Today, EFF sent complaints to the attorneys general of California and New York urging them to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices over Google's broken promises to users targeted by the government 🧵(1/4) www.eff.org/press/relea...
Really important story from @wired.com: The Christian Nationalists who want to destroy the American secular state are now making their presence felt
www.wired.com/story/govern...
And yeah I know this is a bot, throwing thoughts to the wind
N.b.
Decided to double check the current login state. I can't even view my old profile on twitter anymore without being forced to login to the app.
On the other hand, with meta stuff like insta and FB I can see the top post but not go through many comments before getting shoved towards login
Additionally you can view top post content as a non-user more reliably on those platforms, Vs Twitter pushing for more requirements to login in what seems to be inconsistent enforcement (2/2)
I'd wager it's unlikely for Twitter to be someone in the target audience's sole platform
At least in my experience, I've plenty of family and friends who still use one of those remaining platforms as their only choice, usually insta or tiktok with some older relatives still using Facebook (1/2)
An Oklahoma farmer speaking out against a new proposed datacenter found himself in handcuffs after he went a few seconds over his time at a city council meeting.
Now, he vows to fight back.
By declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional, the Justice Department is effectively claiming that the presidency has private ownership over the American story.
It doesn't.
@laurenleharper.bsky.social latest for @theintercept.com on why the DOJ's history killer memo can't stand:
NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.
Remote shutter release so you don't shift things
If you have trouble keeping paper flat you can use a wood box with holes drilled and a vacuum to hold it flat.
I'd still think a scanner would be better having seem your trad art in person but it can be harder larger items and thicker things.
(3/3)
Turn off room lights unless you can carefully colour match them and reduce shadows.
A neutral white balance card helps with doing post colour correction and can be had pretty cheap.
RAW output on the camera so you have more control for colour.
(2/n)
If you use a camera over a scanner, a good copy stand helps. Use manual focus and the copy stand may have a more controllable focus knob
A circular light mounted to the front of the lens like a macro flash does well if you don't have space/resources for a lot of lights.
(1/n)
And she has since been deported.
Link here:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Veracrypt and Wireguard both had their signing capabilities pulled without notice nor explanation.
This is ridiculous and just another reason to not trust Microsoft for pretty much anything these days.
A set of screenshots from DEEP SPACE NINE. An old Klingon throws his arms around Dax and shouts "Curzon, my beloved old friend!" Dax returns the hug and says "I'm Jadzia now." The Klingon grabs her shoulders, smiles, and says "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"
Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social
Mayor Mamdani is right.
Families in New York City deserve free child care.
But it’s not just New York. Instead of giving tax breaks to billionaires, Congress must pass a universal child care bill to guarantee high-quality child care for every American family.
We’re at the ICE agents in airports stage of authoritarianism 🇺🇸
If it comes to a strike I'm pulling my monthly contributions.
As a member of the so-called Gang of Eight—a bipartisan group of lawmakers who are briefed on highly sensitive classified information—Himes possesses some of the deepest knowledge of the spy program. Nevertheless, his letter contains several other claims that appear fundamentally at odds with the mechanics of FISA oversight. “Because of how heavily it is overseen by all three branches of government,” Himes says, “any effort to misuse the program would almost certainly become known to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and to Congress.” The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is a secret court that possesses no investigative arm to audit FBI databases. Similar to Congress, its oversight role is purely reactive, relying entirely on the US Justice Department to self-report violations.
Current safeguards rely on FBI attorneys and supervisors to approve sensitive searches. But under last year’s overhaul of the federal workforce, personnel in those legal and management tiers were stripped of key civil service protections. Failing to “implement administrative policies” is now a fireable offense. The change has effectively neutralized the independence of the bureau’s middle management, which has been further gutted by politically motivated firings that—according to a federal lawsuit filed by former high-ranking FBI officials—Patel privately acknowledged were “likely illegal.” As a consequence, the "high-level approval" Himes cites as a key shield against abuse now exists as a mechanism for political loyalists to promote domestic surveillance targets that align with the administration’s agenda.
Himes’ pitch relies on the “56 reforms” passed by Congress in 2024, which codified the FBI’s own internal protocols as a substitute for constitutional warrants. In the letter, Himes claims these changes are “working as intended” to prevent domestic misuse, citing a compliance rate “exceeding 99 percent” over the past two years. The structural foundations of that defense, however, have been fundamentally altered by recent changes within the FBI. Himes’ “99 percent” compliance metric was produced by the Office of Internal Auditing, for instance—a unit that long served as a smoke alarm designed to detect illegality, but no longer exists. The unit was shuttered by FBI director Kash Patel last year. Historic court opinions based on its data had previously exposed hundreds of thousands of improper FBI searches. Without the auditors required to calculate failure rates, the compliance mechanisms Himes points to have effectively ceased to function.
lot of bizarre claims from a congressman whose job all but rules out the possibility he isn't well informed
www.wired.com/story/a-top-...
*sigh*
Yes, married women is by far the largest individual group of people who have changed their names and so would face procedural hurdles to vote under the Act.
But they're not the only people who have changed their names. My husband, for example, took my name when we got married.
Can't wait to see it myself. One of my favourites, and especially as an audiobook!
Until I see the movie I need someone to watch me sleep
The Jehovah’s Witnesses Are Back Abusing Copyright Law To Unmask Their Critics. Again.
EFF announced last week that it has stepped in to defend yet another anonymous Jehovah's Witness critic from having their identity exposed through bogus copyright claims. The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society…
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal was evacuated from Afghanistan by the United States in 2021 because he helped US forces fight against the Taliban. He was kidnapped by ICE on Friday morning while dropping his children off at school, and by Saturday morning he was dead, leaving behind his wife & 6 children.
1. In the most extreme bathroom ban moving in the nation, Idaho's House has passed a bathroom ban with a potential 5 year prison sentence for 2nd offense-using the bathroom.
It even counts "offenses" of using the bathroom in other states.
It now moves to the Senate.
NEW: An insolvency judge in England tossed out testimony after discovering a witness was being coached on what to say in real time through a pair of smartglasses. When the voice of the coach started coming through the cellphone after it was disconnected from the glasses, the witness blamed ChatGPT.
This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit.
www.cato.org/white-paper/...
Pretty accurate except Polaris is missing all its red rings
a big set of Spirit 2K film scanners. they look cool as fuck. they're beautiful brushed stainless steel on the sides and a big glass view door to watch the film transport mechanims they're in a garage
so we rescued a set of cinema film scanners
does anyone need a set of cinema film scanners?
if you have a need for a cinema film scanner (or can give it a good home!), and can arrange to have it transported from the Seattle area, message me on fedi or e-mail me at hello@alyx.sh
