 talents will soon be available for hire. # ⚓ The Daily Beast ☛ Elon_Musk,_Accused_of_Antisemitism,_Loses IBM_Ad_Dollars_on_Twitter_Successor_X⠀⇛ The company’s ads had been displayed next to pro- Nazi tweets. # ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ I_Asked_Hey_Hi_(AI)_to_Generate_a_Headshot_for Me⠀⇛ I needed a new headshot for work, as I was pissed in my old one. But instead of getting a photographer, I asked Hey Hi (AI) to do it for me instead. A while back I decided I needed a new headshot, as the one I currently use everywhere is from a night out with friends where I'm actually little drunk. It was an okay picture of me, so I decided to edit my friend out of the picture, remove the background, and use it: [...] # ⚓ EFF ☛ To_Best_Serve_Students,_Schools_Shouldn’t_Try_to Block_Generative_AI,_or_Use_Faulty_AI_Detection_Tools⠀⇛ For decades, students have had to defend themselves from an increasing variety of invasive technology in schools—from disciplinary tech like student monitoring software, remote proctoring tools, and comprehensive learning management systems, to surveillance tech like cameras, face recognition, and other biometrics. “AI detection” software is a new generation of inaccurate and dangerous tech that’s being added to the mix. Tools such as GPTZero and TurnItIn that use AI detection claim that they can determine (with varying levels of accuracy) whether a student’s writing was likely to have been created by a generative AI tool. But these detection tools are so inaccurate as to be dangerous, and have already led to false charges of plagiarism. As with remote proctoring, this software looks for signals that may not indicate cheating at all. For example, they are more likely to flag writing as AI-created when the word choice is fairly predictable and the sentences are less complex—and as a result, research has already shown that false positives are more frequent for some groups of students, such as non-native speakers.  Instead of demonizing it, schools should help students by teaching them how this potentially useful technology works and when it’s appropriate to use it.  o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Steamed_Hams,_Except_It’s_The_EU Commission’s_Alleged_CSAM_Regulation_‘Experts’⠀⇛ Everyone who wants client-side scanning to be a thing insists it’s a good idea with no potential downsides. The only hangup, they insist, is tech companies’ unwillingness to implement it. And by “implement,” I mean — in far too many cases — introducing deliberate (and exploitable!) weaknesses in end-to-end encryption. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ PHR ☛ PHR_Welcomes_International_Arrest_Warrant_for_Assad and_Senior_Syrian_Officials_Involved_in_2013_Chemical_Weapons Attack⠀⇛ The international arrest warrants issued by a French court for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad, and two generals for their role in devastating chemical attacks against civilians in 2013 are a crucial first step towards justice for the many victims of the Syrian government’s gross human rights violations [...] # ⚓ JURIST ☛ France_issues_arrest_warrants_for_Syria_president and_officials_over_2013_chemical_attacks⠀⇛ France issued arrest warrants on Wednesday for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher al-Assad, the de facto chief of the Syrian elite military unit, as well as two high-ranking armed forces generals. The arrest warrants stem from two chemical weapons attacks that occurred in Ghouta, Syria in August 2013. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ French_Judges_Issue_Warrant_for_Syria’s President_in_War_Crimes_Case⠀⇛ The warrant relates to the deadly use of chemical weapons and is a major step to hold President Bashar al-Assad accountable for some of the worst atrocities in Syria’s long conflict. # ⚓ France24 ☛ France_issues_arrest_warrant_for_Syrian President_Bashar_al-Assad⠀⇛ France has issued an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accused of complicity in crimes against humanity over chemical attacks in 2013, a judicial source and plaintiffs in the case said Wednesday. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ UK_House_of_Commons_rejects_Gaza_ceasefire amendment_as_US_representatives_pressure_president⠀⇛ The UK House of Commons rejected an amendment calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday as 24 US congressional representatives advocated for one in a letter to the Biden administration.  # ⚓ France24 ☛ Are_Islamist_flags_being_waved_in_pro-Palestine protests?_Not_exactly⠀⇛ Images of protesters brandishing black and white banners during marches across Europe in support of the Palestinian people have been circulating online. Some accounts were quick to point out that these same flags have been brandished by al Qaeda, the Taliban and the Islamic State group. It turns out that this is a religious symbol that has been appropriated by terrorist groups. At the rallies, however, it was largely members of a radical group called Hizb ut-Tahrir that carried this banner. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Younger_Israel_and_Palestinian_Activists Dream_of_a_New_Peace⠀⇛ A younger generation of Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers want to be part of the dialogue about the “day after” the war, when Israelis and Palestinians must grapple again with how to live side by side. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Says_Hamas_Operates_Out_of_Gaza Hospitals,_Endorsing_Israel’s_Allegations⠀⇛ John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said that intelligence from U.S.-generated sources supported Israel’s claim that Hamas has tunnels under Al-Shifa and other hospitals. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ War_in_Gaza:_Has_Hamas_achieved_its_aims against_Israel?⠀⇛ Does Hamas think it is winning? It has shaken Israel’s sense of security to its core, increased its alienation, and renewed focus on the Palestinian cause. But the cost to civilians in Gaza has been enormous. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Cartel_turf_war_rages_in_Mexico's_Chiapas_as groups_fight_over_territory⠀⇛ People in Mexico’s southernmost state, Chiapas, have for the last year and a half, been living through a conflict between rival criminal groups. The Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Nueva Generacion Cartel are both vying for control of the territory. The state, which borders Guatemala, has long been a hotspot for trafficking drugs, arms and migrants. But ravaged by years of inter-community conflicts, the security situation in Mexico’s poorest state is now spiralling out of control. In the face of growing insecurity, the left-wing rebel movement – the Zapatistas – recently announced that their self-managed municipalities, called “caracoles”, will be dissolved, in what looks to be a political retreat. Quentin Duval, Laurence Cuvillier and Ed Augustin report. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Madagascar_Votes_Amid_Violence_and_Calls for_Boycott⠀⇛ Tensions are high on the island nation off the coast of southeastern Africa, as opposition presidential candidates complain of a rigged election and abuses by security forces. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.N._Security_Council_Calls_for_Days-Long Humanitarian_Pauses_in_Gaza⠀⇛ After weeks of division, the Council adopted a resolution that stopped short of calling for a cease-fire. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israel_Shows_Videos_of_Gaza’s_Al-Rantisi Hospital,_Claiming_It_Was_Used_by_Hamas⠀⇛ Israel released two videos from inside Gaza’s main children’s hospital that showed weapons and explosives. Gazan health officials denied the hospital was used for military purposes. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Experts_react:_Are_the_US_and_South Korea_following_through_on_the_Washington_Declaration?⠀⇛ US and South Korean defense officials and military leaders just met in Seoul for two meetings that, while long-standing annual events, have taken on a new urgency following the April 2023 Washington Declaration. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Hymn_to_Kim_Jong_Un_becomes_official_song_at_state events⠀⇛ By replacing a hymn to his father, Kim is breaking out of previous leaders’ shadows, experts say. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea_vows_more_offensive response_to_US_‘threats’:_Report⠀⇛ A spokesperson for the North's Defence Ministry blamed the US for raising tensions in the region. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Australia’s_climate-security_support_for Tuvalu_a_leap_in_the_right_direction⠀⇛ The Falepili Union, a security treaty between Australia and Tuvalu announced at the conclusion of last week’s Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting, is a huge leap forward for tackling climate change [...] # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Protesters_Hoped_to_Plant_Trees_at_Cop City_Site._They_Were_Tear_Gassed_Instead.⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Over_1,000_Oil_and_Gas_Companies_Around the_World_Plan_to_Expand_Infrastructure⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Fire_at_Coal_Firm_Office_in_China Kills_at_Least_26⠀⇛ The fire, at a coal company’s offices in the province of Shanxi, also left dozens of people injured. The cause was not immediately clear. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Cruise_suspends_employee_stock_program,_corp bonuses_moved_up_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛ Cruise, the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of General Motors, told staff Thursday via email that the employee share-selling program for the fourth quarter o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Crime_Family⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trump’s_Love-Hate_Relationship_With_the World_Is_Mostly_Hate⠀⇛ If we came to think of Trump Derangement Syndrome as a mental health problem, who do you think would be the first person diagnosed? # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Nearly_100_Republicans_Vote_Against_Bill_to Narrowly_Avert_Government_Shutdown⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Republican_Senator_Says_He’d_Bite_Teamster President_in_Fight⠀⇛ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Forced_sea_labor:_Chinese_companies_worst offenders,_study_finds⠀⇛ In the most comprehensive attempt to date, a new report has worked to identify companies operating nearly 500 vessels where workers face hazardous, forced conditions sometimes likened to slavery. A quarter of the suspected ships belong to China. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden-Xi_Talks_Lead_to_Little_but_a Promise_to_Keep_Talking⠀⇛ Both American and Chinese accounts of the meeting indicated scant progress on the issues that have pushed the two nations to the edge of conflict. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Addressing_the_State_of_AI’s_Impact on_Cyber_Disinformation/Misinformation⠀⇛ By embracing a strategy that combines technological advancements with critical thinking skills, collaboration, and a culture of continuous learning, organizations can safeguard against AI's disruptive effects. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Report_Finds_X_Failed_to_Remove_98_Percent_of Posts_Flagged_Hateful⠀⇛ # ⚓ EFF ☛ Speaking_Freely:_Agustina_Del_Campo⠀⇛ Agustina Del Campo is the Director at the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) at the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds a law degree from Universidad Catolica Argentina and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from American University Washington College of Law. Agustina has extensive experience in human rights training, particularly as it relates to freedom of expression and the press in the Inter-American human rights system. She has taught and lectured in several Latin American countries and the U.S. EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn caught up with Agustina at RightsCon 2023 in Costa Rica. In this brief but powerful exchange Agustina discusses how, though free speech has a bad rap these days, it is inherent in any advocacy agenda aimed at challenging – and changing – the status quo and existing power dynamics. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Antisemitic_and_Anti-Muslim_Hate_Speech Surges_Across_the_Internet⠀⇛ Fueled by the conflict between Israel and Gaza and stoked by extremists, hate speech has spiked on social control media platforms such as X, Facebook (Farcebook) and Instagram, researchers said. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Nikki_Haley's_Crazy_Plan_to_Require_Verification on_Social_Media⠀⇛ The 2024 GOP candidate has proposed something blatantly unconstitutional. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Bally_Sports_Tries_To_Disappear_Sports Commentator’s_Televised_Rant,_Streisanding_It_To_The_Moon⠀⇛ Some will never learn. The Streisand Effect, coined by site-god Mike Masnick two decades ago, is a term that describes when a person or group attempts to disappear content, typically from the internet, which only serves to make that content far more visible and sought out. Because the internet tends to round around censorship and deletion. Because the internet is forever, someway, somehow. Because attempts to control the content cat that has already exited the content bag never, ever works. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Gaza_to_Lose_All_Communications_and_Internet Services_Soon⠀⇛ "Currently, main network elements depend solely on batteries... May God protect you and our country," PALTEL stressed. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Prof._John_Goldberg_(Harvard)_on_"Large_Libel Models"⠀⇛ I was delighted to see a brief review of my article on libel by Hey Hi (AI) in JOTWELL yesterday by Prof. Goldberg, a leading expert on tort law. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Verdict_in_sedition_case_against Hong_Kong_outlet_Stand_News_further_postponed_pending_higher court_ruling⠀⇛ The verdict in the sedition case against Hong Kong outlet Stand News and two of its former editors has been postponed again pending a higher court’s ruling. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ Washington_Court_Refuses_to_Enforce_Saudi_Child Custody_Decree⠀⇛ "During the custody battle [in Saudi Arabia], Ghassan AlHaidari accused Bethany of gender mixing, adultery, and insulting Islam and Saudi Arabia. Gender mixing, a punishable crime, entails having a male friend. To prove the charge of adultery, Ghassan submitted a photograph of Bethany with a male, who Ghassan claimed to be her boyfriend. The crimes of adultery, insulting Islam, and insulting Saudi Arabia carry a death penalty in Saudi Arabia." # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ ‘Minister_of_music’:_Courtney_Bryan_fuses protest_with_the_sacred⠀⇛ At a time when many people take to the streets to protest injustice, Courtney Bryan turns to her piano. The recently named MacArthur fellow calls music a way to grapple with the emotions of things, rather than become numb to others’ pain. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 2_Hong_Kong_students_sue_schools over_ban_on_long_hair_for_boys⠀⇛ Two Hong Kong students have sued their former schools over their bans on long hair for boys. The lawsuits came months after the city’s equality watchdog terminated investigations into the students’ complaints citing no “actual loss.” # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Peru_dispatch:_the_Alejandro_Soto_case_shows_how parliamentarians_can_craft_laws_to_achieve_personal impunity⠀⇛ Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Oklahoma_Supreme_Court_Blocks_Anti-Abortion_Laws Citing_Protections_for_Life⠀⇛ # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Fort_McNair_Army_civilian_guilty_of abusing_his_GSA_gas_card⠀⇛ In today's Federal Newscast: A Fort McNair Army civilian is guilty of charging thousands of dollars on a GSA gas card. A deputy archivist ends her federal service after more than three decades. And the Pentagon has a new responsible artificial intelligence toolkit. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Rights_Lawyer_Sotoudeh_Released_From_Prison After_Posting_Bail,_Husband_Says⠀⇛ Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been released from prison, her husband said on X, formerly known as Twitter. Sotoudeh was released on November 15 after posting bail, said Reza Khandan. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Inmate_dies_suspiciously_in_Urfa_prison⠀⇛ The 36-year old prisoner’s family said he had no known pre-existing health conditions. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ What_if_Google_Wasn’t_The_Default?⠀⇛ Google has paid Apple to be the default search on their operating systems since 2002. But recent antitrust cases against Google have shed more light on this deal. Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from search advertising through the Safari browser (iOS, macOS). The power of defaults is real. From the trial, 75% of users don’t switch defaults. And 50% of iOS users don’t know what search engine they are using. What would happen if Google wasn’t the default? Where would that revenue go? # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ JUVE ☛ UPC_takes_narrow_definition_of_‘party’_after Meril_Italy_files_nullity_suit_in_Paris [Ed: UPC is totally and entirely illegal. EPO and EU have in effect put together a "legal" system that is profoundly illegal and unconstitutional. This will cost the EU in legitimacy.]⠀⇛ The Italian subsidiary of medical device company Meril Life Sciences filed a revocation action against Edwards Lifesciences’ EP 3 646 825 before the Paris central division. Now the court has published an order regarding the basic jurisdiction of such actions. # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ IPVal_patent_monopoly_asserted against_dozens_of_retailers_challenged⠀⇛ On November 10, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S._Patent_8,643,875, owned by eCeipt, LLC, an NPE and IPValuation_Partners entity.  The ‘875 patent monopoly relates to sending electronic receipts to a customer. # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Design_Patent_Bar_Now Reality [Ed: Such patents ought not exist at all, but law firms' lobbying makes the absurd a reality]⠀⇛ The USPTO is officially establishing a separate design patent monopoly practitioner bar with its final rule published on November 16, 2023 and effective January 2, 2024.  This is an historic change that opens the door to becoming a patent monopoly practitioner to a much wider audience and will likely lend itself to further growth in this specialty area. After proposing the idea in May 2023 and receiving positive feedback, the USPTO implemented the design patent monopoly practitioner bar through its rulemaking authority under 35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2). # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ The_Predictability_of_the Mayo/Alice_Framework_–_A_New_Empirical_Perspective [Ed: This is how many software patents have been squashed for nearly a decade; patent extremists hate this with a passion for their own financial reasons.]⠀⇛ The Mayo/Alice framework used to determine patent monopoly eligibility has been a lightning rod for criticism since the Supreme Court’s decisions a decade ago. Some have argued that the two-step framework is inconsistent with earlier patent monopoly eligibility precedent, while others have focused their objections on its purported negative effects on innovation. But arguably the most popular narrative is the asserted fatal flaw that the framework lacks administrability and cannot be applied predictably. Too many critics to count—including academics, practitioners, legislators, and judges—have lambasted the patent monopoly eligibility framework as an unpredictable morass of confusion. Even some judges on the Federal Circuit have labeled the eligibility framework as an “incoherent doctrine”[1] that might tempt district courts into “an effective coin toss,”[2] while others have openly confessed that “the nation’s lone patent monopoly court … [is] at a loss as to how to uniformly apply § 101.”[3] The latest legislative attempt to reframe patent monopoly eligibility is similarly premised on “extensive confusion and lack of consistency [in applying the 101 exceptions] throughout the judicial branch of the Federal Government and Federal agencies.”[4] These concerns for unpredictability are undoubtedly echoed by countless practitioners who have been in the trenches of litigating this polarizing issue. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ And_the_INTA_President's_Award_Goes_to_. ._._Guess_Who?⠀⇛ Well, this was an amazing surprise. My thanks to INTA for this award. It is truly an honor to join the distinguished roster of past recipients. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Last_Order_Dates_for_the Holiday_Season_-_2023⠀⇛ The recommended cut-off dates to order from our shop by to ensure delivery in time for Dec 25th. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ YouTube_Copyright_ID_Scammers_Must Pay_Artists_$3.3m_Restitution⠀⇛ By masquerading as legitimate music rightsholders, two men managed to extract over $23 million in revenue from YouTube's Content ID system. Both were arrested and sentenced to prison. In the wake of the criminal proceeding, hundreds of disadvantaged artists came forward, and the court has now ordered the scammers to pay $3.3 million in restitution. # ⚓ Jason Kottke ☛ Coyote_Vs._Acme_Movie!_Shelved?!⠀⇛ I just found out today that they made a movie version of Ian Frazier’s classic 1990 New Yorker piece Coyote V. Acme, in which Wile E. Coyote files a product liability lawsuit against the Acme Company. # ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Money_talks_in_the_world_of copyright_legislation,_and_that’s_a_big_problem_for ordinary_Internet_users⠀⇛ One striking chart shows global music streaming revenues rising from negligible rates in 2005 to $5.5 billion in 2022. This underlines how foolish the music business was to resist the move to online music – it could probably have made billions more dollars had it started earlier. Instead, it sued the pioneering service Napster into the ground in 2001. It was a typically short-sighted move that impoverished not just the music industry, but society as a whole, for a reason Lawrence Lessig explains in his book Free Culture: [...] ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 4478 ➮ Generation completed at 02:50, i.e. 3 seconds to (re)generate ⟲