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Angry and Frustrated South Bend Residents Just Confronted Mayor Pete Over Fatal Police Shooting

In South Bend, Indiana, a nearly two-hour town hall turned tense when mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg took questions in the aftermath of recent police-involved shooting that killed a black man.  Sergeant Ryan O’Neill shot Eric Logan, 53, last Sunday while responding to reports that Logan was breaking into cars. Authorities say that Logan […]

Today's piece in the Mercury News:

Headline: New generation of tech firms urges stronger privacy laws

Reject Big Tech efforts to weaken California law and regulate us. Seriously.

By Purism CEO, @todd and Brave CEO, @BrendanEich

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/23/6139396/

The solution to antibiotic resistance could be in your kitchen sponge

Researchers have discovered bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, living in their kitchen sponges. As the threat of antibiotic resistance increases, bacteriophages, or phages for short, may prove useful in fighting bacteria that cannot be killed by antibiotics alone.

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/22/cbp-border-searches-journalists/

CBP agents: cops not bounded by the constitution, with near-unlimited power and visions of grandeur that make them the perfect fascist group to terrorize all that come through the border

A vision of a possible future in the whole US (not just the border) if neo-neo-conservatives continue to hold power in the US

Album Review: The Aggrolites “REGGAE NOW!”

The Aggrolites have returned with their sixth studio album REGGAE NOW! a continuation of their unique brand of funky soulful skinhead reggae. This organ driven “dirty reggae” has almost never felt so tight and cohesive as what they put on display here. “Pound for Pound” opens the album with a self-promotional dance number. “Boss of […]

The post Album Review: The Aggrolites “REGGAE NOW!” appeared first on Dying Scene.

André Staltz - Software below the poverty line
https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html @kyle good article @todd

“First-generation fact-checking” is no longer good enough. Here’s what comes next » Nieman Journalism Lab https://prismo.xyz/posts/3fdd826c-0a7a-48d7-9201-0212af75b79b

Protestors Want Mayor Pete to Address Racial Violence in His Hometown. On the Campaign Trail, He’s Dodging the Issue.

In one of his first appearances back on the campaign trail since a white police officer shot and killed a black man in his city, South Bend mayor and 2020 Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg addressed the violence before a crowd of Democrats in South Carolina, an early primary state with a large black population. Buttigieg […]

Scientists map huge undersea fresh-water aquifer off U.S. Northeast

In a new survey of the sub-seafloor off the U.S. Northeast coast, scientists have made a surprising discovery: a gigantic aquifer of relatively fresh water trapped in porous sediments lying below the salty ocean. It appears to be the largest such formation yet found in the world.

New study maps how ocean currents connect the world's fisheries

It's a small world after all -- especially when it comes to marine fisheries, with a new study revealing they form a single network, with over $10 billion worth of fish each year being caught in a country other than the one in which it spawned.

Upcycling process brings new life to old jeans

A growing population, rising standards of living and quickly changing fashions send mountains of clothing waste to the world's landfills each year. Although processes for textile recycling exist, they tend to be inefficient and expensive. Now, researchers have reported an efficient, low-cost method that can convert waste denim into viscose-type fibers that are either white or the original color of the garment.

U.S. military consumes more hydrocarbons than most countries -- massive hidden impact on climate

Research shows the US military is one of the largest climate polluters in history, consuming more liquid fuels and emitting more CO2e (carbon-dioxide equivalent) than most countries.

Gut bacteria associated with chronic pain for first time

A research team has shown, for the first time, that there are alterations in the bacteria in the gastrointestinal tracts of people with fibromyalgia. Approximately 20 different species of bacteria were found in either greater or are lesser quantities in the microbiomes of participants suffering from the disease than in the healthy control group.

I’m a Journalist but I Didn’t Fully Realize the Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials Until They Violated My Rights and Privacy

I complacently assumed that CBP’s horrendous treatment of migrants wouldn’t affect me directly, least of all in Austin, the city where I was born.

The post I’m a Journalist but I Didn’t Fully Realize the Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials Until They Violated My Rights and Privacy appeared first on The Intercept.

The Subtle But Important Significance of Today’s Supreme Court Decision on Racial Bias

The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the conviction of Curtis Flowers, a black man on death row in Mississippi, and found that the prosecutor who tried the case violated the Constitution by striking so many black jurors during one of Flowers’ trials.  The case was unusual: It involved six trials and multiple instances of prosecutorial […]

NYMag’s Trump Allegation Is a Clear Description of First-Degree Rape. Prosecution May Be Impossible.

On Friday morning, New York magazine published an explosive story from writer and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll alleging that President Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. The White House denied the story in a statement, calling Carroll’s allegations “a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years after allegedly […]

California’s ISP Deregulation Law Allows Recording VoIP Calls without Consent

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been opposing A.B. 1366, legislation by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, which would renew a law that effectively shields a huge part of the telecommunications industry from state and local regulation. Comcast and AT&T law backed this law, Public Utilities Code Sec. 710, in 2012—and are backing its renewal now. Renewing this law would reaffirm that state and local governments cannot regulate VoIP—a term used to refer to  any technology that allows you to use the Internet for voice communication or receive telephone calls over the Internet—for another decade.

We oppose A.B. 1366, largely because of the damage the existing law has done to the state and local government’s ability to promote competition and access for broadband access, but many other problems are present due to this law. Religious groups and human rights groups have also raised concerns with how deregulating VoIP will harm inmates in prison who need to stay in contact with their families. AT&T has asserted it is not subject to state oversight when building our Next Generation 911 emergency system, simply because it uses broadband. And it now appears that the law also makes it legal for Internet companies to record your calls without your permission, as long as they use VoIP. 

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Tell your lawmaker to oppose A.B. 1366

How Deregulating VoIP Carved Out a Loophole in California’s Invasion of Privacy Act 

California’s Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) in 1967 prohibited calls from being recorded without your consent. Specifically, Section 632.7 of the California Penal Code states that anyone who “intercepts or receives and intentionally records, or assists in the interception or reception and intentional recordation of, a communication” shall be fined or imprisoned. The law applies to communications that occur between any combination of two cellular telephones, cordless telephones, or landline telephones.

However, when the California legislature enacted P.U.C. § 710, it distinguished VoIP calls from other calls as a legal matter—despite serving the same function in the real world. In fact, because of the way telephone networks have evolved, the distinction between VoIP calls and traditional phone calls is essentially non-existent. Calls made on smartphones or landlines regularly travel through the traditional and Internet-connected call infrastructure. In some cases, it can be forwarded in multiple directions simultaneously—for example, a recipient with both a Mac and an iPhone will receive the call at both locations. This is possible because the phone and Internet services are interconnected at the network level.

We explained this to the FCC when it repealed net neutrality. The agency at that point claimed that mobile broadband did not have to be neutral by incorrectly concluding that the traditional phone system was a separate, isolated network. (The FCC had to make this argument because, legally, communications over the phone system have to be non-discriminatory.) Today, as anyone who uses a phone knows, this is a false distinction.

The problem is that, despite technical reality, the law the state passed for Comcast and AT&T is pretty explicit that VoIP must be treated differently. This distinction was recognized by a California Superior Court decision involving a class action lawsuit against Yelp for allegedly recording conversations without consent. The court found that California’s Invasion of Privacy Act simply does not apply if you use VoIP to make the phone call. 

As the court stated in its opinion, "the Court finds that Yelp has met its initial burden of showing section 632.7 does not apply to VoIP calls." While Yelp won the initial round of its litigation on other grounds as well, the fundamental fact remains that a company can assert that just because it uses VoIP to call you—or anyone in California—it is not subject to a communication privacy law we’ve had in place for decades. That’s unacceptable. Our privacy rights should be enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows. 

Our privacy rights should be enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows. 

Californians Have Received No Benefit from the 2012 Comcast and AT&T Law  

The ISP industry claims that the law, which mirrors the Trump Administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) efforts, promotes broadband deployment. But that has not happened. In the years that followed the passage of the original law, Google Fiber left the market, Verizon had already stopped building out its FiOS service, and AT&T announced in June that it will no longer aggressively deploy fiber to the home and is instead cutting jobs and investment. This leaves people with only their local governments and small ISPs as possible alternatives to their cable company in a vast majority of markets for high-speed access to the Internet.

In short, California residents have received absolutely no benefits from the existing law and what we’ve seen instead is monopolization of high-speed broadband access that has hurt rural and low-income people the most. We are also seeing the corrosive effects of this ISP-backed law spilling into arenas of public safety, privacy, and justice. It is time to end it.

A.B. 1366 is pending a critical vote in Sacramento before the Senate Utilities Committee on July 2nd. By voting it down and letting this law expire, state and local governments can proactively explore how to bring fiber connections to all Californians without fear of litigation that incumbent ISPs would bring under the status quo. It will also put an end to the collateral damage the law is causing to other very important issues.

If the largest ISPs refuse to deploy services that are ready for the 21st century, then it is the duty of local and state officials to ask how to change the status quo to ensure they can bring those services to their communities.

Armed Extremists Just Escalated Oregon’s Fight Over Climate Legislation

The Three Percenters’ Oregon chapter has gotten involved in the Oregon standoff between Republican state senators, who fled the state to avoid the passage of cap-and-trade legislation, and the Democratic majority who wanted to put the measure to a vote. The paramilitary group, known for anti-government and pro-gun sentiment, said in a Thursday night Facebook […]

Why the age of #electric #flight is finally upon us - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48630656

#Aviation #Technology #Engineering