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Let's Do This: "Citizens United" Is Easily Defeated

https://this.needsfixin.net/2019/12/24/lets-do-this-citizens-united-is-easily-defeated

#citizens #united #corporations #Law
Let’s Do This: “Citizens United” Is Easily Defeated – This Needs Fixin'

Law, citizens united, corporations

Gunman in Shooting Near White #House Killed in #Exchange -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#8

Stuart #Law’s first year with #Nepal hints at bigger -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/infotech.html#17

#Democrats Are Out of Control Week at #Legal Insurre -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#28

#Russia uses hypersonic Oreshnik missile in mass attack -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#irishnews

#Police Speak Out As Smash-And-Grab Syndicates Terrorise -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Nigeria

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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad pushing back on some of our criticism about John Oliver’s AI chatbot segment and his call for regulation: Isn’t the logical co…

Techdirt
Myth busted: UK cycle paths don’t have speed limits for cyclists

There is a persistent myth circulating on social media that cycle paths and shared routes in the UK have specific speed limits for cyclists.

West Yorkshire Cycling
Gravity Fires – Richard J Tilley

Arc of a series of 3 books/chapbooks – Richard J Tilley

to me the failed city – Richard J Tilley

The civil rights movement built power not by capturing the state but by building institutions that formed citizens capable of acting on and with the state when the moment came. The Voting Rights Act ratified that capacity. It did not create it.

That capacity is what needs rebuilding now. https://www.texasobserver.org/supreme-court-vra-decision-civic-infrastructure/

#voting #democracy #history #activism #HumanRights #law #SCOTUS

The Response We Really Need to the Supreme Court’s Gutting of the VRA

The instinct of the response so far has been right, but incomplete. New maps. New litigation. State-level laws. Congressional pressure. All necessary. None sufficient.

The Texas Observer
a partial map for a blushing wormhole – Richard J Tilley

Why lawyers keep citing fake cases invented by AI

The trend of attorneys getting caught citing AI-hallucinated cases points to a broader problem: instead of checking AI’s work, people keep trusting it

Scientific American