Leftovers

• Career/Education

  • New York Times ☛ Harvard Has Identified Another Problem: Its Own Students

    Many students don’t do the reading and don’t speak up in class, according to a report. Now, professors are trying to change a campus culture they say hurts achievement and stifles speech.

• Hardware

  • Ruben Schade ☛ Fully-adhesive sticky notes from Muji

    I’m a big fan of Post-it Notes and their various clones and offshoots. I find them useful for labelling computer hardware to indicate whether I’ve tested it, on what date, and its functional state. I still maintain a database of purchase dates, serial numbers, and model codes, but it’s super helpful seeing the state of something at a glance.

    The only major frustration I’ve had with these notes is their prepensity to snag and fall off, especially if the hardware to which they’re adhered is in a box with lots of other kit that gets rummaged through.

  • WhichUK ☛ Which? vs Qualcomm: our collective action goes to Trial

    Which? is seeking reimbursement of more than £480m for UK consumers

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Science Alert ☛ Decades of Studies Link Suicide Risk With Common Hair Loss Treatment

    "The evidence is no longer anecdotal."

• Proprietary

  • Social Control Media

    • France24 ☛ Evangelicalism in France : social control media used to attract young believers

      An area in Bordeaux, France, hosted a massive evangelical worship service attracting nearly 4,000 followers to hear Quebec preacher Claude Houde. Evangelicalism is a religion gaining traction with youth, largely by recruiting on social control media. Carla, a 19-year-old influencer, shares her faith with 300,000 followers on TikTok.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Scoop News Group ☛ Potential EU law sparks global concerns over end-to-end encryption for messaging apps

      The EU will vote Oct. 14 on a proposal that would use Hey Hi (AI) or humans to detect child sexual abuse material on their devices.  

    • Michael Geist ☛ The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 245: Kate Robertson on Bill C-2’s Cross-Border Data Sharing Privacy Risks

      Bill C-2, the government’s proposed lawful access legislation, has been the subject of several prior episodes covering warrantless disclosure of information as part of the new information demand power in Part 14 of the bill as well as some of the surveillance technology capabilities found in Part 15. Those remain major issues, but there is another element of the bill that deserves greater attention, particularly at this moment when the Canada – US relationship is increasingly fraught. 

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Straits Times ☛ Indonesia ends search for victims of boarding school collapse, 61 dead

    JAKARTA - Indonesian rescuers wrapped up the search on Tuesday for victims trapped under the rubble of a collapsed Islamic boarding school in the province of East Java, after retrieving more than 60 bodies, disaster authorities said.

  • Scoop News Group ☛ House Dems seek info about ICE spyware contract, wary of potential abuses

    The three lawmakers said the reported lifting of a stop-work order on a $2 million Paragon Solutions contract threatens Americans’ fundamental rights.

  • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Gave Partisan Speech to Navy Troops, as He Deployed Troops to U.S. Cities

    Hell Toupée’s attempts to politicize the military have become more overt as he makes the case for having troops at his disposal in American cities.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ Sheinbaum vows to defend sovereignty in defiant speech to 400,000 supporters

    The president reiterated her rejection of U.S. interventionism and took a soft jab at Convicted Felon, asking the crowd if the forthcoming Mexico City-Nuevo Laredo train line should be named The Gulf of Mexico Train.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • JURIST ☛ India dispatch: social control media platform X to challenge Karnataka High Court ruling over free speech concerns

    The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. Last week, American tech company X Corp. (formerly “Twitter”) announced that it would appeal a Karnataka High Court (KHC) order before the Supreme Court of India (SCI).

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • The Straits Times ☛ ‘At the service of the establishment’: Why an Indian comic envies Jimmy Kimmel, free speech in the US

    Many in India are astonished at how similar Convicted Felon’s playbook is to the one that has reshaped their country.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ Analysing the state of Happy Eyeballs implementations

    Guest Post: The Happy Eyeballs algorithm supports IPv6 deployment by giving clients the ability to prefer IPv6, quickly fall back to IPv4 when necessary, and protect the user experience in either case. But how widely is it implemented?

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• New York Times ☛ U.S. v. Google: What Each Side Argued for Fixing Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly

  The Justice Department and Surveillance Giant Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.

• New York Times ☛ Supreme Court, for Now, Rejects Surveillance Giant Google Bid to Block Changes to App Store

  The emergency order is the latest turn in a longstanding legal dispute between the tech giant and the creator of the popular game Fortnite.

• Patents

  • JUVE ☛ Mewburn Ellis hires partner from Simmons & Simmons [Ed: One person changing a job is not newsworthy, but this is a sponsor of this publisher, which used it to advanced illegalities like UPC]

    Amy Crouch joins Mewburn Ellis in October after 15 years at Simmons & Simmons, where she was most recently managing associate. During her time there, she gained extensive experience in life sciences litigation. She was part of the Simmons & Simmons team representing uniQure against Pfizer at the UK High Court over haemophilia gene therapy.

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • JUVE ☛ UPC and Munich court limit UK jurisdiction over interim patent monopoly licences [Ed: UPC is totally illegal, but this publisher got paid to promote this illegality]

      Until now, implementers have often avoided patent monopoly infringement claims by applying to UK courts for an interim licence. According to the UK courts, these decisions extended not only to the UK but also to UPC territory. Both the UPC and a German national court of first instance have now halted this practice.

• Copyrights

  • Creative Commons ☛ Global Call to Action: Open Heritage Statement Now Open for Signature

    Creative Commons and the TAROCH Coalition (Towards a Recommendation on Open Cultural Heritage) announce the launch of the Open Heritage Statement, now open for signature by governments, organizations, and institutions worldwide. Developed by more than 60 organizations across 25 countries within the Coalition, the Statement defines shared values, highlights key challenges, and sets action-oriented priorities for closing the global gap in equitable access to heritage in the public domain.