2020/08/21

Banon Busted

This.....
https://www.wired.com/story/steve-bannon-charged-border-wall-gofundme-gone-bad

Is great. One of the 2016 conmen shows true colors. Were is the wall?

2020/08/18

save the mail

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/trump-us-mail.html

As the mail-in voting crisis has erupted, some of the usual suspects on the right have taken to denouncing the Postal Service as a bad, money-losing business. But the founders didn’t put the postal clause in the Constitution because they saw it as a business opportunity; the Postal Service was supposed to serve broader national goals — and it still does.

2020/08/15

Suburban White Dreams

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/opinion/trump-suburbs-racism.html

Learning about policies like the post WW2 federal housing are really tough to learn about. You peel another layer of the onion, only to find yet another policy or law designed to repress other Americans. Shameful.

2020/08/14

voter registration

https://www.wired.com/story/election-voting-rights-spreadsheet-patriot

Giant Repercussions

This will be big.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/technology/apple-fortnite-ban.html

https://www.wired.com/story/epic-games-sues-apple-fortnite-app-store

This is a Big Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/world/asia/protests-thailand-king-monarchy.html

Witness requirement removed

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/us/supreme-court-rhode-island-voting.html C'mon even republicans would not do this: "The court rejected a request from Republicans to block an order suspending a requirement that witnesses or a notary observe the completion of absentee ballots." "The Supreme Court’s unsigned order included an explanation, which is unusual when its acts on emergency applications. The case differed from similar ones in which state officials had opposed changes to state laws ordered by federal judges, the order said. “Here the state election officials support the challenged decree,” the order said, “and no state official has expressed opposition.”"

2020/08/07

Government Buys Marketing Data

I know their marketing statements talk about  not gathering PII data, but what most don't realize, is that you don't need specific PII data to track someone. You can still identify a person by multiple means when the data set is large enough.


https://video-api.wsj.com/api-video/player/v3/iframe.html?guid=C6454D1E-66F7-4969-BDE0-BE2ED18B6F96