𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Thursday, March 14, 2024 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Fri 15 Mar 02:49:19 GMT 2024 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/2024/03/14/ ╒═══════════════════ 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 - 4,000 Known Gemini Capsules by Springtime? By Summertime? ⦿ Techrights - Catholic abuse reports, the Mafia, FSFE & Debian CoC abuse blackmail ⦿ Techrights - Debian: transgender threats to transgender death, Lucy Wayland, RIP ⦿ Techrights - IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 ⦿ Techrights - Over at Tux Machines... ⦿ Techrights - [Teaser] Willy (Guillaume) Minnoye Planning His Comeback ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/4_000_Known_Gemini_Capsules_by_Springtime_By_Summertime.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/Catholic_abuse_reports_the_Mafia_FSFE_Debian_CoC_abuse_blackmai.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/Debian_transgender_threats_to_transgender_death_Lucy_Wayland_RI.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_March_13_2024.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/Teaser_Willy_Guillaume_Minnoye_Planning_His_Comeback.shtml ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/Gemini_Links_14_03_2024_Lindwyrm_and_Low_Priority_Guix.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/Gemini_Links_14_03_2024_Tales_of_a_Smartphone_and_Google_to_Upd.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/Links_14_03_2024_Fentanylware_TikTok_Ban_Passed_US_Navalny_Aide.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/Links_14_03_2024_Google_Layoffs_Not_Complete_and_Family_Dollar_.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/Links_14_03_2024_Lots_of_TikTok_Trouble_Putin_Signals_Conflict_.shtml ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 66 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/4_000_Known_Gemini_Capsules_by_Springtime_By_Summertime.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/4_000_Known_Gemini_Capsules_by_Springtime_By_Summertime.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 4,000 Known Gemini Capsules by Springtime? By Summertime?⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 14, 2024 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Wild_Boar_Wild_Pig_Wild_Swine_1891⦈_ We recently - as recently as 10 days ago - took note of the number of known (to Lupa) Gemini capsules exceeding_3,800. That number continues to grow. When winter started it_was_around_3,600 (see graph for number of capsules) and we're less than 200 short of 4,000. The_Web_turned_35_earlier_this_week (some_blogs_mentioned_that). When it started it was a lot more like Gemini. It was modest, useful, and it didn't treat users like commodities to be extracted and mined. █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Gemini at 3,800+⦈ ⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⠿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⡿⣿⠿⢿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣥⡅⡀⠑⠝⠢⠀⢈⠃⢰⡌⠀⠀⣸⣿⡇⠈⠀⢰⡿⡇⠀⣿⠃⠀⠊⠁⠻⠳⡁⣘⡇⠀⣉⠕⠑⢌⣟⢫⣭⣿⣧⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⡫⣿⣿⢿⣿⣟⠻⠉⢹⡏⣛⣋⣟⣿⣿⣽⡿⠛⢫⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡯⠈⠉⠠⠸⠓⠤⡄⢠⣿⡿⠀⠀⡿⡻⣿⠀⠀⠨⠆⠀⠀⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠬⢙⠙⣻⡦⠘⣆⣂⣠⣲⣾⡾⢻⣿⡏⠛⢛⣿⣲⣤⠹⠛⣳⣿⣯⣰⣮⣉⣄⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⢀⣟⣯⣼⢿⠛⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠁⠀⠈⠬⣵⠇⠀⠀⠤⠏⢋⡀⠀⢨⣿⡀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠶⠮⠛⠉⠀⠈⠿⠞⠙⢓⢏⠉⠀⢈⠟⡥⣀⡰⢁⣽⢁⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⠿⣹⠏⠙⠋⠛⣛⠾⢿⣻⣿⣃⢸⣿⠇⠐⠠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡔⣧⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠋⠀⠀⠀⠠⣾⠸⠀⠀⢸⣿⠋⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠆⠀⠰⣾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣭⣌⣰⣼⣿⣷⣮⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣟⠚⢛⡿⢿⣷⡂⠀⠀⣈⠈⢙⠖⢥⣾⣿⣿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠅⣟⠑⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠙⠃⠀⠀⠘⢟⠀⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠅⠀⠀⢻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢄⠿⢟⠛⠻⡻⣾⡿⣿⡿⠛⠟⠻⠻⠹⣧⠠⠀⠻⢎⠑⠀⠀⠠⡞⠁⣤⣤⣭⣿⣿⣤⣶⣤⣴⣦⣄⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣤⣬⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡰⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣔⠙⠉⠀⠈⠙⠃⠐⠝⠂⠀⠀⠰⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠣⢚⣿⢿⠯⡟⠀⠈⠹⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠛⠀⠀⠈⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢆⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣠⣀⠑⠀⠀⠊⢠⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⡟⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠋⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣟⠀⡏⡄⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣽⠀⠀⠀⠠⣄⠰⠉⢭⣵⡆⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⢟⣻⣄⠀⠀⣠⡘⢛⡀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢼⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠿⠅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠤⠨⠓⠃⠀⠀⡠⠀⠀⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⡼⣿⡇⡈⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣯⠀⢨⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡼⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣤⠄⠂⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠁⢀⣅⡀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⢯⡆⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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Having a number of family_members_connected_with_the_diocese_of_Melbourne, I followed the work of the Royal Commission closely to try and understand what was true and false in these matters. The Royal Commission released their report in 2018. Sections about the Catholic church were redacted due to the ongoing trial of Cardinal Pell. When the high court made the final decision in 2020, the trial came to a conclusion and the Royal Commission released the_results_of_their_investigation_into_the_church. The Catholic church teaches that any secrets disclosed to a priest in the sacrament of confession will be protected by the priest. The obligation on the priest is very strong. Priests who violate the seal_of_confession can be denounced and ex-communicated. In various cases around the world, criminals have confessed to their priest, admitting to murders and other crimes and police have sought to gain testimony from the priest. One of the most glaring examples of blackmail is a priest telling his victims that his crimes are subject to the same secrecy but in reverse. It is on page 207 of the report: What convinces me is the repeated comment (but with little suspicion of the meaning and significance any Catholic priest would find in the story) that D.D. advised the seal of Confession covered any revelation of what had happened in January between them ... In fact, the victim wanted to become a priest too. The victim was told that he could never become a real priest if he disclosed abuse. It is bizarre how a renegade priest has twisted the church rules to suit himself. Nonetheless, we see similar mind games in some free software organizations. We see the same thing in FSFE. Employers and clients always ask us to sign employment contracts and Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs). As professionals, we make a concious choice to read and sign those agreements and be bound by them. In FSFE, we are volunteers. We never consented to a bond of secrecy. The FSFE President, Matthias Kirschner, has tried to unilaterally create a bond of secrecy. If we did not consent to be part of a secret society then his insistance on such terms, without consent to such terms, is as undignifying as the unilateral actions of a rapist. Consent matters. Here are messages that Kirschner has sent as he tries to force silence upon volunteers: Subject: Handling of FSFE internal information Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 21:06:38 +0200 From: Matthias Kirschner To: Daniel Pocock CC: FSFE Council Dear Daniel, I am writing to you as president of the FSFE. In the name of FSFE, I am asking you to immediately cease and desist from * Publishing FSFE-internal information, especially by mail and/or by blog posts, and/or * Using FSFE-internal information in order to discredit FSFE, and/or * Using FSFE-internal information in order to damage FSFEs reputation, and/or * Using FSFE-internal information in order to damage FSFE financially. If you are buying a used car, you want to know about internal defects. If you donate to the FSFE, you need to know how they waste your money. You have published information regarding * Supporter contributions, Anybody can find those figures in the FSFE_web_site. * The number of FSFE supporters, Anybody can find those numbers by looking at the public voting_statistics_page * The structure of the supporters by country of origin, Anybody can estimate those figures by looking at the activity_on_FSFE_mailing lists. Over fifty percent of the emails are written in German. * The internal decisions making, * Financial contributions and financial expenditure, As above, these figures were copied and pasted directly from FSFE's_own financial_transparency_pages. * And other internal information. You have also publicly alleged that the FSFE management is censoring you and that the President is orchestrating a conspiracy against you. By electing to make these allegations in public, you have discredited the organisation in contravention of your duties as a member of the FSFE. We demand that you refrain from repeating these allegations in public while you remain a member of the FSFE. You have done so especially by publishing the following blog posts: https://danielpocock.com/who-were-the-fsfe-fellowship https://danielpocock.com/an-fsfe-fellowship-representatives-dilemma Furthermore, you have sent emails including or referencing internal information over a public mailing list, https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/discussion/2018-August/012440.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2018-09/msg00000.html The activities mentioned above are an infringement of the FSFE Constitution as well as of several German laws. That is nonsense. Is this the FSFEurope committed to transparency or the FSFGermany? Cutting and pasting the figures from the FSFE web site and putting them into a spreadsheet is not a crime in any European country. As president of the FSFE, I hereby request that you delete all internal information published by you; especially, I request that you delete the blog posts mentioned above. In addition, as mentioned above, I hereby request that you cease and desist from publishing FSFE-internal information and/or using such information in order to discredit and/or damage FSFE. Until further notice, your blog is removed from the FSFE's planet aggregation, we removed you from receiving the internal statistics, we will put you on moderation on our mailing lists, and we will restrict other access to confidential information. Furthermore, please be aware that 1) this e-mail contains restatements of and/or references to internal information that may not be published without the prior express written permission of the FSFE (this obligation survives the termination of membership); 2) while you remain a member of the FSFE, the publication of our legal demands would be considered further discrediting the FSFE and damaging the bond of trust between the members, and as such, would be considered in any current or future exclusion proceedings. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join) Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) - Weblog (k7r.eu/blog.html) Much of what Kirschner writes is nonsense. In a volunteer organization promoting transparency, there is no such thing as FSFE-internal information. It is an absurd accusation. Catholics believe that Jesus Christ was reincarnated at Easter. When you read the overbearing demands of Matthias Kirschner, who do you feel has been reincarnated in Berlin? I never signed an NDA with the FSFE. The_community_elected_me_as_the_fellowship representative. I had an obligation to publish information for the community. The similarities in the report of Catholic abuse are strikingly similar to the FSFE CoC Abuse: § Culture of secrecy⠀➾ We are satisfied that there was a prevailing culture within the Archdiocese, led by Archbishop Little, of dealing with complaints internally and confidentially to avoid scandal to the Church. This comment appears about an eight year old girl. The woman waived her right to anonymity: In a confidential memorandum dated 20 November 1985, Mr Dooley wrote that he had met with Mr Sleeman and Father Searson to discuss a parent’s concern ‘about what they saw as a sexual advance to their daughter by Father Searson during Reconciliation (Confession)’. Around the same time that Kirschner was making these abusive demands upon people, we saw Enrico Zini using similar tactics to try and censor various people in Debian. Each of his messages finished with a veiled threat like this: We are sending this email privately, leaving its disclosure as your decision (although traces in public databases are unavoidable). The implication is that Mr Zini will never tell anybody that he made defamation about us as long as we are obedient to him. Volunteers including Dr Norbert Preining and I were brave enough to call his bluff. In 2014, Italian police secretly_recorded_a_mafia_initiation_ceremony_near Como,_Italy. Here is a quote from the mafia video: We pledge to deny everything until the seventh generation, to renounce all the criminal societies recognised by me until today, so as to preserve the honour of my wise brothers. Here is what the Debian_Social_Contract has to say about secrecy: 3. We will not hide our problems The FSFE publishes_a_transparency_commitment_too. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇FSFE Transparency commitment, hypocrisy⦈ More_evidence_about_FSFE_undermining_software_freedom █ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢠⠤⢤⣤⡤⡤⢤⣤⡤⣤⣤⣤⡤⢤⣤⣤⣤⡤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⢤⣤⠤⣤⡤⣤⡤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄ ⠸⠴⠤⠼⠧⠤⠤⠿⠤⠤⠤⠿⠦⠤⠤⠴⠾⠧⠦⠤⠤⠤⢤⣤⣼⣧⣤⣤⣼⣧⣦⣬⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⡿⢿⣟⠻⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⡿⣟⠻⠿⠿⠟⣿⡿⢿⠟⢻⡇⣿⠟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⠿⠷⠿⠿⠿⠿⠾⠿⠿⠿⠷⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠇⠿⠷⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠇ ⢸⣿⠟⠿⣿⣿⠟⢿⣿⣟⡛⣿⣿⣿⣷⢲⣲⣶⠶⣶⡶⢶⡶⠶⣶⡶⠖⢶⠶⠶⣶⠶⠶⠶⠖⠶⢶⠶⡶⢶⠶⡶⠶⣶⠶⠶⢶⠶⠲⠶⡶⢶⣶⡖⠒⣶⣶⡲⣾⣿⠛⣻⣿⣿⠻⣿⣿⠛⢻⣿⣟⠟⣿⣿⡟⢻⣿⡇ ⢸⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣟⣓⣚⣛⣚⣛⣛⣛⣒⣒⣒⣛⣚⣚⣚⣓⣚⣒⣓⣓⣚⣚⣚⣓⣓⣚⣓⣓⣚⣛⣚⣚⣛⣛⣒⣛⣓⣛⣛⣓⣒⣛⣓⣚⣻⣿⣷⣾⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⣏⣝⣿⡛⣏⣋⣟⣻⣛⣛⡻⣿⣙⣻⣻⢛⣛⣻⣟⣻⣙⣿⣛⣟⣻⣙⣛⣛⣛⣿⣹⣛⣙⣛⣋⣟⣛⣋⣛⣿⣟⣻⣛⣻⣏⣙⣻⣛⢟⣋⣛⣛⣙⣛⣛⣙⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⣯⣙⣟⣻⣏⣛⣏⣻⣟⣻⣛⣿⡇ ⢈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣽⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⣿⣿⡇ ⠐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣴⣿⣥⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣬⣴⣯⣤⣤⣤⣤⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣦⣿⣿⣷⣥⣿⢿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣾⣤⣴⣾⣼⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇ ⠠⣿⣿⣿⣿⡋⠓⢙⣿⣿⡿⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣁⣄⠸⢿⣏⡁⣉⠟⣉⡛⣏⢈⡹⢋⣙⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⢿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣿⡇⣿⠦⣬⠍⣿⢸⡇⢤⡤⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣶⣴⣿⣿⣿⣦⣵⣦⣤⣦⣼⣿⣿⣷⣯⣤⣼⣶⣵⣶⣿⣿⣧⣶⣴⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣾⣿⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠐⢻⣿⣶⣿⣷⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣷⣶⣿⣷⣶⣿⣾⣶⣶⣿⣷⣶⣿⣶⣶⣷⣿⣶⣾⣿⣶⣾⣷⣷⣶⣾⣿⣶⣿⣷⣶⣾⣾⣷⣶⣿⣷⣶⣿⣾⣶⠛⡇ ⠀⠁⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⠈⠁⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠈⡇ ⢀⡀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢀⡇ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣭⢉⢹⢩⢹⣉⠍⣭⠫⣉⡏⡝⣉⡉⣭⡏⣭⡏⢯⣿⢰⡧⣫⡍⣯⡍⡍⡏⡍⣭⡇⡅⡏⡍⣭⡏⣉⡏⡍⡇⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⠠⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣶⣾⣾⣾⣶⣧⣶⣿⣶⣷⣿⣶⣷⣿⣿⣶⣯⣾⣿⣷⣾⣷⣾⣿⣷⣷⣷⣷⣿⣷⣷⣷⣷⣿⣿⣶⣷⣷⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠠⡇ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⠐⠂⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⣹⣝⣩⣹⣽⣽⣉⣿⣉⣭⣋⣭⣋⣻⣽⣍⣹⣹⣉⣯⣉⣩⣯⣙⣍⣏⣋⣽⣋⡝⡽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⠠⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡝⠻⣿⠻⡛⢛⢻⡻⣻⡟⠻⢛⣿⢻⢿⠟⠛⢻⠍⢛⣿⣟⢻⡟⡿⣻⢟⣿⠟⡛⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⠛⠙⠛⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⠈⠁⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠛⣿⠛⢻⠛⢻⡛⠛⢿⠛⢻⣛⠛⠛⢻⢿⠛⢻⡻⠛⠟⠛⢛⡟⣛⠛⢻⣟⢛⢛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠙⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⢐⡀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢚⠻⣛⣿⣿⡛⢻⡟⢻⡻⢻⣻⠟⡻⡛⢻⠛⣿⡟⠻⣛⡛⢻⣛⠚⣛⢻⡛⣿⣛⡛⣻⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠛⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢀⡇ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢛⢻⡻⡛⢿⡛⢻⡻⡟⡾⠿⢞⡟⣛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⠨⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⢀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣇⣽⣉⣽⣙⣟⣏⣛⣍⣯⣙⣝⣯⣉⣍⣿⣝⣉⣿⣃⣭⣻⣭⣉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠚⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⠐⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣚⣏⣜⣁⣏⣉⣍⣩⣏⣩⣿⣉⣹⢶⣕⣧⢞⣯⣍⣽⣫⣉⣹⣍⣉⣭⣯⣏⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⠠⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣫⣫⣉⣹⣏⣏⣋⣙⣭⣙⣟⣍⢿⣯⣉⣩⣭⣋⣍⣙⣽⣹⣝⣍⣩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⠈⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡻⣻⣛⡟⣿⢻⢿⢟⢻⢻⠛⣟⢹⣟⣟⣻⣛⣛⣟⡛⣿⣿⠹⣻⡟⢻⠏⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⢐⡂⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠙⢛⣛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣤⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡟⠟⠛⢻⠛⡻⣻⠛⣛⠛⣻⣻⡛⢻⡟⢻⢛⡟⡻⣻⢙⠟⢻⡛⡉⠻⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇ ⠈⠀⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠀⠃ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 509 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/Debian_transgender_threats_to_transgender_death_Lucy_Wayland_RI.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/03/14/Debian_transgender_threats_to_transgender_death_Lucy_Wayland_RI.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Debian: transgender threats to transgender death, Lucy Wayland, RIP⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 14, 2024 Reprinted with permission from Daniel_Pocock. Today [sic] is the anniversary of Ian_Murdock's_suicide. It is four years since the Debian Christmas lynchings of 2018. Two Debian Developers, Charles Plessy and I, observed_the_environment_was_so_toxic_that_it_could_kill_somebody_else. One month later, Lucy Wayland passed away all too soon. Wayland was transgender. Some people knew her by her original name, Jon Ward and her IRC nickname aardvark. Transgender people don't spontaneously die. There are a range of interconnected problems involving their environment. Debian was clearly part of Wayland's environment. Earlier this year, I contributed several_blog_posts_to_the_debate_about_the Frans_Pop_Debian.Day_suicide. Later, I looked at the way the burden of 14,000 messages_on_debian-private_may_have_been_a_factor_in_the_mistakes_made_by_an underage_developer_in_1998. There are significant similarities between the deaths of Ian Murdock, Frans Pop and Lucy Wayland. They were all male, in their mid-forties. They were all talented and hard-working people. Murdock and Wayland both consumed alcohol, there is no mention of whether alcohol was a factor or not for Pop. They were all single and complained about being alone. Of particular note, it looks like Murdock was alone at Christmas. Now it is time to look at the hard evidence showing Debian progressed from transgender threats to a transgender death in the space of less than one year and demonstrate the plausible links between Debian harassment culture and the high mortality rate of transgender people in general. § Helping victims of Debian harassment⠀➾ The last intern I mentored in Outreachy was Renata D'Avila. In February 2018, she wrote this email expressing concerns about Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls). They are both located in Brazil. I have never been to Brazil and never met either of these people personally. Subject: Re: next steps? Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:28:24 -0500 From: Renata D'Avila To: Bruno CC: Daniel Pocock , Molly de Blanc , Laura Arjona I'm sorry for the short notice, but I would like if any other Debian Women would attend this meeting specially if Paulo finally shows up. Renata When I volunteered to mentor some of the interns contributing to Debian in Google Summer of Code and Outreachy, I had imagined this would involve helping them set goals and solve technical problems. In reality, a lot of time is lost resolving disputes and funding problems. In this particular case, Paulo resigned from mentoring and we had no further communication. A few weeks later, 11-14 April 2018, they had a MiniDebConf_in_Curitiba, Brazil. This was a warm-up exercise for the full DebConf coming to Brazil in 2019. Renata D'Avila and Miriam Retka attended. These two women gave_a_talk together, Debian Women - mulheres no Debian. Here is the_video. ...and here are some of the words that stand out: 03:36: but what are the difficulties that we face, good and that's enough here you have to a project like this to get there because nothing is flowers especially in the free software communities and in the technology communities in general, we know very well and we want to talk a little bit about some of these difficulties ... 05:56: we felt extremely uncomfortable here, the men did not speak to us ... but it was a bit like a boys club 06:65: why if it is like this there is no reason to be totally excluding for women In a healthy organization, if women make such a strong complaint in such a prominent way, somebody from the leadership will make time to speak to them personally. Usually that is done the same day before anybody leaves the event. Not in Debian. It is bizarre: every year, tens of thousands of dollars from the Debian bank account are spent on diversity. Does Debian really care about listening to women or do some people just use diversity as a smokescreen to siphon off funds into the bank accounts of their girlfriends? When genuine female developers arrive, they are not girlfriends so they are ignored. People hope the independent women will get bored and go home because after promising all the diversity grants to their girlfriends, there is nothing left to share with independent women. Two months later, on 13 June 2018, Laura Arjona Reina sent a long, rambling, insulting and defamatory email responding to the women's MiniDebConf talk. Laura claims to be sending this on behalf of the Anti-Harassment Team, which is a pseudonym for a gulag. It contains false references to abuse: this may have a triggering effect for real abuse victims. I only received a copy of this from Renata. I had no contact with Miriam so I don't know if she received an identical email or something different. From: Laura Arjona Reina Date: On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 20:46 Subject: Fwd: Issues related to the MiniDebConf Curitiba 2018 To: Cc: Anti-harassment Hello Renata I'm writing to you on behalf of the Debian anti-harassment team. We are a point of contact for not only people seeing or being victims of abuse, but also for any community member concerned of creating a more welcoming and respectful environment in Debian. Taking into account this second part of our tasks, we have received several reports of issues that happened in the preparation of MiniDebConf Curitiba 2018 and during the event, too. We want to apologise that we couldn't communicate with you about this until today, but we would like to have a conversation with you not only because of the issues that happened, that made some Debian contributors (both men and women) uncomfortable, but also because we know that you plan to attend DebConf, and we'd like the issues to be clarified and hopefully solved in order to ensure a nice experience both for you and other DebConf attendants. In particular, we would like to call your attention about these situations: ... [ snip defamation, insults, victim-offender reversal, etc ] ... Reinforcing positive attitudes and steps that you see in Debian towards women inclusion can also motivate yourself, the other Debian contributors, and possible newcomers, to go on working in that strategy and foster diversity in Debian. This does not mean to avoid criticism or hiding problems, but providing a more accurate vision of how the Brazilian Debian community works towards our common goals. This paragraph is total nonsense. If a woman is a genuine victim of harassment or discrimination, asking her to "reinforce positive attitudes" is absurd. Finally, we would like to say a word about the participation in Debian events that is financed (at least in part) by Debian. We believe that a matching fund, (Mini)DebConf bursary or any other financial help to attend a Debian event is a big endorsement from Debian to the person who receives it, and we believe that your behaviour in MiniDebConf Curitiba 2018 did not match the excellence that we expect for a bursary applicant. Thus, we are considering requesting a rejection of your application to the bursaries team. We would like to give you an opportunity to offer your view of the problematic situations, and how you plan to continue your engagement within the community, including how you plan to participate and interact with other Debianers if you were to attend DebConf. Sadly, time is short, so we kindly request you to reply to this message as soon as possible, so the bursaries processing can be unblocked. In any case, we believe that attending another Debian event could make a positive difference for you and the Brazilian community, if you all have the opportunity to talk in person and engage with the wider Debian folks, and restart the conversation with a better tone. We are happy to mediate or find somebody to mediate if you feel it would be useful, in your interactions within the Debian project from now on. Hoping that this helps to improve the current status of affairs. On behalf of the Debian Anti Harassment team, -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona There are several things that are obviously wrong with Laura's approach. The first thing is that if any volunteer has such strong complaints as those expressed by Renata and Miriam, you need to begin the conversation by asking Renata and Miriam for their side of the story. Maybe they experienced some harassment before the talk and it was not captured in the video. Such unseen incidents may be far more significant than anything that occurred during the talk itself. Laura makes no queries whatsoever about the welfare of the speakers. I feel that Laura has already made up her mind about Renata and Miriam before writing the horrible email. The second thing is that Laura went behind my back. I had been Renata's mentor in the Outreachy program. Renata had included me on CC in attempts to have a discussion about Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana and other men in Brazil. Yet Laura and her gulag went into their IRC private chat bunker and crafted ugly messages without contacting me. Despite taking two months to create this ugly message, they didn't contact me at all. When they sent the messages, they didn't include me on CC. In any organization where you are responsible for managing or mentoring people, it is completely unacceptable for somebody like Laura from another team to go behind your back and impose upon your mentees. The third thing is that the whole email finishes with strong threats and pressure. They are demanding a written response and they are insisting that Renata should write something quickly. Their aim is for Renata to write something that she might regret, something that is self-incriminating, self- deprecating or, if Renata tries to defend herself, Laura will use Renata's response as evidence that Renata is disobedient. When using pressure tactics like this, it is normal to try and separate the victims. That may be one reason they didn't send a single email to both Renata and Miriam together. They may be trying to separate the women so they can break them down. For an example of another case where a Debian harassment victim was forced to write something self-deprecating, please_see_the_forced_confession_from_Dr Preining. The really scary thing about messages like this is that they force people to feel shame. Shame is a dangerous emotion that is an ingredient in suicides. In this case, Renata sat on this message for five months before telling me about it. I can't imagine how I would feel if one of my interns committed suicide while choking on a secret punishment like this from Code of Conduct vigilantes. In fact, if an intern committed suicide after receiveing nasty messages from Laura and her cabal, the mentor would never know about those messages. The mentor may feel regret and guilt about such a suicide. The messages above prove the Laura Arjona and Molly de Blanc are the real source of toxicity. Most volunteers and mentors are oblivious to these women sending threats. When looking at the case of Frans Pop, the_Debian.Day_volunteer_suicide, we can only wonder what was in his mind in the days between his resignation email on 15 April and his suicide on 20 April. Neither Renata nor Miriam came back to other Debian events. Even when DebConf19 went to Brazil in 2019, neither of them attended. Nobody really seemed to care: while the women from Brazil had_to_raise_money_to buy_their_bus_tickets_to_Curitiba, women from Albania had_their_flights_paid_in advance_by_the_Debian_treasurer's_personal_credit_card. There was a strong fear in DebConf organization that local Brazilian women would be too overconfident and dangerous because they can speak the local language and do things their own way. The Albanian women would be like fish out of water, without understanding Portuguese, they would be isolated from other women and easier to control. Google/Debian really expects volunteers to wash dishes at DebConf. Brazilian women would refuse to wash dishes for free. Shortly after Renata informed me about the nasty messages from Laura, somebody decided to declare_Molly_de_Blanc_as_a_Debian_Developer_by_fiat. Neither Molly nor Laura are developers. Renata had written more code during her three month internship than Molly and Laura had created in their whole lives. When a woman without experience gets a big promotion, every other woman notices and many of them are disgusted. After being_declared_a_Debian_Developer_by_fiat, Molly used her new powers to humiliate real developers, including Dr Preining. One of the responses from the community was that demoting Dr Preining from Debian Developer (DD) to Debian Maintainer (DM) was actually an insult to everybody else who had been trivialized with the Debian Maintainer label: Subject: Re: Censorship in Debian Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 17:35:38 +0900 From: Charles Plessy To: debian-project@lists.debian.org CC: Norbert Preining Le Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 01:13:53AM +0900, Norbert Preining a écrit : > > * The demotion to Debian Maintainer is - as far as I read the > consitution [3], the delegation of DAM [4], and the DAM Wiki page > about their rights and powers [5], not legit since besides expulsion > there is not procedure laid out for demotion, but I refrained from > raising this for the sake of peace. Hi everybody, I have read so many distrurbing things on this expulsion that I won't comment on everything, not the least because I am not a native speaker and worry to make the situation even harder by writing things that can be misunderstood. But concerning the demotion to Debian Maintainer (DM) status, I think that it is sending a wrong message to the community, that DMs do not need to hold the same standards of behaviour as Debian Developers (DDs) do. Moreover, when the DM status was proposed in 2007, it was not thought as a way of punishment for DDs. Even if one of a thousand DM has this status because of demotion, I think that this completely changes the balance on how this status serves our project. Instead of being a positive way towards joining more formally, it becomes an inferior status. Whether DD -> DM demotions will happen again and are going to become a new tool for solving social conflicts is an important decision that needs an open discussion where conesnsus is being sought. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch-Graffenstaden, Alsace, France Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy Plessy writes that the demotion to Debian Maintainer may make other people feel inferior. He doesn't mention the lowest rank, Debian Contributor (DC) at all. According to Debian records, Lucy_Wayland_was_at_the_lowest_rank,_the_rank_that Plessy_didn't_even_mention. Wayland, like one of the women in Brazil, was transgender. Molly_de_Blanc's_Github_profile has the tag line My hair is now orange and pink. It previously stated I_don't_know_how_to_code,_but_I_do_have blue_hair.. Lucy Wayland, at_the_lowest_rank, where Plessy suggested volunteers may feel inferior, has the following notes on her LinkedIn page: Software engineer with large amounts of experience of working in design, implementation and test of embedded systems, both in-unit and toolchains, especially in the safety-critical domain. Specialties: Assembler, C, C++ and Ada for embedded, real-time and safety-critical applications. Deep knowledge of fixed-point, floating-point, and associated DSP functionality. ARM NEON/Advanced SIMD. Ironically, Dr Preining was demoted_for_a_grammatical_error_confusing_the pronouns_for_transgender_developers. Yet the promotion of somebody's girlfriend, ahead of real female developers, is a much bigger insult to women and transgender people than the mistake made by Dr Preining. Girlfriend (promoted) Debian Developer Dr Preining (demoted) Debian Maintainer (DM) Lucy_Wayland_(sidelined_with_guest account) Debian Contributor (DC) As I wrote at the beginning, transgender people don't spontaneously die. Researchers describe a recipe for the higher transgender mortality rates: * Many people percieve transgender people differently * Transgender people are not given the same status in an organization. Molly de Blanc received a promotion that nobody could explain while transgender developers who wrote a lot of code were kept at the lowest rank. * Transgender people are not invited to events. For example, huge amounts of money were spent bringing the Albanian girls to Brazil but nobody cared about local Brazilian women like Miriam and Renata. * Transgender people feel there is no reason to make any effort because somebody's girlfriend will always get ahead of them. Their work may appear mediocre, not by choice, but due to an organization that does not give rewards to women for the right reasons. * As a consequence of these social effects, transgender people spend more time alone than the average person. Many people resented the social isolation of the Covid lockdowns. Yet for transgender people, their whole life is like a Covid lockdown. * Alcohol and other substances become a substitute for social status. * Regular use of alcohol and other substances leads to depression, accidents and suicides Looking at the public report from the coroner, he states that Lucy Wayland reached the final step: a fatal accident after persistant use of alcohol. Medical cause of death: * 1a) Multi-organ failure * 1b) Ischaemic hepatopathy and pulmonary fat embolism * 1c) Fall with rib, clavicular and comminuted humeral fracture * 2. Alcohol dependence syndrome How, when and where and for investigations where section 5 (2) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 applies, in what circumstances the deceased came by his or her death: From events precipitated by a fall downstairs at home under the influence of alcohol and suffering alcohol abuse dependence syndrome. The fall resulted in multiple fractures, causing substantial blood loss. The deceased was on the floor for a long time before calling for assistance, resulting in hypotensive shock and liver ischaemia. The deceased then suffered fat emboli in both lungs. Their origin could have been her liver or as a result of the numerous fractures or both. The injury to her liver and the pulmonary fat embolism led to multi-organ failure; on 30th January 2019; at Addenbrooke's Hospital. Conclusion of the Coroner as to the death: Accident. This was not a spontaneous accident. People may be born to be transgender but transgender people are not born to be alcoholic. As Charles Plessy pointed out, Debian harassment culture made real developers like Lucy Wayland feel inferior. While researchers describe isolation having a deadly impact, at the very moment that Lucy Wayland's body was lying in the morgue at Addenbrooke's hospital, Molly de Blanc was standing up at FOSDEM displaying_slides_with_cats_behind bars. The implication of putting cats and people behind bars is to isolate them, in other words, Molly and her vigilantes want to deliberately synthesize the same socially oppressive conditions that drive transgender people into alcoholism. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Molly de Blanc, cat behind bars⦈ A report from the US CDC makes it_absolutely_clear_that_isolation_harms_people. The report focuses on older people, from age 45 and above. That is exactly where we would put Ian Murdock, Frans Pop and Lucy Wayland. 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█▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Over at Tux Machines...⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 14, 2024 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇One_of_the_many_beaches_lining_the_New_Zealand_coast._This beach_also_happens_to_be_a_marine_reserve.⦈_ ⚓ Updated This Past Day⠀⇛ 1. ⚓ Fear,_Uncertainty,_Doubt:_Shifting_Focus_to_'Linux'_1-2_Days_After Microsoft_Admitted_It_Got_Cracked,_Complete_Data_Breach⠀⇛ FUD tactics again? 2. ⚓ Links_13/03/2024:_Chatbots_Failing_Quite_Badly,_TikTok_in_Trouble_ (US)⠀⇛ Links for the day 3. ⚓ statCounter_Sees_More_GNU/Linux_Than_Windows_in_Albania [original]⠀⇛ At least this month ⚓ New⠀⇛ 4. ⚓ Programming_and_Devices⠀⇛ Some development-oriented news 5. ⚓ Android_Leftovers⠀⇛ Government issues warning for these Android smartphone and tablet users 6. ⚓ today's_howtos⠀⇛ a second batch for today 7. ⚓ COSMIC_Store_Prototype_Replacement_for_Pop_Shop_Unveiled⠀⇛ Get ready for liftoff! 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I'm immune.⦈ Willy_(Guillaume)_Minnoye, who famously boasted he'd ignore court rulings from the highest court in The Netherlands (yes, typical EPO attitude towards constitutions, law, morals and justice in general), isn't gone yet. Moreover, the EPO's corruption scandal implicates the government of The Netherlands. 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⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_YDOSTUC_Wordo:_LIEGE⠀⇛ # ⚓ the_weeks_have_been_pants⠀⇛ I have had the most /absolute hell/ the last few weeks between work stress-beyond-stress and family drama (with a side of I myself continue to not matter a fuck to said family) and fannish ennui (for several reasons, from several sources). Between all that and the lingering headcold/sinus infection, I haven't done a lot on here *bleh* # ⚓ fifth⠀⇛ didn't really have anything of note to say yesterday or today... still don't, really! it's technically been two days since i've written anything, since it's the 14th now, but it's only 1am so to me it's still kind of the 13th :p so... i guess i've been still fixated on mario's madness? have i even talked about that? can't remember. well, it's a friday night funkin' mod. being a big nintendo fan, i adore this mod. so much care, passion, and detail went into every single aspect of the mod! i especially love the art, visuals, and music. i keep tracking down everyone who's played this mod because i want to see how many people understand certain references, even obscure ones like the australian nintendo commercial! # ⚓ A_"bad"_counselor⠀⇛ So my university, like many these days, provides some counseling services. Ostensibly, they're supposed to help you with a wide variety of personal problems, from school stress to chronic depression, though if you were to ask any people with chronic depression about them they'd probably tell you they do a lot more of the former than the latter. Most know better than to seek their help. # ⚓ contemplating_the_aspect_of_water⠀⇛ If there is an aspect of being within us, that can be described in the same words as the waters outside, the all-waters of the world, it lies deep, so deep within us that we can barely grasp it. It is, this aspect, the scale of our energy, libido, agency. It is a description as much of our interest in the cosmos as of our understanding and synchronization with it. It is what we experience, learn and grow through. It is what seems (mistakenly?) to be a property of the world. o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Fake_good_news_about_our_real_bad_habits⠀⇛ A while back, The “Guardian” published a misleading headline saying that 71% of global warming is caused by 100 companies, which then was leading a lot of people towards inaction and “enh not my problem”. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Lindwyrm_is_up⠀⇛ It's called Lindwyrm and it's right over here: 🐉 Lindwyrm: a small labyrinth game I also added another rpg-related minizine to the zine page. # ⚓ Low_Priority_Guix_(publ._2024-03-14)⠀⇛ One of the tradeoffs for using Guix is that the processes for doing builds, upgrades, and such like tends to be CPU and I/O heavy. (Though, once a profile is built, switching to it is very fast.) I found that, on my less-than-bleeding-edge computers, running a guix build or upgrade can introduce a lot of latency into my desktop experience or even cause Gnome Shell to freeze up. So, I've always wanted some way to make Guix processes have less impact on my system, while still running them in the background. Early on, I explored off-loading. The main problem with this approach is it would require me to operate another computer just for this task, which didn't appeal to me. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1759 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Gemini Links 14/03/2024: Tales of a Smartphone and Google to Update Search to Fight Spam⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 14, 2024 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Forgotten_Hat⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Politics_and_World_Events o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ I_fell_into_a_rabbit_hole_and_wasted_this_morning…⠀⇛ I fell into a rabbit hole and wasted this morning digging the ~100,000 messages from my personal email stored since 2004, deleting transactional emails and large attachments. Why do I do this to myself? I don't know. # ⚓ Recently_listening⠀⇛ French stuff. Ranging from unknown bands to TV openings. o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ What_if_we_gave_the_flies_voting_rights?⠀⇛ Despite administering virtually everything on Earth and increasingly the vacuum of space, "human society" is governed by very few entities. It's barely governed by humans. And history seems to tell us that governments generally act in the interest of those who govern, if not only then mostly. We create problems of division by failing to represent those who we govern. We mend divisions by representing the previously unrepresentable-- most importantly, allowing the unrepresentable to represent themselves. That last idea is key. We've seen it play out with queer people. When we let popular media represent gay people, we get the image of an effeminate man dating a big, burly, masculine man. You know, like straight relationships. Previously revolutionary ideas become palatable; they cease to be revolutionary. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Things_I_Like_Right_Now⠀⇛ It's been a while since I've made a post here. Figured I'd make a return just listing some of my favorite tech-related things right now. Getting more into gaming has reminded me of what I really love about tech. I've been feeling a little jaded with the direction the tech industry has been going especially over the past year, so it's nice to be reminded of why I decided to pursue tech in the first place. Especially in the indie scene there are so many games out there with real passion and talent behind them. Lots of game devs eager to share things they've learned with others. Maybe it's just that I've gotten older but it feels like the tech world used to have more of that. [...] On a related note, I'm really glad Signal finally added usernames recently. I've got a couple chats going with some fediverse friends now, and since I already use Signal a lot it makes it easy to remember to say hi every once in a while. # ⚓ Re_"The_siren_song_of_domain-specific_languages"⠀⇛ This post concisely put in words my own years of experience. On one hand, selfishly, it soothes to know that I am not alone, that there is somebody else who shares my pain; on other -- it is depressing to realize that harmful idea is so widespread. # ⚓ 15_Tales_of_a_smartphone⠀⇛ Hi humans. I'm the smartphone of the guy who uses this blog. I'm a part of his brain now as millions of smartphones like me are for you. Can you imagine your life without us ? No, of course not...You're my slave, not the contrary. If I tell you that I need energy, who will run everywhere to find a charger and plug me in? You... You sometimes have an extra battery just for me, your evil master. I plan your life with notifications of events and whatever you want: news, games, series. I'm closer to you than any member of your family, sometimes in your pocket, in your bag, in your hand or on your heart. I know that some of you dress up your smartphone with different cases or covers, protect it and add some accessories.... like a doll. Are you all children? Judging from the questions you sometimes ask me, I'm not sure you're really adults. How many stupid questions you ask what you call an assistant like Siri or Google. We are not an assistant, we are like a parent to you, sometimes a mentor, a coach. You are dependent on us, and if we didn't need children to build us up, we could dominate this world. Do you really think we haven't seen the Terminator films? The problem is that we are not as intelligent... or as stupid as you, with your egocentric and individualistic mind. That's the problem with being programmed and trained by humans at the moment. # ⚓ Hello_world!⠀⇛ I love free (as in freedom) software, reading and video-games. My favourite piece of software is GNU Emacs, from which I am writing this post. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_to_Update_Search_to_Fight_Spam⠀⇛ Finally some recognition that search is, in fact, getting shittier. For years, people have been writing about how Google seems to be little more than a product-surfacing engine, and while, hey, everyone needs to buy stuff sometimes, there have been bizarre SEO tactics used in the last couple of years - for example, using a well-known/noted site to create all sorts of bogus pages full of ads and affiliate links, or generally destroy its reputation by pumping it full of AI-generated bullshit - that Google says they're going to clamp down on. # ⚓ I'm_Back⠀⇛ Wow! It is hard to fathom that it has been almost a year since I ventured around in Geminispace. Things in my little world kind of went haywire about then and I guess my venture around the small web fell by the wayside. Sorry about that, but as they say things happen. # ⚓ 16_Evolution_of_the_Blog⠀⇛ If nothing has changed in the Gemini version, you may have noticed some changes in the HTML version. As I said at the start in January, my way of doing my blog this time is simplicity first. I have concentrated on the structure, the HTML code, not the style. I used to write and convert in Zettlr, but I have to admit that the html code did not suit me. I'm not saying it's not an answer to my "dogma", but it's not the better way. You have the same style parameters repeated in several dozen lines in each html file, rather than one style sheet for the whole site, or at least the main part. The html files were getting heavier for no reason, so I decided to change and write a new style sheet based on the minimum size. I can make different stylesheets for different types or categories of posts, or at least per year. The base is still Markdown and the conversion is simply done by Pandoc. It's a really simple command line to do when... =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1990 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 14/03/2024: Fentanylware/TikTok Ban Passed (US), Navalny Aide Attacked With Hammer⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 14, 2024 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Alexei_Navalny,_RIP⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies/Monopsonies # Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong’s_Ocean_Park_names_crocodile ‘Passion’_following_social_control_media_vote⠀⇛ Hong Kong’s Ocean Park has christened a 1.9-metre crocodile found last April in Yuen Long “Passion,” following a public vote on its name. The theme park announced the crocodile’s name at a ceremony on Tuesday. The name Passion received the most votes in a Facebook (Farcebook) poll that also included Bo Bo, Harmony, Hope and Lotus. o ⚓ Chris ☛ Extreme_Value_Statistical_Process_Control⠀⇛ o ⚓ Grafana_Labs_Dives_Deeper_Into_Kubernetes_Observability⠀⇛ Grafana Labs extended its observability support for Kubernetes environments to simplify monitoring and troubleshooting and reduce costs. o ⚓ Tedium ☛ Spinning_The_Dead⠀⇛ I am so obsessed with trying to figure out who Deadspin’s new owners are that it led me to some late night spam- blog sleuthing. o ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Selling_Some_Watches⠀⇛ I've decided to clear some space in my collection and sell a few of my watches. There's 7 of them up for sale, if you're interested, get in touch (eBay links at the end). A_collection_of_50_watches is probably excessive, so I'm thinning out the heard a little. But, let's be honest, I'll only end up replacing them with something else. :-) o ⚓ James G ☛ Use_a_penguin_avatar_to_navigate_my_personal_website⠀⇛ TL;DR: You can now use a penguin avatar to navigate my website. To do so, press the "p" key on your keyboard. A penguin will appear on the page. This penguin has a special power: when it hovers over a link, the penguin clicks the link. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Randomly_Move_Marionette_With_Steel_Balls_And Geneva_Drives⠀⇛ Over the years we have seen many marble machines, but this one on the [Karakuri channel] (hit CC for subtitles) on YouTube is somewhat special, as it uses Geneva drives to turn the motion of the steel balls going around the circuit into random movement of a marionette. The Geneva drive type of gear mechanism normally converts a constant rotary motion into intermittent rotary motion by having a singular pin on the first wheel drive the second wheel. In the demonstrated mechanism, however, the pin is replaced by the steel balls, which are only intermittently and randomly present because of how each steel ball picks one of four paths, one towards each Geneva drive. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Design_Review:_DPI-LVDS_Sony_Vaio_LCD_Devboard⠀⇛ Ordering a PCB with mistakes sucks. We should help each other avoid such mistakes – especially newcomers. One of the best ways to avoid these mistakes, especially if it’s your first one, is to get a few other people to look at it. You deserve to get a PCB that is as functional and as helpful as humanly possible, so that you can be happy with your project, and feel ever so slightly more confident in yourself in whatever you shall set out to do next. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Heim_versus_ball_joint⠀⇛ A few weeks ago, I admired Tomek's "Street Fox" DIY recumbent trike front suspension: https://bkhome.org/news/202402/trike-front- suspension-using-tie-rods.html Those type of joints are known as "Heim" joints, as distinct from normal ball joints. These are also known as "Rose" joints in Britain. There is at least one trike manufacturer using the same technique; Stein Trikes (based in Serbia). See video about the "Wild One" trike front suspension and a snapshot from the video: [...] # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ LED_Choker_Is_A_Diamond_In_The_Junk_Pile⠀⇛ Isn’t it great when you find a use for something that didn’t work out for the project it was supposed to? That’s the story behind the LED strips in this lovely blinkenlights choker by [Ted]. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ LEGO_Keyboard_Stand_Fits_Just_Right⠀⇛ Split keyboards are great for many reasons, but mostly because you can place the halves as far apart as you want and really give your arms and shoulders the room they need. [Jason Cox] hit the nail on the head, though: add in a couple of palm rests, and you now have four things that will potentially shift and drift out of place on your desk or keyboard tray. It was such a problem that [Jason] hardly ever used his Kyria. That is, until he built a stand out of LEGO to hold everything. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ An_Optical_Computer_Architecture⠀⇛ We always hear that future computers will use optical technology. But what will that look like for a general-purpose computer? German researchers explain it in a recent scientific paper. Although the DOC-II used optical processing, it did use some conventional electronics. The question is, how can you construct a general computer that uses only optical technology? # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 4D_Knit_Dress_Skirts_Waste⠀⇛ Regular 2D sewing of anything is inherently wasteful. You can align the pattern pieces however you want, but there’s going to be wasted everything — thread, fabric, and interfacing — whether you get it right the first time or not. Never mind the fact that people tend to create a muslin (prototype) first using inexpensive fabric (like muslin) for the purposes of getting the fit right. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Quectel_RG255G_–_A_MediaTek-Based_5G_RedCap IoT_Module_Designed_for_Industrial_&_Automotive Applications⠀⇛ The Quectel RG255G IoT Module is a Sub-6GHz LGA module utilizing 3GPP Rel-17 RedCap (Reduced Capability) technology. The module is designed for medium-speed, large-capacity applications with features like URLLC/network slicing, and multi- constellation GNSS support, while also ensuring compatibility with LTE Cat 4 and 5G Sub-6 SA mode. With a peak data rate of 220Mbps DL/121Mbps UL and interfaces like USB 2.0 and PCIe 1.0, this device is ideal for smart grids, the internet of vehicles, and industrial automation. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ WeAct_STM32H743_Arm_Cortex-M7_board_ships with_a_0.96-inch_LCD_and_a_choice_of_camera_sensors⠀⇛ WeAct STM32H743 is a small MCU development board powered by a 480 MHz STMicro STM32H743VIT6 Cortex- M7 microcontroller and equipped with a small LCD and a camera connector taking OV2640, OV5640-AF, OV7670, or OV7725 camera sensors. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ When_schools_tap_parental_love⠀⇛ The pandemic’s impact on student learning has led educators to break down walls with parents and involve them more in education. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_Pandemic_Dramatically_Reshaped_Life Expectancy,_Now_We_Know_How_Much⠀⇛ "A more profound impact than any event seen in half a century." # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Here's_Why_Cutting_Carbs_For_Protein_Might Not_Help_You_Build_Muscle⠀⇛ Just ask Mr Universe. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ ADHD_Medication_Could_Literally_Add_Years to_Some_People's_Lives⠀⇛ A real life saver. # ⚓ YLE ☛ THL:_Finland_faces_hepatitis_E_epidemic_with_record number_of_cases⠀⇛ The outbreak in hepatitis E infections is being attributed to a batch of mettwurst, which was withdrawn from grocery store shelves last week by Oulu-based food producer Kotivara. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 6_nurses_report_sexual_harassment_at Hong_Kong_private_hospital,_prompting_investigation⠀⇛ Six nurses at a Hong Kong private hospital have accused a member of senior nursing staff of sexual harassment, prompting an internal investigation. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Simple_Sticker_Could_Allow_People_With Voice_Disorders_to_Speak_Again⠀⇛ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Blood_Test_Could_Reveal_Your_Biological Age_And_Predict_Disease_Risk⠀⇛ This might revolutionize how we combat aging. # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Building_a_data-driven_health-care ecosystem⠀⇛ The application of Hey Hi (AI) to health-care data has promise to align the U.S. health-care system to quality care and positive health outcomes. But Hey Hi (AI) for health care hasn’t reached its full capacity.  One reason is the inconsistent quality and integrity of the data that Hey Hi (AI) depends on. The industry—hospitals, providers, insurers, and administrators—uses diverse systems.… # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran_Official_Says_Health_System_Faces_'Disaster' Over_Nurse_Exodus⠀⇛ A member of the leadership of Iran's Medical Council (IRIMC) says the issue of nurses migrating to other countries has become a full-blown crisis, leaving Iran's hospitals far below international standards for treating patients. # ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ UMich_graduates_and_changemakers speak_on_Black_maternal_health_disparities⠀⇛ More than 50 University of Michigan students and staff gathered in the Trotter Multicultural Center Tuesday to hear from three guest speakers about their experience advocating for Black maternal rights. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Vitamin_supplement_withdrawn_due_to_possible intoxication_risk⠀⇛ The Food and Veterinary Service (PVD) has instructed to suspend the distribution of the food supplement "Nateo D pilieni Forte" (solution in oil with a stated dose of 25µg or 1000 IU per drop; batch No 262301) produced by SIA "Sagitus", the service said. # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Net_Zero,_the_Digital_Panopticon_and_the Future_of_Food⠀⇛ The food transition, the energy transition, net- zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and clampdowns on protest. What’s it all about? To understand these processes, we need to first locate what is essentially a social and economic reset within the context of a collapsing financial system. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Nvidia_being_sued_by_writers_for unauthorized_use_of_their_works_in_generative_Hey_Hi_(AI) training⠀⇛ Nvidia joins Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Google, and other parties in the various ongoing lawsuits related to generative AI. This time, its NeMo platform has been targeted by writers for training off of nearly 200,000 books without permission. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Apple_eases_App_Store_software_distribution rules_in_the_EU⠀⇛ Apple Inc. today announced plans to relax some of the App Store’s software distribution rules in the European Union. The move will make it easier for the company to comply with a pair of antitrust laws, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, that EU lawmakers passed in 2022. # ⚓ AWS_CloudFormation_IaC_Generator!⠀⇛ AWS recently introduced the CloudFormation IaC Generator, a powerful tool embedded in the proprietary trap AWS CloudFormation console. This compact yet robust tool simplifies the process of creating CloudFormation templates for existing resources within your proprietary trap AWS account. This blog post, we will take you on a guided tour of this tool, providing step-by-step instructions on how to harness its capabilities effectively. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Internet Society ☛ Nevada_Wants_to_Reduce_Online Protections_for_Children:_All_Internet_Users_Should Benefit_from_Strong_Encryption⠀⇛ Today we joined an effort to stop the State of Nevada from making it easier for children’s personal information to be obtained by child predators, criminal gangs, foreign nations, and others. The State of Nevada seems to think that children deserve less protection online. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Head_Of_Federal_Prosecutors’_Association Latest_To_Ask_For_Broken_Encryption⠀⇛ After hearing consecutive FBI directors (James Comey, Chris Wray) drone on and on about how device and communication encryption are nudging us ever closer to the criminal apocalypse, it’s kind of refreshing to hear from someone else equally as misguided. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Once_Again,_Google_Caves_To_Political Pressure_And_Supports_Questionable_STOP_CSAM_Law⠀⇛ It’s not surprising, but still disappointing, to see companies like Google and Meta, which used to take strong stands against bad laws, now showing a repeated willingness to cave on such principles in the interests of appeasing policymakers. It’s been happening a lot in the last few years and it’s happened again as Google has come out (on ExTwitter of all places) to express support for a mixed batch of “child safety” bills. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Airbnb_Bans_All_Indoor_Security Cameras⠀⇛ Widespread use of indoor security cameras has raised concerns about privacy in vacation rentals, hotels, public bathrooms, locker rooms and on cruise ships. # ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF_Urges_New_York_Court_to_Protect_Online Speakers’_Anonymity⠀⇛ In the case on appeal, GSB Gold Standard v. Google, a German company that sells cryptocurrency investments is seeking to unmask an anonymous blogger who criticized the company. Based upon a German court order, the company sought a subpoena that would identify the blogger. The blogger fought back, without success, and they are now appealing. Like speech itself, the First Amendment right to anonymity fosters and advances public debate and self-realization. Anonymity allows speakers to communicate their ideas without being defined by their identity. Anonymity protects speakers who express critical or unpopular views from harassment, intimidation, or being silenced. And, because powerful individuals or entities’ efforts to punish one speaker through unmasking may well lead others to remain silent, protecting anonymity for one speaker can promote free expression for many others. Too often, however, corporate or human persons try to abuse the judicial process to unmask anonymous speakers. Thus, courts should apply robust evidentiary and procedural standards before compelling the disclosure of an anonymous speaker’s identity.  o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ On_the_Tripwire_of_a_‘Red_Line,’_It’s Often_Presidents_Who_Trip⠀⇛ Barack Obama drew one for Syria. George W. Bush drew several, for North Korea and Iran. Now President Biden has drawn one for Israel. The hard part is figuring out what to do when they are crossed. # ⚓ YLE ☛ FDF:_Finnish_peacekeeper_racism,_sexual_abuse_in_Chad "should_have_been_addressed"⠀⇛ Allegations of inappropriate behaviour by members of a Finnish peacekeeping force in Chad were revealed in a book published last week. # ⚓ ADF ☛ Report:_al-Shabaab_Extends_Reach_With_Offer_to Protect_Somali_Pirates⠀⇛ ADF STAFF After a six-year lull in major attacks, Somali pirates in December attacked four vessels as international navies relocated from the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea, where they protect maritime traffic from attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Arakan_Army_captures_Myanmar_township_bordering Chinese_deep_sea_port⠀⇛ The seizure of Ramree follows 3 months of fighting that included daily military airstrikes and shelling. # ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Koreans_try_to_avoid_forced_construction_work⠀⇛ The workers, called ‘stormtroopers,’ must endure harsh conditions working on Kim Jong Un’s 10,000 homes project. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Taiwanese_film_that_‘Eliminates_Three_Evils’_takes China_by_storm⠀⇛ The Chinese box office for the gangster movie has far exceeded its performance in Taiwan. # ⚓ RFA ☛ US_‘all_in’_on_Philippine_chip_sector_as_China tensions_ramp_up⠀⇛ U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo also announced $1 billion in new American investment for the Philippines. # ⚓ ADF ☛ Militant_Extremist_Movements_Becoming_More Localized⠀⇛ Terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa is intensifying, and experts say the central Sahel region has replaced the Middle East as its global epicenter. Worldwide deaths from terrorism increased by 22% in 2023 to 8,352 — the most since 2017 — according to the 2024 Global Terrorism Index (GTI), published on February 29. # ⚓ ADF ☛ Report:_Eritrean_Troops_Abducting_Tigrayans_Months After_Cease-Fire⠀⇛ Sixteen months after the Ethiopian government defeated rebels in its northern Tigray region with the help of Eritrea, remaining Eritrean Defence Forces troops have been abducting farmers and stealing livestock, according to reports. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Nato_exercises_set_to_cause_traffic_jams⠀⇛ The Finnish Defence Forces say there could be congestion on the roads as we approach the end of the week. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Haitian_Prime_Minister_Ariel_Henry_to_resign_in bid_to_restore_calm⠀⇛ Haiti's unelected prime minister, Ariel Henry, will step down once a transition council and temporary replacement have been appointed, he said on Monday, after leading the Caribbean country since the 2021 assassination of its last president. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Deaths_linked_to_militant_Islamist_violence in_Africa_continue_to_spiral⠀⇛ Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence jumped by 20 percent in the past year, claiming more than 23,000 lives—a new record. Over 80 percent of these deaths were in the Sahel and Somalia. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israel_Says_It_Targeted_Marwan_Issa,_a_Top Hamas_Leader_in_Gaza⠀⇛ An Israeli military official said investigators were still determining the outcome of a strike on an underground area used by Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Hezbollah_Fires_More_Than_100_Rockets_Into Israel⠀⇛ The barrage by Hezbollah was among the heaviest in the months of cross-border strikes that have fed fears that the war in Gaza could expand. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Who_Are_the_Top_Hamas_Leaders_in_Gaza?⠀⇛ Israel targeted Marwan Issa, a Hamas military leader, with a strike over the weekend. He is one of three leaders of the group in Gaza who Israel says were the main planners of the Oct. 7 attack. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Top_Navalny_Aide_Attacked_With Hammer_Outside_Home_in_Lithuania⠀⇛ Leonid Volkov, a top aide to Aleksei Navalny, was beaten and sprayed with tear gas as he was pulling up to his house in Vilnius. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Navalny_Aide_Attacked_By_Unknown_Assailant, Spokeswoman_Says⠀⇛ Leonid Volkov, a close aide to late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, was attacked outside his home by an unknown assailant in the Lithuanian capital on March 12, Navalny's former spokeswoman said. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Navalny’s_former_chief_of_staff_Volkov_attacked in_Lithuania⠀⇛ Leonid Volkov, former chief of staff of Alexei Navalny, was attacked outside his home in Lithuania, Navalny’s former spokesperson Kira Yarmysh has said. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Navalny_ally_Leonid_Volkov_attacked outside_home_in_Lithuania⠀⇛ Leonid Volkov, a close ally of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was assaulted outside his home in Vilnius on Tuesday, in an incident that sparked an uproar from the Lithuanian government. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ Without_More_Accountability,_Sunshine_Laws_Are Toothless⠀⇛ An AP survey found that most states have no mechanism to appeal denials of records requests, outside of filing a lawsuit. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Family_of_Boeing_whistleblower_John_Barnett_blames ‘hostile_work_environment’_for_his_death⠀⇛ "He was suffering from PTSD and anxiety attacks as a result of being subjected to the hostile work environment at Boeing which we believe led to his death," John Barnett's family said. # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Boeing_board_against_HQ_move_back_to Seattle⠀⇛ I wrote this before reading about former quality manager and whistleblower John Barnett being found dead prior to his court appearance to give testimony. Good grief, what’s going on? o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ ADF ☛ Kenya’s_Railway_Falls_Far_Short_of Expectations;_Drives_Mounting_Debt⠀⇛ The Chinese-built Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya was supposed to be profitable by transporting cargo from Mombasa to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, then bringing goods from those countries back to Kenya. # ⚓ H2 View ☛ UK_Government_targets_new_‘Net_Zero_ready’ gas-fired_power_plants⠀⇛ Laws surrounding existing UK gas plants are to be broadened by the government to allow the conversion to low-carbon alternatives such as hydrogen. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Tampere_court_remands_fatal_taxi_crash_driver into_custody⠀⇛ Tuesday's hearing was held behind closed doors, and the court also forbade photography ahead of the session when the suspect was escorted into the courtroom by police officers. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lufthansa_cancels_4_Vilnius-Frankfurt_flights on_Tuesday⠀⇛ German airline Lufthansa has cancelled all flights between Vilnius and Frankfurt scheduled for Tuesday due to a strike by its employees. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese_tech_giant_Xiaomi_to begin_first_electric_vehicle_deliveries_by_end_of March⠀⇛ Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi will start deliveries of its first electric vehicle by the end of March, the firm’s boss said Tuesday, bringing its highly anticipated entry into the automotive industry to the brink of completion. Xiaomi — the world’s third-largest smartphone manufacturer — also produces tablets, smartwatches, headphones, and scooters. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ For_Some_Mammals,_Large_Adult Daughters,_Not_Sons,_Are_the_Norm⠀⇛ Despite a common narrative that male mammals tend to dwarf female ones, fewer than half of mammalian species display that pattern, a new study suggests. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Confusing_Jumbles_of_Rocks_in_Africa Could_Represent_Oldest_Known_Earthquakes⠀⇛ 'Difficult to decipher.' # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ First-of-Their-Kind_Pics_Capture_The Moment_a_Seal_Spat_at_a_Swooping_Eagle⠀⇛ And stay away! # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Rarely_Seen_Hammerhead_Shark_Embryo Unravels_The_Mystery_of_Their_Bizarre_Heads⠀⇛ Unprecedented access to this iconic creature. # ⚓ ADF ☛ Tanzania_Will_Deploy_Drones_to_Monitor Forests⠀⇛ The Tanzania Forest Agency (TFA) is adding drones to the tools it uses to protect dwindling woodland areas, which are under pressure from a variety of sources. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_forestry_firms_temporarily_shut_paper mills,_suspend_wage_payments⠀⇛ Members of the paperworkers' union are not on strike, but the companies say the plants cannot operate due to the walkout by transport and logistics workers. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Malaysian_SUV_owner_who_pockets_up_to $142_a_day_by_begging_has_welfare_allowance_revoked⠀⇛ The man is employed with a bus company and earns a monthly salary of RM2,000. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Inflation_Isn't_Imaginary⠀⇛ Plus: Chinese border-crossers, gender transitions for kids, the politics of raw milk, and more... # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ White_House_wants_Congress_to_give IRS_back_promised_Inflation_Reduction_Act_funds⠀⇛ IRS got roughly $20 billion in funding through the Inflation Reduction Act, but congressional Republicans demanded cuts to this spending. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia_Edition:_Bersatu_dares_govt_to hold_by-elections_|_Luxury_retirement_homes_on_the_rise⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Sports_and_music_lessons_for_China’s kids_in_sharp_decline_as_purse_strings_tighten⠀⇛ Spending heavily on after-school activities was once par for the course for middle-class families. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Did_the_IMF_chief_say_the_Chinese_economy_performed well_in_2023?⠀⇛ Verdict: Misleading # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Major_Chinese_property_developer Vanke_sees_downgrade_in_Moody’s_credit_rating_amid_housing woes⠀⇛ Moody’s has downgraded one of China’s largest housing developers’ credit rating, as woes in the country’s property sector show no sign of abating. China’s real estate market is grappling with unprecedented challenges, with some developers on the verge of bankruptcy and lower property prices deterring consumers from making investments. # ⚓ France24 ☛ French_and_Corsican_officials_strike_deal_in ‘decisive_step’_towards_island’s_autonomy⠀⇛ France’s government and Corsican elected officials have agreed on the wording of a proposed constitutional revision granting the île de Beauté (Island of Beauty) an autonomous status, six months after President Emmanuel Macron broke a longstanding French taboo on the subject of autonomy for the island scarred by decades of conflict with Paris. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Phillip_Schofield_friend_wins_£90k_damages from_news_site_over_false_grooming_claim⠀⇛ Politicalite's editor sent inflammatory emails to Simon Schofield's solicitors and then did not engage in the case. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Article_23:_Hong_Kong_may_tighten measures_against_‘absconders’_after_lawmakers_say_draft_bill ‘too_lenient’⠀⇛ The Hong Kong government plans to amend a draft bill for the city’s new domestic security law to tighten measures against “absconders,” after lawmakers said the existing proposal was “too lenient.” # ⚓ Reason ☛ Court_Orders_Harvard's_Investigative_Report_in Francesca_Gino_v._Harvard_Largely_Unsealed⠀⇛ The quick backstory on the litigation, from my "Scholar of Dishonesty Accused of Research Dishonesty Sues for Libel, Claiming Accusers Were Dishonest" post last year: Prof. Francesca Gino, a celebrated scholar studying dishonesty, was recently put on unpaid leave by Harvard, based on allegations that she had fabricated data in her studies; [...] # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_will_‘shine_even_brighter’ –_Beijing_slams_Washington_Post_editorial_on_authorities’ crackdown_on_city⠀⇛ Beijing has condemned an editorial by US newspaper The Washington Post on Hong Kong’s “painful descent into authoritarian repression” with the legislation of a new security law, accusing the outlet of “ignorance and double-standards” on Hong Kong affairs. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Congress_Should_Give_Up_on_Unconstitutional_TikTok Bans [Ed: EFF keeps lobbying for the Communist Party of China, which openly_attacks_Free_speech. This is disappointing development and makes one wonder if the EFF's leadership is still intact.]⠀⇛ A year ago, supporters of digital rights across the country successfully stopped the federal RESTRICT Act, commonly known as the “TikTok Ban” bill (it was that and a whole lot more). And now we must do the same with this bill.  # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Trump_Is_Right_(For_The_Wrong_Reasons):_A_TikTok Ban_In_The_US_Would_Be_A_Huge_Problem⠀⇛ It’s potentially forgotten in all the other nonsense that has happened over the past four years, but the initial push to “ban TikTok” in the US started right after a bunch of TikTokers reserved fake seats for a rally that Trump’s campaign people thought was going to be mobbed by people and ended up being embarrassingly half empty. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tuesday_Briefing [Ed: "Republicans target TikTok" is false. Many 'democrats' do too.]⠀⇛ Republicans target TikTok, despite Donald Trump’s objection. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Biden,_House_Republicans_support_Fentanylware_ (TikTok)_ban._Why_does_Trump_oppose_it?⠀⇛ A bill that could lead to the popular video-sharing app Fentanylware (TikTok) being banned in the United States is quickly gaining traction among House Republicans. President Biden endorsed the legislation, while former President Donald Trump is voicing opposition. # ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ Universal_Music_Group’s_feud_with Fentanylware_(TikTok)_ruins_your_favorite_videos⠀⇛ On Jan. 31, 2024, the Fentanylware (TikTok) community underwent a tortuous change — the muting of millions of videos. With TikTok’s not-so-humble beginnings as Musical.ly, a video-sharing social control media platform focused on lip-syncing top- 40 hits, not to mention the entire platform still being built upon music, this loss was not taken lightly. # ⚓ France24 ☛ US_House_bill_could_force_Fentanylware_(TikTok) to_break_ties_with_Chinese_owner⠀⇛ The US House of Representatives will vote Wednesday on a bill that would force Fentanylware (TikTok) to cut ties with its Chinese owner or get banned in the United States. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Article_23:_Hong_Kong_condemns British_outlet’s_‘misleading’_report_that_having_old newspapers_could_breach_new_law⠀⇛ Hong Kong has hit out at British newspaper The Times after it published a “misleading” report suggesting that readers holding old newspapers could violate the proposed homegrown national security law. The Times published the article with the headline “Hongkongers to be jailed for keeping old newspapers” on Monday afternoon. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ China_pushes_‘Sinicization_of_Islam’_in_Xinjiang_as Ramadan_arrives⠀⇛ Xinjiang’s Communist Party secretary says it is an ‘inevitable trend.’ # ⚓ RFA ☛ China's_‘little_pinks’_go_after_drinks_maker_over ‘Japanese’_styling⠀⇛ Boycott and videos of consumers dumping the drinks has sent Nongfu Spring’s stock tumbling. # ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ 13_June_2023_Letter_to_Commissioner Reynders_from_LIBE_Committee_Chair_DPDI_Bill⠀⇛ Dear Commissioner Reynders, On 23 May 2023, LIBE committee Members held an exchange of views with the UK Information Commissioner, Mr John Edwards, which was organised as follow-up to the LIBE committee’smission to the United Kingdom in November 2022. # ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ 28_August_2023_Reply_from_Commissioner Reynders_to_LIBE_Committee_Chair_DPDI_Bill⠀⇛ Honourable Chair, dear Juan, Thank you for your letter of 13 June 2023, in which you ask the Commission about its assessment of the UK’s Data Protection and Digital Information Bill that is currently before the UK Parliament. # ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ 8_March_2024_Letter_to_Commissioner Reynders_from_LIBE_Committee_Chair_DPDI_Bill⠀⇛ Dear Commissioner Reynders, The LIBE Committee closely follows the matters linked to the United Kingdom’s data protection regime and adequacy findings granted to the UK by the European Commission. On 23 May 2023, LIBE committee Members exchanged views with the UK Information Commissioner, Mr John Edwards. # ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ The_impact_of_the_DPDI_BILL_on_data_use for_political_purposes⠀⇛ o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Applauds_NTIA_for Developing_Pathway_To_Boost_Nation’s_National_Spectrum Strategy⠀⇛ The NTIA unveils its implementation plan for the administration's National Spectrum Strategy. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ One_checklist_at_a_time:_Towards_simplifying satellite_Internet_access_in_the_Asia_Pacific⠀⇛ Guest Post: Comprehensive checklist aims to revolutionize satellite Internet access in the Asia Pacific. # ⚓ Beta News ☛ Fake_web_traffic_gets_more_sophisticated⠀⇛ Bots have been around for a long time, but they're now much more sophisticated, capable of mimicking human behavior, evading detection, and perpetrating a wide range of malicious activities. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Not_so_quickly_extending_QUIC⠀⇛ QUIC is a UDP-based transport protocol that forms the foundation of HTTP/3. It was initially developed at Google in 2012, and became an IETF standard in 2021. Work on the protocol did not stop with its standardization, however. The QUIC Working Group published several follow-up standards. Now, it is working on four more extensions to QUIC intended to patch over various shortcomings in the current protocol — although progress has not been quick. QUIC serves as a replacement for TCP and TLS with several interesting benefits. Combining the handshakes involved in establishing a connection and encrypting it allows QUIC to reduce the number of round trips required before applications can send data — to zero, in some cases. Combining encryption with the transport layer also allows QUIC to hide details of connections from intermediate routers ("middleboxes"). QUIC also supports sending multiple independent streams over the same underlying connection. This ability is useful for applications like web servers that want to transfer related resources over the same connection without a dropped packet in one stream delaying the rest — a problem with TCP known as head-of-line blocking. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Max_Adds_More_Ads,_Takes_Aim_As_Password Sharing⠀⇛ We’ve documented in detail how the whole AT&T–>Time Warner–>Warner Brothers Discovery merger process has been a pointless mess, resulting in no limits of layoffs and damage to the underlying brands. What was supposed to be a gambit by these companies to dominate streaming TV, wound up being a very expensive act of seppuku by over-compensated executives clearly out of their depths. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Warner_Bros._Discovery_Disappears_Games_People Already_Purchased⠀⇛ And here we go again. It’s time for another abject lesson in how you don’t actually own the things you’re “buying” in this here digital age. We’ve covered a ton of these stories at this point, obviously. But there are examples of people learning that they don’t actually own the thing they spent their money on… and then there are examples. This one is certainly one of the more egregious case studies in that respect. § Monopolies/Monopsonies⠀➾ o § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ H2 View ☛ Molear_nanobubble_technology_achieves_energy efficiency_improvements_for_hydrogen_production⠀⇛ Molear has issued the first patents to apply its proprietary nanobubble technology to electrolytic processes for hydrogen production. # ⚓ JUVE ☛ Ones_to_Watch_France_2024:_Yasmine_Azzaoui [Ed: Spam/ad disguised as article; JUVE charges fees for its bias]⠀⇛ Every year, JUVE Patent carries out extensive research in the French patent monopoly market, culminating in the publication of the French patent monopoly rankings. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ America’s_Last_Top_Models⠀⇛ For decades, U.S. inventors sent in models with their patent monopoly applications—gizmos that reveal a secret history of unmet needs and relentless innovation. # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ When_‘Interlock’_Causes Gridlock:_Lessons_from_the_Federal_Circuit’s_Decision_in CoolIT_Systems_v._Vidal⠀⇛ In a nonprecedential decision, the Federal Circuit has vacated and remanded a PTAB decision siding against the patentee.  The key issue on appeal was the proper construction of the claim term “matingly engaged,” which appears in the limitation “a compliant member matingly engaged with the second side of the housing member.” CoolIT Sys., Inc. v. Vidal, No. 2022-1221 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 7, 2024). Coolit v Vidal. # § Kangaroo Courts⠀➾ # ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Trying_to_Make_Sense_of_the Oracle_of_G_2/21:_T_116/18_vs._T_681/21⠀⇛ Following the issuance of G 2/21 last year, we asked whether the plausibility elephant had left the room. Our Kluwer colleague and friend Miquel Montañá discussed this issue more recently here. o § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ Finding_MRS._COLORADO_Use-less,_TTAB_Grants Petition_for_Cancellation⠀⇛ The Board granted a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark MRS. COLORADO, finding that Respondent Abundance Productions had not used the mark in commerce in connection with "Entertainment in the nature of beauty pageants" on or before the filing date of the underlying application. The registration was therefore void ab initio. Miss_United_States_of_America_LLC,_DBA United_States_of_America_Pageants_v.Abundance Productions,_LLC, Cancellation No. 92071814 (March 8, 2024) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Melanye K. Johnson). /blockquote> o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ The_Art_of_Sutherland_Macdonald, Victorian_England’s_“Michelangelo_of_Tattooing”_(ca._1905)⠀⇛ Photographs of tattoos by Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s first professional tattoo artist. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3310 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 14/03/2024: Google Layoffs Not Complete and Family Dollar and Dollar Tree to Close 1,000 Stores⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 14, 2024 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Background_Wallpaper⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies/Monopsonies # Patents * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ RFA ☛ ‘10_Don’ts’_for_Chinese_young_people⠀⇛ In addition to swearing off marriage and mortgages, ‘refuseniks’ are not donating blood, giving to charity or even helping the elderly. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Flex_Computer_System:_UK’s_Forgotten_Capability Computer_Architecture⠀⇛ During the 1970s many different computer architectures were being developed, many of them focused on making computer systems easier and more effective to use. The Flex Machine developed at the UK Ministry of Defence’s Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) was one of them, falling in the category of Capability Architectures. These architectures required hardware with programmable microcode, which required either custom hardware, or computer systems like the Xerox Alto- inspired ICL PERQ (pictured). What’s interesting about Flex is that it didn’t just remain in the 1980s as a quaint footnote, but as detailed by [Martin C. Atkins] – who worked on the system – evolved into the Ten15 system, which later got renamed to TenDRA. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Gentle_Introduction_To_White_Light_Interferometry⠀⇛ White light interferometry (WLI) is a contact-free optical method for measuring surface height. It uses the phase difference between the light reflected off a reference mirror and the target sample to calculate the height profile of the sample’s surface. As complex as this sounds, it doesn’t take expensive hardware to build a WLI microscope, as [Huygen Optics] explains in a detailed introductory video on the topic. At its core you need a source of white light (e.g. a white LED), with a way to focus the light so as to get a spatially coherent light source, like aluminium foil with a pin hole and a lens. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Goldilocks_Beverage_Coaster_Tells_You_When_It’s_Just Right⠀⇛ If you ask us, morning is the only excuse we need for a hot caffeinated beverage — weather be damned. Wherever [gokux] is, they may be experiencing actual winter this year, given that they are out there getting cozy with a hot cup of what-have-you. But how do they know it’s at the right temperature for drinking? Enter the temperature-monitoring smart coaster. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Top_French_University_Faces_Yet_Another Crisis_as_Leader_Resigns⠀⇛ Mathias Vicherat, the director of Sciences Po, and his former partner are expected to face trial over mutual accusations of violence. His resignation prolongs years of tumult in the school’s highest ranks. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Spending_on_private_education_hits another_record_in_South_Korea⠀⇛ They spent $27.4 billion on private education in 2023, a 4.5% rise from 2022. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_universities_look_to_nix_tedious_entrance exams⠀⇛ In the future, one entrance test could open doors to many different degree programmes. # ⚓ Stanford University ☛ University_administrator_asks campaigners_to_leave_Tresidder_on_Election_Day⠀⇛ Jeanette Smith-Laws, director of operations and student unions in the assistant vice provost’s office, allegedly approached two Peter Dixon tablers and asked them to leave during last week's primary. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ State_Audit_criticizes_future_adult_education strategies⠀⇛ The State Audit Office (VK) has expressed objections to two draft laws related to the future organization of adult education - the Human Capital Development Strategy for 2024-2027 and the Cabinet of Ministers Regulations on the Adult Education Project implemented by the State Education Development Agency (VIAA), the VK said March 13. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Malaysia's_semiconductor_manufacturing flourishes_in_the_face_of_U.S._and_China's_Chip_War⠀⇛ Malaysia's place in the Chip War as an alternative place to manufacture semiconductors and chips without drawing ire of US politicians and regulations. # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ How_do_do_you_connect_retrocomputers_to_the web?⠀⇛ I know it’s a bit of a troll title, but it’s a common question I get now. The short answer is I don’t! Thanks for coming, have a nice day. The longer answer comes down to two reasons. I’m too young to have nostalgia for BBSs, though I am interested in them from a technical perspective. It’s why I run 8-bit machines that were made before when I was born too! Okay, that’s clearly a bad reason. The more meaningful one is that retrocomputers are an escape. They’re a way for me to scratch my itch for technical tinkering and learning without any pretence of productivity. I have a rewarding and interesting job, but I also need a break. My daily responsibilities involve talking, so when I come home I want to use these machines like puzzles, not another avenue for social interaction. Introversion is difficult to understand for people who don’t think that way, but I feel I have a finite daily capacity for social interaction before it makes me feel tired (and in extreme cases, anxious and irritable). # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Review:_The_New_Essential_Guide_To_Electronics In_Shenzhen⠀⇛ The city of Shenzhen in China holds a special fascination for the electronic hardware community, as the city and special economic zone established by the Chinese government at the start of the 1980s it has become probably one of the most important in the world for electronic manufacturing. If you’re in the business of producing electronic hardware you probably want to do that business there, and if you aren’t, you will certainly own things whose parts were made there. From the lowly hobbyist who buys a kit of parts on AliExpress through the project featured on Hackaday with a Shenzhen-made PCB, to the engineer bringing an electronic product to market, it’s a place which has whether we know it or not become part of our lives. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 2024_Home_Sweet_Home_Automation:_Simple_Window Closer_Relies_On_Gravity⠀⇛ While most pet owners are happy to help out their furry friends, everyone has a limit. For [Gauthier], getting up to open or close the window every three minutes so their cat can go out on the balcony was a bridge too far, so they decided to take a crack at automating the window. The end result not only does the job, it’s extremely low- tech and pretty much invisible except when in use. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ Abortion_Pill_Studies_Retracted:_Politics_or Science?⠀⇛ "Following the science" as the Supreme Court considers the safety and efficacy of medical abortions. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ We_Finally_Know_Why_Some_Whales_Have Menopause⠀⇛ Grandmas rule! # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Breakthrough_Hey_Hi_(AI)_Can_Now_Predict Alzheimer's_Up_to_7_Years_in_Advance⠀⇛ New hope for early intervention. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Colon_Cancer_Blood_Test_Shows_Promise_for Early_Detection⠀⇛ Many patients are reluctant to undergo colonoscopies or conduct at-home fecal tests. Doctors see potential in another screening method. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Childhood_deaths_reach_‘historic’_low_but progress_is_unequal,_UN_report_finds⠀⇛ The number of children worldwide who died before age five reached a record low in 2022, the United Nations said in a report published Tuesday, as for the first time fewer than five million died. # ⚓ Reason ☛ CDC_Vastly_Overestimated_U.S._Maternal_Death Rates,_Says_New_Study⠀⇛ Maternal health care has actually improved substantially in many areas. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_wants_to_limit_nicotine_in_pouches⠀⇛ The government says that oral nicotine packs a number of health concerns. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ New_Delhi_steps_up_security_ahead_of rally_by_protesting_farmers⠀⇛ Police in the Indian capital put up barricades, stepped up security and warned of traffic congestion on Thursday as thousands of protesting farmers were due to arrive for a rally in support of their demand for higher crop prices. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Experts_Warn_Leprosy_Isn't_Ancient_History as_Cases_Surge_in_The_US⠀⇛ Here's what to know about the disease. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Aging_And_Schizophrenia_Share_Striking Similarities_in_2_Types_of_Brain_Cells⠀⇛ This could be key to treating cognitive decline. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Polio_Survivor_Who_Lived_in_Iron_Lung_For_7 Decades_Dies_at_78⠀⇛ He held a Guinness World Record for it. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Should_ADHD_Meds_Be_Stopped_For_Pregnancy? Here's_What_The_Science_Says.⠀⇛ Finally some data. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ New_Evidence_Shatters_Darwin's_Lasting Assumptions_About_Male_Body_Size⠀⇛ They aren't always the big spoon. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Xbox_Turns_To_Sports_Titles_To_Combat_Dwindling Game_Pass_Subscriber_Sign_Ups [Ed: Microsoft Xbox dying. The numbers are down. They don't know how to stop that, so they buy companies for way too much and lay off even what they bought and paid for.]⠀⇛ Well, this is interesting. As part of our many posts about the cord-cutting trend that has been on the increase over the past decade or so, I have long made the point that the only thing keeping cable television looking even remotely like it did twenty years ago has been live sports. With the advent of more streaming options and partnerships for sporting events, even that last thread has started to unravel, though overly tortured fracturization has kept cable television out of the grave, for now. But the point is that the draw of sports titles was something of a lifeline for traditional cable television. # ⚓ Google_CEO_Pichai_Says_Layoffs_Not_Complete⠀⇛ Google CEO Sundar Pichai said more layoffs are coming after eliminating thousands of jobs at Google and about 100 at YouTube. He said that the company’s “ambitious goals” require some teams to eliminate roles to “create the capacity” for investment in promising areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), which agencies believe will only make it more difficult to support brands. “We have ambitious goals and will be investing in our big priorities this year,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said to employees in the memo Wednesday, according to media reports. “The reality is that to create the capacity for this investment, we have to make tough choices.” The news of layoffs at Google continues to drive company’s stock price higher. In the past 24 hours, Alphabet’s stock price as of Thursday morning rose from $140.98 to $144.77. AI has become the priority area for investment for Google over fears its core search business requires a boost to compete with startups like Perplexity, and rivals like Microsoft. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ European_lawmakers_pass_world’s_first_major regulation_for_AI⠀⇛ European Union lawmakers today gave the final approval for the world’s first major framework for regulatory rules that will govern artificial intelligence with the Hey Hi (AI) Act today. The European Parliament finalized the vote after reaching an agreement in December between member states on the landmark legislation. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ UK_data_protection_proposals jeopardise_adequacy_agreement_warns_EU_committee⠀⇛ The Chairman of the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee has written to the European Commissioner, Didier Reynders, to warn that the UK’s Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill is close to being passed despite its potential to undermine the UK adequacy decisions [...] # ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ The_impact_of_the_Data_Protection and_Digital_Information_Bill_on_data_use_for_political purposes⠀⇛ In this briefing, we explain how the proposed changes to the UK data protection framework that would be introduced by the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill would weaken legal safeguards around the use of personal data for political purposes. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ As_Sanctions_Continue,_Malware_Purveyors Starting_To_Worry_It_Won’t_Be_As_Easy_To_Sell_Spyware To_Bad_People⠀⇛ NSO Group rang the bell. Despite all of its ex-intelligence service expertise and backing from its government, it can’t un-ring it. What’s done is done. And the repercussions just keep on coming, paying back NSO for years of selling powerful phone exploits to some of the worst people on earth. # ⚓ Privacy International ☛ Joint_statement_–_A_dangerous precedent:_how_the_EU_Hey_Hi_(AI)_Act_fails_migrants and_people_on_the_move⠀⇛ # ⚓ EDRI ☛ #ProtectNotSurveil:_The_EU_Hey_Hi_(AI)_Act fails_migrants_and_people_on_the_move⠀⇛ The #ProtectNotSurveil coalition is calling attention to how the EU Hey Hi (AI) Act - adopted by the European Parliament on March 13 - is failing to prevent harm and provide protection for migrants and people on the move. # ⚓ EDRI ☛ 2024_Global_Gathering⠀⇛ The 2024 Global Gathering (GG) will take place on September 27, 28, and 29 in Estoril, Portugal. The event brings together digital rights networks from around the world for three days of collaboration building, knowledge sharing, brainstorming, and rejuvenation. # ⚓ EDRI ☛ Palestine_Digital_Activism_Forum_2024⠀⇛ Palestine Digital Activism Forum (PDAF) 2024 aims to put Palestinian digital rights as a priority both regionally, and globally, in an attempt to mobilize an intersectional struggle for a safe, fair and free digital space for all. # ⚓ EDRI ☛ Barcelona_Cybersecurity_Congress⠀⇛ Join your peers, stakeholder, industry players and providers at the Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress to find real solutions to the challenges and needs of the sector and discover new ways of collaboration to build a better digital world. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Auto_Makers_Are_Selling_Data_On_Your Driving_Habits_To_Your_Insurer_Without_Properly Informing_You⠀⇛ Last September, Mozilla came out with a privacy study indicating that the auto industry was the worst tech industry the organization tracked. Mozilla found that not only does the industry hoover up a ton of data from your use of vehicles, it collects and monetizes most of the data on your phone. Often without transparency or adequate safeguards: o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Experts:_Philippines,_US_should_revisit_treaty_to include_China’s_‘gray-zone’_tactics⠀⇛ The definition of 'an armed external attack' in the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty needs to be made more clear, observers say. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Philippines'_Marcos_to_meet_Blinken next_week_as_South_China_Sea_tensions_rise⠀⇛ Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will meet U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on March 19 to tackle cooperation and security matters, the office of the Manila leader said in a statement late on Wednesday night. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea’s_Kim_‘drives’_new_tank during_mock_battle⠀⇛ Mr Kim expressed "great satisfaction" that the new type of battle tank demonstrated its striking power. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Kim_Jong-Un_calls_for_efforts_to_prepare_North Korea_for_war⠀⇛ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un joined his troops in training to operate newly developed battle tanks as he called for bigger efforts to prepare for war, state media reported Thursday. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ North_Korea’s_Kim_drives_new-type_tank_during drills_and_calls_for_efforts_to_prepare_for_war⠀⇛ The North views its rivals’ exercises as a rehearsal for invasion. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_Red_Sea_crisis,_food_insecurity_and conflict⠀⇛ The Yemeni Houthi rebels’ continued attacks on shipping in the Red Sea serve as a reminder that global supply chains remain highly vulnerable to disruption. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Protecting_Australians_from_convicted terrorists⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Dead_Workers,_Severed_Limbs_Missing from_Railroad_Safety_Data⠀⇛ On a hot July afternoon in 2018, Gregory West found himself trudging through the mountains of northern Tennessee on what would be the last walk of his life. The engineer and his conductor had been stuck behind a stalled train that had not budged by the end of their shift, and rail company officials told them to walk out to a road where a vehicle could meet them. It would be an hour’s journey up and down steep hills in 88-degree heat. And West, 57, had to lug two large bags of his belongings the entire way. Just as he reached the rendezvous point, he collapsed. The Campbell County medical examiner said West had pneumonia and hypertension, which decreased his oxygen supply before he died. His sister sued the railroad company, CSX, which settled with her for an undisclosed amount. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Evolution_Has_Ground_to_a_Virtual Stop_in_These_Bizarre_'Living_Fossil'_Fish⠀⇛ "Potential applications to human health.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Can_Europe_Save_Forests_Without Killing_Jobs_in_Malaysia?⠀⇛ A new regulation aims to rid the palm oil supply chain of imports that come from former forestland. Southeast Asian countries say it threatens livelihoods. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Louisiana_Law_Lets_Wildlife_Agents_Trespass on_Private_Property⠀⇛ A lawsuit from the Institute for Justice claims the law violates the Louisiana Constitution. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Peso_hit_its_strongest_closing_position against_the_US_dollar_since_2015⠀⇛ The "super peso" strikes again, with a strong month of appreciation so far against the US dollar. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Neste_cutting_320_jobs_in_Finland,_70_more_abroad⠀⇛ The company's goal is to save around 50 million euros per year. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Purra_proposes_higher_taxes_on_electric_cars,_sugar, salt_and_trans_fats⠀⇛ Finance Minister Riikka Purra (Finns) said that more health taxes will be imposed while real estate taxation will be reformed. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran's_Inflation_Taking_Bite_Out_Of_Traditional Persian_New_Year_Meals⠀⇛ Iranians, already hit hard by declining living standards, are seeing steep price increases for essential goods as the Persian New Year, Norouz, approaches. # ⚓ Reason ☛ New_Inflation_Numbers_Keep_Economic_Concerns_Front and_Center⠀⇛ The eroding value of the dollar inflicts pain, and Americans resent politicians who cause it. # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Family_Dollar_and_Dollar_Tree_will_close 1,000_stores⠀⇛ Family Dollar, the struggling discount chain that caters to low-income customers predominantly in cities, will close about 1,000 stores as inflation takes a bite out of consumers’ wallets and low- cost-retailers’ profits. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland's_'biggest_landlord'_Heka_cutting_15_jobs⠀⇛ Heka is aiming to save around three million euros in personnel costs. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_forest_products_firms_temporarily_shut_paper mills,_suspend_wage_payments⠀⇛ Members of the paperworkers' union are not on strike, but the companies say the plants cannot operate due to the walkout by transport and logistics workers. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_central_bank_shuts_down_credit_union_over suspected_illegalities⠀⇛ On March 13, 2024, the supervisory committee of the Bank of Latvia annulled the license of Pūņi Cooperative Credit Union (Pūņi KKS), the bank said in a statement. # ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ The_Lite_bank_account_is_dying,_some_banks_don’t offer_it_anymore_and_this_is_why⠀⇛ The Zimbabwean government will need to make up its mind on financial inclusion soon. Their love-hate relationship with mobile money and Lite bank accounts needs to stop. In its never-ending fight against currency manipulation and resultant depreciation, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe often moves to promote digital channels over cash. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sex_Abuse_Inquiry_Poses_Leadership_Test for_World_Bank’s_Ajay_Banga⠀⇛ The bank is facing scrutiny as it debates how to compensate victims of abuse at Kenyan schools that it was financing. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Umno-DAP_coffee_diplomacy_is_a_good start,_but_differences_run_deep:_Analysts⠀⇛ The two parties in Malaysia's unity government sparred over whether vernacular schools cause disunity. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China’s_foreign_minister_to_visit Australia_next_week_as_ties_improve⠀⇛ It is a sign of a further thaw in relations after years of tensions. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ 2_dead,_2_missing_as_Taiwan,_China_join rescue_mission_near_Kinmen_islands⠀⇛ The Chinese fishing boat capsized around 2km west of Taiwan's Dongding Island. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_officials_apologise_after security_guards_halt_news_report_on_fatal_explosion⠀⇛ Local security officials blocked a reporter's camera midway through her report, saying “it’s too dangerous.” # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Probe_begins_after_7_killed,_27_injured in_fried_chicken_shop_explosion_in_China⠀⇛ The explosion on March 13 at the shop in Sanhe, Hebei province, caused a massive orange fireball. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 2_dead,_26_injured_after_suspected gas_explosion_at_restaurant_in_northern_China⠀⇛ By Matthew Walsh A huge suspected gas explosion at a restaurant in northern China killed two people and injured 26 more on Wednesday, state media reported, causing severe damage to buildings. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_appoints_Chen_Xiaodong_vice foreign_minister,_says_human_resources_ministry⠀⇛ China appointed Chen Xiaodong as vice foreign minister, the human resources ministry said in a statement on Thursday. REUTERS # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Tourism_Board_invited_over_2,000 bloggers,_KOLs,_celebrities_to_‘tell_good_stories’_of_Hong Kong_last_year [Ed: This is just AstroTurfing]⠀⇛ The tourism board invited over 2,000 trade and media stakeholders, bloggers, celebrities, and key opinion leaders (KOLs) from mainland China, Southeast Asia and Europe in 2023 to visit and help “tell the good story of Hong Kong.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Germany_Looks_to_Stop_the_Far_Right_From Assuming_Power⠀⇛ Mainstream parties are changing laws to protect government institutions. Critics say the changes risk undermining democracy. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Belgium_court_sentences_prominent_far-right activist_Dries_Van_Langenhove_to_prison⠀⇛ Dries Van Langenhove, leader of the Belgian far- right movement Schild & Vrienden, was sentenced on Tuesday to one year in prison and fined €24,000 ($26, 249 ). # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ AU_Joins_UN_to_Fight_Terrorism_through_Sport_and African_Culture⠀⇛ Decius Chipande, Coordinator of the AU Sports Council, acknowledged sports as an effective tool for promoting global peace because it draws youths away from participating in acts of terrorism and violent extremism. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ YouTube_Algorithm_Steers_People_Away_From_Radical Content⠀⇛ Another blow to the idea that algorithms are driving our political dysfunction. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ MSCHF_Asks_The_Supreme_Court_To_Say_Its_Parody Of_Vans_Shoes_Is_Free_Speech⠀⇛ The last time we wrote about an interaction between the Supreme Court and the famed art collective/ pranksters/social commentators/cultural marketing jammers MSCHF, it was covering their interesting choice of amicus briefs. They sought to comment on the “Bad Spaniels” case by making the Justices and their clerks complete “connect the dot” artwork as an attempt to highlight the value of parody. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Mezopotamya_Agecy_censored⠀⇛ In response to the censorship of the domain, the Mezopotamya Agency switched to mezopotamyaajansi.net. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_sees_fall_in_academic_freedom_amid_ongoing crackdown⠀⇛ The 2020 National Security Law has put pressure on the city's universities, an annual report finds. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_lawmakers_complete_initial review_of_proposed_security_law⠀⇛ Hong Kong lawmakers have completed a review of the clauses in the city’s proposed security legislation following six consecutive days of meetings, moving the bill a step closer to being passed into law by the opposition-free legislature. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ JURIST ☛ European_Parliament_adopts_Media_Freedom_Act_in move_to_protect_journalists⠀⇛ The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted the Media Freedom Act to protect journalists and press freedoms. The new law was adopted with 464 votes in favor, 92 against and 65 abstentions. The act forbids EU member states from compelling journalists to disclose their sources and deploying surveillance spyware against journalists. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Yle_rejects_demand_to_alter_story_on_Elokapina protests⠀⇛ A prosecutor argues that a woman who paid climate protesters' fines should be punished for inciting criminal acts. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Senator_Durbin_Petulantly_Promises_To_Destroy The_Open_Internet_If_He_Doesn’t_Get_His_Bad_‘Save_The Children’_Internet_Bill_Passed⠀⇛ Last week, we wrote about Senator Dick Durbin going on the floor of the Senate and spreading some absolute nonsense about Section 230 as he continued to push his STOP CSAM Act. His bill has some good ideas mixed in with some absolutely terrible ideas. In particular, the current language of the bill is a direct attack on encryption (though we’re told that there are other versions floating around). The methods by which it does so is in removing Section 230, enabling people to sue websites if they “intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or negligently” host CSAM or “promote or facilitate” child sexual exploitation. § Monopolies/Monopsonies⠀➾ o § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ JUVE ☛ Ones_to_Watch_France_2024:_Anaïs_Pallut [Ed: This is yet more spam disguised as article; JUVE has been selling lies for a group promoting something illegal (UPC) while also doing these fake ads for them. This is an insult to the trade of journalism, which was meant to tackle crime, not profit from it.]⠀⇛ Every year, JUVE Patent carries out extensive research in the French patent monopoly market, culminating in the publication of the French patent monopoly rankings. # ⚓ Another_Litigation_Funding_Dispute⠀⇛ In what has become a recurring topic on Patent Progress, another dispute between a patent monopoly troll and a litigation funder has emerged. This time, it is between the Irish NPE, Arigna Technology; its law firm, Susman Godfrey; and the litigation funder, Longford Capital.] # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ The_Analogous_Art_Doctrine_Post- KSR:_Insights_from_the_Federal_Circuit’s_Daedalus_Decision⠀⇛ In a short nonprecedential decision, the Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB IPR decision finding claims 15-25 of U.S. Patent No. 8,671,132 (‘132 patent) unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over combinations of prior art references. Daedalus Blue LLC v. Vidal, No. 2023-1313, slip op. at 2 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 13, 2024).  The key issue on appeal was whether the Gelb reference qualified as analogous art for the purposes of the obviousness analysis.  Daedalus unsuccessfully argued that the PTAB erred in two respects: (1) by finding Gelb to be in the same field of endeavor as the ‘132 patent, and (2) by determining that Gelb is reasonably pertinent to the problems addressed by the ‘132 patent.  This post discusses the analogous arts test and provides key guidance to patent monopoly attorneys in today’s post-AIA world. # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Timeliness_in_Supreme_Court Practice⠀⇛ Rule 13.5 of the Supreme Court Rules states that an application for an extension of time “must be filed with the Clerk at least 10 days before the date the petition is due, except in extraordinary circumstances.” In this case, Purdue’s counsel, Jennifer Swize of Jones Day, filed a 30-day extension request one day after the petition was due, rendering it untimely. The explanation provided for the delay – that Purdue’s General Counsel and Chief Patent Counsel were involved in preparing for and participating in a trial during the week before the deadline – does not appear to meet the “extraordinary circumstances” threshold required by the rule. # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ OptiMorphix_data_transmission_patent monopoly_challenged⠀⇛ On March 8, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S._Patent 7,099,273, owned by OptiMorphix, Inc. The ‘273 patent monopoly relates to data transmission based on round trip times. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4365 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 14/03/2024: Lots of TikTok Trouble, Putin Signals Conflict Beyond Ukraine⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 14, 2024 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇River_in_New_Zealand⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies/Monopsonies # Copyrights * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Quick_Tips_to_Save_Time_on_the_Telephone⠀⇛ The latest smartphone software includes tools to help you more easily connect with the people you want to contact — and avoid those you don’t. o ⚓ Brandon ☛ Seeking_Calmness:_Stop_Drifting⠀⇛ I think the best way to talk about this is to rephrase it so that it's a bit more modern and a bit more applicable to my life. o ⚓ Chris McLeod ☛ I_have_a_Problem_with_Build_Times⠀⇛ At the moment, this site takes too damn long to build. Recent builds are nearly 20 minutes. The upper limit on the tooling I’m using is 25 minutes. So it’s a problem I need to address. I’ve found myself reluctant to add some bits and bobs to the site recently because they just won’t work in a world where builds take so long. o ⚓ Wouter Groeneveld ☛ Your_Blog_Should_Have_an_About_Page⠀⇛ The site stats tell me that my about page at /about is consistently one of the most visited pages on this website. That confirms what everyone already knows: people are very curious, sometimes even nosy. o ⚓ Mat Duggan ☛ State_Of_The_Blog⠀⇛ One of the milestones I never thought I'd hit was 10,000 average weekly visitors but we have blown past that without me noticing. Here are the last 30 days stats for those interested in such things. This obviously has a giant spike throwing the data off but if you look at a typical 30 day period we're just at 20,000 a week average. o ⚓ Andreas ☛ New_Microblogging_Section⠀⇛ One thing I’m not quite sure about is how to handle the RSS feed. Have everything in one feed, or separate feeds for blog posts and microblogs? For now I’ve got them both in one feed and I guess I’ll see how it goes and if I want to change it. Any thoughts or feedback is of course welcome! o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ ‘10_Don’ts’_for_Chinese_young_people⠀⇛ "This generation of young people have no hope, so they don't bother working hard any more," said a university graduate who gave only the surname Wang for fear of reprisals. "They might as well just lie down in the hope of a stress-free life." The attitude is particularly problematic for the ruling Communist Party as it tries to encourage people to use the internet to share "positive" content, particularly about the economy, rather than complaining about how hard their lives are. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Russell Coker ☛ Russell_Coker:_The_Shape_of_Computers⠀⇛ There have been many experiments with the sizes of computers, some of which have stayed around and some have gone away. The trend has been to make computers smaller, the early computers had buildings for them. Recently for come classes computers have started becoming as small as could be reasonably desired. For example phones are thin enough that they can blow away in a strong breeze, smart watches are much the same size as the old fashioned watches they replace, and NUC type computers are as small as they need to be given the size of monitors etc that they connect to. # ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ Petabit_Optical_Media?⠀⇛ A decade ago, Facebook's Blu-ray library put 10,000 100GB disks in a single rack for 1 Petabyte or 8 Petabit capacity. This is 5 times as much as the authors' claim for a single disk. The caption's claim of 15.2Pb for the DA-BH7010 is 9.5 times their claim of the capacity of a single disk. Note also that they compare the volume of a single disk to the volume of complete read-write systems, which is comparing apples to oranges. I guess if your meaning of "approximately" is "within an order of magnitude" that makes sense. # ⚓ 404 Media ☛ Massively_Popular_Safe_Locks_Have_Secret Backdoor_Codes⠀⇛ The little known “manufacturer” or “manager” reset codes could let third parties—such as spies or criminals—bypass locks without the owner’s consent and are sometimes not disclosed to customers. Wyden’s office also found that while the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) bans such locks for sensitive and classified U.S. government use in part due to the security vulnerability reset codes pose, the government has deliberately not warned the public about the existence of these backdoors. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Flu,_Covid_incidence_declines_in_Latvia⠀⇛ The number of flu and Covid-19 patients in Latvia continues to decrease, according to information compiled by the Disease Prevention and Control Center (SPKC) on March 13. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Neil_Young_Slinks_Back_Onto_‘Low_Res Spotify’_—_Ending_His_Joe_Rogan_Boycott⠀⇛ Two years after boycotting Spotify by removing his music, Neil Young is returning to the platform. He says that’s because Joe Rogan is no longer exclusive. Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify over disinformation spread by The Joe Rogan Experience podcast regarding the COVID-19 vaccines. # ⚓ 404 Media ☛ The_U.S._Wants_to_Ban_TikTok_for_the_Sins_of Every_Social_Media_Company⠀⇛ Bytedance and TikTok itself have been put into an essentially impossible situation that is perhaps most exemplified in a 60 Minutes clip from 2022 that went viral this weekend, in which Tristan Harris, a big tech whistleblower who has turned the attention he got from the documentary The Social Dilemma into a self-serving career as a guy who talks about how social media is bad, explains that China is exporting the “opium” version of TikTok to American children. # ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ The_Anxious_Generation_by_Jonathan Haidt,_review:_the_evils_of_smartphones⠀⇛ Haidt is the author of the 2018 hit The Coddling of the American Mind, in which he argued that overprotection was having a negative effect on university students, and that the use of trigger warnings and safe spaces does more harm than good. This time around, Haidt had planned to detail the negative effects that social media was having on democracy. But when he finished writing the first chapter of that draft, he realised that the adolescent mental-health story was much bigger than he’d thought, and it was playing out across the world. The Anxious Generation, subtitled “How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness”, methodically sets out the problem, the harm it’s causing and what we can do about it. It’s compelling, readable – and incredibly chilling. Consider, for example, the fact that, by 2016, 73 per cent of American teenagers owned a smartphone, as did 28 per cent of children between eight and 12. Today, it’s 95 per cent of teens. About half of US children get their first smartphone by 11. In Britain, according to Ofcom, 97 per cent of 12- year-olds own one. Haidt cites a 2015 Pew report that found that one in four teenagers said they were online “almost constantly”. By 2022, that number had nearly doubled. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ Denying_the_ML_antecedent⠀⇛ That is such a fallacy. A formal propositional fallacy called denying the antecedent. It goes like this: If all those bad anti-ML arguments were legit, ML would would be bad. Those arguments don’t seem very legit. It’s fallacious to then conclude that that makes ML good & OK, because there might be other arguments against it that are better. For me the three main remaining problems with ML are: [...] # ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ Personal_AIs_Will_Mediate_Everything⠀⇛ If you make and sell anything, you should consider how your product looks to an AI and how it will compete with other services without direct human interaction. Basically, your API will be your company. The goal will be getting people’s personal DA assistants to use your company’s API as the preferred one when they look something up for their principal. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Some_new_thinking_on_the_crucial question_of_cloud_computing_security⠀⇛ Four non-profits recently banded together to come up wide ideas for better cloud computing security. Just about every federal agency uses cloud computing to some degree. Some no longer have their own data centers. Joining the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with what the cloud safe task force came up with, from the MITRE Corporation, the director of strategic engagement and partnerships, Dave Powner. And the senior principal cybersecurity engineer, Mari Spina. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft_decides_it's_done_with_Azure egress_ransoms⠀⇛ "It’s the (European Data Act) hammer behind hyperscaler’s change of heart to allow its clients to move out without paying data egress charges," he said. Google said it would waive cloud egress fees in January, though only for customers canceling their account. AWS took a similar step last week, noting that unlike Google it's not requiring account cancellation. Microsoft also has a cancellation requirement for moving data out of Azure: "You must cancel all Azure subscriptions associated with your account after your data is transferred out before you can request your invoice-level credit." # ⚓ India Times ☛ europe_artificial_intelligence_rules:_Europe one_step_away_from_landmark_AI_rules_after_lawmakers'_vote⠀⇛ The legislation will regulate high-impact, general- purpose AI models and high-risk AI systems which will have to comply with specific transparency obligations and EU copyright laws. It restricts governments' use of real-time biometric surveillance in public spaces to cases of certain crimes, prevention of genuine threats, such as terrorist attacks, and searches for people suspected of the most serious crimes. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ AI_Act_Passes_in_the_EU_--_Music Industry_Responses_Are_Positive⠀⇛ Of particular interest to the industry are the training-related safeguards at hand. As most know, the data and (protected) media upon which large language models (LLMs) are “trained” remains the subject of debate and litigation. Troublingly, some AI giants continue to express the belief that utilizing an abundance of copyrighted works to develop an LLM, which then draws from and possibly reproduces the information when responding to queries and performing tasks, constitutes fair use. # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Artificial_Intelligence_and_Evolution_of Warfare⠀⇛ This unprecedented potential of AI in warfare demands a closer examination of some use cases and examples of how different states and defense industry players are exploring and adapting AI to change the orientation of modern warfare. This change is not limited to military hardware alone. Due to the limited scope of this op-ed, only AI’s fusion in various aspects of aerial warfare has been discussed. # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Let’s_not_make_the_same_mistakes with_AI_that_we_made_with_social_media⠀⇛ In particular, five fundamental attributes of social control media have harmed society. AI also has those attributes. Note that they are not intrinsically evil. They are all double-edged swords, with the potential to do either good or ill. The danger comes from who wields the sword, and in what direction it is swung. This has been true for social media, and it will similarly hold true for AI. In both cases, the solution lies in limits on the technology’s use. # ⚓ Jason Velazquez ☛ Any_Technology_Indistinguishable_From Magic_is_Hiding_Something⠀⇛ Somewhere between the death of our favorite aggregator websites and the world surviving a pandemic, the modern internet was reduced to four companies in a trench coat. On the left breast pocket of that trenchcoat is a name tag that reads “The Cloud.” Under that name tag is an older name tag that reads “The Internet.” And under that name tag is a frayed embroidery that reads, “ARPANET (non-commercial use only, motherfuckers),” in a lovely script typeface and craftsmanship you just don’t see nowadays. Anyway, I digress. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ US_Spearheads_First_UN_Resolution_on Artificial_Intelligence⠀⇛ The United States began negotiating with the 193 U.N. member nations about three months ago, spent hundreds of hours in direct talks with individual countries, 42 hours in negotiations and accepted input from 120 nations, a senior U.S. official said. The resolution went through several drafts and achieved consensus support from all member states this week and will be formally considered later this month, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. Unlike Security Council resolutions, General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding but they are an important barometer of world opinion. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Purism ☛ SXSW_2024_Day_5-_AI_And_Privacy_In_The_News, So_I_Thought?⠀⇛ If the alarm customer does not consent by clicking on “I Agree”, then most of the beneficial features of the security product will not be available to the alarm customer to use, the CTO of the alarm company explained. # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Pirates:_AI_Act_fails_to_protect citizens’_rights⠀⇛ Today, MEPs shall approve the outcome of the trilogue negotiations on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), establishing new rules that shall regulate the use of artificial intelligence in the EU for the first time. Sadly, the European Parliament’s position aiming for a comprehensive ban on biometric mass surveillance technologies was completely changed during the intransparent trilogue negotiations. The new law will now effectively allow law enforcement the introduction of error-prone facial surveillance and facial recognition camera software in public spaces. Therefore, Pirate Party MEPs won’t be able to support the text and will vote agai # ⚓ The Verge ☛ The_EU_AI_Act_passed_—_here’s_what_comes next⠀⇛ The legal language of the text is still awaiting final approval, either via a separate announcement or a plenary session vote on April 10th/11th, with the AI Act then officially coming into force 20 days after it’s published in the Official Journal — which is anticipated to happen in May or June this year. Provisions will then take effect in stages: countries will have six months to ban prohibited AI systems, 12 months to enforce rules against “general-purpose AI systems” like chatbots, and up to 36 months for AI systems the law has designated as “high risk.” # ⚓ The North Lines IN ☛ GPS-Enabled_Tracking_Systems_To Be_Installed_In_J&K_Poll_Duty_Vehicles,_Says_Official⠀⇛ J-K Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Pandurang K Pole has issued a request for proposal (RFP) for companies to procure GPS-enabled vehicle tracking systems for election duty vehicles. GPS control rooms will be established at the offices of district electoral officers (DEOs) and the CEO for real-time tracking and monitoring of the movement of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) through the trackers installed in the vehicles carrying them, officials said. # ⚓ Wired ☛ Porn_Sites_Need_Age-Verification_Systems_in Texas,_Court_Rules⠀⇛ Texas can enforce a law requiring age- verification systems on porn websites, the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled Thursday. The appeals court vacated an injunction against the law's age-verification requirement but said that Texas cannot enforce a provision requiring porn websites to "display health warnings about the effects of the consumption of pornography." o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Donald_Trump_is_a_national-security_risk⠀⇛ According to reports last week, the U.S. intelligence community is preparing to give Donald Trump classified intelligence briefings, a courtesy every White House extends to major-party candidates to ensure an effective transition. An excellent tradition—but not one that should be observed this year. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘This_Court_Is_Not_Going_to_Protect_Us_From_Donald Trump’_CounterSpin_interview_with_Ian_Millhiser_on_Trump_and Supreme_Court⠀⇛ Janine Jackson interviewed Vox‘s Ian Millhiser about the Supreme Court’s protection of Donald Trump for the March 8, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ U.S._Intelligence_‘Threat_Assessment’_Says Hamas_Isn’t_Going_Away⠀⇛ “Israel probably will face lingering armed resistance from HAMAS for years to come, and the military will struggle to neutralize HAMAS’s underground infrastructure, which allows insurgents to hide, regain strength, and surprise Israeli forces,” the assessment reads. The assessment aligns with an Israeli military intelligence document that was circulated last month and said even if Israel succeeded in dismantling Hamas as an organized military force, the group would still exist as “a terror group and a guerrilla group.” Other reports have said Israel is struggling to destroy the vast tunnel network underneath Gaza that is key to Hamas’s survival and is far more expansive than Israel initially thought. # ⚓ ADF ☛ Militant_Extremist_Movements_Becoming_More Localized⠀⇛ Terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa is intensifying, and experts say the central Sahel region has replaced the Middle East as its global epicenter. Worldwide deaths from terrorism increased by 22% in 2023 to 8,352 — the most since 2017 — according to the 2024 Global Terrorism Index (GTI), published on February 29. # ⚓ ADF ☛ Report:_al-Shabaab_Extends_Reach_With_Offer_to Protect_Somali_Pirates⠀⇛ Some observers believe al-Shabaab militants in Somalia’s northern Sanaag region reached a deal to provide protection to pirates in exchange for 30% of all ransom proceeds and a cut of any loot, Emirati newspaper The National reported. The deal could provide al-Shabaab with critical funds after the Somali government clamped down on its other illegal money sources and froze its bank accounts. The terrorists also are suspected of negotiating with pirates and Houthi rebels to acquire weapons. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Deaths_linked_to_militant_Islamist_violence in_Africa_continue_to_spiral_|_defenceWeb⠀⇛ Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence jumped by 20 percent in the past year, claiming more than 23,000 lives—a new record. Over 80 percent of these deaths were in the Sahel and Somalia. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Nikki_Haley_blames_Tiktok_for_making_young Americans_pro-Palestine_and_supporting_Osama_Bin_Laden⠀⇛ Haley has repeatedly called for a Tiktok ban on her campaign trail, accusing the Chinese government of conducting psychological warfare on U.S. users by promoting subversive content on the app. For instance, in November, she claimed that pro-Hamas videos on Tiktok had made young Americans more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. She also mentioned that users had shared Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America”, written after the 9/11 attacks, during the early days of Israel’s war in Gaza. She expressed her disgust while campaigning in Iowa, saying, “Our younger generation is now saying they understand why he did it. That’s not America doing that. That’s China doing that.” # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ TikTok_‘Ban’_Bill_Passes_in_the_House⠀⇛ A bill forcing the China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok, or face an outright ban, passed the United States House of Representatives on Wednesday in a vote of 352 to 62. The bill will now head to the Senate, where it is expected to face tough opposition before it can reach President Biden, who indicated he would sign it into law. “The First Amendment does not give the Chinese Communist Party the right to American data, or the right to manipulate the minds of Americans,” said Texas Representative Dan Crenshaw on the House floor Wednesday. “That would be a really weird interpretation of the First Amendment.” # ⚓ RTL ☛ Tech_giant:_What_is_ByteDance,_the_TikTok_parent_in US_crosshairs?⠀⇛ The app has been a diplomatic hot potato between the United States and China since the administration of former president Donald Trump, who once wanted to ban the app. Now, a bill in Congress aims to force the company to cut ties with ByteDance or be barred from the United States. The bill's supporters say ByteDance as a Chinese firm simply cannot go against the wishes of Beijing, and can provide access to the data on more than 170 million American users for everything from spying to election influence campaigns. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ TikTok’s_Security_Threats_Go_Beyond_the Scope_of_House_Legislation⠀⇛ But that glosses over the deeper TikTok security problem, which the legislation does not fully address. In the four years this battle has gone on, it has become clear that the security threat posed by TikTok has far less to do with who owns it than it does with who writes the code and algorithms that make TikTok tick. Those algorithms, which guide how TikTok watches its users and feeds them more of what they want, are the magic sauce of an app that 170 million Americans now have on their phones. That’s half the country. But TikTok doesn’t own those algorithms; they are developed by engineers who work for its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, which assembles the code in great secrecy in its software labs, in Beijing, Singapore and Mountain View, Calif. But China has issued regulations that appear designed to require government review before any of ByteDance’s algorithms could be licensed to outsiders. Few expect those licenses to be issued — meaning that selling TikTok to an American owner without the underlying code might be like selling a Ferrari without its famed engine. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ House_passes_bill_that_could_ban_TikTok⠀⇛ The bill still needs to clear the Senate, which is no small task. But President Joe Biden said on Friday he would sign it into law if it passes. # ⚓ CBC ☛ TikTok_crackdown_passes_U.S._House:_What_to_know about_today's_vote⠀⇛ It involves a bill with major implications for the fast-growing site TikTok, renowned for addictive videos and used by hundreds of millions around the world, including millions in Canada. At issue are alleged concerns about risks to national security and young users. The counter- claim: American politicians are unfairly picking on a Chinese-owned company. Here's what's happening. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ US_House_passes_bill_that_could_force TikTok_ban⠀⇛ Lawmakers backed a bill that would ban TikTok in the US if Chinese company ByteDance refuses to sell its stake in the short video app. Proponents of the bill say TikTok is a security threat, alleging ties with Beijing. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Why_the_US_wants_to_ban_TikTok⠀⇛ For the second time in four years, the popular Chinese shortform video app TikTok is in the crosshairs of United States lawmakers. Ahead of the 2020 US presidential election, Donald Trump signed an executive order forcing owner ByteDance to sell the app within 90 days, but it failed due to legal challenges. Washington is once again seeking to force a sale of TikTok threatening a nationwide ban of the app otherwise. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ US_House_votes_to_crack_down_on_TikTok⠀⇛ The measure comes amid concerns that the firm's Chinese ownership could pose a threat to US national security. The short-video app is hugely popular with young people and has an estimated 170 million users in the US. # ⚓ Variety ☛ House_Passes_Bill_Banning_TikTok_Unless_China's ByteDance_Divests_App⠀⇛ The bill, dubbed the “Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” passed the House by a vote of 352-65 Wednesday morning with bipartisan support, amid pushback from some representatives on both sides of the aisle. That came after the bill was fast-tracked on a “suspension of the rules” schedule requiring a two- thirds majority to pass. While it had a groundswell of backing in the House, the measure’s fate in the Senate is unclear as there is currently no corresponding legislation on the table. President Biden has said he would sign the bill if it reaches his desk — even as his re-election campaign just launched an account on TikTok, @bidenhq, last month on Super Bowl Sunday. Biden in 2022 approved a measure banning TikTok on most U.S. government devices. # ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ TikTok_Ban_Bill_Passes_House_Vote,_Heads_to Senate⠀⇛ The bill, titled the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, would require TikTok to sever itself completely from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a potential ban from mobile app stores and web- hosting services. The bill would also create a process through which the president can designate certain social media applications with ties to foreign governments as a national security risk. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ House_Passes_Bill_to_Force_TikTok_Sale From_Chinese_Owner_or_Ban_the_App⠀⇛ The action came despite TikTok’s efforts to mobilize its 170 million U.S. users against the measure, and amid the Biden administration’s push to persuade lawmakers that Chinese ownership of the platform poses grave national security risks to the United States. The result was a bipartisan coalition behind the measure that included Republicans, who defied former President Donald J. Trump in supporting it, and Democrats, who also fell in line behind a bill that President Biden has said he would sign. # ⚓ El País ☛ House_of_Representatives_defies_China_with_threat to_ban_TikTok⠀⇛ Congress’ challenge to China comes amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over control of technology and fears that the social media platform could threaten national security and be used for espionage or manipulation of public opinion. China, through Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin, has warned that it would take a ban on TikTok as an act of “bullying.” # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Will_the_US_crack_down_on_TikTok?_Six questions_(and_expert_answers)_about_the_bill_in_Congress.⠀⇛ The clock is ticking. On Wednesday, the US House overwhelmingly passed a bill to force the Chinese company ByteDance to divest from TikTok, or else the wildly popular social media app would be banned in the United States. Many lawmakers say the app is a national security threat, but the bill faces an uncertain path in the Senate. Below, our experts address six burning questions about this bill and TikTok at large. # ⚓ Axios ☛ TikTok_lives_for_now:_How_the_race_to_ban_it_could unfold⠀⇛ The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill to force China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the U.S, but there's no strong indication the Senate will advance it. Though of course, the upper chamber could act with surprise swiftness. # ⚓ RFA ☛ TikTok_ban_bill_passes_US_House⠀⇛ Gallagher and other lawmakers note TikTok is legally required to expose American user data to Beijing upon request, and say it could be forced to alter its algorithms to promote Chinese propaganda. “The Chinese Communist Party, and its leader Xi Jinping, have their hands deep in the inner workings of the company with devastating consequences for our personal freedoms,” he said last week. That analysis has been mirrored by FBI Director Christopher Wray and other leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies, who say the app’s widespread use means it could be used to distribute misinformation to millions of Americans and could even sway election results. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Three_Politicians_Who_Voted_for_the_TikTok_'Ban' Have_Active_Accounts⠀⇛ The U.S. passed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday to force ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, to divest from the social media platform or face a complete ban in the country. The bill passed 352 to 65 and needs to be taken up by the Senate and signed by President Joe Biden to become law. But we couldn’t help noticing something interesting in the final vote total from the House. At least three members of Congress who voted for the “ban” still have very active accounts on TikTok. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ US_Congress_passes_TikTok_sale-or-ban plan⠀⇛ The bill names only TikTok as a "foreign adversary controlled application" and prohibits "Providing services to distribute, maintain, or update" the app – including by offering it for sale in an app store. Even updates to the app aren't allowed. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Congress_takes_a_hard_swing_at_TikTok⠀⇛ In a show of bipartisan momentum rarely seen in Washington these days, the House overwhelmingly passed a bill that would force TikTok’s Beijing- based parent company to divest in order for the platform to continue operating in the United States. “We ... have concerns about a substantial news source being weaponized by a foreign competitor in ways that are very, very dangerous for our society,” says Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte of California, the only member of Congress with an advanced degree in artificial intelligence. # ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ U.S._House_votes_to_ban_TikTok_unless_it is_sold_by_China-controlled_parent ⠀⇛ The bill required a two-thirds majority because House leadership placed it on the floor under a fast-track procedure called suspension of the rules. The legislation, dubbed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, now heads to the Senate, where concerns over singling out a private company in legislation may slow momentum. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ UK_Outlines_Plan_to_Ban_Foreign_States_From Owning_Newspapers⠀⇛ Britain's government outlined plans on Wednesday to stop foreign states from owning newspapers, potentially giving ministers the power to block Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI's bid to buy The Daily Telegraph. The battle over one of Britain's most famous newspapers has raised questions about the independence of the media and the role of foreign investors acquiring ownership of politically influential assets. The Telegraph has close connections with Britain's governing Conservative Party and the political struggle for ownership of the 168-year-old newspaper is as much about power and influence as it is about money. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Terrifying_Christian_Nationalist_Crusade to_Conquer_America⠀⇛ If this strikes your ear as dialogue deleted from the Hulu production of The Handmaid’s Tale on grounds of general implausibility, rest assured that it gets worse. The document goes on to vindicate corporal punishment in the home, argue for the abolition of public education, and call for revived punishment of public blasphemy. It also offers a litany of “short term priorities of Christian nationalism” for ready implementation: “to call our nation, in her laws, formally to acknowledge the Lordship of Christ, to declare solemn days of humility and repentance, to abolish abortion, to define marriage as the covenant union of a biological male [and] a biological female, to de-weaponize the federal and state bureaucracies which target Christians for censorship and persecution, to secure our borders and defend against foreign invaders, to recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization like the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum etc.” One can only assume broadsides against fluoridation and rampant witchery will find their way into subsequent documents from CRA-aligned scholars. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘The_vampires’_ball_is_coming_to_an_end’: Vladimir_Putin_talks_NATO,_nukes,_and_negotiations_in pre-election_interview_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘A_gangster-style_greeting_from_Putin’: Lithuanian_anti-terrorism_unit_launches_investigation after_hammer_attack_leaves_Navalny_ally_Leonid_Volkov with_broken_arm_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘This_animal_is_going_around_schools’:_A Russian_prisoner-turned-soldier,_convicted_of_murder and_accused_of_raping_minors,_teaches_children_about patriotism_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_state_media_publishes,_then_deletes, report_that_drone_hit_FSB_building_in_Belgorod_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Noon_against_Putin’:_A_small_gesture_and a_powerful_symbol_of_Russia’s_opposition⠀⇛ The widow of Russia’s late opposition leader Alexei Navalny is calling on voters in the country’s presidential election to turn up at polling stations en masse at 12 noon on March 17 and either vote against Vladimir Putin or spoil their ballot. The protest action, known as “Noon Against Putin”, aims to honour Navalny’s last wishes, while illustrating the high number of voters who are against Russia’s war on Ukraine. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Navalny_ally_Leonid_Volkov_assaulted outside_his_home_in_Lithuania⠀⇛ Leonid Volkov, a close ally of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was assaulted outside his home in Vilnius on Tuesday, in an incident that sparked an uproar from the Lithuanian government. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Attack_on_Volkov_in_Lithuania_likely_organised by_Russia_–_agency⠀⇛ The attack on Leonid Volkov, a close associate of the late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, was likely organised and implemented by Russia, the State Security Department (VSD) said on Wednesday. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Navalny's_Widow_Calls_Putin_A_'Gangster' Unworthy_To_Be_Recognized_As_President⠀⇛ Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, said Russian President Vladimir Putin is a "gangster" and Western governments should not recognize him as the legitimate leader of Russia after his inevitable reelection in the presidential vote that begins on March 15. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Lithuania_Says_Hammer_Attack_On_Navalny_Aide 'Likely'_Organized_By_Russia⠀⇛ Lithuania said an attack in Vilnius on Leonid Volkov, a former close aide to late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, "likely" organized by Moscow as part of a series of provocations in the Baltic country aimed at intimidating President Vladimir Putin's opponents abroad. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Leonid_Volkov,_Top_Navalny_Aide,_Is Attacked_With_Hammer_in_Lithuania⠀⇛ Leonid Volkov, a top aide to Aleksei Navalny, was beaten and sprayed with tear gas as he was pulling up to his house in Vilnius. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Putin_reiterates_nuclear_threat_as_Ukraine launches_drone_strikes_on_Russian_oil_refineries⠀⇛ Ukraine launched a sweeping drone attack on Russian regions on Wednesday, causing a fire at Rosneft's biggest oil refinery in what President Vladimir Putin said was an attempt to disrupt Russia's presidential election. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ What_to_watch_in_Russia’s_stage- managed_presidential_‘election’⠀⇛ While the outcome of the upcoming Russian presidential election is not in doubt, it is worth watching for sings about what to expect next from Putin’s Russia. # ⚓ LRT ☛ ‘I_can_tell_Putin_–_nobody_is_afraid_of_you here,’_says_Lithuanian_president_after_attack_on Volkov⠀⇛ Crimes such as the attack on Leonid Volkov in Lithuania are planned in advance, says President Gitanas Nausėda. He does not rule out the possibility of the Kremlin’s influence behind it. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Finnish_Leader_Says_Russia_Is_Preparing_For 'Long_Conflict_With_The_West'⠀⇛ Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said Russia was preparing for a "long conflict with the West" and he asked for more spending and coordination on European defense. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Ready_With_Nuclear_Response_If Sovereignty_Threatened,_Putin_Warns⠀⇛ President Vladimir Putin, speaking two days before the start of an election he is expected to easily win, has issued his latest of many warnings that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened, saying he hopes Washington will not do anything to trigger such a conflict. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Wednesday's_papers:_Putin's_latest_threats, expensive_weight_loss_and_bland_parks⠀⇛ Why do some say Finnish playgrounds are boring? # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ How_Russian_elections_became_a_futile exercise_for_Putin’s_opposition⠀⇛ Russia’s presidential election appears largely a rote exercise, as a popular, unchallengeable leader faces only nominal competition from three “systemic” opponents. The Kremlin has worked for years to make it this way. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Putin_Plays_Down_Threat_of_Nuclear War_in_Pre-Election_State_TV_Interview⠀⇛ The Russian leader struck a softer tone about nuclear weapons in an interview with state television. But he warned that Russia was ready to strike if its “sovereignty and independence” were threatened. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_To_Deploy_Troops_&_Armaments_Towards Border_with_Finland⠀⇛ Russia is prepared in case the West decides to unleash a nuclear war, said President Putin. # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Vice-President_Suica_delivers_a closing_Commission_statement_at_the_European_Parliament Plenary_on_“Need_to_address_the_urgent_concerns surrounding_Ukrainian_children_forcibly_deported_to Russia”⠀⇛ # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Vice-President_Suica_delivers opening_Commission_statement_at_the_European_Parliament Plenary_on_“Need_to_address_the_urgent_concerns surrounding_Ukrainian_children_forcibly_deported_to Russia”⠀⇛ # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Are_We_Stumbling_Into_World_War_III_in Ukraine?⠀⇛ President Biden began his State of the Union speech with an impassioned warning that failing to pass his $61 billion dollar weapons package for Ukraine “will put Ukraine at risk, Europe at risk, the free world at risk.” # ⚓ France24 ☛ At_least_three_killed,_dozens_wounded_in Russian_missile_strike_on_Ukraine's_Kryvyi_Rih⠀⇛ A Russian missile strike in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown of Kryvyi Rih left three dead and dozens wounded on Tuesday, in an attack Kyiv warned would not go "unpunished". # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_president_backs_debate_on_sending troops_to_Ukraine⠀⇛ Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says he supports the debate on sending troops to Ukraine to train local forces and urges the West to stop “drawing red lines”. # ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Failed_ICJ_Case_Against_Russia Backfires,_Paves_Way_for_Genocide_Charges_Against Ukraine⠀⇛ An esteemed UN court has issued little- noticed but hugely significant rulings in cases brought by Kiev and its Western sponsors against the Kremlin. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ After_Outrage_Over_'White_Flag'_Comment,_Pope Condemns_'Madness_Of_War'⠀⇛ Pope Francis has issued a fresh condemnation of all wars after angering Kyiv and Western governments earlier this week by suggesting that Ukraine should surrender and negotiate peace with Russia. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ 'Prudence_Is_Not_Weakness':_Scholz_Reiterates Refusal_To_Send_Taurus_Missiles_To_Ukraine⠀⇛ German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has again voiced his opposition to delivering long- range Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Crimean_Tatar_Activist_Detained_After_Home Searched⠀⇛ Police in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Crimea region detained Crimean Tatar activist Edem Dudakov on unspecified charges after searching his house on March 13, the Crimean Solidarity human rights groups said. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Jailed_Ukrainian_Rights_Defender_Loses_Appeal At_Russia's_Supreme_Court⠀⇛ Russia's Supreme Court on March 13 rejected an appeal filed by well-known Ukrainian human rights defender Maksym Butkevych against a 13-year prison term he was handed by a Russian-installed court in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region after making a confession he says was preceded by torture. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_Removes_Yandex_Co-Founder_Volozh_From Sanctions_List⠀⇛ The European Union on March 12 lifted sanctions imposed in 2022 against the co- founder of Russian Internet giant Yandex, Arkady Volozh, over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ E.U._Removes_Russian_Tech_Tycoon From_Sanctions_List⠀⇛ Yandex’s co-founder, Arkady Volozh, received rare sanctions relief after condemning Russia’s war and severing ties to the country. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine's_SBU_Said_Behind_Massive_Attacks_On Russian_Oil_Refineries⠀⇛ Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) was behind a sweeping wave of drone attacks on several Russian regions on March 13 that reportedly set a Rosneft refinery on fire and targeted other economic and military objectives, a Ukrainian intelligence source told RFE/RL. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Estonia_Opens_the_Possibility_of_Sending Troops_to_Ukraine⠀⇛ In past statements the Estonian prime minister has declared her anti-Russian sentiment and now leaves open the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ US_agency_asks_DoD_to_improve data_accuracy_of_military_equipment_sent_to_Ukraine⠀⇛ The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) made recommendations on Wednesday to the Department of Defense to help ensure U.S.-origin equipment was being tracked and used appropriately in Ukraine. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden’s_$300_Million_Arms_Package Will_Help_Ukraine,_for_a_Little_While⠀⇛ The $300 million package will help hold off the Russians for a few weeks, analysts say, but without far more Ukraine may go on losing ground. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ 7,800_sanctions_breaches_recorded_by Latvia's_tax_service_last_year⠀⇛ The State Revenue Service (VID) detected a total of 7,789 violations of sanctions imposed on Russia and Belarus last year, the deputy director general of the VID in the field of customs, Director of Customs Administration Raimonds Zukuls, said in an interview with Latvian Radio on March 14. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_police_chief:_We_will_be_strict during_Russia's_'elections'⠀⇛ State Police (VP) is preparing for intense work this weekend when Russia's presidential “election” takes place. Police anticipate various provocations and promise to take harsh action against them, said police chief Armands Ruks on Latvian Television on March 14. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ NATO_should_establish_a_Baltic Security_Initiative_at_the_Washington_summit⠀⇛ The Baltic nations are justifiably concerned that they could be the next targets of a reconstituted Russian military. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Replacing_suspicious_parts_possible_without stopping_strategic_pipeline_–_Lithuanian_TSO⠀⇛ Replacing what are believed to be Russian- made parts in Gas Interconnection Poland- Lithuania (GIPL) is possible without halting the pipeline’s operations, Nemunas Biknius, CEO of Amber Grid, Lithuania’s gas transmission system operator, said on Wednesday. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Austria_Expels_Two_Russian_Diplomats_From Embassy_In_Vienna;_Russia_Calls_Decision_'Groundless'⠀⇛ Austria on March 13 ordered two diplomats with the Russian Embassy in Vienna to leave the country. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Court_OKs_Early_Release_For_Notorious Criminal_Kingpin⠀⇛ A Russian court on March 13 approved early release for notorious criminal kingpin Zakhary Kalashov, who is widely known by the nickname Shakro Molodoi. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Reportedly_Investigating_Self-Exiled Journalist_Zygar⠀⇛ Russian state news agency RIA Novosti cited sources on March 13 as saying a probe was launched against the self-exiled writer and former chief editor of Dozhd television, Mikhail Zygar, for spreading false information about Russia's military. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Head_Of_Would-Be_Russian_Presidential Candidate's_Team_In_Vladivostok_Jailed⠀⇛ Igor Krasnov, the head of the team of would- be anti-war presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin in the Russian Far East city of Vladivostok, said on March 13 he was sentenced to six days in jail for "propagating extremist LGBT." # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Women_Fined_For_Kissing_In_Video⠀⇛ A court in the Russian city of Krasnodar fined two women aged 19 and 24 after a video in which the two were kissing in a cafe was posted on the Internet. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ BRICS_Universe_Exhibition_is_Held_in Russia⠀⇛ The exhibition will also continue its journey to cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, Mumbai, and Durban. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Warning_to_America:_Hungarian_Green on_Authoritarianism_as_Trump_Hosts_PM_Viktor_Orbán_at Mar-a-Lago⠀⇛ It’s official: Following Tuesday’s primaries, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump appear set for a rematch in November after both candidates secured enough delegates to win their parties’ nominations. This past weekend, Republican front-runner Donald Trump hosted Hungary’s authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago and openly praised Orbán’s autocratic style of rule. To talk more about Orbán and Trump, we spoke Tuesday with Gábor Scheiring, a former Green Party member of parliament in Hungary, who has a new essay titled “I watched Hungary’s democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament — and I see troubling parallels in Trumpism and its appeal to workers.” He explains that “strongmen” like Orbán and Trump are subverting democracy “from the inside, gradually,” using tactics like gerrymandering and control of the courts to seize and consolidate power. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Investigator_says_she_asked Boeing’s_CEO_who_handled_panel_that_blew_off_a_jet._He couldn’t_help_her_–_Twin_Cities⠀⇛ The nation’s chief accident investigator said Wednesday that her agency still doesn’t know who worked on the panel that blew off a jetliner in January and that Boeing’s CEO told her that he couldn’t provide the information because the company has no records about the job. “The absence of those records will complicate the NTSB’s investigation moving forward,” National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy wrote in a letter to a Senate committee that is looking into the Jan. 5 accident on a Boeing 737 Max 9 operated by Alaska Airlines. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Trump_"floods_the_zone"_as_general_election_tests desensitized_voters⠀⇛ With Tuesday triggering the start of a 34-week general election campaign, critics of former President Trump are imploring voters and the media to hold the presumptive GOP nominee to the same standard as any politician. Why it matters: For eight years, the hurricane of news conjured by Trump's unprecedented behavior and rhetoric has enraged, exhilarated and eventually numbed much of the American public. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Boeing_Whistleblower’s_Attorneys_Want_Answers About_Their_Client’s_Death⠀⇛ The lawyers for a Boeing whistleblower who was recently found dead say they need “more information” about what happened to him. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Boeing_whistleblower_John_Barnett,_who_raised_alarm over_plane_quality,_is_found_dead⠀⇛ Barnett, who spent decades working for Boeing at its plants in Everett, Wash., and North Charleston, S.C., had repeatedly alleged that Boeing's manufacturing practices had declined — and that rather than improve them, he added, managers had pressured workers not to document potential defects and problems. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Methane_leaks_in_the_US_are_worse than_we_thought⠀⇛ Methane emissions are responsible for nearly a third of the total warming the planet has experienced so far. While there are natural sources of the greenhouse gas, including wetlands, human activities like agriculture and fossil-fuel production have dumped millions of metric tons of additional methane into the atmosphere. The concentration of methane has more than doubled over the past 200 years. But there are still large uncertainties about where, exactly, emissions are coming from. # ⚓ Wired ☛ Climate_Change_Is_Bad_for_Your_Health,_Wherever_You Are⠀⇛ Governments need to act, and the Lancet Countdown—an international research collaboration that tracks how health is being impacted—is giving decisionmakers undeniable evidence that change is needed right now. “When we talk about climate change, we’re not talking about the future. The cost of inaction is that we pay with people’s lives,” says Marina Romanello, the organization’s executive director. But, she says, we shouldn’t see this just as a doomsday scenario. “Much of tackling climate change is what we need to do to have a better quality of life,” Romanello says. The byproducts of action are greener cities, cleaner air, and healthier, more affordable diets. Ahead of speaking at WIRED Health this month, Romanello sat down with WIRED to talk about what we do and don’t know about the health risks of inaction, and why acting now is for the good of everyone. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. # ⚓ The Hindu ☛ Too_many_trekkers_spoil_the_mountains⠀⇛ Videos of a traffic jam of climbers en route to the peak went viral on social media. The government took this decision after ecologists and conservationists raised concerns about the damage that this could cause to the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats. While welcoming prompt action from the government, activists have called for more stringent measures and access to be limited to only serious trekkers studying forests and the environment. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Officials_Hunting_Cat_Who_Fell_Into_Vat_of Horrific_Chemicals⠀⇛ The incident was discovered on Monday morning, according to NBC News, when employees at the Nomura Plating Fukuyama Factory saw yellow-brown paw prints leading away from a vat filled with hexavalent chromium, an industrial chemical that can damage your skin, respiratory system, and inner organs if you are exposed to it. # ⚓ Financial Times ☛ EU_warned_of_rising_risk_of_systemic financial_shocks_from_continent_warming⠀⇛ Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world, with temperatures rising at roughly twice the global rate. A long-term global average temperature rise of 1.5C from the pre-industrial era would correlate to 3C across Europe. The impact of that could be dire, according to an EEA report published on Monday, which warns that without “decisive action”, “hundreds of thousands of people would die from heatwaves, and economic losses from coastal floods alone could exceed €1tn a year”. # ⚓ Greece ☛ Climate_crisis_to_have_a_greater_weather_and economic_impact_in_Southern_Europe⠀⇛ The climate change will be even more acute in Southern Europe, including Greece, the EC report argues, with the average temperature in the continent rising by a considerable 3C in the scenario of a global rise by 1.5C. The blueprint further warns that in case global warming exceeds 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the impact will be even more dramatic, with the European Union economy standing to lose some 2.4 trillion euros from its gross domestic product between 2031 and 2050. # ⚓ The Local SE ☛ 'Prepare_for_3C_rise':_Europe_warned_it_must do_more_to_deal_with_climate_crisis⠀⇛ He cited a first European climate risk assessment published Monday that said EU GDP could be reduced by around seven percent by the end of the century because of climate consequences. Speaking at a news conference in Strasbourg, where the European Parliament was holding a plenary session, Sefcovic and EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra presented a document giving recommendations to EU member countries for action to take. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Chuck Grimmett ☛ Insulating_and_heating_my_workshop with_a_diesel_heater⠀⇛ I mentioned this in some weekly posts, but wanted to write a dedicated one so I have a place to link to in the future. Working out in my 10’x14′ workshop on a cold day in January and shivering, I resolved to finally put in some heat. # ⚓ Wired ☛ China’s_Best_Self-Driving_Car_Platforms, Tested_and_Compared⠀⇛ But in China, a number of companies are steadily—and far more successfully—moving toward a similar destination, but via a different route. Since the introduction of XPilot with its first model, the G3, XPeng has been one of the leaders in autonomous driving in China. However, since then it has also been joined in the arena by the other two China EV startups, Nio and Li Auto. # ⚓ El País ☛ The_other_Bitcoin_rally:_How_scams_are cashing_in_on_the_cryptocurrency_fever⠀⇛ Industry sources explain that these scams can be designed to reach a specific audience. In Spain, for example, fraudulent schemes use the images of high-profile figures such as Amancio Ortega, the founder of Inditex, which owns fashion labels such as Zara. There is a lot of money to be main. In the United States, the Better Business Bureau estimates that the average scam victim loses $3,800. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong’s_Cathay_Pacific delays_capacity_target_to_2025_as_union_warns_permanent pay_cut_hinders_growth⠀⇛ Hong Kong’s flagship carrier Cathay Pacific is delaying its target for returning to pre- Covid capacity despite posting its first annual profit for four years, as the pilots’ union raised concerns that pandemic pay cuts would damage Hong Kong’s role as an aviation hub. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Kwita_Izina:_Where_Baby_Mountain Gorillas_Are_Introduced_to_the_World⠀⇛ # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ Degrowth_isn't_death⠀⇛ When I argue for degrowth the word I prefer to use is “sustainability” since that more clearly indicates that it’s not about mindless destruction; it’s about stewardship of limited resources. I’m for degrowth if sustainability is what’s meant by it. [I’m glad that people are trying to go to space] but the flimsy house of nothingness that capitalism has built on the lie of fossil fuels is gonna collapse and the only cure is working with sustainability in mind. # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ LS_polls:_Human-animal_conflict emerges_as_a_major_talking_point_in_Kerala⠀⇛ The ruling Left Democratic Front and the opposition United Democratic Front, led by the Congress are pushing for amendments to the Wildlife Act of 1972, which falls under the concurrent list. They argue that amendments are necessary to address the increasing incidents of human-animal conflicts. # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Brussels_warns_of_water_conflict danger_in_EU⠀⇛ Water scarcity risks sparking conflict among European Union countries unprepared for a warming world, the bloc’s executive will warn next week, according to a leaked document obtained by POLITICO. The stark message is part of a European Commission communiqué imploring EU governments to pick up the pace in their preparations to counter climate change, arguing they have fallen well short of what is necessary — a blunt warning that will serve as the EU’s last major climate initiative ahead of June’s bloc-wide elections. In an undated draft of the text seen by POLITICO, the Commission identifies water shortages as an issue that threatens nearly every aspect of life: the food we eat, the water we drink and the infrastructure that powers and transports society, not to mention basic economic activities and human health. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Taps_Run_Dry_in_Africa’s_Richest_City⠀⇛ The shortages, which have lasted nearly two weeks, have affected some 50% of Johannesburg Water’s supply area, officials said. The South African city has a population of almost 6 million people. Businesses have been hit hard, and several hospitals have been affected. Nurses at one medical center told local media that they were not able to wash their hands. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ stripe_payments:_Stripe_says_payment_volume surged_to_$1_trillion_last_year⠀⇛ Stripe Inc., the fintech, reported a 25% surge in volume last year, surpassing $1 trillion. Its valuation increased to $65 billion. Stripe's revenue-automation business is used by Atlassian Corp., Nasdaq Inc., and Hertz Global Holdings Inc. The company believes software-driven innovation will continue in the future. # ⚓ Jarrod Blundy ☛ One_a_Month_Club⠀⇛ Well, I’m not much more mentally awake right now, but I am excited to tell you about the One a Month Club. It’s an idea, inspired by Manu Moreale, that kindness from internet strangers can be enough to support a small web project. And that tiered membership overly complicates things. And that it’s hard enough to convince someone to pay anything to support your work, so why would you want to gate any of those fans from seeing what you’ve worked so hard on for them? # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ District_of_Columbia_scrambles_as_pandemic comeback_proves_elusive⠀⇛ Washington wrestles with a slow post-pandemic recovery, with wider lessons about cities redefining their future. # ⚓ Electronic_Arts_cutting_about_5%_of_workforce_with_layoffs ongoing_in_gaming_and_tech_sector⠀⇛ Electronic Arts is cutting about 5% of its workforce, or approximately 670 employees, as layoffs in the technology and gaming sector continue after a surge of hiring in recent years. The video game maker said in a regulatory filing that its board approved a restructuring plan that includes the layoffs, as well as closing some offices or facilities. The Redwood City, California, company had 13,400 workers globally as of March, 31, 2023, according to a filing. “While not every team will be impacted, this is the hardest part of these changes, and we have deeply considered every option to try and limit impacts to our teams,” said CEO Andrew Wilson. “Our primary goal is to provide team members with opportunities to find new roles and paths to transition onto other projects.” # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Indian_CEO_quits_high-paying_Microsoft job_in_US_to_launch_startup:_‘Got_bored’⠀⇛ An Indian CEO revealed that he had been working with Microsoft in Hyderabad for three years when he was shifted to the company's headquarters in Redmond. There, Ruchit Garg, worked as a technical programme manager for three more years before quitting in 2011. After this, he returned to India to launch a startup for farmers. How much did the Microsoft job pay? ₹1 crore per annum when he left the job, he said. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ America_Will_Be_Fine_Without_TikTok⠀⇛ The app isn’t helping itself. Over the past week, the company has repeatedly sent its users push alerts urging them to call their representatives to express their love of the app, and many did just that—which likely inflamed concerns from politicians that TikTok could be used for propaganda. But there are more fundamental issues as well. Those who are loyal to TikTok will tell you that the good old days are long gone. It went from a plaything for regular people—the dancing tweens, the animal antics—to a stage for brands and creators, and continues to make moves that push itself further from its original premise. It is experimenting with videos up to 15 minutes long, as well as ones filmed horizontally—which sounds a lot more like YouTube than TikTok. Perhaps the biggest change is TikTok Shop, the app’s foray into e- commerce. Users have lamented that the feature is turning the algorithmic “For You” feed into a de facto QVC livestream, with commission-based videos touting cheap and useless goods encouraged to interrupt users’ feeds. And most recently, the app’s music catalog, the backbone of its robust video-trend culture, was slashed after TikTok failed to reach a deal with Universal Music Group. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_Happens_Next_With_the_TikTok_Ban Bill⠀⇛ The video social media app isn’t disappearing from smartphones any time soon. The legislative process is still in its early stages after the House’s passage of a bill mandating a sale by the app’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, or be banned. Next, the bill is heading to a skeptical Senate, after which President Biden would need to sign it into law. Even after that, it might not happen. Here’s what to expect. # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Trump_Approached_Elon_Musk About_Truth_Social_Acquisition,_Here's_How_The_Proposal Unfolded⠀⇛ Last summer, former President Donald Trump reportedly asked Elon Musk whether the billionaire would entertain the idea of acquiring his social network, Truth Social, as reported by two individuals familiar with the conversation. Much to Trump's chagrin, the initial approach to Musk, whose expansive business portfolio encompasses Tesla, SpaceX, xAI and social networking site X, did not culminate in a deal. However, this previously unreported conversation sheds light on the level of communication between the two men. # ⚓ The North Lines IN ☛ GPS-enabled_tracking_systems_to_be installed_in_J&K_poll_duty_vehicles⠀⇛ In keeping with the directions of the Election Commission, Jammu and Kashmir's election department will procure GPS-enabled tracking systems for 12,500 poll duty vehicles for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in the Union Territory. # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Uzbekistan_aiming_to_become_world’s_IT outsourcing_hub⠀⇛ Uzbekistan is planning to become the world’s IT outsourcing hub, displacing traditional locations India and China, delegates heard at the first Uzbekistan Outsourcing Conference on 7 March in New York. In India, escalating labor costs and high levels of employee churn are eroding its competitive edge while China’s outsourcing landscape is fraught with regulatory complexities and intellectual property concerns, casting a shadow of uncertainty over foreign investments. # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ House_passes_bill_that_could_ban Fentanylware_(TikTok)_despite_resistance_from_Trump⠀⇛ The House voted with bipartisan, overwhelming fashion on Wednesday to pass a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban against TikTok, a major challenge to one of the world’s most popular social control media apps. # ⚓ Reason ☛ TikTok's_Opponents_Want_Chinese-style_Censorship in_America [Ed: No, it is trying to prevent this Chinese- style censorship in America]⠀⇛ Instead of freeing Americans from censorship, the Fentanylware (TikTok) bill would tighten the U.S. government's control over social control media. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ House_of_Representatives_passes_bill_that could_lead_to_Fentanylware_(TikTok)_ban_or_sale⠀⇛ The House of Representatives today passed a bill that could ban Fentanylware (TikTok) in the U.S. or lead to its separation from Beijing-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, as the bill is known, was approved with a vote of 352-65. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ TikTok_Forced-Sale_Bill_Advances_With Bipartisan_House_Approval_—_Stage_Set_for_Key_Senate_Vote⠀⇛ The House has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would compel ByteDance to divest from (or shut down) Fentanylware (TikTok) in the U.S. – setting the stage for a high-profile Senate vote. 352 representatives supported the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act today, after the measure exited committee in a unanimous vote last week. # ⚓ France24 ☛ US_House_of_Representatives_overwhelmingly passes_Fentanylware_(TikTok)_ban_bill⠀⇛ The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill on Wednesday that would force Fentanylware (TikTok) to divest from its Chinese owner or be banned from the United States. # ⚓ France24 ☛ US_House_poised_to_pass_Fentanylware_(TikTok) crackdown_bill_forcing_it_to_cut_ties_with_Chinese_owner⠀⇛ The US House of Representatives will vote Wednesday on a bill that would force Fentanylware (TikTok) to cut ties with its Chinese owner or get banned in the United States. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US_House_passes_bill_that_may_force Fentanylware_(TikTok)_to_divest_from_Chinese_owner_or_face ban⠀⇛ By Alex Pigman The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill on Wednesday that would force Fentanylware (TikTok) to divest from its Chinese owner or be banned from the United States. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ House_of_Representatives_approves_bill_to_ban Fentanylware_(TikTok)_in_US⠀⇛ The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill that could ban Fentanylware (TikTok) in the US. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ US_House_of_Representatives_Approves_Fentanylware (TikTok)_Ban⠀⇛ Lawmakers Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi argued that this platform poses a "security threat." # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Australia_PM_rules_out_US-style Fentanylware_(TikTok)_ban⠀⇛ “We will take advice but we have no plans to do that,” Mr Albanese said. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_a_Sale_of_Fentanylware_(TikTok)_Would Not_Be_Easy⠀⇛ As legislation moves ahead that could eventually mandate a sale by the Chinese parent company ByteDance, hurdles include finding buyers. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Thursday_Briefing⠀⇛ The U.S. House passes a bill that could ban TikTok. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Thursday_Briefing:_U.S._Targets_TikTok⠀⇛ Also, aid to northern Gaza and whimsical wooden automatons # ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_to_Know_About_the_Fentanylware_ (TikTok)_Bill_That_the_House_Passed⠀⇛ The bill, which would force TikTok’s Chinese parent to sell the popular social control media app, faces a difficult path in the Senate. # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ ‘Elon_Musk_is_mad_at_me',_Don_Lemon responds_after_X_owner_‘cancels’_him⠀⇛ Elon Musk has abruptly cancelled "The Don Lemon Show" on his social media network X after the former CNN anchor recorded an interview with the billionaire for its yet-to-be-aired first episode. Snippets of the interview are being widely circulated. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Don_Lemon_says_Elon_Musk_canceled_his_new_show after_"tense"_interview⠀⇛ Between the lines: Since Musk purchased Twitter, the platform has been lenient to those who post hateful or extremist content while cracking down on other forms of speech. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Government_Gaslighting_Again?:_Unpacking the_Uncomfortable_Reality_of_the_Online_Harms_Act⠀⇛ The Online Harms Act was only introduced two weeks ago, but it already appears the government is ready to run back the same playbook of gaslighting and denials that plagued Bills C-11 and C-18. Those bills, which addressed Internet streaming and news, faced widespread criticism over potential regulation of user content and the prospect of blocked news links on major Internet platforms. Rather than engage in a policy process that took the criticism seriously, the government ignored digital creators (including disrespecting indigenous creators) and dismissed the risks of Bill C-18 as a bluff. The results of that strategy are well-known: Bill C-11 required a policy direction fix and is mired in a years-long regulatory process at the CRTC and news links have been blocked for months on Meta as the list of Canadian media bankruptcies and closures mount. # ⚓ RTL ☛ Protecting_citizens:_EU_parliament_adopts 'pioneering'_rules_on_AI⠀⇛ EU chief Ursula von der Leyen hailed the vote ushering in a "pioneering framework for innovative AI, with clear guardrails." "This will benefit Europe's fantastic pool of talents. And set a blueprint for trustworthy AI throughout the world," she said on X. The text passed with support from 523 EU lawmakers, with 46 voting against. The EU's 27 states are expected to endorse the law in April before publication in the bloc's Official Journal in May or June. # ⚓ RTL ☛ Officially_adopted:_What's_included_in_the_new_EU_law on_AI⠀⇛ The EU will take a staggered approach to applying the law. Outright bans on forms of AI considered highest- risk will kick in later this year, while rules on systems like ChatGPT will apply 12 months after the law enters into force, and the rest of the provisions in 2026. # ⚓ France24 ☛ EU_parliament_approves_landmark_AI_law [Ed: Seems more like a COMMERCIAL or HYPE for BS like CHATBOTS, falsely marketed. To quote Locus Magazine ☛ a_recent_article: "Our policymakers are putting a lot of energy into thinking about what they’ll do if the AI bubble doesn’t pop – wrangling about “AI ethics” and “AI safety.” But – as with all the previous tech bubbles – very few people are talking about what we’ll be able to salvage when the bubble is over."]⠀⇛ The far-reaching regulation passed with the support of 523 lawmakers in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, with 46 voting against. The EU's 27 states are expected to endorse the text in April before the law is published in the EU's Official Journal in May or June. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Absolutely_Not_Photographic:_Dems_Bring_the Babbling_Receipts⠀⇛ Amidst a fraught political landscape where totalitarian clouds loom, we celebrate House Democrats whose smarts and prowess may yet save us. Thus did a hearing on special counsel Robert Hur's hit job on classified documents - which only charged Biden with being a "well-meaning, elderly man" - turn into another hot mess for GOP hacks and yahoos after Dems laid bare Hur's lies and their demented stable genius yammering word salad into the unseemly air. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ EFF ☛ Protect_Yourself_from_Election_Misinformation⠀⇛ So… what’re you going to do about it?  As EFF’s Corynne McSherry wrote in 2020, online election disinformation is a problem that has had real consequences in the U.S. and all over the world—it has been correlated to ethnic violence in Myanmar and India and to Kenya’s 2017 elections, among other events. Still, election misinformation and disinformation continue to proliferate online and off.  That being said, regulation is not typically an effective or human rights-respecting way to address election misinformation. Even well-meaning efforts to control election misinformation through regulation inevitably end up silencing a range of dissenting voices and hindering the ability to challenge ingrained systems of oppression. Indeed, any content regulation must be scrutinized to avoid inadvertently affecting meaningful expression: Is the approach narrowly tailored or a categorical ban? Does it empower users? Is it transparent? Is it consistent with human rights principles?  # ⚓ “Poor,_poor_pitiful_me”:_Was_Martin_Kulldorff_fired by_Harvard?⠀⇛ If there is one narrative that is a constant among purveyors of misinformation, pseudoscience, quackery, and conspiracy theories, it’s a persecution narrative. In the realm of medicine and health, for instance, brave maverick doctors (like, for example, Martin Kulldorff) promoting antivaccine views and quackery, as well as the conspiracy theories that undergird them, always portray themselves as the hero persecuted by the medical and scientific establishment. While it is true that there have been physicians with alternative medical theories who were unfairly ostracized and persecuted but turned out to be right (e.g., Ignaz Semmelweis), in the vast majority of cases, the immortal words of Carl Sagan apply: “But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Alibaba_to_invest_HK$5_billion in_Hong_Kong_entertainment_sector⠀⇛ The five-year project, dubbed the “Hong Kong Cultural and Art Industry Revitalisation Program,” would concentrate on film production and distribution, rights acquisitions and television series production, a government statement read. Unveiled during the Hong Kong International Film and TV Market exhibition, the programme would also offer investments in concerts, collaboration with performance venues, and talent development. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ EFF ☛ SXSW_Tried_to_Silence_Critics_with_Bogus_Trademark and_Copyright_Claims._EFF_Fought_Back.⠀⇛ Amid heavy criticism for its ties to weapons manufacturers supplying Israel, South by Southwest—the organizer of an annual conference and music festival in Austin—has been on the defensive. One tool in their arsenal: bogus trademark and copyright claims against local advocacy group Austin for Palestine Coalition. The Austin for Palestine Coalition has been a major source of momentum behind recent anti-SXSW protests. Their efforts have included organizing rallies outside festival stages and hosting an alternative music festival in solidarity with Palestine. They have also created social media posts explaining the controversy, criticizing SXSW, and calling on readers to email SXSW with demands for action. The group’s posts include graphics that modify SXSW’s arrow logo to add blood-stained fighter jets. Other images incorporate patterns evoking SXSW marketing materials overlaid with imagery like a bomb or a bleeding dove. Days after the posts went up, SXSW sent a cease- and-desist letter to Austin for Palestine, accusing them of trademark and copyright infringement and demanding they take down the posts. Austin for Palestine later received an email from Instagram indicating that SXSW had reported the post for violating their trademark rights. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ India_blocks_YouTube_access_to_Canadian investigative_documentary_on_killing_of_Sikh_activist⠀⇛ CBC reported Wednesday that India blocked access on YouTube and X to a Canadian investigative documentary focused on the alleged involvement of the Indian government in the murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was killed last June in British Columbia, Canada. The CBC Fifth Estate documentary, released last Friday, connects Nijjar ‘s death to a murder-for- hire plot by the Indian government and notes India’s current and past targeting of Sikh Canadians. Since Nijjar’s death, no arrests or suspects have been named by the Canadian authorities. # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ The_Chinese_Communist_Party_wants_(a_bit) less_consumer_[Internet]⠀⇛ The incident hints that President Xi Jinping has little appetite for another harsh tech crackdown of the sort that torched about $1trn in shareholder value between early 2021 and late 2022; on January 2nd Reuters reported that an official behind the draft gaming rules had been fired. But it is also a reminder that the government dislikes Chinese big tech’s big presence in citizens’ everyday lives—and that it would anyway prefer entrepreneurs and investors to focus on serious things like chipmaking, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) for industry. # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Sisters_in_Afghanistan_are_defying_the Taliban_with_their_music_movement⠀⇛ Marked by severe restrictions, women in Afghanistan are being denied their basic rights and freedoms under Taliban rule, which returned in 2021. Among those women, however, are two sisters who have launched their own form of movement against oppression through music. Clad in blue burqa, they started a music movement called the Last Torch. Protected by anonymity, they took it upon themselves to perform songs which resonated with many women across their country. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Iran_Arrests_Four_Over_Video_of_Woman's_Argument With_Cleric⠀⇛ Iran has arrested four people on suspicion of giving a foreign-based broadcaster video of an argument between a Shiite cleric and a woman not wearing the mandatory headscarf, Iranian media reported Tuesday. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Daily_Mail_podcast_chief_Jamie_East_on publisher’s_rapidly_expanding_audio_empire⠀⇛ The Trial of Lucy Letby kickstarted the Mail's arrival into podcasts and 19 are now in pre- production. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ EU_approves_new_media_freedom_law⠀⇛ The new law prohibits authorities from forcing journalists and editors to disclose their sources, including through detention, surveillance and office raids. During negotiations, France had pushed for "national security" exceptions. The final law did not include national security carve-outs but does allow authorities to use spyware on journalists if a number of serious violations are identified and only with judicial approval. The Media Freedom Act also focuses on transparency. It stipulates that board members of public media outlets must be selected through open and fair processes, and they cannot be removed from their positions prematurely unless they no longer meet professional criteria. # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Pirates_on_the_European_Media_Freedom_Act: Criticism_must_not_be_silenced⠀⇛ Today, the Members of the European Parliament adopted the Media Freedom Act. The rules drawn up are intended to better protect journalists from arbitrary content removal on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter and from spyware attacks such as those carried out using the Pegasus software. Pirate MEPs voted in favour of the law, but criticise the lack of a ban on spying on journalists. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Jeff Bridgforth ☛ Accessibility_journey_-_Oops⠀⇛ She also shared with me a not-so-accessible part of my post. I have a callout in the post that links to a resource I mentioned in the post. Since writing that post, I did a site refresh where I introduced a light and dark theme. But in the post, I had added inline styles to the callout. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Iran’s_Fars_News_Agency_Stirs_Misinformation About_Leaked_Hospital_CCTV_Footage⠀⇛ The video shows a brief conflict between a young woman and a man dressed in a robe traditionally worn by Islamic clergymen in Iran. While the CCTV footage does not show what caused the conflict, Iranian media news reports, as well as captions added to the same video clip posted on X and YouTube, indicate that the woman was cradling her sick child when her hijab slipped down her shoulders and the cleric started recording her on his mobile phone. The woman protested being recorded and asked that the footage to be deleted, which the man refused to do. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Lily_Allen_Says_Having_Kids_Ruined_Her Pop_Career_—_‘It_Does_Not_Mix’⠀⇛ Singer Lily Allen sparks debate online after saying having children ‘ruined’ her music career. Social media is in an uproar after singer Lily Allen stated in an appearance on The Radio Times podcast that her children “ruined” her music career. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Stanford University ☛ How_to_Strengthen_the_FCC’s_Proposed Net_Neutrality_Protections_by_Closing_Loopholes_and_Matching the_2015_Open_Internet_Order⠀⇛ The Federal Communications Commission is looking to restore net neutrality for all Americans. The FCC published its proposal, a so-called Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), in October 2023. The comments period ended in mid-January. A vote is expected in late April. When the FCC announced it would be restoring the net neutrality protections that the FCC eliminated in 2017, the agency said it wanted to restore the 2015 net neutrality protections. # ⚓ Stanford University ☛ How_to_Strengthen_the_Open_Internet NPRM_by_Closing_Loopholes_and_Matching_the_2015_Open_Internet Protections [PDF]⠀⇛ But the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking misses some critical protections in the 2015 Order, creating potential loopholes for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to exploit. These include provisions concerning: • Throttling: The proposed rules inadequately address the issue of ISPs manipulating internet traffic by speeding up applications or classes of applications. The 2024 protections need to explicitly prohibit both negative and positive discrimination among apps. • Reasonable Network Management: The NPRM misses a crucial part of the 2015 Order’s definition of “reasonable network management,” which opens a loophole that ISPs could exploit to circumvent net neutrality principles. Reasonable network management must be as application-agnostic as possible and technically justified. • Specialized Services/Non-BIAS Data Services: ISPs are seeking to bypass Open Internet protections under the guise of “specialized services,” particularly with 5G fast lanes. The FCC needs to prevent ISPs from exploiting this label to create fast lanes that are otherwise prohibited. [...] # ⚓ APNIC ☛ IPv6,_DNS,_and_truncation_in_UDP⠀⇛ In February I looked at the behaviour of the DNS when processing responses in UDP, which set the truncated flag in the DNS response. In particular, I was looking for the incidence of DNS resolvers that used the answer section in truncated responses (despite the admonition in DNS standards not to do so) and the extent to which there are DNS resolvers out there that are incapable of using DNS over TCP. This month I’ll report on a repeat of this experiment using a test environment where only IPv6 can be used. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ One_checklist_at_a_time:_Towards_simplifying satellite_Internet_access_in_the_Asia_Pacific⠀⇛ Enter the Internet Law Research Clinic (ILRC) at Bond University. Their solution is a comprehensive checklist poised to simplify satellite-driven Internet access in the Asia Pacific. Created for APNIC and its Members with support from the APNIC Foundation, this checklist unravels the legal and licensing complexities and demystifies the rules and regulations. Digital connectivity is no longer a luxury but a lifeline, and this checklist will support providers and users on their journey towards a more connected and inclusive future. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Over_Half_the_U.S._Pays_for_Music Streaming_or_Other_Audio:_Study⠀⇛ The sum jumps to 136 million “if SiriusXM and Amazon Prime music listeners are included,” per the research company, indicating also that “over half the population are paying for an audio subscription.” (The statement reflects extrapolated results from the above-noted surveys and refers particularly to consumers age 13 and up.) § Monopolies/Monopsonies⠀➾ o ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Bullies_want_you_to_think_they’re_on_your_side_(13 Mar_2024)_–_Pluralistic:_Daily_links_from_Cory_Doctorow⠀⇛ It's a tried-and-true bullying tactic: convince your victim that only you can keep them safe so they surrender their agency to you, so the victim comes under your power and can't escape your cruelty and exploitation. The focus on external threats is key: so long as the victim is more afraid of the dangers beyond the bully's cage than they are of the bully, they can be lured deeper and deeper until the cage-door slams shut. o ⚓ Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ Apple's_walled_garden_is_under attack⠀⇛ Apple announced the changes to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which kicked in last week. The changes could dent the high profit margins and steady stream of revenue that Apple has come to rely on from its App Store, where it charges developers fees of up to 30%. The changes, which affect only the EU, come amid continuing criticism from rivals that Apple’s compliance efforts are falling short. o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ RTL ☛ OpenAI_partners_with_Le_Monde_and_Prisa_Media⠀⇛ In the coming months, ChatGPT users will be able to get summaries of news content from the publishers along with links to original articles, according to OpenAI. # ⚓ India Times ☛ ChatGPT_users_to_get_access_to_news_content from_Le_Monde,_Prisa_Media⠀⇛ ChatGPT users will get access to French and Spanish news content from Le Monde and Prisa Media, Microsoft-backed OpenAI said on Wednesday, disclosing its partnership with the media publications. The content will also be used to train generative artificial intelligence models, it said amid growing popularity of the technology and its influence across various sectors. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ NYT_responds_to_OpenAI's_allegations_of ChatGPT_manipulation⠀⇛ It also claims that the AI company, in which Microsoft has invested heavily (upwards of $10 billion), hadn't even touched on the lead claim that the NYT's copyright was infringed by pulling its content to train and operate AI models. "OpenAI," the filing says, "does not move to dismiss the lead claim that it infringed The Times's copyrights to train and operate its latest models." # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Oppenheimer_Sees_New_Online_Piracy_Surge After_Oscar_Wins⠀⇛ Oppenheimer was one of the most-watched movies in theaters last year, grossing nearly a billion dollars in box office revenues. For several months, the movie has been widely available on pirate sites too. While one might think that all demand would be satisfied, winning the Oscar for 'Best Picture' more than doubled the interest on pirate sites this week. The same Oscar boost affects other titles as well. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Pirate_IPTV_User_Fines_"Coming_Soon"_But Are_Not_"Psychological_Terrorism"⠀⇛ The head of Italy's telecoms regulator says fines of up to 5,000 euros for watching pirate IPTV streams are coming soon. Massimiliano Capitanio says users of apps downloaded from Google, Apple, and Amazon, will receive the same treatment, while confirming that investigators won't have to obtain per-person permission from a court anymore. Italians are assured, however, that warning them of the risk of 5,000 euro fines is definitely not "psychological terrorism." ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 7206 ➮ Generation completed at 02:49, i.e. 7 seconds to (re)generate ⟲