What is the difference between an e-bike and an e-motorbike?
By Dannielle Maguire

Noticing a lot of e-bikes around lately? Here's a state-by-state breakdown of the laws about them.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/e-bike-electronic-bicycle-e-motorbike-state-laws-speed/105580790

#Laws #DannielleMaguire

What is the difference between an e-bike and an e-motorbike? What are the laws around them?

Noticing a lot of e-bikes around lately? Here's a state-by-state breakdown of the laws about them. 

ABC News

Federal #immigration officers are using chemical irritants to *disperse* #protesters in ways that violate #US policing norms & are testing the boundaries of #UseOfForce #laws, video footage from #Chicago shows, in some cases [intentionally] hitting #demonstrators directly with the munitions.
#CBP & #ICE officers have deployed #TearGas in cities around the country, but its use has been especially prevalent in Chicago, where the #Trump admin launched Operation Midway Blitz in Sept….

#law

Doorbell cameras by Amaz0n Ring are being illegally shared w/ Flock surveillance software.
1) Turn Off & 2) Cover your Ring cameras this Halloween.
ICE wants to deport families trick-or-treating, & is stealing biometric data from you, to do so.
#do #not #comply in #advance #protest #fight #fascist #USA #crush #ICE #melts #under #pressure #Halloween #surveillance #Flock #welcome #dystopian #present #eat the #rich #Tax #Bezos #end #billionaires #new #privacy #data #laws https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-10-29-safety-advisory-no-ring-for-ice-this-halloween
SAFETY ADVISORY: No Ring for ICE this Halloween

Fight for the Future warns neighbors to turn off cameras October 29, 2025 — This Halloween, leading digital rights group Fight for the Future is issuing an urgent safety advisory for Amazon Ring camera doorbells. In order to keep neighbors and communities safe, they must be turned off. The advisory reads: To preserve human rights […]

Fight for the Future

Is such a business model legal when we consider how ownership and IP laws apply to in-house processes and practices?

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/how-ai-labs-use-mercor-to-get-the-data-companies-wont-share/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#business #laws

How AI labs use Mercor to get the data companies won’t share | TechCrunch

Mercor CEO Brendan Foody has built a $10 billion empire freeing up valuable data from legacy industries and making it available to AI labs.

TechCrunch

In this #Geolog, EGU's Damla Posta will explore how the first case of rights of Nature in #Europe, the Mar Menor Lagoon in Spain, highlights the value of nature and could inspire stronger #environmental #laws across the continent.

🧵 Read the full article here: https://egu.eu/7TFNAU

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Wisdom #Quotes #BenjaminDisraeli #Laws

#Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Canyonlands #Utah

What an abyss … “But, from the #Constitution and #ethics #laws to #Congress and the #SupremeCourt, the checks and balances are failing. #Trump knows this, and he is pressing his advantage.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

The Lessons of an Indefensible...
The Lessons of an Indefensible Pardon for a Crypto Billionaire

John Cassidy writes that Donald Trump’s grant of clemency to the founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, shows how the checks on Presidential power are failing.

The New Yorker

NT bill attempts to shield backbenchers from Freedom of Information laws
By Oliver Chaseling

The Northern Territory government has moved to restrict Freedom of Information request laws which, if passed, would block an environment group's long-running attempt to seek historic documents.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-27/nt-government-changes-freedom-of-information-foi-laws-explained/105929520

#StateandTerritoryGovernment #Laws #MediaIndustry #StateandTerritoryParliament #OliverChaseling

Bill attempts to shield NT backbenchers from Freedom of Information laws

The Northern Territory government has moved to restrict Freedom of Information request laws which, if passed, would block an environment group's long-running attempt to seek historic documents.

ABC News