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Robert ReichHouse Speaker Mike Johnson has admitted that if Republicans win control of Congress and the White House, they'll try to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act — which is creating more than 115,000 jobs.
Let's flip the House and elect @KamalaHarris so he doesn't get that chance.
Glenn FleishmanMusk just lost a Brazilian dollars
Steve HermanDespite new criticism by the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, as president in 2020, told Tim Walz he was 'very happy' with the Minnesota governor's handling of the George Floyd protests. https://abcnews.go.com/US/despite-new-criticism-trump-told-walz-2020-happy/story?id=112616502
CNN anchor Jake Tapper says source close to Sen Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who is now an independent, is considering re-registering as a Democrat and throwing his hat into the ring.
Jason KoeblerBeloved Apple blog TUAW was shut down in 2015, sold to private equity, then sold to a company in Hong Kong. It recently relaunched as an AI content farm using the stolen identities and bylines of its former human staff. A nightmare:
A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff
TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI summarizers.
Ohio man sentenced today to two and a half years in prison for sending death threats to an election official in the Arizona Secretary of State’s office. https://apnews.com/article/87e7b8e99cb5961ff2ed38eab550a44b
Ohio man gets 2.5 years in prison for death threats made in 2022 to Arizona’s top election official
An Ohio man who acknowledged making death threats in voicemails left for then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs during the 2022 election season has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. Joshua Russell of Bucyrus, Ohio, had previously pleaded guilty in Phoenix to a federal charge of making an interstate threat against Hobbs. She is a Democrat who now serves as the state’s governor. The three voicemails left by Russell were among the countless threats made against Hobbs for her role in certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential victory over Donald Trump in Arizona and her responsibility in running the 2022 midterm elections.
Lauren WeinsteinIt's important to understand that "age verification" schemes being passed by states, ostensibly to "protect the children", won't do that and will bring about incredible abuses.
In order to age verify children, obviously EVERYBODY of any age must be verified, for every account, under every name or pseudonym, ultimately on every site no matter how public or private the topic, and before downloading any apps.
Children will find ways to work around this. They'll use the accounts of adults, which will be openly traded. But because these age verification systems must by definition be based on government IDs, the verification process creates a linkage between your account names and your actual identity, subjecting you to all manner of leaked personal information, government abuses (think MAGA in charge), and worse. Firms will claim their systems either don't keep this data or can't be abused. History strongly suggests otherwise, and when courts step in, those firms will have to do what the courts say, often in secret, when it comes to collecting data.
Age verification is in actuality a massive Chinese-style Internet identity tracking project -- nothing less -- and there are many politicians in the U.S. who look with envy at how China controls their Internet and keeps their Internet users under police state controls.